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December 11-18 2018

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The surf paparazzi caught me on the way out of my house... can a woman catch a break?! Si 😉 🌊 #happyinternationalsurfingday #everyday #playaguiones . 📷 @harryhamilton
We are BORN free!!! This pose is sooo good for opening the lungs == better capacity to B R E A T H E and in turn, gives space for your thyroid to be more capacious == express yourself!! Bonus points 💫 Add Pranayama (breath) to movement: Inhale lift your elbows up and forward, exhale bow forward toward your bent knee, as you keep front knee at a 90 degree angle over front heel. Back leg is super straight, heel driving back into your past, front knee driving forward, front hip spiraling back, back hip spiraling forward to square your hips forward, giving you more room to flush those adrenals (relieves chronic stress) as you lift up out of your kidneys (your depths; your waters) to open your lungs and lift your currency to find more freedom in your voice, your capacity, your gifts. . The full sequence was published on @mindbodygreen, go check it out on their website or DM me for the link! 🌱🦋 . In all ways grateful to my teachers @katonahyogacenter @thestudio.yoga for their influence in my practice, and for their wisdom I have woven into Thyroid Yoga. It was such a delight to practice with my teachers in New York this week!! . Intrigued? I am practicing on a rooftop in the sky before returning home to #Nosara, continuing my daily beach practice, because my toes belong in the sand. In the meantime... . I am filled with joy to be bringing 💫🙏Devotion in Motion 🦋 🎶 to the rooftop @theassemblagenyc with the very talented musicians @essiejainmusic @patrickglynnmusic. The Assemblage JOHN STREET - Wednesday June 13, 7-8pm. All are welcome, and the event is complimentary. The link to reserve your mat is in my bio, spaces are limited and you will need a rsvp in order to enter #theassemblage. I love you, #NYC. ❤️ . 📷 taken by @nicoletteficchi newest #ThyroidYoga teacher! Find her in LA 🙏🌴 . Styled by @sweatnsk 💫
Sitting here in NYC, glowing in between Thyroid Yoga teacher trainings, thanks to an amazing @odacite facial @ondabeautynyc and styled by @larissa111. I’ve witnessed incredible students step into their confidence this week. Beaming for the gift it has been to return to the city and offer my practice where my journey began nearly 10 years ago. . What has been the ultimate blessing? . Our community. All those who I have met, by synchronicity, by the sheer simplicity of staying aligned with my soul’s desire to learn, to evolve, to be free. To offer beauty, health, and inspiration together. . and here I am. . Radiating joy to be bringing 💫🙏Devotion in Motion 🦋 🎶 to the rooftop @theassemblagenyc with the very talented musicians @essiejainmusic @patrickglynnmusic. The Assemblage NoMad - Next Saturday June 9, 9:30am-10:30am. All are welcome, and the event is complimentary. I love the way you show me the warm welcome, NYC. ❤️ . If you can’t make it, I highly recommend visiting ONDA Beauty and finding my Grace Alchemy there (or online) and then adorning yourself from head to toe - it is an aphrodisiac! - while you listen to Essie Jain’s angelic music on #Spotify! #ritual #repeat . 📷 @ryanjohnlee #photographer . wearing a very special dress by @zimmermann
“How is your love life?” he asked. . “It’s so wonderful,” she proclaimed with a soft smile, “my whole life is love.” . Current, sustained mood ❤️ wherever in the world my soul guides me, love is my religion. . I was sitting here smiling in the buff - my natural state - at @theoutlierinn barn shop in upstate NY. Though since it is nearly 30 degrees colder than Nosara so @arcbyangeladimoff had me covered, from cozy alpaca leg warmers to her signature hat, in white of course. . I’m toasty with joy to announce that for all my upstate NY friends and family, you can now find Ajai Alchemy at Angela’s gorgeous boutique, next to the stunning photography of @mariannarothen 😍! . p s : Musicians, while you’re at The Outlier, check out their incredible recording studio. Maybe you’ll produce your next love song here. Maybe it will be on my lips as I frolic through the jungle back home #playaguiones #nosara. 🌿 . #wouldntthatbenice #mylifeisalovesong #allyouneedislove #loveisallyouneed #andasurfboard 🌊☀️🌊#andafarmtoo 🌱🌱🌱
Through the woods with me, breathless and fully alive run, and find yourself. . When @essiejainmusic asked us today in circle after an incredible plant-powered dinner prepared by our retreat chef @fitgirltreats, “what is the sweetest thing about yourself that you keep hidden, or not fully share?” I initially thought to myself - I have been living fully expressed. I’ve even been posting photos of me completely bare, raw and exposed in my most vulnerable, true nature. So what could be remaining to be revealed? . Aha! My psychic ability. I humbly bow down as I recognize that I haven’t fully admitted the powerful gift that has been bestowed to me to receive divine messages from source. I am intuitive. Very, sharply so, and something I continue to attune while I’m in nature, especially in Nosara. . When I work with women and men to help guide healing from physical or emotional disease or trauma, I hear messages - clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient. It is beyond having healing hands, which my Reiki Master @ssanyu_letgoandletlove told me the moment we met. . While giving energy work and Reiki, as my hands guide me, I receive words, knowing, and clarity on where tension is held and what the root cause was, and knowledge how to ease the suffering and in many cases, how to heal the wound. I am deeply grateful to my teachers in this space, particularly @kathrynschiff @donnalynncivello @ssanyu_letgoandletlove and @medicalmedium. . This is a gift I am being called to make known. I will be teaching these tools to the world, as I continue to guide new teachers and healers in my trainings, retreats, mentorship and one-on-one work. . You are not in this alone. Your gifts are not meant to be secret. You have tools that can save lives. Medicine women, medicine men, come forward. I would love to help you attune yourself further in your own healing and the healing of our sacred planet. If you are reading this, there is a reason why you did. ❤️
