At The Crossroads: Pt 2 Magic At The Crossroads

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After my Riviera retreat, my family and I headed to one of the European cities we love the most, Florence, Italy where I’m sitting now, processing and writing as I look out the window listening to songbirds flit through a dusty Tuscan sunset as it glows upon the gardens and statuary of this stately, old growth neighborhood just outside of the Porta Romana. 

My journey to both France and Italy has taught me about different angles of the pilgrim’s journey to the crossroads so I’m going to share both angles both in this message and my next. 

In my last message, I wrote about the magic that comes at the crossroads of giving and receiving heart-felt service. Today, I want to explore how retreats are more than just nice things to do—they are transformational when you're on a pilgrim’s journey at a crossroads of life.



Disruption At The Junction

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Over the course of many years, the themes of crossroads and pilgrims have woven their way into my personal spiritual evolution. Naturally, the theme of the crossroads has found their way into my writing and teaching, including my most recent retreat to the French Riviera.

And let’s get real—we are all at a crossroads in one way or another, be that a transition of stage of life, of our spiritual practice, of relationships, work, or myriad other things. At a crossroads, we are often not sure where to go next, what direction to turn, or even how we got to where we are in the first place. Often, it’s hard to be at a crossroads because it means change, transformation, metamorphosis. 

And generally, people don’t like change. 

Yes, when life is changing, it can often feel disruptive but I believe that’s exactly the point. Being at a crossroads is a catalyst for transformation precisely because it means stepping away from what’s familiar—familiar yet often broken. The process of being at a crossroads launches us headlong into the unknown, setting off on a pilgrim’s journey with a head full of questions and a heart full of faith. 

Magic At The Crossroads

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Though being at a transition point in life is often uncomfortable, both life and yoga have taught me something indispensable—magic always happens at the crossroads. 

A truly beautiful way of engaging with whatever magic is at whatever turning point you might be at, is to come on a retreat.

What Is A Pilgrim?

It’s true, yoga retreats are a lot of fun, but they are also a lot more than that.

“You’re not tourists, you’re pilgrims,” Nórín said.

Last year while hosting a yoga retreat in Ireland (I know, rough life) we were treated to a day with poet, author, singer and storyteller, Nórín Ní Riain and her son, singer, poet, and performer Moley Ó Súilleabháin. Her declaration about being pilgrims rather than tourists articulated something I’d been chewing on for a while, something essential: I’ve been leading retreats for over 2 decades and know how transformational they can be—more than just a vacation with yoga sprinkled in. 

With her words, it finally dawned on me that these retreats are pilgrimages. 

A pilgrim is often someone who finds themselves at a transition—sometimes chosen, sometimes not—and is either willing or compelled to leave the comfort of their routine to find some illumination on a journey that becomes holy.

A pilgrim is willing to search, to search with a question, one that may start the journey or perhaps a question that is illuminated or clarified en route. 

A Pilgrim has faith in the unknown and wields weapon-grade curiosity and humility to greet whatever comes around the next corner. 

A pilgrim evolves from a state of searching to one of constant arriving, often within the same foot step. 

To the pilgrim, every stone is sacred along the path.

Why Retreat?

Perspective 

So why must a pilgrim retreat? Can’t transformation be done at home? I mean it would save a helluva lot of time and energy and money.

Quite simply, one of the biggest things a retreat does for you is to help you get out of your routine. Getting out of your routine is essential for discovery and transformation because, like Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same state of mind that created it.”

To change your circumstances, you must first change your state of mind and one of the most effective ways of doing that is to get outta Dodge. 

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Getting away gives us perspective. I’m not alone here—Hemingway understood this. Get this: Hemingway couldn’t write A Moveable Feast his book about living in Paris while in Paris. He needed to retreat to Cuba (so Hemingway) and Ketchum, Idaho (random, love it!, and also so Hemingway) in order to gain both clarity and perspective about what to write.

Do you resonate with this? Have you ever found clarity on an issue by simply getting some space from your routine?

I mean, I’m currently working on a piece that I’ve been trying to write for about, oh … 15 years! As I started to write it, I just kept getting blocked over and over until I had to leave it alone until just recently.

