Blossom into Wholeness

09/03/2021

Hello friends! I'm so excited to share with you all that I've joined forces with the incomparable Tara Matthews and her team over at Soul Tribe Online to bring weekly delicious Total Yoga Nidra classes to the virtual space.
If you aren't aware of what is happening over at STO, now might be a really lovely time to check it out! Tara, Jennifer and the others have been cultivating a really sweet and powerful practice space for quite a few years and there is now a vast library of past classes on a wide assortment of subjects, as well as a truly vibrant collection of offerings by myriad talented teachers in multiple modalities across the week. The teachers range in modalities from Yoga Nidra (that's me!!), Hypnobirthing, Meditation, EFT/Tapping, Kundalini Yoga, Guided Clearing Processes and more...and we're really just getting started. I know I'll be announcing some new special series' coming up in the next few weeks here, and other teachers are running daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal unique opportunities all the time. It's truly an incredible, vibrant and deeply nourishing place.
---> My classes will be Monday mornings at 10:30 a.m. CST, and the recording of each class will be available in the library of classes within 24 hours.

EFT Tapping Immersion Day OneToday is the first day of a 7-day Immersion. We kick off the week by tapping through and clearing any resistance to change, eliminating feelings that we are ‘not enough’ and releasing any stress/overwhelm.

28/12/2020

Hello lovelies! Been a little while since I've been here with you all...

I'm curious:

How is your meditation practice going these days?

Taken a bit of a hit with the holidays?

I get it - I know how it goes.

Things are going great, you've hit a rhythm...and then WHAM!

The holidays come around, and all that discipline, dedication and devotion you had (or maybe wanted to have!) for your devotional meditation practice went right out the window.

It’s frustrating

It’s discouraging

It can feel so disheartening when we “fall off the bandwagon”

Worry not, my friends!

The new year is here, and you can get back up, dust off your zafu, and sit your butt back down, no doubt about it. (Zafu not required. ;))

But wouldn’t it be nice to have a little support in your endeavor?

Research has shown that when we have accountability (like a team, a sangha, a cohort, what have you) we are waaaay more likely to stick with something when our egos start to come up with excuses about why we should quit.

That’s why I would love to invite you to join me on my next 14 day meditation journey, starting up in just a few short days.

We will be working with the energy of the goddess Lakshmi, and each day will feature a 10-15 minute guided meditation practice you can download and revisit any time. You’ll be supported in a community of committed spiritual seekers too, and isn't community what we're ALL looking for these days?

Let’s start this year off right, exploring the themes of abundance and true wealth together.

Message me to be added to the group!

21/09/2020

When I was twelve years old, just shortly after I experienced my first me**es, I began to develop multiple, recurrent ovarian cysts on both ovaries. These cysts would get *huge* and I can remember the feeling of them bursting inside me. Excruciating!
Every month was a nightmare as even just the experience of them growing inside me caused great discomfort, and I never really knew when one of them would rupture causing even worse pain.
Between the horrible pain, the disregulated hormones and the general angst of near-teenagehood, I was a complete wreck. Deeply depressed, suicidal, anxious about e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g!
My poor parents. They didn't know WHAT to do with me.
At the time, the only solution the doctors had was to put me on hormonal birth control to "stabilize" my cycle, so that's what was done.
Twelve years old, put on hormonal birth control!
And I wasn't the only one around me who had a similar experience, either.
My older sister had been put on it a few years earlier for similar symptoms and severe PMDD, and even my best friend at the time was put on it as a treatment for her cystic acne.
It's just what was done. I thought it was normal, or at the very least the only option.
Perhaps you've had a similar experience?
Maybe you too were put on BC to handle symptoms doctors unfortunately didn't know how to handle, and ended up worse because of it.
If so, you're not alone, and there ARE other options.
I'm lucky that I got off birth control and learned how to understand and embrace my own cycle when I did; I had it easy.
I personally knew people who died from complications that arose from their birth control. I know others who suffered permanent injury, disability or infertility as a result of inappropriate use of birth control.
Why isn't this talked about?
I'm not saying these things to scare anyone, or shame people who use it and feel good about it. I will defend your right to chose what happens with your body until my dying day!
What I *am* saying is that there are other options out there, and the full story about BC is very often NOT talked about, particularly when the reasons for being put on it in the first place are beyond the original scope of the label. It is way too often used as a panacea when in truth, it's a poison.
For the last several years I have been working with women in groups and individually to help them come off birth control (of course in conversation with their doctors should that be necessary) and to clear the lasting effects of it from their wombs and bodies.
As part of the process, they get to learn about their own wombs and body rhythms, and come to understand their own place in the sacred cycle of all life. It's nothing short of life-changing, and I'm not even being dramatic - that's a literal quote from one of the women who's been through this process!
I have decided to offer my signature workshop, Decode Your Cycle, as a virtual masterclass to allow for more women to experience this paradigm shift and move into deeper relationship with their bodies.
If you would like to be a part of it, I'll drop the link below and you can check it out.
I am wildly passionate about empowering women with this intrinsic wisdom and practical knowledge, and I believe deep down in the very core of me that healthy wombs means a healthy world.
Join me next Wednesday at 1pm CST to learn more about my method for cyclical harmony and this most magical modality, and share the news with your friends and family who may benefit, too.
Your womb is sacred.
Your cycle is sacrosanct.
Your body is alive and communicating with you.
Come to the masterclass to discover how to start the journey of listening. It just might change your life.
Artwork by the one and only Natvienna Hanell
❤

