Episode 7: Celebrating sisterhood.

Happy May 1st, loves.

Today is no ordinary day. Around the world, cultures are gathering to celebrate — May Day, Beltane, the Flower Full Moon, and Día del Niño in Mexico. A cross-quarter day. A fire festival. A full moon. An invitation to wake up and feel alive.

And that is exactly the creativity energy we are stepping into today.

To express your creativity, you can — go barefoot, light a fire, dance, breathe deep — celebrate this moment. Celebrate the fact that you are here.

In this episode, I sit down with one of the most sacred people in my life: my soul and blood sister. We talk life, love, motherhood, and the beauty of walking this journey together. She is an incredible mother, wife, yoga instructor, and dental hygienist — and this conversation is exactly the kind that fills your cup all the way up.

Ready to work with me? I offer Element Readings — discovering your unique feng shui elemental patterning and getting your energy into flow to manifest your wildest dreams — and Feng Shui Consultations where we design those dreams into reality.

👉 Visit my online shop, linked below, to book your session.

Now go celebrate. Go be YOU.

Links below:
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📍This summer, on the morning of the solstice, I'm opening the gates of Four Roots Farm for our very first community gathering — a slow, intentional morning in the fields with St. John's Wort.

We'll study the plant together, walk the land, harvest with care, and close our time with meditation, yoga, and a blessing for the earth beneath our feet. Coffee, St. John's Wort iced tea, and a light breakfast will be waiting for you.

Each guest will take home a handcrafted, reiki-infused gift of their choosing — wild and sustainably harvested, made with my hands and my whole heart.

Space is small and intentional. Come as you are.

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📩 RSVP to Dorsey: dorseybeckman@gmail.com

Sunday, June 21, 2026  ·  8:00–11:00 AM
Four Roots Farm  ·  Amity, Oregon
Address shared upon RSVP.

go BE YOU.  love, Dorsey

Girl Nature Podcast.

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Transcript

Dorsey 0:00

I'm Dorsey and welcome to Girl Nature. The name Girl Nature began back in college. My roommate started calling me that almost from day one. It's a reminder that nature has always been my compass. My classroom and my way home each month. I'll meet you here around the time of the Full Moon to explore how the rhythms of the natural world can shape the way we live, create, and connect. Before we dive in, take a moment with me to arrive. Place your hands crossed across your chest, over your heart. Keep your palms anchored into your heart space while gently tapping your fingertips. Unc unclench your jaw, soften your shoulders and take one. So breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Let this breath mark your intention for today. Something simple like, I'm here, or I'm open. Or I am okay. That's all you need. Let's begin. Today is May 1st and what a day it is around the world cultures are celebrating. It's Mayday. It's Beltane. It's, one of our cross quarter days. It is the flower full moon. It's the first full moon of May. And in Mexico it's Dia Del Nino, a day honoring the children and joy and the pure magic of new life. So something is definitely alive right now. And my invitation to you, however you're listening wherever you are, step outside if you can, take your shoes off, you can feel the ground, back inside, light a candle, light a fire, put on a song and move. Maybe it's just a deep breath with your face tilted toward the sun. Whatever your capacity, celebrate. Celebrate this breath you just took in. Celebrate the fact that you are here alive on this extraordinary planet, on this extraordinary day. That is enough reason to mark this moment as sacred. Before I bring in today's very special guest, I want to take a breath and share what I have for you because this work is close to my heart. I offer element readings, a deep dive into your unique fengshui elemental patterning. In this moment, we look at what's in flow, what's blocked, and how to get those elements moving again. Quite literally manifest your wildest dreams. I also offer fungsway, feng shui consultations where we take it further and actually design those dreams into the physical spaces of your life, your home, your environment, and your energy all working for you. If any of that is calling to you, my online shop is linked below. Go take a look. I would love to work with you. Okay, now, the part of today I've been so excited to share with you, I get to introduce someone who is without question. One of the greatest gifts of my life. She's my sister. She's my blood sister and my soul sister. And our relationship is one that I hold so sacred. To walk through this life with her beside me, I don't take for granted for a single day. She's an extraordinary mother, a devoted wife. She's a yoga instructor who helps people come back home to their bodies. And she's also a dental hygienist. Which means she's literally in the business of peop- keeping people healthy and smiling, which honestly tracks because that's just who she is. I'm so honored to welcome her on to the podcast today. One of those beloved conversations that I cherished so deeply, and now I get to share it with you. Welcome, Jamie. Come on in.

