I wanted to share that the early bird rate for our Yoga Teacher Training ends on Tuesday, September 1st.

We are already almost half sold, and this is a program that sells out every single year. This will be our ninth year leading this training, and it truly gets more special every time.

Myself, Ashley Brodeur, and our incredible guest teacher Nya Daley from Soulga will guide you through all of your 200-hour requirements, including alignment, the asanas, anatomy, philosophy, hands-on touch, pranayama, and so much more.

What makes this training so unique is the depth we bring into the experience. Ashley is a psychotherapist and brings in powerful therapeutic tools, allowing us to look at the practice through a mental health lens. And after almost 20 years of leading retreats and transformational experiences, one of the things that is most important to me is creating a truly healing container. We pride ourselves in creating a space where real transformation can happen.

Every year, we hear from students that this was one of the most life changing experiences they have ever had.

The training takes place here on the beautiful coast of Oaxaca, with two small online units included so that you can complete your certification and teach if that is your desire.

But you absolutely do not have to want to become a yoga teacher to join us.

If you feel called to deepen your relationship with yoga, with your body, and with yourself, this is a beautiful opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the practice.

The early bird rate ends Tuesday, September 1st.

We would absolutely love to have you with us.

apply here

with love,
Ally

In this week’s audio, we’ll explore how to work with the energy of Thursday’s Pisces eclipse. We’ll walk through the themes of clarity, surrender, discernment, and releasing what’s no longer yours to carry.

Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac. It deals with endings, surrender, spirituality, intuition, compassion, and the dissolution of things that have reached the end of their natural life cycle.

At its best, Pisces helps us release our need to control the outcome.

In its more challenging expression, Pisces can keep us in confusion: idealizing something, avoiding reality, getting lost in our emotions, or continuing to believe a story because we’re not ready to let it go.

This eclipse can bring a reality check.

I am also sharing practical ways to move through the eclipse without getting swept up in overwhelm or the need to immediately make sense of everything!

The five journal prompts at the end of the meditation will be especially useful in navigating this week.

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From there, I was hooked. I began to lead about five experiences a year for both teens and adults. The last almost two decades have taught me A LOT and I finally got my shit together to lead a program I have been dreaming up for years!

The Art of the Retreat

I’ve been the retreat leader, the yoga teacher, the person responsible for the guests, the person negotiating with retreat centers and I’m now on the other side too, building a retreat center.

Over the years, I’ve learned that creating a great retreat is about so much more than putting together a beautiful itinerary in a beautiful place.

There is a real art to it.

And there is also a lot of business involved.

How do you choose the right retreat center?

What should you actually be looking for in a contract?

How much should you charge?

How many people do you need to make the retreat financially viable?

How do you create a schedule that feels nourishing instead of exhausting?

What happens when someone cancels?

How do you market the retreat and actually fill it?

And once everyone arrives, how do you hold the space while also making sure you’re having a good time yourself?

These are the things I wish someone had sat down and taught me when I started.

Instead, I learned a lot of them the hard way.

Over the years, I’ve also watched so many incredible teachers and wellness practitioners create retreats without realizing just how much goes into the business side of them. Sometimes the retreat is amazing but they don’t make any money. Sometimes the logistics become overwhelming. Sometimes one bad contract or a few unexpected expenses can completely change the numbers.

And I don’t want that for you.

So I took everything I’ve learned from both sides of the industry and put it into The Art of the Retreat.

Formerly called The Retreat Blueprint (someone else owns that trademark, whoops!), is now a self-paced program you can work through on your own time.

There are 6 classes, each about 90 minutes, covering the whole process — from developing your retreat concept and creating the experience, to choosing your location, working through contracts and logistics, building your budget, pricing your retreat, marketing it and finally hosting it with confidence.

And I wanted this to be really practical.

So I’ve included sample contracts and spreadsheets, including a master financial spreadsheet that helps you actually run the numbers and understand what your retreat needs to make. This is from my husband Bill’s brilliant mind. He has worked in the hospitality industry for 15 years and has been on the other side of managing retreats since I met him. The master spreadsheet has all the formulas you need to really understand your numbers. This alone is worth the cost of the whole program.

