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A text i got this am

2012-03-02T09:06:00.001-08:00

Your such an amazing creation, you are a masterpiece. I love you.

Power Path UPDATE MARCH! Juicy!

2012-03-02T08:49:00.003-08:00

Monthly forecasts will be posted on the first of every month on our website. To receive Moon updates and other information please sign up for email updates, (link here).

For a more specific overview of the trends for 2012 please order our Mp3 or CD of TRENDS 2012, (link here).

The main theme for March is Opportunity.

Whew, we have managed to get through January and February with a few instinctive and emotional scrapes and bruises and have landed into the more grounded, certain and stable influence of March. We are in a period now of practical transformation where how we approach what we know we will have to do, will determine how it all comes out. The practical side is important as well as addressing your physical environment and the theme of bringing the body along.

The reason the theme is Opportunity is because the more you see everything as opportunity the better off you will be managing what it is you have to do. And everything is an Opportunity. This forward focus will also keep you from mulling over the past and questioning whether the decisions and choices you made and are making are right. Even if you are sitting in disappointment or loss or the challenge of a major change, look at the opportunity this presents and be inspired

It is back to action, taking the "keep it moving" theme of February and seeing where things have landed after a huge letting go. The shifts of the last few weeks have left an opening to experience everything from a different perspective, even a different parallel in some cases. If you don't recognize your surroundings or if everything looks different to you, that is a good sign and one that indicates you have shifted your assemblage point and your experience into a new parallel. If you know you put something (like your keys) in its' place, and the next day it disappears, this also is a sign of a change in parallel. Allow it to be and welcome the opportunity this presents. With a shift in parallel comes a shift in old patterns. Observe the difference in your reactions and your attachments. What you thought you could never give up a few weeks ago may be effortless now.

The action of this month and of the moving centered year demands you have a plan. Wishing and intending is not enough. You have to do something for what you want. The universe will respond to action this month and you can be incredibly productive and prosperous if you just get off the couch. So if you want to get better at something or learn a new skill or manifest a new relationship, you have to take action. This is a dynamic month of connectivity, exchange and movement and there is opportunity around every corner. Say yes to what you may not have considered in the past, take a practical risk, and go for transformation whenever possible. Whatever you think you cannot do, give yourself the opportunity to do it.

Because there is more stability this month, the physical universe has the opportunity to organize itself in a new way. In the wake of things coming apart in the last couple of months, there is a new order emerging that you may not recognize yet, but it feels right. Go with your intuition. Your commitments and action will find solid ground this month and you will be rewarded for the steps you take beyond your imagined limitations. Opportunity means a second, third and fourth chance to reconfigure, rework, rekindle and reconnect. Do not waste the month. Take action and do something.

What if what you try is not the right thing? So what? The universe has received the message that you are willing to try so it will support you to try again and again until what you have is different. The main thing is not to sit around and wait for something to fall into your lap. Be proactive with your evolution and growth. If your life if not what you want it to be, change it. Once you decide to break loose of something that does not work, you will be amazed at the opportunities that show up. This is a new paradigm. It says believe and take action and then you will see the results, rather than see it first and then take action and then believe the results.

This is also the month we can consider a time of birth due to the spring equinox. It is a powerful equinox this year and truly supports practical transformation on all levels. Consider that this can be the birth of something new: a lifting of limiting beliefs and an expanded awareness of what is possible. You have seen in the past how fickle your reactions are. What has seemed impossible or not doable becomes possible if only you wait until the intensity of the impossibility subsides. It is so with everything. Any strong reaction is charged with the fear of loss, the fear of failure, or the fear of death. And any strong reaction is connected to attachment of some kind. If you give it time, and wait long enough, the intensity dissolves and you are back at neutral and able to move the situation forward onto a new platform. This is a very good practice and will help to diminish the effects of impatience and martyrdom. Try it.

The body is a gift and a curse this month. It becomes clear that the body has to come along on this path of practical transformation or you won't get very far. Your physical body is the most practical and solid tool in your toolbox for this lifetime and it will dictate what it wants and it will show you exactly where your work with it is. This month you will either take the relationship with your body to a new more inspired level or the body will take you down. It is important to give the body every opportunity to transcend the collective agreement about what it is capable of and to support it to reach another level of functioning. Listen to your body and don't believe everything others tell you. This is your opportunity to reset your relationship with your body in a way that works better for both of you. The opportunity is huge for healing, power, strength and manifesting. You should be inspired and committed to support the body in a new and more disciplined way.

The challenges this month:

You could find yourself feeling deflated and overwhelmed and running old tapes of "It's too much, I can't do it".

You could fall into judgment and a lot of negative thinking.

Your mind could sabotage feelings of well being by inserting the need to control.

You could succumb to crisis and see it as bigger than life with no way out.

You could be quick to anger, resentment and martyrdom with impatience just on the other side.

You could just give up, not in a good way where you give it over to spirit but in a way that is victimized and blaming.

You could become a couch potato, lethargic and apathetic with a bad attitude.

You can look at your life as limited instead of seeing the opportunity.

The opportunities this month:

You could experience life from a different parallel.

You could feel neutral about situations and events that were previously charged.

You could reach new levels of power, understanding and transformation.

You could manifest great prosperity and luck.

You could get your body in gear and bring it along for this fabulous ride.

You could turn all of your challenges into opportunities.

You could eliminate fear through action and risk.

You could become free.

Helpful practices:

See everything as an opportunity and remind yourself of this every day.

Be patient, listen, and wait for things to shift in their right timing.

Take some action every day that shows you are serious about doing something towards your intentions and goals.

Make a plan and be willing to adjust it frequently to meet the elastic nature of the times.

Talk to your body, pay attention to it, work with it and give it what it needs.

Do something every day that shows the spirit you are serious about your practical transformation and that you are willing to move forward and into opportunity instead of backing away. Take a risk, don't look back.

How the month shows up:

YOU PERSONALLY

We already talked about the need to acknowledge opportunity at every turn. This month also provides an incredible portal to practical transformation as well as personal power. Be careful what you ask for and beware of overextending. Watch impatience and keep telling yourself there is plenty of time. When you have the urge to spring ahead but the way is not clear, make a practice of waiting patiently until the way is clear. There is a chance this month to truly learn about effortless action if you manage the impatience and stay clear of the drama it can stir up. It is also important not to compare yourself to others or take too personally what others think. Everyone has their opinions and their beliefs. As you surf the different parallels you may find that the gap begins to widen between your reality and that of others not on the same page.

RELATIONSHIPS

Healing, mending, forgiving, exploring, accepting, birthing, completing and becoming neutral. This is an exciting and dynamic time for relationships; not just relationships between people but the relationship you have with everything. There is an opportunity to move into uncharted territory as relationships move to a new level of exchange, trust and sharing. Whole new and innovative economies are likely to be birthed due to the exploration of and new understanding of relationship. This is a time when the deepest most painful experiences of separation, betrayal and abandonment have the opportunity to begin their path of deep instinctive and emotional healing which will over time rebuild trust and reweave community in a new way.

You can get with the program by focusing on your own healing, forgiveness, acceptance and becoming neutral. It is easier than you think especially if you are willing to let go of the old "story".

THE ENVIRONMENT

With regards to climate and weather, we have both wind and water as elements this month. The wind represents movement and the moving center helping us to keep things from getting too stagnant, and water helps to help lubricate the emotional center and support the emotional healing of deep wounds. It promises to be a quieter month for weather intensity although that does not mean there won't be any. Remember that this is a year of the artisan and of chaos so anything can happen when you least expect it. It would be wise to make friends with the wind and to see the wind as an ally instead of resisting it. When you experience wind, thank it for all that it is clearing and transforming with very little effort. If you get the chance, play with the wind; move into the wind and feel how it buffets you and how it can hold you up and protect you from falling.

In terms of the environment, it will be important for you to take the opportunity of all the change and spend some time reconfiguring your own personal environment. You may have released some old baggage and gotten rid of some things. Perhaps your personal environment needs a bit of a face-lift and some new energy. Be bold and work with it in a new and different way.

HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY

We mentioned quite a bit about the physical body and the importance of bringing the body along in this time of practical transformation. Look for sporadic and indefinable symptoms surfacing out of nowhere as the body attempts to shed the old patterns that hold it back. Don't try and understand how they are related and what they are. You will do yourself a disservice if you attempt to define your symptoms and link them to some kind of condition that you can look up on the Internet. This is where you should not believe everything you are told. Old useless patterns manifest in many ways. The joints and muscles are especially susceptible this month to random aches and pains. You may find yourself with allergies and skin issues. Think of yourself as shedding an old skin like a snake that has grown out of its old one.