06/09/2020

🎶 First concert of the year!
Outside, plenty of space, fresh air and nature, and a whole lot of bhakti blessings to pour out onto all in attendance. 🎶

17/07/2020

Hi friends - I'll be talking about it more in the coming days, and right now I wanted to let you know that I have a new 6-week course and soul activation coming up called The Wealthy Womb.

We will be working with the Abundance Codes of the womb and embodiment tools for stabilizing your inner sense of safety and security. Our journey will begin during the extremely auspicious and powerful Lion's Gate Portal planetary alignment and I personally guarantee that if you do the homework and practices, your relationship with Money, Flow and Abundance will permanently transform.

We were born to thrive. Let's remember together.

Enrollment will open on July 22nd, Mary Magdalene's feast day, and we will begin a week and a half later on the 30th.

You won't want to miss this! 🔻🩸💕

01/05/2020

🔥 Course Details 🔥
(and a little story at the end)

💫Merging Polarities - a journey through fear and hate into compassion and faith💫

Course begins Tuesday May 12th and completes on the Summer Solstice (or you know, winter depending on your geographic locale), approximately 40 days later.

You'll receive:
❤️ Weekly deep witnessing and supportive virtual circles with me inside our strong and stable web of belonging

❤️ Practice along videos for the meditation and integrative journeying pieces.

❤️ Lifetime access to all the content included recorded calls and bonus videos

❤️ Tools for navigating this existence with grace and ease and playful trust

❤️ Whatever other fun goodies Spirit and I dream up to add in for you because we love you

Investment is two-tiered:

1. $360 for entirety of the course paid in full
(2 payments of $200 for those needing more spaciousness with finances)

Or

2. $540 VIP for whole course PLUS one magical ninety minute tarot integration process with me.
(2 payments of $275 for those desiring deep individual support and spacious grace with financing)

If you're a yes, I'll post the link for how to enroll in the comments, and I am both humbled and honored to witness your stepping into this space.

Together is how we heal, grow, learn and thrive.

Thank you.

=•=

Want a little extra bonus story time?

Here's how I got to this point of just putting it all out there and trusting what's meant to be will be...

As is so often the case with these sorts of offerings, before I can hold the space for the deep dive each student is about to make, I need to journey through it all myself.
And I totally thought I had!
March was rough, intense, full on...April was about remembering and reclaiming my center, and releasing fear was a HUGE part of that.
I thought I was good! I thought I had done the work! I thought I was through it!

And then, I announced the launch of the course.

And you know what came up for me in that process?

MASSIVE fear.

A bit of panic.

Even just the tiniest sliver of paranoia. (For real!)

People were messaging me asking for the price, and...well, in a bit of a contracted fear place, I told them they had to book a call with me.

Why?

Because I felt afraid that if I didn't "vet" them, they wouldn't be ready.

Or I wouldn't be.

Or the exchange, or the timeline, or the this, or that, or that other thing might not actually be totally perfect.

This journey isn't about perfection.

It's about progress upon the path towards compassion - first for self, then for "other". As focalizer and space holder for this experience, I get to fully embody every nuance of this medicine first so I can ever more fully transmit that field of truth to those who have trusted me to do so.

I share all of this with you today because maybe your own fear has kept you from leaning into the expansive awareness of wholeness which will become available to you through this journey together.

I get it.

Letting go of fear actually means, in many ways, letting go of identity.

And that's scary! Terrifying, really. Believe me, I know.

This is why the journey is THROUGH the fear; not around it, not under it, not past it. Through it.

