Sparkle and Zest

Sparkle and Zest Artist|Guide|Mother|Lover

Supporting you to connect more deeply with yourself

God is HerShe is God🌹❤️🌹
03/24/2026

God is Her
She is God

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After three years of hosting this monthly women’s gathering,this month we are opening it up!All welcome ✨This is in part...
03/04/2026

After three years of hosting this monthly women’s gathering,

this month we are opening it up!

All welcome ✨

This is in part coming from requests from those who attend who wish to share it with their partners/partners who have expressed interest

and also from a curiosity within myself which wants to experiment with sharing this work more widely.

Please join us on the third Thursday of this month (3/19) at 6:30pm for our InnerWild gathering.

At Whidbey Island Yoga (222 Anthes, Langley, upstairs in the Porter Building).

Sliding scale~ $10-$30

A one-off offering open to all bodies & genders.

Next month, we will go back to our regularly scheduled monthly women’s gathering on 4/16.

Link in comments below describes more of what the InnerWild experience is: we open and close with some time to share and in between we descend into ourselves using breath, movement, and sound.

Hope you can make it and please share with those who might resonate!

Dm with questions 🌀

Note to self…..✨PLAY✨
02/21/2026

Note to self…..

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Thinking back to 2016 meAnd what these last 10 years have been for meIn part, they have been a time of finding my voice,...
02/13/2026

Thinking back to 2016 me

And what these last 10 years have been for me

In part, they have been a time of finding my voice, sharing it, and then somatically processing the shame I felt in letting myself be seen more

As I slowly started sharing more of my writing and my thoughts

Even things like sharing a selfie or a video of myself brought up intense feelings of wondering if I am too much

If I am allowed

‘Go away’ no one wants to see/hear you

Would be the loud internal voice that would surface, surprising even me!—

But it’s actually very common, especially for women, who have been conditioned to be small & palatable

who have needed to keep themselves ‘in line’

In exchange for ‘safety’ ‘protection’ and ‘belonging’

It’s been a decade now of wearing those chains down and blossoming forth in bare discovery of myself.

If this is a pattern you recognize in yourself, if you long for more authenticity in how you express and show up,

keep going!

We all want to witness the real you,

in all your genuine imperfect perfection.

And if you want a sister to support you as you journey out of your shell & into sharing your gifts with the world, please reach out! This is a path I know very well 💗

My dive into the feminine embodiment practices I teach was born out of my own desperation.Desperate to return to my sens...
02/11/2026

My dive into the feminine embodiment practices I teach was born out of my own desperation.

Desperate to return to my sense of self.

Desperate to return to my own vitality.

Desperate to return to my creativity, eroticism, Aliveness, and knowing.

Desperate to feel connected to the Divine.

Desperate for a container that could hold all of me—

All of my shadows, all of my light. All of my grief, wildness, rawness, realness.

All of my voice, all of my power.

All of my emotion—

Nothing off limits! Nothing guarded against.

Nothing I had to leave at the door to only show up with part of myself to my spiritual practice.

It needed to include my sensuality, my pleasure, my hunger, my desire, my yearning

It needed include my impatience, my frustration, my exhaustion, my vulnerability, my roar.

I needed to create a space for all of me to be held and experienced and met.

And so I did.

It began on my own, for several years. In the privacy of my own bedroom, door shut, and accessing my breath, movement, sound, & body and sinking into all of me.

Sometimes the practice was subtle and feather light.

Sometimes there was something loud knocking from within and I knew the only way through was to turn and face it and let it melt me.

Holding myself and liberating myself through all that arose.

For years before motherhood, I had a seated silent meditation practice. 

But now, in the busy swirl of motherhood and ordinary life, I needed something different. 

I needed a way that wasn’t about sitting still like a glass with dirty water in it and if you just sit long enough the dirt sinks to the bottom and the water becomes clear, no—

I didn’t have time for that!

I needed to take the dirt and rub it on my body and remember that I am earth too!

These practices do just that. Born out of my desperation, they plug me back into my satisfaction.

Into my holy knowing.

Into my intuitive pulsing.

Into my sense of belonging.

Into my humble acceptance.

Into my feminine essence.

Now, I am so grateful to do these practices with others. To share what has become my lifeblood out into the world.

What does strict Rinzai Zen training have to do with feminine embodiment?Some of you know that I spent 5 years in my 20s...
02/11/2026

What does strict Rinzai Zen training have to do with feminine embodiment?

Some of you know that I spent 5 years in my 20s living and training in a 300 year old Zen temple in Japan.

This was a schedule of rising at 3:30am, chanting sutras, meditating, having a private interview with the Zen master, working around the monastery during the day (yes even raking lines in the dirt of the gardens), and then more meditation in the evening.

One week of every month was strict osesshin, meditating all day and into the night for 7 days straight.

