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6-days in Nosara, Costa Rica at a luxury beach resort

all-inclusive medicine woman personal retreat

 
 
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When you arrive on Earth, you are given one precious body.

This is the vessel that carries your soul for the duration of this lifetime you are given.

Your sacred body is your tool for fulfilling what you came here to do, and you must care for it, as it cannot be replaced.

 
 

December 11-18 2018

Retreat, THYROID CLEANSE & Teacher training

nosarA, costa rica

 
 
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your body is speaking to you.

Receive the tools to understand your inner healer and confidence to create your own ripple effect of health in our global community.

 
 

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I have an important message. I am not a healer. I am a student, again and always. One of my dear retreat guests who has been with me for years calls me “Magic Healing Fern” - she brings tears to my eyes. Why? My presence ignites healing in her. She experiences her own inner healer through my grace. This is a gift to witness. Yes, in technical terms I hold certifications and I “teach” classes and retreats. I know how to “heal” my own body. I have intuitive wisdom that gives me insight into what you may do to “heal” yours. My hands know where to go - I see and feel energy, tightness and trauma, so I can guide you to clear and remove the pain that has been stuck in your body. Ultimately, my “healing” gifts are a reflection of yours because your soul is ready to experience your own capacity to be free. I completed my 200-hour yoga training in Brooklyn in 2011 and studied extensively with @donnalynncivello and Jivamukti teachers for several years before deepening my studies with Kundalini Yoga and @katonahyogacenter @thestudio.yoga @elenabrower and moved my energy with @theclass daily in LA. I completed my holistic health coach certification @nutritionschool, studied reiki under master @ssanyu_letgoandletlove, and intuitive healing with @kathrynschiff. Thanks to my mentors, I’ve collected a generous basket of grace - and the biggest lesson of all - I am always, always a student and promise to honor my lineage and share the teachings with integrity. So here I am, flying to @nomadetulum today to share my practice 💎 Unlocking Your Sensual Intelligence 🦋 awakening your sensory system with teachings from Yogi Bhajan for women and men to wake up to your sensual and creative power in the Aquarian Age. I’ll be infusing in my own tantric practice and how to experience waves of full body pleasure through breath and awareness. Then, I’ll be joining the incredible @harinyc for a week in Tulum where I will deepen my studies into the 11 Moon Centers, a traditional Kundalini technology used to unlock creative power & sacred sexuality. Interested in learning how to awaken your body sensitivity to self-heal? Follow the link in my bio to listen to my NEW podcast now! ⚡
Hi!!! I’d love to know you, really know you deeply. I’ll introduce myself as an invitation to know one another better. I remember one of my first posts on this account was me sitting with a bottle of vodka and a box of Reeses Puffs. I completely love that young woman who just didn't know how to quite take care of her body. She needed my love and I gave her away to others in hopes she would find herself. She did, in an unexpected way. You may know me as the founder of Thyroid Yoga, which started as a passion project and became an international teacher training. Today, Thyroid Yoga has evolved into a global movement - weaving in wisdom learned through my certifications in Intuitive Healing and Reiki, studies of Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Kundalini Yoga. A proud mamma to over 80 brilliant teachers trained globally, I am also forever a student, as I talked about during my interview in @cosmopolitan. I may be known for my knowledge about nutrition, science, and wellness - though what I am most passionate about is helping women to fully liberate themselves through expression in dance, movement, and voice. In order to do this, I am devoted to a daily practice, one I share with you with raw vulnerability. Thank you for matching this with your own receptivity and courage. You motivate me to stay honest, compassionate, and real. I am here, now, and my truth is louder and stronger than ever before. What I am most proud of is how I have embraced my feminine energy and moved through my life with style and grace. Anne Lamott says, "Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there, shining." My mission is to inspire - by living a life where I am ever so aware of the choices I am making, what I am wearing, how I am nourishing myself, and how I am loving the earth. 🌊🌎 I vow to experience pleasure in my life every day, offer my excitement to you in hopes it ignites something inside of you that knows you were born for this feeling too. Feel free to ask me anything in the comments, or send me a message. I'd love to know you more deeply. ❤️ . #womenofthewater #thisisforthewomen #thyroidhealing #playaguiones
