🔱🔥 Kumbh Mela. A living prayer
I bow in reverence
To the depth of devotion I witnessed
To the humility
To the love I met in each pair of eyes
To the recognition of the divine presence
within and shared between us
To feel what it means to see God in each other
One year ago, I arrived in Prayagraj
I came to listen, learn and remember
With devotion and humility,
the dharmic path already beneath my feet
To understand and experience
the thread weaving it all together
I witnessed devotion on an unimaginable scale in the motherland of salvation
This devotion revealed a sacred lesson and truth
that when nervous systems lose regulation
even sacred intention can become dangerous
In moments of overwhelm, fear, & urgency
Regulation was lost and people were trampled
They walked all over each other
in the name of their own salvation
The churning is not myth alone
It is the nervous system under pressure
The human psyche, at an ethical threshold,
we cross again and again
From the same churning, both nectar & poison arise
Dysregulation becomes fear, aggression, lack of awareness of others or surroundings, blame, shutdown, harm. Regulation becomes clarity, repair, accountability, compassion, care, discernment
Life will churn us
What matters is how we meet it
My work, through the lens of Bhakti, supporting nervous system safety, relational repair, and embodied devotion, for adults, families, children, and schools
Together we explore the living wisdom of Hindu deities as mirrors of the sacred within
👉 Have you been feeling the churning in your own nervous system?
If this resonates, reach out 🙏
And strengthen your capacity to regulate, reflect and respond consciously inside relationships, beginning with yourself & your nervous system
👉 Comment “AMRITA” or message to schedule a call & explore working together
🪷 For a self-guided journey, Bhakti Journals available through the link in bio
Meet your inner churning
Let truth surface
#mahakumbh #kumbhmela #amrita #nervoussystem #regulation
Awakening to fearlessness and trust in my path. The recognition of wings to fly and the choice I had made to cage mySelf. Perhaps one of the greatest feelings in life, is this feeling of empowerment. Ignition of the medicine inside of us. Activation of willpower to keep going. The strength is less about physical prowess and more about having the internal courage. To listen, feel & express what lives inside. I had become habituated to reaching out for something or someone outside of me to ease the edginess of the moment
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The medicine is the way I show up for myself, the how I meet my edge and approach myself as I meet challenge. Can I be fully here, moving away from the mind stories, fear and doubt & find clarity in this moment of presence right here wherever I am now? The world is as we are. It is a process of connecting intimately with what comes up inside by meeting it rather than resisting, to sit with uncertainty, lean into discomfort and befriend who I already am. Through movement expression and tapping into the wisdom in my own body and my own story
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These practices transform the who and the way I approach life every day. This is my message. And as I step back into the purpose of my soul service I reconnect clearly to torch I carry forth
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Keeping this fire alive in ourselves by continuing the momentom through igniting the spark in others, a path of connection to our own medicine
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Fire dad said it best , "What you have in your heart is something special that nobody else has. If you don't give it, we don't get it... People won't ever forget they way you made them feel" Ryan Eason your words will forever live in our hearts and footsteps❤
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It is my role my duty my soul devotion, to pass on the skills of holding space for ourselves & other people to grow, develop and flourish. To remember each of us are our own best teachers. And it is through these practices we embark on a journey of discovery of the healing and transformative power of the medicine inside of us🔥
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Endless thanks to @tonytobias.kinesis for this video collaboration @momentomcollective for the journey home to my why & @risingupward for the re-ignition to my soul path and action
Words can’t describe the gratitude I feel today…
Gratitude for the safety, grounding & transformation of this journey. To be out of my car after 8 months of living in my little Suburu & finally a roof over our head and a space to love, sleep & pray
Holy Mother 🌎🌱🌬️ thank you for reminding me how to listen to the quiet intelligence within
8 months I stepped away from everything
Except myself, FINALLY
I moved into my little Suburu through winter no heat 🔥 Other than the sacred fire of the fire inside to be my guiding light of truth to illuminate it all. All my dark corners shadows I’d been shaming that were waiting for love, and a nervous system that had been neglected and forced to endure and take it all
The prayer was the resurrecting of my self-value, calling out for the protection and nurturing of my soul. Purification. My being is infinitely emerging as I let go of who I thought I had to be. Who I was supposed to be friends with. And realized how out of integrity alignment and congruence many of the leaders were around me.
