The Creative Collective

25/05/2026

🇺🇸 Start Your Memorial Day Grounded
Monday • 9:30–10:30 AM

A gentle space to breathe, move, reset your nervous system, and honor the pause this holiday invites.

No pressure.
No perfect poses.
Just mindful movement, community, and an hour to reconnect with yourself before the day begins. ✨

All levels welcome. ❤️🤍💙
— Christina Britton Yoga & Mindfulness

Sign up 🔗 https://www.soletosoulyogaoregon.com/schedule

20/05/2026

Lately I have been redefining my aliveness💚
We often equate aliveness with adrenaline. the thrill of travel, the dopamine of a new purchase, the rush of romantic tension. but there’s another kind of aliveness — a subtler one — that we overlook. it’s the aliveness that comes from being in your life rather than outside of it. Not observing it for others, not documenting it to prove its worth, but inhabiting it fully. breathing in sync with it. when you cook without multitasking. when you laugh mid-conversation and forget what you were so worried about. when you sit on the floor with a child and let their world become yours for a moment. these instances don’t generate stories. they generate memory. body memory. the kind that lingers.
Practice being grateful for your one precious life🙏🏻
Link below to listen to

https://youtu.be/nux8f-QakBY?si=wtm1OGf4-jEC01Z6

14/05/2026

12/05/2026

So grateful to be here 🙏🏻
Even more grateful that the universe keeps bringing me amazing people💚 and experiences to open my mind and heart 🌊

10/05/2026

Motherhood is not only found in blood, biology, or perfection.
It lives in every woman who has held space for us, protected us, guided us, nurtured us, and reminded us who we are.

To the mothers, grandmothers, chosen mothers, teachers, healers, and women whose love shaped generations before us — thank you.

May we continue creating a world where love feels safe, wisdom is shared freely, and no one has to walk alone. 🤍
Happy Mother’s Day.”

Inspired by the writings of Perdita Finn and her book Mothers of Magic

08/05/2026

Some symbols don’t just feel aesthetic… they feel like recognition.
Like something your soul already knew before your mind caught up to it.

This card draw — Aletheia — hit me deeply.
In Greek, Aletheia means truth, unveiling, remembering what’s real beneath illusion.

The balance of light and dark.
Masculine and feminine.
Shadow and awareness.
The reminder that wholeness isn’t becoming one thing… it’s learning to hold all parts of yourself with honesty.

Receiving this through my Human Design reading felt incredibly significant to me. Not in a trendy way — in a “this mirrors something I’ve been living through internally” kind of way.

There are certain moments in life where a symbol stops being just art and starts becoming a marker of transformation.
This honestly feels like one of them.

At this point… I just might turn it into a tattoo. ♡

04/05/2026

Beautiful sunset Saturday night

30/04/2026

The reel flex is how many lives you can positively affect. 💚

29/04/2026

Vulnerability Post….

I had a yoga student start crying toward the end of class. It was not because the poses were difficult. She was actually in a restorative posture.
It was the first time it’s happened for her, and she said, “you got me.”

In reality, I simply guided her through a sequence to release tension in the body and calm the nervous system… and what came up was something deeper.
It needed to be released.
This actually happens more often than people think.
I never draw attention to it. I just keep teaching.
Because my role is to hold a safe space—for whatever wants to surface.

Yoga's job is to show you what's actually happening—not what the mind thinks is happening or wants to happen.
Yoga exposes truth; it allows the stories buried deep within the body to emerge out of the tension you've released and into the open spaces you've created. But, here's the thing: only if you are open to receiving them. And that's not easy.
Whenever we move, breathe, stretch, activate the ego, and push ourselves to our personal edge, big feelings can come up on the mat. We might get anxious, fidgety, look around, nod off, make jokes-anything to shift or change the sensation. In life, when we get uncomfortable or big emotions arise, we can turn to food, drugs and alcohol, s*x, or even shopping or TV watching to change or alter those feelings. On the yoga mat, we don't have access to our go-to distractions; all we have are our senses, our mind, and our breath.
So it's important to allow the thoughts, the feelings, and the fantasies to arise—without judgment. We have to look at how the mind keeps us distracted or even disempowered. This is essential to our healing because however we deal with discomfort on the mat mirrors how we behave when we're challenged in life.

Without yoga or other trauma-informed practices to help us feel whole again, we have no self-awareness, no self-love; without self-understanding, there can be no collective understanding, no sense of union. And we all suffer. To alleviate that suffering, we must come into union within ourselves, body and mind. This is the work of yoga. This is the evolution of the soul. This is the pathway to freedom.
💫✌🏼💚🙏🏻