Mindy Arbuckle came to the Roaring Fork Valley shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the world to pause temporarily. She has spent her time here falling in love with the grounded, expansive and communal nature of the locals. Having cultivated a community within the Valley through her yoga classes at True Nature Healing Arts, as well as her work as a holistic and spiritual life coach, musician, author and master of crystalogy, Arbuckle’s latest business endeavor aims to foster a space for individuals to step into their most authentic selves with expanded conscious awareness. It’s as accessible as whatever pocket holds your cellphone.
Her new app, SOULutions, launched in October and features teachings of movement, breathing, meditation and other practices to foster mindful connection within oneself and with the world around us.
“These people here in our valley are a perfect example of the people that I serve with my app,” Arbuckle told The Sopris Sun. “But it’s meant to be a bigger container. Instead of it just being me as a local yoga teacher at True Nature, I have the ability to tap into people across the country, truly across the globe, helping them find their truth and get through the stress of that with mindful practices and ways to overcome the difficulties of this world.”
Arbuckle has moved in the world of yoga and wellness since 2001, when she first took up the practice professionally. She ran her own studio in the Denver metro area until moving to the Valley in late 2019 and she continues to teach yoga at festivals across the country every year. Throughout her time as a yoga instructor, Arbuckle said she’s remained dedicated to practicing what she preaches to her students.
“I’m not one of those teachers who say to do one thing and then I’m completely doing the opposite. I really try to live the expression of my teachings. I also try to listen to the divine I work with — the Divine Mother specifically — and she keeps asking me to create. It’s so much easier for me to create those things than to ignore,” Arbuckle stated.
She continued, “There’s a hardship in ignoring what the Divine is asking of you. So I listen, and she keeps telling me to have a bigger container. So I decided that I would create a bigger container through a platform.”
Prior to the creation of SOULutions, Arbuckle was working with a platform called Kijabi. While it did serve as a container for a bigger and beautiful group atmosphere, she said it didn’t quite align with what the Divine Mother and the communities she serves were asking. So, she took a leap of faith by responding to a random email about app development from someone she had previously networked with. She described the process of launching her new platform as something that fell into place seamlessly.
“I decided to get the app so that it could be a temple in your pocket. You can use your tablet, phone or computer, and find sacred practices that are going to fit into your daily life, and to the rhythm that’s already been created, but now we can elevate it through mindfulness, sacred practices, meditation and yoga and crystal healing and all these beautiful things that I get to offer people. It felt like this was divinely conspired for me to be able to do this, and the people have the container, and all I had to do was put in the beauty and the practices which I’ve been teaching for 25 years,” she explained.
Arbuckle hopes to connect users with sacred feminine energy, something people of all genders can benefit from stepping into. This energy, she said, can help bring the collective of humanity back to integrity and true strength.
“The sacred feminine was the majority of human history, like, that’s who was really at the beginning of time, who held the power, and it was harmony and love and generosity and connection and compassion and understanding, which were the sacred values that everybody held,” Arbuckle shared. “We’ve now ended up with this patriarchal power here that is all about control and isolating people into groups so that they don’t feel connected anymore to other people, and it’s misplacing humanity’s greatness. The sacred feminine is a way to bring back balance and harmony.”
SOULutions is available for $33 monthly on both the Apple and Google app stores. For more information, visit www.mindyarbuckle.com