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Jamaican-born global humanitarian, storyteller and yoga instructor, Nadine McNeil combines these three elements to deliver a subtle yet powerful package that she coins, yoga ethnochoreology. An engaging, compassionate and potent facilitator who weaves the gifts of yoga and the wisdom of being a humanitarian into being who she is: a transformation catalyst committed to global change.

26/10/2025

🌪️ As Hurricane Melissa Nears 🌪️

Before sleep and again at dawn, one thought returned:

‘When in doubt, PRAY!’ In other words, ‘lean not upon thine own understanding.’

Storms — like emotions — bring everything to the surface: fear, memory, gratitude, faith.

After years in disaster response, I’ve learned one truth:

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and stay as calm as you can.

Now is the time for intuition and discernment. Turn down the noise. Listen to your body — it’s your truest compass.

🕯️ Keep water, meds, candles, light food, charged devices.
💚 Stay connected to the God of your innerstanding.
🎶 Whisper the anthem or sing aloud — both will calm your nervous system. Pray for this land we love.

13/10/2025

✨ Sneak Preview! ✨

Something beautiful and long-awaited is finally coming into being.

After years of reflection, conversations, and lived experience, I’m thrilled to share that the Self-Love Is a Practice Podcast is on its way! 🎙💫

This podcast has been calling to me for a while — a space to explore the real, raw, and radiant truths of what it means to love ourselves in practice, not in theory.

We’ll dive into self-worth, boundaries, burnout, body wisdom, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to live from the inside out.

Because self-love is the most radical form of activism. From it, all else flows.

🪞 Let’s make this interactive:

What topics or questions would you love to hear me explore on the show? Drop them in the comments below — your voice will help shape this next chapter. 💭

And if you haven’t already, my playbook Self-Love Is a Practice is available now on Amazon Kindle — a soulful companion for your own journey back to yourself.

Stay tuned… the conversation is about to get even deeper. 🌸

26/09/2025

✨ Friday Gratitude ✨

I’m beyond honored to share that I am one of the contributing authors to Wise Women Don’t Whisper — a powerful compilation of stories on women journeying through menopause. 💜

The book launches October 1st, and I couldn’t be more excited!

This is my second time being part of a collaboration like this — the first was Gathering Women, a guide to leading sister circles. To be included again in a body of work that amplifies women’s voices feels both humbling and deeply affirming.

Stay tuned — I’ve got a super fun announcement coming next week! 🌹

23/09/2025

✨ Home Truths ✨

Lately I’ve been confronted with shadow—the parts of me I’d rather not face. Weddings, funerals, family moments… they awaken the orphan in me and remind me how much I’ve sought validation outside myself.

On the massage table today, my body told the truth: anger lodged in my hips, tears spilling from my legs. Shadow lives in the body. And anger, when faced, can be a catalyst for change.

So I ask you:
🌑 Where is your shadow hiding?
🌑 What is your body holding for you?
🌑 Will you let it chain you—or spark you free?

14/09/2025

✨ Sunday Reflection ✨

Almost 25 years ago, this photo was taken at my MBA graduation — the first graduation I had ever attended in my life. It was monumental for me. To have so many people show up to bear witness meant the world.

Seeing the photo again this week jolted me. Today, I only remain connected with three of those faces. One has passed. The man at the back, center, was once the one I thought I’d marry. That ended badly. What shook me most was not the endings, but the belief I once held — that some people would always be there.

When those relationships ended, I was devastated. But through my journey into self-love, I’ve learned this: people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. The work is to discern which, and when the contract completes, to honor it. Grieve, release, love — then let go.

As this photo depicts, love doesn’t expire. Love transforms. Self-love, most of all, is everlasting.

To those still in my life: thank you. As I grow older, these lifetime connections become my chosen family — and they matter more than ever.

And so it is. 🌹

💭 Who in your life has been a reason, a season, or a lifetime?