Now I understand that at the time, I just didn’t have enough space from and perspective of the events I was trying to write about. How can you write about something that hasn’t finished yet—you don’t know the ending, what it all means, or even when to pause, take a breath, and say, “Yo, can you even believe how crazy this is?!” 

A retreat gives us clarity by helping us get out of our old routine precisely to gain perspective. It’s almost like sitting in the airplane and looking out the window gives us the perspective to see our life from 10,000 feet.

Presence

Another thing that a yoga or meditation retreat does so well is to anchor you to presence, the part of yourself that has all the answers. You gain presence not only through the many yoga and meditation practices, but also, and perhaps especially, because being out of your comfort zone—in a different country, language, cultures, climate, etc.,—stimulates your senses and activates the wisdom of your presence.

And speaking of accessing our most vital sense, in classic novella, The Little Prince, the wise fox drops this truth bomb when he says: “One only sees well with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes.” 

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At a retreat, when we are no longer anesthetized by the every-day, our senses and hearts tend to open causing our vision to dilate with a keen presence and take in what’s really essential. 

So, being on a retreat stimulates presence, a crossroads where past and future meet. And like I said, there’s magic at the crossroads. 

Body, Mind, And Spirit

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Another magical crossroads you can find at a retreat is that of body, mind, and spirit. For millennia, yogis have understood the power of this crossroads as an effective driver for our spiritual evolution as well as a reliable resource to keep us healthy, manage life’s curveballs, and navigate the predictable shit-show of the every-day. 

A retreat is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself at the nexus of body, mind, and spirit, perspective, and presence. 

As all the magic of these divergent elements converge, it illuminates the truth of your hero’s journey: the answers you were looking for were already inside of you but sometimes you need to go halfway around the world to discover them.

Stepping Off The Mat

Each morning at the retreat we met at the ocean’s edge to greet the dawn with sun salutations, to breathe and meditate. One morning, as the sun lifted out of the ocean, coloring the landscape with warm hues of peach and gold, we discussed how the practice of yoga isn’t limited to what happens on our yoga mats. 

One retreat attendee chimed in and admitted that now, she finally understood what one of her yoga teachers said about how the practice begins the moment you step off the mat. She said her off-the-mat practice began the moment she said yes to this retreat. 

She discovered my Riviera retreat literally on the day it began. I was sitting at the airport waiting for my guests and our drivers to arrive when I got her email telling me that she lived in Belgium and that this retreat sounded so perfect, exactly what she needed, but I wished she would have discovered it a week ago. “I fear I’m too late!” 

I invited her to do something bold—jump on the next train, take a leap of faith, and join us!

And she did. 

This retreat became a veritable pilgrim’s journey for her. It was a journey of faith, having never met me before, yes, but more importantly it was a journey of reconciling and encountering many crossroads she was experiencing at that moment in her life. 

She came to the Riviera to get on her mat so that she could perform all of the yoga that needed to happen off the mat. 

Poet, author, and speaker David Whyte is a master of speaking to the pilgrim’s journey. In his poem “The True Love” he speaks to that catalytic moment when all the bullshit is burned away and there’s nothing left but to say “YES!” in the face of what you know you need to do. 


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Check out this excerpt from his poem “The True Love”: 

. . . we are all

preparing for that

abrupt waking,

and that calling,

and that moment

we have to say yes

A yoga retreat reminds us that we don’t live on our yoga mat or meditation cushion and that the true practice begins when we connect to our heart and step off the mat and into the world, one where we must keep our center, find our balance, and breathe through both life’s joys and discomforts. 


Bringing It Home

In a retreat setting we will undoubtedly have a chance to practice responding rather than reacting to life's events, like collecting ourselves the first time we are addressed in a language we don’t understand, get lost, or encounter a new custom. 

A great way of learning to do this is with a very simple yet profound practice is what I call the WRW(R) model: Welcome, Recognize, and Witness (Respond optional). 

For example, when leading a Yoga Nidra practice, I invite students to relax while practicing the following: 

  • Welcoming simple and benign objects (anything you can be aware of)—like the sound of my voice or the sensation of body—into their awareness 

  • Recognizing it objectively for exactly what it is—no more, no less

  • Witnessing the object, just observing it.