If you become sleepy on the meditation cushion, you would get hit with a stick (we all took turns doing this, so I had to learn how to whack sleepy people with the stick too—don’t worry, it’s on the meaty part between the shoulder blade and the spine, very invigorating!).

We prostrated before the master before and after the private interview.

I buzzed my hair and ate many meals of picked vegetables, rice, and miso soup.

We had a lot of fun too! Amazing friendships were made (it was an international community) and there were occasional pizza nights, donuts, and days to bike into town and drink strong coffee.

But what does this strict schedule & this silent, seated meditation have do with the feminine embodiment work I teach now?

At the root, they are the same.

At root, they are about touching and embodying this great life energy.

My time in the monastery helped me touch and cultivate this in a potent way—

And now the feminine embodiment practices I teach are my own evolution of how to bring it though the body and being even more.

It is my same fascination with Aliveness that brought me to the monastery years ago that pulses through the practices I guide 1:1 and in groups. My unique monastic background gave me a place to contact this life essence over years of training that not many in my field have access to.

I am thrilled it has been my creative journey to let the essence blossom forth as a feminine embodiment facilitator, helping other women access this sense of Wholeness and Aliveness through their bodies in their own wild & glorious way.

Feast and Gratitude Day ✨We made udon & tempura & pie and took a dark, rainy, twinkly-light family walk around town~~
11/29/2025

Feast and Gratitude Day ✨

We made udon & tempura & pie and took a dark, rainy, twinkly-light family walk around town~~

We had such a rich InnerWild gathering last month.Four of us circled around a candle and the magic unfurled.I have to ad...
11/18/2025

We had such a rich InnerWild gathering last month.

Four of us circled around a candle and the magic unfurled.

I have to admit, before I walked into the studio that evening, I was considering taking a break over the holiday months and perhaps coming back in the new year with a style of gathering quite different from this.

But by the end of the evening, I knew that wasn’t an option. We need this time together.

We need this space to practice.

We need this opportunity to connect, breathe, moan, feel, express. To open our bodies & our channels and feel the stream of Aliveness pouring through us. To practice using our voices. To rest into our heartbeats and bellies and skins.

These Fall and Winter months are precious times to practice.

At 6:30pm when we gather, the sky is dim.

This canvas of darkness provides an atmosphere for an even more intimate and primal practice. Like a womb. Like the belly of the beast.

It is here we are allowed to feel the prayer pulse more fully in our bones.

To hear the whispers from our ancestors or the spirit world enter through the veil.

The privacy and cloak of darkness allows us to descend and drop more layers of self-consciousness as we journey deeply into what is True and Real.

So we will continue our InnerWild gathering on the third Thursday of the month in November (THIS THURSDAY, the 20th!), December (the 18th), and into the new year!

Come explore with us and wake up more fully to your own silky, rich, potent wholeness.

Dress comfortably,
bring a water bottle, bring a friend~
Sliding scale: $10-$30

Grateful to all of you~~
In Wildness & Fullness,
xoxo Teresa

Autumn vibes 🍂
10/22/2025

Autumn vibes 🍂

Hello loves,IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE announcement for our October InnerWild: we will meet THIS THURSDAY on October 9th (the...
10/05/2025

Hello loves,

IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE announcement for our October InnerWild:

we will meet THIS THURSDAY on October 9th (the second Thursday of the month) instead of the usual third Thursday, as I have a conflict on that day. Still at 6:30pm at Whidbey Island Yoga!

Mark your calendars and see you soon 💋

xoxoox Teresa

Incredible weekend celebrating 20 years of Twilight at the Forever Twilight in Forks Festival & four nights at a cabin i...
09/22/2025

Incredible weekend celebrating 20 years of Twilight at the Forever Twilight in Forks Festival & four nights at a cabin in La Push with my favorite vampire, Rose ❣️

A very special getaway for us filled with misty beaches, delicious food, cosplay, gaming, and fangs.

I guess I’m officially a Twihard now 🩸

Hello wild ones—Those who are dedicated to the sparkthe flamethe emberwithin—to the wild fire of Aliveness flickering in...
08/19/2025

Hello wild ones—

Those who are dedicated to the spark

the flame

the ember

within—

to the wild fire of Aliveness flickering in the center of your being.

Come stoke the fire,
fan the flame,
cradle the ember,
breathe into the spark

that makes you YOU—

that ignites & shines & flickers & surges

through every cell of your glorious being.

In InnerWild, we go there, together—

with breath, movement, & sound

a somatic practice that helps us access

our authenticity, our Aliveness, our expression, our wholeness.

This Thursday, 6:30pm, at Whidbey Island Yoga (upstairs in the Porter Building at 222 Anthes, Langley).

Sliding scale, $10-$30

Dress comfortably, bring a water bottle, bring a friend—

for an evening of sharing & deep-diving together in sisterhood.

Hope to see you there—
xoxoxo
💗Teresa

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