Wild isn't something I became, it's something I have always been. My soul has been wild since before I arrived in this blessed body. I remember. A child of the forest, listening to trees and creatures who I encountered in my backyard in the Catskills, Upstate NY. Understanding the plants and the medicine of each leaf that graced my body as I wandered through the thickets with my beloved horses. . Wild was written in my skin, once freckled, years later bronze from the radiant Father Sun. These toes, that for some time in an era of forgetting my wild desires were squeezed in three inch heels, are now always covered in a dusting of sand. . Wild isn't something we embody only while fighting for our freedom, a night of uncensored passionate love, or howling at the ripe full moon. No, wild is something I am. Something you are. Something that was already given to our spirits as we broke out of the womb to take our very first breath. . So here I am, committed to my wild fire as I arrive back in my place of birth, New York. . You can take the woman out of the jungle (kicking and moaning) though absolutely cannot take the jungle out of the woman. Because she is the jungle. . So as I return to guide a retreat back in my childhood home in the Catskills @theoutlierinn with @essiejainmusic and @fitgirltreats, here I swiftly return to my wild element. Together, we will offer our voices to the stars and receive the bounty of nature’s sweet sustenance. . Then, I’m back to the gorgeous @pureyoganyc where Thyroid Yoga teacher trainings will begin next week. Master Classes Friday June 1 and June 8 are open to all. You are invited to discover how your wild, primal nature is connected to your thyroid health, and my goal for these intensive trainings is to empower you with unwavering confidence to teach these powerful practices. . Wherever in the world you are, remember your true, wild nature. Your innate freedom. Stay there. 🦋 . #junglelife #comehome
I’ve been receiving the compliment over and over again these days: “Wow, Fern, you are so courageous.” The context: I live a life I absolutely love. In the jungle, I am free. I set my own hours, or completely go off the grid. Surf twice a day. Yoga in loft studios with singing birds and monkeys popping in for a loving hello. I watch the sunset every evening and sing to the stars. I walk around my jungle house naked all afternoon drinking out of coconuts and I prepare beautiful meals with fresh fruits and vegetables. . Am I courageous because I love my life? . Or because I left everything behind? As did many of my friends in Nosara, I said goodbye to the charm of an urban life and moved to the jungle. Are we courageous? My life was groovy in LA, and before that, in NY. I never left when I was in pain or sadness. I left because my soul guided me that it was time to soar. Is that courageous? I feel it is simply necessary. To listen to intuitive guidance, to listen to heart speak - that is simply living. That is simply necessary. I can vividly remember the time I fainted in the subway in NYC during rush hour and somehow made it out and took an ambulance to a really shitty hospital. The emergency room was full of screaming people that were very likely on who knows what drugs. Some were chained to their beds. That moment, with tears in my eyes, to witness that, shaking and afraid for my safety, that was courage. That was the moment my soul shook me awake and I vowed from that moment forward, I would do everything it would take to live a beautiful, healthy life. Has it been easy? Not at all. . I said yes to my calling, yes to myself. Yes to moving across the country and then moving to a new country. I am raw, naked, and ready. . Writing this was not courageous. It was necessary. I trust it will inspire at least one person to boldly step into her or his power, and refuse to be a victim to the containment of a life that was never yours. . You were born to soar. You were born to love and to be loved. You were born for a life of opulence and liberation. . Remember your wings. 🦋 . 📷 @jennaduffy and wearing only @jillplatner earrings #playaguiones #nosara