  • Responding. Sometimes, a person may choose to then respond to the object like respond the object of body discomfort by changing positions of their body or scratching an itch or something but responding is fundamentally different than reacting. Responding is mindful. Reacting is mindless.


By practicing the WRW(R) method with relatively benign objects in the controlled environment of a Yoga Nidra practice, we prepare to do this with the circumstances of every-day life. Even and especially when those objects feel much less benign—like almost getting run over by a cyclist or missing your flight. No matter the object, we can also practice welcoming, recognizing, and witnessing—sometimes responding to— that object. Note that responding to an object is light years away from reacting to it. 

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By learning to WRW(R) both the objects in Yoga Nidra and life, it wakes us up to two great truths. First, that we are not defined by the events that happen to us. And second, we may learn to respond to them from the foundation of our innate abundance and compassion rather than react to them from the loose sands of scarcity and fear. Learning to be the witness and therefore respond to life helps us wake up from the dream of identifying as life’s victims and wake up to the truth of being agents—truly the Divine itself, living a human life full of passion, perspective, and purpose. 

After all, the greatest practice is life itself. 

Like Louis Armstrong said, “What we play is life.”

Perhaps the greatest magic that happens along the pilgrim’s journey through the crossroads is that you come back home to your own self with expanded self knowledge (swadhyaya is the yogic term). 

A Remembering Not An Escape


Therefore, the point of a retreat is not to escape. It’s to retreat a while, regroup and remember ourselves—our True Selves—so that we can bring this all with us back home and apply it to our families, our work, and community. We come home from retreats with stories, new lifelong friendships, and a deeper perspective of life. 

We come back home feeling more like ourselves. 

Our family and colleagues will be so happy with the rejuvenated person that comes home from the retreat that they’ll start a fund so that they can send you away EVERY year.

May we all find the magic at whatever crossroads we may be facing in life. May you take the opportunity to retreat on your own pilgrim’s journey to find the wise inner teacher inside that distance, perspective, and presence offers. And as the airplane hits terra firma, having gained that 10,000-foot view, may we see home with new eyes, clear in the truth that the answers already lay inside of us but that sometimes we need the journey to illuminate them. 

Stay tuned because in my next message I want to talk about how the seemingly impossible challenges life throws at us can help act as a renaissance to do the impossible. 

P.S. And if you’re itching to book your next adventure, please join me for my next retreat!

At The Crossroads: Pt 1 The Spiritual Practice of Giving And Receiving

I recently finished a magical retreat in the French Riviera. 

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Loved it! Couldn’t be happier with it. 

The yoga—transformational. 

Our group—was close, adventurous, and flexible both on and off the mat. 

Weather—flawless.

Beaches—pristine. We rented some beach chairs and spent the day soaking up the sun, swimming in the azure waters, and relaxed and laughed together. 

Food—Don’t even get me started with the food. 

I had the sometimes daunting task of making reservations at restaurants for 17 people for this retreat. This required that I often met the owners and/or head waiter and chef of many of the restaurants. To a person, they were kind, gracious, and passionate, not only about food they made, but also about the care and grace with which they served it. 

They even printed special menus for us, almost always in English and French, treating us like Riviera royalty so that we would experience their restaurant, food, and ambiance to the fullest for a truly exquisite and unique experience. 

The food and care we received on the retreat was no small detail. In fact, it’s exactly what I want to talk about today: the spiritual practice of giving and receiving service. 

The Art of Service

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Tourists often complain about the rude service in France yet I say “Mais, non! Ou contraire!” I became aware of France’s superpower of service for the first time more than 12 years ago. When Seneca and I were dating, we traveled to Paris together and fell deeper in love with each other while also falling in love with this city. It was the perfect ménage à trois.

Paris was just so charming. Each little café or bistro we visited was staffed by a small elite team of the waiters and bartenders, dressed elegantly in their starched white shirts, pressed black pants, and crisp aprons. Also, perfectly groomed and coiffed. 

