Rachel Maki Yoga & Healing

04/24/2026

Offering mini tarot readings this Sunday 4/26 5-7pm for annual summer party! 🔮

10 min readings • $15

Hope to see you there! 🎉

02/17/2026

A year of sacred transmutation reaches the tail end of the snake and
hones me closer to my nature,
bringing me back to where I came from,
but higher up the spiral staircase
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01/26/2026

09/07/2025

Reiki healing sessions bring an energetic shift, to start moving in a new direction 🪽

Everything is made of energy - this is why Reiki works on our body, mind, heart & spirit.

When in a balanced state, energy flows effortlessly through its natural pathways in the body.

But these channels can get clogged up from our daily lives, leading to pain, limited mobility, even psychological & emotional imbalances.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, blocked, in chronic pain, or just in need of a shift, Reiki can help you gently and peacefully move this stagnant energy and start healing.

Reiki sessions can also integrate readings of the Akashic Records & Tarot for an enhanced healing experience

Message me to learn more & to schedule your session

08/28/2025

10 years ago, I took a life-changing course that taught me how to make meditation a daily ritual ( eternal gratitude to ) 📿

Since then, my morning meditation session each day has given me a consistent space for peace and authenticity that has rippled out to deeply transform every area of my life for the better.

Now, it is with great joy that I am offering my own course to support you in building your daily meditation practice!

Over 4 weekly 1-hour sessions, we will dive into tools and guidance for both learning how to meditate, and for making this practice an essential part of your daily routine.

In each session, we’ll meditate together, explore different styles and benefits of meditation, and discuss overcoming obstacles to our meditative experience

There will also be space to answer your specific questions, where I can share wisdom and insights that I have gained from my experience as a clinical therapist, as well as over 25 years of experience as a yogi and student of Buddhism, to help you turn your goal of daily meditation as a ritual into reality.

This course is $350 and for meditators at all levels. All meetings will be held remotely on Zoom. Space is limited to 12 participants. For inquires and sign ups, just send me a message!

05/29/2025

The Yamas are the foundational principles of yoga

They are commitments you make to yourself regarding your own behavior

They are moral ethical guidelines for navigating the spiritual path

They all involve practicing some form of self-control or restraint. They are:

Ahimsa — non-violence

Satya — truthfulness

Asteya — non-stealing

Brahmacharmya — sexual responsibility

Aparigraha — non-attachment / non-possessiveness

The 5 Yamas compose the first of 8 aspects of the Ashtanga yoga philosophy (ashta = 8, anga = parts)

They also share many similarities with Buddha’s Eightfold Path to overcome suffering, which is believed to have been heavily inspired by the Yoga Sutras

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03/28/2025

The Empress represents the divine feminine aspect of our nature 🌼

She is the Great Mother, the one who realizes they hold the ability to create all things by magnetizing them through her alignment with the divine.

The third card in the major arcana, she’s ruled by Venus. She encompasses all things beautiful, creative, nurturing, and unconditionally loving.

3 is the number of the divine trinity, the holy other that is created through the synergy of 2 coming together with higher intention.

Venus is currently in retrograde, from 3/2 until 4/18. During this transit, it’s said that she journeys into the underworld only to be reborn through the love for herself within herself.

This story is told through the Sumerian myth of Venus’s counterpart Inanna, who is Queen of Heaven, as she voyages to meet her sister Ereshkigalsh, Queen the Underworld.

When Venus goes direct, Inanna returns from her journey with deeper, more expansive love to offer the world because it is rooted in unconditional self-love

This card affirms: “I do not chase, I attract”

03/10/2025

Rachel Maki, LCSW 🗝️

01/29/2025

Prayers for the Lunar New Year 🌚♒️🐍

01/26/2025

Ancient yogis created a map of how energy flows and evolves into higher consciousness through the body - it’s called the chakra system

Chakras are energetic centers of awareness. There are 7 main chakras, located along our central energy channel (shashumna nadi) just in front of our spine, from tailbone to top of head

Each vibrates at a different frequency, which means each also radiates its own color & emotions. Each requires a new level of awareness. They are:

🔻 Root - survival, belonging, fear

🔸 Sacral - creativity, sexuality

⭐️ Solar Plexus - personal power, anger

💚 Heart - love, connection

🦋 Throat - communication, self-expression

🧿 3rd Eye - intuition, psychic abilities

🟣 Crown - spirit, connection to the divine

Together they compose the colors of the rainbow. Moving up the “scale,” the vibrations become lighter and lighter

The bottom 3 chakras vibrate at the level of matter, and the upper 3 vibrate at the level of spirit. The heart in the center is the gateway between, the portal between the realms

The evolution of both personal and collective consciousness follow this system

Collectively, we are currently moving from the 3rd chakra (or “density”) to the 4th chakra, which requires us each to rebalance our relationship with personal power

When our chakras are open and clear, energy can freely flow through us like a channel and evolution happens naturally

Yoga is a practice for doing this 🪷

01/19/2025

The Star is about learning to shine your light in the darkness 💫

# 17 in the major arcana, this card brings a message of self-care, self-love and filling your own cup until it overflows

In the tarot deck, it comes after the Tower, or the period in our journey where everything has been thrown into chaos in order to release what is not truly aligned with us

Ruled by Aquarius, this card speaks of renewal - a spiritual cleansing that brings hope. The difficulty is over and the fresh start for healing is here.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the collective. And becoming the Star is our reward for staying true to ourselves ⭐️