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Today I close the door one final time at a place that was my first big open door to working with some of the population that wasn’t otherwise getting exposure to yoga, meditation and just being. I feel it was the real start to important magic that has been transpiring in my professional life lately. I’ve let a lot go, closed a lot of doors, opened up the door to my heart and I’m excited to see what grows. Thank you to those of you who have helped and supported and cheered me on along the way! #upwardandonward #makemagic #downdogma #yogasummitofohio https://www.instagram.com/p/BxfdNt0HhXQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u2ep6dcm6wdy

#upwardandonward #makemagic #downdogma #yogasummitofohio

Don’t be jelly 😂 https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcNgDYnrtT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wblcai993ntg

To the beach 🏖 Today is a gift 🎁 Life is a blessing🤗 #yogalife #friends #grateful #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSjOIZhZTV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tjzm9aay91j1

#yogalife #friends #grateful #downdogma

I have everything I need Right inside of me 🌱 {Also, I have these giant acorns} #naturemandala #earthing #origami #yogini #shineshamelessly #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BxP7xo5huky/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1na5xzi3anbz5

#naturemandala #earthing #origami #yogini #shineshamelessly #downdogma

I used the dramatically cool filter cause I felt dramatically cool, it was a fun montage moment 😎 Want to know about other cool things happening? 👉🏼I have 15% off codes for Flex Yoga Farm Fest 🐓 🎸⚡️ @nick_comsia_someday and I rock out with #electricsoul in the late afternoon. ☀️JUNE 22nd *very importantly - the food is delicious!* Holla at ya girl 🤙🏻 (and tell me when I’m trying too hard 🤣) @yogafarmfest @kristin_gangles @alexiarenae @chandrasana108 @dgang0404 @capozzer @jadethursia12 @amanda.ruth.96 @curtisduffey https://www.instagram.com/p/BxOH9aNBvx_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xz3q6f12zrdg

#electricsoul

Last minute road trip.. Drop everything when someone really needs your love ❤️ #share #iloveyoga #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BxLoS0hh8AG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cztg2cvgl4n3

#share #iloveyoga #downdogma

(Almost) Thirty, flirty and thriving everyone! 🤣 this is what success looks like right here 😉☝🏼🤟🏼 #donutlove #flattire #highclasssociety #findjoy #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIFwkIhE3L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p14a485te605

#donutlove #flattire #highclasssociety #findjoy #downdogma

Rolled into this day just READY for magic ✨Hey there END of April!? Seems like it was just the end of March and I was wondering if I’d EVER (so dramatic) come out of the slump I was in 🙈I wanted to potentially hide for forever. I had 🚫no mojo, no motivation, no passion, no purpose ❌No wait, that’s not true. I knew my purpose in March. It was to REALLY take some huge steps back from the what and the how I was doing everything I was doing because things just weren’t working out again the way I knew they COULD. I stepped into what Kripalu yoga calls the “fertile void.” The fertile void is an absolutely necessary part of the model of transformation + creation where seemingly nothing happens. The fertile void is also, from my experience, a flowery word for what felt like hell 🔥. With the surrender to this suffering and confusion came bounties of priceless gifts. What a unique opportunity, what a blessing to have the room and the support to back off big time from DOING and to focus on just being. I crawled deeper into my yogini’s cave and thought about remaining isolated. There is a safety and a thrill in being with the self. I recovered parts of me I had forgotten and I discovered radical parts of me I never knew. The old and the new are becoming friends. I’m like 90s kid ⏩meets yogini ⏭goddess meets ▶️joyfully sincere goofball ✌🏻heyy! Thanks to all the people who have my back 🙏🏼Here’s to the golden years 🤟🏼 #thirtyflirtyandthriving #blonde #transformation #fertilevoid #gemini #downdogma #electricsoul #movingmountains #downdogma (at Canton, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw21YHOB8Zr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sg7czg3smilw

#thirtyflirtyandthriving #blonde #transformation #fertilevoid #gemini #downdogma #electricsoul #movingmountains

Our spotted Calico cat + dog family love loves our new #ruggable - Can’t tell you how many times we’ve rolled around on this rug to do some yoga and breathing exercises? So cozy. I am over my yoga mat. - I thought these washable rugs were too good to be true, but after a few weeks with this Persian print, we’ve got some wild ones on the way for other parts of the house! #ruggablepets #kalikitty #leodog #heartorigami #mandala #yogaeverywhere #offmymat #downdogma (at Canton, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwoqsqbhrSI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1y60j6mevey1

#ruggable #ruggablepets #kalikitty #leodog #heartorigami #mandala #yogaeverywhere #offmymat #downdogma

Wow, what a weekend with friends and fam that rolled into a pretty epic #moonday + #earthday filled with last minute plans, making gains of the physical and spiritual variety, walks in my bare feet ,brainstorming on helping our environment while gathering trash at the park. Rounded the evening off with a collective practice in yoga grace raising money for the #yogasummitofohio and our outreach missions, got some good food from Jasmine and watched Japanese cartoons with my boo. Thanks for helping me smile brighter today world 🌎 I love you ✌🏻 #yogagrace #meditationinmotion #kripaluyoga #accessibleyoga #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BwlOf1yhbDY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lsl2qg57brgv