This isn’t a course about having a dreamy idea for a retreat.

It’s about taking that idea and figuring out how to actually make it work.

After 18 years in the retreat world, I can honestly say there are things I know now that I desperately wish I’d known at the beginning.

So I’m putting them all in one place.

If you’ve been thinking about leading your first retreat, or you’ve already been doing them and want to get more organized, more profitable, and less stressed about the business side...

The Art of the Retreat is for you.

You can start whenever you want, go at your own pace, and come back to the resources whenever you need them.

The doors are open.

Explore The Art of the Retreat.

xo ally

I know there is a lot of hype around this next month but eclipse season isn't something you need to fear or try to control. Just think of it as a period of heightened change and revelation.

It is a time when life can move in unexpected ways and show you what is ready start/end/or change.

The key is to stay present enough to notice what is unfolding.

Slow down, listen to your intuition, make space for the unexpected, and resist the urge to make every feeling or event mean something immediately. You don't have to have all the answers right now. Let the story reveal itself.

Often clarity often comes after the eclipse, not before it :)

I’ll check in for the full moon in two weeks! We got this.

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I wanted to pop in and quickly share that today at 4pm pst George and I are leading and Active Breathwork session over Zoom. It is Pay What You Can, so it is super accessible and an incredible way to tap into yourself.

What is Active Breathwork?

Active Breathwork is a dynamic, embodied breath practice that uses intentional breathing patterns, breath holds, and periods of down regulation to help people connect more deeply with their bodies, emotions, minds, and inner experience.

Unlike breathwork that is primarily focused on relaxation or nervous system regulation, Active Breathwork intentionally creates activation and movement first, followed by space for release, integration, and regulation.

It is a practice of doing and allowing: actively engaging the breath to shift state, while ultimately creating enough space for the body and psyche to reveal what is ready to be felt, experienced, or integrated.

Grab your spot here.

As we move into eclipse season and a new moon this Wednesday, I think this is the perfect time to work with this breath practice and do some internal tending!

See you there,

ally

First, what is it?

The Lion’s Gate portal opened July 26 and peaks on August 8 (8/8) when the Sun in Leo aligns with Sirius, the brightest star in our sky, and the Earth. This alignment is believed to create a powerful energetic gateway for transformation, manifestation, and soul level upgrades.

How I view it…

I have done a similar ritual on 8/8 for about six years now and for me, I always love the opportunity to get clearer on what I want. In any case, it is a fun way to spend time dreaming up new dreams, or doubling down on my desires and playing with them.

And by play I mean, taking time to meditate with them. To visualize having them. To actually feeeeel what they feel like in my system. To raise my frequency to be a match for these desires.

From there, writing them down. And to actually notice what it feels like to write these dreams down. To notice any resistance or blocks coming up…and then get into a powerful ritual which I explain how to do at the end of this audio.

Whether it is truly the luckiest day of the year or not, I love taking the time to imagine walking through this portal. On one side, I do the diligence of asking myself what do I want? As I meet the threshold on 8/8 I declare it in a bold way (very Leo) and then as I walk toward the new moon on Aug 12, I release any of my own mental blocks around having the things I desire. I get courageous enough to see, feel and think like the person how has the thing she wants!

So if you want to do that with me, I lay it allll out in this audio. This ceremony is so fun and beloved to me. I hope you enjoy x

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While I loved zeroing in on such a serious planet, my answer was Chiron. She laughed and said how water sign of me. Of course out of all the aspects to look at in the natal chart, I choose the wound.

Why? Because I love an emotional deep dive. I love looking at how the wound is actually one of life’s greatest unlocks. I love how the the wound shows us where and how to heal, and ultimately how we can help others.

We can see this in healers, teachers, leaders, and even parents. When we get in contact with what really hurt us, find a way to work with it and heal it, we naturally want to give this gift to others. We want to show the way forward.

The beauty of understanding our birth chart is to see the opportunities to grow and evolve. It can help us find more balance, to feel seen and to feel less fragmented.

