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What is White Flag?

White Flag was born out of Kimberly's own need for HOLISTIC RECOVERY. The cognitive approach of the 12 Steps, the Somatic approach of Trauma healing through movement, and the ancient wisdom and philosophy of Yoga merge together into an incredibly powerful medicine.

Using the model of the Koshas, we have to go through the layers of the body, Physical, Energetic, Mental, and Emotional to then be able to practice discernment and quiet.

To emerge from the frequency of addiction and shift into another dimension is possible through this practice and commUNITY which includes all aspects of YOGA beyond the physical practice known as ASANA.

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Multiple Dates
White Flag Yoga 12 - ON LINE
Wed, Jan 22
Online- Zoom
Jan 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Online- Zoom
Jan 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Online- Zoom
Yoga of 12-Step Recovery uses discussion, asana, pranayama and meditation to explore addiction and recovery within the body/mind continuum.
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WFY12 Meeting yoga market and soundbath event!
Sun, Feb 02
Satsang Yoga
Feb 02, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Satsang Yoga, 1256 Ben Sawyer Blvd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464, USA
Feb 02, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Satsang Yoga, 1256 Ben Sawyer Blvd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464, USA
Welcome to the White Flag Meeting, Yoga, Market, and Sound Bath event at Satsang Yoga Charleston
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White Flag Spring Retreat "The Farm"
Fri, May 16
Hendersonville
May 16, 2025, 5:30 PM – May 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hendersonville, 155 Horse Shoe Farm Dr, Hendersonville, NC 28791, USA
May 16, 2025, 5:30 PM – May 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hendersonville, 155 Horse Shoe Farm Dr, Hendersonville, NC 28791, USA
The White Flag Retreat is an immersive experience, designed and encapsulated by practices that focus on clearing and decluttering so we may emerge renewed, and reinvigorated to carry on~ *payment plans available - please inquire *Venmo and Zelle accepted to avoid fees - please inquire
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White Flag Retreats

White Flag Recovery Retreats are like nectar to the soul.

We MUST take time out of our regular daily life to gain space and perspective. To be re-energized and reinvigorated, reminded and realigned with our true nature so that we can re-enter our lives with a freshness that is so badly needed in our world today just to keep up keeping up.

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From Past Retreats

“ I just attended my first yoga retreat with Kimberly at White Flag Yoga. It was amazing! The events and practices were life-changing in such a powerful, spiritual and positive way. The friendships and the bonds I made were just icing on the cake. Thank you Kimberly for giving me this life-changing experience”

"A beautiful place with beautiful people having life-changing experiences, White Flag yoga retreats are one of a kind. I left the White Flag yoga retreat restored by the practice, the people, the food and the setting. I am definitely going back."

"Sound baths, yoga practice, breath work, and honest sharing were just moments of incremental joy and growth in the overall recovery revolution I experienced at the White Flag yoga retreat."

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Mt Pleasant, SC, USA
Email: whiteflagyoga@gmail.com

Phone: 208.724.0765

Yesterday two opposites took place.....

We celebrated and remembered the life of a peacemaker Martin Luther King

and...

We witnessed Trump be sworn onto the highest office.

Two very opposing individuals

Opposites...

This is a teaching I have gleaned in my studies that has informed me in all areas of life and helped me to not only accept myself ( in all the ways ) but also other people that I do not necessarily like, agree, or share values with.

Both exist... both are true at the exact same time and we can hold them both.. 🤲

Chaos and Peace
Love and Hate
Dark and light
Heavy and weightless

I am amused at the irony and take it as a nudge from the multiverse... to allow it all and also just how cheeky that source is 🥰

Reminder to protect your energy ⚠️do not watch and engage in the news and all the rhetoric and bullshit even if it is funny and amusing ... it drains our energy and puts stress on our systems..

Be choosy as to what you expose to your senses.. we are sentient beings.. be intentional with your choices of what you let in to your field!

and this from the yoga sutras...

Pratipaksha Bhavana is a yogic practice described in the Yoga Sutras where yogis discontinue negative ways of thinking through the discipline of “cultivating the opposite.” Basically, instead of thinking negative thoughts, we cultivate thoughts of kindness and compassion instead.

#lovingkindness
#lettingo
#compassionforallbeings
#peace
#nonviolence
#love
#jah

🏳️🏳️🏳️

Do not let soft and slow movement deceive you.

The heat builds. The blood is oxygenated and energy moves. 💨🪶

The invitation is to move ANXIETY 😫grief 😔, anger, 😡heartache💔, happiness😁, joy, 🎉sadness🥲 in and through the body.

Energy needs to move!

