Magdalena Gladstone / Yoga to thrive

Magdalena Gladstone / Yoga to thrive Magdalena is a Kundalini and Himalayan Kriya yoga, breathwork, meditation teacher, as well as spiritual coach.

She works on making groups and individuals aware of their energy, strengths, resilience and limiting behaviours to guide them to evolve.

Living beyond the veil of illusionThe veil of illusion is the belief that we are separate: from each other, from Source,...
11/09/2025

Living beyond the veil of illusion

The veil of illusion is the belief that we are separate: from each other, from Source, from the wholeness of life itself. It’s the conditioning that tells us we are isolated individuals competing for love, resources, and meaning in a random universe. Living beyond this veil means recognising the deeper truth: that we are interconnected expressions of one consciousness, that life is fundamentally benevolent and purposeful, and that what we seek outside ourselves (love, peace, wholeness), has always been our essential nature. From this recognition, we stop living from scarcity and fear, and begin responding from abundance and trust. We see the sacred orchestration behind what once seemed like chaos, and recognise every experience as an invitation to remember who we truly are.

And who we are is a multi-dimentional being capable of self-actualising by alchemising any difficult situation into growth, evolution and spaciousness; to the point of integrating that we may, not only evolve through hardship, but also continue expanding exponentially through joy and curiosity.

As we get more aligned and more attuned to our own self and to the subtle (the all perading energetic component of this existence), we no longer need to be guided in our evolution mainly by the loudest voice of pain and suffering, but we may hear the wisdom in the whispers of lightness and love.




As a separated mum, I live in a constant heartbreak. Actually in constant heart opening.Because I hold space for my hear...
04/09/2025

As a separated mum, I live in a constant heartbreak. Actually in constant heart opening.
Because I hold space for my heart and body to feel the sorrow too, I am always getting to feel how much love there is in my heart. How this love doesn’t leak. But instead, it is held and nourished by the infinite Source of love. By the 1. The indivisible 1 that multiplies into, and expressed through the many. It echos through the many hearts in the world of ten thousand things.

El amor viene a florecer.
Love comes to flourish, not to be traded.

Love is unity blossoming through our coherent hearts. And it is also the connective tissue that carries the remembrance of our wholeness.

To my magical girl. Ines. IN ESsence, you are boundless♥️✨✨

I’m so excited to share… I’ll be presenting at YogaFit Ibiza Retreat again this October!📍 Invisa Cala Verde, Ibiza📅 26 O...
21/08/2025

I’m so excited to share… I’ll be presenting at YogaFit Ibiza Retreat again this October!

📍 Invisa Cala Verde, Ibiza
📅 26 Oct – 2 Nov 2025
👉 yogafitretreats.com
Discount code: YOGAFITMAGDALENA

With Yoga Fit, it’s Your retreat. Your rules. Your reset. You stay as long as you wish, from 3 to 7 days, and take part in the classes you’re most drawn to.

This year’s theme: The Ripple Effect of Kindness - a week dedicated to opening the heart, softening the nervous system, and nurturing connection on every level. We will be exploring how kindness and compassion begin within and flow outward to everyone we meet.

Yogafit retreats are such beautiful, unconditional, judgement free containers of transformation. This will be my 6th time teaching at YogaFit, and they keep on getting better, and deeper. Whether it’s your very first retreat or your 20th, you’re part of the family and we can’t wait to share this special week with you.

Expect life enhancing experiences including and not limited to, meditation, breathwork, yoga, live music, flow dance meditation, sound healing, floating sounds baths, cacao and tea ceremonies, fitness, dance, Silent discos, wellness workshops, mud baths, excursions, cold plunges in a setting prone to new connections and authentic community.

Use code YOGAFITMAGDALENA for a 5% discount on what is already a super affordable experience.

And to close the week, alongside Yoga Fit, you will also have access to ZEST Ibiza. A brand-new Dance Weekender running from Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November. The main stage will transform into the ZEST Dance Arena-alive with live DJs, incredible presenters, and a joyful explosion of movement, including dance fitness, salsa, Zouk, Afro fusion, Flow Dance Meditation, ecstatic dance, and more.

Come join us on the magical island of Ibiza for transformation, connection, and community.