Truly they made service into an art.The server would memorize our order as if our choice for food was so interesting that it consumed their complete attention. No notebook needed. A few minutes later they would present our cafés and omelets with the most keen attention to detail—placing a napkin, refreshing the bread in the basket, graciously replacing a fallen fork as if it never occurred.

Once, as one waiter stretch his arm in to place our meal before us, I noticed a mostly-concealed tattoo receding up his sleeve that said, “w8er,” the 8 turned sideways to make an infinity sign suggesting that he was both identified with and took great pride and dignity in this work of being a server and planned on doing it for the rest of days. 

At my recent Riviera retreat, even as large of a group as we were, we were nonetheless still treated to absolutely exquisite service from everyone from our hotel concierge, to restaurant and wine tasting staff and owners, and our drivers were. 

At The Intersection of Service and Love

Some of these people and places I had met and discovered when our family lived in the French Riviera. Part of the advantage of leading a retreat somewhere that has become a second home to me is that I had a few years to discover a collection of great restaurants and wine caves and the great people who own them.

Others I met on this trip. 

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But our principal driver, Farida, I met a few years ago when we were living in France. One cold, drizzly morning, Elio and I were trudging through the elements on our way to school. As the ice-cold wind and rain whipped at our faces and bent our umbrellas into unholy shapes, we arrived at the bus stop only to realize that the buses were on strike. 

Ok, so maybe there’s an exception to excellent French service once in a while but usually that’s when it involves sticking it to The Man. And really, there’s truly nothing more French than a good old workers strike. You just gotta roll with it. 

Either way, on this gray morning, we were wet and cold and miserable and getting more so by the second. So I called an Uber. 

A few minutes pass and who shows up but Farida, our Uber driver. She was courteous and professional, her car was warm and immaculate, and from the second my dripping butt landed on those pristine seats, I knew I was going to like this woman. 

Sorry about the wet seats. 

As she drove us to school, I began making polite conversation and learned that she used to work for Air France in customer service but was laid off during Covid. 

Worst mistake Air France ever made. 

Farida only wanted to continue to serve people so she bought a stately brand new Renault and started to Uber. She delivered us safe and warm to school and before leaving her car I got her number and from that moment forward, I never called Uber again. I only called Farida.

If you ever meet her, and I hope you do, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say that from the second you meet her, it’s clear that her mission is to offer not just good service but truly supreme service. 

The Art of Receiving


Have you ever known anyone like that? Have you ever been that for other people?

So, as I planned my Riviera retreat, I wanted to spoil my attendees so naturally, I called Farida to arrange personal and professional transportation for my guests to and from the airport. 

Farida and another driver met us at the airport, dressed in suits and on time—early, actually. My guests arrived on time or early so not wanting to stick around at the airport, I called and asked if there was any way that she and the other driver could come early. “No problem, Scott. We are on our way.” God bless you, Farida!

Once at the airport, she greeted me with a warm hug and kisses on both cheeks. On the ride from the airport to our hotel, I made a point to sit next to her in the passenger seat so we could catch up. As we drove along the idyllic coastline of the French Riviera, immediately comfortable in her presence, I commented again on how much I recognize and appreciate her truly excellent service toward me and my group and thanked her. She said that in truth, it gives her great pleasure to offer service, especially when it is received with such warmth.

We began to discuss how we both work in domains where we get immense pleasure from offering what we hope is top-notch service and what a joy it is to serve people, especially when it’s received so warmly. 

As we rolled past the Riviera villas, I was also very happy to learn that her dedication to excellent service has rewarded her well. Since her early days with Uber, now she has a small fleet of elegant, expensive, black cars and a retinue of sharply-dressed drivers to transport everyone from ambassadors to the kings and queens of my yoga retreat guests. Truly she treats each person as royalty.

When the retreat was over, she met our group at the hotel to take them back to the airport. After loading everyone’s luggage and escorted them into their seats, she closed the doors and gave me hugs, kisses on both cheeks, and a very nice bottle of Bordeaux (Médoc 2018, a very good year for this wine). 

If you’re ever heading to the Riviera, please let me know and I’ll connect you with Farida so you too can receive the excellent service of Farida. Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Or Frida. And you, I hope. 

