Valerie Starr

A Somatic Expression Session meant to guide you into deeper embodiment and allow you to be witnessed in your power. This space is dedicated to your exploration of the GODDESS within, to be in and build community in a sacred ritual container, and most importantly, to shake off some SHIT! Come be WITNESSED in your fully embodied Self. This offering includes a rare opportunity to be captured in your true primal nature with a professional portrait for you to keep. See and be seen in your fierce GODDESS self. It's time to take up space!!! This is for you if: 🔥Your body craves Liberation + Freedom 🔥You are holding emotions like Grief, Fear, Anger, and Rage that want to be moved, expressed, and channeled into creativity 🔥You want to move through suppression and repression that lives deeply in the patterning of what you are, and how you hold back 🔥You are femme-identifying. Why: 🔥To access your primal, creative force that lives inside of you 🔥To be witnessed, seen, and held 🔥By Women supporting Women. RELEASE YOUR BEAST What this includes: 🔥A 3 hour ritual gathering 🔥Exploration of the GODDESS with Story and Guided + Free Movement 🔥A mini portrait session by STUDIO NUNCHI 🔥Liberation of your desire for SENSUAL and SOMATIC EXPRESSION. Created with Love by: STUDIO NUNCHI, Yoga for the Erotic Self, and Starr Light Body Sliding Scale: $45 - $85 Sign up through link in bio

JOIN US in my backyard! ♉️ Sunday, May 17th, 2026 3:PM - 6:30 PM Our next gathering of community to honor the Taurus New Moon. We gather in community to deepen our sense of belonging and foster the conection to the world around. We come to recognize that we are not separate from nature, but rather an integral part of its intricate web of life. We will practice yoga outside, have an astrology workshop around the new moon, share food with a potluck, and see what else we make of the afternoon/evening! Taurus New Moon themes: grounding, foundation, earth, building, beauty, sustainability ✨Yoga Class in the Backyard ✨ Astrology Workshop ✨ Community Gathering + Connecting ✨ Potluck Sliding Scale $24 - $54 Link in bio or my website under EVENTS Thank you to the AMAZING @sadiemeliaco for your design and @santoro.creativephotography for your photos! 🙏✨🫶💜

Big, Vulnerable (and Exciting) Leap: My New Website Is Live! 🫣💜 (link in bio) Vulnerability is a funny thing. It’s often what pulls us closest to one another, creating a bridge where we can say, I see you. You see me. It’s a powerful connector, if we have the courage to let it in. And yet, it’s also the very thing that can hold us back from growth, connection, and being truly seen. As this launch day approached, I’ve felt that inner tug-of-war: the desire to step forward, and the urge to stay hidden. But the pull to expand has been persistent, what started as a whisper has grown louder, echoing through my body and calling me into a wider space. So here I am, excited (and honestly, a bit nervous) widening my arms and heart to hold more. 🌅 To me feels like not only a website launch but also a leap into a deeper container, a bigger responsibility, and a more visible version of myself. Over the years, my journey has been rooted in study, reflection, healing, and growth, all with the question: How can I take what I’m learning and use it to support others more deeply? I believe the bravest work we can do is to explore the places within us where we feel stuck, small, or unsure….and transform those spaces into stepping stones toward our growth. This website is just that: a reflection of that ongoing journey. A place to land, explore, be messy, find your voice, and feel seen. A space where you’re welcome exactly as you are. It holds not only my work in the world over the past (almost) two decades, but also the personal path that’s shaped it. It’s a living, breathing extension of my heart, shaped for and with community. ✨ Deep gratitude to @sadiemeliaco for helping me find language and vision for the spaces within myself I couldn’t yet name. Your ability to weave together my voice, hopes, and heart into this digital home is something I’ll always cherish. ✨ And to @santoro.creativephotography thank you. For your unwavering vision, for helping me feel safe to show up as I am—awkward, flawed, evolving….and for your creative eye that captured the essence of me with so much tenderness. Continued below 🫶

We’re getting geared up and excited for our fourth event!!! ✨🌸 Join us this SUNDAY for our NEW MOON in Taurus ♉️ backyard gathering from 3-6:30ish Few spaces left so grab em if you’re comin! Yoga, Astrology, Potluck, and Fun with Community! Sliding scale $24-$54 Check out the link in bio for 🎟️

