Joanna Waterfall — Yellow Co.

Literal Shyft was honored to sit down with Joanna Waterfall, Founder and Creative Visionary behind Yellow Co. Yellow Company is a Los Angeles based company built around supporting conscious, female entrepreneurs. In this interview, Joanna shares with us how and why she started…

Asking the Right Question

Scared? Before you do anything, ask yourself a question.

The question is: who do you want to be?

I woke up to a world that seems to have lost its mind. Humans hurting humans. Weather that makes no sense because it’s unprecedented in…

Embracing Wisdom Through Solitude

At the bottom of the hill on our half acre land was a dirt patch. As a young girl of nine years old, I would often sit there and play with the pebbles. Perhaps I felt closer to the earth and gently guided by our land’s invitation to lean in. I listened to the calls of…

How to Teach Your Preschooler to Meditate

Small children are full of energy and emotions and they have no understanding of how to regulate either one of them. Parents often try one of two thematic responses, or pendulate between the two. The first is punishment. Yelling, time out, loss of…

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

There’s something quite intuitive about the fact that the more attention we pay something the more a part of our experience it becomes.

Shower your plants, children, hobbies, or relationships with attention and they not only thrive…

Listen

Did you know you have a sacred guide inside of you to gently steer you through this wild and precious life?

You’d be wise to get to know her.

She comes with many names….. inner wisdom, goddess, satguru, gut feeling, inner knowing, instinct, sixth sense.

Three Tips for Meditating on the Road

Have you ever driven home from work, and it’s not until you put the key in your house door that you realize you don’t remember an ounce of the commute home? Trying to backtrack along the route in your mind to make sure you didn’t run any stop signs seems next to…

Searching for a New Home

I’ve been paying close attention to the “refugee crisis” happening the better part of this last year. There are many issues involved with this very broad and general title. Issues like: war, peace, hope, tragedy, future, past, present, individual, society, migration, boarders, terror…

Four Keys to a Wholehearted Life

A wholehearted lifestyle is a way to engage ourselves and our life — a conscious attunement to ourselves and our world. It can also be thought of as wholehearted consciousness. Rather than stay on autopilot, there is conscious awareness of how life is lived. A decisive…