Blissful Butterfly Yoga

01/26/2026

🤍 Snowed in? Iced over?
❄️ Sore from sitting or shoveling?
🤍 Tender, angry, overwhelmed from the news?

💜 If your body feels tight and your nervous system feels fried, come love on your body, mind, and spirit with me.

✨ My weekly virtual classes are for the average human.
💜 Accessible movement, breath, inspiration sewn in, and space to come back to yourself.

✨ When you’re constantly taking in everyone else’s noise, how do you hear your own inner voice?

💜 Use this sacred time on your mat as a moving meditation.
✨ A prayer.
💜 A place to get grounded, set an intention, say sweet things to yourself, and
gently move stuck energy and emotions.

✨ I offer five weekly classes.
💜 All accessible.
✨ All offered with loving kindness and compassion, from the comfort of home, in community.

💜 Your body and mind have been holding a lot.
✨ It’s time to slow down, get quiet, tune in, and tend to those nooks and crannies — while being gently reminded of your connection to all that is.

💜 This is what yoga is truly about: remembering our union and oneness.
When we stop numbing and create space for what we feel, that energy can move — and be used to make the world around us better, in your own special way.

🦋All details link in bio & in comments⬇️. Reach out directly with questions. First class free with code 1FREE at checkout.

12/23/2025

✨️Several years ago, I went to my first ecstatic dance at an outdoor summer festival. I didn’t really know what to expect. I just knew there was music, movement, and something about it felt curious and alive.

💜I fell in love instantly and haven’t stopped dancing since.

✨️Have you ever put music on in your living room and just moved your body however it wanted to move? No choreography. No mirrors. No worrying about how you look. Just feeling the music and letting it move you?

💜That’s what ecstatic dance feels like to me. People moving freely. Some dancing alone. Some dancing together. Everyone following their own rhythm. It’s not about performance. It’s about presence.

✨️Ecstatic dance has a few simple agreements that are what make it so special:
No alcohol or recreational drugs.
No shoes.
No talking.
No photos or videos.

💜These are also consent-based, child-friendly spaces, so sexually explicit movement is left off the dance floor. Nonverbal consent is reviewed before we begin, so you know how to connect, or not connect, with others in a way that feels safe and clear.

✨️These agreements create a sacred container. A place to move through whatever you’re carrying. Joy. Rage. Grief. Celebration. Sadness. Excitement. A place to shake off some of the weight of living in this world.

💜You can dance, or not dance. Lay down. Stretch. Jump. Yell. Laugh. Cry.
You get the picture.

✨️I’m so excited to be helping bring a brand new ecstatic dance to South Jersey alongside two incredible women.

💜Our first gathering is Friday, January 9th at 6pm. At Studio 67 in Medford, NJ.

✨️This is an experiment. We’ll begin on the second Friday in January, and if there’s interest, we’ll move to first Fridays in the months that follow.

💜No experience required. Just a curious mind and an open heart.

✨️Reach out directly if you have questions.

💜Reserve your spot and read full details at the link in bio and in comments 👇

12/18/2025

PSA
Gentle Holiday Reminders: Not Everyone is "Celebrating"

❄️I get that asking people at the grocery store cash register about their holidays (especially in the winter season) is a normal, well-intended thing. People are trying to be friendly, kind, and human.

💜And, it’s also a bit presumptuous to assume that everyone celebrates Christmas, or even celebrates holidays at all.

💜For some of us, this season is complicated. As someone who doesn’t have much connection with blood family, has had real trauma around Christmas, and doesn’t classically celebrate most traditional American or religious holidays, seemingly simple questions can open up a lot. Especially when I’m literally just doing my regular food shopping.

💜This is why I’m naming it.

💜In the past, this time of year has been deeply triggering for me, walking into stores bombarded with Christmas music the day after Halloween, being wished a "Merry Christmas" when I could barely drive down the street without feeling overwhelmed by the lights, decorations and reminders. This year, I’m the most stable I’ve ever been during this season. And it hasn’t always been that way. I know I can’t be the only one.

💜This time of year carries grief, loss, trauma, sadness, loneliness, longing, and quiet survival for a lot of people, including those you’ll never know anything about. A grocery store cashier, a stranger in line, the person standing next to you, they may not be able to hold what gets stirred up by a well-meaning question.

💜If you want to connect, it can be neutral.

✨️Things like: “I hope your day is going okay.” “Hope you’re staying cozy this winter.” “If you celebrate any holidays this season, I hope they are warm and bright.” Or simply, “Take care.”

