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08/09/2026

Time and time again recently, I have come across posts saying, “Yoga is dead. It’s all about Pilates now.” And then, almost immediately, I see yoga teachers responding with some version of: but we can make it work. We just need to change the vocabulary, explain muscle engagement more clearly, talk about how to activate specific muscle groups in the body, bring in more strength, mobility or resistance work.

And I literally want to scream: NO !!!!!

We do not need to make yoga look more like Pilates, or like any other mobility or movement discipline, in order to keep it relevant. If anything, I feel we need the opposite. We need to return to the original blueprint of the practice, to its philosophy, methodology and lineage.

Over the last ten years, I have watched yoga change enormously, and I have been reflecting on this both as a teacher and as a practitioner. When I first began my own yoga journey, my practice was much more rooted in traditional Ashtanga Yoga. There was a methodology, a lineage, a philosophy and a sense that what was happening on the mat was only one small part of something much bigger.
Then social media grew, yoga became increasingly visible and, with that, increasingly monetised. Brands entered the space, affiliate marketing grew, yoga became an industry and its popularity expanded enormously. But somewhere within that expansion, I feel we also began to lose something of yoga as a spiritual discipline.

The Western mind has an incredible ability to take something deeply rooted in Eastern spirituality and philosophy and reshape it into something that fits a Western framework. More and more teachers began teaching their own interpretations of yoga, often blending it with Pilates, mobility, strength and resistance work, flexibility training, functional movement and somatics. And I want to say clearly that I do not think there is anything wrong with these practices. I have done exactly the same over the last eight years. I have explored, blended, adapted and created my own ways of working with the body, and I see enormous value in all of it. CONTINUE IN COMMENTS

06/09/2026

In my latest post I shared my real, raw and vulnerable expression of grief, deep sadness and anger at the current state of affairs in the world.
Whilst the women who responded expressed such solidarity and gratitude for this expression, I had one man respond with the message shared above. And it led me into another deep contemplation. What was fascinating to me was that he didn’t acknowledge a single point I was actually speaking about, but instead chose to focus on the emotions I was feeling while speaking about it.
To me, this is part of the very problem I am describing when it comes to the suppression, manipulation and misunderstanding of the feminine. A woman publicly expresses grief, rage, moral clarity and embodied feeling, and the response becomes a question of whether she is sufficiently “stable”, “centred” or mentally well. This has a very long history. Women’s anger and emotional intensity have so often been pathologised rather than engaged with on their actual substance.

For centuries women were institutionalised, silenced and pathologised for emotions and behaviours that did not conform to what was considered acceptable femininity. They were put through “attitude correction” treatments, hysterectomy ( hysterical women ).
Because a woman in her full expression has always been threatening to a culture, and especially to forms of masculinity, that have been conditioned to fear emotion, suppress it, intellectualise it or disconnect from it.
There is a historic lack of understanding of the feminine cyclical, watery, emotional, “red-blooded woman” nature. A nature woven from polarities: softness and fierceness, joy and sadness, peacefulness and the warrior, calm and anger, bliss and despair. We are not designed to remain within one emotionally acceptable range at all times. There is an entire spectrum moving through us, and our capacity to feel it does not automatically mean that we are unstable or too open.
Quite the opposite — this is part of our original design. This is what it means, to me, to be a woman, to be able to drop deeply into the body and feel, even when at times it may feel almost unbearable to feel this much. CONTINUE

04/09/2026

Today my heart bleeds with so much grief and pain, and my chest burns with anger at the state of this world.

Thousands of wild horses, more than 6,000 through aerial shooting alone, have been killed in Kosciuszko National Park in Australia because they are classified as feral. These majestic wild beings, who for me represent freedom, joy, instinct, truth and something so deeply alive, are being destroyed in the Year of the Horse. And to me this speaks of something much deeper than population control. It speaks of our profound disconnection from the natural world, from the four-legged family, from the understanding that we belong to this Earth rather than stand above it.

And then I look at the latest developments in AI, robotics and the booming sex-doll industry. Female-bodied dolls are becoming increasingly lifelike with vaginas and faces that can be customised to resemble real people, and bodies can be made to carry the imagery of bruising, violence and harm.
Mainstream commercial po*******hy has historically been produced predominantly for the male gaze, with women’s bodies presented as the primary object of visual consumption and male pleasure treated as the organising point of much of the content.

And now, in parts of the US, courts have ruled that the private possession of certain entirely AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery may be legally protected where no real child was used in its creation.