Jamie 4:37

So I'm Jamie. I'm Dorsey's younger sister and we often have our heart to heart conversations about many times, anything going on in life. And Dorsey had asked if I would share. On her podcast a little bit about me teaching yoga. So I did my yoga teacher training almost 11 years ago and I have my 200 hour teacher training. And background on that, you can also expand into your 500 hour, which I have not done, but in the 200 hour module, like you break down. Anything. There's eight branches of yoga and it can go anywhere from breath to principles to. Postures. So I think a lot of times when we hear yoga, we think of just the movement, the asana. So when we move the body and you go to a yoga practice, and a lot of times I hear I can't do yoga'cause I'm not flexible or it's too slow. And I think after teaching for close to a decade, over a decade now, what I've come to learn is. The physical postures of the body a lot of times are what brings people to a yoga practice.'cause they maybe have come from being, suggested it from a friend or an injury that they may have to have to stop other forms of movement and then start to try yoga. Or maybe there's just a suggestion that it could help their energy body to actually move. And starting out as a teacher, we focus, I think so much on just teaching the postures, anatomically setting up everybody correctly so they don't get hurt. But as I've been doing this for so long, it's been very eye-opening of how it truly is a somatic, healing, moving meditation for the body. It's nice to be able to express what the body is storing somatically without having to use actual English words. Mm-hmm. And that's when we use what's called pranayama. Breath work and we tap into what's called ujai breath. So it's that ocean sound, so it's in and out through the nose. And even though it can be a little awkward, especially for newer students to make a audible breath, it actually stimulates and vibrates. One of the 12 cranial nerves called your vagus nerve. It's the longest cranial nerve we have that connects the brain all the way down into the belly. And so when you're properly engaging the intercostal muscles and dropping the diaphragm and filling up the body and the belly with that deep breath in, and then as you push the air out, it vibrates that nerve and you make that ocean sound, it's very calming for the central nervous system. So. Outside of just moving the body, a lot of times it's, it, it takes a while for even as a teacher, as a student, to understand the mind body connection of how the postures can actually help heal you. But what I always encourage is even if the body isn't ready for the deepest expression. Body usually is ready for some pretty deep breath and release. Mm. Or understanding about maybe what, what's going on. And what's nice is we can really, it's called self-study. So when you ask the body to actually speak its language of sensation without maybe the actual mind getting in the way, you can start to. Easily free up or take in anything that you may need. So it's a very nice exchange. And what I like to come back to, a baseline feeling. So yoga, a lot of times you can feel like it's so slow, but I'll offer the listeners just this reminder that you can find a practice that you can be physically really, really challenged. Especially if you have a lot of energy that you, called tapas, that you almost need to burn off so you actually can then have a calm body to where the mind is actually a place that you can sit with. I think if we sit for a silent meditation. Without moving some of the energy out. I, I have experience and a lot of people, I think, say it's like, it's so hard to sit still. Like I just feel like I need to jump around or like, I'm, my mind is so busy, but if you can clear it all out, that is actually historically why the yoga practice was invented and started to be practiced back in. Ancient times was to just move the body in a systemic way, so then the mind actually has a vessel that's calm and grounded so you can actually get into understanding more of yourself As a yoga practice, we close in Shavasana. So it's that final resting posture. So the intention is, okay, the work's been done in the body, hopefully the exchange of messaging or releasing has happened, and then there's this stillness that you can hopefully tap into what's called samati, which is true enlightenment. So the body's really calm and still and grounded. The mind is free and clear, and the heart's nice and open. So.

Dorsey 10:22

So I guess my first question is, what made you decide to want to train for yoga?

Jamie 10:30

I honestly feel like it was a, I, I had started practicing in college. It was a form of movement that I just loved, and as I started practicing more and more, it became my main form of release. And then I. Had our twin boys and yeah, they were six months old and I signed up for this 200 hour teacher training, and I'm,

Dorsey 10:58

I cannot believe that

Jamie 11:00

I, I don't really understand even what happened, um, and how that even went down, but it. It just comes in the right timing. Yeah. And that's also a reminder, no matter what you wanna do, there's never gonna be totally clear space or the right timing for anything. Totally. Um, and I And you're always a student. Yeah. You, you never, you're never like there. And I'm, I, I, you know, I'm have to stay in my realm of what I know. Yeah. But, um. It is been wonderful. I think that just being able to witness how people really resonate with some of the messaging that I'll provide through classes, I usually try to send a theme of anything that a lot of times I'm processing or that even, I'm helping navigate with my kids into experience that. Can be broadly humanized and it's very, yeah. Most people are extremely receptive and thankful for a space to be able to hear all these things and move it, understand how maybe Oh wow. that is part of my experience that's still inside of my body.

