Yolagi

02/18/2026

Everyone talks about “opening your heart” like it’s a mindset shift.
It’s not.
It’s physiological.
It’s neurological.
It’s energetic.

Most people can’t receive love not because they don’t want to but because their nervous system doesn’t feel safe enough to.

When you experience heartbreak, betrayal, abandonment, chronic stress… the body protects the chest. Shoulders round. Breath becomes shallow. The fascia tightens. The heart center constricts.

That contraction becomes familiar.

So when something good tries to enter support, intimacy, opportunity the body reads it as unfamiliar. And unfamiliar feels unsafe.

That’s why we work with rhythm.

Rhythmic tapping over the sternum brings awareness back to a place we often disconnect from. It stimulates circulation and interrupts freeze patterns. Rhythm is regulating. The body understands rhythm before it understands language.

The clapping adds bilateral stimulation. That’s the same principle used in trauma processing therapies. Alternating stimulation helps integrate emotional charge instead of storing it.

Now the sound.

The chest cavity is literally a resonance chamber. When we vocalize intentionally, vibration travels through tissue, fascia, and fluid. It’s mechanical stimulation — not just spiritual symbolism.

Sound reorganizes.

And affirmations layered into vibration go deeper than thought alone. When emotion + rhythm + voice combine, the subconscious listens differently.

This isn’t about becoming softer.

It’s about becoming open without losing structure.

It’s about building a heart that can expand and stay steady.

That’s self-love in practice.

Not aesthetic.
Not performative.
Regulated. Receptive. Real.

If you’ve been doing “mindset work” but still feel closed in your chest… try working with the body instead.

Save this. Practice it. Repeat it.

Your heart doesn’t need to be forced open.

It needs to feel safe enough to expand. 🙏🏽💗

02/17/2026

Facilitating sound for this Valentine’s Day cacao ceremony reminded me why I do this work.

It’s never just about the event.

It’s about what happens when people gather with intention. When we slow down together. When we choose heart work instead of distraction.

Every time I hold sound in a space like this, I see the ripple effect. Conversations open. Connections deepen. People leave softer, clearer, more willing to show up in their lives differently.

That’s community.

Not just being in the same room — but growing in the same room.

I believe healing spaces should give back. They should strengthen the fabric of where we live. They should remind us we’re not doing this human thing alone.

Facilitating isn’t just playing instruments for me.
It’s building something bigger than one night.

It’s watching love expand outward — into families, friendships, partnerships, and into how we treat ourselves.

And that’s the real Valentine’s energy I care about.

Growth. Connection. Community. Then you

02/16/2026

Vancouver - This Gentle Yoga with Sound class offers a slow, supportive space to soften the body and calm the nervous system. Movements are intentional and unhurried, allowing you to explore each posture with ease, breath awareness, and choice. This practice is accessible to all bodies and especially supportive for those seeking relief from stress, tension, fatigue, or sensory overload. Drop ins welcome / Registration @ https://pachacollectivestudio.com/

02/11/2026

High energy doesn’t always mean loud.
Sometimes it means focused. Directed. Intentional.

In this reel I’m playing my newest instrument addition; the bowed psaltery in a composition designed for activation, not relaxation.

As a certified sound practitioner, I gently challenge something often repeated in the healing space: not all sound is meant to calm you down. Some frequencies are meant to wake you up.

The bowed psaltery carries a bright, crystalline overtone structure. When bowed with rhythmic intention, it creates a forward-moving current in the nervous system. That shimmering, slightly piercing quality isn’t random. It stimulates alertness, mental clarity, and energetic momentum.

We often associate sound healing with slow bowls, deep drones, and parasympathetic states and those are powerful.

But there’s another side to sound work: activation.

Sound can:
• Increase focus
• Shift stagnant energy
• Interrupt procrastination loops
• Support task initiation
• Create rhythmic entrainment for productivity

Clear tonal movement and repetition encourage the brain to synchronize. That synchronization can support executive functioning — making it easier to start and complete tasks.

This is especially helpful if you:
• Feel stuck in freeze mode
• Have ideas but struggle to implement them
• Experience mental fog
• Need an energetic reset before working

The key is intention.

This wasn’t random improvisation. The composition uses rising tonal patterns and steady bow rhythm to encourage forward motion. Think of it as sonic caffeine — without the crash.

Music doesn’t only soften emotion.
It can mobilize it.
It can transmute inertia into action.

Try listening while:
Cleaning one room.
Answering emails.
Planning your next move.
Creating content.

Notice what shifts in the body.
More alert? More organized? More willing to begin?

Sound is a tool. It can ground you — or ignite you.

This one was built for ignition.

Save it for when it’s time to get things DONE. 🔥

02/03/2026

How to tell the difference between fear-based stagnation and higher-self guidance

Not all “stuck” energy comes from fear.
And not every pause means you need to push harder.