70,000 acres of beautiful California have been ravaged by wild fires and 0% containment as of now. Malibu, where I cherished my life so deeply for two nourishing years before moving to Costa Rica, has been evacuated. . My prayers are with all the firefighters and displaced humans and creatures. . Today, I’m blessing the waters and chanting the Chotay Pad Mantra, which balances the water element, with the intention to send waters from the sky to bless California in all the places she needs it most. . Sat Narayan Wahe Guru Hari Narayan Sat Nam .🙏🌊 📷 @lovebeautywellnessfestival
Who loves cacao as much as I do? 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I love making love in the kitchen, especially in the form of raw desserts that are actually good for you! I love when my body loves me back the next day after I’ve indulged in my favorite superfood - raw chocolate, so much so that I have been growing a cacao tree in my garden in Costa Rica! 💚🌿 When @lovebeautywellnessfestival asked me for my favorite recipe, I knew I had to share my favorite raw cacao brownies - these were featured in @thoughtfullymagazine Issue 9, joyfully sold at @anthropologie! Thank you June, founder of Love Beauty Wellness Festival, for inviting me to speak here last year and for celebrating me in a fresh new interview this week. ❤️ I hope you love these brownies as much as I do! Ingredients: The Base: 1 cup cacao butter (melted) 1/4 cup coconut oil (melted) 1/2 cup black beans (ready to eat) 1/4 cup tahini 1/2 cup pure maple syrup or coconut nectar 2 scraped vanilla beans 1 tablespoon rose water 1/2 teaspoon flakey sea salt 1 cup raw cacao powder 2 tablespoons @animamundiherbals Adaptogenic mushroom blend The Rocky: 1/2 cup walnuts, ground to a rough meal 1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts The Rose: Dried rose petals and goji berries to garnish. Directions: First, make the base chocolate. Blend ingredients of The Base together till smooth and creamy. Now, add the The Rocky. Pour the base into a large mixing bowl, and stir in all The Rocky ingredients. Pour the mixture into an 8 inch pan, lined with parchment paper. Set in the refrigerator or freezer for an hour before cutting and serving, checking periodically - the final product should be able to be cut through with a fudge-like consistency. Sprinkle dried rose petals and goji berries over the top whilst whispering beautiful intentions, then serve with love. Thank you @hannah.guthman for so gorgeously capturing my creations 📷 ps. They are 💯 vegan 🌱 and gluten free! #thyroidyogaapproved . We will be having a sacred cacao ceremony during the upcoming Thyroid Yoga Retreat & Training in December here in Nosara. More details to follow! ❤️ . #veganrecipes #beautyfood #plantbased #glutenfree #thyroidhealing #thyroidawareness #cacaolove
I’m Back! I gifted myself a few days offline and sat in ceremony, this is how I feel. Forgiveness, lightness, release of judgement, inner clarity. For so long I resisted the calling that is my true nature 🦋🌿🌵. I never would have guessed I'd be sitting in a circle honoring the earth in this way. I always protested and judged - "plant medicine is the easy way out, I'll meditate, practice my yoga, and do the real work" - I considered plant medicine a recreational way to spiritually bypass the healing. What I experienced this weekend was remarkably different. I sat in a circle with soul family under the starlight sky, sitting up all night singing and drumming, breathing with the earth. I could barely sit up for the first two hours, my belly became bloated, nauseous, and I was burping painfully, yet I didn't purge. Hours into the night, the bloating continued, I was crying, asking my body - "Why are you feeling this way? I am taking such good care of you, I am loving you, respecting you. Am I sick?“ I was told by the medicine man - "You are not ill, your gut/brain axis is waking up. It has been dormant for years." I thought, how could this be so? I've healed my thyroid, I do everything I can to take care of myself after years of eating processed foods, binging on alcohol and sugar, and living in toxic polluted cities and stressful environments. What I realized, was that yes, I've been doing all the physical work - yoga, detoxes, cleanses, enemas, herbs, chanting, dancing, living a liberated life - yet my ancestral lineage has not awakened their gut/brain intelligence - if you look at my ancestors, you'd see belly heaviness and a disconnect from the second and third chakra. In recognizing this, I was able to heal not only myself, my lineage too. Through the ceremony, as I went through the pain of this self-awakening, I felt my grandmothers and grandfathers thanking me. All the working out, dancing, and singing, sadhana, has been helping, and now, with an awakened "second brain," everything I do for myself will have a deeper impact. Through my dance, I offer my prayer that you find your way to forgiveness, liberation and peace in whatever way resonates. AHO!