Dorsey 12:13

Yeah.

Jamie 12:13

Um, and throughout every class, I tried to say What can you do to implement whatever the intention is? Usually it's a hand on a heart, hand on a belly, or to finding a breath, just regrounding yourself reminding yourself to respond, not react or take a deep breath before you, take a moment before you maybe loop back into what is familiar if you're trying to break out of any pattern. However, I always. Have the reminder to tell people, even if the intention is not executed, you just have to say how human of me, like we, a lot of times we have a container and especially like a yoga room, or if you go on a retreat or a vacation and then you're in real life situations. It's. Very hard to take it and rep it out in your day to day, and it's just, it's very human and it takes work to re-pattern your responses and your triggers and your anything, like anything as small as drinking more water to going to bed earlier or carving out time for yourself to anything big, like shifting into a new career or relationship or dropping habits.

Dorsey 13:30

Yeah.

Jamie 13:31

So

Dorsey 13:31

there's, yeah, there's that book Atomic Habits where you just try to be 1% better than yesterday and yeah, it could be drinking that one more glass of water or

Jamie 13:43

mm-hmm.

Dorsey 13:44

Um, going to bed 30 minutes earlier.

Jamie 13:49

Right.

Dorsey 13:49

Um my first question is, the yoga is a practice and you aim to come back to true self during your practice and implement that during your day. How, like, how does that affect your day? Do you have to practice every day that you find to

Jamie 14:10

No.

Dorsey 14:11

Be more in alignment or is it like once a week or like, how does this. Play out in everyday life.

Jamie 14:18

Yoga we It doesn't always have to be movement as far as postures go. Yoga, practicing yoga can be sitting in meditation. It could be gentle opening into the body. I do believe though, if you find a studio or a teacher that helps. Gently remind you of something that you tapped into an inspiration. It does help to go back, to get that feeling again, to reset and it, it's different. I could do the exact same. Flow on my mat at home and then go and do it into a studio, and it just feels completely different. I think a lot of people, even if you are a runner or a gym class person, you could have the same sequencing at home and it just feels very different than when you are in community. So yoga means to yoga in which means to commune. So not only have a Yaking and a union with yourself. But also with others. So community can be helped, like, like-minded people, everyone breathing in the same way. Um,

Dorsey 15:28

yeah.

Jamie 15:29

And if you hear others around you that give themselves full permission to like really let an exhale rip out, it can be very inspiring for you to do the same. And it's just like you're all understood. Um,

Dorsey 15:44

yeah. So.

Jamie 15:46

It can be a daily practice and I might not be the best one to answer that as my regular day-to-day life is not as dedicated as a lot of yogis are. But I think that the principles of what I try to teach, I have a reminder I try day to day to bring them in and weave them in. Yeah. A lot of them, like I said, is self-study. A paragra ha, non attachment, non harming, a ssa. Yeah. So it's just like you can pick up on these little, principles, and they're not rules, but guidelines of how to live peacefully and free.

Dorsey 16:30

Yeah. Yeah. So I like to go out and do, right now I'm just doing three sun salutations on the porch every morning.

Jamie 16:38

Yeah.

Dorsey 16:39

That's my capacity. And so a next step could be really concentrating on the UJA breathing then,

Jamie 16:46

right. UJA breath. Sun salutations are wonderful because, they're called sur Scar a and it's a. Shorter sequence that I usually will roll my students through four or five times at the beginning of practice because it's repetitive. Yeah. So what's nice about that is that. The body already knows after you've done it a few times where it's going. So there hopefully isn't so much thought about where in hell is this right and left foot going, where am I jumping to and what am I. So the purpose and repeating sequences like that is like, okay, the body almost naturally can flow to it. So the mind can then not be so concentrated on the posture.

Dorsey 17:32

Yeah.

Jamie 17:32

It can be maybe more concentrated on something that. Is going on on a little bit of a deeper level in the body. Yeah. So that's a lot of times that that intention. And so, and also, so sun citations are great in the, in the morning and there's also like a moon salutation that you can do at night. They're a little bit more grounding. You stay lower, a little bit more of like a hip opening and grounding. So you can close out the day that way. But yeah, breath is great. Um,

Dorsey 17:58

I was almost thinking of like, I do sun cell mutations now. And I was almost thinking of doing those until the summer solstice and then changing to moon. Mm-hmm. As we go to the winter solstice, just as an experiment to see what it feels like. Just to

