Yoga East Intention Workshop

"Intention is an aim that determines your actions and the new possibility outcomes you want to experience. Creating and resonatingwith intentions for whatever you are doing is of utmost importance." ~ Chloe Wordsworth, founder, Resonance Repatterning

We had such a wonderful time! We started with a labyrinth walk followed by a guided meditation led by Sharon. We spent the last part creating our intention stones. What FUN!

P.S. The running joke is that the rocks we collected on the beach a couple weeks ago are still in the rock tumbler. It takes 6-7 weeks!

JOY

I was watching The Secret with my friend Robbie who had not seen it yet. I've not watched it since the Yoga East book club meeting last month. This is a stress-free bookclub. You don't have to read the book, come watch the movie. Bring your favourite snack. Here, have some chocolate! Anyhoo, every time I watch the movie, I get a new Ah-ha. I was looking at John Assaraf's Vision Board and he had written:

JOY IS THE BEST MEASURE OF SUCCESS!

Ah-ha. A friend! And it made me think of Bruce Lipton. The first time I heard him speak, he said, "I woke up one morning and decided to live my life in nothing less than joy."

When I heard Bruce say that, I thought, "I want that belief!" Beliefs colour our perception of how we experience our world. I want to look at the world through those goggles. We are all living on the same planet, but we are most definitely not living in the same world. I choose JOY.

Intention Gems

"Neuroscientists have found that brain cells fire not just upon action, but immediately upon formation of an intention." ~Caroline Casey

I like to collect pebbles and rocks. Many years ago on a visit to Cape May I collected "Cape May diamonds" on Sunset Beach. They're little quartz pebbles that wash up on the beach. I've done different crafty things with them. I had a whole bowl of them in my healing room with a different word written on each one: Gratitude, Meditate, Faith, etc. I'd show a picture of them, but they're packed away in a box. Anyway, from that basic idea I've created "Intention Gems." You can use them for your yoga practice: pick a gem at random for your focus, pick one before you walk a labyrinth, or meditate, etc. They come in a pretty little bag, or I've made boxes. The first one is for my friend Robbie, who just turned 81 yesterday. She loves hummingbirds and I got these little brass ones at the craft store last year, not knowing what I was going to do with them...until now.

This next box is at Yoga East:

Sharon Cameron and I will be doing an Intention workshop next Saturday at Yoga East. We went for a walk along the beach a couple weeks ago and collected all sorts of treasures. We'll be doing a meditation and then a make-and-take Intention Gems (just the gems, not the box).

Yoga East Healing Arts painting

This is a painting I did for Sharon Cameron, my dear friend and owner of Yoga East. I started it last week & finished it yesterday afternoon. It measures 16 X 20 & is acrylic paint, outlined with metalic gold marker. I forget the flower essences added to the paints, I always write them on the back of the painting, tho. I listened to Mike Zampi's Chesapeake Bay: Reflections of Beauty while I was painting it.

Yesterday morning in yoga class, Sharon pointed out her new toenail polish as "chakra purple." I just giggled because it matches the purple lotus petals perfectly. I took that to be confirmation because she didn't know I was doing the painting for her. I surprised her with it after this morning's class. I am SO grateful for yoga, and for Sharon and the healing place that she has created in Yoga East. NAMASTE' & BLESSINGS!

P.S. NAMASTE: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honor the place in you of LOVE, of LIGHT, of TRUTH, of PEACE. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place, and I am in that place in me, there is only ONE of us.

Today's Sunrise

The sun moves laterally to medially through the year. By summer, it is right in the middle. BEAUTIFUL. Good a.m., Sunshine!

"The best thing about growing older is that it takes so long." ~Walter Kemp

I read this quote in Barb Stepp's newsletter. May your day be full of sunshine and shower you with BLESSINGS of Light, LOVE, & Prosperity!

Birthday Poem

I often write email poems for birthdays. These tend to be more on time than anything I send via snail mail. Since I've not added a blog in a while (sorry, Mum!), I thought I'd share it. Today is the birthday of a person who is very dear to our family, Dr. John Brimhall.

Perhaps we look at years gone by
in terms of people and places
And in our hearts are friends & fam
Joyful, loving embraces.

We remember the smiles
laughter and tears

tragedies and triumphs

through the years.

Family gatherings of

laughter and fun

and working hard

to get it all done.

In moments of stillness

and quiet reflection

we remember God's LOVE

in all our connections.

What the Caterpillar Calls Death, We Call a Butterfly

This is for a dear friend who is going through some transitions within her family, and for anyone who is faced with change. I was asked recently if I had experienced the loss of a loved one & how it affected my life. Sister, father, beloved aunt~but it is different when you lose your first friend. The lesson I've learned from death is that when you focus on separation, you feel the loss. LOVE has no boundaries of time & space; and when Love is your focus, you are forever connected to that person and there is no sense of separation.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross used to say that when we die, it's like a butterfly leaving its cacoon. Death is really just a birth into the world of Spirit and whether the death is physical or metaphorical, all endings are new beginnings.