Michelle Ives Kaspari

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Michelle Ives Kaspari

Where health, wellness & movement come together. Life is intricately woven together by threads of various elements. The answers we seek are always there!

Sharing my journey of self study, hoping to encourage YOU to take that deep dive inward.

10/25/2025

what an evening ✨️

These are just a few of the nuggets I walked away with:

✅️ What is my role in the insanity in my life/recovery.
✅️ We use people like we do sedatives and stimulants.
✅️ LAVA: Love Atenntion Validation Approval
✅️ Trauma stays in a family until someone is ready to feel it.
✅️ Depression is the refusal to sit with yout grief.
✅️ RECOVERY is sitting with your GRIEF.

To be in a world where together, we can acknowledge we've been in dark places, and have yet made ot through all the trauma in out lives - is so incredibly powerful.

I am following the pathway. The one that's reminding me to stay connected to Spirit/God, and to keep showing up to do the hard work.

Thabk you, thank you, thank you 🙏

10/04/2025

Turning my pain into purpose.

In celebrating 5 years clean on 8.5.2025, I've been sitting with bittersweet feelings. To fully experience life without altering my mood or feelings with drugs or alcohol IS something to celebrate. It is also admitting that I abused substances to avoid being present in my life for many years.

As I continue the journey now, helping other addicts begin to embrace a life in recovery - I sit in awe that my past pain is now serving a purpose ✨️.

Many of us live in a fear and anxiety driven place. Fear is living in the past and anxiety in the future. The obsessive thinking fuels Complusive actions. We start to Crave anything that what we are thinkingor feeling. This spirals into wanting to Control our experience and if we use again, there are typically consequences (the 4 C's of Addiction)

How do we stay clean? How do we not fall victim to old behaviors of numbing out?

🪬We have to 'Let go and let God'.
🪬We become willingly powerless over our thoughts and feelings. (Step #1)
🪬 We trust that a power greater than ourselves can return us to sanity. (Step #2)
🪬 We become willing to turn our lives over to our HP. (Step #3)

The journey has a million ups & downs. It requires courage, strength, and vulnerability. Emotions run high and seem intensified the first couple of years because we've numbed for so long, feeling our way through something is NEW.

What I know today is that recovery is a GIFT. It is my honest belief that we'd all have healthier relationships if we all worked our way through a 12-step program at some point in our life, regardless if we think we are defined as an 'addict' or not.

Feeling fulfilled tonight after a week of guiding others to listen to their inner voice that have struggled with addiction. It is a 'WE' program, and WE are in this lifetime together ❤️

Many blessings 🙌

09/25/2025

This was an unexpected gift from .tantawy68 , his artwork from a picture of me.

We can complain about the negative aspects of social media, but this is part of what makes it so amazingly beautiful. It put a smile on my face, and I'm humbled with his offering.

We all have a purpose and gifts to share. What can you share with the world today?

09/17/2025

Grief.

It can consume us with intense emotions. It can feel like the pain will never subside. It's in those moments that we will do most anything to not feel.....

I listened today as an older man, shared his grief over losing his wife 10/7 of last year to cancer. His grieving process was to drink in excess, and he's paying the consequences now.

I also heard of a well loved couple in the music circle I'd been a part passing from a head-on motorcycle crash. A large community of friends and family are mourning the sudden loss.

It saddens me that life goes by each day and people are afraid to express their love to another for fear of being hurt. We have today, tomorrow isn't guaranteed, and yet we take that for granted.

If no one's told you today, I love you. Take it for what it is. somedays, we just need to hear it. 🙏✨️

09/12/2025

Less control and more in the flow - the theme of the Lunar eclipse on 9/7.

PERU RETREAT 2027!

Available for booking now, 3 spots already taken - rest assured there is a space for you too! The travelers from Portugal really connected and before I made it home was already in the planning stages of the next retreat.

Peru will offer a variety of experiences from Yoga, cooking class, and sacred spiritual site visits and rituals. It's layered to fulfill body, mind, and spirit connections.

I'd love to have you join us! Please DM me with any questions....

https://www.tourhero.com/en/epic-adventures/peru/machu-picchu-and-mindfulness-a-journey-to-the-heart-of-peru-with-michelle-kaspari-741936

08/30/2025

I've been having a recurring dream for more than a year now. In the dream, I'm lingering in the decision to keep the old apartment I lived in while going to school in SF, back in 1989-1991.

The apartment is different, more spacious than it's 500 sq ft actual space. In every dream, I struggle with the decision of leaving because of a night skyline with breathtaking views. Stars galore.....

I perch myself outside and just stare into the starlight, fluctuations spinning in my mind. Then the dream ends.....

"Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Women comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered, Wild Woman comes back. She comes back through story." Women Who Run With the Wolves

The dream doorway is open, pulling me into something undefined at the moment. My intuition is whispering, however : 'It's the skyline view from the 'soul relation' dwelling. ✨️ - still holding on, seeing clearly, resisting letting go 💔

My inner Wild Woman also whispering: dont forget, you are the jewel ✨️

Observing.
Acknowledging.
Surrendering.