Give yourself plenty of rest and listen to the body. Set a strong intention that you will bring it along and it will tell you what it needs in order to keep up. This month you can become incredibly strong and resilient and you may be surprised at what this body of yours is capable of. The adrenals may need support, as this could be a taxing month for them.

FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS

A good month for looking at new opportunities and tossing out old judgments about what works and what does not work. There are new business practices being currently explored that will change the way everything is done in the future. Expand your awareness, educate yourself, exchange ideas, and cooperate with others. If you were so inclined it would be a good month to learn a new skill, preferably one you never thought you would be capable of. This is stepping out beyond your comfort level and into a new experience of growth and learning. This is a time to stretch, to take a bit of a risk, and to go for what you want. The sky is the limit as long as you believe it is.

Take care to honor your agreements and to end things in a good way of they are ending. Take care also to wait for right timing and to listen and wait for the path to open up if it feels closed when starting something new. Your relationship to others that you work with and to the product that you develop, sell, teach or manufacture should be the most important aspect. It is your relationship to your work and to your projects that will give them the substance and longevity to survive and be prosperous.

It is a good month for prosperity especially if held in the theme of the opportunity for practical transformation.

POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES

It is a quieter more grounded month and we also have Mercury retrograde beginning later this month. Even though political arenas may not be quite as frenetic, there are still plenty of misunderstandings, frustrations, chaos and a bit of confusion. Mercury retrograde slows things down some but the real issue is that many planetary citizens are just simply tired of old school politics and going round and round with the same old patterns. We are still not quite at the point where there is enough momentum to actually turn things around on this planet but we are getting there. What you can do is practice patience and listening and waiting for the right timing to show itself. Then it will be effortless.

And as usual we always recommend looking to your own politics in your personal environment and seeing how you can improve your communication, your dedication to what is right and your life as a global citizen.

DATES AND TIME FRAMES:

March 1-7: A time of sifting through the rubble left by the decisions, choices, change, letting go and release of the past few weeks. All the pieces are in front of you and you get to sift, sort and decide what stays, what goes and what gets remodeled. Don't get too bogged down in dwelling on the past and refrain from the need to know what went wrong or how it could have been different. Be inspired by the opportunity rather than dwelling on what you have lost or given up on. Practice acceptance and patience and keep a "don't know mind" as it will take awhile to actually see the new forms taking shape.

Keep the movement going, make sure you exercise the body and don't allow anything to get too stale or stagnant.

March 8: Full Moon is at 2:41 AM Mountain Standard Time. This full moon is a perfect opportunity to make a plan and dedicate to taking action. What is it that you want right now for yourself? And how are you going to get there? Beware of the tendency to look towards others to do it for you. There is no power in that. This is a time to make your own bid for power. Spirit is certainly listening and if it is done from the heart and not from ego and if you are ready for it, it will happen sooner than you can imagine.

March 9-16: (Daylight Savings time begins on Sunday March 11) This time frame is characterized by possible uncertainty and confusion as you navigate the minefield of what is yours and what is not. When an opportunity shows up, make sure it is your opportunity and not someone else's. You may also find that people who are not on the same page as you will have trouble understanding what it is that you want. Eliminate the need to have the approval of others. It only confuses things. The best way to navigate these times is to step back, take a deep breath and wait...until clarity comes. And it will.

March 12: Mercury goes retrograde until April 4. This slows things down on the outside, demanding presence and clarity of communication. Your experience is turned to the inner realm where you get a chance to explore what drives you and your intentions from the inside. It could be a time of clearing what you find on the inside especially if it is not yours to begin with such as parental imprinting.

March 17-23: This time frame includes the Equinox and the New Moon. This is a dynamic time marked by many opportunities to end things, to begin things, to heal things, to forgive things, and to begin new and fresh as in birth. The best way to navigate is to stay out of judgment and to see everything as an opportunity and to take advantage of that opportunity. Remember to make a plan and to think about how you are going to bring the body along. Allow for magic to happen and for things to take their course. It is truly an inspiring time if you allow it to be.

March 19: Spring Equinox is at 11:15 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a solid and earthy time for grounding your intentions and setting things up for the next few months. Be sure you take some time to honor the equinox and to think about what you want as opposed to what you think you should want or you think others expect you to want. Revisit your life at this point and contemplate what you are just going through the motions with day to day without truly being present or enjoying the experience. You may get some practical clarity that will manifest in positive change.

March 22: New Moon is at 8:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time. Coming on the heels of the Equinox, this New Moon provides an exclamation point to the energies of the change of seasons and especially marks the theme of birth. Honor what is newly birthed and what is being reset into a new pattern. Allow yourself some rest especially if you feel deeply worn out or taxed due to the energy levels of the moving center.

March 24-31: The rhythm of action and the moving center speeds up a bit here but it is also combined with a quirky emotional aspect that can be confusing and throw you off guard. If you have done your work you will know exactly where you stand and what you are about and what your next action step is on your plan. If you have been ambivalent, lethargic, passive and resistant, you may have a harder time finding your way through this time. If you cannot see clearly what you need to do, ask for help. Often the people around you can see things you cannot.

It is possible to become mired in emotional quicksand if you do not make a separation from drama that is not yours. On the other hand this may be exactly the time you need to immerse yourself in some deep emotional healing of a personal experience that pops up out of nowhere for you to reconcile. Be patient, compassionate, forgiving and above all, see it all as an opportunity for growth, inspiration and evolution.

Have a wonderful month!

Lena

2012-03-01T10:23:00.002-08:00

2012-03-01T10:22:00.003-08:00

Might have to Create something like this for the new Dream Space:)

2012-03-01T10:22:00.000-08:00

I would totally LOVE having these on my feet:)))

2012-03-01T10:21:00.001-08:00

How to Let Go:7 affirmations for Practicing the law of Detachement

2012-03-01T09:56:00.003-08:00

I consciously commit to flexibility and detachment.
I allow myself and those around me the freedom to be themselves, without imposing rigid ideas of right and wrong.
I live my life in a state of engaged detachment.
I release the need to judge or criticize.
I express myself honestly while releasing any need to impose my beliefs on other people.
Whenever I notice that I am becoming emotionally attached to a point of view, I take a deep breath and come back to a more centered place.
I embrace detachment by choosing to be free from the good and bad opinions of others

~ Deepak Chopra via DIG.

2012-03-01T09:51:00.002-08:00

Having loved enough and lost enough,
I'm no longer searching
just opening,

no longer trying to make sense of pain
but trying to be a soft and sturdy home
in which real things can land.

These are the irritations
that rub into a pearl.

So we can talk for a while
but then we must listen,
the way rocks listen to the sea.

And we can churn at all that goes wrong
but then we must lay all distractions
down and water every living seed.

And yes, on nights like tonight
I too feel alone. But seldom do I
face it squarely enough
to see that it's a door
into the endless breath
that has no breather,
into the surf that human
shells call God(dess)

~Mark Nepo

Meredith Murphy

2012-03-01T09:47:00.005-08:00

Energy is abundant. All that we seek can be experienced and created from tapping into the infinite source within. When we forget about this we find ourselves in conflict with others as we attempt to get energy from interactions instead of THE source. Peace begins with each of us choosing to tap in and turn on ourselves. Then showing up fully energized we share and amp up our collaborations and fun.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

Time Warps

2012-03-01T09:38:00.001-08:00

I'm in one of those time warps that feels like everything is speeding up! I can not believe how quickly time feels like it is moving for me. I think this feeling is the result of my schedule gaining more and more tasks. This is a VERY good thing. Its a very interesting observation as I get busier to watch what activities get less attention. I don't want to give up any thing that I have my hands in right now so I am practicing Balance and the art of attention as applied to my life.
The past week I have been teaching more Yoga! A few of the teachers at the studio are out of town so there has been lots of subbing opportunities, I am on the schedule a bunch for the next two weeks. I feel so blessed, I am teaching some great time slots that I feel super comfortable with the numbers of students. I have also just met with a fellow new teacher who has started a Karma yoga Group. She has been offering classes for free in her friends living rooms, and now it is growing to the point where she is looking at other spaces and needs help form other teachers! I am really excited about the possibilities of this project and I am presenting a fun spin on the group on Tuesday at our meeting. I asked the universe fro teaching opportunities outside of the yoga studio and I am getting them! Now I just need the universe to come through with a bunch of teachable spaces for yoga classes and I will be SO BLESSED! Our intentions are so good, affordable by donation yoga, classes that are comfortable for the beginner, no intimidating Studio settings, come as you are pay what you can yoga for the people!!!