I mean, what the actual f**k? How is this real? How is this legal? How is this allowed to be happening?
Isn’t this obvious how the machine is continually feeding and serving the predators and keep feeding, child abuse and r**e consciousness?

Doesn’t this show us something deeply disturbing about the structures we allowed to be created, structures that can continue to accommodate, normalise and feed predatory desire, exploitation and violence? And while yes, the wound of separation from Spirit and from the natural world is at the heart of so much of this, I see an even deeper wound and split, and that is the separation from the Mother, from the feminine, from Mother Earth herself. CONTINUE IN COMMENT

03/09/2026

🔥 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎 𝙎𝘼𝙐𝙉𝘼 𝙄𝙎 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 🔥

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.

𝗔 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀. Toadsmoor, Eastcombe,

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01/09/2026

I’m not my body. I’m not my mind.

A few days ago I listened to Antarma’s new album, and as much as I love his music, this specific phrase brought another deep contemplation for me.

Because this is exactly the friction, the disconnect, I experience within a lot of the masculine framework of awakening, enlightenment and self-realisation, a framework deeply rooted in transcendence.
And it can be found within religion, and within Yoga, which you would think is a discipline deeply rooted in the body. But because the majority of Yoga practices known to us were founded, developed and transmitted by male teachers, they often follow this same path of transcendence.

The emphasis is so often on taking the seat of the observer, observing the mind, quietening or composing the mind, disciplining the body.
And of course, to some extent, we all need this.
But if our practice of self-realisation is solely rooted in transcendence and observation, we can inevitably begin to dissociate and disconnect from the deeper wisdom that lives directly within the body.

It wasn’t until I started walking the path of the Divine Feminine and studying within ancient lineages of feminine mysteries that this split, this disassociation, began to make complete sense to me.
By eradicating and destroying so much of feminine wisdom, and the feminine aspect of Creation, the feminine aspect of God, we also disconnected from the wisdom of Gaia, Mother Earth, from the body, and from the lower wisdom centres that exist beyond the rational mind.
Our intuition. Our primordial, instinctual wisdom. The intelligence of the heart.
The intelligence of the womb and pelvic bowl.
We disconnected from another aspect of Creation that is inseparable from what we call transcendence.
And if we focus only on transcendence, I feel we can so easily fall into another illusion.Because whatever experience we have — no matter how expanded, mystical or seemingly out-of-body it might feel, no matter how much it makes us feel that “I’m not my body, I’m not my mind” — the experience itself still happens through the body.
Because of the body. CONTINUE IN C0MMENTS …

30/08/2026

Dear community,🔥 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎 𝙎𝘼𝙐𝙉𝘼 𝙄𝙎 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 🔥

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.

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24/08/2026

Following up on yesterday’s post about learning to feel the full spectrum of my human emotions, and how for most of my life I carried the belief that expressing my vulnerability, my insecurities, my pain was the deepest weakness — there was absolutely no way I would have allowed myself to do it.

Not until the breakdown of my marriage. In the deep process of dismantling and separation, I went to see a friend who I had done a photoshoot for in exchange for one of her channelling sessions. She channels a being called Zac, and one of the things that came through in that session was how lonely I had felt for most of my life. How much I had kept within myself. There was so much that came through that day, but this one simple sentence cracked open the dam within me. I started to feel floods of tears flowing. And then I had to go back home and face my ex. Before this, I would always compose myself. I would never show even the slightest emotion of suffering, pain or heartbreak because after the betrayal and infidelity he had put me through, showing him how much I was hurting felt almost humiliating to me. I could not possibly let him see my suffering. But this time I came home and I broke down in floods of tears. I said, this is how much it hurts. This is how painful this whole process has been. And I allowed myself to be witnessed in my pain.

What I realised in that moment was that I wasn’t seeking his compassion. I wasn’t asking him to make me feel better. I wasn’t doing it so that he would finally understand the depth of suffering his actions had caused. I was doing it for myself. I was honouring what I was going through. How deeply it hurt. And for the first time in my life, I felt empowered in this level of vulnerability. I realised I owed this to myself.