Happy #worldveganday!! I hope this inspires you to bring more consciousness to how you nourish yourself and your karmic footprint today. 👣 Recently, I made the promise to myself to donate any animal products in my home - that means any clothes or house items made with leather, pillows with feathers and anything that could have harmed animals in the process. This may seem extreme, though it feels right to me, and my energy and energy of my home feels SO light. Anyone who comes into my space feels it! If my choices help my karma and our planet just a little, it’s all worth it to me. I feel so blessed to live in a jungle where I feel so connected with nature, plants, and animals, and it is my quest to live harmoniously with all beings. May I make the least possible carbon footprint through my work, my life, my choices - and may I restore balance to our ecosystem by planting more trees, saying no to plastic, and giving back to this earth through my voice and presence. 🦋 Here’s a recipe to warm your heart today, from one of my favorite vegan foodies @vanelja.🙏 1 cup oat milk (or other vegan milk) 1 cup water 1 tbsp grated ginger 1 cinnamon stick 1 tsp turmeric 0,5-1 tsp beet powder pinch of black pepper 1 tsp coconut oil maple syrup/ coconut syrup or raw organic honey, if desired Measure the oat milk & water into a pot and bring to simmer. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the oil and cook in a low-medium heat for 10 minutes. Stir in the oil. Serve and enjoy! I added a special ingredient 😉@animamundiherbals plant-based collagen, my all-time favorite collagen source because it was created by amazing herbalist, Anima Mundi’s founder Adriana, in Costa Rica. It supports my metabolism and helps restore balance to the immune, nervous, and endocrine systems. And in addition to naturally boosting collagen in the skin and body, this blend of medicinal herbs also benefits the #thyroid, liver and adrenals, prevents inflammation and helps me recover faster from workouts! Thank you @mydomaine for featuring me as an expert on collagen (link to the article in my bio) and @solorganix for my 💯 organic cotton sheets. 🙏❤️ #thyroidyogaapproved
Finally, my voice is free. I remember back in a 3rd grade chorus concert, as tears of embarrassment streamed down my cheeks, I hid my face behind the folio and wished I could disappear. I can’t remember the moment when I became shameful of my voice, though I know it was a collection of moments - eventually I gave up on being heard and I was so scared to speak up for myself. It’s no wonder for years my thyroid was sluggish, inflamed, stagnant and calling for my attention. So through my healing, I’ve gone deep in introspection to uncover my voice that yearns to be free. Free from perfection, free to sing prayers, free to vibrate the cosmos.🦋 I can remember as a little girl, I sat in my room for hours with my tape recorders and Disney song book, created my own loop station and overlayed my voice with beats on my keyboard. Now, I’m revisiting my creative, soulful side as I chant late into the night with my Shruti box - Shruti means “to hear" or "the act of hearing,” so the Shruti Box captures the attention and "melts the brain into the heart.” Chanting is one of the reasons I love Kundalini and Bhakti Yoga, I am so grateful for my teachers and community - especially the one growing here at @thebuenavibracollective in #Nosara. I’m thrilled that there are daily Kundalini classes on the schedule here - among incredible offerings including acroyoga and meditation - and we have a very special concert happening on 11/11 here featuring my dear friends @aykanna and food by @nakedfoodscr ❤️ Chanting is a powerful technology. If you’re not sure where to start, begin to hum “mmmmmm” with a simple drone in a chord that matches your voice tone (if you don’t have a Shruti box or Harmonium, you can find a Shruti drone on Spotify) and become comfortable with the sound of your voice. The more you practice, you’ll notice how liberating it feels. I’d love to know what your favorite mantras are. Guru Ram Das, Om Namah Shiviyah, and Sat Narayan Wahe Guru are a few of mine. Chanting together in sangha, community, we set each other free. I’m so excited for the upcoming events at Buena Vibra this season! If you’re in Nosara or coming to visit, I’d love to see you here! 🙏
"You can’t work out,” said doctors when I had severe adrenal fatigue and Hashimoto's hypothyroid symptoms, because this would wreck my already burnt out adrenals. I was crushed, wondered when - or if - I would ever be able to break a sweat besides for laying in an infrared sauna - or simply "feel normal" again. Slowly, as I began healing my body using #foodasmedicine, herbs, detoxification and spiritual purification with Kundalini Yoga, aligning my life with my purpose and letting go of anything that didn't feel good, I became stronger. This seemed like a miracle!! I thought, "Why didn't doctors tell me I could work out again if I stopped eating gluten, going to bars, and surrounding myself with negative energy - and replace those habits with eating beautiful fruits and vegetables, understanding the healing power of herbs and essential oils, chanting, and yoga?" I wouldn't have believed them. It hasn't been an overnight success story, and for anyone who is suffering, know this: Your body wants to heal, you will get stronger and more resilient - you truly have to believe it and you will have to work to sustain the changes you make. 🙌🏽 In Costa Rica, I no longer feel at the mercy of a confined schedule. I hold strong energetic boundaries and I'm no longer leaking my energy into people, projects, or environments that take my life force away. I lean into the embrace of the ocean, and I kiss nature with every breath, every footstep. Living a sober, vegan, conscious lifestyle, I am aware of each choice and I am choosing to flood my body with essential nutrients instead of toxicity. Having a daily practice and partners who hold me accountable is everything - whether it's a 6:30am beach bootcamp with friends, or three times a week with my amazing personal trainer @rociotica who celebrates me with "muy bien, guapa!" 🔥 For those of you who desire fast results - here is a proven 20 min full body toning #HIIT workout - 10 exercises for a quick and dirty routine - 40 seconds each, 20 seconds rest in between. Repeat 2x each. Then dance to your favorite song and go wild, primal wild - as you'll see in the last video. 🦁 I can't wait to see your transformation! ❤️