Devotion to the path. To staying the course trusting this doorway as the greatest teacher I’ve ever been blessed with
And here we are rooted on the other side of the fire. Safe. With a roof over our head. Now thriving in ways I was dreaming of just days ago. Now I build a new foundation, in fertile soil rooted in self trust, embodied truth, and ethical leadership and vocal liberation of the shackles of shame, doubt, fear and generational cycles of degrading self worth
Thank you @ianlove.ofearth for this prayer and medicine. It has guided me through and back to the safety of my breath and abundance of air to breathe and divine protection on this earth of life.
Family it is time we reclaim our self with self value and recognize how and where we do not value ourselves will ripple out to the word around, all our relations and people in our lives 🙌⛲️
🪶What would it look like if you regarded self value as your greatest wealth?
#Voiceofthesoul #holymother #throughthefire #newbeginning #iamhome
What if you could talk to your younger self…🦋
We have been programmed from an early age to contort and shape ourselves to fit a mold that’s not ours. For me since elementary school I was labeled “disruptive” when I had a lot to share or question in class. I was graded “unsatisfactory” for my full expression 🥹
What if you could speak to the version of you who was silenced, softened, or shaped to fit?
I would sit with her, listen & tell her, I am sorry for every moment you were made to feel too much, too loud, too sensitive, too honest. There was never anything wrong with you. Come back. Your voice is safe now. Your truth belongs here. I am here to listen, to protect, to honor what you feel and what you know. You don’t have to hide anymore and you get to take up space, to sound, to be exactly who you were before the world asked you to become smaller.
I thank you for disrupting those classrooms and using your voice, and invite all of you back now 🪶
If this lands in your body, take it as your permission to call every part of yourself back home.
You are whole
And we need you
And your voice 🙇♀️
@ash.toashes@reginaosilva
#innerchild #innertruth #reclaimyourvoice #youngerself #wildandprosperous
You didn’t lose your voice…
you were taught to hide it
to silence truth when it was not safe
& weaponized on you
So you learned to shrink to keep the peace
And made yourself smaller to stay connected
You don’t have to hide anymore
WE NEED YOUR VOICE
PLEASE DON’T STAY QUIET
@ash.toashes@reginaosilva
#voiceoftruth #reclaimyourvoice #nomorehiding #wildandprosperous #useyourvoice
Come closer… the trees are talking again
I used to think doing more would make me happier
… turns out I was moving too fast to listen & feel life ༄
🌬️I can smell the wisdom of the trees
It brings me down to my knees
to pray today in every way
I pray to come back home
to the only truth I’ve ever known
to the dirt from which I came
to who I am before, I was given a name
remove me from my roles and identities
For that not is who I be
I tell you before you grow old like me
The only truth you know to see
Is that I am you & you are me
Oh my love
Life is not about what you do
Rather who you be
So get out of the way
Get into the forest & pray
Slowww down
And give thanks to God
In every single way 𓁿
they said phone a friend…
no humans around…
so I partnered with Spirit 🪶
Download from the Mystical Mountain Forest Crone
thank you spirits that surround me
thank you spirits that want to talk
may this be your sacred reminder today
go outside…
and listen to the trees 🍃
@ash.toashes@reginaosilva
#witchrhymetrend #haveyouever #trend #freestyle #wildandprosperous
I forgot how good this feels…
POV: you finally let yourself feel joy again… 🥹
And laugh til you pee 😹
I lost it all this year, only to find myself. The storm came to remove everything I was avoiding. In the fire, I met her. I became a student of my own alchemy. I watched myself unravel. Old identities cracking. Who would I be without proving my worth or sacrificing my safety for validation? I stayed breath by breath, through the winter in my car. Slowed down. Found stillness. Silence. There was no escape, no bypass, only a quiet knowing rising…
I am the light of my soul. I am the bringer of joy. The source. The one who remembers. The voice whispered…
Stop holding onto misfortune. Stop waiting to feel better. Start allowing joy to move through. What you have inside your heart is something special no one has. If you don’t give it, we don’t get it. The world needs your medicine.
I am not defined by circumstances, only confined by fear. This joy has been the vehicle to honor the truth in my struggle, reclaim my sovereignty, and be seen without needing to prove my worth.
Like cedar to the flame. My knees still dusty from how many times I’ve been brought to them in prayer. I bow in reverence at the altar of my own unraveling and remembrance.
Nothing can destroy the spark of joy I am.
This is your sign to laugh today. Not when it’s all better. Not when it’s all figured out. Let yourself be seen in joy.
@ash.toashes@reginaosilva
#wildandprosperous #selfreclamation #healingfromwithin #donttakelifetooseriously #sacredmedicine
I want to know where you stand…
The bystander effect doesn’t keep the peace, it protects the pattern by allowing harm to repeat while safety quietly erodes.
