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Life of Wellness Institute We embrace the eight limbs of Yoga and provide our students with mentoring, tools, resources, and a

Welcome to the Life of Wellness Institute, a dedicated school sharing the transformative powers of Yoga, meditation, and holistic health. Embracing Viniyoga, Ayurveda, current science, and neuroscience, we integrate the Eight Limbs of Yoga to empower your journey. Our mission is to guide you in embodying a balanced life, filled with peace and confidence, ready to impart this gift to your students. With a caring and compassionate community, we foster sustainable transformation, healing, and support. Gain the knowledge and assurance to help others with confidence. Join the countless students whose lives have been profoundly changed through studying with us! Selecting the right Yoga Teacher Training is pivotal for your future in Yoga. Thank you for considering us as your path to growth and fulfillment.

10/10/2026

This is why poses like pigeon, butterfly, and frog can feel so emotional.

If you’d like to learn more about functional yoga anatomy and how you can better support your students, clients, and yourself in your practice, that is what we explore in our Functional Yoga Anatomy and Physiology module.

This module reframes anatomy as something you use, not something you memorize.

You’re not just learning anatomy. You’re learning a lens for understanding how people move, so you can meet them where they are.

Head to the link in our bio to learn more

One of the reasons I keep coming back to the Yoga Sutras is that they give us language for things we are already experie...
10/07/2026

One of the reasons I keep coming back to the Yoga Sutras is that they give us language for things we are already experiencing.

You don’t need to know the word raga to recognize what it feels like to need reassurance before you can settle.

You don’t need to know dvesha to understand the impulse to avoid a conversation because you don’t want to feel what might come with it.

And you don’t need to know asmita to recognize the stories we create about who we are when something hurts.

“I’m too much.”

“I always do this.”

“People leave.”

“This is just who I am.”

The kleshas give us a way to look at these patterns with a little more clarity.

For me, that is where the value of the Sutras lives. They are not interesting because they give us ancient Sanskrit words for modern problems.

They are interesting because they invite us to notice how our mind works, how quickly we turn an experience into a story, and how easily that story can begin to feel like the whole truth.

Awareness doesn’t mean the pattern immediately disappears. I can understand exactly where a reaction comes from and still find myself right back inside it when the right trigger shows up.

But when I can notice what is happening, there is a little more space. I can get curious about what I’m grasping for, what I’m trying to avoid, what fear might be underneath the reaction, and whether the story my mind created is actually true.

That is the practice.

And honestly, that is why I don’t think of the Yoga Sutras as abstract philosophy.

They are incredibly practical when we let them become something we work with instead of something we simply memorize.

Inside Yoga Sutra Study: Ancient Wisdom, Conscious Practice, we’ll explore the Sutras in this way: with curiosity, context, questions, and room to notice what we ourselves bring to the text.

If that sounds like the kind of yoga philosophy study you’ve been looking for, head to the link in bio or comment SUTRAS and I’ll send you the details.

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10/05/2026

That nerve running through your body isn’t just anatomy. It’s deeply connected to how we experience mental health, not as a cure, but as a practice.

The vagus nerve is often called the “wanderer” because it travels through so much of the body.

But here’s a fact that stopped me when I first learned it: approximately 80% of vagal nerve fibers are afferent, meaning they carry signals from the body to the brain. Only 20% send instructions downward.

This flips the common understanding. Your brain isn’t just telling your body what to feel.

Your body is constantly reporting to your brain about your internal state, your heart rhythm, your gut, your inflammation levels. And the vagus nerve is the superhighway for that communication.

This is why I call it the homecoming nerve.

Because when it’s active, something shifts. Not just physically, but existentially. The body stops bracing. The mind stops scanning for threat. You come back to yourself.

This is the part that matters for anyone teaching yoga for mental health: We can’t force someone else’s vagus nerve to activate. But we can create conditions where it’s safe enough to try.

That’s the art of trauma-informed teaching. It’s not about “fixing” anyone’s nervous system. It’s about offering practices like slow breath, grounded movement, predictable space that invite the body to remember what safety feels like.

