Heart's Garden

11/01/2026

🎵🎼Guess who's back... den-neh-neh... back again.... LEAH'S BACK!.... tell some friends... guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back....

My time off from teaching this fall was lovely and needed. AND, I'm so excited to be back!

Yestersay's 🧟‍♂️ was the perfect way to return to my teaching practice. What a blast! Thanks to all the beautiful humans who came to fill the room with immaculate vibes.

You can once again find me on the weekly schedule at 180 balance: Yoga Fitness starting TOMORROW (Monday 11/2)!

Got questions on what these classes look like? Who they're for? What to expect?
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Please don't hesitate to reach out!

So much love my friends... so much love. 🙏


📸cred : Kylee Noelle Photography & Lakes Area Wellness Collective 💖

10/31/2026

What are you scared of? 😱
No, really.
What, when you dig deep, is one of your greatest fears?

There are several traditions wrapped up in what we now call Halloween in the modern world...

From all saints day, to all hallows eve.
From Dias de las Mu***os (day of the dead), to the festival of Samhain on the celtic wheel of the year...

Each of these traditions center around the honoring and remembrance of those who've gone on before us.

When asked what I fear the most, I had to sort through many thoughts and familiar worries to find one common thread beneath them all.

Sure, extreme heights and crocodiles lurking in murky water made the list, but the thing that I placed at the very top was - when I'm old and gray, and in my final days - my greatest fear would be looking back at a life that I lived as anyone but my true and authentic self.

You see we all wear masks - not just on Halloween.

We've all shown up differently or made ourselves small in environments where taking up space didn't feel safe.

We've all been molded and shaped and told how (and who) to be our whole lives - and sometimes that results in losing ourselves.

Not fully, but certainly parts of us go dormant, suppressed, and left in the dark.

The artist in you might get burryed by the responsibilities of the CEO or manager who works so hard that they have nothing left at the end of the day.

The poet, the dancer, the rowdy teenager and the inner child are silenced by the hats that we wear and the desire for acceptance from others.

So what if we decided, on this day of remembrance, to not only call back the memories and spirits of our lost loved ones, but to also call back the lost pieces of ourselves?

What if, for even just this day, you invite your inner child to dance in the kitchen or sing along to a song in the grocery store? 💃

What if we invite the rebellious adolescent within to take the day off of chores - because omg - how LAME! 😜

What if I told you that every single piece of yourself is beautiful, worthy, and loved?
Even and especially the darkest, perhaps a bit spooky pieces... 👻

Today on this day of remembrance, we honor our angels and ancestors.

So too do we honor the lost pieces of ourselves. 🙏

Let your freak flag fly.
Take off the masks.
You are a gift that the world needs... every, single version and layer.
There's room for them all.
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10/30/2026

🎃Join me for a Halloween FRANKEN-FLOW on Saturday, October 31st, 9:30am at 180 balance: Yoga Fitness!🕸

In this 60min practice, we'll weave together elements of gentle yoga, transcend (vinyassa) flow, and add a few holds, pulses, and paces that might spook you into thinking you've signed up for sculpt! 👻🤪

🧟‍♀️But do not fear, my little goblins and ghouls, this class is for all! 🧛‍♂️

So come as you are, do what you can, and enjoy a halloween playlist sure to be as eclectic as the flow. 🦇

Head to ➡️ https://180balance.tulasoftware.com/student/calendar
and register NOW to save your spot!

Xoxo
🧙‍♀️Leah

10/14/2026

I've been "off" since September.

It all had to stop.
The hustle.
The grind.
The constant multitasking.
The over scheduling.
The over giving.
The putting my self care on the back burner.
It all had to stop.

I've been "off" since September, and I put that word in quotations because every mom out there knows there are no "off" days in the hood... (ya know, motherHOOD)...

Since September, I've been tending to my body - holding space for her to heal, to grow stronger, and speak clearly the words I've ignored for too long.

Since September, I've been tending to my spirit - taking space to see where we're at in this painfully beautiful metamorphosis called life.

Since September, I've been lovingly observing my mind - taking note of what old stories still like to hop in the driver's seat from time to time...

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I've always been a creature who needs periods of deep rest and reflection, and what I know about this season of life is that I can no longer survive on breadcrumbs.

I can no longer override the wisdom of my body and the voice of my heart to accommodate to the story someone else has written.

I am the author of this magical life, and I think it's time I promote myself to main character. 💖
... to all my burnt out friends and followers, to all the parents, entrepreneurs, and perimenopausal baddies out there... to the hustlers, the overachievers, to the chronic illness warriors and all the beautiful humans who believe they're not enough, not worthy, or have a nervous system programmed to make them feel like they have to EARN rest -
💋 LET'S KNOCK THAT S**T OFF, K?!

You are worthy. You're enough. Rest is not a privilege.
As for me, I'm back at the end of the month. Stay tuned for a 🎃 kickoff you won't wanna miss.
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**ps, I had the privilege to offer some outdoor yoga for Lakes Area Wellness Collective and scored some awesome 📸 action shots by Kylee Noelle Photography.
Go give their pages a follow to peep all the fun things they're up to.

10/11/2026

This... this is what's been stirring here at Heart's Garden. I don't know the exact shape of what's coming yet, but I know that a community of women supporting women is a huge piece of this next chapter.
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Women need community.
It's in our blood. Our bones.

We are meant to sing together.
Cook together.
Tend the garden together.
Play together.
Pray together.

We all long for this. Maybe this longing is ever-present and permeates all that we are, or maybe it shows its face in the quiet subtleties of life....
In the way we devour poetry.
In the way we make love.
In the way we fantasize about the lives of passersby.
In the way we draw out conversation in hopes for that familiar old spark of depth.

We remember.
Our bodies remember.
We need it.

And I see so many of us today reaching out for such community only to be met with other women who are also Under-Resourced, Under-Pleasured, Overworked, and Overwhelmed.

I'm seeing a detrimental lack of support for Mothers in particular.

{Humanity is suffering largely in part because our MOTHERS are suffering.}

Read that again.

These days moms can't hardly bathe themselves in peace-- let alone find the energy to pour into their passions and life's work.
The passion of the feminine quite literally keeps the world spinning.
Yet instead of being available for spontaneous creative flow and life-altering love, mothers are constantly forced into "Beta Brain".
Making phone calls, meals, money, appointments...
Balancing schedules and checkbooks... Playing Mom, Dad, Friend, Therapist, Doctor...
Playing every role.

Our mothers are exhausted.

So I must ask... At What Cost?
What will come of generation after generation of children being raised by tired, disembodied mothers?

Just look around.

You see...
Mothers don't need patted on the back. Mothers don't need accolades.
They need tangible support in the household and in their communities.
They need shared responsibility.
They need reciprocity in relationships.
They need to be held.
They need pleasure.
Space to release.
Freedom to create for the sake of creating.

And responsibility lies on each and every one of us to give this to our women.

Humanity cannot be free until women are free. And I believe Community is Key. 🔑

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Madison Earthwalker
Hearticulations of a Birthkeeper
Art by: Dorrie Joy Artist 🪶

09/20/2026

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Credit to on tiktok

08/30/2026