JUNE NEWS & PROMOTIONS

New Class and New Home!

I am so happy to join the Ritual Sacramento teaching team. Ritual is a space steeped in practice, feminine wisdom, yogic tradition, therapeutic expertise, and what I can only describe as a profound sense of family-ness.

I deeply admire every single teacher at Ritual, not only for their understanding of the human body but also in their warm, welcoming, caring, grounded and profoundly loving embodied presence.

Im grateful to Kaci Florez for her warmth, devotion and clear leadership as I join this community - and to all the teachers and students who have made me feel so welcome.

You’ll be seeing me regularly attending classes at Ritual, and please join me at 7:30am on Saturday mornings for movement, breath, and the mysterious journey that we undertake when we combine the two.

in joy!
Natasha

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Discounted Private Yoga, Yoga Therapy and Essential Wellness Sessions

For the month of June, I am offering Private Yoga Sessions, Yoga Therapy Sessions and Essential Acupoint Sessions at a significantly reduced rate.

Being new to Sacramento I am working to become established, grow my own roots, and make myself available and accessible to anyone wishing to be supported in their own personal healing/human journey. Through yoga practices, essential oil therapy, and the exquisite magic that happens when we come together to serve the Highest in our own hearts and in each other.

The advantage of a personalized attention in your yoga practice is that it accelerates your learning and gives you feedback and homework tailored to your specific needs.

Yoga & Yoga Therapy improves:

• Posture, breath, mindset

• Chronic pain conditions

• Injury recovery

• Anxiety & depression

• Self esteem & confidence

• Strength & flexibility

In the way I naturally teach and share yoga, movement is integrated with yoga philosophy to support your Higher Self from the inside out.

With over 13 years teaching experience, I integrate a variety of movement techniques that the body loves, supporting cognitive function, greater mobility and intelligent strength + flexibility cultivation.

Send me an email if you have questions, or book a session to get started!

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doTERRA June Promotions ✨

✨ 3 FREE OILS!!! ✨

The big deal this month is that anyone who places an order of 200PV or more will receive the 3 major tension relieving blends that doTERRA offers.

AromaTouch is the main “massage” blend, it melts away physical tension in the body and deepens the breath almost instantly. I like to massage AromaTouch into my feet, hips, back and neck - and it works wonders!! It is a profound staple in my wellness & self-care routine.

Past-Tense is one of my personal favorites in that it melts away headaches but it’s scent is truly divine! let the worries melt away as you step into the present moment with this sacred littler roller bottle.

Balance is doTERRAs grounding blend. Combining mostly root essential oils with flowers like blue tansy, it helps mediate between the upper and lower sections of our bodies and the left and right hemispheres. Apply to the soles of the feet, an any acupressure point in the feet and legs to settle your mind and energy field.

If you do not have a doTERRA account and would like more information on how this membership works, check out my top 7 reasons why doTERRA is my favorite wellness subscription box - and, if you feel curious but still unsure, you can schedule a 30 minute consult with me to learn more about how you can ditch the chemical stuff around your house and leverage the power of therapeutic-grade essential oils for your wellness and healing.

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This mighty, all natural, essential oil based cleaner concentrate makes 18 16oz bottles of cleaner concentrate! And it is 15% off all month.

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New limited edition oil - FREE!

For those with an already existing doTERRA account, when you order your monthly wellness box before the 15th of June with a PV order of 125PV or more, you will receive this warm, herbal new blend called Summer Savory.

✨ HURRAY FOR DADS! ✨

This lovely fathers day gift brings a brilliant card diffuser clip that dads can attach to the AC in the car. It comes with 3 inner cylinders that he can put different essential oil blends. The Island Mint blend that comes with this kit is bright, joyful and grounding, combining lemon, lime, peppermint and Spruce.

May all dads feel pampered, loved and cared for on this coming Fathers Day!

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The Daily Habits Kit is still 20% Off!

This is one of the very best kits to get started with doTERRA. It gives you 5ml bottles (aprox. 85 drops each) of some of the most powerful oils for mental, emotional and cellular wellbeing as well as doTERRA’s #1 selling supplements. This kit gives its recipient a very quick, easy and powerful experience of the power of highest quality, intelligent plant medicine.

