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People come to yoga for all kinds of reasons.
Sometimes it’s to fix a physical ailment; increase their flexibility, tone their body, tighten abs, or something similar. Sometimes it’s to train for a sport or to rehabilitate after an illness.
But yoga was originally designed to work on an energetic level to help us release deeply ingrained trauma and drama buried within our mind, body, and spirit.
I’ll talk more on that in a moment.
Let me rewind a moment, as you read this story, I invite you to think back to a recent time in your life, when the bottom has fallen completely out, and you have felt hopeless. You being here isn’t by chance, it may be your greatest calling yet.
I went into 2020 with zero inclination that I was going to learn yoga let alone become a yoga teacher. This whole experience came about quite spontaneously. I’ve personally never been drawn to yoga, I’ve never had any sort of interest or desire in learning yoga, much less teach it.
One day I was scrolling Facebook in 2021, I had come across an ad for an online yoga school that was offering YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, and for some reason, I felt something completely different about it. It struck something within me.
You see, throughout 2020 and 2021 I was having a very difficult time working through some of the negativity issues I thought I had previously resolved that were being freshly triggered by events that occurred during the pandemic.
One thing I was struggling with and could not being able to rationalize HOW my husband and I could have come off of having the BEST YEAR EVER in 2019 and we’re gearing up for an even BETTER YEAR in 2020, only to have the bottom collapse from underneath us.
Leif had just landed a brand-new job, my tarot business was a HUGE SUCCESS, we moved to North Phoenix and into a brand-new luxury apartment, with a multi million dollar view!
We even purchased a brand-new car! Our life was finally coming together in all the ways we dreamed and in an instance it all ended like someone flipped a switch and turned us off.
When the pandemic hit, everything was shut down, and my husband was instantly laid off from this brand-new job, just as many of my clients were, causing me to instantly lose my entire business.
I don’t blame the shut down, or the pandemic, or even my clients! Tragedies happen. It’s no one’s fault, everyone was affected was affected by this issue.
But these events triggered a new and consistent fear in me over our finances. How would we be able to pay the bills? What if we were evicted? What if one or both of us gets Covid?
We had NO HEALTH INSURANCE! How would we receive the appropriate care if we became that sick?
To top it off, we had this political nightmare occurring as well, which added even more fuel and stress to the fire, I thought I was going to spontaneous combust.
I started to experience anxiety attacks which later turned into full-blown PANIC ATTACKS which was something I hadn’t experienced in years.
All of that led me to developing full-blown depression. I mean, I completely shut down. I was having trouble visualizing anything positive and I felt myself slipping.
Now, I have a college degree as a holistic healthcare practitioner, so I knew how to do the work necessary to keep myself above the that harsh curve of negativity.
I TEACH MY CLIENTS HOW TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE BLOCKS AND OBSTACLES and move forward with powerful intent.
I’m not a stranger to self-help and personal transformation. But this time, something was very, very different. No matter what I did or tried to do, I just didn’t feel right emotionally or spiritually and my thoughts were becoming darker and darker.
My appetite stopped and I had lost a considerable amount of weight.
l was losing sleep, my skin started breaking out, and my hair started falling out in clumps. I had ZERO motivation and energy.
I began to lose complete faith in myself, my intuitive abilities, and the love of my work. It began to feel like Spirit slammed the door in our faces. We had worked SO HARD to get where we were, I couldn’t understand HOW we could come so far and yet fall so hard.
I didn’t have the ability to keep going or to try rebuilding my life for the 50th time. I just didn’t care. There came a time where I felt like I was literally losing my mind and my will to live. I was so depressed and scared about our future.
It’s pretty safe to say that many of us have felt this way at one time or another, at least by this age.
And normally, we’re able to overcome these adversities and eventually get back to life. We’re survivors and are used to shifting gears mid-stream to push it forward.
But what happens when we can’t move forward?
DIVINE INTERVENTION
Then one day, while on my Facebook, I saw an ad from an online yoga studio called YOGARENEW that was advertising their yoga teacher training program.