I never wanted to become the type of astrologer that is pessimistic and lays out your challenges in a daunting way. I want you to see yourself more clearly, to embrace what makes you unique and to work with the tension and the wounds.

So what is Chiron?

Chiron is a celestial body, not a planet. It represents the wound that shapes your life and the gift that emerges when you work with it consciously. It's where your greatest challenges often become your greatest teachings.

So in your natal chart reading we would look at what sign it sits in (don’t confuse this with your sun sign) A brief overview looks like this:

• Aries = the wound of existing

• Taurus = the wound of deserving

• Gemini = the wound of being heard

• Cancer = the wound of feeling safe

• Leo = the wound of shining

• Virgo = the wound of perfection

• Libra = the wound of love

• Scorpio = the wound of vulnerability

• Sagittarius = the wound of meaning

• Capricorn = the wound of success

• Aquarius = the wound of belonging while being different

• Pisces = the wound of surrender

And, it will also have its own distinct flavour based on which house it sits in. For example:

My Chiron sits in Gemini in the 7th house. So the wound of being heard or understood (Gemini) as it pertains to relationships (7th House).

And isn’t it funny that I’ve built an entire career around using my voice? I’ve written a book, recorded dozens of podcast episodes, spoken on stages around the world, and spend my days teaching and giving readings. My work is incredibly relationship based and often one on one.

But, there have been so many moments where I’ve questioned myself. If I say what I truly mean, will people still like me? Will they misunderstand me? Will I disappoint someone? Can I trust my own voice, especially in my relationships?

For years, I thought I needed to soften my words, explain myself more clearly, or shapeshift into the version of me that everyone else would understand. Hello me in my twenties in romantic realtionships!

But Chiron doesn’t ask us to avoid the wound. It asks us to meet it consciously.

Over time, I’ve realized that my voice isn’t here to be universally liked. It’s here to be authentic. And every time I choose honesty over approval, I heal a little more. That’s the beautiful paradox of Chiron.

The place that hurts the most often becomes the place we’re here to contribute the most. Where we spin it, becomes our magic.

Hence why I became a writer. A teacher. A podcaster. An astrologer.

Not because I never doubted my voice but because learning to trust it became one of the greatest journeys of my life. And in helping others find language for their own experiences, I’ve found my own medicine.

Another great example is my husband Bill. Bill has Chiron in Cancer in the 11th house—the wound of belonging.

At its core, this placement can carry a deep sensitivity around feeling emotionally safe within friendships, community, or the groups we find ourselves a part of. There can be a longing to find your people, to feel at home, and to know that you’re truly accepted for who you are.

So let’s look at how Bill healed and evolved it. Bill is someone who is creating exactly what his soul may have been searching for all along: a place where people gather, connect, slow down, and feel like they belong.

Our hotel wont be just a building. It’s a community. A home away from home. A space where strangers become friends, where conversations unfold around the dinner table, and where people leave feeling more connected than when they arrived.

He is literally the visionary behind our hotel becoming a place of belonging. He has built a career in hospitality that makes all of his guests feel like they belong!

That’s the gift of Chiron.

Sometimes the place that once felt the most tender becomes the place where we’re able to offer the greatest healing! Not because the wound disappeared, but because we’ve learned how to transform it into something that serves others.

Cool, right?!

So you can see how reading and interpreting this placement can be incredibly insightful and helpful.

Often when I read client’s wound they say something like, “ouch, ya that’s so real.” It feels like someone has seen into our deepest part and shared it so plainly. They can see how it keeps coming up, this old childhood wound, and how much it still plays a role in their life. This is where I can help support, coach and offer advice on ways to transform and heal this part of you. To turn the wound into your gift! This is why I love readings so much. I am truly so passionate about this part.

Ironically, in my twenties, I had a post it note on the inside of my bathroom mirror of the Rumi quote, “the wound is where the light enters.” I used it as a reminder to embrace where I hurt and shed light on it. And from that light I was able to heal. And from that healing I was able to help.