The cost is trust, truth & the nervous system integrity of the entire community, where people begin to silence themselves to belong.
The impact is this harm becomes culture, and leadership loses its soul when no one is willing to speak and repair.
The bystander effect allows harm and organizes the room around it. Over time, this reshapes the culture.
Not around integrity, around tolerance of misalignment.
The cost is cumulative. Voices disappear. Honesty feels dangerous or overridden. What’s left is a space that may look connected on the surface…
The deeper impact is distorted leadership.
When harm isn’t named, leaders don’t get the feedback needed to grow. Patterns solidify.
The gap between intention and impact widens
This is how harm becomes normalized, not through one moment, through many moments where no one spoke.
Ethical leadership asks something different.
It asks us to interrupt the pattern.
To risk being the one who names what is happening with clarity.
May we speak truth with care so possibility for repair returns.
This is where relational safety begins.
To learn more about Embodied Roots Leadership, comment “LEADER”
#relationalsafety #trainingleadership #silenceiscompliance #takeastand #communitysafety
🪞Allowing harm to continue …
How do you allow & perpetuate harm in your community, relations, family by the compliance in your silence?
How does that serve you & everyone else?
We don’t build safe spaces by avoiding discomfort. We build them by learning how to listen, take ownership and repair.
We are rising into a new era & being asked to call upon ourselves in our highest leadership, integrity, accountability, morals & ethics.
I’m seeing it more & more lately…
Our communities pride themselves on standing for devotion to truth, spirituality and consciousness YET turn their back on harm. To keep peace. To maintain relationships. Opportunity. Personal gain. Reputation.
People, leaders, spaces who speak about and stand for safety, healing, devotion, community, while harm quietly goes unnamed. Leaders & space holders dominating, holding power as hierarchy, without accountability of harm, awareness of how their presence impacts others, or how to humbly lean into truth in repair of damage
Most leaders have not been trained in trauma informed safe space holding, the nervous system, what the moral & ethical spine of yoga looks like in action through the lens of the Yamas & Niyamas
Ethical leadership is not about being talented, well-liked or perfect. It’s about being aware, accountable, and capable of repair.
It is asking, how do & how have people feel in my presence and am I willing to take responsibility for that?
This is the foundation of everything I teach
✋Without this, no amount of spirituality, skill, training, or intention creates real safety or leadership
Real leadership leads with accountability, ownership and repair. It is not about maintaining control or image. It is about creating spaces where harm can be named, impact matters more than intention, people feel safe to speak.
This is the work
This is ethical leadership
And this is how we return to the wholeness of yoga
We begin our next group of Embodied Roots Leaders in May 🌱
Comment “LEADER” for details
#ethicalleadership #leadershiptraining #nervoussystemleadership #accountability #humblebeginnings
🥹 I’m curious, can you relate ?
Stop turning away from your own needs to please others
#peoplepleasing #showingup #burnoutrecovery #valueyourself #sayno
💭 Imagine a world where you set boundaries, put yourself first & stop people pleasing to be liked 😅😮💨
#iloveyou #takecareofyou #youcomefirst #setboundaries #stoppeoplepleasing
🦚🕉️✨ I wrote this song in the voice of Krishna from the battlefield of the Bhagavad Gita. This is a song of rememberance, of the divine guidance always within, living in the moment of choice, the pause before action, where we meet Krishna.
Krishna as our divine guide, is the deeper seat of awareness within us, that we access in our own pause at our inner seat of Self. Krishna represents the part of us that can widen perspective, the steady awareness that remembers something larger than the immediate storm. Arjuna, the part of us that feels overwhelmed, conflicted, and human.
The Bhagavad Gita reminds us that the sacred path does not begin when life becomes easy. It begins in the moment we pause long enough to listen. The living teaching is within this moment we become willing to see what is actually moving through, learning how to stand in the middle of the battlefield of life… with awareness, devotion and most of all integrity to our values and ethical action guiding the next step.
The dialogue between them on the battlefield mirrors the dialogue inside all of us. Between fear and wisdom, reaction and discernment. It appears in our relationships. In moments where truth must be spoken. In choices where comfort and integrity diverge. It appears whenever life asks us to act while our hearts are still trembling.
The ethical leadership of the Bhagavad Gita is of the most powerful. It teaches us how to act responsibly within life, not escape or turn away from the conflicts. You are responsible for your actions. It invites us to act from alignment, move with integrity rather than performance and stay rooted in our values.
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#krishna #innerwisdom #divinewithin #bhagavadgita #mindfulpause
