SUMMER( Favorite.) Photos

SUMMER PHOTOS 2023

The Summer of 2023 was interesting. I have been trying to focus my eyes to see and I have been carrying my camera more and more everywhere. I am working with the Fuji TX3, Canon A1, Minolta 201, and Manual NYC. Films vary from Kodak PORTA collection, KODAK Gold, etc!

Believe it or not. This summer has been a lot of work both personal and professional.

Miami Summer equals a lot of rain, gorgeous sunset and random rainbows.

My Mom, My Nephew, My Brother.

MARIA and SOFIA

JOSÉ MY LOVER

JAGUAR SUN OR BOIA DE… AHH I CANT CHOOSE.

RANDOM DAY

APPA MY SISTERS DOG

OCALA had some of the most beautiful trees. I have ever seen!

Penland School of Crafts

During the week of my 34th birthday, I got to attend a photography class at Penland under a work-study scholarship. I walked a lot, I worked a lot, and I got to photograph a lot. Being in this mountain was not only grounding but necessary. Necessary to my soul ! The oxygen, the greener, and the view was so beautiful.

A Week(end.) in Miami Beach

All photos from a random staycation my friend invited me to!
Developed at Cardinal Labs Miami.

special thanks to my friend Veronica for a lovely staycation in my city!

love you !

Guatemala | Lake Atitlán + Antigua

during 2021 my mom and I went to Guatemala and I forever grateful. Traveling with your parent when you are older you are able to see their wisdom, their life and their experiences.
Grateful for this time!

Mexico City 3333

I got to spend my beautiful 33rd birthday in Mexico City. I am so grateful for my love, my health and my life. Here is to good food, a new city and traveling with a lover!

The places i visited and stayed in.

My boyfriend José got an airbnd in La Condesa.

AIRBNB- and José

José’s Google Map for all the Mexico Food spots https://goo.gl/maps/6EKDT5TNvJmcHfTQ7

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Random Moments

On the Mat: My Personal Practice

I always have an excuse not to show up to practice. I am tired, I don't want to move, I am stressed, I have other things on my mind. The excuses go on and on. I often let the excuses override the benefits of a simple sequence. A sequence that is designed for the relief of my everyday life from working to teaching to the administrative aspects of my business (the sitting), to the super-hard two-hour workouts of lifting weights and Muay-Thai. I rely on my body to do everything.

When I first started my yoga practice; I was learning all the cool shapes that I wanted to get my body into and going to class with my siblings/best friends was often more of a social gathering. When I became a teacher -yoga became my livelihood and competition with myself and others about who can do what. (don’t get me wrong I still can bust it open if need be; it requires more warm-up now.) I feel like a healthy competition with others in the space is needed for inspiration and motivation that is why I love group classes because I feed off the energy in the adrenaline.

During covid, my yoga studio closed and I decide to move back to Miami and well my practice has become simple! At the moment, I have found that in simplicity lies insight and ultimately the question I had been avoiding for years. 



What does my body need? 


We often avoided giving our body what it needs because intuitively we know that we are not listening. to our basic needs. We are moving from a space of this what I want my body to do, rather than letting this practice is to be a meeting with self.



  1. Meditation

  2. Cat/Cows

  3. Downward facing dog

  4. Crescent lunge

  5. Low lunge twist

  6. Wide Foward Fold

  7. Skandasna

  8. Upperward facing dog

  9. Forward Fold with interlace hands

  10. Triangle

  11. The WALL is my assistant!

  12. Shoulders aligned with the wall

  13. Savasana with legs up against the way

  14. Just showing up with the intention I am going to create a flow that works and is designed for my body and what it needs!


3 times hold each pose for about 1 minute to 3 minutes and create your FLOW! 



I currently teach group class via zoom with HealHaus 

Tuesday's 7:30 pm followed by Reiki and Meditation 8:45 pm

Sunday's 8:30 am followed by Reiki and Meditation 9:45 am 
Saturday in-person class at arashirobjj 1731 North Miami Ave 11:30 am



I am available for private sessions via Zoom and in-person must be located in Miami, Florida. 