If you want to explore this wound and many other fascinating aspects about you (life lessons, soul purpose, abundance) I just opened my August books for readings.

After August, I will have very limited reading space as my travel picks up in a big way until the end of the year and well into 2027. So grab your spot before I go on hiatus :)

You can book here.

love, ally

This Full Moon on Wednesday also marks the beginning of a brand new 18 month nodal cycle as the lunar nodes shift into the Aquarius/ Leo axis. Together, they invite us to explore the dance between personal expression and collective purpose, asking us not only who we are becoming, but what we’re here to build and contribute.

In this week’s audio, I dive deeper into this powerful new chapter, explore the lessons of the Aquarius Full Moon, and guide you through a cleansing meditation, followed by five journal prompts to help you integrate its wisdom.

Have a listen and let me know what you think!

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That post reminded me just how many incredible teachers, practices, and strange wellness experiments have shaped me over the years. So I’m starting a recommendation series where I’ll share the books, rituals, teachers, and the occasionally unhinged wellness advice I’ve picked up along the way.

This week, our journey continues into my mid twenties, when love and the topic of being chosen became the great curriculum of this era.

Another way to describe this chapter is: the weird shit I did to eventually meet my husband.

If you’ve been around for a while, you may remember one of my earliest essays, The Time I Met My Husband While I Had a Boyfriend.

It’s an honest and bold retelling of a wild trip to Nicaragua that permanently altered the course of my life. A classic Sliding Doors moment. A “will they, won’t they?” Except the real question was: Are you really about to blow up your entire life for a guy you just met?

Well... we did. I was. And here we are, ten years later.

But first, let’s fill in the middle.

Last week’s post painted the picture of a pious young woman devoted to meditation, yoga, and spirituality. The kind of girl who spent hours wandering bookstores, standing on her head, and searching for enlightenment.

All true.

And then, at twenty three, my first real heartbreak cracked something open in me. Beneath all the yoga, the meditation, and the spiritual seeking was a wound quietly surfacing, will anyone ever choose me?

That question became the invisible compass guiding much of my twenties. My yoga practice was still there, but now it shared space with dating, clubbing and like many young women in their mid twenties, doing the exhausting performance of trying to be the perpetual cool girl.

After a few years of painful wishy washy scenarios of not feeling chosen, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I was tired of…

Sure, I like keeping things casual too.

Sure, it’s no problem that I don’t know if there are other girls.

Sure, take your time to figure out if you want to be with me or not.

My value was being outsourced to twenty seven year old wannabe firefighters, career bartenders and/or spiritual fuck boys :)

Over those years there were a few things I can recall that really changed how I felt about dating, love and being chosen. It was not over night. In fact choosing yourself is a lifelong journey that requires rigorous self attunement to not abandon oneself for the sake of pleasing another.

However, in that time I read, watched, wrote and did a few specific things that completely reorientated the way I related to finding ‘the one.’

The list is as follows:

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If you are looking for community and something to show up to for—twice a month George and I offer a Pay What You Can breathwork session online.

These sessions are for anyone looking to pour into themselves through the practice of Active Breathwork.

The three part breath can transform our inner world and surface emotional material that needs attention, healing and release. So if you are feeling a touch emo (to be expected with this new moon and merc retrograde) it is the perfect practice to shift your perspective and gain valuable insights.

Click here to grab your spot for tonight—7pm EST.

love u

ally

By waah waah season I mean a tender time of feeling our feelings, sitting with nostalgia and doing the deep work of understanding what makes us feel emotionally safe.

Cancer is a water sign. It feels and it feels deeply. Sometimes we need a really good cry. Sometimes we gotta feel a little homesick to understand the elements we need in place to feel like home.

A new moon in cancer encourages this energy and with mercury still in retrograde, it gives us an even stronger energy of reflection and time to integrate and make peace with the past.

And so, this audio guides you through a visual meditation where you enter the house of the body, see the different rooms and take stock of what is neglected, what feels good and then to plant a seed in the garden. A fresh intention to guide you into this new lunar cycle.

