Hi! I’m Victoria...
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I'm a MEDITATOR, YOGI and MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE based in Brooklyn, New York. Five years ago, I founded a mental wellness company called WellspringMind designed to provide meaningful stress reduction and efficiency enhancing practices to the workplace.
Ultimately though, I'm in it for genuine happiness. And my real work is teaching the world how to realize it.
Why am I so passionate about genuine happiness?
Here's a little story – I come from a farm in the middle of Illinois. Growing up I loved gymnastics, writing and art, and would have been considered pretty 'normal' on most accounts. At nine-years-old, I was diagnosed with a neurodivergent condition called obsessive-compulsive disorder, and things began to shift.
OCD is challenging (to put it lightly). It's also the grand motivator for the 25-years of solution-seeking trial & error that followed. My greatest endeavor became the reduction and ideally elimination of the unwanted, intrusive and often harmful activity that had become my mental norm.
After attempting just about every imaginable external remedy (and the endless error that followed), I can tell you with certainty that external remedies just don't work for internal suffering. I also came to realize that dis-ease is notably 'normal'. And when I finally turned the lens of that solution-seeking inward – toward the problem instead of away from it – I realized that distraction, pharmaceuticals and mind-altering magic wands do not result in genuine happiness. My own mind was enforcing suffering, and it demanded real attention. If I were going to heal from this, I'd actually have to LOOK at it.
MORNING MEDITATION was where I began back in 2012, and it proved to be one of the most challenging, chosen endeavors of my life.
BUDDHIST STUDY came next, where the suffering all started to make sense.
HATHA YOGA entered when my embodied nature was ready to re-emerge and stagnant energy patterns making me depressed and angry were meaningfully mobilized.
REBIRTHING BREATHWORK was the fourth pillar, and has proven the most powerful trauma-release practice I have experienced to date.
The stored trauma in my system was enforcing a rigid and inaccurate narrative of my own capacity and true potential (something like a glass prison), where each new arena of study arrived in perfect time as I was ready to embark upon the next layer of healing, education and meaningful self-study.
Formerly branded obsessive-compulsive, anxious and chronically depressed, expending heaps of energy suppressing post-traumatic triggers, I can tell you now that healing isn't a cakewalk.
But! It's worth every life-altering effort.
Today, these practices are what I teach:Â MEDITATION, MIND TRAINING, MOVEMENT and BREATHWORK.
I teach them because they work.
And because we all deserve to be happy – the kind of happiness that doesn't fade with time or life circumstance, bank numbers or big changes; the kind that's overflowing and entirely restorative.
What I'll say about myself is that I'm beyond grateful I didn't give up. And what I'll say about you is that you can accomplish absolutely anything you set your mind to. If you're setting your mind to deep healing for genuine happiness, there's a clear path for that. I'm here to help guide your way.
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Yoga +
Movement
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Hatha Yoga based movement for balance and ease, flexibility and strength.
Meditation +
Mind Training
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Hone attention, enhance relaxation, get better at life and skyrocket happiness.
Mind-Body
Mentorship
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Nurturing guidance to take
your mind, body and business beyond.
