Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine

Can you be deeply spiritual, devoted to serving others, abundant, supported, and well-paid?

In this episode of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, Bertena welcomes Leslie of Music City Healing for an honest and transformative conversation about womb healing, spiritual abundance, devoted service, and the subconscious beliefs that can keep women trapped in poverty, sacrifice, and overgiving.

Leslie shares her personal experience of devotion and taking a vow of poverty during her time as a nun. Together, Leslie and Bertena explore how formal and informal “vows” can continue influencing our relationships with money, visibility, self-worth, service, and receiving—even after our lives and circumstances have changed.

Many healers, intuitives, caregivers, spiritual teachers, and heart-centered women have been taught that being spiritual means giving without limits. We may believe that charging for our gifts is selfish, that suffering proves our devotion, or that caring for ourselves takes something away from the people we serve.

But devotion does not have to mean deprivation—and sacred service should not require self-abandonment.

Leslie explains the “trance of lack” and how subconscious beliefs may cause women to undercharge, remain invisible, reject support, feel guilty about desiring more, or give until they are depleted. She also discusses how transformational hypnosis can help release these limiting beliefs and anchor a more empowering truth:

We can be spiritual, in service, abundant, supported, and well-paid.

Bertena then explores Divine Feminine healing and the womb as a sacred physical, energetic, and symbolic center of creativity, intuition, receiving, transformation, and personal power.

Womb healing is not limited to fertility or motherhood. This practice can be meaningful for women of every age and life experience, including those who are postmenopausal, have experienced hysterectomy or pregnancy loss, or do not have a physical womb. The healing centers on reconnecting with the body, creative center, intuition, and capacity to receive.

In this episode, you will discover:

• The difference between spiritual simplicity and chronic lack
• How inherited, religious, cultural, and subconscious beliefs can affect abundance
• Why healers and caregivers sometimes struggle to charge for their gifts
• How overgiving can become a form of self-abandonment
• What it means to serve from fullness instead of depletion
• How hypnosis can help transform subconscious beliefs
• The womb’s connection to intuition, creativity, power, and receiving
• Why boundaries are an essential part of sacred service
• How to embrace abundance without compromising your spiritual values
• What it means to embody the Sovereign Feminine

Questions for Reflection

• What did you learn about women, spirituality, money, and service?
• Where are you giving more than you can sustainably offer?
• Do you feel guilty when you rest, receive help, or charge for your gifts?
• What belief about poverty or sacrifice are you ready to release?
• What part of your feminine power are you ready to reclaim?
• What are you finally willing to receive?

Join Us In Person

Continue this healing journey with Leslie and Bertena at:

The Sovereign Feminine: Womb Healing, Abundance & Devoted Service

Sunday, August 9

12:30–2:30 p.m.

The Healing Society of Nashville

Investment: $55

During this powerful in-person experience, Leslie will share more of her story and guide participants through transformational hypnosis to help release the trance of lack.

Bertena will then lead a Divine Feminine Healing and Womb Healing to help participants reconnect with the womb and creative center as a sacred place of power, abundance, intuition, and receiving.

The gathering will close with journaling and reflection to help you integrate what you have released, reclaimed, and opened yourself to receive.

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Visit our sponsor, Cosmic Connections, to learn more and sign up for private readings, healing sessions, spiritual guidance, hypnosis, and other services.

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To explore Bertena’s classes, podcast, books, healing work, and spiritual community, visit Bertena.org.

To learn more about Leslie, transformational hypnosis, Akashic Records readings, abundance work, and private spiritual healing sessions, visit MusicCityHealing.com.

Closing Affirmation

I release the belief that I must suffer to be of service. I am allowed to be spiritual, devoted, abundant, supported, and well-paid. My body is sacred, my gifts are valuable, and I am open to receiving.

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What is Lammas, and how is it connected to the older Celtic festival of Lughnasadh?

In Episode 125 of The Spiritual Sanctuary, Bertena explores the history, meaning, and spiritual symbolism of the first harvest celebration traditionally observed around August 1.

Lammas is often associated with bread, grain, gratitude, and the beginning of the harvest season. Its name comes from the idea of “loaf mass,” when bread made from the first grain harvest was offered in blessing and thanksgiving.

