Today we’d like to introduce you to Chelsea Harrison.
Hi Chelsea, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I am a world traveling 500 hr. Yoga Alliance registered yoga instructor who is dedicated to spreading my practices, passions, light, and love around the world. Through a conscious, yogic, and holistic lifestyle, I live life through a spiritual lens. My mission is to help heal the collective through raising the vibration here on Earth while creating conscious movement of potential energy, pranayama (breath work), and harmonious sound healing. I am a mother, traveler, Breast Implant Illness Survivor, and an advocate for self-love, holistic health, wellness, and sustainability.
It was through my work as a Physical Education teacher and behavior therapist for children with special needs that I was able to pinpoint my soul’s purpose. I can still recall walking into my very first yoga class – really only going to a class to pick up a few things that I could bring back to my students. My hope was to help them calm their busy minds and help them find flexibility within their minds and their bodies. After having received what I had come for, I left with the “yoga seed” implanted into my soul. From that point on, I craved more. It was then that I started attending a few classes here and there but really dove deep into my own at-home practice. It was not long after that I did my 200 hr YTT, followed by my 300 hr YTT a year later. Yoga ended up leading me down the path of sobriety, where I had decided to give up drinking back on Jan. 1, 2019, after having explored the bottom of many rocks. My yoga practice soon became my outlet while simultaneously building strength, furthering my spirituality, and awakening my consciousness.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
If it were a smooth road, I wouldn’t be who I am today. Don’t get me wrong, I live a truly blessed life and was raised with so much love around me. My childhood was a dream, thanks to my incredibly loving and hardworking grandparents. My mother who struggled with addictions, passed away when I was 13 years old, and my grandparents raised me since I was 6 weeks old.
In 2020 I started to experience quite a bit of health issues that I couldn’t explain, given my healthy and active lifestyle. I had a list of auto-immune symptoms—rashes, fatigue, brain fog, muscle and joint pain, and anxiety. This set me on my self-love and self-healing journey. It was my return home to my natural physical state of being. The journey of loving all of me as I was intended to be. For years I had struggled with body image after competing in bikini fitness, being on a very restrictive, cookie-cutter diet, having had my first daughter at a young age, and breastfeeding for a year. In the gym, I always felt I could alter everything except my breasts, so I got implants at age 23.
It was once again through yoga that I was able to tune in, listen and hear my inner voice speaking to me. The downloads that I received on my mat that day in late 2020 was that I no longer needed my implants; they were making me sick; it was time to let go and begin to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally. This was the start of my healing through explant journey.
Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I do what brings me joy; I share practices that I myself have found significant healing in. By walking a path of healing, you then radiate healing energy, raise the vibration of the entire Universe, and are able to assist other beings in their healing. It starts with you, and there is something so special and unique about that, we each hold unique gifts that are meant to be shared on this earth plane. I tread gently in immense gratitude for the gifts I have received in this lifetime.
In this lifetime, I am blessed to be a mother as well as my children’s teacher. But who am I kidding? They are my biggest teachers, without a doubt. We homeschool and world school —the world is our teacher, and our souls are guided by the lands, our intuition, and our next adventure.
Sharing my healing practices with those whom I cross paths with is a large part of my life’s work that being yoga, breath-work, sound healing, shamanism, performing ceremonies, working in the energetic field, and hosting my Yoga Spirit retreats around the world.
It is truly an honor to be loved, associated with, and supported by my Chopra family and the lake nona performance center. You can find me popping in and out here throughout my travels and sharing my guidance and gifts with a community I hold dearly in my heart. It is a beautiful part of my life to be a part of sharing Deepak Chopra’s work and healing modalities.
My husband and I have been working for some time now with helping the Q’ero community in the high Andes of Peru by building guest homes, kitchens,bathrooms, and working on a water system. Working closely with the community of Chua Chua has definitely been a significant part of mine and my husband’s recent focus. Learning so much from these joyous people while supporting their needs.
I’m also a content creator and love expressing my creativity in the digital world. By doing so, this has allowed me to grow an organic social media following and work with and collaborate with brands all over the world that I feel as though I am in alignment with. This has also lead me down a path of fitness modeling, which I have truly fallen in love with.
My family and I just have spent the last three months here in the Sacred Valley of Peru and will be heading back to visit friends and family soon in Fl. Our upcoming travel plans are to visit Ecuador, Asia, and Western Europe. We are in the process of building two homes, one in the mountains of Peru and one in Ecuador, where the jungle meets the ocean. While spending our time in both of these magical locations, it is also our intent to enter the Airbnb world.
I will keep learning, exploring, healing, and will keep sharing with the world the work that great spirit so effortlessly allows to flow through me.
Risk-taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
I believe when you put yourself out there and stretch beyond your comfort zone, there is some risk involved. But without this risk, there is very little room for growth. Because of this, I see risk a requirement if we are to allow ourselves to grow. Most recently, my family and I traveled to South America to work with some Indigenous communities high in the Andes. In doing so, we left behind all of the comforts and conveniences we had grown used to. Living at an elevation of over two miles was something we have never done nor truly prepared for. With that said, the gratification of the endeavor left us fulfilled and so thankful that we expanded beyond our traditional horizons.
Contact Info:
- Website: Chelseaannyoga.com
- Instagram: Chelseaannyoga
