Awakened Dawn Yoga

12/05/2024

I am leading a year-end intention-setting retreat again! The location is at Sunflower Studio on December 28th. See the flyer below and sign up if you are interested in attending!

07/18/2024

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When we flee the present moment, seeking solace in new dreams and fantasies, our pain only intensifies.

For we abandon ourselves.

We leave ourselves for the future, forget our true home and become spiritually homeless.

We wander in the desert of our addictions.

To truly heal, which means “become whole again”, we must turn inwards, feeling the raw burn of our unmet expectations, shattered hopes, losses and failures.

Running from this pain only heightens our agony in the long run.

Our egos must collapse under their own weight.

Authenticity must win in the end.

Humbled, we embrace our pain fully. We infuse our wounds with attention, which is love.

We let ourselves be seen.

We start our lives again.

The path to peace
always leads back
to the one who’s walking it.

- Jeff Foster

07/16/2024

YES!!! This is how we take our power back!!!! 💛💛💛💛💛💛

Unfortunately, many of us hold onto unrealistic expectations that others will suddenly change, which keeps us trapped in cycles of hopefulness and disappointment.

When we expect others to act differently—based not on evidence, but on wishful thinking alone—we set ourselves up to be let down.

Maybe you hold out hope that, after a lifetime of silent treatments, erratic moods, or dismissiveness, your parents will finally develop the emotional maturity required to see you and love you fully.

Maybe you hold out hope that, after years of limited affection, your partner will finally be the emotionally expressive, physically attentive person you’ve always wished they would be.

Maybe you hold out hope that, despite thousands of one-sided conversations, your friend will finally get curious about you and your life.

It’s normal, of course, to have these hopes. They’re born of a wrenching, deep desire that we will finally be held, seen, cherished, and loved the way we’ve always wanted.

But unfortunately, false hope traps us in disheartening and painful cycles. We constantly want more from others, and we’re constantly disappointed when they don’t rise to the occasion. We secretly wish that this time will be different, even though they’ve shown us, time and time again, that it won’t.

Once we align our expectations with reality, we can make informed, realistic choices about how to proceed⁠—and what boundaries we need to feel safe, respected, and well.

Adjusting your expectations of others is a key aspect of healthy boundary-setting. Learn how in my on-demand workshop, Using Boundaries to Sustain Complicated Relationships, where we'll discuss how to sustain your relationships through periods of disagreement, difference, and mismatch. Watch today at haileymagee.com/workshops

07/15/2024

So much YES to this!!!!!!! 💚💚💚

Since I was very young, I lived with excruciating feelings of unworthiness, failure and unloveability deep within me. I felt rotten to my very core. Ugly, unwanted, sick and damaged beyond repair.

No matter what I did, or didn’t do, these feelings haunted my every waking moment. I hated myself and wanted to run.

And so I addicted myself to work, to food, to computer games, to over-thinking, to living in my mind, existing in fantasy and false hope. No matter what kind of success I achieved on the outside, no matter how much praise and approval I received, these dark feelings festered on the inside. I felt like I had been poisoned.

Then, one day, I discovered that freedom could only be found through turning to FACE the monsters within. This was my ‘breakdown’.

I stopped running and turned towards my pain. There was no other choice. I invited the shame to come into the light of consciousness and be felt fully. I took the risk of feeling more unworthy, more of a failure, more unlovable than ever. I thought these feelings would kill me, they were so intense! But finally, I was FEELING them! Making room for them. Allowing them to move in my being. I was the space for the darkness, I was the great Light that could illuminate all these 'unloveable' parts. I was the sky and the feelings were the weather. I breathed into the pain, let it know it was allowed to live, that it had the right to life.

I showered my internal victim with love. Infused my addict with great compassion. Saturated my darkness with this great light of awareness.

I was not running any longer. I was not splitting myself in two. I was a vast space in which feelings of shame - unworthiness, unloveability, failure, ugliness, despair - could come and go. They were only feelings – they could not hurt me, could not control me, could not define me any longer.

I was not ashamed, I was not 'the shameful one', I was the space for shame, its loving parent, its Home.

I felt a lot of love for these misunderstood parts, these inner children! They became my dear friends, companions on the path. They were not mistakes. They had only been seeking my love and understanding.

Now, if and when these friends arise, I can greet them with open arms. Celebrate them, let them express themselves, and let them fall back into Presence.

- Jeff Foster

06/12/2024

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Yoga is a safe space for farts…..
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06/06/2024

To all my non-local friends and family, I am happy to announce that I have created two virtual class offerings during the month of June.

JUNE 17 - Gentle Restorative Yoga (movement practice)

JUNE 22 - Yoga Nidra for Grounding (meditation practice)

Please check out the details (look for VIRTUAL) on The Creatrix website: