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They thought I was wasting food.
Hello Beautiful Souls,
This summer I brought a box of pasta into the orphanage in La Romana. We painted it and glued it onto clay and foam to make little oceans. The littles loved it.
The older kids were horrified.
"This is food. You're wasting food."
They weren't wrong. At FONICRIS, every meal i...
Oct 06, 2026
All Inclusive vs. Villa: What I Learned at Moon Palace Punta Cana
I just got back from a Fora fam trip at Moon Palace Punta Cana, and I have a lot of feelings.
Let me start with what this resort does well, because it does a lot well.
Kids stay free. That alone changes the math for families. It's the biggest resort in Punta Cana, and on price it comes in much be...
Sep 30, 2026
The Challenge I Have Been Working On For YEARS.
Hello Beautiful Souls,
At the beginning of this summer, I had a conversation with a woman in the collective that took me out. She was articulate, deeply self-aware, and had clearly done years of inner work. She could name every pattern, trace every wound back to its origin, and describe with surg...
Aug 26, 2026
You Gave Your Students Everything. This Is Yours.
A new scholarship for educators, worth two thousand dollars toward any Yinsa retreat.
All of my friends IRL are teachers. Almost twenty years in a New York classroom taught me something most people never see from the outside. Educators give constantly, all year long, and very rarely does anyone...
Aug 21, 2026
Burning It All To The Ground...
I haven't been in a classroom in four years.
After spending over two decades in schools, the last time I worked with kids in a school was June, 2022.
That shifted this summer in the most bizarre way possible.
Here's the story.
Within seven days in early June, I onboarded two new partners for my c...
Aug 06, 2026
2027 Retreats are Here!
Morning, Collective,
We are still coming down from Portugal.
Eight days of narrative therapy, movement, creative writing, and a group of women who showed up ready to do real work. I keep coming back to something one of our travelers wrote to us afterward:
"I really learned to find myself again, ...
Jul 31, 2026
Portugal, Pickpockets, and the Practice of Letting Go
🦋 The Friday Flutter 🦋
July 24, 2026
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Off the mat,
Outside the studio,
Up and down the cobblestone hills
Of a foreign city
With an unfamiliar language
But a common humanity,
Stretching myself not just in body but in mind,
Leaning into the comfort of the discomfort,
And breathing through it all,
...
Jul 24, 2026
The Superhero You Didn't Know You Were
🦋 The Friday Flutter 🦋
July 17, 2026
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Dear Belonging~Sometimes it feels like I am alone in this world.That nobody truly gets it.They might know me,But they don't see me.There are times you make me actively seek outWhat I'm looking for in other people.Other times, you place them in my lifeWhen I ...
Jul 17, 2026
The Workout Myth That’s Been Exhausting You
🦋 The Friday Flutter 🦋
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July 11, 2026
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My name is PAVITA
and I. AM. from:
The sound of laughter.
The sight of pink, paint, paisley, and paper.
The smell of lavender oil massaging my body with love.
The taste of spicy curries over rice.
The touch of smooth pages of a book.
The value of self-care...
Jul 10, 2026
The Yinsa Foundation Update
Eight years of Yinsa has always meant body and mind, East and West, and ancient wisdom held next to evidence-based practice. This year, that same marriage extended somewhere new: the Yinsa Foundation, and our first Fellowship on the ground at FONICRIS, an orphanage in La Romana, Dominican Republ...
Jul 07, 2026
We Turned 8! Yinsa LLC Becomes Yinsa, Inc.
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The day before our launch party on June 15th, 2018, my car was towed by the glorious NYC Department of Finance.  That car was full of supplies for the day's photoshoot with an A/V team, I had a house full of friends and family helping me with final details, and my Mom's credit card was the onl...
Jun 24, 2026
A Vacation or a Retreat...Which One Do You Need?
You've been saying you need a vacation.
But what if what you actually need is something else entirely?
I've been watching a pattern for years - in my clients, in women who follow me, in myself. We work ourselves into the ground, hit a wall, and then book a trip thinking five days somewhere warm w...
Jun 03, 2026
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