Every once in a while a girl just needs to splurge.

The best part ... zero guilt. It's healthy, refreshing, and delicious.

This came about because I love coffee, I love chocolate and I love oat milk. I also just recently committed to taking collagen regularly and wanted a fun reliable means of getting it in each day.

After playing around with a few ingredients I finally came up with my new favorite iced mocha beverage that's absolutely delicious and caffeine free.

Recipe:

1/4 tsp Cocoa
1 tsp Dandy Blend (dissolve in 10 oz warm water)
3 tbsp Vanilla Oat Milk Creamer
1 scoop Vital Proteins Collagen

Directions: Blend 10 oz Dandy Blend Beverage with Cocoa and Oat Milk Creamer on high speed until frothy. Turn blender to lowest setting and gently stir in Collagen. Pour over ice and enjoy.

Sometimes I add in a couple teaspoons of chia seeds for the added nutritional benefit and lately I've been adding a couple drops of peppermint oil, which I'm loving.

It's summer and sometimes we need a little something special without all the calories and sugar typically found in iced coffee drinks. Enjoy!! 

Teaching LIVESTREAM Sunday. Whip up an iced mocha and meet me on the mat.
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Love & Light, 
BeAnne
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No Live Stream Sunday this week.

Will be with my little girl celebrating love because amongst the hurt and pain and loss that comes with being alive, there's an undercurrent of love that continues to pervade our lives and when we stay in touch with loving presence, our actions, words and behaviors are guided by a truth so deep and palpable, you can't help but live a life of integrity.

Those who lost their lives fighting for our country will always be loved and seen as heroes in my book.

Happy Memorial Day.

Be safe. Be mindful. Be kind.

Love & Light,
BeAnne
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📷: Georgia de Lotz

ThIs week it's all about the lonely ones. It's so easy for those fortunate enough to be in relationship to get caught up in the every day happy settled life where two people get to come home and share about their day and divide household responsibilities and snuggle up on the sofa and watch a movie together.

I was once very settled and content and happy in my married life. I was totally oblivious to those who might sit home on a weekend wishing they could cook dinner with someone or have a glass of wine with another human or talk at the end of a long day. I was completely unaware of how difficult it might be for someone living alone and having to bear the brunt of life on their own. Had I known, I would have reached out more, I would have checked in more, and acknowledged their aloneness.

That's the thing about compassion. It's almost impossible to truly understand a person's plight until you've experienced it for yourself. You have to know it and feel it in your own body before you can truly understand and empathize with another being.

Shortly after becoming a mom, I was hit with the realization that I never really honored or acknowledged my friends or family who had birthed children before me. I had absolutely no idea how hard it was to be a parent or how tiring it could be. If I had, I would have been more understanding. I would have reached out more and checked in on them more and offered to help.

And now here I am all these years later living alone, realizing that some of my friends have been doing this a lot longer than me and I never even acknowledged them. It never even dawned on me that they might get lonely sometimes. These friends I reference here just happen to be women; impressive beautiful women who made the single life look hip and cool and totally carefree. And yes, sometimes it's all those things, but other times it's just damn depressing and utterly exhausting.

I'm sorry for not being more aware. I wish I could turn back the clock. I would do things so differently. I love this waking up business, but with that comes some harsh realities and so here I am telling all you badass humans living alone that you're awesome. I respect the heck out of you and I'm deeply sorry for never acknowledging this before today.

We're not meant to be alone. We're meant to be in relationship, to partner, to love, to snuggle, and to share our life with someone. I wish that for everyone. I wish someone for everyone and not just anyone, but someone special, someone who sees you, who hears you, who values you and respects the hell out of you.

Social media can be hard when you see all the happy couple family stuff so when you're feeling alone, don't go there. And when you're feeling good and free and alive, just enjoy the freedom because I'm sure there are tons of married people who wish they could be single and free (temporarily anyway).

Aloneness is deeply personal and it comes and it goes. Like the tides of time. Sometimes we're just alone and other times we're just damn lonely. Either way, we have to show up and do our thing. Be present and a witness and all will unfold as it should. Call a friend. Make a date. Find something fun to do and go do it.

Teaching LIVESTREAM this Sunday.

Love & Light, 
BeAnne
🖤🖤🖤

📷: Guillaume de Germain

This is the look of two very happy girls. After years of heartbreaking loss, we’re finally on the other side of it and this other side looks pretty damn good.

I was raised in an environment where the men made the decisions and managed the finances and determined the rules.

It was a very controlling environment that didn’t support confident courageous successful educated women. Girls were suppose to be pretty, quiet, and well behaved.  We were suppose to listen and respect the man’s place in the home yet we were not respected in return. This somehow led me to believe that I needed a man to take care of me; that somehow I was incompetent of taking care of myself.

It’s funny to hear myself say that because I’ve always been independent and I’ve certainly lived alone and have been self-sufficient, but there was always an inner dialogue that kept me from reaching my full potential. I was never empowered to do great things so I was comfortable doing good things.

Not feeling adequate creates an excessive need for control, but when life breaks you and you are forced to surrender and release control, you open up and blossom into the person you were always meant to be. You grow wings and fly and good is no longer good enough.

Nothing can touch you once you awaken and find your truth. Nothing can control you or make you feel weak once you know your true inner strength.

For two years I felt like I was being strangled under water and I couldn’t breathe and yet today, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. It’s hard parenting alone and trying to find time for all the things while working long hours and caring for a child who needs your presence more than ever.

I’m finding it harder and harder to get to the gym, my house is a mess and my refrigerator empty. My laundry piles up and my car is a reflection of a week’s worth of living. I use to be OCD and a perfectionist, but now I’m just too exhausted to care and that kinda feels good. I’m free. Finally free.

There’s something fueling my life that’s greater than words. I’m being held by love herself; by source; by the ancient wisdom of our ancestors.

The work we do in these magnificent bodies is powerful and deep and transformative. If you are grieving, grieve. If you are sad, be sad. If you are angry, be angry. If you want to laugh, laugh. Just be mindful and stop living in the past and allowing others to define you. Feel. Live. Breathe and Be your Beautiful Self.

I’m living proof that facing our loss and embracing the ever changing emotions and feelings from heartache will change you and make your life better if you meet it head on and embrace it with mindful attention and love. 

Love & Light, 
BeAnne
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Zoom Live Stream: Sunday May 16th, 10am-11:15am EDT. The session will open at 9:45am so please arrive early to get settled so you are ready to begin at 10am.

Recorded Option: Pre-pay (payment information below) and include "Recording" in the notes of either Venmo or Paypal and I'll send you the link after class on Sunday.
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Step #1 Register (Required):

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-6qqTkuHNcVZBojDarIrBXNFbZF3J4S

After registering, you will receive another email with link to join class (Save this for Sunday).

Step #2 Send Payment:

Sliding Fee ($5-$20)

Two Payment Platforms.

Venmo: BeAnne-Creeger
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