I have some other very exciting news:) we signed a lease on our new home on Monday! We move in April 1st. It is everything we asked for on our house manifestation list (next time you have to move make a list it will work). It's in the Hood that I really wanted, close to my Yoga communities, Farmers Markets, the beach is a bike ride away, etc. The house itself is very small ( this is also something I really wanted as the house we are in now is pretty spacious and I am ready to not have to spend so much time cleaning), Its an old house with lots of character, owned by a really cool family that we will totally be friends with i can feel it, when we went to see it we sat in the kitchen and talked for almost two hours! The best part of the house is that the entire yard has been dug up and turned into garden plots! So the women who live in the downstairs apartment have been growing food, flowers and herbs for four years! I'm so excited to garden with neighbors that have such knowledge of North West Growing! I have already started my list of what I really want to grow! Seriously My heart sings whenever I think of this new space, and our life in the city. This is going to be such a positive change for our world.

Sending out so much love and Light!

I love you.

2012-02-27T05:26:00.004-08:00

I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; train yourself for that–but take whatever comes, with great trust, and as long as it comes out of your will, out of some need of your innermost self, then take it upon yourself, and don’t hate anything.

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

YES!

2012-02-25T08:09:00.001-08:00

Did you make your bed look just beautiful after you got up this morning. Did you take joy in washing your coffee cup after breakfast? How about your socks--do you like them? Do they feel great on your feet when you put them on. Do you notice? Okay, I'll be more direct: are you savoring life? ENJOYING it? When you stand in front of the mirror flossing are you having fun? Life is everywhere--even in the details...which are in fact squealing and oozing with pathways to expansion and bliss if attended to with presence.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

2012-02-23T07:57:00.002-08:00

"Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in"

- Leonard Cohen, amazing singer/songwriter.

2012-02-23T07:55:00.001-08:00

Life ideas to steal: the way of letting go that you admire most, the way of laughing off a disappointment that lightens everything up, the way of responding to homeless people that you envy, the faith and self-confidence you wish you had. We're all One and we're here to shine our light uniquely and I am becoming a much more happy girl because I am very a-okay with stealing any excellent path to happiness that YOU've already discovered. Oh, and by the way, THANKS.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

Time banking!!!

2012-02-21T21:06:00.001-08:00

I LOVE THIS!!

what a beautiful Idea! I think Im going to join and offer private Yoga Classes:)

http://lowermainland.timebanks.org/welcome

Power Path New Moon update

2012-02-21T07:56:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

The New Moon is Tuesday, February 21 at 3:35 PM Mountain Standard Time. This new moon is a time to recharge. You will feel like resting, getting more sleep, taking all the movement down to a standstill. If you have been struggling with something that has you constricted and confused, this would be the time to let go, unweight your position and give it over to spirit so you can turn towards another, new and better direction. Whatever it is, let it go. Whatever has you sleepless, let it go. Whatever you are trying to problem solve with your mind, let it go. Whatever you are worried about, let it go. Whatever you experience as being difficult, restrictive, full of suffering, pain and unresolved, let it go. Ritualize this by letting go of something you have been holding onto from the past that has old energy, like a piece of furniture, a photograph, an old sweater, old letters, old jewelry, an old relationship with strings attached etc.

Keep in mind that the times are very much about honoring fluidity and the movement of water and watery aspects that can be allies in helping you to dissolve whatever it is that is not working in your life. The key is that you do not need to know the solution on the other side. Just focus on the dissolving, the flexibility and fluidity. Drink lots of water and pay attention to the qualities of water and its importance in supporting life, change and growth.

IT IS PAST TIME TO GIVE UP THE ADDICTION TO SUFFERING. JUST GIVE IT UP!

Blessings,

Lena

2012-02-21T07:37:00.001-08:00

Living as love, the world responds differently to you. You can verify this very easily when you're rather, in a clearing phase and feeling ick. Don't you notice how different everything is? Aha...that's because when you're living as free-flowing love you're in a different reality and like you, it's LOVE filled and delightful. Hmm...

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

The Daily Love

2012-02-20T09:55:00.000-08:00

I have been receiving the DailyLove Blog posts everyday for a month or so now and I truly love them. Mastin, the creator of the DailyLOve has a beautiful story of Awakening and now exposes himself so open heartedly to share his experiences in love, relationships, and the journey towards a whole happy self. I love it!

His post today is really amazing and worth sharing because we all have someone in our lives that we should work towards forgiving:)

Enjoy~

Yesterday was the final day ofMarianne Williamson'samazing "The Enchanted Love" workshop.

The weekend was very powerful for me.

What came up for me in the workshop wasn't about my relationship with Jenna directly. It was actually about a former business partner I had. And I haven't been in partnership with this person for about three years now. But what came up for me was still a lot of anger and resentment towards this person.

I was shocked because I thought I had put it behind me. But I hadn't. For all the Love I give and all the work I've done, there it was, still down there. And it came up big time on Saturday night. It came after Marianne ran us through an exercise where we got to dive into the shadows of our own self as well as the shadows of someone who we still had anger for.

It was interesting in my own personal inventory that all the shadow parts of myself were some of the same shadow elements that I saw in my former business partner.

Marianne went on to ask is we had been easy, loving and compassionate towards ourselves for our character defects, to which I and most of the audience said, "yes". Her request then was to then be as loving and forgiving towards others for the same transgressions.

And this was a big aha moment for me - that and the realization that in this former partnership, I had really put my partner in the place where The Uni-verse should be. And if you read TDL you will know that that is a setup for pain. And pain is what I got. And pain, anger and resentment is what came up on Saturday night for.

I'm so blessed to have an amazing girlfriend, Jenna, who just held space for me during this moment and didn't take my anger personally. It was such a moment, because instead of me making the anger wrong, I just let it come up and find expression. It was a tremendous moment where I felt like the splinter of this anger that I have been carrying around for years finally started to get pushed to the surface. And in me allowing it to come up, and then love it, understand it and accept it, it lessened.

And then what I get to do is take responsibility for placing this former partner of mine in the place where The Uni-verse should have been. This person is an innocent child of The Uni-verse, just as we all are. And they did they best they could from their point of view at the time and there was a huge lesson for me to learn with the assignment of our relationship.

Marianne said that if we really want to step into forgiveness and let someone go, we should pray for his or her happiness for thirty days, which I am starting today.

My ego wants to justify a million different reasons why this person doesn't deserve it, but my heart intuitively knows that this is the right thing to do.

So, another layer has been peeled back and in doing so, my ego gets to be checked again, all in the service of letting go of the past so that I can continue to be the presence of Love as best I can on the planet.

Thank you Marianne for an amazing workshop! I love you!

Can you pray for the happiness of someone you just can't forgive? What if it would change your life forever? Let us know: WhatImGoingThru@TheDailyLove.com or leave us a comment below.

Love,

Mastin

2012-02-20T09:47:00.001-08:00

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is."
- Mary Anne Radmacher, inspirational writer and artist.

YES

2012-02-19T18:01:00.001-08:00

While living and breathing, making oatmeal and smiling at your best friend's story, washing your face and meditating, does it ever occur to you that the whole template of your being is simultaneously being reinvented, enlarged, metamorphosizing...and you're not even IN a cocoon?

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

Loving-Kindness Meditation

2012-02-19T10:46:00.001-08:00

May I be filled with loving-kindness.
May I be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May i be healthy in Body, Heart, and Mind.
May I be happy and free.

use this meditation any time, brushing your teeth, looking in the mirror, driving, making the bed, taking a walk. Remember that it does not matter how you are feeling on the inside when you are doing this, you can never do it wrong! This is a powerful practice to help bring you back to the self excepting, self loving being that you ARE. You are perfect in every way in every moment. Love yourself anything less is self inflicted abuse. YOU ARE AMAZING!

I love YOU.

