The Yoga Garden

Rooted In Mama Love, Blossoming Everywhere

Welcome to The Yoga Garden, a blossoming sanctuary for healing, learning, and community.

Nestled among fruit trees and natural beauty, our studio will offer intimate, heart-centered classes, including Gentle Yoga and Meditation for Every Body, as well as Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga where newborns are warmly welcomed. Moms can refresh without worry and find camaraderie with one another in a nurturing, supportive space.

We’ll also host soulful workshops, local and farther retreats, community gatherings, and online offerings from yoga and meditation to inspiring talks and podcasts with global teachers and healers. Expect to discover uplifting content on parenting, healthy living, permaculture, high frequency wisdom, music, and quantum spirituality, all curated to raise our collective vibration.

You’ll find much of this blossoming online through

our “The Empowered Soul Podcast: MC Mama Bird’s Chirps” on Spotify & Apple or wherever you listen
our YouTube channel: The Yoga Garden Online
and our Facebook Spearfish Family Yoga Page

Come visit us in one of America’s best-kept secret small towns, tucked away, off the beaten path, yet rooted in deep connection and purpose.

Interested in offering your own class or workshop?

Contact me to explore the possibilities.

Further below is a growing list of classes, workshop themes, healers, teachers, and speakers that are unfolding with love and intention.

The Backdrop

It is our intent to form a safe and serene spot to investigate, listen, know, and heal ourselves uninhibitedly towards the highest and best, kind energies..

We utilize various modalities and techniques from various lineages and teachers to achieve more inner peace, truth, freedom, beauty, love, harmonious relations, and less suffering- these are just a few intentions that can be harvested, all towards effecting the collective consciousness of the universe towards a higher frequency of awareness and love for us all..

As we spiral and climb this ladder of higher vibrations, starting cellularly and atomically from within, we radiate the true essence of who we are that was there all along, now dusted off and given voice and opportunity to unfurl, be, and extend its tentacles like a growing fern towards the radiant reality we now feel in our bones- not just logically in our minds- that everything is everything, intertwined and entangled as in the long known adage “we are all one,” yet simultaneously each of us uniquely positioned in the space-time fabric of the universe as an un-mimickable point of awareness that is powerful and that matters in this miraculous gift of Life.

“Truth is one, paths are many.”

~ Swami Satchidananda

As we ascend into new, higher frequency terrains, we can rest, exhale ahhhh, deflate and relax, marvel from a Mt Everest-like apex and soak upon its sun filled fields glistening with flower speckled meadows echoing no self-harm or done onto others, the universe has evil-proof technology, we can no longer go back to the old ways of judging and divide and conquer because we finally have been entrustedly revealed and understand that whatever we do to another, is actually done onto ourselves.

Within the self aware, intelligent universe that thrives from the biofeedback loops each form of life has in relation to it, we awaken further to the gross responsibility we each have to our breathing reality, moment to moment, what do we want to send out and receive back into what we call our Life?

The universe is not out there, it is everywhere, inside each of our organs, neurons, cells, atoms, sub-atomic scales of existence, breaths, actions, thoughts, feelings, intentions, and in the highly dynamic and alive, oscillating invisible places called “empty space,” which isn’t empty at all, but quite the contrary, it is full of infinite possibility and energy from which we nourish and acknowledge as the primary source of creation known as “The Field.” We are, therefore, supported by this overflowing, unlimited, abundant, generous panorama that is God, Creator, Universe, YOUniverse, divine reality that is selflessly, genuinely interested in and desires your success and happiness, aka Unconditional Love, the only kind of true Love there is.

“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.”

~ David Bohm

We stand in deep gratitude and solidarity with each other and all our teachers, including and especially our deepest wounds and hardest to admit challenges that once provoked shame and depression but no longer stand up to our new authentic, bare, ever shedding, aware, and evolving self and “loving what is” reality mindset, as we curiosly and maybe even joyfully welcome investigation of every discomfort we still feel for transforming it into an opportunity for self growth.

“The thoughts that used to send us into deep depression, these same thoughts once understood, send us into laughter. This is the power of inquiry.”

~ Byron Katie

Through the righteous ego’s trance and battle with reality as is, we glean for radical transformation towards inner peace and universal compassion, I am just like you, our struggles are the same. When you and I are in that space of humbling revelation and unadorned and defenseless understanding, bereft of our straightjackets, empathy outpours from our heart that only knows to love, raging like rebellious waterfalls that can no longer be withheld by our once all reigning ego, quenching the once deprived birthright possibility of Peace Within and thus Peace for All and throughtout.

Can we collectively achieve World Peace by starting from within?