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The Kit Includes:

• Lifelong Vitality Pack: the foundational supplement program that is doTERRA’s #1 product! It’s packed with bio-available food nutrients, omegas, antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins & minerals delivered in a balanced, absorbable way.

• Terrazyme: this powerful blend of 10 active whole food enzymes helps your food digest, absorb & eliminate properly. Have you watched the Terrazyme oatmeal experiment yet?

• Deep Blue Rub: Want to experience a deep tissue massage and muscular pain relief whenever you feel like it? Work this baby into any sore areas and voila! - you won't know what you did without it.

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Essential oils included in this kit:

• 5ml Balance Blend: dab onto pulse points & breathe in to feel instant relaxation

• 5ml Lemon: the cleansing powerhouse! add to drinking water, make cleaners, remove stains, purify the air

• 5ml Frankincense: promote healthy cell growth internally + glowing skin by using topically

• 5ml Lavender: Use for all things skin topically and diffuse to sleep better + relax

• 5ml On Guard: The immune system supporter: diffuse to clean the air, use it to clean with, take internally for immunity support.

living your practice.

Dear Yogis,

Over the next several months we will be adding a little more structure to the work we do on the mat and throughout our lives. We will do this by exploring the underpinnings and philosophical foundations of yoga practice, through both the Classical Hatha lens, the tantric or Kashmir Shaivite lens – and the intersection of both. It’s not necessary that you know what these words mean right now. By coming to class and joining us in the exploration you will become familiar from within yourself with these philosophies – and more importantly, what they mean to you.

At the heart of the matter is the question of Yoga itself. The word Yoga translates to Union – therefore the practices of yoga are aimed at bringing us to a state of profound union with our true, divine nature.

How does yoga bring us to union with our True, divine nature? It does this in a two-fold manner: through both purification and cultivation:

The practice of yoga first purifies us on a physical level: clearing toxicity and stagnation in the body, as well as the more subtle system of chakras and energy channels (nadis and meridians). Through this process, yoga will inevitably clears toxicity, confusion and false beliefs from our minds, hearts, spirits, speech and deed – as body, heart, mind and action are all part of ONE thing (mainly you!), and not a collection separate unrelated things.

At the same time, yoga gives us tools to cultivate that which is True, authentic, “divine” – and ultimately full Light. Purification and Cultivation therefore go hand in hand and are in fact two sides of the same coin.

One of the texts that influences classical hatha yoga as we know it today is called Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. This text is a collection of 196 sutras (aphorisms or one-liners) that describe the practice of classical yoga.

The Yoga Sutras outline what Patanjali calls Ashtanga: “the 8 limbs of yoga” (I think of it as 8 arm:).

These 8 “arms” of yoga are the following:

• Yamas (personal disciplines pertaining to our interactions with others and the world at large)

• Niyamas (personal practices that relate to honoring our divine nature)

• Asana (the practice of physical yoga postures)

• Pranayama (breath and energy practices)

• Pratyahara (drawing the senses and awareness inward)

• Dharana (concentration)

• Dhyana (meditation, focus)

• Samadhi (absorption, bliss)

An effective physical practice should naturally lead to greater self-awareness and capacity for concentration. This naturally allows the yogi to make better choices for himself/herself, in his work, and his community – as well as lay the groundwork for meditative practice.

One of the big influencers of modern hatha yoga was a man named Pattabi Jois, and he was famous for answering almost any question his students would ask him with the same response: “Practice and all is coming”. Through practicing one or a few of these “arms” of yoga, with sincerity, diligence and humility, the rest will naturally follow.

If you are interested in continuing your study of the yoga sutras at home, my favorite translation by TKV Desikachar in the back of his book The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice

So, we are launched!! Our exploration of yoga continues.

See you next week ❤︎
Natasha.

I'll tell you a secret...

"i’ll tell you a secret...
your light
is your darkness
all of your pain,
it crystallizes.