In learning to love ourselves through our fear and bring curiosity to the places where we feel hatred, contraction and even rage or despair, we will not only discover a whole lot more about our limitless magnificence personally, we will become empowered to transmit this sense of spacious grace in all we do, rippling this essence of welcome for all parts out into the cosmos, lighting the path for those who follow behind.

Are you one of the torch-holders I am calling in for this?

If you identify as a healer or mystic (or not!) and know yourself to be powerful in your own right and ready to embody a deeper octave of surrendered trust, please know you're welcome here.

What about you, you rabble-rousing renegade?
Yes, this is for you too.

Anyone ready to look at the polarities within and without and move past them (and even those who *want* to be ready but aren't quite sure how yet) are both welcomed and encouraged to lean into this container of integration and wholeness.

I'm going to keep showing up for the lessons and the love through my fears and contractions, and I am excited to virtually hold your hand through your joining me in that process too.

I love you!

27/04/2020

Hey friends - how flows life for you in these strange days?

I am sensing in the collective some sort of settling energies, as if we are beginning to find our ways in this new world. It's weird, it's murky, it's definitely different...and we got this!

As for me, I've been deep in the cave of contemplation, processing the loss of a dear friend, as well as navigating the loss of countless gigs, courses and trainings I was scheduled to lead and participate in over these months. What a time we find ourselves in...

After sitting in solitude and inner exploration around how best to move forward, a concept has continually arisen which feels appropriate now to share with you all. If it sings to you, let me know!

Recently I've been noticing (hard to not!) an absolutely astounding level of polarity in the collective. Through my feed here and literally anywhere I turn, it feels as though so many are choosing to see the world through the lens of black and white, right and wrong, up and down.

I get it - it feels easier. We all have so much to process, it can sometimes feel as though there isn't hardly any space for nuance.

I too have been surfing these waves, curious what is true, curious what is necessary, curious where all the hate and fear originates...

While I certainly don't have all the answers, what I do have now is a knowing that there is another way - a way of integration, integrity, grace and even pleasure in the face of absolute chaos.

It's not the only way - there are innumerable paths to Source. And, it's a way that's worked for me, and a way that is now my privilege to share with those who feel ready to embody and imprint within the collective a frequency of wholeness, balance and calm.

For those among you who feel there must be a balance point, a perspective of calm clarity and conscious connection with Source available amidst all the world is navigating, I have cultivated a special 40 day guided experience to support you in the blossoming of your innate peaceful Source self.

Beginning on the Full Moon in May I'll be leading a powerful process and practice experience:

::Merging Polarities - Flowing through Fear into Embodied Compassion::

It includes

⚡Seven weeks of personal mentorship and virtual circle work video calls with me

📿Daily dedicated devotional practices and meditations to support you in unfolding the gem of neutrality from within

🌟A powerful group of healers, changemakers and visionaries collectively weaving the web of miracles through cultivation of the neutral mind

This might be for you if you know yourself to be a healer, a helper, a seeker or a seer, but have felt perhaps a bit knocked off center a through these last months of worldly events.

Do not fear, my friends. Hope does still glow within the heart, and you are not alone.

I too had to flow through the fear, panic and polarity, and only by walking through that metaphorical valley of shadows can I now come to you with a hand outstretched to help you through and a torch of love held high to light the way.

Because this offering will be deeply focused on melting through our own stories and anchoring into the Bliss of centered spaciousness, an application call will be required.

I'll post the link for scheduling in the comments, and if you feel yourself pulled in any way by the potentials offered here, I encourage you to book the 30-minute call with me to help you tune into your alignment with it. That call is totally free, and whether you are called to join the course or not, you'll leave the call clearer, calmer and consciously aware of how best you can navigate this new paradigm of experience we all find ourselves in at this time.

I love you.
Thank you for even being here, for reading and feeling and sensing.

We
Are
The
Change.

Let's do this, shall we?

14/04/2020

New podcast interview by the fabulous Emmi Mutale of The Feminine Revered where we speak about life, death, blood and what it means to live in right rhythm.

Enjoy, share, and be nourished by the power of the sacred pause.

✨💜✨ I am so excited to share with you the 4th episode of my podcast, Sacred Feminine Power, featuring the magical Shri Steep. We talk about her journey of womb healing, awakening to the power of her menstrual cycle and Yoga Nidra as a practice of sacred rest (and death). The link to the podcast is below in the comments. ✨💜✨

01/03/2020

I'm so delighted to be joining with the wise goddess Donna Mosca of Peace Tree Yoga for a wonderful afternoon of chanting this afternoon in Burlington.