The issues are in the tissues!! @y12sr @nikisuemyers

Friday in @theclass with Sofia we moved to this beautiful piece of music that you will recognize if you are of a certain age🤔

A tribute to the beautiful soul David Lynch @davidlynchfoundation

#movementmedicine
#issuesareinthetissues
#y12
#y12sr
#anxietymedicine
#inandthroughthebody
#surrender
#whiteflagmovementmedicine
#somaticmovement
#brainbalancing

🏳️🏳️🏳️

In so many ways... on so many levels...

Take refuge in the simple Taoist truths of

Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

It's the great continuum... allow..and HhhhhhhhhOLD Onnnnnnnnnnn

#herewego
#mlk
#taoism
#yogicwisdom
#truthnotego
#simplicity
#compassion
#tolerance
#patience
#whiteflagyoga12

Limited space! Get your tickets in link tree !

Join us for the launch of a new "all pathways," recovery meeting and a day filled with relaxation and connection @satsangyogacharleston

White Flag 🏳️ supports everyone on a journey of recovery and discovery as we create spaces and places for commUNITY to gather and share the journey.

We will talk a little about yoga, philosophy, and other doctrines for living and the importance of drawing the parallels between them and the art of being HUMAN!

There is POWER in Surrender~
🏳️🏳️🏳️

Come early and browse the @magdalenehouseofcharleston Magdalene Market!

✨Opening

✨Intro into White Flag Yoga 12 somatic approach

✨Open all pathways Recovery meeting (we're all recovering from something!)

✨Gentle movement and Soundbath experience with @sacred.soma.chs Christian McClellan

✨Closing

Stay after and browse the Magdalene Market

_A portion of the proceeds go to support The Magdalene House

Magdalene House of Charleston is a nonprofit recovery home for women facing addiction. They have created a life giving social enterprise to support their mission, featuring our very own line of jewelry and handbags along with fair trade treasures by our mission partners!
Your purchase will help women
rise up from darkness and
Be the Light.

Don't miss this opportunity to connect,reset and recharge. We can't wait to see you there!
xx

#yoga12
#charlestonwellness
#charlestonrecovery
#allpathways
#surrender
#y12
#recoveryretreat
#recoveryjourney
#noshame
#yogaphilosophy
#12steps
#fournobletruths
#taoistyoga

✨Morning Sadhana is the single most important thing we can do every day to align with our higher power (whatever that means to you)

For me, I must go humbly into this new day.. to lay my heart below the head and give it all away... I have no choice.

It is what I must do to receive the sensate awareness and connection to the divine. To this miraculous journey as a spiritual being having this messy human experience.

I need help! In white flag 🏳️ we call it our spiritual Teflon!

Encase yourself with that beautiful forcefield of protection before you start "thinking"!!

Remember the mind can be a dangerous neighborhood... kinda dark🥹

Go gentle into each new day... connect at the very least with this practice.

Same place, same time)ish) every day. If you don't like the 3rd step prayer use your own words...

Some days I might say nothing just breathe and connect third eye (wisdom center) to earth.

Show me
Show me
Show me

Always works.

xx
with love _ k

#movingprayer
#thirdstepprayer
#yoga+12steps
#yoga12steprecovery
#y12
#y12retreats
#recoveryretreats
#bhakti
#onedayatatime
#yoga
#yogamedicine
#movementmedicine
#recoveryyoga
#yogicliving

🕊️

If we desire freedom.. we seek neutrality_

In all areas 🪷

(Especially egoic iterations)

#balance
#neutrality
#equanimity
#yoga

A cozy morning in the beautiful yoga SHALA @thehorseshoefarm .

On the White Flag Rētreats, part of our morning schedule, include morning meetings where we lead with the heart...🤍

This space becomes our sanctuary where we meditate, move, use mantra, mudra, and movement. Where we process and purge, create and destroy and we learn to let go.

We return to @thehorseshoefarm May 16-19, 2025 for our 🏳️🏳️🏳️White Flag Spring Rētreat (ment). 😘

Link to retreat in website.
Have questions? DM me

#recoveryretreat
#recoveryjourney
#y12retreat
#yoga12retreats
#recoveryyogaretreat

Snapshots of some past 🏳️ retreats over the years ~🙌🏻

EARLY RESERVE OPEN NOW _ lock your spot now! (Only six spots left)

Click on Linktree to reserve now 🏳️🤍🏳️

🏳️full registration opens on Thursday ~ giving thanks day!

DM me with any questions 🫶

The White Flag Retreat was created because of all of you!

Because you came with open hearts and the willingness to explore internally, and understand more deeply your journey as a human on the path of recovery and discovery.

That was 6 years ago, and since then we have been to nine different locations including the high desert of Zion National park in Southern Utah, through the Narrows wading in waist deep water we trudged the path together!