Followed by 5 journal prompts to feel, process and work with this energy before the Leo fire hits and Mercury starts moving forward again.

At the end of the audio I give a movie recommendation if you really need a good cry :)

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While most of my friends were at college partying—I was drinking my pee (more on this later), doing coffee enemas, dehydrating kale chips, and reading advanced spiritual texts from the seventies like, “I am That.”

I was juicing dandelion greens from a Champion juicer from the eighties well before any trendy juice shop had popped up in Vancouver. I was going to yoga classes often twice a day, doing every training I could get my hands on, studying with every teacher who came through my city and diving into deeper realms of devotion.

Yes, I still had pockets of club nights, and coming of age early twenties experiences…they just came a bit later for me. Much of this time was framed by living in Santa Monica, California in 2006ish (home of a powerful raw vegan movement in which I was very invested) and doing a yoga teacher training with a very classical yoga school.

My teacher, Shakti, was devoted to the world of Shatkarmas—the ancient yogic purification practices designed to cleanse the body and prepare for deeper states of breathwork and meditation. These traditions include practices like nasal cleansing (Neti), digestive cleansing (Dhauti), yogic enemas (Basti), abdominal churning (Nauli), Kapalabhati, Trataka, and the yogic practice of Amaroli (urine therapy)…yes drinking a lit bit of your pee pee. Which I tried, but trust that this is not a practice I maintained, okay?

All that to say, before social media and podcasts, you could find me at Banyan Books in Vancouver sitting on the floor with a stack of books ranging from holistic health, Buddhist texts and angel cards. I was experimenting with my health, my mind and ultimately expanding my consciousness in ways that felt very counterculture and not embraced in the way I see nowadays. Of course these things have been around for centuries, popularized in our modern world in the 60s and 70s but for a twenty one year old in Canada in 2007 it wasn’t exactly mainstream.

Though it was extreme at times, I look back at this time fondly. I have always been a seeker and my early twenties were an incredible portal for me to understand my body, mind and spirit. It gives me the lens now at almost forty years old to see through so many quick tips and trends in the wellness space.

It also allows me to pinpoint teachers who claim they have “done the work” but really haven’t done much in the way of deep inquiry and long term study with mentors and rather are regurgitating what they see online, copying other teachers or having Chat write their newsletters.

We live in a world of quick convenience. A world that values external success over a rich inner world. We want people to perceive us a successful, spiritual and thriving and yet the road it takes to get us there is often much longer than we anticipate. I am constantly telling my students that ‘it takes time,” to ‘trust the timing of their life,’ and ‘no sudden movements.’

Meaning: let life unfold. Stay diligent, devote yourself to your studies, go let life have at you, heeds the signs of what life is trying to tell you. Stop muscling through and trying to prove yourself. There are no quick fixes. Practice and all is coming :)

And so, I wanted to share some early influences for me that defined my life and career. (so Cancer Mercury Retrograde of me to look back to sentimentally like this!)

I get asked all the times about books to read, things I have done that changed me and so I thought I would create a recommendation series here on Substack sharing books, media, teachers and wellness things I have tried.

So here is my early twenties list of books, people, places that radically shifted my life.

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We are officially in Cancer season ( feelings, tenderness) with a Mercury Retrograde beginning (looking back at what needs our attention) Jupiter entering Leo (time to shine!) all kicking off with a Cap Full Moon ( structure, maturity)

What a week and what a blend. I have created a simple way to work with these energies with breath and journaling. In this audio we explore release, reflection and expression. The journal prompts at the end are the best way to realign you and settle the big feelings of cancer season and have you looking at Mercury in Gatorade in a whole new way.

If you want to breathe with this energy, George and I are hosting a PAY WHAT YOU CAN Active Breathwork tonight at 4pm pst. Grab your tickets here.

My July books are open for Astrology readings and 1:1 mentorship. Limited spaces— book here.

Next Breathwork Training- Oaxaca Nov 2026

Next YTT- Oaxaca March 2027

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The first time I had my chart read was live on a podcast with Debra Silverman. It was just a mini reading but it blew my mind. She spoke to elements of my nature so specifically without knowing one single thing about me.