Cracks and holes:
they let the light in,
before you can shine
you are plunged in darkness
helping you to birth
a solar consciousness...

it’s up to you to awaken
it’s you who’s gonna die
when it’s your time to die
so why waste time living a lie?
step out of the illusion created in your mind
this reality is a hallucination to which we all have complied at some point in time
but now it’s time to decide..
to take back your power
give your insides a shower
rid your self from the filth of your habits negative relationships and desires
blast up through the deep dark dirt
recognize your worth
it is you who made it out after being cast deep into the dark earth
don’t let it keep you from becoming a flower
god is with you every moment every hour:
behind every loving glance
behind every glower
it is he who animates the space that you have become so comfortable in your ways

to diminish his creation to insignificant and minuscule labels such as “birds” “humans” “plants” “animals” “flowers” and “crustaceans”
these words separate and create a reality that i can no longer allow us to perpetuate. 

something has to be done. 
all is one. 
i’m speaking up. 
mother earth is the space holder.
the creatress through which our father the light the sun the energy of love may pass
and live actively through all in a sacred dance. 
so that she may behold his face
she transforms in to a lake
and in her reflection,
he sees his face. 
many forms she takes
a small human girl wanders down to the lake
captivated by her beauty she falls in and drowns
next day reborn
on his head a golden crown. 
to dance among the hidden
to play with things forbidden
forever shall we dance in and out of the illusion. 
until it becomes an unnecessary confusion
and god summons his spiritual warriors to awaken all children. 

free yourself from the illusion of separation. 
this body is the earthly instrument though which your true self revels in the beauty of your conscious Self realization. 
do you realize that you haven’t been living in your body?
but living in your mind, consumed by greed, fame, games, carelessness, guilt and running out of time? 
take responsibility for your vacancy
return to real reality
you are here to experience the life of a human be-ing. 
you are here to be. 
and that isn’t always pretty. 
sometimes it’s fucking ugly. 
and that’s okay too because like hot and cold exist as one on a spectrum of extremes, so too do ALL THINGS. 

relax in to your being and stop denying the parts of yourself you aren’t use to seeing!
it is all a part of the unfoldment of your being. 
honor it. honor your Self. 
it takes courage to see things. 
and i mean TRULY see things. 
remember you are immortal
life is eternal
energy can’t die, 
it can only transform..
this body of yours serves to in-form. 
and in-form we must serve
serve by informing and awakening each other from the dream of lack and limitation to which we have conformed…
that is a lie
earth is a full of abundance
limitation was never meant to last..
let it go. or you shall drag. 
if you aren’t constantly honestly observing, changing, forgiving and evolving..
then you aren’t moving and you are choosing to remain a slave to the illusion of YOUR MIND. 

no one traps you in suffering
your perspective… its smothering. 
if you shift your attitude in to one of gratitude
the magic of life will reveal itself to you. 
you don’t need to strive to be alive. 
this is just the gift LIFE gives to YOU.
the illusion you are in says you need to do what life, GOD ENERGY LOVE>>> UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, already does effortlessly for you!
life says I AM YOU AND YOU ARE ME, ACCEPT ME.
your mind says, fuck no, it CANT be that easy!
but it IS. 
EVERYTHING IIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS.
The same way your lungs breathe in the prana
the life force energy in and of air everywhere and nowhere
effortlessly
keeping your fire alight
you, my brother, my sister are meant to be alllllllllllllll right!
all right is filled with wrongs and rights..
darknesses and lights placed in right places and at right times. 
for you are this life force. 
you are not the body that fills itself with YOUR light. 
and you are not the mind that traps it’s body in fight or flight. 
release. 
recognize this fact. 
you ARE the air you breathe
and this air is a life force that permeates ALL things. 
infinite truths. 
infinite me’s and infinite you’s. 
i am just another you. 
and this is the reason i always say,
UBUNTU. 
i am because we are. 
i am you. 
from my heart,
to yours. "

• words by  @gaialogue

the wild woman archetype

"Like a trail through a forest which becomes more and more faint and finally seems to diminish to a nothing… traditional psychological theory too soon runs out for the creative, the gifted, the deep woman. Traditional psychology is often spare or entirely silent about deeper issues important to women: the archetypal, the intuitive, the sexual and cyclical, the ages of women, a woman’s way, a woman’s knowing, her creative fire. This is what has driven my work on the Wild Woman archetype for over two decades. 

