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Naika | Life Doula + Yoga Therapist

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Guiding profound life shifts through movement, breath & ritual.
✨ Honey Activations • Honey Movement
🍯 ↓ Honey Rest Experience and Field Guide

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Press play.
Let your body answer.

The New Moon may be quiet.
But your body isn’t.

It’s been on “hustle” all week.
Holding. Carrying. Bracing.

Tomorrow, we won’t push through it.
We will move gently through it.

Slow hips.
Heavy breath.
Music that meets you where you are…
and gently brings you back to yourself.

Sunday Melt: Move Like Honey
A slow, soulful reset for body + breath

Sunday, April 19
11:00 AM
Atrium82
82 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

45 minutes to feel again.

Reserve your spot → https://linktr.ee/lotusmoonyogi

Link in my bio 🍯 taken in Brooklyn, New York by @lotusmoonyogi

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6 months ago

Small space? Little time? Start Here ⏰

I’ve been there. Especially when traveling. This flow, it’s the beginning of Sun Salutation A, is a great morning practice between opportunities to do the entire flow. (Also, I will do a grounded forward fold for a mini-energy reset.)

Sun Salutations are an amazing way to begin the day. I bring a variation of it into my classes, because it wakes everything up!

There is something different about breathing through practice, breathing through everything is powerful. It one of the big reasons I practice yoga, specifically.

Have you ever noticed how often you stop breathing? 👀

Sun Salutations A is I begin the day even before my mediation. Breathing and reconnecting with my body.
Then I flow from my center, responding and a lot less reacting.

It helps me, hope this helps you.

Don’t forget there is honey in the pause. 🍯 by @lotusmoonyogi

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4 months ago

POV: You’re in my Sunday Melt. 🍯

“When you’re ready…”

Stack your shoulders over your wrists.

Tuck your toes. Press your hips back.

Coming into Downward Dog

Press the earth away.

I’ve noticed even as I cue, I move with my breath.

I don’t rush transitions because I’m not to rushing you.

Our nervous systems are always listening, not just to our words, but to our pace, our presence, and the spaces in between.

Sometimes the greatest cue isn’t what I say.

It’s the permission my presence gives you to arrive in your own body.

“Check in with you, here.”

Everything within Sunday Melt is an invitation, not an expectation. Feel free to take what you like and leave the rest. Remember: Child’s pose is always an option.

Want more? Next Sunday Melt is Sunday, July 12th

#yogaislife #honeymovement #checkinwithyourself #embodimentpractice by @lotusmoonyogi

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3 months ago

She was here
Now she’s out
That will eternally be

She realizes joy
Is enjoying, herself
Wherever she is

———

I come here because it’s quiet
and so peaceful. There is a relaxing
waterfall and multiple wildflower gardens.

And the memorials remind me to live!

A little honey in Brooklyn. 🍯

#greenwoodcemetery #quietplaces #honeyinthecity #groundingenergy by @lotusmoonyogi

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a month ago

Coming home to yourself
Begins as simply as walking
With your bare feet in the grass
Allowing the winds interruptions

I created the Honey Reset as a way to remember to return.

Return to yourself.
Return to the present.
Return to your power.

The Honey Reset Experience is a simple, embodied practice designed to help you notice what’s happening inside you and create space to respond.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF…

🍯 You feel overwhelmed more easily than you’d like.
🍯 You have trouble transitioning from work into rest.
🍯 You feel disconnected from your body.
🍯 You are constantly “on.”
🍯 You want practical nervous-system tools without another complicated wellness routine.

You don't have to wait to begin to feel like yourself again. 🐝

The Honey Reset Field Guide includes 20 honey-coated grounding practices.

Join the experience via the link above💫

If you are in the HONEY RESET let me know how your journey is going.

With honey,

Naika
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#nervousystemregulation #autisticburnout #somaticpractices by @lotusmoonyogi

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a month ago

Never left my happy place 💫

I took a sweet pause from being social to work on a creative project that has turned into something bigger than I imagined.

I'm sharing all about it on my LotusMoonHoney Substack. I also have a new post on reconnecting with and staying in your power.

Are you on Substack? let’s connect.

Tonight, I'm thrilled to share some yummy flows in the studio.

✨How is your energy?
✨How is your body doing?
✨How is your breathing?

Let me know how you’ve been taking care of yourself.

There is honey in the pause.

- Naika 🍯 by @lotusmoonyogi

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a month ago

It’s not easy being sweet
It’s powerful

That is the beginning of something else

Feeling nostalgic, these are from the last time Jupiter was in my rising sign, Leo. I’m ready to go, again ♌🥳

This is after I started practicing Yoga but before I began teaching a few years later. I've always been about self-expression, or nothing. It can be intense. I'm feeling uniquely aligned with this Aquarius full moon.

