Cultivating Inner Peace
I spent much of my early life chasing peace through control, distraction, and even drugs—anything to escape the chaos I’d internalized. What I eventually learned is that peace isn’t found outside of us; it’s cultivated through presence, embodiment, and a willingness to meet ourselves fully.
Somatic Semantics
My movement away from naming my offerings as “Yoga” comes from a desire for clarity and integrity of intention. Your experience—felt through your own body—is the truest authority on your spiritual evolution. Embodiment is the sacred relationship between mind, body, and spirit—not as separate systems, but as one living wholeness.
Where is God?
When my mother responded, “The Quakers say there is a piece of God within everyone,” I knew this was true.
Not because it made sense to my preschool mind, but because I felt it in my bones, in my heart, and in my gut.
God is in everyone rang true like warm sun on my skin, like floating in the ocean, like bare feet in the dirt.
My wondering stilled for a moment because I heard the truth—not with my ears, but with my whole body. I had a sense of settling, fullness, and comfort. I felt the openness of my solar plexus spread the warmth and ease throughout my body.
Creating Your Life on Purpose: The Power of Sankalpa, Visualization & the Mindset Mantra
Discover how imagination, intention, and embodied awareness can help you consciously create your life. This post explores the power of sankalpa (resolve), mindset mantra, and the alchemy of visualization.
Grief is not a river
Grief doesn’t follow a timeline or obey logic—it lives in the body, in the breath, and in the rhythm of life itself. Whether you're grieving a loved one, tending to collective sorrow, or disoriented by the changing tides of our world, this poetic reflection offers a soulful anchor. In honoring my father's death, I discovered grief not as a problem to solve, but as a sacred homeland—a place where our feet touch earth and our hearts remember how to feel fully alive
You have a healing mode
Your body knows how to heal—when you feel safe, supported, and at ease. Discover how CranioSacral Therapy, Yoga Nidra, and intentional movement help activate your natural healing intelligence.
Empowered Realignment: Reclaiming the Truth of Who You Are
What if your happiness depends not on what you achieve, but on your relationship with your own power? In this personal reflection, I explore how reclaiming power through surrender, truth, and self-honesty became the foundation for my healing—and how it gave birth to Empowered Realignment, my somato-spiritual coaching path.
Yoga Nidra: A Journey Into Pure Being
Discover the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra—a guided journey into deep rest, subconscious healing, and pure being. In this blog, Blakey shares the traditional roots, the transformative process, and what to expect in a Yoga Nidra workshop
Is CranioSacral Therapy energy work or body work?
Yes! It’s both
Spiritual resources
Connection is the key to resourcing, disconnection is the source of all dis-ease
Asana and Yoga
The discomfort of being present in your body can be titrated into comfort and all the way back to safety, with careful, compassionate, persistent practice.
Menopause is a Homecoming
AUTUMN REJUVENATION (AKA FALL CLEANSE)
The holistic system of Ayurveda provides a framework for living in harmony with your natural constitution, your lifestyle and the climate within which you live. This means attuning and attending to the rhythms of your body, your lifestyle and the environment around you. For example, Spring is a time to be more active in body and mind, to release any sluggishness built up from the long winter with a cleanse and increased heating movement.
MOTIVATION MATTERS
When it comes to self care, motivation matters. Motivation is in the heart and mind, that internal landscape has as much (if not more) effect on your overall health as your behavior. This is why meditation and cultivation of love and respect for yourself has a drastic effect on your overall well being as well as measurable physiological benefits.
PRAYING FOR PEACE
Praying for peace - My first true Sankalpa
Sitting on the carpeted floor of the apartment I shared with a lover who was older than my only living parent, I endeavored to learn how to pray honestly.
CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Changing your attitude changes your life. This is much easier said and written than done. I have been through many revolutions and evolutions in my life (from quitting drugs and resolving trauma to revolutionizing my relationship with money, work and worth), and one thing is clear to me: Daily contact with the practices of the person that you are changing into is the practical key to changing your attitude and as a result your life.
LEARNING FROM COVID
I had covid in late May 2022, it was a relatively mild case, but the messages I heard from my spirit were loud and clear. Delivered with a sense of finality, minus the subtlety and nuance that usually comes with spiritual insight.
COMMITTING TO YES
A recent conversation with a mom and dear soul reminded me of this song written by Nina Simone. Our conversation began with the topic of "losing weight" and ended with the assertion that many moms need more sweetness in their lives and often turn to the most available sugar - food.
MY BODY IS AN ALLY
My body is the home of my spirit, this is what is meant by TEMPLE. Just as the church, Mosque, & Shrine are sacred spaces that hold and symbolize the energy of the Divine, the source of our creation, so my body is a physical space that contains an energy that is limitless. The spirit is in my body, but not of my body.
This Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving Holiday is so often fraught with conflict, pressure and stress. The burden placed on the already laden shoulders of the matriarchs, this burden yet another symbol of the patriarchal dominance idolized by our society.