2 June 2026

Happy June to you!  I am sitting outside barefoot and comfortable listening to all the different bug and bird noises and thinking of what to say.  A lot of times I need to find something really personal, write it and then connect it to the universal and inevitable at least one person will tell me that it was just what they needed.  This tool is one of the teaching techniques I recommend to beginning teachers to help deepen their connection to what they are saying and their students. There is something holy that happens when we excavate and expose our own vulnerability, other’s feel with us and dare to show their fragile places.  Whenever and wherever we come across those special teachers that seem to teach just for us we can feel understood and expanded in our study.  In the time that we are alive finding such teachers and teachings are precious, rare and essential.  

We have entered the age where everything can be faked and we need to dig down into our own beingness to tell what is real, what is true and what is human.  Shortly after generative AI was introduced my husband, a high school teacher, shared that together with his students they were playing a game at guessing wether something was AI generated or not.  While that might of worked in 2023, it has gotten harder and harder.  Sure there are the obvious rainbow-full, pseudo-spiritual images that inundate the new age communities but now we have videos of famous people, movie stars or politicians, in situations they never were in or saying stuff they never said.  We are bombarded with commercials everywhere full with fake people, manufactured voices and researched likability. I just heard that social media is more AI than real people and then I remember that this is just the beginning. When I stay just up in my head and following around my monkey mind, it can get really scary and I have to pull my self back to my center and remind myself that AI only can work with the past and has no relationship to the new, or the spirit realm.  Then I can notice what capacities I have to navigate this quagmire. Similar to how you identify who is your teacher, your inner guidance is a key to keeping your sovereignty and telling the difference between real and fake.  This inner part of you is what yoga, meditation, prayer and time in nature strengthens. As we move ever deeper out of the age of the intellectual soul into the age of the consciousness soul we will notice how important our participation and inner awareness is.  I know that I have just grazed the topic of AI in our lives and much more can be said about how it is part of how we are manipulated and will lead us down the nefarious road of transhumanism or how our playing and training with AI is literally killing the planet and stunting the human being but mostly I want to empower you to include trusting yourself as part of your spiritual practices.  Even through misunderstandings, mistakes, missteps and being wrong we become more able to discern and take responsibility for ourselves.  What practices do you notice that strengthen your trust in yourself?

Even though this last yoga newsletter is to tell you I am only teaching two more weekly classes, (today, June 2 and June 9th), your practice is for your lifetime. Take ownership of it and notice what invisible forces are fed by what you do.  You might stick with yoga or perhaps you will find a different type of movement or practice that speaks to you.  What ever it is make sure that you love it!  

After I stop offering weekly online classes you still will have over 200 videos on my yoga YouTube channel and like a million other yoga teachers to choose from. Perhaps there will be an occasional yoga workshop or class I’ll invite you to or you can hire me to teach private classes, corporate events or some fun one off celebration.  

For those of you who are interested in what I do next,  who are interested in my astrology and art work, email ‘yes’ to be added to my new mailing list.  

To all of you thank you so much for showing up for what I offered.  

With lots of love, Rachel 

March 23, 2026

Astrologers love to talk and therefore every year sounds exciting, intense, and life changing. It’s true,  yes, every year there are life changing events in our shared world, biographies and inner experiences. Every year we end up a little different than when we started the year and change is the only thing that we can count on.  That being said, there are major shifts happening in 2026 astrologically that has everyone in their own way reimagining, altering and committing to new things moving forward.  Collectively we are moving out something known into fiery uncharted territory. What I am noticing most about this are certain things need to end in order for the new to emerge. As I wrote last month and a bit ago, my role as a yoga teacher is changing. Last Tuesday when nobody showed up to the yin class, (which I barely promoted), I was giddy happy!  Don’t get me wrong I love the people who have showed up over the years and I love teaching but it has not been enough support to sustain it.  This spring will be my last semester of weekly online yoga offering for the foreseeable future.  I will be offering Tuesday yin yoga until the second week of June.  I will continue to be available for private events, special arrangements and conference if am invited. 

For years I have heard time and time again that I am a wonderful teacher and I really thank you for the consistent feedback and occasional fan letters, because if I just measured my yoga teaching journey economically it has been a wild failure. I feel an incredible gratitude that I got away with working as a yoga teacher for so long and now feel sweet lightness to leave it behind.  There have been layers of realization in my long process of saying good bye to practicing the art of teaching yoga. First it really hit me on the fiscal level where I was getting paid the same amount of money for weekly classes as I had when I first started teaching in 2001, then I observed how tiered I am of trying to convince people to do yoga to feel better,  I then had a much more personal crisis about my own relationship to the practice and now finally I am ready to move on.  

Moving forward I hope to meet many of you through my work with astrology, creativity and life! 

January 2026

Dear Yogis, Star Lovers and Friends!

Happy New Year 2026 and what a time to be alive!

Here in Sweden the new year gifted us with lots of beautiful snow.  The pristine, luscious snow cover lasted far longer than usual with help of intermittent snow covering up whatever blemishes life marred the blanket with.  You see in snow all movements made by humans and beasts becomes visible, and you can follow the tracks of all your living neighborhood.  You can see where the kids ran up the hill and where they sledded down, you can see where the  dog peed, where someone stood for a while  and where someone was pacing around, or what animal walked around your house.  It’s all there recorded in the snow, recorded in the frozen water.  Then the snow melts and the tracks disappear, and we can no longer see evidence of all the earth bound movements surrounding us.   In studying symbology in esoterica, alchemy and astrology you learn that water has often refers to the spiritual world, perhaps the symbol of snow would be more fitting.  You see we don’t get any timeouts from walking a path with spiritual consequence even if we don’t believe in spirit.  Every step we take and action we make becomes part of the tapestry of our becoming and our legacy in the spiritual realms.  Every misstep becomes part of our karmic anatomy and every action born from love and creativity returns to the hierarchies liberated from materialism.  To remember the incredible truth of the power of being alive on earth minimizes our pettiness and redirects us to serve something higher than our mere comfort.

Counter to the absolutely stunning winter landscape and what it has enlivened in me the beginning of this year personally challenged me physically right away.  First, I managed to pull my hamstring while out exploring the massive amounts of snow the first storm left.  Second I managed to catch a cold a couple days later.  Suffering in my body left me feeling unexcited and down.  My daily practice was impossible and I felt listless and hopeless.  This was a reminder of how much our physical health effects our attitudes, aspirations and ambitions.  I am happy to share that I am feeling better, practicing again and inspired for new projects once more.  I will offer yin yoga once a week this season again, not sure if will be the last or not, I am moving away from holding any ambitions around teaching yoga as a means to my livelihood.  Or maybe this is just a sabbatical 🙂 we will see, but something is definitely shifting.  I know I am not alone in feeling like I am on some sort of threshold because astrologically we are in for big changes this year as Saturn, Neptune and Uranus all enter new signs, and Neptune and Saturn will be conjunct. The outer planets move so slowly that we feel them most when they shift signs or have some major aspect other wise they fade into the background of our awareness. The major transit of Neptune and Saturn’s conjunction happens about every 36 years but the last time they were conjunct in Aries was in about 700 BC!  You see Aries is the beginning of the Astrological circle and always celebrates something new coming to life. There are so many layers to these two grand archetypes meeting but one of the ways to harness their energy is by having a regular disciplined approach to creativity!  As AI attempts to take over all creative task we must start to learn more of why creativity is so important for human being and the hierarchies above us.  This is why I am offering more and more creative courses in 2026.