Yes Please

2012-02-19T10:37:00.001-08:00

The second song is originally by one of my true loves Bonnie Raitt. My mother LOVES her and so I grew up listening to her amazing songs about love, and heart break. This is one of the most powerful, that I never understood until I became an adult and my heart was broken for the first time:) Beautiful and powerful<3<3<3

Water Goddess

2012-02-19T09:58:00.000-08:00

I feel like the Water Goddess with all of this Rain as I look our at Mama Ocean sipping tea Dreaming of the Sun:)

House Hunting

2012-02-19T09:54:00.000-08:00

We are House Hunting.......its kind of intense. We are ready to move into the city. We have done a year of "mountain" living and because our lives are really picking up here it just feels like the quality of our lives would really improve if we were in a more central location. So we have been looking for the past almost 2 months, and I have never had such a hard time finding a place. Vancouver is such an expensive city that the rental market is huge, no one can really afford to buy here except for the super rich, so everyone rents. Single Family homes are as rare as a good southern accent around here, most houses are split into two, a basement suite, and the main and upper floor suite. Condos are plentiful, but I told J the other night I would rather hang myself off the sorry excuse for a balcony of the condo then live in one. I could NEVER share energetic space with that many people, not to mention living that far from the ground. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but its kind of a dramatic situation. Today for instance we are going to look at a place that could be "the One" along with 20 other people, we are trying to get there early and J's plan is to offer more money than is being asked if we like it....I've never had to do this when finding houses. Ive always had great House Karma. We are really deep in this hunt for our new home, and it has brought up a lot of stuff for us, like why do we live in such an expensive place, where else would we live, how long will we stay here ....etc....and then Jody did the unthinkable........

The other night he told me that he wants to move to Ashville N.C. in a few years.
(I have one friend that is going to read this and smile:)) I swear I have never talked about Ashville before) He has been doing research and Loves it there, wants to go visit when I am aloud back in the states, he even has been looking at real estate, its very affordable.

Obviously we live in Vancouver because we love it, it is clean, not densely populated, and progressive. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the surrounding area of B.C. is so incredible that it takes my breath away daily. Sure we get a lot of rain, but that helps keep it so clean and green here, and when the sun does come in the summers....wow, you never want to leave. There are gritty parts too, which I fall more in love with every day. The famous Hastings area where the 'open air' drug market occurs is a deep obsession of mine. I am facinated by the culture that inhabits just a few blocks of the city there. Its so extreme yet so normal at the same time. SOme may see it as dirty and depressing, but I see a city of people that have compassion for ALL of those who live within it. With that Compassion comes a tolerance for the choices of the individual. If you want to use, do it here safely, if you want to get clean, come into the clinic and commit. IT's an interesting approach that I think more cities should explore. There is also a spirit here that I have not experienced before because I am American. Canada has a different vibe amongst it's people. Vancouver is a popular city among those who are fleeing war torn countries, we have a lot of refuges and immigrants, so the population is diverse, and sensitive. I like that, the heart here is softer. My personal favorite is the spirituality of the city, there is a hunger for it that is felt on a subtle level, but its strong. From the spaced out seekers to the grounded followers and everyone in between and all around, its different around every corner, and I am always surprised at what's next:) People are drawn here for all of the above reasons and more, and we for now are amoung those.
For now we are strapping on our gloves and going out to fight for our next home:) Staying in the moment, present in our life, and maybe when we let ourselves go there considering change in the future. THe truth is, I hope to live in a few differnt places in my life. I dream of living abroad, of going back to the South East, and of winters in Costa Rica. FOr me it all seems posible, I have already lived in some really amazing places, and I don't feel the need to find a home place and thats it for the rest of my life. Thats not me. I would like our Child to grow up closer to our families, I would love to have our child experience travel and living for a year in Italy or France, and I will see Mama Africa before I leave this body. All in all if we are grounded in our hearts it does not matter where we call home or for how long. We feel that we are living this life to explore and experience and that is the message we put out through our manifestations of future ideas:)

Oh Spring I long for you....

2012-02-19T09:31:00.000-08:00

Late winter, a month of tender sensitivity, with healing deep feeling. Physical nature is strong, real harmony a necessity. In spring we will emerge with revolutionary power.

(Sun into Pisces, with Chiron and Neptune. Mars, Jupiter and Pluto in earth signs, Saturn in Libra. Uranus in Aries.)

~Steven Robins~

What A week!

2012-02-18T09:44:00.000-08:00

I have been craving a good post on here all week but I never had the time! This may sound lame to some but this week was really exciting for me because i started working again. I am only working part time about 20 hours a week plus my teaching hours. This week felt like 40 hours as I was getting into the groove of things and scheduling the rest of my life as well. The best part about my new "Job" is that it is in my new favorite place, my yoga studio/school! And the even better part is that because I don't have work status in Canada, I am trading my work hours for education hours towards my 500 hours....um can this get any better:) Im so so happy, and after my first week, I love it! The people that I work with are amazing, the environment is really sweet, and I spend my days surrounded by Yogis! Ive been working really hard at manifesting this and I am so grateful for the ways things have worked out. Now I just want more and more teaching hours!!

:)

2012-02-18T09:20:00.001-08:00

Kissing

Trauma Yoga

2012-02-16T08:02:00.000-08:00

I'm So excited today to be doing my first Trauma and Yoga Training! We are learning about yoga as a beautiful offering to those who suffer PTSD. The studies that are being done are having really amazing healing results for People who are using regular yoga practice and therapy to help move through the disorder. I'm fascinated and Inspired! Considering the very high numbers of people that suffer from PTSD this is an amazing way to reach them and offer alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs or worse, alcohol and drugs. Trauma is not just stored in our minds to be played over and over, it also is stored in our bodies and Yoga is a nurturing gentle way to allow sufferers to face the feelings from their experiences and work through them, with the end result of gaining their power back, and releasing the very common feelings of self blame and defeat that come from being in a traumatic situation.
I love the everyday healing benefits of Yoga, these deeper benefits just further my love and respect to this beautiful practice.

Can't wait to share what I learn!

<3<3<3

morning music

2012-02-16T07:36:00.001-08:00

2012-02-15T09:51:00.001-08:00

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

- Gilda Radner

Happy Valentines Day!

2012-02-14T09:20:00.000-08:00

Wise Thoughts from My very Wise teacher Pepe Danza. EnJOY AND HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Well, being Valentine’s Day, naturally February brings up questions and issues related to relationship… and we all know how that kind of Ship tends to sink. We are at a time when the old paradigms clearly don’t serve us anymore, but we really haven’t found new workable models to take us through that ocean of loneliness and confusion. We are in a grey, experimental zone, wanting to have fun and freedom and clarity, yet not at all free of the “happily ever after” myth that we were fed since our first fairytale.

From soul mates to polyamorous, the Ships are bouncing on the stormy sea of the Kali Yuga, a time of darkness when the Light of Spirit and Truth seem to be ever so unattainable and most people’s energies are fully engaged in the mere act of surviving.

One popular saying comes to mind that I think is very valuable as a general guideline,

“Hold on tightly and let go lightly.”

How does it translate to relationship?

Well, let’s look at the first part… In spiritual philosophy there is a great emphasis on unattachment. A great misunderstanding of this principle often leads “spiritual” people to become greatly attached to their unattachment! Added to this is the general North American disposable culture… “easy come, easy go.” Everything is breakable (sooner rather than later), everything is replaceable. Too often this leads one or both parties to not being fully present in the Ship. As a beloved teacher of mine once said, “You can’t have your two feet on two different boats.” On a deep level, this applies to modern life in general as we hardly “show up” for our lives. We live on automatic pilot, survival mode, most of the time dwelling on the past or considering the future or simply daydreaming our time away, hardly ever arriving at the proverbial and mystical, in fact, the eternal Moment, where the real Life is waiting for us in all it’s juiciness and magic.

So… we can take the “hold on tightly” part as “show up fully in the Ship!.” While you are there, Be There!, and show it both in word and deed. A firm and solid relationship that one can trust and depend on is a wonderful gift and foundation for personal power and peace. There is no worse loneliness that experienced within a relationship and a Ship that is in bad working condition depletes our energy tremendously. The responsibility is ours to fix it or leave it.

That’s where the “let go lightly” part shows up. From the old patriarchal model we are deeply conditioned to think that unless we celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary together and in love, we failed… Breaking up a relationship is absolute, personal (and painful) failure. Is this truly so? We know that the only constant in Life is Change. Relationship may serve us for any amount of time, but it may well also, at any given point, stop serving either or both parties. And what does “serving” mean. It means supporting, adding joy, motivating and cultivating our inner growth, empowering equally both partners, creating a whole that is much greater than the sum of it’s parts.

This, however, is not like an instant soup or coffee, it requires deep, long and committed work. When this work is skillfully and lovingly done, the dividends are immense in personal growth and satisfaction. Relationship has the potential for being the greatest spiritual aid, mirror, path, and achievement.

