What a beautiful world this is filled with beautiful people!

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

I talk to you just to plant a seed, a song, a star. If you can become happy, you become religious. A happy person is a religious person -- let that be the definition. A religious person is not one who goes to the church or the temple. A religious person is happy. Wherever he is, he is in the temple. A happy person carries his temple around him.

OSHO

The Venus Project

This website is amazing. Self sustaining money-free future society with machines doing the work!!
A beautiful vision that can start now.
http://www.thevenusproject.com

My country is the world.
My religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

Quoted in Zeitgeist: Addendum:

An extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities.
Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon, and the stars...we humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work...and we who represent the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, have begun to wonder about our origins...star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on planet Earth...Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.
We are one species.
We are star stuff harvesting star light.
Carl Sagan

Zeitgeist: Addendum

If you are struggling with money right now, here is how to change your relationship to it and still live in abundance.

Essential documentary about money...

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/zeitgeist_addendum.php

White Bee

"White Bee" By Pablo Neruda White bee, you buzz in my soul, drunk with honey, and your flight winds in slow spirals of smoke. I am the one without hope, the word without echoes, he who lost everything and he who had everything. Last hawser, in you creaks my last longing. In my barren land you are the final rose. Ah you who are silent! Let your deep eyes close. There the night flutters. Ah your body, a frightened statue, naked. You have deep eyes in which the night flails. Cool arms of flowers and a lap of rose. Your breasts seem like white snails. A butterfly of shadow has come to sleep on your belly. Ah you who are silent! Here is the solitude from which you are absent. It is raining. The sea wind is hunting stray gulls. The water walks barefoot in the wet streets. From that tree the leaves complain as though they were sick. White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent. Ah you who are silent!

Alchemical Magic Waves of Love - GoldRing Enlightenment 90

The two days in every week, in which we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One is Yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.

Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday.

We cannot undo a single act we've performed. Nor can we erase a single word we've said, Yesterday is gone!

The other day we shouldn't worry about is Tomorrow, with its impossible adversaries, its burdens, its hopeful promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is beyond our control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. And until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

This leaves only one day, Today.

Any person can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives people mad, it is the remorse of bitterness for something which happened Yesterday, and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, live one day at a time!

- Jennifer Kritsch -

Ouch...

I am a yoga teacher with a strong back.
I hurt myself opening a difficult window this morning...
I went to class anyway...knowing that sometimes movement is almost always better than being sedentary.
Ouch...my low back really hurts.
Heat and cold...heat and cold.

Shadow and light

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
-Rumi-

Ana Forrest Part 2

Ana Forrest, I bow to you.

What an amazing woman and yogini.
I aspire to take a workshop with her.

The Origin

The origin of all action is love.

Enlighten Up

A movie by a yoga skeptic...

Robert Anton Wilson

Mind Over Matter

This is a fantastic video:

Turn on your heart light

The heart is the physical center of the circulatory system, managing over 75 trillion cells. It is also the electromagnetic center of the body, emanating thousands of times more electricity and magnetism than does the brain.
The heart's electromagnetic field (EMF) is five thousand times stronger than that of the brain. It's electrical field is sixty times greater than that of the brain. Not only is its electromagnetic capacity greater than that of the brain, but it is organically capable of performing certain brain-like functions. In fact, between 60 and 65 percent of its cells are neural, identical to those present in the brain. Energy, information that vibrates, flows, constantly, between the heart and the brain, assisting with emotional processing, sensory experience, memory and derivation of meaning from events, and reasoning. In addition, the heart is one of the body's major endocrine glands, producing at least five major hormones, which impact the physiological functions of the brain and body.
Most people believe that the brain initiates the first response to incoming events and then orders our reactions. Analysis reveals, however, that incoming information first impacts the heart, and through the heart, the brain and then the rest of the body. Our hearts are so strong that they can actually formulate the most well known symbol of love: light. Research has shown that under certain conditions, a meditator can actually generate visible light from the heart. The meditation technique must be heart-centered, not transcendent. When this occurred during studies at the University of Kassel in Germany in 1997, the heart emanated a sustained light of one hundred thousand photons per second, whereas the background had a count of only twenty photons per second. the meditations drew upon energetic understandings from several cultures, including the Hindu practice of kundalini.
It has been said that the heart is the center of the body, but it also might be the core of a subtle universe-or perhaps a "subtle sun" generated by every individual.