I created these containers because I believe in immersive learning and growing. When we are set in the right environment, with the right people, at the right time doing the things that are aligned with our truth……. MAGIC HAPPENS!!!

✨What do you want to manifest?

✨What are you so fking tired of dragging around!?

✨What layer of the onion skin are you currently shedding?

✨What are you ready to learn and add to your evolution?

You know we never get "there," and were never done, so we use these outlets once or twice a year to RE_TREAT and go inward….and have a lot of FUN too.

Believe me….its not all self study!!!

Just the right amount of commUNITY, Nature, Yoga and somatic practices, self care ritual, beautiful organic food to fuel creativity, quiet and stillness, laughter, ceremony and love. (and a little Witchy vibes)

You will not be the same…

Come FLY your WHITE FLAG

Just announced Spring Retreat May 15-18 Horseshoe Farm!

Early bird reserve your spot available now and full retreat registration opens THURSDAY (giving thanks day! )

#thepowerofretreat
#recoveryretreat
#yogaretreat
#recoveryyogaretreat
#y12retreat
#yoga12retreat

If your life was played back to you in vignettes, clips and snapshots what would you see?

What do you love to do with your precious time?

Who do you spend time with ?

What do you study, learn and seek?

What pulls you? What are your passions?

Where do you still ache from a rupture long ago?

These are inquiries we visit on White Flag Retreats...🏳️🏳️🏳️

Spring Re_treatment just announced.
Link in bio for Early Reserve to hold your spot 🤍🏳️🤍

We are what we repeatedly do, therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit” - Aristotle

🙌🏻Grateful to the teachers you see in these pics... amazing humans filled with love and wisdom and the ability to convey these ancient truth and teachings..

Wahe Guru!

@krishnadasmusic @bob__thurman @instaraghu @nina_rao @nikisuemyers @tommyrosen @springwasham @marisaradhaweppner

#samskara
#consistency
#repetition
#disciplime
#recoveryretreat
#recoveryyoga
#y12sr
#y12retreat
#yoga12retreat

And to the earth we will return.. 🍂

last night on our weekly 🏳️ Yoga 12 meeting we talked about death and dying.

How every day we are practicing this as a full cycle.. 🔁

We wake.. we breathe and live thru our day... we let it all go and fade into sleep merging with the divine consciousness.

Repeat...

The less I think of myself the more I am ready to let it all go...

When I was a big deal, (or thought I was) me dying would not have been cool at all!!

But now,,,, it's all good.

***Next week we will explore the Kirtan Kriya SA TA NA MA meditation which has many benefits, increasing all aspects of cognitive function (perception, thinking, reasoning and remembering) and reducing stress levels while improving short term memory.

Join us every Wednesday for an all pathways open recovery meeting based in yoga philosophy and the 12 steps as guides & templates for living!

Sa = birth
Ta = life
Na = death
Ma = rebirth

#kirtankriya

Desert Medicine_
Remembering our time @redmtnresort and the sacred corridor of the narrows @thezionnationalpark

These retreats are a …

Rēmembering

and

Rē-turning

to that surrender 🏳️from a different vantage point_ a higher place.

I also want to say that not everyone that comes on the White 🏳️Flag Retreats are in “recovery,” themselves.

But we can all agree that we live in a very addicted world and it is all around us in a broader sense.

We are interested in depth, and learning how to be more skillful beings. To tap into the teachings of simplicity, patience, and compassion.

One of my favorite quotes everrrrr.

___As a collective, we are taught that we need to go out and do big important things and be a "mover and a shaker," out there somewhere.

To BECOME something other than what "is" _

The ancients, rishis, and spiritual teachers remind us that firstly the work is interior _____

and secondly, it's right in front of us in whatever we are engaging in the moment right here, right now.

that could be the practice of sweeping the floor, or making our family a meal, or holding space for a very dis regulated child like mine.

For me_ literally every time I try to get up the stamina to get back "out there," and make something happen. My higher power seems to direct me right back to the house and what is happening in my own home.

Householding is an art, and I believe one of the most important spiritual roles there is.

It is the well of nourishment and love, where one can affect immense change in the world. By bestowing attention, patience, tolerance and radical compassion in what can sometimes feel like a war zone inside our own homes!!

Ask yourself... can I be the peace I so desperately seek when the shit is hitting the fan? Can I be the one who remains calm and at ease brokering peace in radical dissonance?

During a four hour dysregulated melt down yesterday into the night , I held that peace 🤍🕊️🏳️

VICTORY!!!✌🏻

No one out there notices, but inside my home there is growth because at least one of us stayed calm, grounded and was a broker of peace. 🕊️

my message is, please don't underestimate the power of simplicity and holding a beautiful - safe home space _

It's the ripple effect_

Love to all out there holding home 🏠

#householder
#holdinghome
#theyogaofhouseholding
#unbecoming
#motherwisdom
#dysregulation
#neurodiversefamily
#theartofliving

Every day I / WE practice yoga... 🙌🏻

even and especially, on the days that may not include a long asana practice.

