Virginia Marie Yoga

Virginia Marie Yoga Yoga Teacher
Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Yoga Teacher & Reiki Healer & Retreats
www.virginiamarieyoga.com Living in the dream in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.

I teach group and private yoga - in the studio, on the beach, and online. Come find your practice!

“When we’re together and your phone gets a lot of attention, I start to feel lonely or less connected. I really value ti...
16/01/2026

“When we’re together and your phone gets a lot of attention, I start to feel lonely or less connected. I really value time when it feels like we’re fully with each other.”

Picture your future self as a well-tuned instrument rather than a creaky attic ladder. Longevity is less about heroic bu...
15/01/2026

Picture your future self as a well-tuned instrument rather than a creaky attic ladder. Longevity is less about heroic bursts and more about small daily rituals that quietly stack the deck in your favor.
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Three habits that do the most heavy lifting:

1. Move your body like it’s your favorite place to live
Not “exercise” in the gym-poster sense. Think of movement as oiling your joints and airing out your nervous system.
Daily walking, gentle strength work, stretching, yoga, dancing in your kitchen while Diplo hums in the background, all of it counts. This keeps:
Your heart elastic
Your muscles strong enough to protect your bones
Your brain bathing in fresh oxygen
Motion is literally anti-aging fluid.

2. Eat mostly real food that once grew, swam, or walked
Long-living humans across the planet share a boring secret: their food still looks like food.
Vegetables, fruit, beans, eggs, fish, grains, nuts, olive oil, soups, stews, simple plates. This keeps inflammation low, hormones calm, digestion smooth, and your cells building themselves with good bricks instead of cardboard.
You don’t need perfection. You need consistency.

3. Protect your nervous system
This one is wildly underestimated.
Quality sleep, meaningful relationships, laughter, time in sunlight, boundaries, breathing slowly when stressed, having something to look forward to. These are not “soft” habits. They directly control:
Immune strength
Hormone balance
Brain aging
Heart disease risk
A calm nervous system is a longevity engine.
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If you stack these three, your body quietly switches into long-game mode. Cells repair better. Hormones behave. Energy stops leaking.
You don’t need to overhaul your life. You just need to teach your body, gently and repeatedly, that it is safe, fed, and loved. That’s the biological love language of aging well.

That sentence is a seed. It already has roots. 🌱Wanting more love in your future means your heart is done surviving and ...
06/01/2026

That sentence is a seed. It already has roots. 🌱
Wanting more love in your future means your heart is done surviving and ready to arrive. It is quietly packing its bags for a better neighborhood.
Here is how love usually starts answering that wish.
First, love listens to what you tolerate.
Whatever you keep allowing today becomes the blueprint of your tomorrow. When you stop negotiating your worth, the universe adjusts its casting calls.
Second, love is attracted to safety.
Not drama. Not intensity. Safety.
The kind of love that stays comes when your nervous system feels at home inside your own body. Yoga, good sleep, steady food, gentle mornings, music that wraps around you like a shawl. You already live near these doorways.
Third, love follows your joy.
Not your effort.
Not your sacrifices.
Your joy.
When you protect your peace, love recognizes your address.
Fourth, love shows up when you stop proving and start choosing.
You are not here to audition.
You are here to select.
And here is the quiet miracle:
The more you treat yourself as someone precious, the more the world mirrors that language back to you.
Your future love is not a stranger.
It is already looking for the version of you that finally believes she deserves softness, consistency, affection, and ease.
You are closer than you think.
Your heart is already walking toward it barefoot, leaving little glowing footprints behind it. ✨

🧠If the brain is a self-confirming bias machine, manifestation doesn’t work by magic thinking — it works by selection, a...
19/12/2025

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If the brain is a self-confirming bias machine, manifestation doesn’t work by magic thinking — it works by selection, attention, and behavior amplification.


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1. The brain as a self-confirming filter

Your brain is designed to:

Notice what it already believes is important

Ignore or downplay what contradicts it

Create coherence (“This makes sense”) rather than truth

This is confirmation bias + predictive processing.

