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.

Many of us have been crippled by shame. A shame unconsciously sprinkled throughout our upbringing, by a society built on...
11/04/2026

Many of us have been crippled by shame. A shame unconsciously sprinkled throughout our upbringing, by a society built on the belief of original sin, not original divinity.
That creepling shame means that our experience of life may be contrasted by creepling unworthiness and inadequacy . That very limiting emotional landscape we evolved in spite of, is also what empowers us by knowing what we do want to have and perpetuate in our experience. It is a great strength and advantage to know what we do not want. And as we learn to be with the emotional and mental waves, recognising the stability and spaciousness always available at our core, we learn to meet life from a place of wholeness.

Wholeness becomes a practice where we present ourselves as both an infinite being and a human going through a dense human experience. So then we can exercise union: not being pulled off centre by polarising experiences, but stand in the middle of all things, and tap into our wisdom to let that inform how we respond to life. We learn to break the ancestral chain of suffering and illuminate it with a new consciousness.

We show up as a co- creator, open to life. Not only do we meet life, life also meets us. For we have dissolved resistance to it meeting us, and allowed ourselves to see the grace that’s always there.

And the key to unlock all this awareness and wisdom: being with what is and feeling our feelings through our body. Consistently. We are sentient beings, here to feel. And the more we learn to feel, the more we feel our way to love. Stable, all pervading, everlasting love.







📸 by at the in Morocco earlier this year.

“Our divine feminine is our body, our inner values and the ideas that make our heart beat stronger and feel right within...
09/04/2026

“Our divine feminine is our body, our inner values and the ideas that make our heart beat stronger and feel right within our belly.
With deep love for her divine masculine, she never gives up on her belief in him and in her desire for their togetherness . It leads to his healing even if he has been lost, fragmented and thought dead. The divine masculine is our spirit, that our body desires to unite with to help it come to life and light in a new blissful way. The love in our heart call our spirit home into our body. Finally, our divine feminine and masculine unite within our bodies and a new golden consciousness is born. The new self filled with love, light and power in the world. It’s the authentic self living the inner truth in the outer world, an agent of healing on this planet and inspiration for others to be bold, brave and vivid enough to walk their own path.” Fairchild.

Sun, moon / Pingala, Ida, when our polarities re-unite, we come into the world no longer polarised, but from alignement and discernment. Connected to our deepest divine essence, vessels of a unique intelligence and creativity.
Now time to rise into our new selves, and bring that inner union into manifestation through our relationships.






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Anchored in the Divine, we can approach life from wholeness. Not from fragmentation and an overbearing controling mind. ...
30/03/2026

Anchored in the Divine, we can approach life from wholeness. Not from fragmentation and an overbearing controling mind. But from a place withing us that can hold all moving pieces and be agile.

Our agility is a full body experience of discernment. It comes from making enough space within, anchoring in enough stability, so the right response to any given moment can arise and not be forced. From core stability and a sense of stillness, energy always rises to meet the moment.

The stillness we cultivate is the field of intelligence. What brings that intelligence to life, from pure potential to manifestation, is the surge of energy which arises from stillness. Shakti arises from Shiva, and Shiva is made dynamic by Shakti. Righy action arises from stillness an intelligence (not intellect) is made manifest.

“It’s only through the union of Shiva and Shakti that anything occurs”

📸 by .festival

30/03/2026

It’s not always easy to be human. At times we will take a detour through old, oh so familar stagnant waters.

Although the relatively real world will feel very real; meaning the layer of existence which is changing, conditioned, and perceived through our senses, may feel so real that we will perceive it as all there is, as ultimate.

Yet, although we may experience emotional stagnation at times , underlying what is relatively real, flows an absolute reality. Unchanging, infinite and beyond form. The very ground of all existence.

And we exist in both the absolute (the unchanging and infinite), and the relative (the world of form, embodiment, energy).
Suffering arises from identifying with body, thoughts, roles. Instead of recognising oneself as the awareness in which these arise, and engaging in the world of form from that awareness.

It is useful to cultivate clarity of what is unchanging, as well as skill in relating to what is changing. To develop the agility to see ourselves both as an infinite being, as a soul, and a human engaging in the world of physicality. When our understanding of our self as absolute, vast and infinite, can inform the way we relate to all aspects of life, we live in an evolutionary manner. And when times get troubled, we hold onto a vaster perspective and engage with the world with more distance and clarity.

In other words, we anchor in the transcendent to better relate to the relative. We know ourselves as soul, to not take things so seriously in the day to day.

That agility is another expression of having cultivated a state of union within.

In the traditions of India, Vedanta is the path of knowledge, the philosophy which points to what is unchanging and absolute. And Ta**ra is the tradition and practices which give us the skill in relating to what is changing.

Both are the essence of what I practice and teach . And I find that they also reflect and anchor the gnosis that we all can access through direct experience, as life lifes us.