If you’d like to learn more about functional yoga anatomy and how you better support your students, clients, or even yourself, that is what we explore in our Functional Yoga Anatomy and Physiology module.

We do not teach you to memorize muscles or chase a perfect shape.

We teach you to understand how the body moves, how to support function, and how to work with real bodies in real life. Bodies with histories. Bodies with adaptations. Bodies that are not broken, just different.

Head to the link in our bio to learn more!

10/02/2026

Thank you so much .lasso.official and Apple TV for giving such a beautiful example of co-regulation and what it looks like to hold space for someone.

What do you notice when you watch this?

This scene is one of the most honest portrayals of co-regulation I have ever seen on television.

And it is not what most people think co-regulation looks like.

It is not someone telling you to breathe. It is not someone calming you down. It is not someone offering solutions. It is not someone trying to make it better.

It is someone sitting beside you. Breathing. Staying. Doing nothing. And everything.

Watch it. And notice what you notice. Notice what you feel. Notice what comes up for you.

I have written a little more about this in the video. Come back and tell me what landed for you.

What did you notice? What did you feel? Tell me in the comments.

09/30/2026

Your brain is an efficient machine. It will default to the most established pathway because that pathway requires the least energy and best outcome.

Those old survival responses aren’t “wrong”, and they are efficient. They’ve been practiced for years, sometimes decades.
The goal isn’t to prevent them or “fix” them. That’s not how neuroplasticity works.

Research shows that practices like yoga and mindfulness actually create new neural pathways through processes like dendritic branching and synaptogenesis (literally growing new connections between neurons).

And here’s the beauty: over time, with consistent practice, that new pathway becomes more accessible.

The brain starts to have a choice. It can still access the old survival route when needed. But now there’s an alternative. A path marked “safety.” A path marked “I can feel this without panicking.” A path marked “I am not in danger right now.” This is how a new path becomes more efficient.

This is the neuroscience of hope. We’re not undoing the past. We’re expanding the present. We’re giving the nervous system options it never had before. And that, slowly, practice by practice, is how we come home.

Calm is not passive. It’s practice.

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These phrases sound helpful. Most of the time, they are meant to be encouraging.But for some nervous systems, they can l...
09/28/2026

These phrases sound helpful. Most of the time, they are meant to be encouraging.

But for some nervous systems, they can land as pressure.

If we could “just relax”, we probably would.

If pushing through was safe for them, their body might not be asking them to stop.

If letting go was a simple decision, they would not still be holding what their system has not yet felt safe enough to release.

This is what we miss when we treat the nervous system like it is being stubborn.

It is not stubborn.
It is protective.
It is adaptive.

It is responding to what it has learned about the world, about safety, about the body, about what happens when needs are ignored.

Trauma-informed yoga asks us to stop assuming we know what someone needs just because we know the practice.

It asks us to pay attention to how our words land, how power moves in the room, and how easy it can be to confuse compliance with connection.

This does not mean we have to become afraid of teaching.

It means we become more intentional.

We learn how to cue with choice. We learn how to offer agency without making someone perform certainty. We learn how consent works in real time. We learn how to recognize when someone may be moving outside their Window of Tolerance, and how grounding, orienting, resourcing, and co-regulation can support them in finding their way back to themselves.

That is what we practice in Introduction to Trauma-Informed Yoga.

This module is for yoga teachers, teachers-in-training, therapists, counsellors, coaches, helpers, dedicated practitioners, and anyone who wants to understand the nervous system with more humility and care.

You do not need to have the whole path figured out.
You can begin with this module, take it for continuing education, or apply it toward the full 200hr Yoga Teacher Training if you decide to continue.

Introduction to Trauma-Informed Yoga begins October 8.

Head to the link in bio to learn more, enrol, or book a free call with me.

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09/25/2026

At least, that is not what I teach in my advanced yoga teacher training modules.

To me, an advanced yoga teacher is someone who has done enough of their own work to stay present, attuned, inclusive, and ethical when a room gets real.