I'll post the link to the event in the comments in case any of ya'll would like to close out the weekend and bless up your week in conscious community and bhakti bliss.

Jai Mā!

Sunday blessings yoga friends! Please join us for a celebration of Bhakti Yoga through Kirtan today from 4-5pm. We will come together to learn and enjoy mantra, share in sacred song, enter a JOYful state, and feel the power of peace generated through this ancient tradition. Sri Steep will be our beautiful guide or Mantra Mother! This program is donation based and we would love to have your presence in our circle. Come as you are :-)

25/02/2020

Looking forward to a couple fun upcoming gigs - first is Yoga At MAM w/Alyssa & Shri coming up this Saturday in Milwaukee. It's a super inexpensive yoga class PLUS free entry into the art museum, and did I mention Jahmes and I will be there bringing Bhakti beauty to the space too? I'll be closing with a short lil teaser nidra too, so bring a blanket for the end and prepare to open into the vastness of timelessness in this year's Leap Day.

Next, I'll be leading my luscious and always appreciated Bhakti & Nidra Soul Circle – Surrender into the Divine on the following Friday, and we will be back at our usual location (Reaching Treetops Waukesha) to boot.

I hope to see you at one or both of these sweet gatherings, and can't wait to sing together.

x
Shri

18/02/2020

Leap Year Yoga@MAM
Join Alyssa Hallen Konda for from Reaching Treetops Yoga Saturday 8:15-9:30 yoga at Milwaukee Art Museum 2/29/2020. Every last saturday of the month a new, unique, individual teacher leads a class under the wings of Windhover Hall. Parking in the structure. Coffee in the cafe. Yoga in the museum. https://mam.org/events/yoga.php

05/01/2020

Recently I sent out a newsletter which shared some vulnerable, tender truth about my own process in this world. In the first two days after I sent it, I had more people unsubscribe than I'd had subscribe in the whole last year!

You know what I say to that?

THANK YOU!

I am not for everyone.

My medicine is strong, fierce and fortifying for those who are called to it. And for those who aren't? It can feel abrasive and even sometimes downright repulsive.

That is ok.

In fact, I believe this clarification is *vital* in the process of collective unwinding and empowering; part of the magic of this incarnation is we get to find who and what works for us, and let the rest go.

To the ones who realize my medicine isn't for you, I thank you, I bless your journey, and I release you from any need to continue tuning into my message. Your departure from this sphere is creating space for the ones longing for, looking for, and leaning into the uniquely calibrated soul salve I carry. The medicine carries for you are out there - may this release of connection with me draw them ever nearer to you.

And now, to those of you who follow my work and unfurling story and feel resonance with my sharings, thank you for remaining here, and thank you for knowing yourself enough to trust your internal guidance.

I am here for you 1000% in this new year (and always!), and any way I can support you and empower you upon your sacred journey, I will with humble gratitude and a deep sense of honor.

Reach out, lean in, and get ready to reach new levels of awareness within you and magic all around you.

2020 IS the year of clarity (aaah, vision jokes for daaays!)

I celebrate this clarity, I lean into it, I trust what it is bringing.

Thank you for your yes to this life.
Thank you for your yes to my message.
Thank you for your clarity.

30/12/2019

And sometimes, life says no more. - https://mailchi.mp/162fce5437d0/and-sometimes-life-says-no-more

19/12/2019

Loved ones! In the past week, a whole plentitude of you exquisite creations have found yourselves newly in this place, so please allow me to share a moment with you so I may welcome you with love. Thank you for much for being here! Welcome home to yourself.

Some of the things you can anticipate are announcements about upcoming concerts, kirtans, classes and courses both in person online, as well as reflections of the depth and beauty of your own power in this holy life you live.

My work is largely rooted in the holy evocation of the Divine Feminine, and I weave goddess consciousness through every fiber of my being and all my offerings, both locally here in the Heartland and all over the country and the world.

AND! Let me be so clear!

The presence and consciousness of the Divine Feminine exists within us all, regardless of gender, orientation, or identity. These concepts of nurture, homecoming, tenderness and inner grace, inner harmony - these are principles open and available to us all, and I have spent nearly all of the entire past decade immersing myself deeply in the study, personal discovery and embodiment of these holy feminine principle of creation, and I now wholeheartedly transmit that frequency in humble service to all who come my way for experiential work/play time both in virtual and real-time spaces.

