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Blissful Butterfly Yoga

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Blissful Butterfly Yoga

My name is Veronica Carpenter, and I live in Audubon, NJ. I am an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, E-500-RYT & Certified Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT.

🦋I help humans find balance through yogic practices & principles, yoga therapy, spiritual guidance, inner child healing & shadow work, fostering self-love & authenticity. I help humans find balance —practically and playfully—through yogic practices and principles, yoga therapy, spiritual guidance, inner child healing, and shadow work. I offer both online and in-person services for all ages. I wear various wings in my service to the world around me. My offerings for children focus on fostering healthy emotions and nurturing their growth, drawing on my background in relationship-based therapy. For adults, I provide support to heal their relationship with themselves, encouraging self-love and helping them live in alignment with their most authentic selves. I live and teach by the core values of loving kindness, compassion, truth, authenticity, and playfulness. I teach under the name Blissful Butterfly Yoga. The path of the butterfly takes courage, for it was first a caterpillar, then turns to goo inside a chrysalis before being rebuilt by the grace of the Divine into a butterfly. Then it must effortfully makes its way out of the chrysalis to build up its wing strength to be able to fly free. This is just how life is, metaphorically we are churned into mush by the waves of life time and time again throughout our journey here. It is only by the grace of the Divine, partnered with our own will and determination, that we can use these shattering stages of life to support our metamorphosis, which can lead us to living in alignment with our most blissful selves. Through my writing, blog, videos, social media presence, and conversations with my students, I share bits of my story—recovering from heartbreak, developmental and spiritual traumas, and living with androgenic alopecia— to inspire others to do the work of transforming times of crisis into tools for cultivating strength, courage, deeper understanding and resilience. All the services I provide are designed to make the ancient practices of yoga accessible to everyone, with a trauma-informed lens. Please visit the "All Offerings" tab at www.blissfulbutterflyyoga.com to see the full range of my services. With love & gratitude,
🦋Veronica

03/10/2026

✨️Spring is nature’s true New Year.

💜After the long inward season of winter, the Spring Equinox arrives as a turning point. Day and night stand in balance, and from here the light begins to grow. The earth wakes up. Seeds begin to stir beneath the soil. Life starts moving again.

✨️This is why many ancient traditions honored the Spring Equinox as the real beginning of the year. It’s the season of emergence, possibility, and new growth.

🔥In honor of celebrating this shift I’m hosting my Soulhood Circle Quarterly Burn Ceremony on Thursday, March 19th at 7pm ET, live on Zoom.

✨️This gathering is a space to slow down reconnect with yourself and community while aligning with the rhythm of the season. We’ll begin with guided centering, inspiration, and reflection, followed by journaling to explore what the past season has revealed and what you’re ready to call forward as the light returns.

💜Together we’ll get honest about what habits, thoughts, and beliefs no longer align with who you are becoming. Through ritual and community, we’ll release what we’re ready to let go of and consciously name what we want to cultivate in this new cycle of growth.

🔥The ceremony includes guided grounding, reflection, inspiration, journaling, and a fire ritual to symbolically release what you’re leaving behind.

💜Spring invites us to begin again. To plant new intentions. To step forward with clarity and courage.

✨️If you’ve been feeling the quiet nudge to reset, realign, or start fresh, this is a beautiful moment to do it in community.

💜You can reserve your spot through the link in my bio & in comments👇. DM me with questions.

🔥Come as you are. Bring a candle, a journal, and a willingness to begin again.

02/10/2026

✨️Join us on the dancefloor with Ecstatic Dance Philly on Sunday morning, February 15th at 11am!

💜I’m honored to be leading the warmup! As always, my approach is beginner-friendly and trauma-informed.

✨️This space gives me a chance to lead a little differently. It’s not a traditional yoga class, but a guided experience to help you arrive in your body, find balance, and align with your intention.

💜The warmup will be rooted in self-love, stability, and authenticity. We’ll tend to your inner landscape, release what’s mucking up the works, and restore equilibrium so you can be more in harmony with yourself and the world around you (after all, this is what yoga and spiritual practice is all about).

✨️We’ll begin inward, listening and attuning, move upward to awaken energy and clarity, then expand outward into loving kindness and awareness of the community. Finally, we return home to self, grounded and aligned, ready to share energy on the dance floor.

💜Think of it as a moving prayer and personal energetic hygiene practice. Time to connect with your inner guidance system and move in ways that feel true to you!

✨️We’ll explore the energetic body, move like the elements, and seek balance as we flow into the dance guided by who is one of my favorite ecstatic dance DJs.

💜I’m so psyched for this! Reach out with any questions.

✨️Link in my bio.

01/29/2026

💜If your body feels heavy, stuck, wired, numb, or overwhelmed… this might be for you.

✨️Ecstatic Dance is a chance to move what’s been living in your body instead of carrying it alone. Stress. Grief. Anger. Joy. Restlessness. All of it gets a place.

💜A new female curated space running on first Fridays:
South Jersey Ecstatic Dance
Friday, February 6
Studio 67, Medford NJ.

✨️Beginner-friendly. Trauma-informed. No experience needed.

💜Think living-room dance party vibes, but held with care and intention. No choreography. No performance. No pressure. You can dance a lot, a little, or not at all. Sitting, observing, and resting are all welcome.

✨️We begin with a gentle, intuitive warm-up led by yours truly, of Blissful Butterfly Yoga, to help you land in your body and the moment before the music journey begins.

💜Then DJ Shouk takes us on a live dance journey. Shouk, in Armenian, means both sunlight and shadow, and her sets make space for release, joy, grief, sweetness, and stillness. Tech house, deep grooves, and heart.

✨️This is a sober space.
✨️Shoes off (unless medically needed).
✨️No talking on the dance floor.
✨️No pics or videos on the dance floor so feel free to get as weird as you want.
✨️Consent-centered.
✨️Family friendly, kids welcome and are free.
✨️Come as you are.

💜Early bird tickets available through February 1st.

✨️If your nervous system needs a reset and your body wants to move, you’re invited.

🦋DM me with questions.

🎟Link in bio & in comments ⬇️

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?

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Thursday	9:15am - 10:15am
	11am - 1:30pm
Saturday	10am - 10:45am
	11:30am - 1:30pm

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