One of the biggest misunderstandings in personal growth is assuming that a lack of movement automatically means avoidance or self-sabotage. In reality, fear and higher-self communication feel very different in the body even when the mind tells a similar story.

Here are a few ways to tell the difference:

1. Fear-based stagnation is loud.
Fear creates urgency, pressure, and mental spirals. There’s often a sense of “I have to decide right now or everything will fall apart.” The body may feel tight, restless, shallow-breathed, or contracted.

Higher-self guidance is quieter.
It doesn’t rush you. It often shows up as a neutral pause, a loss of momentum, or a subtle sense that something no longer fits without panic attached.

2. Fear loops the same thoughts.
Fear repeats worries, worst-case scenarios, and self-doubt, even when nothing changes externally.

Higher-self communication is often wordless.
Instead of mental chatter, you may notice fatigue, disinterest, hesitation, or a lack of emotional charge around something you once wanted. The signal is felt, not argued.

3. Fear contracts the body.
It shortens the breath, tightens the jaw, shoulders, or belly, and creates a need to escape discomfort.

Higher-self signals tend to feel grounded.
There may be uncertainty, but not collapse. You might feel steady, observant, or calm even without answers.

4. Fear demands certainty.
It keeps asking, “What if this goes wrong?”

Higher-self guidance allows not knowing.
There’s often permission to wait, even when the waiting feels uncomfortable.

Practices to listen more clearly:
• Ask the body: Does this feel tight or spacious?
• Give it time fear escalates when rushed.
• Shift state: walk, breathe, move, sing.
• Ask not “What does this mean now?” but “What might this reveal later?”

Stillness doesn’t always mean you’re stuck.
Sometimes it means something is recalibrating before alignment becomes visible.

You don’t need to force movement to prove growth.

02/03/2026

How to tell the difference between fear-based stagnation and higher-self guidance

Not all “stuck” energy comes from fear.
And not all pauses are signs you need to push through.

One of the biggest misunderstandings in personal growth is assuming that any lack of movement means avoidance or self-sabotage. In reality, fear and higher-self communication feel very different in the body even if the mind tells the same story.

Here are a few ways to tell the difference:

1. Fear-based stagnation is loud.
Fear tends to create urgency, mental spirals, and pressure.
There’s usually a sense of “I have to decide right now or I’ll lose everything.”
The body often feels tight, shallow-breathed, contracted, or restless.

Higher-self guidance is quieter.
It doesn’t rush you.
It often shows up as a neutral pause, a loss of momentum, or a subtle feeling of “this doesn’t fit anymore,” without panic attached.

2. Fear repeats the same thoughts.
Fear loops. It replays the same worries, worst-case scenarios, and self-doubt.
Even when nothing changes externally, the inner noise keeps going.

Higher-self communication often shows up without words.
Instead of mental chatter, you may notice fatigue, disinterest, hesitation, or a lack of emotional charge around something you once wanted.
The signal is felt, not argued.

3. Fear contracts your body.
Notice your nervous system.
Fear often shortens the breath, tightens the jaw, shoulders, or belly, and creates a need to escape the feeling.

Higher-self signals often come with neutrality or groundedness.
There may be uncertainty, but not collapse.
You might feel steady, observant, or oddly calm even without answers.

4. Fear demands certainty.
Fear wants guarantees before moving forward.
It asks, “What if this goes wrong?” over and over.

Higher-self guidance allows not knowing.
It doesn’t require immediate clarity.
There’s often an inner permission to wait, even if it’s uncomfortable.

Practices to help you listen more clearly:

• Body check-ins: Ask, “Does this feel tight or spacious in my body?”
• Time separation: Fear escalates when rushed. Guidance becomes clearer when time is allowed.
• State shifts: Go for a walk, sing, breathe, move—clarity often arrives when the nervous system settles.
• Delayed meaning: Ask not “What does this mean now?” but “What might this reveal later?”

Stillness doesn’t automatically mean you’re stuck.
Sometimes it means something in you is recalibrating before the next alignment becomes visible.

You don’t need to force movement to prove growth.
Sometimes listening is the work.

01/30/2026

When I use the phrase Divine Truth, I’m not referring to religion, belief systems, society, or something outside of ourselves.

I’m talking about truth that is integrated when your thoughts, emotions, and inner sensing are no longer in conflict.

Divine Truth isn’t something you adopt or defend.
It’s something you recognize.

In times like these, when information is constant and emotions are heightened, it’s easy to mistake intensity for truth. Loudness for clarity. Repetition for reality. Under pressure, we react instead of discern, and we borrow narratives instead of listening inward.