💜Those kinds of words still offer kindness and connection, without assumptions attached.

✨️I’m not sharing this to shut people down. I’m sharing it because awareness matters. You never know what someone is carrying while they’re just trying to get through their day.

💜Warmly,
🦋Veronica | Yoga Therapist, Self-love Cheerleader and Earth Angel

12/10/2025

❄️As we move toward the Winter Solstice, I can feel the energetic shift.

💜The world gets louder and busier this time of year, but the season itself invites us to slow down, to get quiet, to soften, to go inward. It’s the natural rhythm we’re meant to follow, even though the world often pulls us in the opposite direction.

❄️Winter is the time to reflect on what we’ve carried this year, what we’re ready to release, and what parts of ourselves are asking for rest and renewal. It’s the season of cozy blankets, deep breaths, warm drinks, and honest clarity, a time to check in with yourself and be really real about what you need.

✨️Every 3rd Thursday of solstice and equinox months, I host a virtual gathering live on Zoom, Soulhood Circle to help us align with these natural cycles.

💜On Thursday, December 18th at 7pm, we’ll gather for a Winter Solstice Burn Ceremony to celebrate the longest night of the year. A 90-minute space to pause, breathe, journal, reflect, release, and reset together from the comfort of home.

🔥We’ll explore the themes of the season, work with journaling prompts, and move through a fire-release ritual to let go of what’s not serving you anymore. There’s also optional community sharing, never required, always welcome, held with loving-kindness, compassion, and spaciousness.

✨️If you’re feeling stretched thin by the holiday chaos or craving a grounded, intentional way to move through the darkest part of the year, this circle is for you.

💜A place to reconnect with yourself.
💜A place to realign with your inner rhythm.
💜A place to remember that you don’t have to navigate the season alone.

✨️Link in bio & comments 👇for full details & to reserve your spot.

💜With love & gratitude,
🦋Veronica | Yoga Therapist, Self-love Cheerleader

12/05/2025

✨️December shows up every year with hustle, noise, pressure, and rush… even though the season itself is whispering the opposite. Winter's approach invites us to slow down. To soften. To get quiet. To reconnect with what actually matters.

💚That’s why this month’s Mindful Hike feels extra tender and necessary.

✨️If you’re craving a pause…
✨️If your nervous system feels fried from screens, schedules, and the heaviness of the world…
✨️If you’re longing for community, simplicity, and a moment to breathe…

💚Come join me on the trails for a Mindful Hike — Last One of the Year
Saturday, December 13th • 11:11am
Rancocas Nature Center • Westampton, NJ

✨️We’ll spend about two hours reconnecting with the medicine of nature — moving mindfully, practicing presence, breathing deeply, and remembering that healing doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is walk among the trees, listen, and let yourself be.

💚This is forest bathing. Walking meditation. Playful moments of group connection. A nervous system reset wrapped in community care.

✨️I’ll be guiding as a yoga therapist, self-love cheerleader, and earth angel who lives the principles I teach — leading with loving-kindness and compassion, helping people come back home to themselves when they’ve forgotten how.

💚We’ll walk about 2–3 miles at a moderate pace. Open to all ages.
Each participant receives a small gift from me as a thank you for closing out the year together.

✨️This event also helps support the community — proceeds are shared between Rancocas Nature Center and myself so we can both keep offering healing, accessible spaces for folks who need them.

💚If your spirit is asking for stillness, connection, and a gentle reset before winter deepens — this is your invitation.

✨️Come walk, breathe, and remember your oneness with the natural world.

💚Registration link in comments 👇

11/06/2025

Ode To My Tree Friend

I've known this tree for 10 years.
I've visited it during different seasons of my life.

It began in a season of new beginnings, filled with promises, happiness and blooming with lighthearted joy.

Then came a season of unbecoming filled with confusion, shedding, longing, and pain.

That shifted to a season of shattering, filled with darkness, aching loneliness, hopelessness and grief.

Followed by a season of rebirth, filled with hope, triumph, miracles, childlike optimism and playful gratitude.

On and on my seasons went, here this tree stood for them all, going through its own seasonal shifts in winter, spring, summer and fall.

It held my fears and drank my tears, just as it listened to my laughter and held space for my joy.

I've brought little and big humans to visit this tree over the years.
To sit with, play under and bask in its glory.
But mostly I've come alone.

This tree never judged my seasons as one being better than the others.

It taught me I could endure all the shifting, changing and growing that life brought my way, that I was made for this...