From that day on, I became obsessed with learning more which eventually lead to me attending astrology school last year. As I deep dove into the signs, the planets and the elements, I began to grow a much deeper compassion for myself.

Things I had deemed wrong or bad or needing fixing about myself became areas to begin to love, embrace and accept. Areas of tension, especially in my emotional world, became patterns I could see more clearly and find ways to finally work with.

I learned the low and high roads of my placements and how to help myself instead of shaming myself. It helped me embrace my natural gifts and work with them in a new way as well as seeing my challenges as opportunities to evolve.

Life gets easier when you stop fighting your nature.

I am a deeply sensitive woman. I feel deeply and due to the make up of air and water in my chart, I am able to articulate these unseen worlds. Understanding my nature and elemental makeup revealed why I chose the career I have ( to guide people into deep transformational work) and also why I can get burnt out (absorbing others emotions) I used to think I wasn’t cut out for my job because I kept getting sick after big experiences. What is interesting is that last year I broke that cycle. After almost two decades of hitting my knees post big events, trainings, retreats, I stopped getting sick.

I started to find ways to support my nature instead of working against it. I am actually in the perfect career for my natal chart:

Libra Sun 10th House- Creating very beautiful, relational gatherings (libra) that are successful, reputable and visible (10th house)

Scorpio Rising- Taking people into their deepest most vulnerable places without so much as a flinch. Holding space for others to burn up old versions of themselves and become something new. (hello breathwork)

Cancer Moon 8th House- Nurturing my students in the most loving and mothering ways possible (hello girlvana) while sharing teachings that support our understanding our hidden emotional truths (8th house)

Your moon sign is the language of your emotional world.

Learning that I was a Cancer Moon in the 8th house changed my life. I have a deep need for emotional safety and creating a safe (and cozy) home was more important that I knew. We spent years being nomadic and as much as I tried to embrace it, I need a home… and sometimes I actually need a cave. My emotional world can rock me and I need to crab walk my ass back to the comfiest bed you’ve ever seen and dig into my inner landscape and tend to my world. To journal, to cry, to get a million hugs and really feel seen by people who love me. I need to receive the love back that I so easily give the world.

Understanding your current cycle is key.

I am currently in a progressed moon cycle in Capricorn in the 2nd house. The gist? Learning security through structure, discipline, and long-term stability, with a strong focus on money, self-worth, and what actually sustains me.

Previous to this cycle I was in a 2.5 year Sagittarius cycle. It was focused on traveling and taking risks! Sounds like a girl in search of land for a hotel :) And now— I am building something longterm and sustainable. Much of my focus is on finances, raising money and building the vision.

Cool right?

Learning this helped me embrace each cycle and really pay attention to what each cycle was trying to teach me.

26 readings in 26 days.

These readings were spread throughout the month of June. I got to read for strangers, friends, and long time students. Walking people through their natal chart and their own cosmic signatures and then interpreting it through my almost two decades of spiritual knowledge and refined intuition was SO MUCH FUN.

My readings have a flavour of mentorship, play and evolutionary spin that leave you finding more self love, embracing who you are and feeling excited for new ways to use your gifts.

JULY IS OPEN

I finally have a break in my travel schedule and have opened my books for July. Only a few slots per week as a special summer price. Once Fall hits, I am back on the road, so this is a perfect time to get your reading at a price that will go up (to $250) in my busy season.

What students are saying:

My reading with Ally was incredible. She came prepared and eager to provide me with her work. She unsurprisingly created a calm, inviting environment allowing me to receive the information and feel safe to reflect. I felt the reading was not only accurate but informative. Ally provided some beautiful ideas for me to continue to understand myself and my world.

My astro reading with Ally allowed me to not only deepen my understanding of the self, but expand my worldview in how I show up in my life. Ally’s warmth in communication and genuine interest for the topic created this experience to be equal parts wondrous mysticism and evidence-based education. What a beautiful reminder that life is much more fated than we remember sometimes when it’s quite literally written in the stars.