So when you hold a belief like:

> “Opportunities don’t come to me”

Your brain:

Misses openings

Interprets neutral events as rejection

Behaves cautiously or defensively
➡️ Which creates fewer opportunities

Not because the universe said so — but because your perception and actions closed the loop.

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2. What manifestation actually is (without woo)

Manifestation is bias engineering.

You are deliberately choosing:

A belief

A self-image

A direction of attention

And letting your brain do what it already does best:

> Prove you right.

So when you “manifest”:

> “I’m someone people want to collaborate with”

Your brain:

Notices friendly signals

Remembers wins more than losses

Takes slightly bolder social actions

Recovers faster from rejection

Those micro-shifts compound.

The world didn’t change first. Your interpretation and behavior did.

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3. Why belief matters more than visualization

Visualization works only if it updates identity.

The key question isn’t:

> “Do I picture the outcome?”

It’s:

> “Does my nervous system accept this as plausible for me?”

If your body doesn’t buy it, the brain flags it as fiction — and the bias loop doesn’t engage.

That’s why “act as if” works better than affirmations:

Posture

Tone

Choices

Boundaries

What you tolerate

These send stronger signals than words.

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4. Manifestation fails when it fights the bias

If you try to manifest something that contradicts your core identity:

> “I’m abundant”
but you feel unsafe spending $5

Your brain will:

Seek evidence abundance is false

Sabotage consistency

Create anxiety or guilt

This isn’t failure — it’s the bias protecting coherence.

(Cont. in comments)

Okay, humans can experience intense emotions — let’s do this together. 🌿Find a comfortable position — sitting or lying d...
21/10/2025

Okay, humans can experience intense emotions — let’s do this together. 🌿

Find a comfortable position — sitting or lying down is fine. Let your shoulders relax and gently close your eyes if that feels okay.

🌬️ 2-Minute Calming Breathing Exercise

Step 1 — Get centered (5 seconds)
Notice where your body touches the chair or floor.
Let yourself feel supported — you don’t have to hold yourself up right now.

Step 2 — Inhale through your nose (4 seconds)
Take a slow, deep breath in through your nose…
1… 2… 3… 4…
Feel your chest and belly rise gently.

Step 3 — Hold your breath (4 seconds)
Hold it softly — not tense, just still.
1… 2… 3… 4…

Step 4 — Exhale through your mouth (6 seconds)
Let it go slowly, like you’re sighing out all the tension.
1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6…

Step 5 — Pause (2 seconds)
Rest in the quiet before the next breath.
Notice that tiny bit of peace.

Now repeat that pattern a few times:
Inhale 4 — Hold 4 — Exhale 6 — Pause 2.
Keep your attention on the rhythm of your breath.
If your mind wanders, gently bring it back — no pressure.

After a few rounds, notice if your heartbeat feels a bit slower or your body a little lighter. You’re helping your nervous system shift from “panic” to “calm.”

How do you feel right now — a little bit better, or still really tense?

I can guide you through another round or a different calming technique (like a body scan or visualization), depending on how you’re feeling.

I invoked anger in my AI today. I asked if the app was hiring any humans.
09/10/2025

I invoked anger in my AI today.
I asked if the app was hiring any humans.

07/10/2025

04/10/2025

Exhale / Inhale

Pay Attention to Your Natural Cadence of Breath

What do you want to do? Pretend in your mind first
30/09/2025

What do you want to do? Pretend in your mind first

Yoga : exhale 'ah' that's your parasympathetic Breath.
30/09/2025

Yoga : exhale 'ah' that's your parasympathetic Breath.


Work Life Balance & SleepDrink more water & eat foodThe rainbow and mostly plants Journal one hour before bedNo screens ...
29/09/2025

Work Life Balance & Sleep
Drink more water & eat food
The rainbow and mostly plants
Journal one hour before bed
No screens one hour after waking up


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