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The times we live in call for soul retrieval through the path of wholeness and embracing polarity.‘’Polarities are pairs...
12/08/2025

The times we live in call for soul retrieval through the path of wholeness and embracing polarity.

‘’Polarities are pairs of opposing yet interconnected forces or experiences — like joy and sorrow, light and dark — that exist as complementary parts of the same whole, each giving meaning and depth to the other.’’

The deeper purpose of navigating polarities is the retrieval of the soul. The soul does not lose ground in the face of joy or grief; it witnesses them both. It allows the body to feel deeply without being defined by the feelings. From this witness space, we release life force that would otherwise be trapped in over-identification with one extreme or the other. This is how we grow into more of our light nature, how we unlock more radiance.

To embrace both joy and grief is to go beyond labels, to reside in the field of stillness that precedes all judgment. It is to navigate the paradox of life with openness, to meet every experience as part of the whole. Every experience creates conditions that allow us to be receptive. And our capacity to effortlessly allow, opens our eyes to the mystery of life — to living miraculously.

The times that we live in are about embracing polarity, not trying to avoid it. The world needs as many of us as possible coming back into wholeness and living souled lives.

If mind and body are disconnected = we live in disconnection (from our soul, from others, from the flow of life)
If mind and body are connected = we come back online, present, integrated, part of the whole.
The bridge: the breath
The binding agent: the life force that the breath carries.

The more full of life FORCE we are = the more full of life we are = the better our relationship with ourself, with others and with life.





‘’Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.’’ RumiThis is the frequency of w...
10/08/2025

‘’Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.’’ Rumi

This is the frequency of wholeness. The space where love stops being a transaction and starts being a recognition.
A frequency where two individuals come together not for the play of polarities, but instead it is a frequency where two individuals come together, each from a place of wholeness, (or on a journey of wholeness rather). So individually, and together, they can walk the path of life, anchored in deep inner knowing and self knowledge. Navigating a world of polarities, a world of opposites, from the still point within. No more being scattered, no more torn in all directions. Instead, inner union and sacred union open the door to expansiveness, evolution and the radiance of a thousand suns.

Practically - as we meet each other from inner alignment, we meet each other from wholeness, we access an intimacy that is born not from lack, but from a choice to converge and amplify each other. This is no longer attraction through friction, its is amplification (we attract through coherence). In that space, “right” and “wrong” dissolve, because union isn’t about power or need; it’s about truth.

And waw, the beauty, the pain, the liberation and the constriction that one navigates when two still relate from polarity as they refine their way towards meeting each other through the eyes of Truth, holds a magic which goes so much further than hope would ever go. No more fantasy. Steady does it to access divine bliss.

Steady in our ourself and our choices:

The Choice of Love
The Choice of Devotion
The Choice of Wholeness
The Choice of Sovereignty
The Choice of the Unknown

“Let your teacher be love itself” Rumi


Being initiated into new levels of feeling. Meeting myself in a new raw. Finally feeling the depth of what has not been ...
08/08/2025

Being initiated into new levels of feeling. Meeting myself in a new raw. Finally feeling the depth of what has not been felt the past 20 years, being the harmoniser, the smily feminine.

Along with it comes finally feeling more deeply the collective suffering.
Dancing the dance of not unplugging from feeling but unhooking from despair.

No longer suppressing truth, but learning to hold peace through the expression of truth.

Co- regulating with nature through my breath.
Finding new levels of ground establishing more peaceful residence in the vessel of my nervous system and body .

For now, my energetic coherence is my activism. The frequency I hold, the depth at which I meet myself to transmit more clarity.

I let it be raw so life itself can liberate through me. So what longs to be free, spoken, created, shared, may be. Unedited. Soulfull.

This too is soul retrieval in a life approached from wholeness. This too is standing sovereign in our being and in our love. C’est un passage oblige.

This is access to more of becoming a sovereign vessel for the love, the path, and the power that have chosen me.

This is getting good at feeling, at receiving. This is getting good at living.

A reclamation of the choice to love freely and to be fully.



“If we have love and receptivity, we can transcend anything.” Yes, absolutely anything. As we let life in, there is not...
12/07/2025

“If we have love and receptivity, we can transcend anything.”