However, if and when we realize it’s time to let go, it is advisable to observe how attached we are to our pain, how we almost build an identity from it. Negative emotions such as anger, self pity etc…, steep into our cellular structure and literally become poison in our systems. We don’t want to deny or repress our pain and it should be fully and honestly experienced but this is not a case of “holding on tightly”. Let your pain wash over you like a deep river that feeds your power to empathize, your compassion, your ability to love yourself and your power to heal and grow.

Always remember that the most solid Ship you are meant to build is the Self… that ship will carry you through any storm.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

2012-02-13T09:41:00.001-08:00

Give Love

2012-02-13T09:38:00.001-08:00

2012-02-13T09:13:00.001-08:00

"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are." -Eckhart Tolle

This is for me today and my thrown Neck:(

2012-02-12T07:24:00.001-08:00

When we experience a physical symptom, there is always an underlying emotional source. It's important to go within, talk and listen to our body and discover this source and resolve it. Realizing that the way we feel about ourselves, the other people in our life, our experiences in the world...all of this affects our body's physical well being, is an important skill in understanding and using our energy.

Life at the Ideafrontier Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

UnPlugging

2012-02-09T15:23:00.000-08:00

As some of you who read my Blog Know I left face book at the turn of the new year. For me this was, in our world of instant communication and access a big ish step. I had grown to rely on the seemingly accessible communication to those in my current life that I love and am far from and also due to the platform of Face Book people from my past. It's been a month and today I looked at my Husband to Be's face book page for the first time sense my departure. It sparked some interesting feelings, and then I watched an amazing short video that sparked some other feelings, and now I'm going to share it all with you:))
I looked at Jody's page to see some pictures that a dear friend had posted from a recent trip with a whole bunch of other dear friends. My friend is pregnant and Due to my being banned from travel till my residency issues are all settled in Canada I have only been able to share in her pregnancy through video chats, pictures and phone conversations. When I took myself off face book, I took away the convenience in sharing and now if my friends and family want to share with me, keep up with me etc then a little extra effort needs to be made in order to keep the connection strong, this idea sums up the entire reason why I left in the first place:) So here I was viewing some beautiful pictures smiling big at my lovely friends, and especially my Girl's belly:) In one moment I felt wow, I'm really missing out, not being on Face book, and then as i clicked the X to close the Photos and sign out of Jody's account I was faced with a whole bunch of the reasons why I left. The Feed! It's so intense, all of the information, be it personal, public, news stories, links, music, etc...Its so much! and so easy to get swallowed up in it all. So quickly the anxiety that I used to feel came pouring back in! The empty feeling of connection. I definitely understand why people love it, It's a great tool for sure and I don't knock it at all nor do i judge its use by others. I just know it is not right for me. I want real connection, I want to write letters, and have phone calls and video chats! Video Chats are like my favorite thing right now, for me it is using technology for what it does best! I want to write well thought out posts for this blog and I am now using Twitter as a sharing platform because I love how short and to the point everything is and I hope to inspire beyond who I know in this world, it's my own little project at putting myself out there through sharing this Blog. I was just recently introduced to a platform called Path and so far because I only have like three friends I love it! It's simple and clean, sharing photos and quick little bits and knowing that its being checked out by people that really care. I remember when I was on face book how every once in a while people would write posts complaining about how other people were posting "stupid" "unnecessary" information about themselves or their days(in the opinion of the poster), that used to make me laugh. This is how you talk about your "friends", if it's so stupid then why are you friends in the first place? I think Face book can get so loose, for me it did. One day I had like 350 friends. I don't really have that many in this physical life, but I was not saying no to those sweet ones from high school who friend ed me at the beginning. Only later realizing that we never kept in touch after 1997, so why in the world would we be in touch now. I don't want to live in the past, I want to live NOW.
So as my feelings fluctuated today after looking at my friend's photos The universe brought me something an inspiring link:)
I love this Guy:) Jake Reilly has done what I think we should all do. Unplug. I know in this world that we live in it is difficult to do. BUT what about just one day a week? What about turning off our phones,and turning our computers off. Maybe we would go outside and skip in the rain, sit and talk to our families, play games, connect with our neighbors, read a book, write a letter, meditate, cook something with lots of steps. My list could go on and on. The benefits of unplugging are numerous and Grand! They are a call to connection, with ourselves, those around us, and nature. Those connections are REAL, they are the connections that make us thrive, that nurture us, keep us healthy, whole.
SO I challenge you, ONE DAY A WEEK UNPLUG. Do it for yourself, do it for your family, do it for this planet:) We only have one life here on this planet and YOU decide how you want to live it and how authentic you want it to be.

I love you!
I am going to unplug on Sundays! I will however use my phone because I have a standing Phone date with my Dad on Sundays:)

A path to living a more heart centerd life!

2012-02-09T11:27:00.000-08:00

This is a beautiful Link. Take the time to read it and empower yourself to live a more heart centered life!

http://thedailylove.com/a-path-to-living-a-more-heart-centered-life/

Be more Healthy!

2012-02-08T21:25:00.000-08:00

OK party People I think it is official, I have found my first food allergy. I'm filled with a strange feeling, sort of excited to find that I am not a super human as some may think:) (even me in moments) and a little sad to say goodbye to a food that I loved, even though I did not really eat it that much:) Whats this awful headache causing food you may wonder....ready....BARLEY! I'm giggling now (hahahahaha) just because I am being so dramatic, which is one of my best traits in moments that deserve a good foot dragging or kicking and screaming in some more intense moments. Yes it's just Barley. A grain that I honestly have over looked for a long time, It has many health benefits that are great if it does not cause you intense head hurts that last all night and into the next day after eating it, or the one that I am suffering from in this exact moment ( I can only hope that writing about it is going to do the same as the 4 Advil I refuse to take). Barley has been holding space in the back of my head as a Delicious soup paired with Mushrooms that is perfect for the cold wet grey rainy days of the late North West winter. Unfortunately I will now be giving up that beautiful fantasy for another amazing soup hanging out in the depths of my mind(there are tons I assure you). All jokes aside I'm sharing this because I have health on the mind. I think that it is so important to listen to our bodies, they tell us everything! Sure I could have just popped some Advil or even stronger and ignored the message from my body about the barley, and that's what most of us do, but how empowering is it to really listen, to really honor ourselves, and our bodies connection to our brain and our spirit....this is really important food for thought that should not be over looked. We have the power within ourselves not only to recognise disEASE and imbalance but to also heal. We can heal ourselves with our thoughts, the food we eat, other amazing plant medicines, We have all of the resources, we just have to stop and listen to the messages from our bodies. And sometimes when we need a little extra help there are amazing worth while "Alternative" Health options to assist us. I laugh all the time at the western attitude towards "Alternative" Health as we call it. It's only Alternative to us, most of it has been around for EVER, and most of it is based on attitude, food, and using the body and it's energy to heal itself. If you ask me the Western attitude is so boring.
Love Large, Laugh Often, Smile Big, and Eat Kale:)

I love you<3<3<3

LOving this Man and His New Book! Shining a light on YOGA!!

2012-02-08T20:07:00.000-08:00

I can not wait to read this book! Such an interesting subject and so dear to my heart:))

CBC.ca | Q

2012-02-08T17:59:00.000-08:00

Thanks DIG for this Juicy List:)

Native American Code of Ethics

1. Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak.

2. Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance. …

3. Search for yourself, by yourself. Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

4. Treat the guests in your home with much consideration. Serve them the best food, give them the best bed and treat them with respect and honor.

5. Do not take what is not yours whether from a person, a community, the wilderness or from a culture. It was not earned nor given. It is not yours.

6. Respect all things that are placed upon this earth - whether it be people or plant.

7. Honor other people’s thoughts, wishes and words. Never interrupt another or mock or rudely mimic them. Allow each person the right to personal expression.

8. Never speak of others in a bad way. The negative energy that you put out into the universe will multiply when it returns to you.

9. All persons make mistakes. And all mistakes can be forgiven.

10. Bad thoughts cause illness of the mind, body and spirit. Practice optimism.

11. Nature is not FOR us, it is a PART of us. They are part of your worldly family.

12. Children are the seeds of our future. Plant love in their hearts and water them with wisdom and life’s lessons. When they are grown, give them space to grow.

13. Avoid hurting the hearts of others. The poison of your pain will return to you.

14. Be truthful at all times. Honesty is the test of ones will within this universe.

15. Keep yourself balanced. Your Mental self, Spiritual self, Emotional self, and Physical self - all need to be strong, pure and healthy. Work out the body to strengthen the mind. Grow rich in spirit to cure emotional ails.

