Yoga Shaman Reiki : a living breathing practice

A living practice is not just about the application of modalities and methods. It is a daily discipline - moment by moment - breathing in light and love, breathing out clarity and harmony.

My intent in writing about and illustrating this is to ignite discovery and kindle homegrown fires of imagination, inspiration, insight. Nurturing and nourishing our shared humanity, beingness, wellbeing.

It is my hope that - any and all interested, beginner or seasoned, healer and practitioner - find something here of value that they can easily assimilate and include in their life and practice.

Through specific stories, may the uninitiated or masterful dive deep into health, healing, dis-ease, fulfillment. May these organic and holistic tools and techniques facilitate optimum results for a professional healing practice and a successful business performance.

Much time, resource, and collaboration have been accumulated in training with leading teachers and learning from many masters - living, immortal, eternal - to create a foundation and platform to play in and work out your own answers and application.

       

This is the accumulated outcome of hours and years of my personal work and professional application conducting private sessions, clinics, workshops and retreats. In the Philippines and the United States directly and world wide online and long distance.

Yoga Shaman Reiki is a collaborative co-creation of my life studies and experience with hands-on lifestyle choices learned through both my Eurasian genealogy and the lineage of Yoga Christ Shaman Masters I study and follow.

Not everyone wishes to devote decades to these sacred scriptures and studies. For those interested I offer a distilled and direct access to those that are important to you. Together we can custom build a personal discipline of your own.

Virgo super moon

The Full Moon on February 19 falls in the earth sign of Virgo and is the strongest Super Moon of the
year. On this day the Moon will be closest to the earth for the year.

Original Art by Jocelyn Allen

February’s full moon will help us realize the potential around us - our own and everything else. It will
open us, broaden our horizons, and encourage us to expand our minds and hearts beyond our current
reality.

Since the January eclipses things have been shaken up for many of us. Perhaps your path suddenly
changed or perhaps you simply started seeing things in a different light. Causing you to change your
attitude, beliefs, or life direction.

Life always has a way of pulling us in different directions. Which may not always be rosy or
comfortable. We have to trust that whatever we experience is here to lift us higher. Opening our hearts
to help us grow.

What the human mind may perceive as terrible or annoying, our soul may be rejoicing at. The lessons
we get to learn. The emotional range we get to experience. The life changing wisdom we get to
acquire.

So soak up those moonbeams and shine on sweet silver moon!

Valentine's Day | love it? loath it?

This Valentine's Day we honor the courageous women who carved out a place for us all today.

Remembered or not. Acknowledged or not. Honored or not. Valued or not.

Every single female born and raised in our world. We bow to you today and always.

Precious female energy that has nurtured and nourished throughout the ages and many generations.

Women in our ancestry and lineage. All of our relations.

Godmother Moon. Mother Earth. Peace maker of our nations.

Gifted goddess. Honest homemaker. Birther of worlds. Divine being.

Beloved of my heart. I give my thanks.

auspicious prosperity for 2019

In Asia, Chinese New Year has started. Kung Hei Fat Choi! Gong Xi Fa Cai! 

Happy New Year of the Female Brown Earth Pig! 

How do you define abundance for yourself? Are your definition and understanding true to you? 

In shamanic practice we are cautioned to direct our intention as that is where focus follows. 

Wherever our attention goes is only the product of the intent that drives it. 

Whether we are aware of this or not it dictates the results we make. 

Have a care in what you ask for as you are most likely to get it. 

Every day in every way what is your intention? Go forth and create it consciously then. 

Utterly aware. That is the true alchemy of abundance. 

Sunday thoughts

Rick Jarow

4 hrs · 

A Culture of Awakening: The Inner and Outer Revolution

A colleague of mine recently attended a seminar on “spiritual awakening.” He told me how there were about four hundred people present, almost all white, middle class and up. As participants were meditating, emoting, and exploring, my colleague wondered if anyone found it odd that these four hundred white people were being cooked for, cleaned for, and served by people of color.