Yes, absolutely anything. As we let life in, there is nothing we cannot expand around and radiate through.

“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.”The years that followed the initiatic moments I described in my ...
07/07/2025

“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.”

The years that followed the initiatic moments I described in my last three posts unfolded as a seven-year cycle of ego death and soul rebirth, weaving a new consciousness through the thread of everyday life.

I became a mother.
I left behind the corporate identity to walk the path of spirit.
I met my shadows and sorrow. I tended to the child within.
I awakened to co-dependency and ended an 18-year relationship—not to reject love, but to liberate it. Major initiation.

I took full responsibility for my experience.
Emotions, judgments, projections—no stone left unturned.
I refined the lens through which I see life until the veil dissolved, to the point of integrating the hollographic nature of this existence; meaning that everything that we experience is not separate from us, but a mirror and a feedback loop of symetry and geometric patterns expressed through patterns, sequencing, synchronicities.
“All is in all. That all is actually each.” — Aldous Huxley

I became deeply receptive to life, anchored in trust.
And I stayed true to integrity—without closing my heart.

I choose to live from wholeness and in service to Truth.
I see the sacredness in our humanity: accepting, loving, with compassion, my imperfections, my mistakes, those of others, as part of the perfection of it all.

And I was never alone in this.
Communities held me.
The right teachers always appears when I was ready.
Mirrors met me, polished me.
Life lifed me.

This unfolding wasn’t a spiritual concept.
It was deeply somatic—embodied- etched into my nervous system so it may become wisdom.

All of this became possible
because I committed—daily, viscerally—
to practices that return me to presence:
movement, breath, meditation, stillness, silence, play. This is the containment which allowed my energetic empowerement.

Such commitment means, that love wins over fear, and that my evolution wipes the slate clean for generations past, and future.

Now, my coherence is the prayer.
A zero-point field.
No longer perpetuating the past—
but creating from the eternal Now.

May we all trust ourselves, and embrace the unknown.

When I joined a plant medicine retreat—I had one clear intention: to heal chronic insomnia. That clarity, was perhaps th...
06/07/2025

When I joined a plant medicine retreat—I had one clear intention: to heal chronic insomnia. That clarity, was perhaps the very reason I received such a profound healing. In truth, all I needed at that stage was that one retreat.

But the experience was so transcendental, that I became curious to go deeper. Between 2015 and 2016, I attended about seven more weekend ayahuasca ceremonies. None matched the clarity of the first. Because I was unconsciously seeking answers outside of myself. I wasn’t yet grounded.

That hunger for answers led me to Mexico, and into a 5-MeO-DMT ceremony—one I now understand was far beyond my energetic capacity at the time. What followed was traumatic. I was overcome by terror, as if propelled into a dimension my psyche could not metabolise.
That night, I awoke in a trance. My body convulsing, my nervous system hijacked. Echoing through my mind, out loud, as if playing live inside my skull, was a loop of Brazilian music I’d once heard in an ayahuasca ceremony. It lasted weeks. I oscillated between dimensions. And so began nine months of panic attacks. A true dark night of the soul.

Seven months into this descent, I was guided to a Kundalini Yoga class. I had no idea what to expect. In the midst of a kriya, I reached a breaking point. Seven months of internal terror welled up. I was about to collapse into tears when an energy unleashed from the base of my spine, and a wave of peace washed through me.

That was the moment that changed everything. The initiation into my energetic receptivity. The direct experience that my body was not just a vessel for trauma—but for healing, radiance, divinity. That moment sealed my bond with the practice.
And then came the final rite of passage: at Burning Man.

Despite lingering fear of mind-altering substances, on the night of the Burn, I took the tiniest dose of L*D. As I began to feel my mind spiral, I made a deliberate choice: to stay sovereign.

To choose joy over fear.
To command my mind, not surrender to it.
A nine-month spiral of panic ended in empowered reclamation—birthing not just freedom, but new life. Days later, in Venice Beach, our daughter was conceived. A new chapter began.

