Spiritual healing community offering holistic wellness services to support mind, body & spirit.
11/25/2025
Dream catchers!! đ Handmade with love and care by one of our community members are available for purchase! Only 4 available right now for $30 each đ
Pre-pay with pickup available. DM with which one you want!
Our select products available at Ordinary Pioneer are created by community members who dedicate their life to the service of others. By purchasing their creations, you are fueling their mission to support others in need within the community.
Thank you!!
11/24/2025
Ease frustration and misunderstanding within relationships by utilizing "if this, then that."
This technique communicates to others what our needs and values are so they can best understand how we relate to our environment. This technique can also open up further conversation as we invite others to share their needs and values.
Something for us to keep in mind is that willpower can never be forced and we are more likely to enhance mutual trust within a relationship when we allow ourselves and others to respond from a place of willingness. Just as we would like our will to be honored due to our perfectly good reasons, so too can we honor the will of others and learn what their perfectly good reasons are as well.
11/23/2025
Offerings this week from Ordinary Pioneer
MONDAY
6PM - Deep Healing Open Meditation w/ Gong
Allow the love of Reiki to fill your soul as the deep vibrations of the gong wash over you, floating you in its grounding resonance. Stay for as long as you'd like and come and go as you please.
TUESDAY
6PM - Yoga of the Spirit
This unique restorative-style Yoga centers on mindful breathing, gentle movement, stretching, and energy healing.
WEDNESDAY
9:30AM - The Healing Hour
Beginning with a combination of tapping, shaking and the flow of Qigong to get the energy moving, to pranayama breathing exercises and mindfulness meditation, followed by gentle yoga poses and ending in blissful savasana.
6PM - Awakened Yoga
This is an all-levels Yoga class led by Rachel McHale.
FRIDAY
9:30AM - Energy Yoga Flow
This Yoga class led by Halina will guide you to connect with your Prana (Life Force Energy) through breath, movement, and static postures. This class is meant to encourage you to flow with strength in your body and ease in your mind.
6PM - Improv Night
Improv Comedy is the easiest hard thing to do. Anyone can do it. We do it all day long as a humans on this fun ball.
You have more practice than you think. . .
SATURDAY
10AM - Bhakti Yoga Gathering
We are an interfaith, nonsectarian group of yogis who come together to chant, pray, dance, and make music. All are welcome, both beginners and advanced yogis alike. Through our heart-opening bhakti practices, our aim is to remember our True Divine Nature.
11/21/2025
Help!!! My body won't relax!! đ˛
11/21/2025
Today marks a milestone for ordinary pioneer! 5 years ago I opened our doors in Whitehouse Ohio. If you haven't yet heard the origin story of our community, I thought I was simply opening a yoga studio. I knew I wanted to do things a little bit differently, limiting class sizes to generate community connection, and incorporating energy healing to encourage personal expansion within the practice.
We began with two humble rooms within the house and after 5 years, have expanded Ordinary Pioneer both in physical size and within the community. With much commitment and compassion from YOU, we became a nonprofit in 2024, allowing us to offer all of our classes for free. Each and every donation has allowed us to keep these precious doors of ours open so we can continue offering healing services to those who are not physically or mentally able to work.
I share in your tears of gratitude to those who have been able to benefit from our gifted services, and the connectedness of this community. Each and every one of you has demonstrated open-heartedness and have healed many simply by showing up.
Thank you đ
If it is on your heart today to share financial abundance to help fuel this mission of making healing accessible for all, I invite you to make a donation of any amount that feels best for you. You can do this by clicking the donation button or head to our website and learn more about this mission of ours.
â¤ď¸ Halina
11/20/2025
How can we live within the structure of the Matrix while continuing to expand as spiritual beings?
Full episode available on our YouTube channel!
11/19/2025
What are you fighting for or against?
New episode of our (Not So) Serious Spirituality Podcast available on YouTube!
In this episode, Paul and Halina discuss living within the structure of The Matrix and how to avoid escaping from our divine human experience.
11/19/2025
Gratitude as medicine for the mind and body.