I can’t promise you that she’ll send you off with kisses and a bottle of wine, but I can promise you that you’ll be treated to service that you won’t forget.


Now, giving excellent service is only half of the equation. The other half is learning how to be on the receiving end of service. 

Do you know anyone like this—they absolutely LIVE to serve and give but have the most difficult time receiving? 

Come on, are YOU like this sometimes? 

I know I am, though I’m getting much better at receiving.

Remember that receiving is the other half of the magic of great service. 

Receiving and giving. Giving and receiving. It’s the reciprocity that makes the world go round. It’s the alchemy that allows us to transform our gifts, talents, as well as our needs, into a catalyst that helps both giver and receiver evolve in love into their highest being. 

It’s true. 

The benefit is much more than the money exchanged, the service rendered. The benefit is magic.

There’s always magic at the crossroads and this is true of the intersection of giving and receiving. When heart-felt giving is met with heart-felt receiving it conjures a magic that creates a new, third thing. 

What is it: Is it love? Growth? Happiness?

Larger Than The Sum Of Their Parts

I’ve experienced this my entire career. Whether I’m teaching a yoga class or working with a mentor on building their business, I often feel like I’m the one who is receiving all the benefits, the love, the insight, the energy. 

But in truth we are both receiving the maximum benefit and that’s why it feels so good. It’s a true collaboration. And that’s why the benefits go so much deeper than flexible hips or a functional web site and a mission statement. 

Both are giving. Both are receiving. Both are growing.

Fruits At The Crossroads


I recently finished a mentor package with a fellow Yoga Nidra teacher. Together, we figured out first who she is in this domain of Yoga Nidra, exactly who her clients are, and then crafted her message, look, and products to marry her skills and passions to her clients needs. It was a beautiful collaboration and I’m really proud of all the work she did. It was an honor to add my 25+ years of expertise to apply to her business but more than that, to be a guiding light of encouragement and to remind her that the most important answers are always inside of her. 

As we were building the mechanism for her to create the giving and receiving magic with her own clients, we were simultaneously experiencing that same mentor/student magic ourselves. 

Always a beautiful thing and I will NEVER tire of working on this deeply personal and direct level with clients. 

So, in the spirit of giving and receiving, it’s with the utmost pleasure that I introduce you to the wonder that is Amy DiSanto and Nidra Babes. You gotta check out her website. It’s a work of art and she deserves all the credit for it. You can sign up to become a Nidra Babe and find the rest and resources for you to be your best in this busy world. 

She recently sent me a letter of appreciate which I would love to share with you:


A Letter of Reverence: Rest, Mentorship, and the Birth of Nidra Babes

by Amy DiSanto


There are people who shape your life so deeply, words never seem quite enough.

This is a letter of reverence for one of those people: Scott Moore—poet, jazz lover, Yoga Nidra teacher, and heart-led mentor. Scott didn’t just teach me how to rest. He held space for me to become. To unravel. To rebuild. To create something extraordinary from the raw material of my own authenticity.

When I joined his mentorship program, I was a woman on the edge of massive transition. I had ideas—lots of them—and also doubts. I worried about being too much. Too emotional. Too nonlinear. Too sensitive. Too "off-task." But Scott? He never flinched.

Instead, he welcomed all of me. Every session felt like a nourishing exhale. His presence wasn’t performative—it was permission-giving. He didn’t coach from a pedestal. He mentored from beside me. Gently. Steadily. With unwavering belief in my gifts. He saw my “mad skills,” as he put it. He made me feel celebrated, not just tolerated.

And somehow, he made business strategy feel sacred. Every recap email he sent after our sessions? Not your average follow-up. They read like poetic jam sessions—filled with insights, encouragement, humor, and clarity. Honestly, they were like sacred scrolls.

Scott Moore didn’t give me confidence. He gave me something better: a mirror. A reminder. A remembering. The gift of seeing myself clearly—unfiltered, real, whole. And that changed everything.

There are some experiences that shift the entire trajectory of your life—not through force or formulas, but through presence. Through poetry. Through being seen.