The episode also explores Lughnasadh, the older Gaelic festival connected with Lugh, the many-skilled god associated with leadership, craftsmanship, poetry, music, knowledge, and mastery.

Although Lughnasadh carries the name of Lugh, one of the most meaningful figures connected with the celebration is his foster mother, Tailtiu.

Tailtiu is remembered as a legendary queen who cleared the land for agriculture and died from exhaustion after completing the work. Lugh is said to have established funeral games and a great gathering in her honor.

Today, many spiritual practitioners honor Tailtiu as a goddess or sacred figure connected with the earth, agriculture, harvest, land, sovereignty, sacrifice, and the unseen labor that makes abundance possible.

In this episode, Bertena discusses how the story of Tailtiu can be especially meaningful for women. Her story reminds us to honor the work that often goes unnoticed while also recognizing that women should not have to exhaust or sacrifice themselves completely to prove their worth.

Lammas and Lughnasadh invite us to celebrate what is beginning to grow and ripen in our lives, even when the full harvest has not yet arrived.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• What Lammas means and why it is called the first harvest
• The difference between Lammas and Lughnasadh
• The history of Lughnasadh as a Gaelic seasonal festival
• Who the Celtic god Lugh was
• Why Lugh was known as the many-skilled one
• The story of Lugh’s foster mother, Tailtiu
• Why Tailtiu is associated with the land, harvest, sacrifice, and women’s labor
• How Lughnasadh was celebrated through fairs, games, markets, music, storytelling, pilgrimage, and community gatherings
• The spiritual meaning of bread and grain
• Why the first harvest represents progress rather than completion
• Simple and respectful ways to honor Lammas at home
• How to recognize your own emotional, spiritual, and personal harvest

Simple Ways to Celebrate Lammas at Home

You do not need an elaborate ceremony or expensive spiritual tools to connect with the season.

You can honor Lammas by:

• Blessing and mindfully eating a piece of bread
• Preparing a meal with seasonal or locally grown food
• Supporting a local farmer or market
• Donating food to a community pantry
• Creating a small altar with grain, fruit, flowers, or a candle
• Writing about what has grown in your life this year
• Thanking someone whose work is often overlooked
• Resting instead of pushing yourself into exhaustion
• Caring for your garden, neighborhood, or local environment
• Sharing food, time, encouragement, or wisdom with someone else

The heart of Lammas is gratitude, community, reflection, and recognizing that the first signs of growth are worthy of celebration.

Join the Lammas Women’s Circle

Bertena will be leading a special Lammas Women’s Circle this Sunday at Cosmic Connections in Nashville.

This gathering will offer women an opportunity to honor the first harvest, connect with the symbolism of Lugh and Tailtiu, reflect upon what is ripening in their lives, and gather in meaningful spiritual community.

You do not need previous experience with Celtic spirituality, Paganism, goddess traditions, or the Wheel of the Year to attend.

Come as you are and bring both the parts of your life that are flourishing and the parts that are still growing.

This Episode Is Sponsored by Cosmic Connections

Cosmic Connections is a spiritual store and gathering place in Nashville offering crystals, books, herbs, candles, divination tools, spiritual gifts, readings, healing sessions, classes, and community events.

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The Wheel of the Year lessons explore the seasonal festivals and sacred turning points of the year, including:

• Samhain
• Yule
• Imbolc
• Ostara
• Beltane
• Litha
• Lammas and Lughnasadh
• Mabon

These lessons will help you create a deeper relationship with the seasons, spiritual cycles, ritual, reflection, and the rhythms of nature.

Reflection Questions

Use these questions for journaling after listening:

1. What is beginning to ripen in my life?
2. What progress have I overlooked because the journey is not complete?
3. Which of my skills deserve to be recognized and developed?
4. Whose unseen labor has helped prepare the way for me?
5. Where am I giving so much that I am becoming depleted?
6. How can I allow my harvest to nourish me too?
7. What can I share with my family, community, or spiritual circle?
8. What am I ready to gather, celebrate, or release?