At this time there were several of these yoga teacher training ads, but there was something about this one that spoke to me in such a profound way that I just couldn’t stop thinking about it!
This was pretty insane because I didn’t practice yoga. I didn’t have a standing yoga practice of my own. In fact, I was repelled by the thought of yoga! It always looked so boring and limiting to me. I couldn’t understand my fascination with it and I didn’t want to either.
Throughout my ENTIRE LIFE friends, family, co-workers, even my BOSSES were constantly telling me I needed to do yoga and every time I’d hear that comment, I’d flip the fuck out. I’d immediately shut the conversation down.
It began to piss me off because it felt like they were insinuating that something was seriously wrong with me, you know?
Well something was SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH ME, but I wouldn’t know the full story until later.
Plus seeing all of those beautiful, toned, younger women in yoga pants and those cute little matching crop-top sports bra things, I felt WAY out of my league. No one wanted to see this old hag-ass with sagging skin and boobs in anything.
But a few weeks passed and I still couldn’t stop thinking about that damn class. It kind of became an obsession. I kept looking at the ad, looking up the school, and watching their yoga videos on YouTube.
This interest began to feel like more of a calling, like a “do or die” kind of scenario. Something kept telling me that becoming a yoga teacher was something I had to do immediately.
Now, I’ve had experience with callings my entire life and I speak about it on my website. These callings have guided me through every aspect of my career bringing me to new and more challenging adventures that also led me to helping my clients in new and powerful ways.
I’ve always had them and I still do, but most of them made sense
What was absolutely crazy about this particular calling is that I had ZERO EXPERIENCE WITH YOGA. It wasn’t that I just didn’t like yoga, the most obvious problem was that I’d NEVER TAKEN A YOGA CLASS.
Like, never.
I’ve never even stepped inside a yoga studio. I’ve never sat through a class. I had NO IDEA how to begin a yoga session, what was involved, or even what to say to these people.
With other callings I at least had an upper-understanding of what I was doing, even when I received the calling to enroll in college! I was able to take the knowledge and experience and utilize my gifts in new and powerful ways.
The ONLY EXPERIENCE I DID HAVE was that I was a vocational teacher and had been one for my entire life with my cosmetology instructor’s license.
But Spirit was coming at me sideways with this. What was even worse was that WE DIDN’T HAVE ANY MONEY! How the F was I supposed to pay for yoga teacher training?
This was sheer lunacy at this point. I didn’t know what to think or what to do. The last thing I needed was another bill.
So I sat my husband down and told him what was going on and asked him what he thought about me enrolling at this school to become a yoga teacher. He thought maybe I should do it, at the very least it may help my mental state.
So I did.
But first, I wrote YOGARENEW and explained what I was experiencing, my LACK OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH YOGA, and what they thought of me becoming a yoga teacher with zero experience.
I kind of felt like a fraud like who is going to come to my yoga classes if i don’t know how to do yoga. This was overwhelming to try to figure out.
SURPRISINGLY, THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA!
They thought that taking the teacher training would teach me HOW to teach the classes correctly but also teach me how to do the poses appropriately from the start, and that would give me such a huge advantage and more of a solid foundation.
They explained how the curriculum was online, I could learn at my own pace, they even had a payment plan, and if I had any questions or issues along the way, there were plenty of teachers on hand to help me.
She also said that EACH OF US ARE CALLED TO TEACH YOGA for vastly different reasons and that no one should be held back by experience or money.
Now that was language I could understand.
HOLY WOW.
When we answer the call, Spirit moves to meet us exactly where we are.
This was by far the wildest calling I’ve ever received, but also one of the best!
At the time I didn’t know how we’d make it through the day, but magically the exact amount of money I needed to get started with the course showed up in the bank account and REAPPEARED EVERY SINGLE MONTH after that.
You cannot make this shit up.