The real challenge we are facing is internal fragmentation. Most of us are not struggling because something is wrong wit...
25/03/2026

The real challenge we are facing is internal fragmentation. Most of us are not struggling because something is wrong with us. We are struggling because we are trying to operate from fragmentation. In living based on generic societal standards, we have forgotten how to be in relationship with ourselves.

In operating from fragmentation, from disjuncted pieces; we are operating from lack, looking outside ourselves, accumulating moments of rush.

Instead of fragmentation we can operate from unity, from wholeness. From a body that is stable, an awareness that is vast. Receiving life and allowing It to move and be expressed dynamically. No longer accumulating depleting rushes; but being a vessel for blissful energy surges.





Empowerement is the recognition of our power in every moment. And the recognition of our power in every moment, is remem...
24/03/2026

Empowerement is the recognition of our power in every moment. And the recognition of our power in every moment, is remembering who we are; remembering that we exist on a absolute level, as souls, as well as playing the human game of emotional entanglement.

Every moment invites us to recognise our power. To trust life by re-learning how to trust ourself.





In the integration of polarities; the seemingly opposite experiences in life; feeling rather than bypassing is essential...
23/03/2026

In the integration of polarities; the seemingly opposite experiences in life; feeling rather than bypassing is essential. It is through feeling that we become receptive to life. Avoiding discomfort in the name of ‘staying positive’ is itself a polarity, one that keeps us fragmented, and perpetuates the past.

Integration is not a sudden event. It happens over time, as we learn how to recognise ease and expansion in the body. At first, we may only notice a split second of presence before reacting. But over time, these moments lengthen, and we begin to trust our own capacity to hold and receive the full spectrum or any experience.

And what the ‘’holding & receiving’’ really is, is our consciousness expanding beyond the limitations of the ego mind. Then in turn, as our consciousness expands, more energy is released. Energy which flow was previously blocked by the limitation of our own consciousness. The raising of consciousness is followed by the raising of Shaki,the dynamic power of life itself. Stillness gives rise to movement; the right action to meet life and its challenges in an evolutionary manner. That is the fundamental journey of union within which we are all invited to embark on by life: the journey of the soul to bring the masculine (consciousness/pure awareness) and the feminine (energy/creative expression) into wholeness. And in doing so, be gifted with empowerment; the recognition of our innate power: sovereign unity.


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On the Equinox, nature is shifting externally, so we are shifting internally.What is wanting to emerge or be born throug...
20/03/2026

On the Equinox, nature is shifting externally, so we are shifting internally.

What is wanting to emerge or be born through you now?
Where is life pointing to within your inner experience? Which response to resistance are you invited to lean into?

Accept life’s invitation to build deeper trust in yourself.





Human life is a journey of awakening. By recognising and following Dharma; the “sacred order that connects all beings th...
19/03/2026

Human life is a journey of awakening. By recognising and following Dharma; the “sacred order that connects all beings through love and purpose” (Sri Prem Baba); confronting inner struggles, and serving the world with love and awareness, individuals can transcend suffering and help restore harmony in humanity.





What an absolute blessing to continue to expand the grid of hearts which together, hold unity consciousness accross the...
17/03/2026

What an absolute blessing to continue to expand the grid of hearts which together, hold unity consciousness accross the globe. What a joy to weave together in person and from afar.
We have been inspired, fed in all our layers of existence, filled with love and joy. We do not take lightly the priviledge to have this experience at this moment in time. It is divine and directed at expanding our collective awareness of this divine dimension of existence.

Grateful and ready to share from a full cup. Thank you and all my Rishikesh sisters and brothers.

17/03/2026

A raw share from the banks of the Ganges river, Mother Ganga, as I depart Parmath Niketan, and the International Yoga Festival in the holy land of Rishikesh.

As we watch world leaders loosing their way, no individual evolutionary action is too small to contribute to peace. We cannot underestimate the positive reverberration of simply building more coherence in the fullness of our being. Regardless of whether our actions are seen or seamless, it is whether they contribute to order or distruction which defines their impact.

Let’s make space to have a relationship with our soul, and with the unseen; the field of truth which holds us, and moves through us as we navigate the dimension of our existence which is the human experience.

Let’s commit to non violence and seeding peace in as many moments and relationships as we possibly can.

Every instant is an invitation to practice yoga in action, love in action. To make the choice of sovereign unity.

Always deeply grateful for the gift of this journey of consciousness, for the many incredible teachers and teachings in my life, in all their forms; and for the response-ability to carry more clarity and emotional stability forward. For my child and her generation to be channels of yet a vaster consciousness.

The purpose of awakening is not personal enlightenment alone, but becoming a channel for compassion and harmony in the world.

Thank you and for hosting us in our home away from home , for yet another inspiring and peace amplifying edition of the





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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.