Let go and let God. 🙏💫💖

08/26/2025

Our Lady of Fatima 🇵🇹
Mother Mary

Captivating presence. 'Her apparitions provided a message of prayer, peace, and penance, guiding believers in living a virtuous life.' (Google)

How do we live a virtuous life?

I realized on this trip that I've still got some internal work to do. Sometimes, I'd like to think that the lessons have been completed and life will roll with ease from here on out. My truthful understanding, however, is that it may be lifelong, and that's ok for the more I understand my existence, the more I can understand yours.

The journal I've been working thru this year is based on the figure Mother Mary ✨️. Although I don't know much about her, I've resonated with the passages in the journal, always timely to what I've needed to hear.

God will not do for us what we can do for ourselves... Sunday's kinship meeting topic 🙏. As I settle back into my post travel rhythm, I see with open and loving eyes where my work needs to focus. This moves me into living a virtuous life 💕

Don't be afraid to do the work.
Don't be afraid to make bold decisions.
Don't be afraid of what's being shown to you.

Early morning reflection, many blessings today!

08/20/2025

Back on US ground.
Reflection on what the past 12 days showed me.

Stepping into this role wasn't new. I'd done a couple of retreats before, gradually believing a little more with each one of my capabilities. It wasn't until the venue manager called me 'Retreat Leader' that I even considered myself one, a leader that is.

Isn't that ironic? I acknowledge I lead students in Yoga Rooms, I lead people with Coaching sessions, but for some reason 🤔 my inner psyche didn't even consider believing that in this environment, I was a leader.

This is not to say I am on a pedestal, I much prefer to stay humble with my feet on the ground. The reality is I learned so much about myself on this trip, that I felt more like a student than anything.

This journey, the one we are all on, is always opening us to more of who we really are. What that takes is a discerning eye into the disbeliefs we've gotten comfortable with over time. To clear our 'citta' of self doubt, so we can root ourselves with more power, strength, and grace in places, we were always meant to stand in.

"She is ideas, feelings, urges, and memory. She has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time. She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak. She is the smell of good mud and the back leg of the Fox. The birds which tell us secrets belong to her. She is the voice that says, 'This way, this way.'" - Women Who Run With The Wolves

There is always a journey brewing within us fueled by curiosity.....

The next retreat location announced soon! Until then, stay curious 🙏💕💫

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08/18/2025

Someone told me yesterday,'You continue to do big scary things, until they aren't big scary things anymore. Until they become experiences that you've lived' ❤️✨️🙏

Pictured above, my tarot card reading with the beautiful . At the center 'CREATOR' . Also pulled The Butterfly, The Dragnonfly - define and transform 🔮

I have made some bold decisions in the last 5 years. I have made choices that I wish I hadn't. With time, however, I realized those choices taught me more and more about what it feels like to be aligned on my journey.

The more we trust in exploring our fears and doubts, the more aligned we will become. When all we do is think about what we want to do, it's very easy to become paralyzed by all the 'what ifs'.

There is an unfortunate line between believing in ourselves and selfishness. I've lived many years in the unworthy, wounded part of my existence. The more devotion I put towards healing that wound, the more pieces fall into place.

This is living aligned with purpose and in abundance. 💫 So, if you want to shift from lack to abundance, confront your fears. Heal the wound and watch the magic of the universe.

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It's looking like I may be grounded in Portugal longer than anticipated - flew on Air Canada, they are on strike, and all flights have been canceled 🤷‍♀️

It's teaching me to surrender, to have difficult decisions, and to stay steady through the uncertainty.

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Allow things to unfold without resistance.
Allow yourself the opportunity to lean in.
Allow the universe to reward you for your steadfast devotion.

Many blessings 🙌

08/17/2025

Many say the ocean grounds them. The serenity and peace that arrive while in its presence is often indescribable.

Mother nature is always showing us the way to enlightenment. It requires us to tune in instead of tuning out, and usually, we do with ease while in this landscape.

The Truth is this:

Oceans are vast, powerful, and seemingly exist without defined edges or endings. This is where we find comfort and serenity.

So why do we feel exactly the opposite when looking at an unknown path ahead of us? When our sails need to shift directions and we panic, not knowing what's beyond the horizon?

We fall heavily into the idea that we must ALWAYS know the way. We allow powerful emotions to overtake any sense of rationale.

Allow yourself the gift of freedom by getting comfortable with uncertainty. It's truly our intentions that steer us towards an aligned life, nothing else. The Universe will answer when the time is right. ✨️

08/16/2025

These women 🙌

I've observed so much growth in the time we've spent together the past week. The foundation of this retreat was to awaken our fears. This is the only way we can move thru them!

I am still humbled at the trust they've extended with me to guide them in new experiences, awakening uncertainty alongside what fears may have surfaced. They connected by exposing vulnerable pieces within themselves ✨️.

The word RETREAT can be defined in many ways, but one translation is 'to withdraw or go inward'. This place can be scary in its own right, but we absolutely can not change what we avoid looking at.

Celebrating the week tonight with a private chartered yacht- 3 hour sunset cruise along the Algarve coast 🚤🌅🍾

And so it is.
Aho!

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