As I began to go through the course and read the texts, I began to understand WHAT yoga was about and WHY Spirit was so adamant at calling me to take this course.
Through my studies it was revealed to me that the PURPOSE OF YOGA is to release deeply ingrained trauma and drama caused by repetitive negativity that has weaved itself throughout our mind, body, and spirit throughout our entire existence – to help us become the highest version of ourselves and live our very best lives.
Like literally.
This yoga thing is the real deal. It’s not just isn’t about getting in shape or developing a great ass, that’s the byproduct of the practice.
The yogis’ believed that human-beings were not created to suffer, instead we were created to be happy, successful, prosperous and abundant beyond measure!
And that by developing your own daily yoga practice you’re working every single day to release that negativity and move forward with powerful intent.
After a few months of LEARNING YOGA AND DEVELOPING MY VERY OWN PRACTICE, I was beginning to feel much better about myself, my situation, and especially my future. I could BEGIN to see and feel a brighter perspective coming over me.
That projection is still growing and unfolding as I go forward.
I was able to see a way through our problems and I began to allow myself to dream a little. I had NO idea that yoga could change my life to the degree it has or that it would teach me how to live a happy, abundant, and prosperous life.
HOW YOGA INITATES TRANSFORMATION
As I was getting ready to graduate my yoga course and bring myself back to the land of the living, it became crystal clear as to WHY I’d been so profusely resistant to yoga.
Now this is where YOU come in, so please hang with me for just a little longer. If you made it this far, this message is for you!
To help you understand how metaphysical practices like yoga, the tarot, oracle cards, using crystals, spiritual coaching, and more initiate transformation, I bring you:
THE THREE PARTS OF THE MIND
The three parts of the mind theory was something I learned and studied in college and it took me a minute to get it, but once I did, I understood exactly how the tarot worked and yoga is no different.
- 1. The Conscious Mind
This is the VISIBLE and ACTIVE PART of the mind that controls our thinking, physical movement, our organs, blood flow, etc. Because it’s the THINKING part of the mind, this is also where our EGO lives. (If you’re insure what our EGO is, I invite you to look it up.)
And the one thing the EGO despises more than anything is CHANGE and it’ll do absolutely anything in it’s power to prevent us from making any type of positive changes in our lives.
Plus, the EGO IS LAZY. It doesn’t like to be uncomfortable. It would rather sit around and complain instead of getting up and doing something to feel better.
Sound familiar? The EGO can be diabolical at times, conjuring all kinds of chaos to keep us tied to this misery.
- 2. The Subconscious Mind
The subconscious is an INVISIBLE PART of the mind that acts like a giant holding tank and stores all of our thoughts, dreams, feelings, emotions, and memories along with the people, places, and things that created those experiences.
The subconscious is a deep and vast arena that contains every single thing we’ve ever experienced from the beginning of time to the end of time, from our first incarnation to to our very last breath.
Everything stays in this giant holding tank until someone or something decides to remove it. I refer to the subconscious as “the mind, body, and spirit”. It just came to me one day, it made sense in how we use those terms.
- 3. The Superconscious Mind
This aspect of the mind is ALSO INVISIBLE and exists above and beyond the conscious and subconscious mind. The superconscious governs our interconnection to each other on a soul level and then together with our Higher Power and spiritual team.
You can imagine this as all of us standing in a giant circle across the globe holding hands and then lifting our joined hands up towards the sky to connect to the heavenly realm, AKA your version of a Higher Power.
The superconscious is what we commonly refer to as the COLLECTIVE or the collective consciousness because we’re all interconnected on a soul-level.
It’s very important to understand how the three parts of the mind work in all the spiritual work because it’ll end the confusion about WHY we have the problems we do.
HOW TRANSFORMATION OCCURS
I talk about this in greater detail on The Reading + Renovation Session Page
In order for transformation to occur, we have to “get into the area” in which the negativity is stored and begin cleanse and clear the space to not only begin the healing process but to make room for NEW and POSITIVE experiences to be stored.