Keisha Bissram x Denisse Monge

During my time in New York City, life brought me a friend Keisha Bissram. Who is Trinidad Tobago Staten Island goddess and actress, writer, and lover! I am so grateful for her wild Sagittarius soul. This photo series was photographed in my Miami home.

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new personal work | Denisse Monge

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“there was a moment that is fading my mind now, and trust it’s one of the moments I want to hold on to forever but new experiences are making their way into my mind.”

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Apollo Plants x Denisse Monge

Thank you Lily Mustelier for including me and seeing me. I am so grateful for you!

Apollo Plants

NY Yoga + Life HEALING ISSUE x Denisse Monge

Love and Healing by Denisse Monge.
This whole being a human is a risk. We are all so fragile and yet so strong. I love that saying that there are two certainties in life death and taxes. I would respectfully like to add one more - the third certainty in life is that we will get hurt.
Getting hurt is part of the human experience. When our soul chose our heart it took the biggest risk on this earth and that is coming here. The risk of loving ourselves through all of the hurt. Traumas, joy, grief, depression, and excitement. If you are reading this- I can almost guarantee you that you have been hurt and I can guarantee you that you can also heal. Whether the pain is physical or emotional - you are so strong yet so fragile. Loving and healing are two of the biggest risk we can take daily.
Bring your hands to your heart and whisper to your heart - I love you, I'll take care of you and I'll protect you. Loving ourselves is often not taught to us. Mostly because love doesn’t have a definition and love is not a noun or just a word. Love is ACTION. “love is a mix of various ingredients- care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment and trust, honesty and communication.” - bell hooks
All these ingredients that form love are action -base. To love ourselves through our human experiences is healing.
Take your journal or phone out and write. For today, I will care for myself. For today I will show myself affection. For today, I will give myself the recognition I deserve. For today, I will be respectful towards myself. For today, I will commit to myself. For today, I will trust myself. For today, I will honest with myself. For today, I will communicate with myself. Slowly and daily, we learn how to love ourselves, and through this kindness and love, we heal. Heal our pain, our worries, our sadness, and our experiences.
Healing requires love and a love that no other can give you, your love. Healing requires courage and no one can give you, your courage. Healing requires your heart and no one can give you, your heart.
This beautiful life is yours. Love yourself and heal the wounds that life brings. Remember this- you are so strong and yet so fragile and then again so is life.

New York Nature

I am so glad - I got to go Hudson, New York with Liz Neves from Gathering Ground

ni santa ni puta solo mujer 🐚

I spent most of this summer writing. I never considered myself a writer but I realized to be a writer you just have to write. Maybe it was my mind trying to make the complexity of words and their meaning and their power: simple. Just write. 

Write about everything - your life, your parents, your family, your lovers. I realize I write a lot about heartbreak and I am going to blame it on my Pisces moon. My perpetual state of being heartbroken and in love all at the same time but you add into the fact that my Taurus is in venus and it seems I can't move on…….until I do and then I am over it. 

I woke up this morning with deep appreciation, gratitude, and respect for my teacher this summer, Alisha. I think about the space she created for me to write. To write is to feel and to express that feeling by giving words the life they deserve whether or not someone thinks it's good or not. it exists and therefore it can no longer not exist. 

I had met Alisha before she became my teacher, and I remember thinking wow she is gorgeous but in the way that someone's internal light is so external it shocks you. Maybe it was that day that created safety for me to be her student. We took pictures of the space we both work at and became acquaintances. 

Fast forward - I signed up for a writing class that had been on my list of things to do but I never did it because I didn't have space. No job - no responsibility- led to this moment where writing has become my form of creation.

I woke up this morning and I asked my body - when I am getting my period - today! 

I also heard in my sleep- your Saturn return is complete and that’s why you are going back- check your Astro chart with the timelines and I did and everything adds up - I am about three months away from yet another transformation. 

My intuition has been strong and my spirit has been in a state of fluctuation of trusting myself and not trusting myself. 