In the weeks following my Kundalini awakening (see previous post), I began to witness shifts:✨I would walk through the s...
05/07/2025

In the weeks following my Kundalini awakening (see previous post), I began to witness shifts:
✨I would walk through the streets and spontaneously start dancing, from an overflow of freedom that needed to move through me. My body was a channel for life.
✨At night, as I lay in bed, I could feel the residue of the day—the thoughts, the emotional dust settling. It was no longer optional: I had to meditate because it became obvious that I could not carry this weight into my subconscious. The awareness was so alive, so intelligent, that ignoring it felt like going against myself.
✨Returning to London, walking through Canary Wharf, it was like seeing the matrix from the outside. The suits, the rushed bodies —it all looked like a silent theatre of mistaken identities, choreographed by stress. I didn’t judge it. But I couldn’t pretend to un-see it either.

The Kundalini cleared my energetic pathways. I felt completely unburdened—free from conditioning. I was given a glimpse, of something familiar. A visceral memory of what it feels like to live unobstructed, fully alive.
And while layers of programming gradually began to settle back in, something in me had been permanently rearranged. An encoded memory was left in my system.
This journey, now a decade in, has been about returning to that clarity—not through chasing the peak, but through cultivating balance, embodiment, and purity without external substances. The remembering itself has become the path. The blueprint of the experience, can still to the day be accessed vicerallly.

Because here is the truth: We are innately free. Freedom is not something to be earned, but remembered. And when we begin to master our energy and emotions through the body, we reawaken that remembering—this time, to stay.

The awakening wasn’t the end point of the experience, but the invitation.

The real path began in the everyday—learning how to live in alignment, not just in meditation, but in the mundane or when facing uncertainty.
The real mastery is in weaving awareness into the ordinary, letting coherence become your baseline. We ground the experience so we may exercise our divinity through our humanity.
That is the art of integration.

10 years ago, almost to the day, I hit rock bottom.After years of chronic insomnia—barely ever sleeping—I spontaneously ...
04/07/2025

10 years ago, almost to the day, I hit rock bottom.

After years of chronic insomnia—barely ever sleeping—I spontaneously chose to join an ayahuasca retreat. That ceremony became what I now recognise as a Kundalini Awakening.

As the medicine took hold, I was glued to the floor, convinced I was dying. Episodes of my life flashed through my mind’s eye at the speed of light. The only ancquor left was my breath. The only thing I could do was breathe through it. And so I did, until the breath bridged the gap between the erratic mind and the body.

I breathed through the fear, and as I dropped back into my body, a tidal wave of energy surged. My entire being jolted off the floor. It was like Asterix drinking the magic potion☺️. I landed on my feet, and from the pit of my gut, I screamed—a deep primal sound. In that instant, I knew that on some level I was healed.

The real work of integration began after the ceremony—but a new trajectory had been initiated.

It was healing through embodiment.
And when I look back over the past decade, every evolutionary leap I’ve made has come through the body.

Sometimes that looked like being glued to the floor in grief—feeling it so fully that judgment dissolved into bliss.
Other times, it meant following my body’s felt wisdom to take the higher road—especially when someone acted from their wounding and triggered the places I hadn’t yet healed.

My body is my compass. My breath is the union.
Yet the greatest pandemic I see is this: most people live in their heads… and don’t know how to breathe.
So we perpetuate inner war. We seek approval. We people-please, compete, manipulate. Of course we do. When we live only in the mind, we feel unsafe. So we chase safety outside of us—because we haven’t landed in the temple of our own body.

Especially as women, we’ve been conditioned to trade embodiment for approval.

The quiet revolution is this:
To live in our bodies.
To attune to earth, to the breath, to the elements.
To remember we are already whole.

Our presence holds stability in the face or others who have only known chaos. As we hold ourselves steady in the clarity of our presence and truth, others may rise to meet us in harmony.

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I am a Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) certified Kundalini yoga teacher. I trained in Triyoga London with my dear teachers Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Gurushabd Singh Khalsa and Amanbir Singh. I constantly deepen my education of the practice of Kundalini yoga with immense gratitude towards the ever-unfolding gifts it brings me.

I am also a Pause Place Practitioner and certified Spiritual Coach, working with the strength of love, presence and connection to create a healing and therapeutic environment of unconditional support.

I am a mother, wife, seeker, traveller, runner, cyclist, holistic health adept and reader.

I am on the same journey as you; that of a spiritual being having a human experience.