Yvette Lehmann - Transformational Guide & Author

04/26/2026

04/26/2026

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04/23/2026

To love yourself, you first have to know yourself.

And how well do you really know yourself?

Not the role you play.
Not the version of you that learned how to get through the day.
But the deeper you. The one beneath the noise, the conditioning, the expectations, and the habits.

If you are not sure, this book is a beautiful place to begin.

It is filled with thoughtful questions for self-inquiry, meditations to help you listen inward, and practices that gently guide you back to yourself so you can begin to truly fall in love with who you are.

Self-love does not begin with fixing yourself.
It begins with meeting yourself.

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04/20/2026

Best summer plan: Nothing beats a great book that is a journal and a place to draw as well.
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04/18/2026

If you have thought about meditation but are not quite sure where to begin, guided meditation is a beautiful place to start.

For many people, the idea of meditation feels appealing in theory but confusing in practice. You sit down, close your eyes, and then what? Almost immediately the mind begins moving in every direction. Thoughts appear. To-do lists come rushing in. Memories, worries, emotions, random conversations, things you forgot to do three years ago all suddenly want your attention. It can make someone believe they are bad at meditation before they have even truly begun.

This is why guided meditation can be such a helpful doorway.

A guided meditation gives your mind something to follow. It offers an anchor, a point of focus, a thread to hold onto. That may be the breath, sensations in the body, an image, a feeling, or a gentle invitation to notice what is arising within you. Rather than forcing the mind into silence, it guides your awareness somewhere meaningful.

In that way, guided meditation becomes a bridge. It helps you move from constant mental activity into observation. Instead of being pulled around by every thought, you begin to witness them. You start to notice what your mind does, where it goes, what themes repeat, what emotions sit just below the surface waiting to be seen.

This is where meditation begins to deepen.

Guided meditation can be even more powerful when it is paired with explanation, reflection, or teaching. When there is a subject being explored, something about fear, self-worth, attachment, grief, the body, the nervous system, or the stories we carry, it gives context to the inner experience. You are not only following a voice into stillness. You are also being invited to understand yourself more honestly.

Often, what arises in meditation is not random. It is connected to your life. It is connected to your patterns, your relationships, your memories, your beliefs, and the parts of yourself that may have been pushed aside in the rush of daily living. The teaching helps you recognize these inner movements with more clarity. It helps you connect what you are feeling in meditation to what you are living outside of it.

That is one of the quiet gifts of guided practice.

It can lead you toward what may be hidden in the subconscious. Old wounds, protective habits, fears, longings, and forgotten truths do not always reveal themselves through force. More often, they surface when there is enough safety, enough space, and enough presence to let them rise.

Guided meditation creates that space.

It is not only a tool for relaxation, though it can certainly calm the body and soothe the nervous system. It is also a way of becoming more intimate with your own inner world. It helps you learn how to sit with yourself, how to listen, how to observe, and how to understand what is asking for your attention.

For anyone who has been curious about meditation but uncertain where to begin, this can be the perfect first step. You do not need to know how to quiet your mind. You do not need to do it perfectly. You simply need a place to start.

Sometimes all it takes is a voice, a little guidance, and a willingness to look within.

From there, the path begins to reveal itself.

I’ll leave a link to a recorded guided meditation from me on self-love, remembering and wholeness (16 minutes) in the comments. I recommend reading the information first but then you can listen to the meditation daily, journal if you wish or just see what changes in your life over 21 days of regular meditation.

04/16/2026

A child feels a shift in love and thinks, this must mean something about me. That meaning becomes belief. That belief becomes pattern. That pattern becomes a life.

I don’t think meditation creates a new self. I think it helps us see what was never truly us in the first place.

The more I look inward, the more I think personality is not as fixed as we pretend. A lot of it feels like old emotional architecture.

Once you realize a belief is not you, just something you built around an old feeling, there is so much more room to breathe, to choose, and to remember.