Connect With Bertena

Visit bertena.org to learn more about:

• Spiritual classes and gatherings
• Divine Feminine teachings
• Priestess Academy
• Tarot and oracle readings
• Tea leaf readings
• Reiki and energy-healing sessions
• Chakra balancing and energy clearing
• Inclusive yoga and meditation
• Spiritual coaching and life coaching
• Books, downloads, podcasts, and community offerings

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Celebrate the Feast of Mary Magdalene on July 22 with a guided spiritual experience centered on Divine Feminine wisdom, sacred intuition, healing, courage, and personal transformation.

In this special episode of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, Bertena guides you through the history and spiritual meaning of Mary Magdalene’s feast day, an invocation of the Divine Feminine, a relaxing guided meditation, a sacred candle-and-water ritual, intuition-development exercises, journal prompts, affirmations, and a closing prayer.

Mary Magdalene is remembered as a devoted disciple, sacred witness, and courageous messenger. She remained present through grief, witnessed the resurrection, and carried a message of hope to the other disciples. Because of this important role, she has often been called the Apostle to the Apostles.

Her story invites us to explore our own spiritual voices.

Where are you being asked to trust your intuition?

What truth are you ready to acknowledge?

What part of yourself are you being called to reclaim?

What new beginning may be emerging from an ending in your life?

This guided Mary Magdalene ritual will help you slow down, listen within, and reconnect with your sacred inner wisdom.

In This Episode, You Will Experience

• An opening invocation of the Divine Feminine
• The spiritual meaning of Mary Magdalene and her July 22 feast day
• A teaching on Mary Magdalene as a sacred witness and messenger
• A guided Divine Feminine meditation
• A Mary Magdalene candle ritual
• A sacred water blessing for healing and intuition
• A rose ritual for spiritual unfolding and self-trust
• An optional heart-anointing practice
• An intuition-development exercise
• Guidance for distinguishing intuition from fear
• Mary Magdalene journal prompts
• A closing prayer and feast-day affirmation

Gather These Optional Ritual Items

Before listening, you may wish to gather:

• A candle or battery-operated candle
• A bowl or glass of water
• A rose or another flower
• A journal and pen
• An oracle card deck
• A meaningful spiritual object
• Rose water or a skin-safe anointing oil

You do not need any special supplies to participate. Every part of the ritual can also be completed through visualization.

Please do not participate in the guided meditation while driving or performing a task that requires your full attention.

This Episode Is for You If You Are

• Exploring Mary Magdalene spirituality
• Honoring the Feast of Mary Magdalene
• Developing your intuition
• Following a Divine Feminine spiritual path
• Healing your relationship with self-trust
• Learning to distinguish intuition from anxiety or fear
• Reclaiming your spiritual voice
• Moving through grief, change, or transformation
• Creating a personal feast-day ritual
• Interested in meditation, ritual, journaling, or sacred feminine wisdom
• Seeking a deeper connection with Mary Magdalene
• Looking for a guided spiritual practice for July 22

Mary Magdalene Journal Prompts

After listening, reflect on one or more of these questions:

• What does Mary Magdalene represent to me?
• What part of her story speaks to my current season of life?
• What ending am I currently grieving?
• What new beginning may be quietly emerging?
• What part of myself am I ready to reclaim?
• Where have I been taught to distrust my intuition?
• What truth have I known but hesitated to acknowledge?
• Where am I being asked to choose courage instead of approval?
• What boundary would help protect my spiritual and emotional energy?
• What message of healing, hope, or love am I being asked to carry?
• As I embrace my Divine Feminine intuition, I give myself permission to…

Feast-Day AffirmationI honor the sacred wisdom within me.I remain present to love.I trust the truth revealed within my heart.I release the need for everyone to understand my path.I walk forward with devotion, discernment, and courage.My voice carries light.My life carries meaning.I am willing to become a messenger of hope.

Listen to more episodes of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine and explore Bertena’s spiritual classes, Divine Feminine teachings, Priestess Academy, readings, and energy-healing services at:

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Please share this episode with someone who may need a reminder that her intuition, spiritual experiences, wisdom, and voice matter.

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In this episode of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, Bertena explores Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, courage, skilled craftsmanship, and sacred leadership.