I am not passing judgment here, but pointing out an observable fact. Moreover, the “spiritual movement” has in general been chronically oblivious to these matters, as well as to matters of money, race, class, and the basically oppressive nature of societies in which the divide between haves and have-nots widens every day. And most of the recent rhetoric on “abundance,” that tries to tie spirituality and prosperity together, does not even attempt to address the roots and practices of gross inequality and the violence perpetuated by the powerful that maintains the status quo.

On the other hand, traditional rhetoric of social change, from Marx onward, tends to be suspicious of, or even denigrate, the spiritual. The idea that there is a bigger picture than human society and human history does not seem to occur to many of the proponents of social change and revolution, what to speak of the sanctity of the natural world. Those who have made “history” their God are blind to the gifting presence of the earth, air, fire, and water. They do not experience the world as personal, but rather as a thing whose resources are to be mastered and fought over.

In all fairness, there are movements like liberation theology and eco-community building that have been working to align the worlds in practice. And this may be the hardest work, to live the love that we feel and know, to move the dharma into the shared present, to create some zones of basic sanity, respect, and celebration.

There are many who claim ti have answers, but those who dare walk their talk are few. And even then, it is frighteningly difficult to birth a new world as the old one smolders around us. We are all babes in the woods here, but I would say that two things are certain. Spiritual practice without corresponding social practice is indeed an opiate of the people, usually the upper echelon of people. You spend some serious money to go to a “self-improvement” weekend instead of Club-Med., then go back home, raid the refrigerator and watch television. Has anything changed?

Likewise you can critique everything and everyone who is “oppressive.” And even “fight for the right,” but unless and until you wake up from the dream, you are still perpetuating the same chaos that started the ball rolling. The end never justifies the means, unless your God is history: the past and the future, which keeps you trapped in becoming (samsara), projecting, and missing the beauteous glory of this moment.

What do cultures and communities of awakening look like? How can we become a part of them? This is an effort to foster dialogue, a serious talk we need to have with each other if we are going to be creative and not just critical; aware of everything and everyone and not just living in our own castles of imagined prosperity.

a life well lived

Last September, inspirational multimedia publisher, Sounds True, hosted Waking Up in the World - a special free 10-day gathering of some of the great spiritual teachers and social visionaries of our time.

The gathering was a collective call to "heal our hearts, cultivate courage, inspire action".

All our relations.

In this time, we need the wisdom of spiritual teachings to keep us grounded, faithful, and centered in our hearts. We need the skills of deep listening, holding multiple perspectives, and developing a strategic vision of positive change in order to truly bring our love into action.

This is what to explore together in Waking Up in the World.

• Turning towards our heartbreak and learning how it can be a gateway to our unique calling
• Training in new skills to tap our inner resources for strength and hope
• How to take the perspective of “the other,” uncover racial bias, and reflect deeply on questions of class and privilege
• How to find an unconditional joy in our connection with ourselves and each other
• What it means to stand with the most vulnerable members of our society and put yourself on the critical path of being a change-maker

Waking Up in the World is an invitation to explore new perspectives, reflect deeply, and join the ever-growing movement of people who are transforming themselves and the world.

Every generation has its tasks required to move our collective evolution forward. Let’s engage wholeheartedly in ours.

*Waking Up in the World was created to support the new Sounds True Foundation and its initial focus to fund scholarships to train a new generation of mindfulness teachers.

2019 revelation

Last year I posted about the age of Kali Yuga on my Change Warrior blog. In 2017 I was fierce yet more hopeful.

If as most believe we are smack in the throes of Kali Yuga until at least 2025 - what then do we do in the meantime?

The general consensus is that Kali Yuga or the iron age already ended on the 21st of December 2012 with the end of the Mayan calendar.

It will take approximately 15 years for the new cycle to begin. We are now in that transition period between 2012 and 2027. The next cycle, Dwapara Yuga, starts in or around 2027.