07/09/2025

🔥Not every ending is death — but every ending holds a rebirth. 🔥

People enter our lives for reasons, seasons, and if we’re fortunate, lifetimes. The pain often comes when we resist the natural close of these sacred contracts — clinging instead of honoring what was. I know I’ve done this, and all it’s brought me is unnecessary suffering.

Especially on a path of growth, not every connection will travel the full distance with us. Some partings are inevitable, and while they can feel like death, they are also the threshold to renewal. Forgiveness is the medicine here — not for others, but to liberate our own hearts.

And now, here we are at a Blood New Moon + Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. Eclipse energy asks us to release what no longer serves, while Pisces — watery, emotional, feminine — invites us to feel, to soften, to flow. No wonder so many of us are looking at the quality of our relationships right now.

💧 Drink water. Take baths. Let water hold you as you surrender.

🌹 And when it comes to legacy, this is the work. Legacy is built on relationships: with others, with self, with Source. As we step into this next season, I invite you to join me in Living the Legacy — a 3-month guided journey with an extraordinary community. We begin September 14. Link in bio.

And so it is. ✨

28/08/2025

✨ Beloved God, Divine—show me how good it can get. ✨

This was the mantra I carried home from Bali. And today, life gave me a living example.

International travel. Endless delays. No answers. Teams of people, tons of trains stalled—no one seemed to know if they were coming or going. The kind of situation where irritation could have easily taken over. But instead of agitation, I found myself… still. Tired, yes. But not agitated.

In that chaos, I saw her. Just one woman, working at the station. She was the only person I managed to connect with—it felt almost angelic.

Hours later, I crossed paths with her again. This time, our exchange shifted everything. She listened to my story—short trip, special event, exhaustion setting in. She guided me gently: “Why don’t you take the first train tomorrow morning?”

That one suggestion opened doors. Literally. I followed her instructions and soon found myself with a hotel voucher in hand. At the hotel, I was told the allotted rooms were gone… then, as if by grace, I was given Room 220: a spacious room, a soft bed, clean cotton sheets, and—luxury of luxuries—a bath. At no cost to me. Even my onward travel will be reimbursed.

All I could do was smile.

✨ This is what happens when we slow down enough to let life’s magic unfold. When we step out of our own way and allow grace to carry us. ✨

So I whisper again: Show me how good it can get.

And so it is.🙏🏾

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25/08/2025

✨ How is it possible? Only one week left in my birth month…

What a month it has been! Landing back in the heat of things—literally and metaphorically—in Jamaica has made me even more grateful for the soul time I spent in Bali this summer.

Talk about cathartic, necessary, rewarding. Even though I’d been gone for 5 years, it felt like 5 minutes. I dropped right back in—found my centre, my tribe. And like Bali, I too have changed.

The Universe clearly knew what was ahead for me, so She held me, nurtured me, and loved on me deeply while I was in my sanctuary home.

When I first arrived in Bali at the end of April, I discovered just how fried my nervous system was. It scared me. Weeks passed before my body shifted gears and I began to sleep through the night, even with early mornings to meet Jamaica’s time zone.

Now, back ‘on the rock,’ I recognize how wide open I am. And in a society that thrives on hype, this can feel dangerous. But numbing out isn’t the answer either.

In less than 10 days, Jamaica faces a national election. Our land and people carry deep trauma from elections past. As a God-fearing, prayerful yet violent nation, my deepest wish is that LOVE prevails—so Jamaicans, and all who love Jamaica, may prosper, flourish, and grow. 🙏🏾🧡🇯🇲💚

The time has come for us to claim our blessings. They are our birthright.

And so it is.

💫 Happy Monday, family.

23/08/2025

The morning after my birthday, I woke different.
Something beyond age had shifted. Not a number, but a knowing.
I felt it in my bones—not decay, but ignition.

I’ve lived, I’ve seen, I’ve survived. And now I stand clear:
I know what I want. I know how I choose to live.

Peace of mind? That’s not enough. What we really crave is peace of soul.
Bali gave me that—medicine that may have saved my life.
From across the world, I could finally see how survival mode had been suffocating me.