16. Make conscious decisions as to who you will be and how you will react. Be responsible for your own actions.

17. Respect the privacy and personal space of others. Do not touch the personal property of others - especially sacred and religious objects. This is forbidden. 18. Be true to yourself first. You cannot nurture and help others if you cannot nurture and help yourself first.

19. Respect others religious beliefs. Do not force your belief on others.

20. Share your good fortune with others. Participate in charity. If you break only one of these you have no business speaking any ill of another until you check your own path down the red road. - Little Ravens Trading Post

I love this tedtalk:)

2012-02-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

Forgiveness

2012-02-07T10:30:00.000-08:00

because forgiveness is the Most important thing to healing ourselves and our Planet! This looks amazing!!

http://www.forgivenessresource.com/

2012-02-07T09:38:00.001-08:00

Once the desire to live as peace becomes your focus, you are free. Each and every person and moment opens to you, because you no longer wish to resist or change anything. You begin to inquire within and trust yourself to resolve things harmoniously--because this is now your priority. You choose that which gives you peace and discover everything turns out well anyway. Your kindness through being peaceful paves the way for others.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

Full MOON TODAY!!

2012-02-07T09:29:00.001-08:00

The midwinter full moon, seed germination turning point for this year. Aligned in our essence amidst the pattern life's interrelationship, heart fully charged with passion ready for release, from here we will move toward a new spring and summer of revolutionary emergence and creative transformation rooted in the power of nature. Healing dreams in spiritual sensitivity. Love leads the way.

(Sun and Mercury in Aquarius, Moon full in Leo 1:54pm Pacific time. Venus into Aries with Uranus. Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Taurus, Pluto in Capricon--grand trine in earth signs 3/14. Neptune with Chiron in Pisces. Saturn in Libra.)

SunSHine Self Portrait

2012-02-06T19:00:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the Sun today, I am eternally Grateful for these moments of light....It really feels like spring is coming!!! <3<3<3

An Owl Medicine Smack...

2012-02-06T16:28:00.000-08:00

Recently My Dear Friend Susie has written about her experience with Owl visits to her home in Georgia. A beautiful Owl came to her yard and hung out with her and her family for a while. It was a beautiful experience from the words she wrote, and the amazing Photo that she took of him. Owl medicine is strong, I've been attracted to it sense I was a little girl listening to the Owls in the woods of my Virginia home. I remember walks with my father through the woods where he would point out the Owls that were sleeping in the trees, or at dusk when they would hunt moles in the fields near the gardens.
When we moved to this expansive property outside of Vancouver I thought for sure I would have some Owl interactions, but as we have almost been here for a year I have yet to experience an Owl, plenty of Humming Birds, Eagles, Hawks, bats and other various Northwest breads but never an Owl. I sit outside waiting on clear nights, calling them near, but alas, it has not been meant to be.
So when Susie posted about Her Owl friend I got to craving Owls again, and silently calling them in. It has been raining here now for weeks so sitting outside at night has not been an option, but then just last night we were leaving a friends house on the Sunshine Coast to catch the ferry home and my Owl medicine came to me. I saw him on the side of the road in the headlights, I remember thinking oh wow look an Owl! Before I knew it he had taken flight and flew right into the side of the CAR!! It all happened so fast, yet if felt like slow motion. We all know that feeling. I freaked! we were late for the Ferry, and I started crying because I was so afraid that he was hurt, and Goddess forbid another car come while he is laying in the road! SO I reversed so we could get out and check on him. As the car came to a stop and I was grabbing for the door handle He Flew out of the road and way up into a tree on the other side of the road! He was OK!! Just stunned from hitting his head on the car I suppose. As we Drove onto the last boat home I sent him a little prayer and calmed down, while wondering of course, why would he fly into the car, what kind of sign is this!! I can't stop thinking about him, and his significance. I wanted the Owl energy so bad and then it literally smacked it's way into my world.....

Owls are a Feminine Medicine and is symbolically tied to Clairvoyance, astral projection and magic. As night's friend Owls have a great awareness of all the is around them at all times, and sees very clearly. Owls have great intuition and courage to follow it's instincts. Wisdom is the most common symbol associated with the Owl Medicine in many cultures. Seeking total truth and deeper enlightenment are the path of Owl Medicine:)

Power Path Full Moon update!

2012-02-06T14:52:00.001-08:00

Dear Friends,

The Full Moon is Tuesday, February 7 at 2:57 PM Mountain Standard Time. If anything is really stuck in your life right now it will show up in its full glory. Use the influence of the full moon to identify what it is and to move something that will begin a shift in the situation. It could be more communication in a stagnant relationship, it could be changing something in your work or it could be finally making a decision you have been putting off. Honor this movement with moving something around in your immediate environment. At the least get some fresh flowers for your home and maybe clean out your fridge. Most of all, have a little humor regarding all the seductive drama around you and practice some neutrality even if what is up for you in your life is difficult. See this time as an opportunity instead of something you must put up with and survive. Enjoy!

Blessings,

Lena

ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles.
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com

FULL MOON IN LEO/AQUARIUS; MOON AND SUN 18º
Tuesday, February 7, 2:54 PM MST, 9:54 PM GMT

With the Moon full in Leo, we have the perfect opportunity to access the portal of our heart. The Sun that is the source of light, heat and energy for Earth is Leo’s powerful ruling planet. Leo is where we naturally exude leadership, power and brilliance. Radiant, vibrant and filled with the confident will of ‘the King of Beasts’ is Leo’s signature. Just as the Sun is the heart of our solar system, so Leo has rulership of the heart, the blood and spine. ‘To take heart’ means to face your fears, and courage is strong in Leo (the Latin root ‘cor’ meaning heart is the base of courage). The Leo/Sun/5th house relationship brings into play Leo’s passion, dramatic nature, and their desire to be seen and appreciated as the center of their pride. Creative self-expression is a life giving necessity for them. As a masculine, fixed fire sign, they are considered hot and dry, and ‘hot’ often translates into passionate and in touch with their anger. I am Lion, hear me roar! They are beasts after all and as such, can bring to bear the entire strength of their being if necessary. Responses can be swift and instinctual – not contemplative and mental like some of our Mercury ruled signs or delicate and diplomatic like the Venus ruled. Their negative pole swings towards egocentricity, vanity, dogmatic opinions.
Leo in any form encourages us to express our deepest heart felt spirit self. The expression of your authentic individuality from the heart is a creative gift to all. Full Moon in Leo invites us to reveal the beauty and strength of fully expressing our unique light ~ shining it brightly for each one to bask in its warmth and generosity while increasing and revitalizing joy and pleasure.

Focusing on the portal in our hearts gets the flow moving in sync with Spirit. The Leo Moon encourages us to practice forgiveness and release of any stuck energy we feel there. Greet the Sun daily and draw a line between it and your own heart to keep up to date with the swiftly surging and changing energy of the Sun – it’s experiencing its own energy transformation with many notable coronal mass ejections (CME) during this active time at the height of the sun spot cycle. Practice exchanging heart energy with trees, plants, pets, partners.

Mercury is exactly conjunct the 18º Aquarius Sun and opposite the Moon. We can experience the interplay of our mind’s thinking function in contrast to our heart-centered feeling function. Our conscious, rational minds will have to include the receptive, intuitive energy of the Moon. We can clear old habits of thinking in dualistic, separating ways and embrace Aquarius’ inclusive, egalitarian mind. Speak from your heart.

Rare and always noteworthy is when an outer planet changes signs and brings expression of a new energy into play. Neptune moved into its own feminine, watery sign of Pisces on Friday, Feb 3. We saw Neptune briefly shift out of Aquarius where it has been residing since 1998 and into Pisces from April to August of 2011, but now it moves into Pisces for the next 13 years - 2025. Oooo, what to expect? Neptune in Pisces, symbolized by the two fish swimming in the opposite direction, is a planet of transcendence and spiritual compassion and also of illusion and escapism. We can realize union with the divine or abdicate responsibility for ourselves and become lost in indecision, confusion and energy leaks. Neptune moves us into the realms of creativity where what we can imagine can be manifested effortlessly by Spirit. Neptune acts by dissolving, merging, disintegrating, surrendering, dreaming. Neptune rules all that is intangible – Spirit, visions, devotion, unity, intuition, psychic experience, the infinite, grace. Idealism is strong here with Neptune – the dreamer, the visionary, the artist, the poet, the healer and the martyr are but a few forms that this planet governs. Next New Moon in Pisces will find Neptune conjunct the Sun and Moon – so very yin.