Athena teaches us that wisdom is more than gathering knowledge—it is knowing when, why, and how to use what we know. Her presence invites us to combine intuition with discernment, approach challenges thoughtfully, establish healthy boundaries, and transform our ideas into purposeful action.

In this episode, you will explore:

• Athena’s extraordinary birth and the hidden wisdom of her mother, Metis
• The differences between strategic action and impulsive reaction
• The spiritual meanings of Athena’s owl, armor, olive tree, and weaving
• How to balance intuition with intellect and discernment
• Athena’s teachings about courage, anger, and healthy boundaries
• The complicated story of Athena and Arachne
• What Athena can teach us about sacred leadership
• Practical ways to honor and connect with Athena
• Reflective questions for your own spiritual journey

The teaching concludes with a gentle transition into a meditation for meeting Athena and connecting with the wisdom already living within you.

You may experience the meditation from a chair, bed, or the floor. Closing your eyes is always optional.

Journal Prompts

• Where in my life do I need greater clarity?
• What situation requires strategy instead of an immediate reaction?
• Where do I need to establish or strengthen a boundary?
• What truth am I ready to acknowledge?
• What am I weaving through my daily choices?
• How can I bring my intuition and practical wisdom together?
• What does sacred leadership mean to me?

Explore the Priestess Path

If you feel called to explore goddess wisdom, intuition, ritual, sacred service, and Divine Feminine spirituality, you are invited to learn more about the Ancient Arts of the Priestess Academy.

Begin with Level 1: The Call of a Priestess, or deepen your journey through Level 2 Goddess Studies, a year-long exploration of the wisdom, archetypes, stories, and spiritual teachings of 52 goddesses.

Explore the classes and learn more at bertena.org.

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Discover what somatic yoga is and how gentle, mindful movement can support nervous system regulation, release tension, and deepen your connection with your body.

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In this episode of Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, Bertena shares why women need sacred circles, retreats, and spiritual sisterhood to rest, heal, reconnect, and remember who they are. Explore the power of women’s circles, Divine Feminine retreats, virtual sacred spaces, meditation, journaling, ritual, somatic yoga, goddess archetypes, energy healing, and intuitive spiritual practice.

Bertena also explains why virtual retreats can be just as meaningful as in-person gatherings, especially for women navigating distance, gas costs, time, caregiving, health needs, and busy lives.

This episode closes with an invitation to Sacred Return: A Divine Feminine Hybrid Retreat, a virtual and in-person retreat for women seeking rest, release, remembrance, reclamation, and sacred sisterhood. The retreat will be recorded, with handouts and resources provided for each event.

Learn more and register at bertena.org.🎧 Listen & Subscribe

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Welcome to Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, a sacred podcast for women who are awakening their intuition, exploring the priestess path, and reconnecting with the wisdom of the Divine Feminine.

In this trailer episode, meet Bertena, metaphysical teacher, spirit guide communicator, Reiki Master Teacher, and guide for women on their spiritual journey. This podcast will explore intuition, goddess spirituality, priestess wisdom, angel communication, spirit guides, Reiki, energy healing, moon rituals, sacred feminine practices, spiritual awakening, and soul healing.

Each episode is created to help you trust your inner guidance, deepen your spiritual gifts, connect with your guides, and remember the sacred wisdom already within you. Whether you are new to spirituality or have been walking this path for years, Spiritual Sanctuary offers teachings, reflections, meditations, and spiritual tools to support your journey.

Step into the sanctuary, awaken your Divine Feminine wisdom, and begin listening to the voice of your soul.

Are you ready to listen?🎧 Listen & Subscribe

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In this episode of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, Bertena welcomes Kody for a powerful conversation about ancestral healing, bone throwing divination, tarot, Reiki, crystal healing, intuition, and Southern folk magic.

Kody shares how his spiritual path began after college and eventually led him into Reiki, tarot, ancestral work, bone throwing, crystal healing, and folk magic practices. He explains how these spiritual tools can help people receive guidance, strengthen intuition, connect with their ancestors, and feel more supported on their healing journey.

