Inner Roots Healing Arts with Stephanie Jones, MA, E-RYT

In the spring garden, every shade of green is a sacred promise that life always renews itself. 🌱

I feel like I have been in a rebirthing process, mindfully seeking renewal after laboring and pushing through a lot of challenging changes this year. I’m tending the garden of my heart with the practices and people who help me remember who I truly am, and I feel a familiar yet fresh greenery growing wild within me. 🌿

May we honor the process of renewal. May we connect and engage with the people, resources, and practices that call us gently back to our own blossoming. 🌸🌺🪷

The friendships and meaningful connections that I’ve developed through yoga are unparalleled. I’m incredibly grateful for the friends who have become my yoga family. ♥️

It was an absolute joy to spend the last few days in the Franklin and Nashville area leading a workshop, planning a yoga retreat to Peru with Robbie Moonbeam Yoga, and reconnecting with dear friends. I feel refreshed and inspired. Can’t wait to visit again soon! ♥️🧘‍♀️😊

✨The birth of a new project always reignites my inspiration.✨ In 2016, Robbie Michelle Short and I embarked on a life-changing journey of leading yoga teacher trainings for aspiring yoga teachers. 🧘‍♀️We are now taking our favorite mind-body practices from those trainings and offering them in retreat style gatherings as a way to be more accessible and inclusive for anyone who wishes to immerse in the sacred spiritual teachings of yoga. Our “Spiritualize Your Life” courses are for those who wish to dive deeper into collective spiritual wisdom traditions, which help guide and connect us with our unique healing and awakening paths. ♥️

Our first mini-retreat, called “Create Sacred Space,” takes place Saturday, June 11th 1-5:30pm CST at Southern Crystal Company in Nashville, TN.

During our time together, you will be guided through purifying breath work and movement, and guided through a Shamanic Journey into the Sacred Space of your own heart. We will continue with discussion on the importance of providing a sacred space in your home, followed by creating a smudge bundle made with local and sustainable sacred herbs. We will invite you to join in a mantra meditation, soak in a sound meditation with crystal singing bowls, followed by sacred silence before closing to go home dwelling in that sacred and calm place in your mind.

DM for questions or to register. Cost is $250. You can register through Venmo -Short-2

I’ve always found to be true that when I ignore the subtle messages of my body, then the signals get louder and more uncomfortable until I am forced to listen.

For a while, I have been resisting the call to slow down and practice self care. And now, for nearly two weeks, I’ve been dealing with laryngitis that has left me completely voiceless at times. It seems that I needed to lose my voice in order to truly hear and honor the voice of my body. I’m doing my best to slow down, to rest, to do the things that most nurture my body, mind and spirit…and ever so slowly, my actual voice is returning.

Today, rather than tackling the million things on my to do list, I went to my favorite place—the beach—to rest upon the sand, breathe in the ocean air, and allow the healing waters of the Atlantic to wash over me. It dawns on me that it’s Earth Day. I contemplate the ways the body of the Earth communicates to us and all the ways we ignore her messages. May we listen deeply to the needs of the Earth, and may we do our best to honor her voice. ♥️🙏🌍

My intention for the past several days has been to elevate—to connect with the practices, the people, and the places that remind me of who I truly am and how to act from that higher awareness.

When we feel burdened by the stresses of life, may we access the resources that help us feel elevated. In elevating, may we be refreshed by a perpetual stream of creative energy that opens our minds and hearts. ♥️🙏

This morning in meditation, an image flashed through my mind…

I’m tangled in a web of thick vines that squeeze and twist around me, pushing and pulling me in all directions. The biggest vines that coil around my legs seemingly anchor me in place and menacingly dare me to move. I wonder how I have allowed myself to be consumed by this jungle. I struggle to free myself. With a machete-like force, I cut one vine at a time. I trust that my dedication to this disentangling will eventually allow me to live within the forest without being enmeshed in it. “One vine at a time,” I encourage myself. Despite the exhaustion and what feels like years of chopping through layer after layer, I remove everything that has kept me bound.

The heart speaks to us in symbols, and these symbols are our soul medicine. May we feel supported as we each lovingly free ourselves from that which confines us…one vine at a time. ♥️🙏

In the midst of a difficult week, I am grateful to be warmed by the sun, to connect with my mom, to walk among the beauty of the earth, to remember that soul medicine is everywhere. ♥️

May all that is heavy fall away. May your heart feel light and free. Happy holidays 💚💚💚

Stretching out of my comfort zone often feels like waves of anxiety washing over me—heart pounding, stomach in knots, hands shaking, thoughts racing… It is incredibly uncomfortable; and yet, this discomfort is an important ingredient for our growth.

Yesterday, I did something I’ve never done before—a radio interview. It was certainly an experience that helped me crack out of my shell. I was reminded of a dharma talk I heard years ago from Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron, about the importance of continually and safely stepping out of our comfort zone. She said the longer we stay in our comfort zone, the smaller and smaller our zone of comfort becomes. Growth does not live in our places of comfort.

I am so grateful for friends and loved ones who encourage me to do the things that facilitate growth. Thank you for inviting me on this radio experience alongside some amazing musicians, poets and spoken word artists.

If you’re in the Chattanooga area on Tuesdays 7:30-9pm, I highly recommend Shawnessey’s open mic night at —it has been a welcoming and supportive group that’s allowed me to stretch my comfort zone in the best ways. ♥️🙏