That area is the subconscious mind.
The problem with doing this is two-fold.
Because the subconscious is so large and vast, it can hold endless amounts of material making it incredibly daunting to not only access the area, but also retrieve the information from it.
Additionally, because of the type of information the subconscious holds, it’s even more difficult to retrieve ACCURATE VERSIONS of our experiences. This is because much of the material isn’t necessarily literal or exact; it’s either experiential or metaphoric.
You see, things like our dreams, emotions, memories, feelings, and such are often SLANTED OR BIASED based on our own personal opinions and views of the circumstance.
We also have to consider our memory in general, we might not remember every event as clearly as they happened. So when we try to remember or recall something from our past, it’s often difficult to know for certain whether it’s fact or fiction.
We don’t necessarily recognize the accuracy of the memory, we tend to remember more about how we FEEL about it and how it PERSONALLY AFFECTED US. This only adds to the trauma and the drama.
This discovery literally fucked me up and woke me up.
The second problem is trying to get into the subconscious isn’t just the metaphor aspect, it’s the CONSCIOUS MIND.
This is the portion of the mind that controls the physical components of human beings but it also contains the EGO, which is incredibly difficult to work with because it has to be right and it doesn’t like change.
The conscious mind doesn’t like it when we want to partake in any type of self- improvement or life-altering activities because it doesn’t like to be challenged or made uncomfortable. The conscious mind enjoys the status-quo even if it’s absolutely chaotic.
When we finally decide to make a change and actually start doing the work, our conscious mind can often begin to act up and cause problems that prevent or impede our progress.
Think about ALL the times that you tried to improve yourself and your circumstances and suddenly the bottom falls out like an absolute bitch!
This is why I refer to the conscious mind a giant “cock-blocker”.
Sorry, but the EGO will do practically anything and everything within its power to dissuade or distract us from making positive improvements including creating NEW NEGATIVITY like sudden self-doubt and second-guessing yourself.
That can lead us to believe that we’re either unworthy or incapable of having any type of happiness, success, prosperity, and abundance.
This is why whenever we try to do something different our dreams can feel so damn daunting and overwhelming. But there comes a time where we must get our shit together.
YOGA IS HOLY AND WORKS ON A SPIRITUAL OR ENERGETIC LEVEL.
Negativity likes to hide in small dark and compact areas throughout our being. It likes to root in with imaginary prongs holding it tightly in place.
The individual elements that make up a yoga session like setting an intention, meditation, asana, pranayama, savasana, chanting, the mudras, and more work individually and synergistically to bypass the conscious mind, enter into the subconscious, to energetically release negativity stored within the mind, body, and spirit.
For example, setting an intention allows us to set the focus of the session; what to we wish to be, do, or have from our experience on the mat? it gives us an opportunity to think about WHAT we’re wanting to achieve.
Meditation teaches us how to ground, center, and focus to stop our thoughts form running rampant and PAY ATTENTION to what we think, do, say, how we behave, etc.
In asana, or the poses, the stretching and opening of our body opens areas of ourselves that have been hidden allowing light to shine on the darkness releasing the negativity stored there.
In pranayama, taking deep breaths in and deep breaths out allows us to breathe in positive energy to go deep within the mind, body, and spirit, attach to negativity, and exhale it out of our system.
Plus so much more…
Every time you do a yoga session, it chips away at a little bit more of the negativity.
Yoga is a powerful tool that works in multiple ways to release multiple types of deeply ingrained trauma and drama from our mind, body, and spirit.
We don’t have to know how to release the negativity or how to get into the subconscious to find it, the yoga already knows.
We don’t have to reconnect with or relive any hurtful scenario or remember anyone’s name for it to be released, we just have to be be willing to set the intention and be willing to let it go.
HOW MY EXPERIENCES CAN HELP YOU
Through learning yoga, I discovered that my life-long objection to yoga was because my conscious mind knew if I ever got on the mat, my life would dramatically change and it was not ready for it.