A major focus of this episode is bone throwing divination, an intuitive practice that uses bones, shells, charms, stones, and meaningful objects to receive spiritual messages. Kody shares how he discovered bone throwing at a Pagan Pride Festival and later studied with his mentor, Atalanta Moonfire. He explains that bone throwing is more than simply tossing objects onto a cloth. Each piece carries symbolism, and the placement, direction, distance, and relationship between the pieces help reveal messages connected to life questions, ancestral wisdom, spiritual growth, and intuitive guidance.

Bertena and Kody also explore Southern folk magic, ancestral healing, and the importance of working with spiritual tools in a respectful and grounded way. They discuss how Reiki, tarot, crystals, oracle cards, bone throwing, and ancestral practices can work together to support emotional healing, clarity, protection, and deeper spiritual connection.

This episode is perfect for anyone interested in ancestral healing, bone throwing, Southern folk magic, tarot readings, Reiki, crystal healing, divination tools, spirit guide communication, goddess-centered spirituality, and the priestess path.

Bertena and Kody also discuss the beauty of creating a personalized bone throwing kit centered around a goddess, ancestor, or spiritual theme. This part of the conversation offers inspiration for anyone who wants to create sacred tools that reflect their own intuitive and spiritual path.

Upcoming plans include an Ancestral Healing Event on September 19 and a Bone Throwing Workshop in October, with more details coming soon.

You can connect with Kody on Instagram at @thelifekode.

Spiritual shops mentioned in this episode include Aroma G’s, Makeup Altar, Mystical Heart, and our beloved sponsor, Cosmic Connections.

Tune in to Episode 111 of The Spiritual Sanctuary Podcast for this meaningful conversation on ancestral healing, bone throwing, tarot, Reiki, crystal healing, Southern folk magic, intuition, and the sacred ways we receive guidance.

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Welcome to Day 8, the final day of International Week of Yoga: Movement, Meditation, Spirit & the Divine Feminine.

In this closing episode, Bertena helps you create your own realistic and personal yoga spiritual practice. After exploring the meaning of yoga, its history, the 8 limbs, the paths of yoga, different types of yoga, the Divine Feminine, the priestess path, and yoga as healing for the mind, body, and soul, this episode brings everything together into a simple practice you can continue.

Yoga does not have to be long or complicated. A spiritual yoga practice can be 5, 10, 20, or 60 minutes. What matters most is not perfection, but consistency, presence, and connection.

Your practice should fit your real life, your body, your energy, your season of life, and your spiritual path. Yoga can be practiced through movement, breath, meditation, mantra, journaling, devotion, and rest.

This episode includes a simple daily yoga practice formula, a sample 10-minute spiritual yoga practice, a sample intention, and a closing invitation to choose one practice to carry forward after the series.

Yoga becomes powerful when it becomes personal.

In This Episode, You’ll Explore

• Why yoga does not have to be long or complicated
• How a spiritual yoga practice can be 5, 10, 20, or 60 minutes
• Why consistency matters more than perfection
• How to create a practice that fits your life, body, and spiritual path
• How yoga can include movement, breath, meditation, mantra, journaling, devotion, and rest
• A simple daily yoga practice formula
• A sample 10-minute yoga spiritual practice
• How to create a practice that feels sacred but realistic
• How to choose one practice to carry forward after the series

Simple Daily Yoga Practice Formula

1. Arrive

Light a candle, sit quietly, place your hand on your heart, or say, “I am here.”

2. Breathe

Take 3 to 5 slow breaths to arrive in the present moment.

3. Move

Practice gentle stretches, somatic movement, or a few yoga poses.

4. Listen

Pause and notice your body, breath, energy, and emotions.

5. Connect

Say a prayer, mantra, affirmation, or intention.

6. Rest

End with stillness, meditation, or Yoga Nidra.

7. Reflect

Journal one sentence about how you feel.

Sample 10-Minute Practice

• 1 minute: grounding breath
• 3 minutes: gentle neck, shoulder, and spine movement
• 2 minutes: forward fold or supported child’s pose
• 2 minutes: seated meditation
• 1 minute: mantra or affirmation
• 1 minute: gratitude

Sample Spiritual Intention

May this practice help me return to peace, presence, and sacred connection.

Spiritual Reflection

Yoga becomes powerful when it becomes personal.