Go easy _ 🏳️

The yoga of motherhood
The yoga of householding
The yoga of self care
The yoga to know the difference... 🫶

#yogavows
#somuchmorethanasana
#yogaphilosophy
#yamas
#niyamas
#eightlimbsofyoga

Do not be fooled..she is a fierce and most dangerous creature... decendant of the lion.. 🦁

I know you are probably holding your breath...

I took extreme risk for this footage..

🤍
#meow

This is all we need... I have it hanging in several places in my hOMe..

True treasured wisdom_

#laotzu
#simplicity
#patience
#compassion

Rē (treatment)

RE- fall back , withdraw
Treatment - to take the cure

re- a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or “backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion: regenerate; refurbish; retype; retrace;

White Flag 🏳️ medicinal retreats announcing 🔜 ..

Mama had to take a break but I'm comin baaaaaack ..... 🏳️🤍🏳️

#retreats
#healingjourney
#somaticexperiencing
#y12
#recoveryretreats
#recoverytetreat
#y12srretreats
#weareallrecoveringfromsomething
#retreatment
#comehometoyou
#movementmedicine

Why we Rētreat?

When we are on Retreat and we end up somewhere with 12-20 people who come together from all different timelines and storylines we merge into a new energetic frequency.

Designed and encapsulated by practices that focus on love, healing, devotion, health, abundance, nature, bodywork, meditation, learning and self study.

We are in an alter universe for those days that REMIND us that we are on a sacred journey and that the “real world,” has forgotten that.

We come on retreat to remember what we have forgotten.

It is a reminder that we are LOVE and oh my do we become a family!

What an honor and privilege to hold this space for the past 9 years. I am so grateful to lead the White Flag Retreats and lead you home to that which was never not there….we just get tangled up along the way.

Mid winter retreat to be announced soon...🙌🏻🪙🤍

#retreat
#restretreat
#yogaretreats2024
#yogaretreatment
#retreatment
#recoveryretreats
#recoveryretreat
#yoga12retreat
#y12sr
#y12retreat

...

The season of rest....

We celebrate the Equinox/ 🌗🌍Solstice points on the calendar to become more conscious to the cyclical nature of the planet that we live on, the change is going on around us and inside of us. Even the food we eat will turn towards root vegetables everything going to sleep…dormancy _

Mirroring our life cycle _
birth -life- death- rebirth-

The two words we brought to our intention circle were;

1. Gratitude
2. Release

Contemplate these inquiries and ask yourself what are you most GRATEFUL FOR RIGHT NOW?

and what are you ready to RELEASE RIGHT NOW?

Make them part of your altar or process as the equinox arrives today......

Mine were..

1. I am grateful for hardship and the pain, suffering, and cues they provide to me.

2. I RELEASE “TRYING”

What are yours? Will you share them here in the comments?

Hope this musing and perspective serves you_

xx

Time to rest and reflect...

✨pics and video from a seasonal equinox/solstice ceremony @awaken_spanda and 🏳️white flag did at the Island club... we celebrated each season with ceremony.

#autumn
#equinox
#seasons
#release
#satanama
#rest

To love, we must also grieve... they are twins of the same flame 🔥 allow it all

Thank you for this @heidipriebe 🏳️

Wherever you go
there ur

#movementmedicine
#nonnegotiable
#movethebodychangeathought
#washingtondc

Everything has a vibration including our words. The tone and frequency they are delivered at. The meaning behind them.

Speaking less
Listening more
Noticing

#wordsarevibrations
#words

Oh yesss.. especially those very mind bending frustrating and difficult entaglements.

Those are really holding our feet to the fire.. 🔥

Relationships are where we practice
Welcome in...🙌🏻🫱🪷

#yogawisdom

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don’t be afraid to care.
Leave but don’t leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don’t sit down it’s time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

#breathe
#biome
#vitaminsea

What does S I M P L I C I T Y
f e e l like to you....

S L O W movement to embody the body.

As I am aging I am finding that a morning movement practice is non negotiable.

It's like I don't power up fully without it. My operating system does not come online if I skip this.

It's not about "working out." ..It about embodying the body,l all systems communicating energetically.

Everything changes...
Impermanence.. rely on it

#morningmovementmedicine
#movementmedicine
#kimchi

🏳️🏳️🏳️

Wisdom from Lau Tzu 🕉️

The softest things of the world overcome the hardest things of the world.

Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

When two opponents meet, the one without an enemy will surely triumph.

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