If you think to yourself after reading this:
• “I need to read more of her.”
• “She understands something I’ve felt but couldn’t name.”
• “I want to know what my beliefs are.”
• “Maybe I’m not as stuck as I thought.”
• “This woman isn’t just writing posts. She’s opening doors.”

I left a link to a story in the comments below 📖

04/09/2026

There was a time when I came to yoga for the physical practice alone. I was drawn to the challenge, the strength, the shapes, and the discipline. Yet it did not take long before I began to sense that yoga was offering something far deeper than movement.

Through the challenge, I discovered the quiet magic of yoga. I found myself wondering about its roots, its history, its depth, and the wisdom it has carried through thousands of years. That curiosity opened a door, and once it opened, I wanted to keep walking through it.

That journey led me into the study and practice of Yin Yoga, meditation, restorative yoga, breathing techniques, mudras, chanting, and even Kundalini Yoga. Each path revealed another layer. Each practice offered a different way of understanding the body, the mind, the nervous system, and the self.

It is both an honour and a joy to now share that knowledge, wisdom, and lived experience with others who are arriving at yoga for reasons similar to my own. People who may begin with the body, only to discover something far more profound waiting for them.

And now, to be writing training manuals for Yin and Restorative Yoga from my own personal experience and perspective feels deeply meaningful. There is something beautiful about translating years of practice, study, and transformation into teachings that may help others find their own way in.

Yoga has given me so much more than I ever imagined when I first stepped onto the mat. Being able to pass that on feels like a privilege.

It is not too late to join us for Yin this Saturday and Sunday, or for Restorative Yoga on May 2 and 3. Two beautiful weekends. Two very different practices. So much wisdom waiting inside both.

Link in comments

04/09/2026

A perspective I keep returning to in both life and writing:

What if our lives are not only a series of events to manage, endure, or optimize?

What if they are also a curriculum?

I’ve been exploring this in my newest essay, “She Remembered What It Felt Like to Glow.” The piece reflects on how love, loss, contrast, and bodily truth can reveal something deeper than circumstance alone: the themes our lives keep bringing us back to until we are finally able to see them clearly.

This doesn’t mean every difficult experience is “good,” or that pain should be spiritualized into something simplistic. It means that once we begin to view life through the lens of awakening and remembering, we often see more than surface events. We see pattern. We see contrast. We see where we come alive and where we drift from ourselves.

That is useful not only personally, but professionally and relationally.

Because once someone begins to understand their own curriculum, they stop reading their whole life as random or as failure. They start asking better questions. They live with more awareness. They make more conscious choices.

For me, that is one of the most meaningful parts of the second half of life.

If this resonates, the essay is here:
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Once a woman begins to understand that she is Spirit in human form, here to live a curriculum and not merely repeat a pattern, life opens.

How love, contrast, and the Great Remembering revealed a woman's curriculum

04/04/2026

There was something so powerful in the room at Brock Studio today.

On this Easter Friday, my heart is full of gratitude for every single person who chose to show up and practice. There is something deeply moving about people arriving as they are, laying down the weight of the week, and stepping onto the mat with presence, courage, and willingness.

Today’s practice became a practice of emptying.

We hear so often about holding it together, pushing through, carrying on, staying strong. Yet so many of us are holding so much in our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, our bodies, that we do not even realize how full we have become. Overfull. Overheld. Overflowing with what has not been released.

And when we are that full, there is so little room left for the goodness. For love. For compassion. For clarity. For the quiet sense of wholeness that is always there, waiting beneath the noise.

We moved through much of the body, though the practice kept circling us back to the heart, front and back. That was not my plan, but sometimes the practice knows. Sometimes the room knows. Sometimes something greater is leading, and today it led us there.

The energy in the room felt strong, steady, open, and incredibly present. By the time we arrived in Wild Thing, it was as though everyone had become even bigger than themselves. Powerful. Alive. Brave. Open.

I left feeling so much gratitude and delight for the students who shared this practice today. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for the energy, the trust, and the willingness to open.

What a beautiful way to begin this Easter weekend.