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

~ Rumi

Ongoing Weekly Classes In Studio

Gentle Yoga With Meditation Classes For Every Body With Marcela
Prenatal & Postnatal Gentle Yoga With Meditation With Marcela – Newborns Welcome!
Just Meditation With Inquiry: Sits & Walks With Marcela
Other possibilities, other teachers, other classes: Yet To Be Announced

Workshops, Events & Themes

In Studio, In Town, Online, & Farther Away With Various Presenters

Breathwork/Pranayama workshops
Nada and Nidra yogas
Sound Healing, Solfeggio Frequencies, Gongs, Singing Bowls, Binaural Beats, & more
Yantra painting meditations
“The Work” meditation practices from Byron Katie
Reiki trainings, inner child healing work, and energy healing work with teacher and healer Shar Joy
Reiki workshops and trainings by various teachers
Gratitude Journaling, Self-Love Elixirs, Cacao Ceremonies, and Self-Care Rituals
Sit Spot and birdwatching practice in nature with yoga and meditation, mini vision quest journaling and prayer at Lookout Mountain Park nearby, and forest bathings
Prayer and sisterhood circles, motherhood circles, drumming, singing, with poetry and art
Mama, pregnancy, blessing way support circles before birth and postpartum support
Support as we move through the cycles and passages of big life turning points
Grief support circles
Spanish classes
Sessions on alternative healing modalities for people in recovery from addictions
Nutrition, well-being, and health classes
Travel and Lifestyle podcasts from soulful people
Native American spirituality
Discussions on the Afterlife, Heaven, and Quantum Physics regarding the ongoing continuation of Life beyond this physical current experience we are having
Studying the healing power of crystals
Movie nights, educational films nights with tea
Local nature and spirituality retreats, plant walks
Quantum Physics workshops and discussions from The Resonance Project work of physicist Nassim Haramein
Permaculture events
Tarot
Painting/Art
The 100 Club: living gracefully to 100 & beyond
Chakra Healing
Healing therapies for Animals
Moccasins Spa retreats in Hot Springs, SD. Yoga-Massage-Reiki-Sound Healing Retreats
International Retreats in beautiful places abroad
Some of our sessions will be recorded as podcasts or videos in our platforms
Community yoga and meditation classes also available on our YouTube channel

List Of Presenters, Teachers & Healers

Shar Joy: Joyful Healings: Reiki Master, Intuitive Energy Healer, and Channeler
Dr. Patricia Shaw: Psychologist PhD, Shaman, Reiki Healer, and mother
Mary Albanese: ZenZu Animal Communication: Pet psychic and medium, Energy Healer, Reiki Master
Reverend Sue Frederick: Master Numerologist, Angelic Ministry work, Channeling, Soul Regressions, author of over 11 books including the Angel Up series.
Damian Thomas: Addiction Rehabilitation in Portland and Mexico with alternative healing modalities
Asha Caravelli: Death Doula and alternative healing modalities healer
Paulina Alanisz: Writer, Mother, Therapist, Sacred Plants & Shamanic Healing
Kara Uhrig: Be Well Wellness Health Coach and mama
Jen Taylor: Grace Ayurveda and mother, who has worked closely with world renown Ayurvedic OBGYN Dr Sarita Shrestha
Kathy Harr: Homeopathy and Bach Flower Essences
McKenna Braun: Breath work and Massage Therapy
JoAnn: Massage Therapist and Reiki Teacher for people and animal reiki
Mija Cameto: Reiki healer and massage therapist of metaphysical modalities
Sierra Wagner: Yoga Teacher, Meditator, and Massage Therapist
Deanna Geary: Mother, Entrepreneur, and connoisseur of the Black Hills
Madison Shoop-Ferguson: Forest Bathing, Wild Flower healing, and Nature Connection
Polly Garrett: Sound Bath Healings & Yogas
Deb Gioffredi: Angel Readings and Angelic Light Workers
Mauro Oliveira: Activist, World Traveler, and Artist
Ing. Ricardo Aguero: father, botanist trained in Russia in the 1970s, shares his knowledge of living in Russia, studying the language, and receiving his masters as a Botanist in Moscow
Claudia Higuero: Mother, Business woman, and World Traveler. Connoisseur of Japanese culture.
Isabel: Professor of Philology at The University of Barcelona sharing her eccentric background from the Basque region and her multi-lingual knowledge – Spanish, Basque, Catalan, and English.
Britta Jankay: Ranchito Del Mar: Organic Permaculture Farming and Certification in Mexico
Anuar Romero: Saving the Coral Reef and Eco-tourism in Guanaja, Honduras
Amy and Lisa: Women Entrepreneurs, metaphysical souls, and Organic Farmers in California and Oregon
Una Bella: Art, Astrology, International Retreats
Tete Hastedt: Soul Family Constellation Healings
San Pancho Animales: Rescuing and Adopting Street Dogs in Mexico for families worldwide
Kelly Anne: Nomadic Living, Yoga, & Rescuing/Fostering/Saving Street Dogs Lives in Mexico
Byron Katie: The Work meditations and At Home podcasts. Doing a group “At Home” podcast for exercise and meditation in our studio, TBD

“You are connected to a Field of Information that is fundamental to your existence, that is nourishing, it’s what actually makes the coherence process in your body possible so that you can attune to this Field of Information, to this Field of Energy, Zero Point Energy, and it was already there in ancient civilizations around the world. They had all kind of names for it, in the Polynesian Islands it was called Mana, Chi in certain societies… Later on in modern physics at the turn of the 19th century, it was called Ether Theory, Maxwell wrote his equation of electromagnetics with an Ether present in his theories… To know that it is really there, and it is the source of the material world, and it connects us all because we are all in this field is profound because all of a sudden you are not isolated anymore, in fact nothing can be ever isolated because it is always part of this field, and you are in constant information transfer with this field.”

~ Nassim Haramein

What other ideas do you have or what would you like to offer in this open opportunity?