Do you see it?!? A little magic moment while teaching from my deck yesterday! ✨ A hummingbird flew right up to say hello! I freaking love nature, and here is yet another reason we are practicing in my backyard on 5/17 for The Taurus New Moon Gathering! I think it's our fourth community gathering and they have been so wonderful and excited to bring this one back outside again! We do some yoga, have an astrology workshop with @caralena_movement share a meal, and hang out and see what else happens! Spaces are filling and we will sell out so if you are thinking of coming, reserve your space!!! Link in bio

A little background and hello from us! In just a little over a month away, we are so excited to move with you, witness you, and be with the GODDESS in YOU! 🔥 Link in bio for 🎟️

There are days that forever change the course of your life, waking up everything feels the same and normal, and then something happens and all of a sudden its all different. This day marks one year strong for Ev with Type 1 Diabetes. It’s been the year I have seen through Ev the most growth, change, challenge, learning, and understanding that life has its moments that crack us open. I am so proud of the way he has accepted this whole new way of living and experiencing life, eating, drinking, monitoring, adding, calculating, and guessing are a part of the daily choices to make. I have seen Ev have such a deeper understanding of his body and how foods affect it, make smart choices that aren’t always the most fun. It’s been a whole thing. I am so proud!!! Celebrating you and your bravery today Ev!!! 🙏💜🫶 #type1strong #type1diabetic #diaversary

One of the weekends I end it feeling so fucking blessed! 🙏🥰💕🫶✨💜 Grateful for the weekend sharing yoga history + philosophy with the @nowyoga_pdx teachers in training, and end it with teaching a bday class for the incredible @aliciavsworld / @theskin_garden and Portland is exploding with blossoms! 🌸 Grateful 🙏💜✨

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Yoga has been one of the longest relationships I have ever had, we are going on almost 30 years together!!! 😅 What I have learned over the years is that Yoga doesn’t ask for your perfection, it asks for your realness. It asks you to show up humbly with what you are observing, to sit and see it, to feel it, to acknowledge it, like all things hidden the acknowledgment gives us something to work with, to work through. No hiding or pretending we don’t see it, or we are above it. From darkness to light, not from light to light, but it is the “FROM” that we transform. To begin now, right where you are at this moment. To deny the darkness is to deny the human experience. There is no perfect practice, there is no perfect teacher, all we can do is practice and keep showing up, and surrender over and over, a thousand times if needed. Grateful 🙏✨

I’ve had this song by Michael Kiwanuka in my head for weeks. The beauty and power of these words. When I hear and sing them it just resonates so deeply with how I feel for humanity. How much more of this are we to tolerate? Music has been such a channel for anger, transmuting it to love, protection, power, empathy, compassion. For survivors, for the love and protection of women, children, and humans, animals being forced out of their homes, for our home on this earth. Feels vulnerable to share, but doing it anyway. Love and Hate - Michael Kiwanuka Standing now Calling all the people here to see the show Calling for my demons now to let me go I need something, give me something wonderful I believe She won’t take me somewhere I’m not supposed to be You can’t steal the things that God has given me No more pain and no more shame and misery You can’t take me down You can’t break me down You can’t take me down You can’t take me down You can’t break me down You can’t take me down Love and hate How much more are we supposed to tolerate? Can’t you see there’s more to me than my mistakes Sometimes I get this feeling - makes me hesitate I believe She won’t take me somewhere I’m not supposed to be You can’t steal the things that God has given me No more pain and no more shame and misery You can’t take me down You can’t break me down You can’t take me down You can’t break me down You can’t take me down You can’t break me down I can see a place of trouble And I’m on the verge For the love of everybody I need something more Now I feel some days of trouble I’m in the house of war For the love of everybody Look behind the wall

I have been so angry. We all have. I’ve watched how the anger has crept in through my thoughts, dreams, interactions, work, and relationships. The motherly instinct to love and protect has brought tears, rage, sorrow, and sadness. I’ve felt the clench of my fist Curled up tightly around the sword. Looking down at my hand it all makes sense. This sword isn’t for cutting. It’s for holding up in the air what I/we stand for. And that is LOVE. Love is protective, sometimes fierce. It holds empathy, compassion, truth, trust. The strongest of everything When it feels as we are at war May love be the way The grounding force more powerful than its opposite. I feel my feet solid, my center is a fire. My heart stretching, pulled, beating to the sound of a drum. Stand for what you believe is right. Love as protection is a force that can move mountains and change the world. Love as protection holds the sword of ten thousand mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters. Voices one silenced to songs of power and justice. Let our arms grow shaky and more strong for standing firm and grounding in the force filed of the power of love.