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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! 💕
As I’ve been celebrating life through the radiant blessings of the sun in Costa Rica, I’ve been receiving the signs that Ajai, too, is expanding this year… All will be revealed, and I am excited to share this expansion with you as it becomes revealed to me. I created Ajai to honor the purest gifts of Mother Earth to nourish our beautiful bodies and souls. In 2015, after years of struggling against my body and Hashimoto’s hypothyroid condition, I began experimenting with essential oils. I was intrigued when I became attuned to the incredible healing potential of nature's medicine cabinet. The foundation of any product is its ingredients and intention, and I use all certified organic and sustainable sources, including essential oils and carrier oils to deliver a luxurious, healthy ritual for beauty and harmony. My intention is to create blends to work in synergy and harmony with my body, and yours. My purpose is to inspire and empower a world in which each of us is unapologetically kind to our body, practice luxurious self-love and self-care, and treat each other and our Mother Earth with love, dignity, and respect. My mission is that through each potent alchemy, you create a beautiful home from the outside in, and radiate beauty from the inside out. Each alchemy is charged with the Sri Yantra mantra, which is the most powerful symbol of the union of Masculine and Feminine Divine. The Sri Yantra in its central portion contains nine triangles. Four of them point upward and represent the unmanifest power of the universe; all that is beyond our quotidian sense perceptions. They are thought of as being masculine and represent the masculine aspect of divinity. The five downward-pointing triangles represent the divine feminine and the manifest aspects of the world. The #SriYantra forms a unity, the #divinefeminine masculine and #divinefeminine in erotic embrace. The Sri Yantra is understood to be the Mother of the Universe Herself, the incarnate Goddess Who both embodies and transcends time. So I ask you, from my tree house in the beautiful blue zone of #Nosara, Costa Rica… What new alchemies, tonics and botanical love potions would you like to see?
My birthday has arrived today and I’m already feeling the dawn of rebirth and new beginnings brewing. This year is all about bold new heights and a life beyond my wildest dreams. More wilderness. More liberation and more surrender into my sensual nature. All will be revealed. Thank you Great Spirit, I am ready. 🌱❤️🌿 . My journey from NY to LA to Nosara has been guided by my intuition and without hesitation, I answer the call each time. The synchronicity in my life has been astounding. I listen closely. . For your presence, I am grateful. . I have arrived, I am home. What’s next for Ajai Alchemy and Thyroid Yoga? I know this will be HUGE. All will be revealed. . Thank you to my friends, my support squad, mentors, students, and all those who brightly reflect the light I shine. Our co-creation is the biggest gift. Thank you. . In the moon of the budding trees I was gifted new eyes to see All of the shifting shape and ways you can be Wake the dreams into realities Wake the dreams into realities Sunset diamonds trickle down our cheeks The language of no words is how we speak Pachamama spinning firelight And a Little Bear singing by the fireside Out of this city with the wind on our neck, check That's us whistling upon your neck Moonlit diamonds sparkle into my mouth Feels like hunger and it tastes like salt - budding trees @nahkobear . . Birthday suit yoga is even more fun in the nude @acheswim 😉 photo by the talented @jennaduffy 📷 . #taurus #buddingtrees #iamready #guanacaste #playaguiones #nosara #wakethedreamsintoreality
As I lovingly gaze into the mirror as I begin my 32nd return around the ☀️ I remember these truths I channeled 5 years ago, published in @elephantjournal, always timeless. . We don’t meet people by accident. When certain people come into our lives, we know right away they were meant to be there…To serve some sort of purpose, to teach us a lesson, or to help us to figure out who we are or who we want to become. We never know who these people may be, but the moment we lock eyes with them, we know that every moment we are with them, they will affect our life in some profound way. . When we remember that our contract with life doesn’t specify that we’ll always get what we want, we’ll find that even in the midst of mourning a loss or trying to repair the damage from a mistake, we won’t feel like a victim. . And the truth is, when we stop living in our emotions, when we detach from the pain, the negative emotions, we can truly find peace within ourselves. Right here, in this space, is where real healing occurs. . Letting go of anything that binds us to ego opens the space of freedom to be more engaged and present, without agenda or superficiality. The things that really matter are the relationships that withstand the test of time and struggle, our health and state of mind, the experiences we gain from life, and the lives we impact through our presence. . Each time we are confronted with our vulnerability, we see life in a different perspective. What remains after even the worst destruction is our existential essence, how we think, what we desire, who we are, our true, true self. Because in essence, material things are not really all that important. Nothing but life itself and the ones you care for. All the rest can be acquired. When you can wrap your arms around the ones you love and find the comfort you need, that is precious, that is real. . And the very first true love, is falling in love with your self every morning. Gaze into your own soul and repeat: “I love you, I see you, you are beautiful.” . . #elephantjournal #youarebeautiful #divinedownload #allwillberevealed