Ally’s reading made me feel like she’s known me my whole life. Her care, intuition and humor really shine -- creating the perfect container for self-reflection. I left the session with a whole new list of things that suddenly made a lot more sense and even more things to dream about.

BOOK NOW

love ally xo

We were trying to purchase a truck to drive down to Oaxaca and find a place to live closer to our land. At the time, I was in a Mayan wisdom course, learning about the ways of Mayan spirituality and ritual.

To begin, we were tasked to write ourselves a letter, that would be sent back to us a year later right before Summer Solstice. I opened that letter last week.

I was surprised at how heavy it felt. How worried I was. I could feel the damp apartment. I was only three months into learning Spanish and was having small panic episodes when it came to even ordering a coffee. I stopped leaving the house, tasking Bill to get groceries and walk the dog. I wouldn’t go anywhere alone. I started to isolate myself as the fear grew larger and larger.

All the while the clocked ticked toward our lease ending, the need to find, buy, register the truck (not an easy task as foreigner) as well as organize a trip with 15 people down to the land the day after we arrived to Oaxaca.

As we prepared to leave, I would wake up and listen to the videos of the Mayan elder and his daughter translating. I didn’t miss a single day of the 20 day meditation challenge in which we were guided through all 4 bodies—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. A visual meditation in which you imagine these bodies as they are and then intentionally tend, clean and realign them.

When I read the letter to myself, I could sense the defeat. Little did she know, that everything worked out. The truck came through last minute, the 11 hour drive was peaceful and safe, the new condo would feel bright, fresh and mold free and the trip she was planning went off without a hitch (ish ;))

And that her Spanish would improve and that life will start to feel a little easier and more settled.

From that letter:

“Future self, I love you. I know that you are reading this and remembering this time. Perhaps you have more answers now or perhaps our life is still uncomfortable. I have no way of knowing. Today I am defeated but I will not remain this way forever. I love you and I am grateful for the ways you have pushed on, got braver and created from your heart. Thank you. xo”

Part of Mayan wisdom suggests that the Summer Solstice is about Honoring what has Matured.

And so today, I ask you— where have you matured? Where have you grown? How have you pushed on, got braver and created from your heart?

I wanted to share the website where you can write your letter and have it sent back to you a year later. This is a practice I will continue to do each year. It is a powerful snapshot of where we have been and where we are going.

I encourage you to take some time today to fill out your letter here. You can also read through other anonymous letters which can be a really uplifting, sincere and sweet activity.

And I wanted to guide you through the four bodies meditation, feel free to listen to it many days in a row and let it subtly change you as it did for me. I can see the gifts of this practice show up even still, in the way I look, the way I think, how I feel and how connected I am to the Divine. Why? Because I stayed so committed to this practice even though it was so hard to find my footing last year. Even when I had no idea what was happening. I had a practice to show up, to be with, to imagine with.

In many ways it saved me. It got me through a huge initiation. And for that, I am eternally grateful.

Have a listen,

love you

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If you know me, you know one of my most favourite things to say, especially leading retreats is, change your mind, change your life.

The stories we tell ourselves become the architecture of our lives. Every belief, every label, every "I'm just not the kind of person who..." quietly shapes the choices we make. But Gemini reminds us that our minds are not prisons! Our minds are living, breathing landscapes that can be explored, questioned, and rewritten.

You do not have to keep rehearsing a version of yourself that you've already outgrown.

A single new thought can become a new decision. A new decision becomes a new habit. And eventually, that habit becomes a whole new life.

This energy is asking us to become more of ourselves by releasing who we used to be. To put pen to paper and shape a new thought, a new idea, a new belief system.

If you’re open to it, try it.

Another way to work with this energy? In true air sign fashion—breathe with it. Tonight, George and I are teaching an Active Breathwork session over Zoom. Active Breathwork is a 3 part breath that gently quiets the thinking mind and brings you back into your body. Through continuous, conscious breathing, you can move stuck energy, process emotions, and create space for greater peace, clarity, and vitality.

These sessions are Pay What You Can and you can sign up here. This is a super accessible way to connect with this practice. Hope to see you there!