They know how to sit with discomfort without rushing to fix it.

They understand their own triggers, patterns, biases, and wounds enough to notice when those things enter the space.

They know when to speak, when to listen, when to refer out, and when to say, “I don’t know.”

That is not weakness. That is integrity.

Advanced teaching asks us to stop performing expertise and start practicing presence.

It asks us to stay curious, humble, and willing to be wrong. It asks us to understand that the work does not stop when we become the teacher. In many ways, that is where the deeper work begins.

This is what we explore in Advanced Teaching Methodology: Ethics, Self-Care, and Presence.
We look at what it means to teach from true self, understand the Life of Wellness Methodology, deepen our relationship with Viniyoga, reflect on the qualities of a caring professional, and create a personal learning plan that supports your growth as a teacher.

This module gives you an advanced framework for stepping into your role as a yoga teacher with clarity, integrity, and sustainability.

You can take this module on its own for continuing education, or apply it toward the full 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training.

Head to the link in bio to learn more, enrol, or book a free discovery call with me.

09/23/2026

Functional anatomy is about understanding how the body moves and supports itself in daily life.

It is about seeing the body as a whole system, not just a collection of parts. It is about understanding that the way we move affects everything: our nervous system, our digestion, our mood, our ability to show up for ourselves and others.

When we take a functional approach as a yoga teacher, we start with the person, not the pose or practice. We ask:

What is this body’s history?
What patterns has it learned?
What adaptations has it made?
Where is it holding tension?
Where is it bracing?
Where is it seeking support?
Where is it compensating?
What does it need right now to move with more ease or stability?

The body is designed to function in certain ways. It has a natural architecture: bones that support weight, joints that allow movement, muscles that create stability and mobility, fascia that connects everything together.

Myofascial lines run through the body, connecting far-apart areas and allowing the body to move as an integrated whole.

When one part of the body is tight or restricted, the entire system compensates.

A functional approach helps us work with these changes. It is not about forcing the body back to some idealized “normal.” It is about understanding where the body is right now and supporting its function.

That is what we explore in my upcoming module Functional Yoga Anatomy and Physiology. We look at how bodies actually move, how to support function, and how to work with real bodies with real histories.

If you’d like to learn more and register, you can find the link in my bio for module 203!

Our experiences cause us to have all these fragmented parts of ourselves, and yoga, well it’s the toolbox for our journe...
09/21/2026

Our experiences cause us to have all these fragmented parts of ourselves, and yoga, well it’s the toolbox for our journey back to wholeness.

In this way, Yoga is for everyone. Every body. Every moment of life. And it doesn’t take itself too seriously.

It is not precious. It is not exclusive. It doesn’t require a mat, or expensive clothing, or a particular body shape.

What it does ask us for is our curiosity. Our willingness to be with our experiences. All while offering support for how freaking hard that can be. It asks us to show up just as we are and dedicate ourselves to the practice of wholeness.

And in exchange, it helps us come home to ourselves. To hear what your body, your mind, and your heart are trying to tell you. To help you live a life you love, even when it is hard. To help you be with the parts of life that can really freaking suck.

And in this case, continuing to lean into this part of yoga helped my client process the shame she felt.

Through yoga, she continued to develop her self-compassion, to re-establish her ability to listen to her body, and care for the needs it was communicating.

This is what we explore in my upcoming module: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Yoga.

We look at how trauma can shape the body, breath, nervous system, and relationship to practice, and how yoga teachers, helpers, and practitioners can respond with more choice, agency, care, and skill.

This module is not about learning a script or adding “trauma-informed” to the way we describe our work. It is about learning how to notice more clearly, listen more honestly, cue with more care, and create practices that honour the person in front of us.

If this is the kind of yoga you want to understand more deeply, this module is a place to begin.

You can take Introduction to Trauma-Informed Yoga on its own, use it for continuing education, or apply it toward the full 200hr Yoga Teacher Training if you decide to continue.

Head to the link in bio to learn more or book a free call with me if you’d like to explore whether this module is the right next step for you.

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