11/18/2025
One of the questions we get asked a lot is if we offer yoga teacher trainings. While we do not offer them at Ordinary Pioneer, we wanted to let you know that there is a 200-hr training coming up in January at one of our partnering wellness studios, Holistic Hands led by long-time Yogi Shauna Gilsdorf đ§đ˝ââď¸
Shauna Gilsdorf E-RYT-500, CVMT, YACEP, MHP, Reiki Practitioner, discovered her passion for the spiritual discipline of yoga at a young age. Born into a family who believed in the power of the mind/body/spirit connection, she was intrigued and compelled to learn all she could. Shauna is an experienced Himalyan Institute 500 hour teacher and a certified Vishoka meditation teacher (CVMT). She has studied the path of yoga with respected teachers Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Rolf Sovik, Ishan Tigunait, Shari Friedrichsen, Sandra Anderson, and Judy Moulton. Her journey to the Himalyan Institute guided her to demonstrate the daily art of connecting to something bigger.
For more info đ
11/16/2025
Offerings this week from Ordinary Pioneer
MONDAY
6PM - Deep Healing Open Meditation w/ Gong
Allow the love of Reiki to fill your soul as the deep vibrations of the gong wash over you, floating you in its grounding resonance. Stay for as long as you'd like and come and go as you please.
TUESDAY
6PM - Yoga of the Spirit
This unique restorative-style Yoga centers on mindful breathing, gentle movement, stretching, and energy healing.
WEDNESDAY
9:30AM - The Healing Hour
Beginning with a combination of tapping, shaking and the flow of Qigong to get the energy moving, to pranayama breathing exercises and mindfulness meditation, followed by gentle yoga poses and ending in blissful savasana.
6PM - Awakened Yoga
This is an all-levels Yoga class led by Rachel McHale.
THURSDAY
6PM - Drop-in Healing
The healing space at Ordinary Pioneer will be open to the public to experience multiple healing modalities in one day!
Services Available: Paul Narus (Tarot), Dawn B. (Reiki), Linzi J. (Massage), Carole S. (psychic readings)
FRIDAY
9:30AM - Energy Yoga Flow
This Yoga class led by Halina will guide you to connect with your Prana (Life Force Energy) through breath, movement, and static postures. This class is meant to encourage you to flow with strength in your body and ease in your mind.
6PM - Tarot Tea Party
Join Narus for a group intuitive reading with discussion...and tea!
Participants will be guided through a deeper understanding of their current environment, via an intuitive card spread that will include a Tarot and Oracle card pulled for each individual.
SATURDAY
10AM - Reiki for All
In this group healing, Amy will share Reiki energy healing while you relax in deep meditation.
Please bring your favorite blanket & pillow, so you can get really cozy! If you have a yoga mat, please bring that too (optional).
11/15/2025
Congratulations to our new Reiki Level 2 graduates!!! I wish you all the blessings on your Reiki Journeys!!!
11/09/2025
Offerings this week from Ordinary Pioneer
MONDAY
6PM - Deep Healing Open Meditation w/ Gong
Allow the love of Reiki to fill your soul as the deep vibrations of the gong wash over you, floating you in its grounding resonance. Stay for as long as you'd like and come and go as you please.
TUESDAY
6PM - Yoga of the Spirit
This unique restorative-style Yoga centers on mindful breathing, gentle movement, stretching, and energy healing.
WEDNESDAY
9:30AM - The Healing Hour
Beginning with a combination of tapping, shaking and the flow of Qigong to get the energy moving, to pranayama breathing exercises and mindfulness meditation, followed by gentle yoga poses and ending in blissful savasana.
6PM - Awakened Yoga
This is an all-levels Yoga class led by Rachel McHale.
THURSDAY
6PM - Spiritual Women's Group
Our Spiritual Women's Group is a sacred gathering space for women to experience compassionate communication as they share their personal soul journey with each other.
FRIDAY
9:30AM - Energy Yoga Flow
This Yoga class led by Halina will guide you to connect with your Prana (Life Force Energy) through breath, movement, and static postures. This class is meant to encourage you to flow with strength in your body and ease in your mind.