Jamie 18:12

see how it, yeah. Yeah. So sometimes, like on the summer solstice, a lot of. Studios and just groups of people who practice yoga do they, you do 108 sun salutations on the solstice and it's just like a dedication to the longest day. Yeah. But, but doing that many in a row, your body is, probably gonna be fatigued. And I typically will offer a very challenging physical practice.'cause I'm like. More than anything, if you can get the body. Body's language of sensation to speak louder than the thought that might be bothering you. Yeah. Then you all, you really can do if you are guided with breath is just breathe through whatever it is you're feeling instead of like, okay, I'm kind of like standing here, but my mind is not in the present moment. Yep. So it's called a leaving pattern when that happens. Like your body is here, but it's Energetically or mind is not where the body is. And that can happen like when you're just daydreaming. But then on the extreme side, it can be a form of a pretty uncomfortable dissociation and derealization when that becomes like your go-to of believing pattern. Yeah. So, and that can happen in a yoga class, especially at, we practice in a a hundred degree room and we're moving and we're sweating and we're getting uncomfortable. So I'm like at the end when we ground down. If we're on our belly, I'll say like, okay, imagine like we're unzipping the back of the body and if you felt like you wanted to leave energetically,'cause you're, the body's uncomfortable. I'm hot, I wanna get out. Yeah. And you're starting to wish away the experience you're having, like practice. Maybe feeling that that's happened, but then also practice like everything's open, ready to come back in. Yeah. And then you can zip it up and then every laying down and pre like actually trying to fall harder down onto the mat can be very grounding for the body too. So we usually always end on the floor. By, um, grounding, stretching, opening, and then coming back to the breath. That can be easier.

Dorsey 20:20

Absolutely. Yes. And I think also like just being connected to the earth feels really good. And then, I had a thought but what was I just thinking when you were saying that? Damn it, I forget. Um,

Audio Only - All Participants 20:37

damnit.

Dorsey 20:38

Fucking damnit.

Jamie 20:43

That should be the intro.

Dorsey 20:45

I know. Damnit. So you have three kiddos and it's really no joke, you know, um, right. So how do you bring the yoga practice into parenting?

Jamie 21:02

So it's, I have three that are very. Distinctly different. Even the identical twin boys that have very different energy patterns. I have one that runs anxious. And with him. He gets body anxiety. So we use a lot of breath work at night and just as a mom and when you start to learn about, why at the end of the night when we're all done with the day, like that's when kids actually want to open up and it's because it's, they're usually feeling cozy and safe. The room is dark and they're able to open up. It's safer. So we do a lot of breath work. Yeah. Like hand on heart, hand on belly. But also a reminder of we know you're safe and Okay. The body, it might be mm-hmm. Experiencing something, but try not to add the worry to it, because I feel like that can really make things worse. Never to discredit if you're having the intuition that something needs to be checked out, get it checked out. For them, that's what I, try to teach them. But also when I am beyond overstimulated, a lot of times I'm not necessarily the most calm, but one of the biggest things I can do when I'm not able to respond to them, I have awareness that I am overstimulated and I tell them that. So a lot of times that's where it starts. Yeah. You are aware, so you go from not even really understanding how you're reacting to then like, okay, wow. Like I am very overstimulated. I normally wig out. But then you just say okay, I'm feeling this. Mm-hmm. Y'all I'm feeling a lot, like I'm overstimulated, and I'll tell them that sometimes I put myself in timeout, I go and I will just go and sit and just get away from it all. And I think there, there's permission there. Mm-hmm. You can,

Dorsey 22:59

yeah.

Jamie 23:00

Learn to learn to take your whole body and mind away instead of like, mm-hmm. Staying physically, having the energetic leaving pattern, feeling dissociated and dysregulated and just seeing like, okay, wait, where does the breath come in? Always remind yourself, I messed up. I'm only human response and repair, I think are two really good words to remind yourself. But response and repair is just with kids. And they, they actually do, they like to move their bodies. We've done kid yoga at home. Um, I, as they get a little bit older, I will take them to a class. We'll, they'll probably giggle and. You know?

Dorsey 23:47

Oh yes. We used to giggle.

Jamie 23:49

Oh,

Dorsey 23:50

like crazy

Jamie 23:51

with mom. Yes. I mean, it's such a silly experience at first, but I think that teaching kids, no matter how, any form of movement or just connecting to themselves and is a great offering, you can give them.