WOW my first ever *in-print* Thyroid Yoga sequence has been published in @yogajournalaustralia!!! This is a huge accomplishment for all of us advocating for yoga therapy and lifestyle rituals as techniques to discover lasting health. I am grateful for all my teachers and lineages for their influence, and the students who have shared their healing with me, together we have all shaped Thyroid Yoga to what it is today! . Today, we celebrate over 80 graduates in +11 countries... my heart is full and full of joy to watch all of the new teachers certified in Costa Rica last month, and all our grads over the last two years! Your courage, curiosity and vulnerability inspires me to keep creating new sequences and expanding my own library of practices! . What’s next? . Thyroid Yoga is heading up to NYC to offer a Level 1 and Level 2 Training @pureyoganyc as well as two MASTER CLASSES open to all! We have a few spaces left. If you desire to understand your body and empower yourself and your community, I’d love to meet you. Prior yoga teaching experience or having a thyroid imbalance are not requirements, and all are welcome. . All the details are on www.thyroid.yoga 🦋 . . 📷 @lilaabell . Thank you @angelalyosbraun for encouraging me to create a teacher training program upon the launch of Thyroid Yoga on @mindbodygreen two years ago. Thank you for seeing my light and believing in this practice. 🙏❤️ . #thyroidyoga #thyroidwarrior #thyroid #thyroiddisease #adrenalfatigue #hashimotos #autoimmunedisease #yogajournal #teachertraining #mindbodygreen #yogasequence
Why my skin glows 😉 ☀️ When I eliminated gluten and dairy, my health radically upgraded. I no longer suffered from a chronic stuffy/runny nose and I instantly began shedding weight. Fast forward to 10 years later, and I rarely ever get sick, my body feels light and I wake up with energy and a clear mind. . Going 100% plant-based 🌱 was an obvious choice I recently reclaimed when I moved to Costa Rica, because I love the way it feels to nourish my body with living, vibrant fruits and vegetables local to this abundant land. 🌿❤️ . The result? Lost a lot of weight that I couldn’t seem to shed for years when I was convinced I had to go hardcore paleo to cure my autoimmune symptoms, a diet that wasn’t feeling good for me. Now, my skin GLOWS and I feel a deeper connection to mamma earth. My intuition is sharper than it has ever been. . I’m frequently asked, “so, what DO you eat?” and time and time again, I say, fruits and vegetables.... and there are so many!!!! This pizza, for example, has a cauliflower crust and is topped with grounding sweet potato, broccoli and kale. The best part is it’s soooo easy to make! . So excited to have @fitgirltreats preparing beautiful meals for my upcoming retreat to @theoutlierinn this Memorial Day Weekend #UpstateNY in #TheCatskills!! . You are invited to join us, or if you’re in a faraway land, visit your local farmers market and have fun in your kitchen! . Roast up 1 sweet potato, purple or orange, a handful of broccoli, and two handfuls of chopped kale with a little bit of avo oil and lemon pepper. Heat up a @califlourfoods plantbased pizza crust according to the back of the box. Once your crust and veggies are done spread @treelinecheese herb garlic cheese (#vegan!) on crust, top with your veggies and serve! Perfect no fuss dinner 😋 . #fitgirltreats #pizzalover #cauliflowerpizza #glutenfreevegan #plantpowered #plantbaseddiet #thyroid #hashimotos #huffposttaste #buzzfeast #thechalkboardeats #thehealthfoodedition
Here's something to get down with: . Costa Rica plans to be the world's first fossil fuel-free and fully decarbonized country, our country's president Carlos Alvarado announced this week. Thanks @mindbodygreen for celebrating with us!🌿🌿🌿 . Super happy to be living in a place where we can praise our leader for standing up for a clean country. We already are generating 99 percent of our electricity with renewable sources - hydropower, solar, wind, biomass and geothermal. . By comparison, 66 percent of electricity in the US comes from coal and gas, while a mere 15 percent comes from renewable sources. . Proud to be working towards my residency in this sustainable, high vibe, healthy Blue Zone oasis!!!!!!🦋 . And one where my life consists of surfing and watching every sunset, yoga in between, sometimes in the buff. 😉 . 📷 @jennaduffy #playaguiones #nosara #guanacaste #puravidamae #bluezone 🌊🌿❤️
“A woman who knows she is whole makes her every ancestor smile. Make them smile. Revolt against what wants you to live in pieces. Live in peace, sis. Gather your entire being, all your meadows and mountains and moons and majesty, and live in that forever. Remember, the revolution began with your first breath.” - @jaiyajohn, Daughter Drink This Water New moms, moms to be, and your partners, I have recorded loving kindness meditations (also known as "metta meditation") for you, thanks to my friends at @nest_ink you can download them, our gift to you! Happy Mother's Day ❤️🌿 These meditations offer an opportunity to direct always-needed compassion and love to yourself, to your baby, and to any other individual who has been a part of your journey. The key to loving-kindness practice is to remember that not only are you completely deserving, worthy, and capable of receiving love and kindness, but are also capable of giving it. May you locate the ten thousand mothers that brought you into being and keep you going, no matter who and where you are. May you be the mother of uncounted possibilities and loves. #linkinbio to receive 🙏 . 📷 @marisaerinphotography . Wearing my favorite shirt designed by my teacher, the magical Nevine Michaan (I’ve just discovered it’s her birthday today!!!) founder of @katonahyogacenter, which is a practice that has strongly influenced Thyroid Yoga. Nevine and her teachers have been mothers to me, inspiring my own healing and empowering me with magic and metaphor to weave new patterns of love and presence into my life. Forever grateful. I am so excited to practice with Nevine, @elenabrower and my friends at @thestudio.yoga when I visit NYC later this month! 💕
 
 
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