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Hi, I’m Charlotte. I’ve been teaching yoga for over 11 years in Southwest Florida.

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My relationship with movement didn’t begin from a place of love.
As a younger, curvy girl, I learned early on to be ashamed of my body — that it should be smaller, different, more acceptable. For a long time, exercise was a form of punishment. Movement was something I did to change myself, not to care for myself.

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Yoga was no different at first. I came to it looking for another way to “fix” my body. But through practice, something unexpected happened — yoga became the very thing that taught me my body was already enough. It taught me strength, patience, presence, and trust. It was the catalyst that completely transformed my relationship with myself and my love for movement. 

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I fell in love with the process — not because of how a pose looked, but because of how it felt to embody it. The quiet accomplishment of learning alignment, showing up consistently, and feeling my body grow in awareness changed everything for me. Yoga became less about performance and more about relationship.

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That love led me into teacher training, where my connection to yoga — and to myself — deepened even more. Teaching came naturally, but what truly shaped me was witnessing students begin to embody the practice in their own way. That’s when I learned something important: teaching isn’t about the teacher — it’s about creating space for the student to meet themselves.

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Why Wild Heart Collective exists

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As life grew fuller — career, relationships, caring for my dogs, teaching classes, and navigating adulthood — I found myself slowly drifting away from my own practice. I knew that being a student was essential, but getting to a studio daily just wasn’t realistic anymore.

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Like many people, I turned to online practice — and discovered how powerful it could be to be guided from home, on my own time, in my own rhythm. But I also noticed how difficult it was to find online classes that felt as supported and intentional as an in-person studio experience.

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I had spent years teaching with careful alignment, thoughtful preparation, and clear cueing in the room — watching bodies move, adjusting, and making sure students felt safe and held. I wanted to bring that same level of care online. To create a space where people could practice from anywhere, without losing the clarity, safety, and embodied guidance that makes yoga truly transformative.

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Wild Heart Collective was born from that desire: to make high-quality, alignment-aware, nervous-system-supportive yoga more accessible — without sacrificing depth or integrity.

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Around the same time, I began learning more about hormones, cycle awareness, and how deeply the body changes throughout the month and throughout a woman’s life. I started looking for yoga that supported those shifts — and found very little. I loved the idea of filtering classes based on where you are in your cycle or season, and I knew there had to be a better way to support women through movement.

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During my prenatal yoga training, it all came together:
I wanted to create a platform that honored the many cycles of a woman’s life — and made practice accessible, flexible, and supportive instead of rigid or overwhelming.

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My philosophy

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I’m tired of seeing women do the most to feel “well.”

More workouts, more rules, more products, more fixing.

Wild Heart Collective was created as an antidote to that.

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I believe feeling well is not something we buy — it’s something we remember. Healing begins when we slow down, quiet the noise, and return to ourselves. The body already knows the way; we just need the space to listen.

I’ve spent many years swinging between deep wellness devotion and total burnout, learning again and again that balance is not found through more effort, but through more presence. This work is about creating space for that presence — in the body, the breath, and the nervous system.

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What I want you to feel

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After a class with me, I want you to feel like you’ve taken a full-body exhale.
Soft. Present. Rooted. Clear.
Connected to your breath, your body, and the part of you that already knows what you need.

There is no right way to practice here.
Come daily, come occasionally, come only for meditation, come to explore — you don’t need to make this your everything. If our paths align, I simply hope to be a guiding light as you reconnect with your own.

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My promise to you

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I promise to always teach from the heart.
To let intention guide the practice.
To remain a student first, so I can continue to grow as a teacher.

And most of all, I hope to model sovereignty — the knowing that you are the authority on your own body, your own life, and your own rhythm. There is strength in slowing down. Safety in letting go. And so much beauty waiting when you choose to show up for yourself.

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I’m so glad you’re here.

If you choose to practice in this space, I hope you feel supported, seen, and free to move in a way that honors your own rhythm. It’s an honor to guide you, wherever you are on your journey.

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With gratitude,
Charlotte Schrader
Founder, Wild Heart Collective

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