Excerpted from "The Subtle Body" by Cyndi Dale

Flavor Tripping parties

There is a tiny fruit called the miracle fruit.
It blocks the tongue's ability to detect sour.
So lemons taste sweet, goat cheese like cheesecake and vinegar like apple juice...
Hence, flavor tripping parties were born.
Check out the article in the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=2

Quote for this day

Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.

Quit Smoking with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

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Waking Up with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

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Emotional Freedom Technique

I have been doing quite a bit of emotional healing work and as a result, my body and my state of mind have been in an uproar.
My friend, Breuk, kept telling me to try the Emotional freedom Technique. I couldn't believe that something so simple would work. Maybe I was afraid to be disappointed.
Last night, in desperation for some relief from these overwhelming feelings that would not leave my body, I tried the introductory video (see below).
I felt so much lighter...so much more positive. There was no DOUBT that I felt more freedom.
What an incredible gift.
Try it.
Tell me what you think.


Visit
http://www.Tapping.com
for more Emotional Freedom Technique videos, EFT articles, and my E-Book.



Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a simple acupressure technique for releasing negative feelings.

You feel negative feelings in the body, so you have to go to the body to work on them. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is one way to do this.

You can release a negative feeling right now with this video. In this introductory video I explain a little bit about how Tapping works and take you through your first few sessions.

Babaji the Immortal

Haidakhan Wale Baba lived in the foothills of the Himalayas, in the Kumaon region, birth place of many of India's great saints. He was acknowledged as Shiva Mahavatar Babaji, the eternal manifestation of God in human form.

Babaji's recent physical manifestation was between 1970 to 1984, when He appeared in a holy cave at the foot of the Kumaon Mount Kailash in a remote village called Haidakhan. Many people, from all over the world, have mystically been drawn to Babaji through extraordinary events, dreams and visions and are receiving His Blessings.

Babaji urged the people to "follow the religion that is in your heart." He said "every religion leads to the same divine goal" and that he had come to revive the eternal and ageless religion, the Sanatan Dharma; the three basic principles: Truth, Simplicity, and Love. He emphasized constant repetition of the ancient Sanskrit maha mantra OM NAMAH SHIVAYA -- "Lord, Thy Will be Done" and to live in harmony along with selfless service to humanity.

Shri Babaji is acknowledged as the Shiva Mahavatar Babaji described by Paramahansa Yogananda in "Autobiography of a Yogi"': a Mahavatar being a human manifestation of the Divine who can materialize a body at will. Babaji's devotees believe that He has continually manifested since Creation to help Humanity. One manifestation of Babaji was around 1800 at which time He traveled extensively in the Kumaon region of the Himalayas, gathering his devotees and disciples around Him. In 1922 He traveled to the meeting place of the Kali and Gori Rivers, seated Himself on the surface of the water and disappeared in a ball of light.

His latest manifestation was between 1970 and 1984, and was foretold by a great Saint, Mahendra Baba, who following a lifelong search for Babaji, experienced a miraculous meeting with Him at Siddhashram, near Ranikhet in Uttar Pradesh, India. Thereafter, Mahendra Baba devoted himself to traveling through India prophesying Babaji's return.

Babaji appeared in 1970, as a youth of 18 or 20 years, in a holy cave at the foot of Kumaon Mount Kailash at Haidakhan, near Haldwani in Uttar Pradesh, India. His divine power was experienced in many ways: in September of 1970 He ascended Mount Kailash and sat on the summit without food or sleep for 45 days; several people saw Him simultaneously in different places; He healed the sick; He brought transformation into many people's lives.

Babaji spent most of His 14 year incarnation at Haidakhan where he established a beautiful ashram, and near the village of Chilianaula, near Ranikhet, He built a large and breathtakingly beautiful Temple and Ashram overlooking the Himalayas.