It is my pleasure and my humble honor to work in this way, drawing from many mystery school threads and richly vast lineages I've woven with as I spin together this tapestry of work which is a culmination of all I've learned...and something more, too. That essence which cannot be bought or sold, but arises from the churning of dedicated Sadhana over many years - that is there too.

I am still learning (always), I am still growing (I'll stop when this body's journey is complete!) And for now, I offer what I can in humble gratitude, in service to the whole of humanity as we walk this wild and wonderful road together. Hand in hand is how we rise!

If this pings in your soul, reach out! Send me a PM, I am available to share heart-womb centered conversation with you around...well, anything really; it is my souls deepest delight to work/play in this way, and I look forward to witnessing the unfurling of our sacred connection, whatever it may be. I bless it to the highest possibility of itself and trust precisely what arises between us and through our time together is sacred, healing medicine and holy, unconditional love.

Thank you for being!

11/11/2019

Do you ever feel like a snake Shedding it's too-tight skin Slithering, slithering, slithering SNAP! Break free of who you used to be. Gone now are the cloaks of secrecy you used To hide your soul's true shine Gone now are the clouds of doubt you'd don To diminish your spirit's bright light You've st...

29/10/2019

https://mailchi.mp/505862cebc6c/meet-shri

Well that felt amazing to get off my chest (ha! see what I did there? ;)) Shri can truly shine now. Jai Shri Maa. I'll close with a little update about my life, and some calendar events to mark, too. Over this past year, I was blessed to be able to work really closely with an exquisitely talented an...

04/10/2019

Hi!!

These last few days, several of you have reached out and inquired about how to work with me, and I realized...gosh, it's been a while since I made it clear. So! Without further ado!

If you like my vibe, think we can work some magic together or would otherwise like to connect, I'm here for you. More will be coming in the next few days, and for now, here's a snippet of my souls work these days. I'm ever shifting, and this isn't really all I'm up to...but it gives you a good glimpse into my frequency, and an idea around what may be possible in the co-creative field of the One.

Stay tuned for more exciting ways to work together, and in the interim, please do reach out if any of these ping your soul! (Or if you know someone who would benefit from this sort of soul support)

Thank you!
🌹🔥📿

🔮EMBODIED GODDESS TAROT🔮
Individual Tarot and Oracle readings to support your feminine unfolding, rooted in the frequency of Womb Awakening and Shakti Embodiment

$13 - 1 card email/messenger reading

$36 - Triple Goddess Attunement email/messenger reading
(three cards speaking to and offering healing for your inner maiden, mother and crone aspects)

$108 - One hour live video or phone reading utilizing all tools, decks and soulful guidance needed in the moment. This is the reading for you if you have specific questions about specific situations or want clarity on how to move forward in fullness.

💤HEALING YOGA NIDRA💤
Custom, intuitively created healing yoga nidra sessions to soothe your burdened heart and deeply nourished your tired soul.

$15/person - group nidras (five person minimum for SE WI area, ten person minimum for tri-state travel) delivered live, in person and without a script to flow deeply with the needs of the collective.

$108 - One hour live video or in person custom therapeautic healing yoga nidra practice created just for you. No other will ever be just like it, it's yours and yours alone!
This one is amazing if you have specific issues (like insomnia, adrenal fatigue, anxiety, etc) and would like more focused support and reflective witnessing.
This one can be recorded at your request!

🎶📿BHAKTI GODDESS KIRTAN 📿🎶
Two hour concerts weaving bhajans, kirtans, my own original songs and sweet little ditties I've picked up along the path.

$154 - Two hour, live and interactive heart-soul song concert and kirtan experience.

This one's my favorite these days!!

Want to book me for a show? Maybe have me over to your home for an evening of Sangha (community) and song?

I've got dates available and am accepting bookings for November, December and January - but dates ARE filling up for these and I have a finite number of spots available, so don't delay!

🌹💞🌹

Thank you for your love, your support, and your sharing of this work with those you feel may resonate. It's so fun (and so deeply rewarding) to dive into the depths and offer healing through sound, song, soul and synchronicity.

Jai Mā, Sat Nam, Inanna Rakhma.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

01/10/2019

Song Medicine, Embodiment, Wisdom and Love - https://mailchi.mp/f53481fe688e/embodimentbhaktiandyou

Beloved ones!  Blessed (belated) Equinox to you, blessed New Moon, blessed season of integration and discernment. What a potent time to be alive! Since early this year I have been offering a concert/song experience I've been calling Kirtan with the Goddess, and it was been received by so many of yo...