When the tears stopped flowing, I remember going upstairs into my room and having this moment of the deepest clarity. It happened to be a Full Moon evening, and I sat down and began writing what I called my Sacred Scroll. CONTINUE IN COMMENTS

23/08/2026

Growing up in Soviet Ukraine, where most of us were programmed to operate almost like robots and work for the STATE, where religion was the STATE and your value was measured by how hard you could work, needless to say society was emotionally numb, suppressed and deeply dissociated.
In a culture like that, I witnessed plenty of alcoholism, addiction, domestic violence and depression.
When I left Ukraine at the age of 21, I carried with me so much societal and cultural conditioning, as well as family patterning, that I had developed a belief system where feeling my emotions wasn’t safe, let alone expressing them. Showing any sign of vulnerability was deemed the deepest weakness.
I was strong, stoic, resilient, focused and determined young woman.

It wasn’t until my late 30s, when I went through the dismantling of a 10-year marriage, became a single parent, and had to navigate all the feelings connected to infidelity, betrayal, rejection, unworthiness, and all the shame, anger, frustration, fear, anxiety and uncertainty that came with it, that for the first time in my life I decided to FEEL.

Rather than drowning it in alcohol, partying, shopping or daring, I chose to step onto the path of feminine embodiment and reclamation and create space to start feeling and getting to know my emotional landscape so intimately that there was no separation any longer between my mind and heart, my body and spirit.
I spent almost a year, a lot of the time on my knees, crying rivers, screaming, shouting, sometimes convulsing…
It was the darkest night of my soul, and I embraced it.

What I started to notice was that the more I was able to stay present with my grief and sadness, the more joy started to become available to me.
The more I was able to sit with my anger and rage, the more happiness I started to find in the simplest things.

And I started to notice that being
sad or angry about specific situation in my life didn’t mean that I couldn’t still access happiness and peace in other facets of my life.
I learned that sadness and joy, grief and love, pain and pleasure can actually exist simultaneously.
CONTINUE in COMMENT

22/08/2026

At the beginning of August I joined Artist is Medicine group. Mind you, this was the busiest summertime, just as we were going camping for a week, and I thought there was no way I could actively participate and be present, let alone create space for some form of creativity.
Little did I know that this container would be so manageable, incredibly interesting, thought-provoking, emotion-evoking, deeply contemplative and wildly inspiring.

Loren’s deep weaving of creative expression and artistry, Feminine Embodiment, the deep brilliance of intelligence and wisdom that goes far beyond the mind, as well as spiritual depth, is mind blowing.
Not only do I manage to listen to every prompt and go through each recording so far, I actually manage to regularly create space to do something creative with my hands. Whether it’s play with clay, a little sketch, flower arranging, altar making, tending to the land and garden in a creative way, it ignited in me the deep calling that I’ve been experiencing for the past few years. This deep need to engage my hands in a creative way.
And it’s given me permission to do it without being called an artist, or needing to create something that is productive, sellable, quantifiable or somehow validated by the external world.
This is a gift for me.
So I’m really grateful for this container, and for all the women in it, and for all the beautiful, vulnerable, raw, unhinged shares.

And thank you, Loren. You are one in a billion, and I’m so lucky to know you in person. ❤️

20/08/2026

Coming from a USSR background, where as a society we were conditioned to believe that we are here to work for the STATE — and were literally made to work like horses.
I carried this belief system through a large part of my life.

I believed that the only way to create the life I wanted to live was through sweat, blood and tears.
Then I entered my Yoga path and began deepening into the spiritual path, and I started to use what I would now call modern-day manifestation — vision boards, visualisation, affirmations, setting intentions.

But it wasn’t until around six years ago, when I went deeply into Feminine Embodiment, the Feminine Mysteries and the path of reclamation, that I realised I had never truly created from the space of ritual, ceremony and alchemy.
I had never really learned how to weave Earth consciousness, body consciousness and Higher Self into the way I created my life.
I had never really created from the lower wisdom centres of my body — using my sensuality, my primordial primal life-force energy, my intuition and instinctual wisdom.
And I had never really created from the space of intentionally aligning my free will with the highest Divine Will.

When I began to do this through the process of Sophia Circle Journeys, my life initially went through a complete collapse ( physical health, emotional wellbeing, collapse of 10yrs marriage, single parenting, loss of home, loss of income etc)
And then, within around eight months, it reorganised itself in ways that were nothing short of miraculous — ways that were beyond my wildest dreams.

Now I don’t even call this process - a process of creation.
I call it the architecture of Life.
This is how I live now.
This is how I interact with Life.
And this isn’t something we are taught in our traditional schools, education systems or institutions.
We are not taught how to live not simply as biological or psychological beings, but as what Gabor Maté describes as bio-psycho-social-spiritual beings.
If something deep within you recognises this…
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