Who are we anyway?!
It occurred to us the other day that even though we know who we are and what we have to offer, you may not!
Linda and Chelsea are more than just the creators and inspiration gurus of this website. We are dear friends, mothers, and human beings living a human life, just like you.
We met many moons ago during our very first yoga teacher training in Hawaii. Chelsea was suntanned, wild, and budding with passion while living on the Big Island of Hawaii. Linda, a California native, a singer, and an adventurous soul seeking a new opportunity, was called to the land of Aloha. Within hours, we were fast friends.
Our teacher training was an intensive 3-week experience, with The Mukti School of Yoga. We rose to meditate with the sunrise and practiced teaching long into the evening sun. Of course, there were many sunset ocean dips, lots of laughter, and even an accidental magic mushroom trip from a fellow trainee (long story!!)
Long story short, we met, we did LOTS of yoga, we fell in love, and became lifelong friends.
Fast forward 3 years and Chelsea moved from Hawaii to Los Angeles for a teaching opportunity with Mukti. Our closeness in proximity only strengthened our friendship. We both taught at The Green Yogi in Manhattan Beach, and honestly lived out one of the best chapters of our lives.
Linda got married, Chelsea fell in love with Matt Rothert (a fellow yogi friend) and life beautifully unfolded. Fun fact…Linda actually gave birth to her firstborn Jones, quite early, in Hawaii, while on a yoga retreat that Chelsea and Matt were leading. All those pineapples and papayas got her going!
Next Chelsea got married, Linda moved to Santa Barbara, and we both had a few more babies!
Each fall, we taught our annual Living Yoga retreat. It was a pillar of our friendship, a place where our creativity and natural-born talent to inspire began. Each year it got better and more refined. Our community really began to form, our yoga tribe blossomed.
Each year, we left this retreat high on life and inspiration with ideas swirling through our hearts and mind. However, like all humans living a human experience, life gets in the way. Our busy lives of teaching, children, Chelsea’s big move across the country to Nashville TN, and a global pandemic, things took a lot longer to fully manifest.
But here we are! The Inspired Being is a place for like-minded souls to connect and celebrate our lives. It’s a place to inspire each other through discussions, movement, meditation, retreats, and more.
We offer monthly Livestream workshops. Our Dharma Discussion + Meditation falls on the first Saturday. This is our favorite hour of the month! It feels like a book club for the soul, without the book:) We discuss life topics that deserve more attention than they are most likely getting. We meditate, we allow ourselves to become curious, and most importantly, we connect to each other. You can see a list of all of our upcoming workshops here.
We offer multiple wellness retreats each year, each with a different purpose and energy. We have our signature One Day Retreat, our flagship Living Inspired retreat, and many more both local and international. We curate these experiences with a lot of intention. Knowing what we, as working mothers, adventure-seeking, inspiration-junkies need, and we tailor these retreats just for you. Exactly as you are.
Lastly, we offer mentorship. Because let’s be serious, sometimes you are needing more than just a workshop or retreat to feel inspired about your life again. There are many chapters in life, and we are here to help you navigate through them with grace, ease, acceptance, and accountability.
So that is who we are. We are two friends, mothers, souls, who love to serve. We love community. We love yoga and all the other teachings that remind us how to live an inspired life!
Thank you for being a part of this family ~
With gratitude,
Chelsea + Linda