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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?

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, our 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.

09/23/2025

"Wordless words.”

Some things do not live in language - they are felt.

Resonance is the unspoken thread of connection, the knowing that lands in us before words arrive, the felt sense we have that is beyond words. It is the space where presence speaks louder than explanation, or even compassion; where the body recognizes safety before the mind can categorically label it.

Your nervous system knows when it is met. When you are truly seen, truly understood, there is a subtle, undeniable shift. Breath slows, muscles relax, clarity and ease become embodied. This is not about words alone—it is about the energetic intention within them, through them, behind them; the warmth in the pauses, the deep listening required in the presence of complexity.

Resonance is the difference between being heard and feeling ‘caught.’ It allows us to meet ourselves and others with compassion instead of correction, curiosity instead of judgment. It is what makes the words we use matter—what gives them weight, depth, and meaning.

When we attune instead of react, when we listen beyond language, we create a field of connection within which healing is a natural consequence.

To embody resonance is to live in harmony with all aspects of yourself and of those around you - it’s a state of coherence required for our system to calibrate our perpetual expansion.

09/22/2025

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

— Henry David Thoreau

09/19/2025

Healing isn’t just mindset—it’s biology and education.

Too often, people want to “plant” new habits or emotional breakthroughs in soil that hasn’t been adequately prepared for the roots to take hold. It’s akin to burying seeds in a decimated patch of arid desert and expecting them to grow.

Early micro-traumas shape survival patterns and wire us for self-sabotage. To shift this, we need to work with BOTH:
1 - Soma (body / nervous system): building capacity, learning to feel internal sensations, honoring impulses we learned to suppress, AND
2 - Education: understanding why it feels messy, uncomfortable, even chaotic at times; exploring perspectives, discerning motives, discovering new possibilities.

While our biology already knows how to heal, the higher brain needs clarity so it doesn’t hijack us with old wiring. With both body and education on board, the system re-organizes, resilience grows, and our intrinsic self-worth comes back online.

In cultivating the soil properly, healing becomes inevitable.

09/16/2025

We all get ‘pulled out’ - when life feels unpredictable, fast-paced, and outside circumstances are chaotic or constantly changing, a sense of overwhelm ensues, we feel disconnected from ourselves, and our body creates strategies to manage this mental/emotional tension to ‘hold it all together.’

This workshop is an invitation to reconnect with your inherent wholeness; you will be lovingly guided through gentle somatic practices designed to soften tension, ease discomfort, and reclaim mobility, freedom and presence. It’s a chance to enjoy moments of reflection and stillness to integrate learning and experiencing.

No matter our age or stage of life, it’s critical to cultivate versatility in movement, to investigate patterns of tension (in mind and/or body) with warmth and curiosity, and learn how to alleviate stress from the inside out.

WED, 10/22 [6:00 to 8:15 pm] - ONLINE (Zoom)
FRI, 10/24 [6:00 to 8:15 pm] - SALISBURY, MD (Abbi Custis Art Studio)
SUN, 10/26 [4:00 to 6:15 pm] - WEST OCEAN CITY, MD (Meta Yoga Studio)

$75, go to www.balancedyogawellness(dot)com to register! (Or link in bio)

09/13/2025

Since I can remember, I have had an unrelenting curiosity (my mom preferred the term "nosy" lol) - call it what you will, I love to learn. I'm fascinated by so. many. things. I worked in the University library all four years of college, and one my favorite tasks was reshelving books. I just couldn't get over how many books had been written about how many subjects of interest by how many authors whose own curiosities led them deeper into one particular subject. I pushed the cart along at turtle speed, just wondering about the contents of all. those. books., stopping at times to flip through pages as I reshelved, picking up a snippet here, a quote there. That job made me realize how vast even this one little 'life' is, how I could never ever be bored with so much to explore!

If someone were to ask me where is "my happy place" - besides the beach - it would be in a library or book store. Books are where I turn for perspective, for guidance, and sometimes simply for comfort.

I love the way they meet me right where I am, offering language for what I’m moving through or opening me to something I hadn’t yet considered. I also love that through maturation and nervous system regulation work, I began to recognize that my life and inner experiences equipped me to disagree with things I was reading. This was a subtle but powerful experience for me as I shifted out of functional freeze and a perpetual-people-pleasing-past. I am entitled to my own thoughts and opinions about things, and no longer had to blindly accept everyone else's as the authority.

