Chi-Elements

30/12/2025

December 2025 Newsletter Chi-Elements (Agatha)

Turning Inward

17/03/2025

“When it rains, my Pilates studio magically transforms into a jungle gym. Planks turn into ‘the floor is lava,’ the yoga trapeze becomes a swing, and my yoga mat? Use your imagination😂. At least the kids have great core strength now! ”

24/12/2024

✨ A Different Kind of Holiday Season ✨
Inspired by & .chek on the Spirit Gym Podcast, I’m stepping into something magical this year: The 13 Holy Nights 🌌.

Starting today, this ancient practice blends pagan traditions, spiritual rituals, and the rhythms of nature around the winter solstice. It’s a sacred pause to connect deeper, awaken intuition, and intentionally map the year ahead.

Here’s the beauty of it:
🌙 Night 1 reflects the entire year ahead.
🌙 Each of the next 12 nights = one month of 2025 (Night 2 = January, Night 3 = February…).
This isn’t just reflection—it’s about dreaming, feeling, and even receiving “downloads” from the Universe. It’s a reset for the soul and a chance to realign with what truly matters.

If this resonates, it’s not too late to join me! DM me, and I’ll add you to our little accountability group on WhatsApp. Let’s explore this sacred time together and co-create an intentional 2025. 🌟

07/12/2024

🌸 Reflections from Our Recent Women’s Circle 🌸
This week at the studio, we gathered for an intimate and enriching Women’s Circle, diving into a recent podcast between Mel Robbins & Gabor Maté. Together, we explored patterns that so many women carry—patterns that often go unnoticed but deeply shape our lives:

✨ Putting others’ emotional needs before our own
✨ Seeking validation through duty, roles, and responsibilities—while neglecting our true selves
✨ Suppressing healthy anger to avoid conflict
✨ Feeling overly responsible for others’ emotional wellbeing and fearing disappointment

These behaviors are so common that they may feel like second nature. But as Dr. Maté reveals, this vibrational density—the weight of people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, and emotional suppression—takes a toll not only on our minds but on our bodies, weakening the immune system. 💔

💡 What if we could release these patterns?
In our circle, we challenged these asking questions like: What does it mean to honor ourselves unapologetically? How can we reframe “healthy anger” as a boundary instead of a burden?

We shared, listened, and held space for one another. 🌿 Healing begins when we recognize the ways we’ve been conditioned and consciously choose a lighter, more authentic path.

✨ To all the women reading this, pause for a moment: Whose emotional needs have you been prioritizing? What would happen if you put yourself first? ✨

Let’s keep this conversation going, beautiful souls. Share your thoughts or DM me to join the next circle. Together, we’re rewriting the narrative of what it means to care for ourselves and the world around us. 💖

31/10/2024

Halloween’s roots trace back to ancient Celtic, Roman, and early Christian traditions, blending elements from pagan rituals and religious practices. The origin of Halloween is closely linked to Samhain (pronounced “Sow-in”), a festival celebrated by the ancient Celts over 2,000 years ago, marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Celebrated on October 31st to November 1st, Samhain was seen as a time when the boundary between the physical world and the spirit world was thin. This allowed spirits of the dead to return to the earth for one night, along with other supernatural beings, such as fairies and deities.
 
Well, wether we believe this or not, there is a profound shift during this season - from summer to fall, fall to winter. Light to dark. I’ll be the first to admit that I never used to appreciate this shift in season very much - longing for my warm, bright, summer days. However, as I’ve learned more over the years, I’m able to appreciate the deeper meaning of this change in seasons. It’s an opportunity for deepening of intuition and a clearer connection to the spiritual realm. It’s as if the veil between the worlds opens a gateway to understanding our true potential and the magic that we carry within us every day. This season challenges us to step into the unknown, inviting us to imagine new possibilities in our abilities and the mysteries of the universe. It’s a forced invitation to look inwards, and nourish the deeper self.

09/09/2024

From Agatha - September 2024 Newsletter

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a fun, restful summer and got to enjoy some family time. I'm doubly excited: 1) because I'm keen to start classes again 2) because I'm finally restarting my newsletter after many years hiatus. My goal with this monthly newsletter is to keep you in the loop of what....

04/01/2024

I’m back teaching at Convent Bio in Lagoa on Monday, January 8th. Two classes to choose from and both run for 10 weeks. Pilates at 9:30am & Kundalini at 10:45am.
Hope to see you there!

28/04/2023

It is with great honor that I hosted our second women’s circle this month. Women’s circles are much more than just women getting together to chat. As Jean Shinoda Bolen, author of “The Millionth Circle: How to change ourselves and the world,” puts it:

“In more ways than one, women talk in circles: conversation takes a spiral shape in its subjective exploration of every subject. Listening, witnessing, role modelling, reacting, deepening, mirroring, laughing, crying, grieving, drawing upon experience, and sharing the wisdom of experience, women in circles support each other and discover themselves, through talk.

The more circles there are, the easier it is for new circles to form; this is how morphic fields work. Women’s circles form one at a time. Each circle expands the experience of being in one to more women. Each woman in every circle who is changed by it takes this experience into her world of relationships. Until, on one fine day, a new circle will form, and it will be “the millionth circle” - the one that tips the scales - and brings us into the post-patriarchal human era.”

I am proud to be contributing to this concept of the “millionth circle” in the hopes that one day there are enough circles to tips the scales and reignite the feminine values into society - allowing us to live in a more intuitive, compassionate, relationship focused and nurturing way (both to ourselves and those around us).

08/03/2023

In celebration of women’s month I’m so excited to be hosting my very first women’s circle 🙌 Sitting in circle is an ancient technology and sitting in circle with other women is medicine for the soul. Come together with other women on the new moon for some cycle awareness, restorative yoga practices, laughter, sharing, support and community.

This is free of charge, but you are asked to bring a healthy snack to share.

Reservation is mandatory as spaces are limited.

19/02/2023

Changes, while necessary, aren’t always easy - but they definitely make us more adaptable. We arrived in Portugal mid-August 2022 and between then and now we moved houses 4 different times and to completely different parts of the Algarve. I jokingly said we were living like Nomads - but it’s true! I had to fit teaching my virtual classes in whichever space I could find. That’s the beauty of technology though - no matter where I go I can stay connected with my longtime clients & I’m so grateful for that ❤️

15/02/2023

Hello all! Yes, I’ve been missing in action for a little while, I know. But…as you may or may not know we’ve made a big change in our lives this summer - making the decision to move our family from Canada (after living there for the last 7 years) back to Europe. I’m often asked why, why did we decide to come back to Europe? The reasons are many, but here are a few of the highlights:
- I wanted to be closer to my mom and brothers
- We wanted our kids to be back in Europe and immerse themselves in more culture, history, languages
- We wanted to buy a place with land, where we could be self sufficient
- Being Brazilian, I just can’t shake my need for sun and warmth :-)
- We were not liking the political climate in Canada

So where did we end up? We are now living in the South of Portugal and loving every minute of it. My inner voice had been screaming for a long time to make the change. Timing was right, circumstances were right, and we just made the leap. When you know you know.

21/12/2022

The winds of change set sail. From the darkest night of the year, now the days will get a little bit brighter. While winter is one of the hardest seasons for me to embrace, I am welcoming this opportunity to turn inwards, nourish myself, get plenty of rest and be ready for the lighter days. Happy Winter Solstice ❄️