Just before the Moon reaches fullness, Saturn does a little shape shifting itself. Just half a degree from changing sign from Libra to Scorpio, Saturn decides to turn retrograde for more than 4 months and retrace its degrees from 29º back to 23º Libra. We won’t see Saturn leave Libra and move into Scorpio until early October. We can count on Saturn to bring into balance what we might want to overlook; we can continue our lessons in relationship with the self we see when we look out into the eyes of another.

Slowly, slowly Mars is moving retrograde in Virgo. So uncharacteristic of Mars who is our planet of action, assertiveness and physicality. Now our urge is toward an inward focus and a desire to function efficiently on the day-to-day level. What are my true desires? What will it take to move them forward? Where are impulsive, rash or anger-infused responses being triggered? With Mars retrograde, all that physical energy is getting compressed like when a lion crouches and readies to spring on unsuspecting prey. Be sure to keep physically active to give this energy a constructive outlet especially if you’re feeling testy, irritated or restless or even lethargic.

Later in the month when the Sun moves into Pisces on the 18th, the energy will notably shift away from the masculine expression and stabilizing mental clarity of Aquarius. It will feel like two different months, I suspect, with seven heavenly bodies in Pisces. The spirit of the Goddess will be alive and well among us!

From a larger perspective, we are in a more mundane pattern of astrological events until we round the corner of the Spring Equinox. Then in late May we will be transmuting the energies of a solar eclipse window coupled with Part 2 of the visible Venus transit of the Sun leading up to the first exact square of Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn just after Summer Solstice. So for now, I would say, it behooves us to do the maintenance necessary so we are ready to roll end of May to end of June - and beyond!

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There are many paths that will lead a person to open into a more expansive state of being. The great news is that we can begin anywhere in our experience to cultivate our presence and state of consciousness. Small, simple openings to eat better, rest more, have more fun, process our grief, forgive, think more positively, be more easy going, stretch more, learn to meditate, smile more often, simplifying your home, spending a little time each day in silent appreciation...there are oodles of ways to open to your heart and live a more tuned in, aware life. And one small step leads to others, which eventually snowball, and deep transformation occurs.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

Carrot Cake Cupcakes:)

2012-02-04T20:59:00.000-08:00

The last time I made CupCakes I was experiencing a deeply broken heart, It was a sad state of affairs, I was totally depressed and i baked cupcakes for days. I think I remember my dear Friend and Housemate telling me that they were the saddest cupcakes he had ever had:) When I think back to that time I smile:) That feeling of not knowing what to do with myself, but knowing that I just had to keep things moving, hence the hours of cupcakes baked to stay busy. Oh the woes of broken hearts. I have been craving carrot cake for a few months now, so when I found this new super yummy food blog adrienneats I got really excited when I stumbled across this healthy version! Paired with the Coconut Cream Icing from my old stand by My New Roots, this is a match made in heaven, unlike me and my broken heart:) So to create a positive cupcake baking experience I made these and they taste so good! Even My Boo who is known around these parts as"Boo the Baker" loves them! If you have kids they will love them and you can feel good about feeding them this yummy treat, if you don't have kids, make them for you and do something fun with the extra frosting:)) Whatever your situation enjoy these with a smile:)

carrot Cake Cupcakes :) with coconut vanilla icing:) My Sweet love is allergic to Hazelnuts so i left those out of the Icing recipe. The cupcakes are Vegan, the Icing calls for honey if you are that kind of vegan, but let me just say that the consumption of honey promotes the activity of Bees which we need:) The Carrot Cake is not Gluten Free But I think if you just switch out the whole wheat pastry flour for say coconut flour it would be amazing! I used Golden raisins instead of regular and let me just say my tummy hurts cuz I ate 1 and 1/2 of these:) No sugar in the whole recipe, it calls for maple syrup and Honey instead! Yay for healthy yumminess!!!!!

BE EGOLESS!

2012-02-04T11:05:00.000-08:00

When two or more people meet who have awakened to the evolutionary  impulse, there is the potential for egoless relatedness. And that is  what those of us at the leading edge who want to push the boundaries of  our own spiritual development need to discover. We have to find a way to  meet one another in a place we’ve never been before, in a higher state  of consciousness and a higher stage of development that are unhindered  by the influence of the narcissistic ego and the less enlightened values  of our modern and postmodern culture. Anyone can experience egoless  consciousness in the stillness and solitude of deep meditation. It is easy to be egoless when there’s no relationship. But if we want to catalyze evolution in consciousness and culture, in  the world of time and space, we need to make the heroic effort to go  beyond ego not only when we are sitting quietly but, most importantly,  while we are creatively interacting with one another, in the midst of  all the complexity of human life.

~Andrew Cohen~

From EnlightenNext: The magazine

Sunshine

2012-02-03T16:28:00.001-08:00

Its true!!

2012-02-03T09:59:00.001-08:00

"Iam not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

- Carl Jung, was a Swisspsychiatrist and founder of Jungian psychology.

Things are brewing:)

2012-02-03T09:47:00.000-08:00

I have some really Juicy things happening and I am really really excited about them. It seems that my patients with Vancouver is finally starting to pay off! First, I got my first yoga teaching job! I'm so happy! In two weeks I will be teaching the Sun Rise Yoga class at the YMCA here in Vancouver! Why would I be so excited about the YMCA you may be thinking..I'll tell you....The YMCA is an incredible organization, they are doing amazing things for people and have been for ever! Beyond all of the programs they offer for the youth, new parents, people with disabilities,etc, they also offer memberships and opportunities for EVERYONE to empower themselves by getting healthy. It does not matter if you can only afford one dollar a month or one hundred dollars a month, they will give you membership to there amazing facilities and you can workout, take classes, work with trainers, etc. All in the name of empowerment and being healthier people! The YMCA here in Vancouver is beautiful, it's in a very old building downtown that they renovated and I think it is nicer than any gym I have ever worked out in. They offer yoga and lots of other group exercise. I'm excited about teaching at the Y because I think that it allows me to teach yoga to individuals who may not be the type to walk into a yoga studio, and I am learning very quickly that there are a lot of people out there who are that type. People are really intimidated by the Yoga Studio, not having the "right yoga body", the right outfit, a mat, etc. So something that is becoming rapidly important to me is offering yoga to folks in a way that takes all of these insecurities away and allows them just to experience the Yoga, because once they do I hope they will be hooked! So I start off with one class a week and then it will grow as much as I want!
I have some other juicy goodness brewing on the horizon as well but I am going to wait to tell so that all the details can be worked out, but lets just say its an opportunity that I have been dreaming of ever sense I was in my training at Prana Yoga College:)))

Yay for YOGA and Yay for the fruits of my Manifestations!!!

Giving thanks!!

WATER

2012-02-03T09:25:00.000-08:00

Water is our friend. It can assist us in replicating our intentions throughout our cells. It can soothe us, clearing old energy in a bath or shower. It can balance our energy, and relax us into our shared rhythm as we look upon it, reflecting light as a lake, or cycling in and out as the ocean, and meanwhile, it provides the balance within our body! Water is a kindred energy of the Earth-system, and like each of us, a most treasured and vital part of this beautiful whole.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

I have such a water theme happening in my life right now! I believe that the Universe brought me to such a wet place to help me cool my fire, and it's working!!

Happy February!!!

2012-02-01T17:11:00.000-08:00

Happy February My Loves!!! I am so happy to be through the winter hump! And guess what beautiful gift the Universe brought me today??? The SUN!!!! It has been cold, grey and wet here for weeks, and each day reminds me yet again the we came to live in one of the wettest places on this planet! I have been doing a really good job, I think, this winter of keeping myself occupied and active while embracing the quiet journey inside, and the desire to rest and re-new. I have been marinating on some beautiful ideas to put into action for my yoga teaching, new and exciting projects to embark on this spring, and lots and lots of learning on various subjects to support the new growth and changing that is me and my path. Not to mention so many home cooked meals and exploration of food:) I have been quiet, but also busy.
Today the sun called me outside, I took and long walk by the water, deep breaths of fresh ocean air, and letting go of some stagnant energy. My walk ended at the rec center where I took and nice long sauna and sweat some stuff out.
Giving so much thanks for the sunlight today, they say we will have it for the rest of the week and weekend, but we shall see.

I love YOU.

<3<3<3

Power Path Feb. Forcast!

