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Balanced Yoga & Wellness

BYW is a referral-based private practice in Berlin, MD that offers evidence-informed Yoga Therapy Why not strive to become as fully integrated as possible?

f the body-mind-spirit complex. The goal is a sense of self-empowerment through connectedness - whether it's the lumbo-sacral rhythm, the head-to-heart (thoughts-to-emotions), the gut-to-brain (the enteric nervous system), or the Self-to-the-Whole...what we create on the microcosm of our sticky mat, we bring to the macrocosm of our world.

08/01/2025

Expanding our window of capacity (aka window of tolerance or window of resilience) means expanding our ability to notice, feel, and be with the sensations that arise or shift when life ‘moves’ us, emotionally (which we know because the flow of neurohormones creates a physiological state change and we register it as pleasant or unpleasant which subsequently directs our actions, consciously or unconsciously).

We build resilience when we
Feel,
Touch & Stay
vs
Sense & Run

07/29/2025

Your light is not too much.
It’s not something to hide, tone down, or wait for the “right time” to share.
It’s medicine.
It’s already within you, radiant, real, ready.
Shine, in the way only you can.
The world needs your light.

07/27/2025

I look forward to quiet moments each day
to bathe in the reminders all around me (especially nature),
that THIS LIFE IS A GIFT
and I get to choose my relationship with it.

For me, that choice is clear:
to hold a ruling passion for God
to let that Love shape how I listen, how I move, how I meet the world
to live not in striving, but in reverence,
in trust.

Sweet is Thy Will

07/22/2025

Embodiment is feeling oneself directly, without the constant narration or interruption of our thinking mind - Manuela Mischke-Reeds

07/20/2025

What if wholeness isn’t something to seek…⁠
it's something to remember?⁠
⁠
From birth, we are conditioned to reach, strive, and fix.⁠

The truth is often quieter than that.⁠
It lives in the pause. In the breath. In the shift from chasing something out there, to turning my attention inwards.

You are not lacking. You are layered.⁠
You are not broken. You are becoming.⁠
⁠
Everything you need is already within you.⁠
It always has been. ⁠
⁠
Artwork by: Olivia Herrick

07/15/2025

You are what you consume.
In food, in sound, in sensation, in story, in soul.

Every song you let into your body.
Every conversation you allow to echo.
Every space you enter—shapes you.

We are tuning forks, attuning to the frequencies around us.
What you consume becomes what you carry.

This photo is a reminder—
joy is contagious, music is medicine,
and connection is a form of nourishment.

Choose what you attune to.
Your body is listening. Your spirit is too.

07/13/2025

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”�— Vincent van Gogh

This is how we grow.�By staying in the discomfort of the unknown,�and choosing to meet ourselves there�with curiosity, grace, and the willingness to try again.

07/08/2025

Alignment doesn’t come from force.
It arises when we soften, when we listen, when we lead with love.

B.K.S. Iyengar reminds us:
“Do with great affection, not great willpower.”

The practice—on the mat and off—isn’t about pushing harder.
It’s an invitation to show up with warm curiosity and trust in what’s unfolding.

07/06/2025

Surfing has become a mirror—
a way to meet myself through rhythm, resistance, and presence.

The salt, the sun, the wind… they bring me back to what’s real.
It’s where I reconnect with my body—challenge it, honor it, listen deeply.

There’s a beauty in how it holds both solitude and community.
The quiet of being with yourself. The joy of being alongside others.
Each person in their own flow, yet part of something shared.

Play isn’t extra—it’s essential.
It opens what effort alone doesn’t touch.
The more I lean into joy, the more space I find for possibility.

And it’s never too late to begin.
To try something new. To let joy lead.

07/04/2025

The nervous system is the conductor of my internal symphony—
guiding, interpreting, responding.

Regulation is not about calming down,
it’s about learning to listen
to the rhythm of my breath,
to the stories my body is telling,
to the subtle signals beneath the static.

Regulation is not a performance—
it’s courageous presence
in the face of any number of sensations or emotions
that entice me to abandon myself.

07/01/2025

Balance is not a fixed state—�it is a practice
of returning�to some semblance of harmony within me,
over and over again, �
sometimes eluding me altogether
for periods of time...�

When I put my attention here, �
there feels out of balance.
Adjust.
Now that my attention is there, �
here feels a bit off.

My nervous system knows the way —
through orienting,
wondering...
how am i meeting this moment?

Curiosity gives me space
to�source warmth within me.�
ahhhh...there it is.

Art by Vicky Barone

06/29/2025

"Touch your peace......
It needs you now. Your plants, pets, and people all respond to your Loving touch. So does your peace. Peace is a living thing. It needs your attention and care. Touch it with deep breathing, prayer, praise, song, stillness, silence, servitude, art, dance, movement, mantra, rest, romance, release, relationship with your various soul nutrients. To stay free you require staying in touch with your peace. It is a wonderful presence inside you. A shimmering, sacred lake. To wake it, touch the water."

— Jaiya John
Fragrance After Rain

Address

10045 Old Ocean City Boulevard
Berlin, MD
21811

Telephone

+14108122119

Website

http://www.balancedyogawellness.com/

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BY&W employs an inter-disciplinary approach to the art and science of yoga: from mindful movement and breath-centered practices, to positive psychology and the latest in anatomy, neuroscience and pain research, my aim is to bring the nervous and musculoskeletal systems back into functional balance, to increase stress resilience (our ability to 'cope'), and from that space, encourage integration of the body-mind-spirit complex. The goal is a sense of self-empowerment through connectedness - whether it's the lumbo-sacral rhythm, the head-to-heart (thoughts-to-emotions), the gut-to-brain (the enteric nervous system), or the Self-to-the-Whole...what we create on the microcosm of our sticky mat, we bring to the macrocosm of our world. Why not strive to become as fully integrated as possible?