6PM - Sound Healing w/Beth
Beth Mattia invites you to join her on a sacred inner journey. A journey to the heart. The heart of you. Her desire is to sing to the ears of your soul, and hold you fully with sound in a safe and authentic container. Inviting in only what serves the highest essence of collective consciousness. Her prayer is all may leave feeling empowered and anointed with the love of the Universe.
SATURDAY
10AM - The Healing Hour
The Healing Hour, led by Cynthia Kenny, is a creative collection of rejuvenating and restorative practices. Beginning with a combination of tapping, shaking and the flow of Qigong to get the energy moving, to pranayama breathing exercises and mindfulness meditation, followed by gentle yoga poses and ending in blissful savasana.
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In the realization that age and time is a real thing, I began to ask myself what I want in this lifetime. What kind of person do I want to be? What sorts of people do I want in my life? Where do I want to go or do or see? These questions have birthed the Ordinary Pioneer within myself.
My name is Halina and I am the owner of Ordinary Pioneer Yoga and Healing. I work full time, as in I start my work day from the moment I wake up until the moment I exhaustingly drift off to sleepâŚand then some. I have a husband, a toddler, a full-time job as an AV Designer and Project manager and I am the owner of a Yoga, Meditation and Reiki business. As a child, I found myself yearning for the freedom of adulthood. Now I find myself wishing time would slow down. This is my daily practice.
Iâve always been drawn to emotions. As a child, I was aware of the energetic feelings carried within others around me. I could practically feel them myself and I wondered how those emotions came to be. Wondering why people allow themselves to be so sad or angry. This became overwhelming as I approached my teens and emotions became heavy in my own family through the event of my parentâs divorce. The weight of everyoneâs emotions, particularly my own, consumed me and I shut it out. I stopped crying. I got angry. I got anxiety. I got depression. I kept the lid on so tight but what I didnât realize was that emotional energy was infecting me from the inside out and expressing itself in ways that was deteriorating my health and happiness.
I came to a realization as I approached adulthood that perhaps it wasnât serving me to block my emotions from surfacing. I began seeing the people God was bringing into my life to show me truth. My truth, and the truth about others which, I found, was strangely similar. I began connecting with others on a deeper level, sharing my insecurities, struggles and fears. People began approaching me and sharing their own struggles, mostly complete strangers. I soon developed a passion for supporting others in their healing.
As time went on, I began to learn more about my emotions and the âwhyâ behind them. I began to see similar emotions in others and the cause and effect of those emotions like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. The desire to explore this further was getting stronger but I was stuck in a feeling of, âwho am I to help others or lead them down a path of healing?â I was in my own way, however, in asking this question, I received an answer. I donât need to be anyone âspecialâ in order to have a voice and a purpose and a beautiful gift to share with others. I can be simply and ordinarily me! Thus, birthed the term, âOrdinary Pioneer.â
We are all born with a perfect purpose, with beautiful gifts beyond our imagination and with the ability to influence and bring forth positive change in ourselves, others and the entire world. Perhaps âordinaryâ doesnât need to be mundane, bland, get up/go to work/shopping/cooking/bedâŚPerhaps, âordinaryâ can mean creating a brand-new adventure every single day!
In 2019, I began searching for my new ordinary and all those things Iâve been saying âshouldâ to turned into âletâs do this!â I said âyesâ to Me and my passions. That fall I got out of my way and finally signed up for yoga teacher training. I became a Reiki practitioner. I dug deep into the art of healing. It was beautiful and painful and exhausting and uplifting and encouraging and connecting.
I graduated from the RYT-200 program at Toledo Yoga in February of 2020 and that following Wednesday I taught my first yoga class as the owner of Ordinary Pioneer Yoga and Healing. That is when I first saw the power of hard work, passion, and manifesting dreams.
My vision is to create an environment that is supportive to others in their healing and growth physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. We all have the power within us to heal ourselves. As a Yoga and Meditation Instructor and Reiki Practitioner, I walk hand in hand with those in search of healing as I am also in seeking the paths back to my own authentic and raw being. I offer them tools in which to heal but they are the ones learning how to interpret those tools in order to develop their own power to heal and grow. I believe that life is an adventure and that it is up to us to seek the possibilities of creating a life that is ordinarily extraordinary.
May you experience peace and joy in the ordinary today. Namaste!