Practices like sound and stillness don’t give answers or tell you what to believe. They remove interference. They slow the internal pace enough for honesty to surface without force, without urgency. Less-talked-about ways people begin to recognize their own truth include:

• Letting a decision stay unanswered — noticing what clarifies when urgency is removed
• Tracking bodily “no” responses — paying attention to subtle resistance instead of overriding it
• Speaking a truth aloud with no audience — hearing what changes when it isn’t performed
• Sitting with discomfort without labeling it — allowing sensation to exist without story
• Observing what feels stable over time — what remains true days later, not just in the moment

Divine Truth doesn’t argue.
It doesn’t rush.
It doesn’t need agreement.

It shows up as steadiness rather than certainty.
As clarity rather than noise.

This is why I work with sound not to escape what’s happening in the world, but to stay rooted within myself while moving through it. Because truth that is felt changes how you move, who you trust, and how you relatewithout needing explanation.

01/30/2026

When I use the phrase Divine Truth, I’m not referring to religion, belief systems, society, or something outside of ourselves.

I’m talking about truth that is integrated when your thoughts, emotions, and inner sensing are no longer in conflict.

Divine Truth isn’t something you adopt or defend.
It’s something you recognize.

In times like these, when information is constant and emotions are heightened, it’s easy to mistake intensity for truth. Loudness for clarity. Repetition for reality. Under pressure, we react instead of discern, and we borrow narratives instead of listening inward.

Practices like sound and stillness don’t give answers or tell you what to believe. They remove interference. They slow the internal pace enough for honesty to surface without force, without urgency. Less-talked-about ways people begin to recognize their own truth include:

• Letting a decision stay unanswered — noticing what clarifies when urgency is removed
• Tracking bodily “no” responses — paying attention to subtle resistance instead of overriding it
• Speaking a truth aloud with no audience — hearing what changes when it isn’t performed
• Sitting with discomfort without labeling it — allowing sensation to exist without story
• Observing what feels stable over time — what remains true days later, not just in the moment

Divine Truth doesn’t argue.
It doesn’t rush.
It doesn’t need agreement.

It shows up as steadiness rather than certainty.
As clarity rather than noise.

This is why I work with sound not to escape what’s happening in the world, but to stay rooted within myself while moving through it. Because truth that is felt changes how you move, who you trust, and how you relatewithout needing explanation.

01/26/2026

We’ve been conditioned to believe that discomfort means something is wrong.

So when emotions show up especially the uncomfortable ones, we rush to label them, clear them, or fix them.

But many emotional experiences aren’t problems.
They’re responses.

A pause before answering.
A tightening when something doesn’t feel aligned.
A heaviness that arrives when something important has been ignored.

These are not failures of emotional mastery.
They’re forms of awareness.

When emotions repeat, it doesn’t always mean you’re stuck.
Sometimes it means something hasn’t been acknowledged yet—internally or externally.

The question isn’t always “How do I get rid of this?”
It’s often “What is this asking me to notice?”

Attention changes the relationship.
Presence shifts the pattern.

Nothing needs to be forced.

💬 What has been asking for your attention lately?

01/26/2026

We’ve been conditioned to believe that discomfort means something is wrong.

So when emotions show up especially the uncomfortable ones, we rush to label them, clear them, or fix them.

But many emotional experiences aren’t problems.
They’re responses.

A pause before answering.
A tightening when something doesn’t feel aligned.
A heaviness that arrives when something important has been ignored.

These are not failures of emotional mastery.
They’re forms of awareness.

When emotions repeat, it doesn’t always mean you’re stuck.
Sometimes it means something hasn’t been acknowledged yet—internally or externally.

The question isn’t always “How do I get rid of this?”
It’s often “What is this asking me to notice?”

Attention changes the relationship.
Presence shifts the pattern.

Nothing needs to be forced.

💬 What has been asking for your attention lately?

01/12/2026

This Open Heart Guided Meditation is a gentle, grounding journey designed to help you soften emotional armor, release stored tension, and reconnect with the wisdom of your heart space. Through breath, visualization, and mindful awareness, you’ll be guided into a state of openness, compassion, and inner safety.

This meditation supports:
💗 Emotional healing and heart chakra balance
💗 Releasing grief, stress, and emotional heaviness
💗 Cultivating self-love, forgiveness, and trust
💗 Nervous system regulation and deep relaxation
💗 Creating space to receive love, clarity, and peace

Perfect for moments when you feel guarded, disconnected, overwhelmed, or simply in need of gentle heart-centered care. You may practice this meditation seated or lying down, allowing the breath to guide you back home to yourself.

🌬 Best experienced with headphones
🕯 Safe for beginners
⏳ Ideal for daily practice or emotional reset

✨ Set an intention before you begin
✨ Return to this meditation whenever your heart needs tending

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With love and presence,
Yolanda | Yolagi

This Open Heart Guided Meditation is a gentle, grounding journey designed to help you soften emotional armor, release stored tension, and reconnect with the ...