Catching Flights, Feelings, and Fevers
Free Meditation & Workshop, Podcasts, International Flights, oh my! New year updates and free goodies for expansion.
Where do I even begin?
It’s been about a week since I returned from the Philippines, the ancestral lands.
And I am overcome with too many emotions, words, memories. Where do I start to unravel the thread of this month-long homecoming?
So let me start with this picture, to invite you into the safe haven of coconut trees, breezy humidity, and fresh scrumptious dishes that added five pounds to my scale.
Where have you been girl??
For over three weeks, I have been traversing various areas of the Philippines, with a whirlwind of a four day trip into Tokyo, Japan for the first time.
And then alas, after four years of evading her, COVID finally got me.
With blessings on blessings, I was able to extend my trip to recover and ensure others are healthy.
Unfortunately my last week was stuck in a hotel room watching whatever movies the hotel service provided. But I caught up on my Tagalog with Filipino romance dramas.
I was emotionally and physically challenged, my over-produced mucus even came up and blocked my airways I really thought it was close to the end. And eventually I was able to move it out with relief.
So much practice of easing anxieties.
Crying flowed through. Telling my parents, easing my overwhelm, that it’s okay to cry.
More left to process, but I’ll leave this here for now.
Your girl is back and better than ever!
Aside from still recovering from jet lag, I am so stoked to let you know all the exciting updates over the past month! So strap in, this is going to be a lengthy update blog.
Free Gifts From Me to You
⭐️ Free Meditation: Planting Purpose
Discover my free 9-minute guided meditative visualization and journal prompts to connect with the soul of your unique “Tree of Purpose”. Experience an accelerated sense of clarity for what you are meant to create in this lifetime.
A special thank you gift is offered for those who download and complete this practice.
⭐️ Free Workshop: Unearthing Your Creative Essence
Join me and
on March 6, at 9am PT on Zoom. Register for the FREE workshop to reconnect to your creative essence and refresh your creative intentions in this 90 minute interactive workshop. Some of the activities include:Grounding practice to invite mindful presence
Guidance to craft your creative manifesto
Visualization to welcome and anchor your 2024 vision
Sharing circle
⭐️ Your Creative Lounge: IG Broadcast Channel
I’m so excited to connect with you all through this new avenue! This is an experimental playground to play and try things out, and respond to what you all are into. For now, expect to receive channeled intuitive messages for the collective, creative processing, prompts to invite interaction and community engagement, resources that I’m loving and maybe even sneak peeks of future projects.
Recent Co-Creations
👥 Podcast Episodes
Get yourself free creative guidance in your pocket for your hot girl walks or while driving to your next errand. Three podcasts I had the honor of guesting on dropped all their episodes this month, and I’m so excited to invite you all into the chats!
Click below to listen to my episodes with the Manifest Daily Podcast, Dear Creative Mind Podcast, and School of Self-Worth Podcast along with my other guest episodes.
👥 Retreat Facilitator
At the top of this year, right before my vacation, I found myself in Austin, Texas. I was invited to facilitate a retreat for an inspiring group of women/femmes of color doing incredible advocacy and fundraising work for Black, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian communities.
I’m so excited to open up my space holding services in-person once again, so if you’re seeking a retreat facilitator or workshop speaker, my email is open.
"Isabel was extremely patient and I really enjoyed her calm demeanor. I also enjoyed her ability to understand when to facilitate and gently push us in a direction when we are stuck or unsure. Finally, I appreciated her emphasizing that we should participate within our comfort zones and adapt as needed."
—Retreat Testimonial as a Root to Bloom Facilitator
Let’s Get Activated!
Resources and invitations for getting activated, to move us closer to collective liberation.
Have suggestions you believe should be featured in the next blog? Drop them down in the comments!
Culturally relevant resources, recommendations, and inspiration intuitively curated for you.
🥑 Nuggets of Nourishment: Oscillation for Sustained Organizing
This Free Guidebook by Filipinx psychotherapist
🌻 Community Spotlight: Right-Sized Belonging Workbook
Sammie Ablaza Wills offers this free workbook of six practices for organizers. “This project is the culmination of a lifetime of wrestling with belonging and a decade of organizing experiments with transgender and queer Asians and Pacific Islanders in Lavender Phoenix”.
⟡ Ready for confident creative clarity?
Apply to Vessel for VIP Visionaries: 4-month 1:1 mentorship for heart-led creatives and changemakers
Apply to Unearthing Creative Wisdom: 6 week group program to establish foundations for rest, creative habits, and inner child joy
Creativity Lab: Intimate one-off support to navigate your blocks and uncover what will guide you back to creative ease
Listen to my podcast episodes: Cozy up to various chats I have with changemakers on creativity, wellness, and everything in between
Seems like a lot of folx are going to the homeland recently!