Reading has always been less about finishing and more about returning...again and again...to what continues to teach me -- about the world, and about me.

Photographer: @27.creative.co

09/09/2025

Each of us is an instrument, a vessel through which the music of creation flows. We are continually broadcasting a tune, called frequency - an energetic signature, the silent song of our being.

When our instrument is attuned to the frequency of our Essential Self (the part of us we perceive to be closest to our Creator), intuition emerges as a natural expression of our existence. This ‘inner teacher’ guides us toward harmony, honesty, compassion, and selfless service.

We tune our instrument not through controlling the song, but through increased receptivity and discernment.

In practice, this looks like
listening before fixing,
feeling before labeling,
honoring before forcing.

We are all sending signals into the ethers, broadcasting our unique energetic melody. When we are in harmony (where our thoughts, feelings and body are in alignment), our frequency is coherent and rhythmic in nature. When we are out of tune, out of integrity (where we are being dishonest, uncompassionate, greedy), the vibration we emit becomes distorted and chaotic in nature.

When we learn to tune our instrument through meditation, breath, movement, presence, and awareness—we stop reacting to the world and begin responding to it. We move from dissonance to resonance, from force to flow, from effort to ease.

Your body already knows the rhythm.
Your breath already carries the melody.
The celestial music is already within you.

You just need to listen.

Artwork by

09/07/2025

I’m humbled by the stories my clients share.
When one person opens up, it not only reflects their own growth, it shows others what’s possible.
Each voice becomes a bridge, reminding us we’re not alone.
I’m deeply grateful for the trust and the courage behind these words.

09/05/2025

So much of what I give doesn’t come from doing.
It comes from presence - the rhythm my breath, the frequency of my thoughts, the stability of my attention.

When I soften into the simplicity of being, there's a radiance, a subtle eminence that invites others to tap the wellspring of peace within them.

I have learned to let that be enough...

09/02/2025

Expansion isn’t about adding more,
it happens the moment I’m willing to feel what’s present,
to be with myself in a deeper way.
To Touch and Stay
and Breathe
and Feel.

To question: If I didn’t feel this
(anger, agitation, sadness, fear)�what would I have to feel instead?

Expansion is subtle, indescribable, palpable.
It happens quietly,
softening what’s been safely guarded…until now.�
In my anger, agitation, sadness, fear,�the Uni-verse (Song of the One) is beckoning me to know more,
to understand more,
to LOVE MORE.

It’s not about becoming someone else.
It’s about allowing more of who I already am
to come forward with ease and grace.

This kind of growth isn’t measured by what others can see.
It shows up in how I breathe,
how I meet myself and others,
and in the space I create for life to move through me.

Expansion can feel like stillness.
It can look like rest.
It can sound like a quiet yes.
It feels like I’m coming home to myself.

08/31/2025

PLOT = the sequence of interconnected events within a story, where each event affects at least one other through cause-and-effect relationships. It is more than just a summary of what happens; it explains how and why the events unfold in a particular way. (Wikipedia)

Perceiving your story through a lens of innocence and worthiness creates the conditions for understanding, compassion and self-empathy to arise.

When you embody dignity (your inherent self-worth), everything around you reorganizes. Relationships shift, boundaries strengthen, choices become clearer.

Self-worth isn’t something you earn or achieve; it’s intrinsic.
The moment you root into that, the entire plot of your life begins to change.

08/29/2025

My story is not fixed.
It’s not written in stone or sealed in ink.
It’s shaped by awareness, by how I choose to meet what’s here.

The moment I bring love (or sometimes just attention - acknowledgment - warm curiosity) to the parts I once abandoned, the narrative shifts.

This isn’t about erasing, negating or denying the past.
It’s about reclaiming my Self within it (my voice, my power to choose, to know what I knew, to act).

I AM the narrator. I can experience (today) the story (past) from a limited perspective, or from a wider, esoteric perspective. This makes all the difference in how self-empowered and God-supported I feel about me and the characters of my story.

08/24/2025

We keep thinking we have to get behind ourselves and push, when all the time we are actually being propelled full speed ahead.

Ram Das, Paths to God

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Berlin, MD
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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?