Sweet soul, the answers are in the forest. I know, because I am here. I am receiving. Returning to my true nature brings me all the clarity I have ever desired and looked everywhere to discover. What has been revealed to me when I disconnect from the humdrum of self-imposed obligations and noise of technology, and dive deep into the medicine of the ocean, sky, and trees, has been magnificent. "No more books, no more empty words No more running away from her I now learn from the wind and rain From the song of the lion's mane" - Chapter of The Forest, @trevorhallmusic I realize for so many years, I had been seeking answers from everyone else outside myself - whether that was a doctor, a relationship, intuitive healers, teachers.... anyone other than myself, because everything else overpowered my voice, as I allowed it to. I didn't have the confidence in my own knowing. I didn't know where to begin to quiet my mind and my urban surroundings. I didn't understand how to set boundaries and clean my space from energy suckers. Now, I go into nature, sit with her, and the answers arrive to me, from me, with remarkable clarity. This past week in Nosara, 9 women joined me for a Thyroid Yoga retreat and teacher training, and they, too, experienced their own remarkable intuitive strength and clairvoyance. Nature as our teacher, we tapped deep into the medicine of our voices and strength in sangha, community. My heart is overflowing with gratitude to witness this. 9 women, loving their bodies. Finding courage to remember who they are and why they came. Confidence to sing their truth, leave trauma, emotional eating, and self-doubt behind and step into an empowered, beautiful, healthy life. With open arms and a warm heart, I invite you to join me in the forest, in gorgeous #upstateNY, with my dear friends @essiejainmusic & plant-based chef @fitgirltreats 🌱❤️ When: Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28 2018 Where: @theoutlierinn Woodridge NY (90 minutes outside NYC) Details & RSVP: www.consciouscityguide.com/returntonature How is nature speaking to you today? . #returntonature #gaia #pachamama #puravidacostarica #guanacaste #nosara #playaguiones
One of the highlights from the Thyroid Yoga retreat and teacher training this week has been planting trees alongside the beach as part of our efforts to rewild Costa Rica. . We each set an intention and prayer for the trees to grow strong and tall, and provide a home for all the beautiful creatures who live in our jungle home. 🌱🐒🦋🦎🕷🦗🕊 . I’m excited to visit these beauties as they stretch up toward the sun alongside Baker’s Beach ...As I sing... . I greet my Lord down by the river side It hits me almost every time Beauty runs so deep that it's hard to sleep at night This is the chapter of the forest Every line and every chorus From my heart it comes, I pour it Into every single melody Flame without the smoke On this holy poetry... —- chapter of the forest @trevorhallmusic . Thank you @tribewirenosara and @costasverdescr for bringing us together here. ❤️ what an amazing week!!!! . #playaguiones #nosara #rewilding #socialimpact
I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others. I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand. I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing. I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. -- from Self Portrait, David Whyte . These are questions I ask myself. These are questions I invite you to ask yourself. Where do you stand? And can you stand with me, through the fire, for what you believe in? For love, above all? I will wait patiently for you to show me your courage. . All the while, melting into that fierce heat, passionate for peace and protecting our oceans 🦋 celebrating Earth Day in my @jeuxdevagues_ sustainable surf suit. My babe friend @katherineterrell_ founded Jeux De Vagues with our beloved planet in mind. Everything is made with sustainable, recycled fabrics. Hot bikinis, for a hot planet. 🧜🏽‍♀️🌍❤️🌊 . . #earthdayeveryday #beautifulplanet #jeuxbabe #ecoluxe #ecobikinis #sustainablelifestyle #ecolife #womenwhosurf #ecowarrior #protectwhatyoulove #playaguiones #nosara #thisiscostarica #fortunefavorsthebold #getupstandup 🇨🇷 #earthday
The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should take, the road dropping away from you as if leaving you to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up, when you thought you would fall, and the way forward always in the end the way that you followed, the way that carried you into your future, that brought you to this place, no matter that it sometimes took your promise from you, no matter that it had to break your heart along the way: the sense of having walked from far inside yourself out into the revelation, to have risked yourself for something that seemed to stand both inside you and far beyond you, that called you back to the only road in the end you could follow, walking as you did, in your rags of love and speaking in the voice that by night became a prayer for safe arrival, so that one day you realized that what you wanted had already happened long ago and in the dwelling place you had lived in before you began, and that every step along the way, you had carried the heart and the mind and the promise that first set you off and drew you on and that you were more marvelous in your simple wish to find a way than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach: as if, all along, you had thought the end point might be a city with golden towers, and cheering crowds, and turning the corner at what you thought was the end of the road, you found just a simple reflection, and a clear revelation beneath the face looking back and beneath it another invitation, all in one glimpse: like a person and a place you had sought forever, like a broad field of freedom that beckoned you beyond; like another life, and the road still stretching on. - Santiago, David Wythe . Freedom. Post years flat ironing my big wavy hair. My sultry natural vavoom is home in the jungle, natural blonde highlights everywhere from dawn patrol ☀️🌊 🏄🏽‍♀️ #playaguiones #nosara . My fierce 🦁 radiant mane is all supple + healthy now thanks to my Grace & Radiance hair serums!! // shop @ ajaialchemy.com . Stroke generously through wet or dry hair. Always appreciated by all who catch your scent in the breeze 🧜🏽‍♀️ . Pair w/ @jeuxdevagues_ ❤️bikini
 
 
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