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10/08/2025

🙏Mid-Year Check-In

How are you doing right now in your mind, heart and body?

We often move through life on auto pilot. This is your gentle reminder to pause, breathe and review the habits that are (or aren’t) serving you.

Swipe through for 5 self-care practices that you can weave into busy days to help keep you calm, focused and full of energy.

Which ones resonate with you?

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06/08/2025

🌟 Uncover the power of Drishti in yoga and how it can surprise you! This essential technique isn't just about physical balance; it's a pathway to mindfulness. Dive deeper into your practice today: https://wix.to/ehI4LVd

As a yoga teacher, I’ve always believed in the importance of starting a practice with mindfulness, paying attention to how the body feels, and warming up slowly. So, you can imagine my surprise when, in a recent class, the teacher – a 60+ year-old seasoned practitioner – asked us to start in h...

02/08/2025

As the summer light starts to change and the air grows crisp we can start to think about our plans for autumn. Autumn offers us a gentle invitation to pause, to slow down, to reconnect with ourselves and what truly matters.

What do you have planned for your one precious self this fall?

I’ll be leading a weekend retreat for women in the beautiful mountain setting of Schweibenalp. It’s a space for deep rest, nourishing movement, quiet reflection, and meaningful connection; all surrounded by golden forests and peaceful nature trails.

Here’s what one past participant shared:

"I came home feeling like I had been truly seen, supported, and reset. The combination of yoga, mindfulness, and the mountain setting was exactly what I didn’t know I needed."

If this speaks to you, I would love to have you with us.

🧡 Spaces are limited.

More details and registration here:
🍁 Women's Yoga & Mindfulness Retreat
🔜 October 10 to 12 | Schweibenalp, Switzerland
www.wellbalanced.me/retreats

31/07/2025

Looking forward to learning from this wonderful teacher. See you tomorrow Kino!

28/07/2025

✨ “She changed.” No. She healed. ✨

Yoga and mindfulness have a quiet but powerful way of helping us come home to ourselves. Through each breath, each pose, each pause….we learn. We grow. We listen. We remember that we are worthy of care, of boundaries, of space.

This isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about returning to who we’ve always been beneath the noise; whole, strong, and grounded.

🧘‍♀️ Healing isn’t always graceful, but it is sacred.
🌿 Keep showing up for yourself. Keep choosing you.

20/07/2025

🧘‍♀️✨ After a busy season managing my studio, teaching yoga, and organizing a wellness event for my corporate clients, I’ve taken a little time to come back to myself here at Schweibenalp.

Even though I teach yoga and mindfulness, I sometimes lose my way. Being here – a place I’ve been returning to for over 10 years to teach retreats – helps me restore, rest, and reset my intention.

So, I took a moment on my own this weekend as a mid-year check-in to ask:
🌿 How is my life really going?
🌿 What can I change, add, or remove to better care for my mind, heart, and body?

One thing I’ve learned over the years is this:
If I don’t have moments of care for my own mind, heart, and body, how can I really show up for others – my family, friends, students, community?

You can’t give out what you don’t already have. We need a practice – even a small daily practice of care – so we can show up for others and for the busyness of life without burning out.

✨ What helps you restore and reconnect to your intention? I’d love to hear in the comments.

04/05/2025

Finding stillness within! 🌱 Reflections on returning from the U.S., teaching a retreat and the appreciation of inward attention. Read more here: https://wix.to/T59AUlm

Reflections on Returning from the U.S., Holding Retreat Space, and Floating in SilenceIn yoga, drishti refers to where we place our gaze—our point of focus. But beyond the physical, it’s also about where we direct our attention. Over the past few weeks, my drishti has been turned happily outward...

10/04/2025

Let This Moment Be a Thank You Note to Your Body;
Gratitude, embodiment, and the radical act of listening inward. Discover more in my latest post. https://wix.to/2LTK0ib

09/04/2025

Life is strange. We come with nothing and fight for everything, and in the end, we leave everything and go with nothing.

Life is a fleeting journey, a cycle of gaining and letting go. We arrive with empty hands, yet we spend our days chasing, building, and holding on, as if we can outrun time itself.

We grasp at love, success, meaning, desperate to make something of the brief moments we are given.

And yet, no matter how much we gather, there comes a day when we must release it all. But perhaps the beauty of life is not in what we keep, but in what we give, in the love we share, the kindness we leave behind, the lives we touch along the way.

-Jill K. Schmidt