The new Avocado 🥑 Toast by @balanced_life_leslie - one of my favorite IG for healthy, gorgeous #thyroidhealing food inspiration! We met at @thealchemistskitchen when I guided a #thyroidyoga class there on October 29, 2016 and two days later on #Halloween, Leslie quit her corporate job to devote her life to her health and pursue her passion. 💫 “For a few years I had been struggling with who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. I had been working a 9-5 desk job for 4 years and not feeling fulfilled by it. And then on the side I was living this healthy lifestyle hustling to spread wellness to others. I didn't know how to quit my job, no matter how draining it was and how toxic the environment was. On Halloween my friend invited me to Thyroid Yoga & sound bath with Fern. I resisted because I wasn't in the mood for a relaxing yoga session-But that meant I needed it even more. So reluctantly I went. And it changed my life. I started to breathe a little easier during the yoga. My chest was opening up. My mind was clearing. And then as I lay on my mat for the sound bath, my throats started to tighten in a way that I knew I needed to speak my mind and let my voice be heard. I sat up, grabbed my phone and quit my job right then. I had no plan I just knew that path wasn't for me! And since that evening of thyroid yoga, my life has Completely changed. I've taken control over my health and wellness both mentally and physically. I am fulfilled by my entrepreneur lifestyle and have been slowly healing from Graves' disease and adrenal fatigue. I've become a whole new person that I actually love to be and know people prefer to be around. Without thyroid yoga I wouldn't have been able to do this. It gave me the confidence to take back control over my body and mind and be confident in myself to know to trust the process.” Can you relate??? 🙌🏽 . I’d highly recommend joining Leslie for her upcoming sound healing meditations every Friday night @energi.nyc! Please give her a big warm hug from me. ❤️ . #thyroidwarrior #thyroidawareness #hashimotosdisease #hashimotos #thyroid #medicalmedium #youcanhealyourself #foodasmedicine #gravesdisease #autoimmunedisease #medicinewoman
How do you know when something is meant to be? Sometimes, it’s just fate . . . it’s kismet. Soul family finds you like that. Often times when you're least expecting it. I was washing dishes at 7am - part of my morning ritual as I chant and juice celery. My kitchen window overlooks the main road in North #playaguiones, and serves as an excellent perch for my kitten to join me as we watch people, dogs, and monkeys pass by on their morning walk to and from the beach. On an auspicious morning, I saw a woman with bright sunshine energy walk by who I thought was a friend and I called to her -"HEY BEAUTY!" and she looked up at me and responded - "HEY BEAUTY!" and I giggled "oops. I totally thought you were my friend Caroline." and she lovingly responded, "Oh I'm Isa!" and we continued talking, Rapunzel-style through my perch and her on the street. I invited her to the @palusanto concert that Sunday afternoon as we danced there and enjoyed a stroll in the jungle, we instantly knew - we were destined to meet. It went so much deeper than our shared love for our favorite @ziggyalberts song - it was truly kismet. One week later, after her friends she originally traveled to Nosara with went back to Colorado, @isaalmy extended her trip and booked the guest room in my house for the month of October. I knew instantly that she was a soul sister. So did she. The month together was remarkable - our shared love for grooving to @odesza in our bikinis and whipping up beautiful nourishing meals with fresh farmer's market produce and herbs was just the beginning. A few days into her stay, she declared she would move to #Nosara. By synchronicity, she found her perfect apartment and will be transitioning her life here later this season and starting a non-profit to benefit important causes in Nosara - even after her short time here, she is already so passionate to contribute to the local community. I admire her courage, her love, and her bright, luminous light. I see in her what she reflects in me. Thanking the Universe for bringing me special souls to share my home and life with. Again and again I am astounded by the amazing family I am blessed to dance this path with! 💃🏽
There is a world soul and it speaks in the language of love. “From the mountain to the sea All of this is within me I have everything I need.” as @trevorhallmusic so perfectly articulated. Thank you @krisgoyri for creating gorgeous dresses for the feminine spirit - what a gift to wear one of Mexico Fashion Week’s most celebrated designs on the exquisite #islaespiritusanto #bajacalifornia. Thank you @planetbibi and @adaneye for inviting me to join you on a yacht and all your incredible surprises. 🙏🧜🏽‍♀️ . #loveacademygatherings #trusttheuniverse #liveyourbestlife #fashionmexico
 
 
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