Your practice does not need to look like anyone else’s. It needs to support your body, honor your energy, fit your life, and connect you with your breath, spirit, and inner truth.

Journal Prompt

What kind of yoga practice can I realistically commit to this week?

You may also reflect on:

• How much time can I honestly give to my practice?
• What time of day feels most supportive?
• What does my body need most right now?
• Do I need movement, breath, meditation, mantra, journaling, devotion, or rest?
• What would make my practice feel sacred but simple?
• What is one practice I can carry forward after this series?

Closing Practice

Choose one practice you will carry forward after the series.

Maybe it is breath, movement, meditation, mantra, journaling, devotion, or rest.

Repeat:

I choose a practice that supports me.

I return to myself with compassion.

My yoga is allowed to be personal, sacred, and real.

Links

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Welcome to Day 7 of International Week of Yoga: Movement, Meditation, Spirit & the Divine Feminine.

In this episode, we explore how yoga can support healing for the mind, body, and soul in a grounded, spiritual, and accessible way.

Yoga can help calm racing thoughts, support focus and emotional balance, and teach us to witness our thoughts without becoming consumed by them. Through breathwork, meditation, mindful movement, and rest, yoga can help create inner spaciousness and a deeper sense of presence.

For the body, yoga can support flexibility, strength, mobility, balance, and body awareness. Gentle yoga, somatic yoga, restorative practices, and Yoga Nidra can help the body soften, reconnect, and rest. Yoga also encourages us to listen to the body instead of fighting it.

For the soul, yoga can create sacred pause, reconnect us with purpose and intuition, deepen our relationship with the Divine, and help us feel less fragmented and more whole.

This episode also includes a gentle reminder that yoga is not a replacement for medical or mental health care. It can be a supportive spiritual and wellness practice alongside other forms of care when needed.

In This Episode, You’ll Explore

• How yoga supports the mind, body, and soul
• How yoga can calm racing thoughts
• How breathwork can support focus and emotional balance
• How meditation teaches us to witness thoughts rather than become consumed by them
• How yoga creates inner spaciousness
• How yoga supports flexibility, strength, mobility, balance, and body awareness
• How gentle and somatic yoga can support nervous system regulation
• How restorative practices and Yoga Nidra can support deep rest
• Why yoga encourages listening to the body instead of fighting it
• How yoga reconnects us with purpose, intuition, and inner wisdom
• How yoga creates sacred pause
• How yoga can deepen our relationship with the Divine
• Why yoga can help us feel less fragmented and more whole

Important Gentle Note

Yoga is not a replacement for medical care, mental health care, therapy, medication, physical therapy, or professional treatment when those things are needed.

Yoga can be a supportive spiritual and wellness practice. It can work beautifully alongside other forms of care and may help support breath awareness, nervous system regulation, emotional balance, body awareness, rest, and spiritual connection.

Mind, Body, and Soul Healing

Mind

Yoga can help calm racing thoughts, support focus, create emotional balance, and teach us to witness thoughts without becoming consumed by them.

Body

Yoga can support flexibility, strength, mobility, balance, body awareness, nervous system regulation, deep rest, and a more compassionate relationship with the body.

Soul

Yoga can reconnect us with purpose, intuition, inner wisdom, sacred pause, the Divine, and a deeper sense of wholeness.

Spiritual Reflection

Yoga does not ask us to escape the body. It teaches us to come home to it.

The body is not separate from healing. The body is part of healing. The breath, awareness, compassion, movement, and rest all become part of the path home.

Journal Prompt

Where do I need healing right now: my mind, my body, my heart, my energy, or my spirit?

You may also reflect on:

• What would healing look like if I approached myself gently?
• What is my body asking me to hear?
• What thoughts have been consuming my mind?
• Where do I need more inner spaciousness?
• What part of me feels fragmented or disconnected?
• What practice would help me feel more whole today?

Closing Practice

A simple body scan:

Bring awareness to the forehead, jaw, shoulders, heart, belly, hips, legs, and feet.

Soften each area as much as feels available.

Then repeat:

I come home to my body.

I listen with compassion.

I welcome healing one breath at a time.

Links

Listen to the podcast:

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