In this audio I will give you a cosmic update, a visualization meditation and 5 specific journal prompts to set intentions for a new season ahead.

Enjoy x

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It’s been a while since I have sat down to write. As my life expands, the more private and protective I feel. I feel called to the chrysalis—to be a little less visible while I continue to transform.

Right now my work is about pulling my energy back to me from all the amazing places and people I have come in contact with over the last five months. I have held five separate containers of very potent work with very willing and incredible humans. I am so grateful to do this work. I feel immense pride that I can continue to rise to the occasion of my calling. I love it so much! So much so that when the downtime comes, I struggle because I miss it so much.

However, so much of my personal work happens in the making peace with the mundane. It takes me time to come down and when I finally do I start to see the beauty in the routines, slow moments and required solitude of this path.

And so, at the almost midpoint of the year, I am hanging up my passport and taking some much needed time at home after an extremely full on season of work and travel.

I have been spending the month studying astrology charts for my clients. This has been such a fun shift for me working with folks one on one. It is amazing how accurate these readings can be and how deeply seen folks can feel by understanding the aspects, gifts and tensions in their charts.

I am opening my July books soon, as my last launch sold out in 12 hours. Stay tuned—my subscribers will be the first to know!

Some more updates on my end:

I am shifting to a twice a week New and Full Moon ceremonies for my Substack subscribers. This allows me to really pour my heart into these recorded sessions and make them more meaningful. So do expect me in your inbox every second week, with bonus audios and meditations along the way! Stay tuned for a new moon ceremony by the end of this week!

Breathwork Level 1 Training

We just launched the final training of the year happening November 16th- 21st, 2026 at Zazil Resort in San Augustinillo, Oaxaca Mexico. Applications are now open. This is an epic 6 day experience for those of you looking to deepen your relationship to the breath, understand the science and learn how to lead powerful breathwork experiences for others.

Yoga Teacher Training 2027

YTT dates are here! March 8-22nd, also at Zazil. Apply now! Two weeks in person in Mexico + 2 online weekends. This is our 9th year anniversary of this training. Ash and I created this YTT to not only help students gain knowledge and confidence teaching, but to deep dive into personal development, self reflection and as always, FUN.

I would love to have you join a training! Especially if you have been on the fence for some time. Is this finally your year?

That is all for me right now. Sending love and ease as we approach the new moon and incoming summer solstice. More to come this week,

xo ally

a little screenshot from last week’s astro readings, unintentionally showing up in my angelic expression ;)

Today is the start of June and I can feel the forward momentum of Solstice approaching. I drank last night’s moon water I made, seasoned with all my intentions spoken into the water and felt immense gratitude for this life, this earth and all the possibilities. This moon really highlights the beauty of adventure, of truth and play. So I encourage you to find your version of that this week. If you want to learn more about this moon and how to work with it, you can access my most recent Full Moon Ceremony here.

And lastly, tonight George and I are offering another Pay What You Can Breathwork over Zoom. This is the most accessible way to work with me. It is a simple practice with a big pay off. A way to come home to yourself, to move old energy and dive into your aliveness. I couldn’t think of a better way to welcome June and a Sag full moon.

Tickets are here. We begin at 4pm pst/ 7pm est. Just show up, bring an eye mask and set yourself up on your bed, floor or couch. Excited to be there. Our online community is full of wonderful humans and together we weave a really powerful and intentional web.

Hope to see you there!

Ally

PS- my astro readings sold out SO fast! I am opening more dates soon, stay tuned!

And in true Sag fashion, I had so much fun recording this one! You get a classic Ally Maz rant/ pep talk at the end. So definitely stay till the end.

In this audio you’ll hear me blab about a fun cosmic update, followed by a visualization to dance with both letting go and manifesting plus 5 potent journal prompts.

Annnnd, a bonus exercise to write a letter from a future you. Highly recommend, especially if you’ve been freaked about the future.

Have fun with this one!

Ally

PS- I am teaching a Pay What You Can Breathwork session on Monday evening with George. You can sign up here.

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