Let me back-up.
I have AN EXTENSIVELY LONG HISTORY of encompassing and living with an extraordinary amount of deeply ingrained TRAUMA AND DRAMA that is intricately weaved throughout my entire mind, body, and spirit, from birth to present.
I had been through MULTIPLE TYPES of healing practices, including going to college to become Holistic Healthcare Practitioner and doing all of the work myself. I talk about this on my About Page.
But no matter what I did, there were active dark parts of me that I discovered during the pandemic that still needed to be addressed.
Transformation is not a one-and-done.
Transformation is a long term and in-depth process with many, many roads to take. We didn’t obtain all of this negativity overnight, and we won’t release all of it overnight either.
What I learned from my pandemic experience is that I wholeheartedly believe Spirit knew I was still struggling on an internal level even BEFORE 2020 and knew I wasn’t ready for the success that I so deeply desired.
I believe that Spirit had been trying to get my attention for a while and through multiple channels, but my conscious mind shunned the yoga suggestions over and over again so harshly because my EGO didn’t want it.
But here’s something else I learned, Spirit (GOD) is stronger than the EGO. Spirit created EGO in every single one of us and for the most part, it keeps human-beings alive, but for some of us, it’s overkill.
As scary as it may seem at the time, sometimes Spirit has to take us down to such a dark place of isolation, separation, pain, sorrow, agony, fear, and depression – almost to the brink of us ending our very existence to get our attention.
Think of Jonah and the whale. When you run from Spirit, Spirit will find you.
Spirit will strip away everyone and everything from around us to get us isolated and alone and face-to-face IN SUCH A FIERCE WAY that we have no choice but to HEAR what Spirit has to say.
I believe some of us (ME) can be so incredibly hard-headed that we must go through SEVERAL of these deeply intense “dark night of the soul” moments for us to wake-up and pay attention.
Do you know, I must have seen over a HUNDRED YOGA ADS before I finally said YES and even after that I STILL paused at pushing the BUY ME button a hundred times.
I mean, WTF,
Now I know WHY so many people suggested I take yoga classes. They knew what yoga was and how it worked, and they could see how desperately I needed it.
I’m also GRATEFUL for those two years suffering during the pandemic prior to purchasing the yoga teacher training because they taught me so much about myself that I still needed to know.
For the first time ever, yoga provided me a foundation for my daily life by helping me make the mat my first and only priority every single day.
It helped me to establish a spiritual practice and connect to Higher Power and spiritual team that resonates with me and positively influences and inspires me in all the ways I need.
I learned how to connect with my inner goddess archetype and my divine feminine energy to activate my intuition and self confidence in a powerful way that gives me the ability to magically manifest the ideal business I was searching for and live the type of luxury lifestyle I always imagined.
But most importantly learning yoga gave me something so unexpected yet extraordinarily powerful to help my current clients and new followers break free from from their deeply ingrained trauma and drama to become the woman they were originally created to be and manifest the luxury lifestyle they’ve always imagined.
Yoga literally changed my entire existence and I know it’ll change yours too.
You coming here and reading THIS ENTIRE BLOG POST is not a coincidence.
YOU may not even know what’s going wrong in your life right now but you know what you’re doing is not working. You haven’t been genuinely happy or enthused about anything in YEARS, more like decades.
When Spirit gets sick and tired of hearing us bitch and complain or we’re not going in the direction we’re supposed to, Spirit shows up with a giant bitch-slap right into a brand-new reality.
Trust and believe.
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Brightest Blessings + Namaste’,
Krysten Burkhardt-Hansyn
Goddess Imagine, LLC
A Transformational Yoga + Modern Metaphysical Practice
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One final thought I want to leave you with is if you don’t take the time to address these issues now, when will you?
And, how much more of your life are you willing to throw away on the past?
WHO or WHAT about you you has been screaming to break-free from the pain and sorrow you’ve been feeling to become the HIGHEST version of yourself and make ALL of your dreams come true?
Til next time…