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has caused already millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become outsiders in their own cultures. Instead, the goal  must be the retrieval and succor of women’s beauteous and natural psychic forms.

Fairy tales, myths, and stories provide understandings which sharpen our sight so that we can pick out and pick up the path left by the wildest nature. The instruction found in story reassures us that the path has not run out, but still leads women deeper, and more deeply still, into their own knowing. The tracks we all are following are those of the wild and innate instinctual Self.

It is into this fundamental, elemental, and essential relationship that we were born and that in our essence we are also derived from. The Wild Woman archetype sheaths the alpha matrilineal being. There are times when we experience her, even if only fleetingly, and it makes us mad with wanting to continue. For some women, this vitalizing taste of the wild comes during pregnancy, during nursing their young, during the miracle of change in oneself as one raises a child, during attending to a love relationship as one would attend to a beloved garden. 

A sense of her also comes through the vision; through sights of great beauty. I have felt her when I see what we call in the woodlands a Jesus-God sunset. I have felt her move in me from seeing the fishermen come up from the lake at dusk with lanterns lit, and also from seeing my newborn baby’s toes all lined up like a row of sweet corn. We see her where we see her, which is everywhere.

She comes to us through sound as well; through music which vibrates the sternum, excites the heart;  it comes through the drum, the whistle, the call and the cry. It comes through the written and the spoken word; sometimes a word, a sentence or a poem or a story, is so resonant, so right, it causes us to remember, at least for an instance, what substance we are really made from, and where is our true home.

These transient “tastes of the wild” come during the mystique of inspiration - ah there it is, now it has gone. The longing for her comes when one happens across someone who has secured this wildest relationship. The longing comes when one realizes one has given scant time to the mystic cookfire or to the dreamtime, too little time to one’s own creative life, one’s life work, or one’s true loves.

Yet it is in these fleeting tastes which come both through beauty as well as loss, that cause us to  become so berefit, so agitated, so longing that we eventually must pursue the wildest nature. Then we leap into the forest or into the desert or into the snow and run hard, our eyes scanning the ground, our hearing sharply tuned, searching under, searching over, searching for a clue, a remnant, a sign that she still lives, that we have not lost our chance.

And when we pick up her trail it is typical of women to ride hard to catch up, to clear off the desk, clear out one’s mind, turn to a new page, insist on a break,, break the rules, stop the world…. for we are not going on without her any longer.

Once women have lost and found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they will fight and fight hard to keep her, for with her their creative lives blossom; their relationships gain meaning and depth and health; their cycles of sexuality, creativity, work and play are re-established; they are no longer marks for the predation of others; they are entitled equally under the laws of nature to grow and to thrive, Now their end-of-the-day fatigue comes from satisfying work and endeavors, not from being shut up in too small a mindset, job or relationship. They know instinctively when things just die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle an inspiratrice, an intuitive ,a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds. When women are close to this nature, the fact of that relationship glows through them. This wild teacher, wild mother, wild mentor supports their inner and outer lives, no matter what.

So, the word “wild” here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in it’s original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura (creature) has innate integrity and healthy boundaries. These words, “wild” and “woman”, cause women to remember who they are and what they are about. they create a metaphor to describe the force which funds all females. They personify a force that women cannot live without.

The wild woman archetype can be expressed in other terms which are equally apt. You can call this powerful psychological nature the instinctive nature, but Wild Woman is the force which lies behind that. You can call it natural psyche, but the archetype of the Wild Woman stands behind that as well. You can call it the innate, the basic nature of women. You can call it the indigenous, the intrinsic nature of women. In poetry it might be called the “Other” or the “seven oceans of the universe” or “the far woods” or “the Friend”

In various psychologies and from various perspectives it would perhaps be called the id, the Self, the medial nature. In biology it would be called the typical or fundamental nature.

But because it is tacit, precient, and visceral, among cantadoras it is called the wise or knowing nature. It is somethings called “the woman who lives at the end of time” or the “woman who lives at the edge of the world” and this criatura is always a creator-hag, or a death Goddess, or a maiden in descent, or any number of other personifications.

She is both friend and mother to all those who have lost their way, all those who need a learning, all those who have a riddle to solve, all those out in the forest or the desert wandering and searching."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves.