There will not be any classes from April 5th to April 12th.
Have a fantastic few weeks!
PS. If you haven’t watched the New Earth on oprah.com be sure to do so. Eckhart Tolle is an amazing and wonderful soul who will remind you to live in the present. I find this information so powerful and will enhance every yoga or meditation session. Enjoy
Here’s a fascinating fact….just as there are seven main chakra’s in the body, there are seven on the soles of the feet.
The lower portion of the heel is the root chakra, the higher portion of the heel is the 2nd chakra, the central part of the sole is the solar plexus, the heart chakra is the junction between the middle two-third and the front 1/3 of the sole. The base of the big toe is the throat chakra, middle of the big toe is the fifth chakra and the tip of the big toe is the crown chakra.
So, wanna help your chakras function better?
Rub your feet.
If you dare.
PS. I found a site yesterday that is a great intro the chakra’s and also offers music to vibrate each of them. You can find it at http://www.lovecomestotown.com/chakras.html
Enjoy!
PPS. I apologize for being lax-a-daisy on this blog for some time; here’s to creating more space for play! Have a fantastic Valentine’s Day all.
Now the holidays have ended we are back to our everyday lives. Now is the time to keep that holiday spirit with us and stop rushing into and through our days.
The word rushing is defined as ‘violent forward action’.
If we are to truly live the concepts of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras we are encouraged to practice Ahimsa (non-violence).
Normally when we think of violence we consider it action toward others.
That is not always so.
I constantly remind my yoga students to listen to their bodies and never push it (violence) to a place it is not ready for.
I had to learn this lesson myself.
Last year I injured my L4 and ended up in chiropractic treatment. Sometimes being flexible is not a good thing. Maybe my muscles weren’t warmed up enough or I wasn’t listening to the physical messages I was receiving … regardless, I went too deeply into a forward bend and payed for it in pain.
Violence can occur during other actions, thoughts and activities.
If we rush through our day we are not practicing ahimsa. Think of the physical response to rushing:
*Your heart pounds heavily in the chest.
*You forget to take time out which usually results in errors.
*You get so caught up in your head you forget you even have a physical body.
So as 2008 begins let’s intend to stop being violent!
Here’s a list of five things you can do to help you toward creating the life you wish and to end rushing:
1. Take time to focus on your breath. Remember it only knows about the present moment, so focusing on this gift is essential to slowing down.
2. Take a 5 minute coffee break. Even if you don’t drink coffee you can treat yourself to five minutes for yourself. You could go for a walk around the parking lot at work or at the local park connecting with mother nature, find something which inspires you and focus on it for five minutes or phone a friend to see how their day is going.
Each of us has five minutes to stop or slow down in a 24 hour period.
3. Say, “I love you.” You can take time to focus on whatever you are working on and send love to it, or even just saying the words will help you live the attitude of gratitude and create space in your day.
4. A client of mine uses the words, “I’m here. I’m present.” to remind herself to slow down when she is feeling out of sorts. Another uses the visualization of a stop sign.
Be it a word or a phrase or even a visualization, tapping into your source energy can help remind you to slow down.
5. Take a few minutes to check in with your physical body. Do a body scan and notice if and where you are holding onto tension. Give yourself permission to release it with each exhalation. Tension creates disharmony in the body and can lead to ill health. Releasing tension is the best way to get your body to really-sing!
Let’s intend 2008 to be free from rushing! You will be much further ahead in the long run. Plus your health and wellbeing will thank you.
Namaste
PS. See you next week for the start of classes!
I absolutely love this time of year. Not only because my birthday is 8 days away or because Yule and Christmas follow, but more because of the sense of community.People aren’t yet tired of the snow; seemingly embracing a sense of cheer and play.
As I drove to work yesterday I watched some small children giggling and rolling down a snowy hill.
Another group of kids stood ontop of a 20 foot snow pile at the mall yelling at one another.
I watched others tossing snowballs.
Everyone was outdoors shoveling or blowing their laneways out.
The best part was watching neighbours gather at the end of their drives, hanging out socializing.
It ’tis the season.
Snow angels anyone?
This week there was a conversation about money. The specific conversation was about what you would do if you earned &/or won three million dollars. Here’s a portion of it….
“I’d be outta here in a minute if it happened to me.” said one.
“Damn straight, I’d retire in a flash!” replied another.
“Or would you?” I asked.
“What are you talking about? You can’t tell me you wouldn’t quit. I mean why would you work? You wouldn’t need the money!”
“What if you love what you do?” I pressed further. “Look at these guys like Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale or Harv Eker; they have millions and they still work.”
“For what reason?” asked the one in confusion.
“Hmmpp, to make more money,” replied the other.
“They have all said its because they love what they do,” I explained. “Why retire? You need some reason to wake up in the morning. And if what you are doing is your passion, wouldn’t you want to do it even more?”
“Yeah, but I’m not talking about those guys; I mean real people like you and me.”
Call me crazy, but when I met them they seemed like real people…just like the rest of us.
Did you know that over 80% of your day is spent on auto-pilot? The look on your face, the way you walk, speak, the way you handle or deal with others; for the most part is all on auto-pilot.
Put it this way…
Think back to the very first day you got into a car to learn how to drive.
On that day, you had to figure out how much pressure to put one peddle to make you move forward; then you had to learn the other peddle needed less pressure; gawd forbid if it was a standard…then you had to figure out how to use both feet plus move that stick in the middle; a plethora of new motor skills.
However, when you went out in your car today did you once think of any of those things? 
It becomes second nature. In a similar way our lives do as well.
This is your one chance to wake up! And the larger challenge is to once you are.
PS. I discuss this exact issue in my ebook How to be Soul Strong. Go look! http://www.howtobesoulstrong.com
PPS. Happy Halloween!
Did you know there are three kinds of dreams the mind brings us? Each of the dreams happen, according to Dr. Kappas, at different stages of sleep.
The first set of dreams happen within an hour of falling asleep and are the wishful/hoping/thinking stage of dreams. This is the mind’s attempt to sort out and store the thoughts of the day.
Then we have dreams which predict the future based on our experience thus far; the precognitive stage.
Lastly there is the final stage of dreams (the one’s I recall the most) which are the most important of the three types. This is the stage in which the mind will focus on venting and releasing; dumping message units which our minds accumulated during the day and need to be released. This stage happens in the last 1/3 of sleep.
I have been a dream student for years; have many dream books and am always working toward dream anaylsis.
The Oracle and I are firm believers that whatever happens in dreams is normally the opposite in life; this thinking really aids in nightmares!
Keeping in mind how powerful our brains are this is extremely interesting; considering we only use 12% of the brain …the other 88% is all subconscious mind power.
Dreams can make us feel loopy somedays.
Like last night, I dreamt I was pregnant. I could even feel the baby moving inside of me.
Isn’t it odd how realistic dreams can be?
The wizard told me dreams are tests….some real, some not - all working toward taking us to our next level of evolution.
I know I said I wasn’t going to do it.
Maybe I shouldn’t have put that out there?
Here I am, back in school again!
I found an excellent hypnotherapy course which I couldn’t pass up. The class is done online which is fantastic. In order for me to keep my HypnoBirthing certification I have to do 15 hours of retraining per year. It’s a good thing though as it keeps me fresh and up-to-date with Hypnosis. Besides, there are so many different techniques to learn.
I’m also re-learning the paradigm of emotion the word ‘test’ or ‘exam’ brings up for me; anxiety…even when I know the materials.
So far so good though, I’ve gotten 92.8% on the first two testing units and only 4 more to go!
Well…back to the books
Ciao for now
