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12/16 Ten Days of Giving - Day #2 - The Gift of Memory
Aloha Kakou! Gifts are like drops of nectar in a forest of color. Both giver and receiver replenish and renew. Some people can only see black and white, and when you give a simple gift, it can colorize the world again. Take for instance the gift of memory. It can help us see how positive streams of kindness, compassion, and generosity may be nourished and grow over time, and how thrilling it is when you
...read more12/5 Lava, Love, & a Peace Flag Blessing
Spatters of lava, fountains of flame, fires sparkling, and haloes flying in the air — a volcanic eruption awes us. A vision, quite literally, like God in the Burning Bush, or Guan Yin, Goddess of a thousand arms, reaching out in rivers of fire, a flowing web of energy that moves mountains and hearts. In Hawaii, the Fire Goddess is known symbolically as Pele, and all physical manifestation emerges from her sacred energy, so she
...read more11/24 Why Do We Make and Bless Peace Flags?
Aloha, Friends! To our shared collective blessings, we bow. In this moment, this day, this year, we have much to integrate, accept, and appreciate. Let us count the ways and share our blessings for the children! You are invited to cultivate a sense of gratitude for vigorous new levels of peace, joy, and contentment, to manifest the new Earth we envision. Please come to celebrate your infinite love at a Peace Flag Blessing Ceremony and
...read more10/30 Embrace the Light | You know your yoga is working when...
Aloha, Friend! We are earthen vessels moved by the light. At times, we might have more flux than flow, and fortunately, Yoga moves us away from the realm of struggle in the midst of flux, and into the flow state, the realms of comfort, empowerment, and grace. How do we stay aligned with our true power, which is always inside of us and always available? If we have nourished inner spaces of protection, energy healing,
...read more8/11 Quan Yin: Joyful Yoga Vision
Be happy. Be healthy. Be hopeful. “One legend says that after struggling to understand the needs of so many whose cries she heard, Quan Yin’s head split into eleven pieces. I can relate, having felt that way just this morning!” Aloha, Friends! Even if life is handing you difficulties, your ability to love and feel compassion is growing. No one is left out in the arena of problems, suffering, and loss. (Don’t you wish?) But
...read more7/31 Healing with Yoga in the Spirit Worlds
Be you. Be here. Belong. Aloha, Friends! The first time I felt how the tiniest micromovements inside my body could restore the larger connection to sacred movements of the Universe, ecstasy flowed from my soul. At first, the ecstasy was a surprise. Every organ and limb had been bruised or broken from a car accident. I was resting on a blanket under an oak tree, feeling the wind touching my cheek. I could not move,
...read more7/11 Mountain Celebrates Being a Million Years Old Today
What we really know is Today we are touched by grace Moved by an infinity of creation Energized with green growth At play in our sacred world What we really know is how to sit Lift our bodies, minds, and spirits Orchestrate a new friendship Remember the All That Is needs us To belly breathe so we hear and harmonize What we really know is we become new When we sit as a lotus flower
...read more6/27 Quantum Healing for the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a New York gun law. On Friday, the High Court, in a 5-4 decision, overturned Roe v. Wade. How do we overturn those wrong turns? THINK OF POLKA DOTS A friend said to me, “I don’t know what’s the matter with people. They’re making decisions that work against their own best interests, against the survival of our species, against the planet? What is wrong with people?” It was the
...read more5/16 3 Keys to Illuminating Yoga | Feeling. Fascia. Flow
Aloha Friends! While there are thousands of reasons and ways to illuminate your Soul, I want to share with you 3 Keys to Yoga illumination: Feeling. Fascia. And Flow. How we move, breathe, express, and think depends on the state of trillions of cells in our body. Cells are broadcasting and receiving stations that thrive when nourished and weaken when depleted. Finding our body’s sweet spot — our balanced bio-mechanical, fluid, and energetic ‘happy place’
...read more4/27 Yoga, Art, and Remembering to Remember
Aloha, Friends! In the age of the atom bomb, the internet, another war, a pandemic, and the rapid disappearance of other species from this Earth, it takes a certain level of Candide-like optimism to get up before dawn every morning and intend that we can both be good and do good in the world. Considering the alternative — giving in to the dominant self-destructive paradigm — such passionate optimism often awakens me at 2 or
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Spirit of Hawaii -- YOGA IN PARADISE
Breathe. Balance. Blossom. Living Arts Journeys guide you to the Heart of Hawaii Island. Experience Quantum Healing, Hawaiian Sacred Sites, Yoga Dance and Gentle and Therapeutic Yoga with Dr. Marya Mann. CLICK HERE for YOGA IN HAWAII DETAILS