Working one-on-one with Scott Moore was one of those experiences.

It wasn’t a business coaching program. It was a portal—into expansion, authenticity, and ease. A sacred container for who I was becoming. And a mirror for the self I hadn’t yet fully met.

Scott isn’t just a mentor. He’s a poet. A jazz lover. A Yoga Nidra teacher with soul-deep wisdom. He brings his entire heart into mentorship—his reverence, rhythm, and radical capacity to hold space without agenda.

One of the things Scott says often is: “Everything is yes and everything is love.”

And he lives it. Every emotion I brought to our sessions—fear, grief, brilliance, joy, doubt, divine downloads—was met with exactly that energy. Yes, and love.

He didn’t fix or redirect me. He invited me to feel into the moment without succumbing to people-pleasing, pressure, or performance. He modeled how to pause without apology.

And just when I thought I was spiraling, he’d deliver a jaw-dropping truth bomb—poetic, precise, and with cosmic humor.

That’s why I call him Mic Drop Scott. Because working with him is a mic drop every time. 

We quickly created a bond built on trust and shared reverence for Yoga Nidra. It was a connection that felt ancient, familiar, and sometimes otherworldly.

His guidance wasn’t just cerebral—it came from a deeper knowing, stirred by presence, that allowed doubt to dissolve and clarity to blossom.

He celebrated my “mad skills” (his words) and never let me forget them—even when I did.

One of the greatest gifts I revisit again and again is what comes after our sessions: The follow-up emails. Not average check-ins, but poetic recaps, energetic integrations, and loving nudges infused with insight and celebration.

They captured our session’s essence with clarity, humor, and that signature Scott cadence that made the impossible feel inevitable: They made me feel capable. They reminded me I didn’t have to do it alone. And even when the next steps felt daunting, the message was always: you’ve got this, and I see you.

Those emails alone could’ve been a masterclass in mentorship.

It’s that blend—deep listening, real business strategy, spiritual presence, poetic impact—that makes Scott more than a mentor.

And at one point—(in what I imagined would be our last call) without hesitation or condition—he said:

“You have a biz wingman for life.”

That gift was everything. It wasn’t just the mentorship—it was the certainty I wasn’t walking this path alone. That someone with wisdom, humility, and real tools was in my corner. That kind of steady belief rewires your nervous system. It reconfigures self-trust. It grounded everything I’ve built since.

In those six months (and beyond, because yes—Scott is my “biz wingman for life”), something else was quietly, powerfully being born: Nidra Babes & Lil’ Nidra Babes.

This mentorship journey cracked open a new rhythm in me. A rhythm of rest. Of alignment. Of deeply trusting that what I’m here to do begins with slowing down, not speeding up.

Nidra Babes isn’t simply a business. It’s the embodiment of everything I learned through rest, through witnessing, through the beautiful discomfort of growing in sacred space. It's the invitation I now extend to other women who lead—moms, CEOs, healers, educators, creators—to pause, recalibrate, and reconnect with their inner knowing.

And Lil’ Nidra Babes? That’s the extension of this sacred rest into the next generation. A playful, heart-centered way to introduce school-aged children to the power of stillness, imagination, and nervous system regulation—through Yoga Nidra audio bundles and Creative Calm fill-in-the-blank stories. (You can find those here, if you’re curious.)

Scott taught me that when you mentor from a place of “everything is yes and everything is love,” you unlock more than potential—you unlock power. Real, gentle, unstoppable power.

He always reminded me that my authenticity was my secret sauce—that showing up as me is the wind in the sails of my business. That simple truth, offered with such reverence, became the foundation for all I now share through Nidra Babes.

So here’s to the people who remind us who we are. Here’s to rest as a strategy. Here’s to choosing alignment over urgency. Here’s to the mentors who don’t just teach us how to build—but how to be.

And if you’ve ever wondered what’s possible when you pause long enough to hear your soul whisper… Come rest with me.

Visit NidraBabes.com—a space born from rest, rooted in authenticity.

And Scott—thank you. For modeling soulful strategy. For honoring emotions as messengers. For proving that mentorship can feel like music.

