Who Am I?

What a question! I'm still trying to figure it out!

How about I say I have spent enough time swimming and learned many lessons to know that I really can't answer that question.

Let's start with a little bit of background though.

Hi I'm Winter.

It feels like I've lived many lifetimes over in the span of one, just a human being.

Previously I worked in a mid sized corporate company as an Environmental Health, Safety, and Facilities Manager. I could go into my work history in detail as if that mattered, but I'll say I worked nearly a decade in that industry after graduating college with a degree in Environmental Science and Geology.

Like many people who follow a traditional route of going to school, working hard, and climbing up the corporate ladder, I came to a point in my life of deep dissatisfaction. Even though I had all the THINGS that people work hard to achieve, I wasn't fulfilled. I wasn't happy. I was self aware enough to understand this and consistently tried to make changes to improve my life little by little. Each attempt leading me closer and closer to mild contentment.

I went through stormy dark nights until I started to piece together a better way. I realized I wasn't healthy, in mind, body, or spirit. I needed to heal. Deeply. So I took some pretty dramatic steps to pivot into a pursuit of health over wealth. I confronted my shadows and understood I needed to relearn how to live my entire life. I became a Certified Massage Therapist and Holistic Health Practitioner attending part time school for nearly two years while still working full time in corporate. After I finished this education I quit my job in corporate and left to travel in India for 6 months. I felt a deep need to disconnect from everything I had known in my life and see how the other side lives. It was my first time leaving the country, I had never taken a vacation for more than 2 weeks in my life.

During my travel in India I learned much more about myself than I had learned for years previously. Taking the time to be alone, in a foreign place and having no formal agenda to be anywhere or get anything done. It was like drifting out to sea on a raft floating where the waves and tides push and pull. That trip was not easy, I had some of the most difficult experiences of my life. Yet those experiences taught me so much more how to remain calm and balanced no matter what happens. To learn to accept that you cannot control the waves, the sea moves how it wants to, if you resist it, the ocean will take you down. So you had better learn to swim! And go with the flow so you end up in the places you're SUPPOSED to be. Not just the places you WANT to be.

If you know anything about butterflies... You might understand, the caterpillar MUST STRUGGLE as it emerges from the cacoon, or else it will not form a body STRONG ENOUGH to fly as a butterfly.

While I have a broad range of knowledge of holistic health and wellness, the particular thing that provided me with the most useful TOOLS to remain calm and centered no matter what life brings your way, I found in the path of yoga. This is why my approach to the way to master your self is heavily based in this ancient system of holistic health and wellness. What I can do for you is provide you with the same framework I learned, and make it clear and digestable, assisted by all the other aspects of my broad knowledge base so you come to understanding the clearest way possible.

I can show you the door and give you hints of what you will find on the other side. However, even if that door swings open for you because you already have all the keys, You still have to walk through it. We each go through our own journey, but we can assist others along the way. This is what I have to share with you.

Let's get to know each other better and we can walk each other the long way home.

If you would like to know a bit more about me click the link below.

Who Are You?

Please, don't be shy!

That's Teddi by the way! She is very excited to meet you, and would like you to throw the stick now.

So, Why are you here?

If you feel like you need some direction, and encouragement, or just a place to find content for your personal practice.

Those who are motivated to find deeper answers in life and richer levels of fulfilment in every day and every moment no matter what their life circumstance are. Maybe after looking all over for answers you have yet to put the pieces together. Yet there's a feeling of deep meaning you have started to observe in your own life, you have the sensation that your life is preparing you for something, whatever journey lies ahead or comes with a new day dawning. Perhaps you are searching for that purpose as that purpose is seeking you.

Do you feel our of place in the rest of the world? Perhaps as if your peers don't really understand you? Searching for a community of others who see things as they are rather than as they themselves are?

Welcome! I'm glad you could be here now!

Maybe you have already found the path and are looking for more reasons to keep going everyday, additional insights, or more information that seems difficult to come by because you don't quite know how to look for it or just don't have the time.

This space is for you!

Now Teddi REALLY wants you to throw the stick!

What am I doing? Why am I here?

I am creating a space to share all the knowledge that I have learned through my journey, so others who may benefit from it can find it. I am holding a space for those who may feel lost along the way because it has been difficult for me to find these spaces and this information. I am building a space to share since towers of isolation crumble and a pyramid with a strong foundation of community will stand tall through even the toughest trials.

I will forever be a student of this path. I understand that because I have become a teacher. A teacher is always a student which is how they learn to teach. Through continuous evolution and development is how mastery is obtained. This site is a place that will be updated as continuously as I learn.

The information I create here is not JUST for an audience. It also serves me for my own personal practice. By teaching and creating I learn the knowledge more deeply and come to new understandings that are not always apparent at first when learning. The content I create is designed for my standards which means I give to you my BEST everytime.

So I hope you choose to support me and believe in what I am creating. If you would like more insight or information you can find more within this site.