Dr. Yoga Momma

06/07/2025

Nosara Costa Rica May 2026

Spring is an ideal time to go on retreat. Although we often think of retreating to a warm place in the middle of winter, this retreat is ideal to help you transition through Spring, a season of rebirth, into the season of Summer, a season of play and expansion.

Just like we often Spring clean and rearrange our homes in the Spring, our bodies, minds and hearts also need this.

All of us, no matter where we live, take on heavier energy in the winter months, and if we don’t burn through this heaviness, once Spring arrives it looks like depression, lethargy, low motivation, weight gain, and a tendency to “not deal with things”. This makes rebirth, play, and expansion much more difficult.

This retreat will help you shed that heaviness quickly via twice daily yoga sessions, meditation, healthy food, warm and humid weather, and energetic purification via practices like yoga nidra, breath work, hypnosis, and energy medicine as we move deeper into the realm of the unconscious with Dr. Betsy Rippentrop, a skilled energy medicine practitioner, psychologist, and yoga teacher.

For more information and to sign up, click link in bio.

06/06/2025

Me and my big sis! Was SO GREAT to have her on Tend Her Wild podcast today. Yes, she has officially always been the more “wild” sister so I have been in training watching her for, oh 50 years or so.

In this picture we are on a beach in San Diego where we were dreaming about how someday when we are old and widowed we will be leaving together watching the sunsets. She is definitely the person I would want to be doing that with. Love you Jen!

Check out episode 162 wherever you listen!

06/06/2025

Me and my big sis! Was SO GREAT to have her on Tend Her Wild podcast today. Yes, she has officially always been the more “wild” sister so I have been in training watching her for, oh 50 years or so.

In this picture we are on a beach in San Diego where we were dreaming about how someday when we are old and widowed we will be leaving together watching the sunsets. She is definitely the person I would want to be doing that with. Love you Jen!

06/05/2025

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” -Albert Einstein

I sat at a conference with Deepak Chopra, my meditation teacher, about 10 years ago as he talked about how intuition gets stronger the more we meditate. He said that the skills of people like the New Jersey Psychic would be scientifically verifiable in the near future.

He was right. The science of intuition continues to build showing it is a complex cognitive process rather than just a mystical phenomenon that we write off as “woo-woo”.

Although intuition has been a potent force in human culture and in many scientific discoveries (including Einstein’s theory of relativity), we now better understand what a powerful tool it can be in our decision making.

Do you trust your intuition? If not, do you know why?

This month’s Wisdom Wednesday explores all the nuances of intuition (as well as the science behind it), and ends with a guided meditation and breath practice to tap you into your 3 wisdom centers so you can receive guidance for whatever questions you are currently wrestling with.

06/04/2025

Trusting Intuition was the conversation for this month's Wisdom Wednesday. Thanks for watching!

Trusting Our Intuition with Dr Betsy Rippentrop_ June 4In this month's Wisdom Wednesday You Will Learn:Intuition has been called "the long lost juice of life...

06/03/2025

Three big lessons emerged from the silence. First, I realized how much energy we expend out into the world instead of into ourselves. When the opportunity to engage with the external world is essentially taken away, there is no other option but to turn inward.

Second, the turning inward allowed me to find ME. I finally somatically understood how the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. And, the more conscious and quiet time you spend with self, this relationship only deepens and expands.

Third, I began to hear the inner teacher, something our instructor introduced us to on day 3. The inner teacher is the idea that we all carry wisdom, knowing, and the guidance we need for whatever life is bringing.

As the silent days and nights went on, the voice of my inner teacher got louder. On one of the last days there, we were asked to have our inner teacher write us a letter of everything we needed to know. The wisdom and clarity that came through was more clear and concise than I’ve ever experienced.

We can consider the inner teacher many things, but it is the part of us that is whole and intact. It is our intuitive faculties, and the deeper knowing we all experience that you can’t rationally explain but you feel. When we are tapped into it, our quality of life is greatly enhanced.

All of this inspired me to explore in this week’s Wisdom Wednesday the power of our Inner Teacher and intuition. Join me for conversation and a deep practice to tap you into a knowing that goes far beyond your small self.

Hope to see you Wednesday!
Betsy

06/02/2025

Reorganizing Our Internal Spaces
Retreat with Betsy in Nosara Costa Rica
May 9-16, 2026
Registration just opened....spaces go fast!

Spring is an ideal time to go on retreat. Although we often think of retreating to a warm place in the middle of winter, this retreat is ideal to help you transition through Spring, a season of rebirth, into the season of Summer, a season of play and expansion.

Just like we often Spring clean and rearrange our homes, the body, mind, and heart also need this.

All of us, no matter where we live, take on heavier energy in the winter months, and if we don’t burn through this heaviness, once Spring arrives it looks like depression, lethargy, low motivation, weight gain, and a tendency to “not deal with things”. This makes rebirth, play, and expansion much more difficult.

This retreat will help you shed that heaviness quickly via twice daily yoga sessions, meditation, healthy food, warm and humid weather, and energetic purification via practices like yoga nidra, breath work, hypnosis, and energy medicine as we move deeper into the realm of the unconscious with Dr. Betsy Rippentrop, a skilled energy medicine practitioner, psychologist, and yoga teacher.

For more information and to sign up, click link in bio.

06/01/2025

Fun adventure at Coco’s ranch yesterday doing a little goat yoga with Heartland teachers being led by the amazing .

It all just made me giggle 🤭

05/16/2025

Paros, Greece October 2025
Final spaces!

Feminine consciousness is rising and this force is one of healing, connection, creativity, compassion, flow, intuitive wisdom, and receptivity.

The island of Paros, Greece, tucked in the heart of the Agean sea, is a perfect backdrop to explore, experience and embody this powerful feminine life force through the study and embodiment or Goddess archetypes from the yoga tradition and beyond.

With a group of like-minded women, and led by Dr Betsy Rippentrop, you’ll have a chance to experience deep inner healing through the practices of yoga, meditation, breath work, contemplation, energy work, and ritual.
If you are ready for transformation through increasing trust in the feminine, this experience is for you.

Click link in bio to register.