Happy Full Moon adventures

📷2014/2015

💛✨

#leorising #fullmoonenergy by @lotusmoonyogi

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3 months ago

I once heard a friend say, “I want to feel it all.”

I'm not sure I've ever heard such an audacious statement.

I decided early, and with confirmation from my father, that life is entirely too much to FEEL IT ALL.

I realized that my quick judgment was from my limited experience. Maybe her life afforded her the safety to feel. Mine had not.

She is Brave.

The paradigm-shattering idea still sparked my mercurial curiosity.

Today, I understand my body is, and always was keeping the score.

I'm sharing my journey to allowing myself to feel my feelings,
the BIG overwhelming and scary ones,
the little barely noticeable sad ones,
and the ones full of JOY
in my latest LotusMoonHoney Substack essay, The Feast of Life: Joy, grief, awe, anger, love, uncertainty. All belong.

Let's talk about the powerful gift in the honey-
allowing ourselves to FEEL IT ALL.

🍯✨ by @lotusmoonyogi

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3 months ago

Freestyle movement is where I remember that my body already knows. ✨

I grew up dancing. In Detroit, I learned the dance to “Just Got Paid” in middle school. (A time when PE included wildly unregulated dodgeball. 😩)

Today, I’m honey freestyling to “I Get Paid Everyday.”

Life is interesting like that. 🤸🏾‍♀️🍯

I didn’t always have the words or the awareness to say how I felt.

My body knew.

The dance floor felt safe. Expansive. Relentlessly liberating.

When we move our hips, we create space. We soften the places that have been gripping. We invite our hearts to open to the magic and abundance that have been waiting for us all along.

Dance is a revolutionary act.
A living prayer.
Art created through movement and sound.

Like the infinite rhythms of the cosmos, our bodies already carry their own wisdom, their own timing, their own song.

There is nothing to perform here.
Only something to remember.

Move like honey.
Trust what rises.
Lead with heart.

Happy Feel Good Friday,

Naika

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#FeelGoodFriday #lifedoula #MoveLikeHoney #EmbodiedLeadership #DanceMedicine HipOpening HeartOpening HoneyMovememy by @lotusmoonyogi

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4 months ago

Tiny acts of rebellion
🥳🎉💋

“You have to decide who you are
and force the world to deal with you,
not with its idea of you.“
-James Baldwin

#artofnoticing #honeymovement #lifedoula by @lotusmoonyogi

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4 months ago

A bind opens us up. 🧘🏾‍♀️✨

There are things I learn on the mat that translate directly into my lived experience.

Baddha Trikonasana (Bound Triangle Pose) is one of them.

I’m already a fan of Triangle Pose. It finds its way into most of my Hatha classes because of how grounding, spacious, and opening it feels.

Adding the bind takes the pose a little deeper.

✨ Stretches the hamstrings and hips
✨ Opens the chest
✨ Supports better posture
✨ Gently massages the abdominal organs to aid digestion

But what I love most isn’t what happens physically.

It’s the space that opens when I stay with my breath.

Sometimes I imagine old stories, limiting beliefs, expectations, and ways of being that no longer fit simply falling away.

The bind asks for presence, patience, and trust.

And when I release it, I often feel a little lighter. A little clearer. A little more myself.

Curious, Gemini me…

What are you ready to loosen your grip on these days?

Remember, there is honey in the pause. 🍯

Naika

#honeymovement #yogaislife #trikonasana by @lotusmoonyogi

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4 months ago

Heart marks the spot 💛

I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho every year, since I happened upon it traveling years ago. It's rich in details of Santiago’s journey in search of the answer to his dream, which he, interestingly, believes lies at the Pyramids of Egypt.

Today, I understand our treasure, see wealth, is where our heart is, beacause

Our heart is the ultimate treasure.

Alignment. The connection to your heart aligns you with all YOU need to live the life of YOUR dreams.

How to connect with your heart:

1. Prepare to hear your heart
2. Listen to what it has to say
3. Understand your heart

Sounds simple enough but it's been quite the beautifully unfolding journey for me.

I'll share more about it soon enough. In the meantime;

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.” -The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Are you new to this heart connection journey? Or are you looking for a deeper connection to your heart?

Let me know in the comments, or send me a message to receive a guided meditation to practice listening within.

Abundance, love, and grace,

Naika

Brooklyn grass does feel the best! 🌳👣 taken in Brooklyn, New York by @lotusmoonyogi

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4 months ago