So when I say I want a break, I don’t mean rest.
I mean breaking away—from chaos, from stories that aren’t mine.

The tired chorus of I messed up, I’m not enough, how did I get here?—
that’s not truth. That’s inheritance. And today, I burn it.

This new moon in Virgo sharpens the blade:

I cut cords with precision. I release what was never mine.
I clear space for clarity, for soul peace, for legacy.

Because we do not build legacy on the ashes of self-doubt.
We build legacy from ancestral blessing and intergenerational strength.

✨ My invitation: as this new moon rises, create your own symbolic ceremony.

See yourself cutting clean from the lies, the clutter, the dead weight.
Cut with precision. Release with courage. Choose clarity.

This is part of Living the Legacy
the work I’m devoted to, the program I now offer.
If you feel the pull, come stand in this fire with me.

📸
: Caymanas Estates 🇯🇲

11/08/2025

✨ Applications Now Open – Living the Legacy: The Mentorship ✨

This September, I’m opening the doors to a select group ready to step into embodied leadership, spiritual alignment, and an authentic voice.

This is more than a program — it’s a sacred container for transformation.
For emerging leaders. For those in transition. For anyone who’s worked with me before and felt that deep, unmistakable spark.

What mentorship means to me:

It’s not about telling you what to do. It’s about standing beside you, seeing your wholeness even when you can’t, and guiding you toward it. My path has taught me that personal transformation is the seed of social and global change — but only when it’s lived, not just practiced.

📅 Applications open now for the September 2025 intake.

📩 DM me for details or to request the application form.

10/08/2025

Here we are, just 10 days into August, and it already feels like we’ve crossed the halfway mark.

As shared, this month is going to feel like two months packed into one, and wow—he was right. Intense, expansive, and deeply revealing, every day brings a fresh wave of energy. 🙏🏽💫

Thank you to everyone who moved through this week with me. Whether it was in class or in circle, we’ve been deep in the work. And today, I’m celebrating the pause—the space to honor where we are in this moment. 🧘🏽‍♀️💖

This week’s women’s circle was pure magic. We dove deep into the practice of calling into being what we desire and what we want to be celebrated for.

Healing is essential, but so is celebration. It’s time we celebrated the progress we’ve already made, taking
breath, turning around to appreciate how far we’ve come before we take the next step. 🏔️✨

A huge highlight for me this week has been my own experience with the 21-Day Reset. This practice has become a non-negotiable part of my morning routine. If I don’t drop into it first thing, my day doesn’t quite feel complete. But when I do, everything else falls into place—and it’s like the universe keeps showing me how much better it can get. 🙌🏽✨ So grateful for this collective journey.

As part of my birthday celebration, anyone who joins the 21-Day Yoga and Conscious Rituals Upgrade and Update program this month on will receive my personal updates and insights as a bonus.

Once you sign up, simply DM me, share proof of payment, and send me your WhatsApp number. I’ll add you to the group, where you’ll receive daily updates and be part of our beautiful community.

Thank you for being with me on this journey. Let’s keep climbing, one step at a time. 🌿💫

10/07/2025

🌕 Happy Full Moon in Capricorn 🌕

Full moons are potent portals of illumination—a chance to pause, reflect, and release.

This one is calling in clarity.

✨ What truth are you ready to face?
✨ What are you choosing to communicate with yourself—honestly and courageously?

Take a few moments today. Light a candle. Write it down.

Prompt:
“The truth I can no longer ignore is...”

🌀 Friday 11 July (In Person):
Join me in person at The Yoga Barn for our Full Moon Circle at 2:30 PM. Walk-ins welcome.

🌍 Sunday, July 13 (Online via Zoom):
A global women’s circle for reflection + release.
Sliding scale donation: US 22, 33, 44 DM for transfer information
DM to register + receive the link.

⏰ Time Zones:
7 AM ET | 8 AM JA | 2 PM UK | 7 PM Bali

Let’s gather in community. We’ve entered the tunnel of the second half of 2025. Let’s walk through it clear, conscious, and connected.

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