I love that saying when parents tell their kids you didn't come with a manual. MY GOD how I wish I could get my hands on my manual and maybe I do have it but I don't want to read it. I believe I am the creator of my life and god helps me if I meet them halfway. My god is energy, my god is stillness, and my god is within me and I am in many forms my god - I pray a lot to myself and the energy around me. 

but it doesn't mean that i don't question. Part of me right now has not been listening - it’s funny because I am teaching people to listen yet I am having a battle within myself. This is the perpetual state of a teacher - the battle of learning and unlearning.  

At 31, my illusion dream was to be married to a wonderful man and have kids and somehow I would be complete. Part of that desire comes from being Latina, I was taught- that that was the goal. You get a job, you work on yourself and you get picked!!! You get picked- to make someone else's dreams come true and somehow yours take a back burner or somehow you figure out how to do it all at once. The funny thing is that I do see women -do it all! Exhausted but they do it all. 

Right now at 31, I am moving back home. 

I don't know if you can feel it but my ego just fell to the floor and it took my heart with it. 

The truth is that I have like one million desires right now and that's why Taurus ass feels all over the place. I try to categorize my desires down to a to-do list - do this to feel like this but it's not true. 

I have three desires right now: I aspire to make two movies that came to be in the form of meditation two years ago but I haven't figured out YET.

 I desire with every fiber in me to live alone in my place - with plants, my books, and a big ass bed, candles- it smells fresh like that Ralph Lauren perfume that makes me crazy and space for me to make my portraits. this time and space is for my single ass to be alone yet extremely happy - I went from living with my moms, to living with a boyfriend from hell, to living in new york city with 10 roommates in two years and then down to my favorite roommate I ever will live with, 

now is the TIME universe - guide me PLEASE. 

my last desire at least for now is to be a mom. I see myself being a mom. I feel it but I question it because when will I be ready, when will everything conspire for this to happen. 

I see it sometimes when I am very good at my practice. I see it and to be honest I have been okay with my practices this last month, I have been avoiding it. Mostly because I am avoiding myself but don't worry I also haven't been sleeping because of course when I don't make time for me to listen to be to follow me, spirit wakes my ass up at three in the morning to talk! I am tired, the truth is that as much as you want to rebel against yourself you can’t - you enter this life with this body, this heart, and this spirit. This is the contract! You don't get to be someone else and you don't get to live someone else's life. 

For today, I want to be a writer, a lover, a friend, and most of all I just want to be the artist for my future children to see my life in all spectrums, life is not one way, and it's not good nor bad. It's just LIFE - the good and bad and you navigating between the spectrums making the best of it! 

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I have been working on myself intending to “fix myself.” so that I can be appealing to the “love of my life.” I set my New Year’s Intention like a hopeless romantic okay this year might be the “one” the one in which I meet the one. After last year's heartbreak. I made a promise to myself this year will be the year that I will not be heartbroken. I came to realize that I have spent the last 15 years in relationships, devastating situationships, and somewhere in between those two spectrums. I had lost the purpose of why I wanted to fall in love and be in love. Falling in love is all I ever dreamed of until I had that realization- maybe it's not meant for me. I cried hard the night I found this out. I went to all my ex-boyfriends/ex-flings IGs. I realized they all had found love and it wasn't with me but I also had the empathy that who I am destined to become is not who neither one of us would have ended up with. I was evolving and I will spend most of my life evolving, shedding, growing and learning, and becoming. The kind of love that I dream of is one of magic ride-or-die love. I want to look at my lover/partner/friend/husband as the muse that I had discovered. I want to discover this lover like the most beautiful sight I have ever seen in my eyes. I always dream that this partner will be different from me, they will be smart in all the ways that I am not, that they will challenge me but also be sensitive to me. Like down to drink tequila in Mexico but also down to vipassana silent meditation in the Himalayas. I dream that my lover will be my muse. Since in so many ways photography is the love of my life, I want to be able to photograph my person intimately. The kind of portraits that tell you the artist is in love with the person. I will look at their face, their eyes and recognize them from lifetimes. I will see their soul. I haven't found such a face yet! I have looked into a lot of eyes, I never got the feeling okay, him. I have often got the other feeling, not HIM. I am lying there one time, I had the feeling. I said to my partner then. In two years you will be ready for me, so go find yourself, you deserve it but maybe I just needed more time to fall in love with myself.