Babaji taught that He had come to revive the Santana Dharma, the ageless Eternal Religion from which all religions have come. He stressed three basic principles: Truth, Simplicity and Love. He emphasized constant repetition of the mantra "Om Namah Shivaya","I surrender to God", and selfless service to Mankind.

Many people have been drawn to Babaji and many spiritual centers in the West have been dedicated to Babaji and His teachings. Thousands of people all over the world have received Babaji's blessings and have been called to the spiritual path through extraordinary events, dreams and visions.

Babaji left his body on 14 February 1984. He had come to give a message to the world, and having done this, He left. His last message was:

"I am always with you".

I feel pretty!

Today was a great, exciting and long day.
I worked with 3 new clients and did a photo/video shoot.
Akira did my makeup. She is SO talented.
Find her at http://askakira.blogspot.com
I looked gorgeous.
Breuk was brilliant in our brainstorming session and graceful under pressure in our yoga practice.
Find him at http://beehiver.blogspot.com/
I'm going to sleeeep...

Workshop downloads

Here are some great free downloads of talks from Omega Institute:

http://www.eomega.org/digitaldownloads.php?source=ENEWS

I put these in my IPod and have transformed my commute.
Talk about staying connected in the midst of chaos.
Enjoy!!

Rasa

I racked my brain trying to think of the "perfect" way to illustrate the Sanskrit word rasa.
Maybe a little definition of the word rasa will clarify my intentions for my yoga teaching and my yoga practice.
Rasa means many things, but we will stick to the simpler meanings

Definition of rasa:
1) Flavor, taste, juice...essence
2)A subtle energy of richness, sweetness, delight

Are you getting enough "flavor" in your life...enough sweetness? Richness? Delight?
Do you substitute sugary things for real sweetness...tea and lively conversation with a friend, a good book and a fuzzy blanket, a solo trip to the museum, a candlelit bath, an hour with NOTHING on the schedule?
These are the things that feed our soul...fill our well.
We need space in ourselves and our lives to let new things come in, so we must let go of that which is no longer useful to us and pass it on to someone who does.
The practice of yoga helps us create space within ourselves...teaches to balance between effort and relaxation...doing and being...receiving and letting go.
Through recognizing that space within gives a feeling of peace, we can begin to let our outer life reflect this inner peace as well.
Try the video meditation below.

852 HZ - Awakening Intuition

741 HZ - Consciousness Expansion

639 HZ - Integrating Structures

528 HZ - Miracle

417 HZ - Transmutation

396 HZ - Liberation from Fear

285 HZ - Quantum Cognition

174 HZ - Foundation

The sound meditations on the following pages are from Source Vibrations. Source Vibrations is a multidimensional audio-visual project that utilizes numerology, sacred geometry, sonic vibrational healing, solfeggio harmonics, binaural beat frequencies and esoteric symbology to activate the subtleties of the awareness of the nature of being.
They can also be found at : http://www.youtube.com/user/mountainmystic9
The first one I found to be a bit long. (Of course it IS called "foundation".)
If you find it tedious, skip to the next one.
Try them. Have fun. Tell me what you experience.

It has begun. Oh yes.

The Earth's 7 Chakras

Seven Chakras of the Earth
As above, so below

Verba secretorum Hermetis verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum:
quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius;
et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius,
ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.
- Tabula Smaragdina
(It is true and without deceit, certain and most true: What is below is like what is above and what is above is like unto what is below and by these things occurs the miracle of just one thing)*