Why is there such a difference of opinion among various Masters and Gurus or theorists and historians about these dates and their cycles?

According to sacred scripture and historical research much has to do with two main aspects:

[1] Spiritual teachings are often interpreted or presented in different ways throughout the ages - according to the needs of its seekers or audience.

[2] The speed at which humanity experiences these cycles can be affected either way by our conscious awareness at the time these events are unfolding.

In truth, it all boils down to which path or teacher we personally choose to follow, whether we accept the teachings of that path, and how wholeheartedly we apply it in our lives.

Popular belief today encourages us with the practice of kriyas and meditations designed to raise complete body awareness. To prepare the physiological body, nervous system, and intellectual mind to handle the energy of Kundalini rising within us.

Whatever your culture, tradition or belief it would be wise to pay attention and heed your body's needs. May the road to wellness unfold well for each of us.

the 8 world views

The health of all community depends on how we treat each other.

How we personalize these ancient worldviews and their vibrant practices is for each of us to discover. What does it mean for you: to repair the connections, to water our common roots, to face a life of compassion, to stay in honest conversation, to welcome other views, to honor our uniqueness and commonness, to create a sense of belonging, and to bear witness to each other?

These are not concepts but living tools by which tribes and cultures have sustained human growth on Earth. How can you make good use of these tools today? By figuring out how to enact these practices in our daily life, we can strengthen the human community, one relationship at a time.

In summary, the eight worldviews and their practices are:

• All My Relations from the Native American tradition.

The Practice: To discover, name, and repair the connections that exist between all things.

• Ubuntu from the African tradition.

The Practice: To water the common roots by which we all grow and to honor our strong need to join.

• Thou Art That from the Hindu tradition.

The Practice: To face and feel a life of compassion that honors that we are at heart the same.

• The I and Thou Relationship from the Jewish tradition.

The Practice: To stay committed to the life of honest conversation.

• Ya Ayuni! from the Lebanese tradition.

The Practice: To welcome other views in the belief that we need each other to be complete.

• The Great Spoked Wheel from the early Christian mystic tradition.

The Practice: To embody the paradox of our uniqueness and commonness by which the Great Wheel of Humanity turns.

• Hygge from the Danish tradition.

The Practice: To create well-being, connection, warmth, and a sense of belonging.

• I See You! I Am Here! from the African Bushmen tradition.

The Practice: To be present and bear witness to each other and other life. 

winter solstice wisdom

Winter Solstice is the birthday of the Sun and of the year.

It is a time when we experience the greatest darkness, when the hours of darkness are so much greater than the hours of daylight.

It is within this time of greatest darkness that the Light of the World is reborn, for now the hours of daylight will begin to grow and the hours of darkness will lessen.

Danu the Mother Goddess

It is at Winter Solstice that the truth of our Oneness is most evident, for the darkness that we face is our own darkness and aloneness.

The Light becomes most precious as we realize that it is through the Light that we come to love and appreciate each other.

~ Cathy Pagano, Stories of the Earth:  8 Tales of the Wheel of the Year. 'Winter Solstice'.

Integrative Sound & Music Training

Sound Healing is an exciting Energy Medicine approach developed by Dr. John Beaulieu. 

It integrates energy healing, systems science, molecular research, spiritual wisdom, and use of tuning forks to calibrate the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align our posture to visual harmonics. 

Mindful listening, postural analysis, exploration of sonic intervals, and five-element evaluation using voice and movement patterns are foundational to the class. 

The sound methods we will cover include the use of Pythagorean tuning forks, Otto (osteophonic) tuning forks, five-element music, and voice analysis. 

Dr. Beaulieu will also share relevant stories and clinical evidence he has accrued during his thirty-three years of practice.

A Two-Day Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, December 15 – December 16, 2018
December 15, 2018, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
December 16, 2018, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Additional class:
Friday, December 14, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Human TuneIn™ Sound Healing Event with John Beaulieu and Friends
Click here to register

These programs can be taken individually or as part of the Integrative Sound & Music Training program.