Victoria “Tori” Newburn is an author, intuitive guide, mentor, and founder of This Gentle Way, an online Membership devoted to integrative spirituality, energetic awareness, intuitive development, and the art of becoming.

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For more than fifteen years, Tori has worked at the intersection of spirituality, embodiment, creativity, meditation, cosmic awareness, and consciousness. Her approach draws from extensive experience in yoga and contemplative practice alongside ongoing study in astrology, energetics, intuitive development, frequency work, quantum realities, and spiritual evolution. Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, she brings them into conversation with one another, using each as a language through which to better understand the self, the body, and the deeper patterns shaping a life.

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Tori’s earliest professional foundation was in the arts. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from DePauw University (with a minor in Psychology and Art History) and a Master of Fine Arts from American University in Washington, D.C. She spent many years pursuing her art career and still devotes time to her daily creative practices. Her training as an artist continues to shape the way she works: through pattern recognition, symbolism, close observation, creative inquiry, and an attentiveness to what exists beneath the immediately visible.

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Her work in yoga and meditation began alongside her artistic practice and developed into a career of teaching, leadership, and ongoing study.

 

Tori completed her 200-hour Vinyasa Flow certification through Flow Yoga Center and her 500-hour Prana Vinyasa certification with Jessica Lazar at Prana Vinyasa DC. She went on to teach extensively in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Portland, offering public and private instruction, community programming, teacher education, retreats, and embodied spiritual practice.

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Her leadership roles included serving as Studio Manager at Flow Yoga Center, Administrative Director of Teacher Training at Prana Vinyasa DC, and Senior Teacher and Director of Continuing Education at YoYoYogi in Portland. In these roles, she contributed to 200-hour teacher training curriculum, directed 300-hour teacher education, mentored teachers, developed continuing education programming, and helped translate complex spiritual and somatic teachings into practical, lived experience. She has also led retreats internationally in Nicaragua and Mexico, and traveled for retreats and residencies in Bali and Botswana respectively.

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As her work evolved, Tori expanded her studies beyond traditional yoga into broader explorations of consciousness, intuition, energy, meditation, and astrology. Her continuing education has included Alchemical Astrology with Alanna Kaivalya; Kundalini Yoga and Energetics with Wah Khalsa; Meditation and Mindfulness with Pema Chödrön; Song of the Dragon and Order of the Blue Rose with Alliance Avalonia; Cosmic CEO and True Sidereal Astrology with Golden Age Leadership Astrology; and Quantum Activations and Frequency Work with Chalice Grove.

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In 2018, she founded This Gentle Way, bringing these years of study, teaching, artistic inquiry, and spiritual practice into an integrated body of work. Through one-to-one sessions, mentorship, courses, meditation, True Sky Astrology, intuitive development, and energetic work, Tori helps people deepen their capacity to recognize their own patterns, access their inner knowing, and live with greater coherence.

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Her work rests on the belief that no single spiritual system contains the whole picture. Astrology, meditation, psychology, intuition, energy work, art, symbolism, pattern recognition, and the body each offer a different point of access. What matters is the insight they make possible and how that insight becomes integrated into a lived life when we remember how to pay attention.

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Tori is also the author of The Weaver & The Welder: A Memoir of Sacred Musings (2025), a spiritual memoir exploring soul evolution, archetypal experience, sacred practice, and the ways meaning reveals itself through ordinary life. The book brings together personal reflection, poetic storytelling, and spiritual inquiry and reflects a central thread within all of her work: the sacred is not separate from the human experience. It is encountered through it.

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Today, This Gentle Way represents the culmination of nearly two decades of teaching, study, writing, creative practice, and spiritual inquiry. Tori’s work centers on helping people move beyond collecting spiritual information and into a more embodied relationship with what they already know, how they are evolving, and lies ahead on their path.

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At its heart, the work is about becoming more fully integrated in one’s own life: with greater awareness, greater discernment, and a deeper capacity to recognize what is true in the core essence of our beings.