#moonday #earthday #yogasummitofohio #yogagrace #meditationinmotion #kripaluyoga #accessibleyoga #downdogma

Yoga Grace is more than just a name, really..it’s a way to move and breathe through all of life, not just on our yoga mats. I am feeling so energized and grateful to teach for my dear Turra G tonight at 7pm. Turra was one of my first willing yoga students I ever had and she has been a wellspring of support and friendship since. Join us tonight 7pm for an all levels “Kristie Yoga” 🙃 What does that mean? Here’s a little ditty I wrote up on my recent yoga vibe: 🙌🏻 An intuitively guided freedom flow rooted in anatomical reality. My teaching style is greatly influenced by Kripalu yoga as well as the practice of mindfulness + meditation, where our movements go far beyond the mechanical aspects into a deeper inquiry of sensation, thought and patterns. Here is where our body begins to teach us yoga and we co-create the practice with attention and compassion. Class is $5. Come early to get a space. At Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 4275 Lincoln Way West! #meditationinmotion #yogasummitofohio #earthday #yogagrace #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwj5ZGsBDBo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1luv3anxxhbzc

#meditationinmotion #yogasummitofohio #earthday #yogagrace #downdogma

Be a shero/hero! #embraceyourvoice #iask #believesurvivors #endsexualviolence #yogasummitohio #downdogma (at Rivercrest Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwfMBwyBtGl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19oktu15sxlv9

#embraceyourvoice #iask #believesurvivors #endsexualviolence #yogasummitohio #downdogma

Had a GREAT weekend of events with GREAT people! Now it’s Monday, and time to finish my taxes I’ve been procrastinating! #jumpforjoy #aprilshowersbringmayflowers #friends #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_qAhthd9x/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1981imma164ic

#jumpforjoy #aprilshowersbringmayflowers #friends #downdogma

THE LOOK 👀 Power tools 🧰 and electric guitars 🎸- I’ve always liked that you know how to work with your hands, but my favorite place for your hands to be are wrapped around me, of course 🤗 I could climb into that electric ⚡️ soul of yours every day and dance around the meadow of your melodies until I laid down my head once more in the field of wildflowers. Side by side comparison of the very first photo I ever took of @nick_comsia_someday and the most recent. Interested in attending or hosting Electric ⚡️ Soul someday? Please reach out! Graphic art by @rainekbrowning ✌🏻 #electricsoul #livemusic #yoga #ibanez #thelook #dreamteam #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BvwHGRMh85z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rvarf168pc2z

#electricsoul #livemusic #yoga #ibanez #thelook #dreamteam #downdogma

April’s Electric ⚡️ Soul is this Friday! I’m not teaching yoga as much as I once did, or really even in the same way I have the past 8 years, but I am doing THIS right here and am SO EXCITED about it! Electric Soul is a co-creation between my husband @nick_comsia_someday and myself. In this experience, we move through an intuitive yoga + energy practice with the “liquidy” melodies of my guy Nick and his electric guitars. @beyogastudios in Dover is hosting us for the month of April. (Thank you Sarah for always being such a warm and compassionate hostess!!) We will begin Friday at 7pm Limited space available, pre-registration IS recommended. If there are any electric guitar 🎸 fans out there that feel the practice of yoga 🧘🏻‍♂️ postures is out of their range, please come to enjoy the music + meditation aspects of the evening. 🎶 #rockon #electricsoul #dreamteam #meditationinmotion #livemusic #liveyourdharma #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvur2lkBjr8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13xdyo3gp0fne

#rockon #electricsoul #dreamteam #meditationinmotion #livemusic #liveyourdharma #downdogma

I got a little distracted today rolling around on the floor. It’s nice to get lost in yourself sometimes though, right? ✌🏻 #yogahome #kripaluyoga #justbreathe #meditationinmotion #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/BvaR8QthQ2-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12qgxtxt1fgub

#yogahome #kripaluyoga #justbreathe #meditationinmotion #downdogma

Mmmmm 🙏🏼 It’s my favorite time of day here at hOMe 🏡 Time for reflecting, writing, sitting, being, soaking, growing, snuggling, breathing, stretching, searching, thriving, dying, letting go, holding on, surviving, dreaming, perspiring. ⏰ Time for living 🙌🏻 I’ve been blessed with an opportunity this month to kind of be an end-of-winter hermit with few commitments and obligations. I know so many of you almost never get this in your life except perhaps when you’re sick and your body gives you no choice. My heart has given me no choice, does that count (yes, yes it does). I wish grade schools, middle schools, high schools and work places still gave their people nap time and recess EVERY DAY. I wish winter-hermit time was something we all had AFTER the buzz of the holiday season. I know that’s a giant paradigm shift, and maybe the world and economy would fall apart (what do I know?), but if I base it off MY reality that I need space for creativity to grow and bloom from within, I think we all could use a break, don’t you? #becauseyoureworthit #givemeabreak #winterhermit #springbud #fertilevoid #donothing #beeverything #downdogma https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6FHq_BqNv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rj6tw10bl2jv

#becauseyoureworthit #givemeabreak #winterhermit #springbud #fertilevoid #donothing #beeverything #downdogma

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