According to this famous quotation, what is above is like what happens below and vice-versa. This is the key to understanding the unity of everything in the Universe”[1].
According to hindu beliefs our subtle body contains over 70.000 subtle energy channels – called nadis – that transport the vital life force called Prana to all parts of the subtle body. In several places, many of those thousands of channels (nadis) intersect forming the matrix of the subtle body. These major intersections are called chakras. Our gross bodies are formed from the manifestation of the five elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space) around these intersections or chakras. In the human subtle body there are seven major chakras and each is associated with specific functions of the physical body. Likewise the material Earth, the Universe, the stars, insects and everything else that there exists work according to this very same principle.
The Earth has a subtle body with thousands of subtle energy channels that transport this Earth energy to the whole Planet and to the conscious part of the Earth who are its people. Those thousands of Earth’s subtle energy channels do intersect in hundreds or thousands of places. And as it is with the body of humans so it is with the body of the Earth. Each of these intersections are power or energy vortexes also called chakras.
There are thousands of Power Places or Places of Peace and Power around the Earth. Esoteric traditions single out seven such places to be the seven main chakras of the Earth. The chakras as singled out by different traditions may vary. Most people accept the seven main Chakras of the Earth as being: Mount Shasta, Lake Titicaca, Uluro Kattjuta, Glastonbury, Great Pyramid, Kuh-e-Malek Siah and Mount Kailash. Mount Shasta in California (USA) is the Chakra number one, Lake Titicaca in today’s Bolivia and Peru is Chakra number two, Uluro Kattjuta in Australia is Chakra number three, Glastonbury in England is Chakra number four, the Great Piramyd of Khufu in Egypt is Chakra number five, the little known and somewhat troubled mountain of Kuh-e-Malek Siah at the Triple Border area of Iran-Pakistan-Afghanistan is Chakra number six and the glorious Mount Kailash in Tibet is chakra of the Earth number seven.
There are still big auxiliary chakras connected to the five elements and many other chakras around the world honored as Sacred Sites, or Sacred Places of Peace and Power. Y-Guassu is one of these sacred auxiliary sacred sites along with Macchu Picchu, hundreds of sacred sites dotting the Andean Mountains from what today is Chile all the way to Colombia, in the Amazon jungle, as well as in the Brazilian central plateau which includes the city of Brasília. Unfortunately this book does not have enough room to explore all of these Sacred Places and important energy vortexes in South America or even Brazil.
According to most of the Earth traditions, the human body has thousands of power points that serve the purpose of processing the huge universal energies that allows us all to be alive. To these traditions, the human body has seven major energy points called chakras. In a similar fashion, as Trimegistus’ law of what is below is like that which is above and vice-versa, we are perfect copies of the universe, the planet and solar systems.
The Earth as a living organism also has these major seven chakras – or power places just like our subtle bodies. Esoteric traditions believe in this and even goes to the extent of pinpointing which places of the Earth are such main power places.
In this sense Mountain Shasta, in California is the world chakra number one and corresponds to the Chakra number one in the human body known is the Base Chakra.
The Titicaca Lake on the border of Bolivia and Peru is Earth’s Chakra number two and corresponding to your Chakra number two known as the Navel Chakra.
Across the Pacific Ocean and more specifically in today’s Australia, we will find the Earth’s Chakra number three. It is the Uluro Kattjuta formations known by the name of Ayers Rock and the Olgas both part of the Uluro Kattjuta National Park. This chakra of the Earth corresponds to your third Chakra also as the Solar Plexus chakra.
Earth’s chakra number four is a long distance away from Uluro Kattjuta. It is locates in Glastonbury and Shaftesbury in the area of Sommerset, England. That is the Earth’s heart Chakra that correspond to your that very important Chakra in your body connected to your physical heart.
The Earth Chakra number five is the area of modern day Egypt, where the Great Pyramid is located. The Pyramid itself is the Chakra. Its correspondence in your beautiful, god-given body is the area around your throat – the Throat Chakra.
Earth Chakra Six is the Kuh-e-malek Siah a not so tall mountain located in the Tri-point area of Iran, Afhganistan and Pakistan in the land of the Baluchi people.
Finally in this seven-chakra voyage across and around the body of the Earth we come to the Seventh Chakra, Mount Kailash in Tibet. A most sacred place for Hindus, Buddhists and the pre-buddhist, Shamanic bon po tradition.

To read this article in it's entirety, go to:
http://sacrediguassu.blogspot.com/2007/04/om-mani-padme-hum.html