Cycles and Seasons
A May Newsletter with a Yoga Nidra gift inside
Greetings Friends from a beautiful springtime Morocco! We’ve arrived to the beginning of May and all that it holds. It’s my birthday month and it was held so sweetly here at Koom Martial Arts Retreat Center. It has truly become a second home. We had a few friends from the Beauty Way circle join us here in April to train, heal and connect and it was a very powerful experience. I plan to offer a springtime retreat in Morocco next year that will be a bit of a tour rooted in land, sacred sounds and cultural experience and I’m hoping Koom can be a stop on our journey. 2027 retreat will culminate with a 5-day add-on luxuriating in Essaouira on the coast. Mark your calendars now! April 7-15 (for the Spring Goddess Portal), + April 16-20, 2027.
A few more personal updates: I’m training hard over here and meeting my health and physical fitness goals. My thoughts are still with the powerful course we held last autumn, Unwritten Rhythms and what we explored about the perimenopausal/menopausal initiations and thresholds. I am seeing profound improvement in my body with the reintroduction of short, vigorous exercise alongside yin-building restorative experience. I want to encourage you all to continue to set new mini-goals and run your experiments in improving your multi-dimensional wellbeing. I am here to support through 1:1 work and case consultation anytime.
I finished the first year of my doctoral program. I am feeling the inspiration for celebration because that work was no joke! This year I’ve worked through the theoretical and pedagogical dimensions of the Liberation Praxis Collaborative Leadership Training (also please hold space for that program launching in 2027) doing a type of academic work where I’m grounding the core concepts and learning domains in liberation theology and education pedagogies. By taking the time to define things like decolonization, liberation and praxis in land and place-based relational ecologies, we are bringing this intellectual work into a new era of embodiment. I want to get you all as excited as I am for the future of leadership and facilitation that is not extractive but rather regenerative.
The band is getting back together as my son, mother and I are settling into a new home in Evanston, IL (the first suburb north of Chicago) on June 1st. This four-year phase of global nomading is coming full circle, so we can begin something new. High School for my child is a main motivating factor and grounding for the family unit. I hope to be moving and shaking in Evanston re-opening my healing clinic space and hosting small events that are geared towards healing in community. We are not meant to heal alone!! More info to come about the new clinic in a loft space in south Evanston.
As for Beauty Way updates, we completed the classroom portion of the first Developing the Intuitive Self: Applied Practice for Healing, Counseling & Creative Professions. It was very powerful to say the least. I am very excited to offer this course again in 2027 alongside the other two courses yet to come this year: The Five Bodies of Healing: A Comparative Framework of Global Healing Traditions and The Five Elements of Healing: A Comparative Framework for Multidimensional Health. Yes, these courses have prerequisites. That is a very beautiful thing to prepare yourself for deeper learning and be able to build upon knowledge. Just because these courses are aligned for professional standards does not mean you do not belong. These are still the Beauty Way courses you love—rooted in liminal practice and personal exploration. Lots of healing lives in this learning. Do not let the prerequisites or the cost be prohibitive. I am flexible with payment plans as well as alternative timelines to completing prerequisite requirements. Also, recordings are available for an unlimited time so – voila! Just reach out to discuss more.
The Five Bodies of Healing: A Comparative Framework of Global Healing Traditions begins May 16th
Four Winds,
Yoli
PS- Enjoy this Rematriation Celebration Nidra recorded in May of 2025– a celebration of the springtime beauty!
Intuitive Creative Arts Professional Pathway
The Five Bodies of Healing: A Comparative Framework for Global Healing Traditions
Dates: May 16 – July 4, 2026
Saturdays, 9-11am CT/ 3-5pm BST
Tuition: $899
Explore the world’s healing traditions and compare energetic frameworks, diagnostic methods, and cross-cultural wisdom.
Focus: Comparative study of global healing traditions · methods · efficacy · integration
Purchase the course HERE
Prerequisites ($450 bundle):
How Healing Works
Human Purpose Handbook
Meditation Series 3 & 4
Access the prerequisite bundle HERE if you are new to the Beauty Way Garden
Access the prerequisite bundle HERE if you are returning to the garden
Prerequisite Courses for The Five Bodies of Healing
The prerequisite sequence for The Five Bodies of Healing prepares students to understand healing as a multidimensional process by establishing foundational knowledge in how healing works, the role of human purpose, and the cultivation of internal awareness through meditation.
$450 for the Course Bundle
Sign up HERE if you are new to the Beauty Way Garden
Click HERE if you are returning to the garden
1️⃣ How Healing Works $149
Foundations of the Healing Process
Focus: Healing principles · Regulation · Understanding the body’s natural intelligence
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If you are returning click HERE
2️⃣ Human Purpose Handbook - $149
Orienting to Meaning, Direction, and Inner Knowing
Focus: Meaning-making · Life direction · Inner alignment
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3️⃣ Meditation Series 3 — Breath Awareness: Regulate & Restore - $64
The Breath as a Foundation for Healing
Focus: Breath awareness · Regulation · Energetic balance
Click HERE if you are new to the Beauty Way Garden
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4️⃣ Meditation Series 4 — Panca Vayu: Move With Prana Intellegence - $64
Understanding the Directional Flow of Life Force
Focus: Prana · Subtle body awareness · Energetic organization
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2026 Immersive Retreats with Yoli
Temple of the Goddess Turkey Pilgrimage
October 11-21, 2026
10 days to travel down the Aegean Coast visiting sacred sites of the Goddess while resting in the lap of the Mother during the Fall Goddess Portal
October 22-26, 2026
5 Day Adventure Add-on to immerse in Sufi tradition at the seat of Mevlana Rumi in Konya then travel to the world heritage site of Cappadocia to adventure in underground cities and ride hot air balloons.
Astrology Services with Yoli
Astrology is not here to tell you who you are or what will happen to you.
It is here to help you locate yourself within time.
These astrology readings are a relational, consent-based practice—grounded in embodiment, intuition, and care. Rather than prediction or prescription, we listen to cycles, timing, and internal signals so that you can make choices that are aligned with your capacity, values, and truth.
This is astrology for thresholds, creativity, leadership, grief, and rest.
You remain the primary authority in your life.
Threshold Reading
Astrology for Endings, Beginnings & Liminal Time
Vocation & Creative Timing Reading
Astrology for Calling, Work & Energy Stewardship
Year Ahead Orientation
Astrology for Cycles, Seasons & Choice-Making
Crisis and Care Reading
Astrology for Overwhelm, Shock & Disorientation
2026 Course Schedule- Plan Your Year
A year of Intuitive Creative Arts in 3 seasons:
The Five Bodies of Healing: Ancestral Abundance (May 16-July 4)
The Five Elements of Healing: Symptom and Pathology (Sept 5-Nov 28)
Women’s/Femme Spaces in 2026 - Retreat Style!
Rematriation Pilgrimage: Turkiye - Oct 11-21 (for the Fall Goddess Portal)
Goddess Portals:
Fall Goddess Portal - October 11-20
Decolonization Praxis:
Liberation Lab - June, August (in person), November
Liberation Praxis Leadership Training 2027 Waitlist
DEIcipher Group
Liberation Lab June 2026 Online
Inspired by the organizational powers of the natural world, we travel into the heart of DEI - the landscape of belonging. A deeply personal experience, how do we authentically generate the possibility that our teams and organizations can model the systems of living organisms?
Liberation Lab is an opportunity to see what Liberation Praxis is all about and to get started on your journey NOW.
Ok I officially know what I’m doing for my birthday next year! Morocco here we go again!