Dorsey 24:08

Yeah. And just to go back too, like when we're feeling overstimulated. I just wanted to make the point that we as mothers feel. We are allowed to take space and we deserve to take space. We deserve to go take a timeout. And I think there's a boundary there that I have struggled with my kids being just wanting to give them everything and making sure, mm-hmm they're happy and everything. But actually it's like, no, I deserve to have a few moments to myself to remind myself that I am here, I am safe, I am okay and right. Then back. Well, and I think that

Jamie 24:47

it, it, it teaches them the beau the lesson of boundary too. Like they're mm-hmm. They're only gonna be this age at the time that we are now, but eventually

Dorsey 25:02

mm-hmm.

Jamie 25:03

God willing, they become full adults and have families if that's their wishes. Yeah. And to just be able to. See and understand. Okay. Like, well, hell, two o'clock on Saturdays, mom naps, you know? Or like she, she goes to yoga. Or goes for like any, anything that you feel like can help you reset yourself. I think that it's really important to do a yes for yourself and to remind yourself that you're worth it. But B, it's also and you

Dorsey 25:35

deserve it.

Jamie 25:36

You deserve it. And also to teach kids that they get to do the same.

Dorsey 25:41

Exactly. Exactly. Lead by example. Right. Um, so, do you want to leave a love note to our listeners?

Jamie 25:50

I think that the best love note that you can give yourself is you're worth it no matter what it is that you're trying to do. You're very human if you keep trying and failing, but you have the the strength to keep showing up and trying again. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And if you. Have a lot of people around you, but you do still have this sense of feeling alone. Maybe try a place of community that just can be a place that you can go and move or talk or even if it's art, but find a community. I think it's really helpful and I, if yoga has always been something that has just been. Cross off your list for being inflexible or not understanding how to move the body. Try to maybe get past the block. There's a class and a place for you.

Dorsey 26:50

Totally. Yeah,

Jamie 26:51

and

Dorsey 26:52

I agree.

Jamie 26:53

Just try a breath today before you react.

Dorsey 27:00

Yeah,

Jamie 27:00

see how it

Dorsey 27:01

goes. Be awareness of your breath. Be aware of your breath and see maybe where it is right now. Is it shallow? Is it,

Jamie 27:08

yeah.

Dorsey 27:09

In your throat? Or maybe Well, and I move down into your belly or,

Jamie 27:13

well, and I think just before we wrap up with, the breath. A lot of times when we are really uncomfortable, we do take a lot of big inhales, but what happens there is the belly sucks in with an inhale. But what I want you to understand is when you inhale, I, you want the belly to open up three dimensionally. Mm-hmm. Almost like the belly is opening towards the horizon, and then your exhales is what recedes the belly back end. So you expand out open. Big, like three dimensional breath and then exhale back out. Yeah. And that's the regulation. And also you can play around with breath work. The inhales come very quickly and naturally in moments of being uncomfortable, but it's more important to actually exhale. The body will always inhale.

Dorsey 28:00

Yeah,

Jamie 28:01

but it's the exhale that you gotta get out.'cause if you've ever seen a child cry, it's like they, it's like they're inhaling so quickly. It's get the exhale out. Like push. So that's a lot. That's where the regulation comes from, is actually fuller, longer exhales than the inhale.

Dorsey 28:20

Amazing. So,

Jamie 28:20

yes.

Dorsey 28:21

That's so awesome

Jamie 28:21

breath.

Dorsey 28:22

Well, thank you so much.

Jamie 28:23

Yes, Jamie. Thank you.

Dorsey 28:26

I love you.

Jamie 28:27

Love you.

Dorsey 28:30

That's a wrap. I hope you guys enjoyed our sister time and really take note of your breath and ujai breathing and get your body moving in this month of celebration. And a follow up from last podcast, I did plan out a summer solstice morning. For those of you who are local, it's gonna be called Harvest the Sun. It's a St. John's Wart morning and we're gonna be gathering on the summer solstice, so Sunday, June the 21st from eight to 11 here on our farm, our little farm in Amity, Oregon. So if you're local and want to come, it's gonna be from eight to 12. We're gonna do a plant study of St. John's Wart. We're then gonna walk the land and harvest together. We'll have a closing circle, maybe a little yoga perhaps and a land blessing. And then I wanted to provide coffee and St. John's Wart iced tea and some light breakfast. And then you'll be able to go home with something from my apothecary. St. John's Wart dried ready for use. Or you could take home one of my dandelion booboo salve, which does include St. John's Wart. And then also an option is St. John's Wart Flower Essence. So it's just$25. June 21st, all those local here in Amity, McMinnville, Portland even. Please RSVP to me directly at my email. I will link the flyer below as well. And my email is Dorseybeckman@gmail.com. And so excited to welcome you in. And until next time, go be you.