Thank you for whispering truth in moments I wanted to run. For walking with me through the birth of this vision. And for reminding me that the path of rest, creativity, and authenticity is not just valid—it’s visionary.

— Amy DiSanto

Yoga Nidra Class Near Me: Free Yoga Nidra Class Sunday + Updates

Happy Friday to you!

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I hope your week has been great—full of self-awareness, optimism, and doing things for your wellbeing. 

PSA

I invite you to make it a habit that each day you do something healthy for your body, mind, and spirit. 

Personally, I wake up early to do yoga and work out, I plan out what I’m going to eat, and I listen to or read something every day that nourishes my spirit. 


What are your body, mind, spirit habits?

As we step into the weekend, I wanted to give you a few tid-bits.


Free Yoga Nidra Class This Sunday

Every Sunday I teach a live online Yoga Nidra class 9–10:15 am MT. 

This is the 5th Sunday of the month so this week my live online Yoga Nidra class is FREE. Click here to register and instead of payment, click “It’s the 5th Sunday of the month, this one’s free” button on the registration form. Then, you’ll get an email with the Zoom link and information about class. 

Even if you can’t join live, register anyway because everyone gets the replay so you can listen to and/or watch the entire class as well as just the Yoga Nidra practice. 

This week we’ll explore how love and joy are both portals to experience our ultimate being.


Yoga For Stiffer Bodies

Saturdays 7:30–8:30 am MT

Live via Zoom or in person at Mosaic Yoga

By donation 

I absolutely love this class. It’s a great opportunity to join a fantastic community of practitioners and do an intelligent, therapeutic, and active yoga practice but totally on your terms.

Class is 60 minutes and consists of a generous warm up, familiar and new poses, and a nourishing cooldown and stretchy poses. It’s the perfect way to start your weekend.

Join me for Yoga for Stiffer Bods live, either via Zoom or in person at Mosaic Yoga in Salt Lake City, Utah. For Zoomers, click here and see the Zoom button at the top of the page (same link for all of my classes).


Advanced Yoga Nidra Training

Also, I noticed that I’d originally scheduled my Advanced Yoga Nidra teacher training to overlap with Easter so I’ve changed the dates a bit. Now, the Advanced Yoga Nidra teacher training will be over two weekends: April 26–27; May 3–4.

I’m really excited about this training. I only offer it once a year and it’s a chance to really go deep into the absolutely transformational practice of Yoga Nidra. 

We are going to do a deep dive into topics like:

  • Purpose: Self-discovery, sacred sleep, and waking from the dream

  • Tools: Expanding your toolbox—Drawing a bigger map, Speaking your voice, and wielding weapon-grade love

  • Practice Makes Progress: Mastering Yoga Nidra dyads, discovering and building YOUR classes, and developing personal projects

  • Direction Frequency and Resonance: advanced recording techniques, sharing platforms, and finding your voice to reveal your students

If you haven’t done the first training, reach out to me and I can arrange a special price for both the level 1 and the advanced training. You’ll have just enough time to do both!

Join us!


Yoga Retreat France

I have only 3 spots left in my French Riviera yoga retreat happening June 7–13, 2025. This will be a retreat of a lifetime and I don’t want you to miss out. Please grab your bestie and make it happen.


Yoga Business and Teaching Mentorships

Yoga Business Mentor

Lastly, I love mentoring other conscious entrepreneurs how to start or boost their business. I recently had a few mentors graduate which opens up a few spots.

If you're interested in a free discovery Zoom call where we can discuss how to get your mad skills out into the world and make a positive impact while also making a great living doing what you love, please book an appointment below. 


You're a beautiful person. You matter, you're good enough, and pretty kick-ass.

Please share your incredible gifts with the world. 

What About The NOT Holidays?

I know. We are always hearing about the stress of the Holidays.


But what about the NOT Holidays?


Sure, sometimes, December can be rough.


But with all the goodwill, decorations, parties and whatnot, even with how busy it can be, December can also be quite cheery. The month you gotta worry about—the one you gotta keep your eye on cuz it’s a troublemaker—is January. My apologies to anyone born in January. The month is better because you were born then.

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