Even the times where I felt like I was falling apart I was reminded that those trials were just preparing me for rebuilding moments to come.

Thank you, tree, for all the wisdom you have bestowed upon me...
For never judging,
for standing tall through every season,
for showing me what it means to just be,
and to accept all of myself as I navigate the messy cycles of life.

You’ve shown me the importance of grounding my roots deep
so my branches can reach for the light.

You’ve reminded me that the winds and storms don’t come to break me.
They come to reveal my strength, my resilience, my adaptability.

And for that, I thank you.
For reminding me to weather every storm with grace, patience and steadfastness.

Each season was a necessary step along the way to help me tap into my remembering of my connection to all things in nature.

Each tribulation helped me come back more resolutely to my connect with the Source of all Creation and my Highest Self.

Thank you tree for reminding me to use the stuff of my life to awaken, shine and nourish the world around me through my loving, kind and compassionate presence.

I've known this tree for 10 years and it has known at least 10 different versions of me.

Thank you tree, Source and Self for never giving up on me, even in the darkest moments when I wanted to.

With love & gratitude,
Veronica

This tree lives in Knight Park in Collingswood, NJ. Earth is alive. Nature is wise. Trees are our friends. What a gift. This is only one of my many tree friends that I frequently visit. Do you have trees you spend quality time with or admire?

10/30/2025

💚In a world that can feel heavy with noise, speed, and resistance, these gatherings offer a sacred pause — a chance to reset your nervous system and reconnect with what’s real.

✨️Join Veronica Carpenter — Yoga Therapist, self-love cheerleader, and earth angel — for a Mindful Hike on Saturday November 8th at 11:11am for a 2-ish-hour walking meditation and forest bathing experience designed to awaken the senses and soothe the spirit. Together, we’ll walk about 2 miles at a slow to moderate pace, exploring mindfulness, taking time to pause, breathe, and listen. There will also be a guided, playful group activity!

💚These events are part meditation, part movement, and all heart — reminding us of the profound power found in simplicity, in nature, and in community. When we slow down and really listen, we remember that we are not separate from the world around us but deeply woven into it.

✨️Veronica lives the principles she teaches, guiding with loving-kindness, compassion, and authenticity to help people find their way back home to themselves — especially when they’ve forgotten how.

💚Come as you are. Bring a curious heart, comfortable shoes, water, maybe a snack, and a willingness to invite your inner child out to play in the magic of the forest. Each participant will receive a small gift from Veronica as a thank-you.

✨️Proceeds are shared between Rancocas Nature Center and Veronica to support continued community offerings.

💚In times when the world can feel chaotic or heavy, slowing down and choosing presence becomes a radical act of self-love — and of hope. The most profound healing comes from the simplest things — a deep breath, a shared smile, being a little silly, and walking among the trees.

Open to all ages.
Adults: $22 | Youth (10–17): $10 | Children under 10: Free

💚Come walk, breathe, and remember your connection to all that is.
For full details and to register visit link in event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Gw7WiV3sc/

10/09/2025

✨ If you need a little spiritual inspiration…
🦋 Check out my latest blog post where I share some recent mysterious and magical synchronicities — the unexpected and delightful ways Spirit has been showing up in my life.
🌳💃🎶 It all leads to an invitation to join me in person twice this weekend!

Spirit works in mysterious and magical ways. I call these ways synchronicities — those unexpected repetitions, symbols, patterns, or moments when someone shows up right after you say their name. They remind us that there’s more going on than what our physical eyes can see. Here is a storytime of...

09/15/2025

🍂The Autumn Equinox is the sacred pause between light and dark, a threshold moment inviting us to honor balance. Summer’s outward fire softens now into autumn’s embrace—an invitation to shed what no longer serves as we prepare for winter’s stillness.

🧡Join me to celebrate this seasonal shift during Soulhood Circle: An Autumn Equinox Ritual
Thursday, September 18th at 7pm EST • Live on Zoom

🔥This circle is a chance to:
✨ Ground with guided centering & reflection.
✨ Explore the deeper meaning of autumn spiritually.
✨ Name and release the habits, beliefs, and patterns that are misaligned.
✨ Set clear intentions for who you’re becoming.
✨ Be held in sacred community & accountability.
✨ Burn away the old in ritual fire.

🧡Come sit in community. Come stand in your truth. Come align yourself with the rhythms of nature.

🔗Details & Register:
https://www.blissfulbutterflyyoga.com/soulhood-circle-community