2012-02-01T17:00:00.000-08:00

Feb. Forecast~Keep it Moving!
These are always amazing forecasts but this month I really love it. As we just came over the hump of winter, it truly is the time to keep things moving forward to avoid getting stuck in those late winter traps. Take some time to read this link and try and keep the points in mind as you navigate your way through your daily activities. Some times I print the forecast out and keep it with me in my purse so i can check in when I start to feel off. I love tools like this<3<3<3

Enjoy and Happy February!

Juicy Bits!

2012-02-01T10:24:00.000-08:00

Innocence is an important and beautiful quality. It is a sense of being at home with yourself and with what your experience is. It allows you to be fully present because with innocence you are attentive and available to life as it is.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

I love this today! Innocence is such an important quality and I have always disputed the idea that we loose it at a certain age<3<3<3

Bon IVER.....today I love.....this song....

2012-01-31T14:09:00.000-08:00

"The Wolves (Act I And II)"

Someday my pain
Someday my pain will mark you
Harness your blame
Harness your blame, walk through

With the wild wolves around you
In the morning, I'll call you
Send it farther on

Solace my game
Solace my game, it stars you
Swing wide your crane
Swing wide your crane and run me through

And the story's all over
In the morning, I'll call you
Can't you find a clue
When your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue

What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost

Don't bother me
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
(Don't bother me)
What might have been lost
What might have been lost

Ah, ah

Someday my pain
Someday my pain, my pain
Someday my pain
Someday my pain

2012-01-31T10:15:00.000-08:00

....There are so many light beings holding the space for love and transformation. Allow yourself to feel this support. Once you tap into the Uni-versal energy you will feel the connection with all that is. Every time you feel as though the world is stacked up against you, let go and realize the world is and will always be constantly changing. When you are not attached to outcomes, you release resistance, allowing the Grace of The Uni-verse to create for you. Be what you truly are. You will find yourself bigger, brighter and more loved than you ever imagined.

<3 <3 <3 <3

~Hillary Pike

2012-01-31T10:06:00.001-08:00

1-31-The Earth you experience is a reflection of you. In this New Earth we are creating, do you envision everyone and everything as sacred? Do you imagine feeling the love and appreciation toward you from all other beings? Do you sense the love and joy, the delight and happiness, the incredible relaxation (from so much ease!) that you will emit in the presence of everything? Incredible isn't it? So we begin today, everyday, here and now, to live this experience...and thus it is reflected in our world. And so it is.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

MAKE THESE PANCAKES!!!!

2012-01-29T14:19:00.000-08:00

Banana BRead Pancakes ~ I made these for My Boo this morning as a welcome home gift and they were amazing! This is a beautiful Gluten Free recipe from My New Roots, one of my favorite healthy food blogs. Your kids will love them, you will love them! Cook them in coconut oil for the best results and remember that they take a little bit longer to cook than regular pancakes!

Enjoy!

Juice Ceanse Days 9 & 10!!!!!!

2012-01-29T14:10:00.000-08:00

Yay! Yesterday I had my last colonic in the afternoon! I started my day with fruit juice and a green smoothie and then did not feel the need for anything else pre~colonic. My colonic was great! Good releases and another great talk with Lisa my therapist:) We discussed the topic of breaking fasts. It's an interesting topic because like most things in the nutrition world there are many opinions about how to break a fast. I have been feeling ready for food for a few days, and honestly although I have been feeling energized during the days, I have also felt really weak. This is a feeling that I have been feeling for months. I have been feeling like my iron levels are low, and that I am not eating enough protein. I have been doing a lot of Yoga the past few months with my training and now post training teaching. We have discussed my need to go to a Naturopath and getting my blood work done, and now that the cleanse has come to a close that is next on the list! Anyways, back to fast breaking, my is a building plan, because I feel weak my body is telling me to rebuild. So after my colonic yesterday I came home and made veggie broth from scratch, and then I made this amazing BEET SOUP, beets are wonderful blood builders, and very detoxing. I could not think of a better way to come off of 9 days of juicing. It felt so great to be back in the kitchen last night, I cooked for three hours! Making broths and soups are my favorite, because they take so much tender love and care. I even made a roasted cauliflower dish to meet my love with at the airport:) I drank a juice while I was cooking last night, and I also had a little bit of the broth, it was warm and really good.
In my discussion with Lisa we came to the conclusion that break fasts really depends on the individual and they type of cleanse you were doing. Going out and eating a bunch of fatty fried foods after 10 days on juice is not going to serve your body well, in fact you could really upset you digestion, and damage your system. Eating raw salads, home made soups, slowly introducing other foods back is the best way to go, while still juicing in between meals.
And try and avoid food with lots of salt, spice, or preservatives. Wholesome, Homemade is what I am getting at here.
Fast is broken, I feel really good!
Thanks to all who read my posts through out this cleanse and sent me silent kisses of support! I felt them all and I send them back!!

This week I will post some more firm juice recipes, I know I just sort of gave ingredients.

Many Blessings and Love!!

2012-01-28T10:27:00.001-08:00

When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit. ~Marianne Williamson~

2012-01-28T10:24:00.001-08:00

"The greatest mistake in the world is to pretend to be someone you're not in order to please someone else. Have the courage to be yourself, no matter what. If you ruffle someone's feathers their reaction is not your business. All you can do is be who you are and who you are is one of a kind. But remember, the same thing goes for everyone else so chances are you'll get your feathers ruffled, too. One word will solve all your problems, allow."

- Jackson Kiddard, author & polymath.

My Skin Guru has a BLOG!!!

2012-01-27T20:51:00.000-08:00

This is very exciting news! MY DEAR DEAR Sister/friend/SKIN GURU has finally started a much needed ( by the world) BLOG http://taketimeoutforbeauty.blogspot.com
Check out taketimeoutforbeauty for all of your beauty needs. Let me tell you that this lady knows her stuff! She is amazing at what she does because it is her true passion! See what happens when you really follow your heart....:) I was never a girly girl until about 5-6 years ago when I stated to slowly get into it. Now I love getting facials ( by my skin guru of course), getting my nails did, and even wearing makeup. It's so fun to get all dolled up even if its just for a nice dinner at home with my love. I now am adopting skin rituals like dry brushing and sesame oil lymph drain massage every morning! I take plenty of bubble baths, 3 a week by candle light:) I guess I could sound spoiled but these are things I do because they make me feel good and I deserve it! And with people like this in my life to inspire me with new amazing things to do concerning beauty I am ready to dive deeper!! Check her out!! oh and dont be afraid to comment on her blog with questions, she will totally answer you:)

New Food BLoG!!!

2012-01-27T20:21:00.000-08:00

http://adrienneats.blogspot.com/

I found this delish inspiration through MY NEW ROOTS, which as some of you know is one of my favorite food blogs right now. Adrienneeats is similar to MNR healthy recipes with lots of really informative information about heath benefits, and beautiful pictures, and I just made a list of 7 new things to try off her blog and I only read back to December! I'm really excited! On her blog there is a post about millet which is a grain that I have been curious about for a while and never tried myself. She said that she is now eating it in place of quinoa because quinoa was causing unset stomach which I sometimes get! So I am going to get some and try it after I'm back on grains next week! Ill report back for sure!

<3<3<3

Juice CLEANSE DaY 8

2012-01-27T18:45:00.000-08:00

Day EIGHT! I had a carrot orange Ginger Juice for breakfast, and a green smoothie. Honestly I have not had another juice yet. I'm debating, I'm just not feeling it. I kind of feel like I need to drink some major amounts of water. I noticed that my skin, on my face is definitely looking rough, from all the detoxing, so i think I'm not flushing enough out. I'm going to check in with my skin Guru and ask her for some good suggestions for skin rituals during cleansing. Ive been doing dry brushing on my body every day, but I want to know more facial protocol. Any ways I spent the day cleaning, purging, rearranging the house. My sweetie is coming home tomorrow so I want it to feel good for him, and me:) I rearrange our house a lot. It satisfies my Sagittarius need for constant change, and my Cancer need to nest. I'm finally figuring out how to balance the two opposites that are Me.
But back to the cleanse, in all honesty I am really excited that tomorrow is my last day of all juice. I am ready. I miss creating food. All of the different juices are fun, but so much of my time is spent cooking, preparing ,researching food. Doing a cleanse like this always puts me in touch with that, and the importance of it in my life. It truly brings me so much joy and inspiration. SO tomorrow before my colonic I am going to the farmer's market to get my ingredients for my fast breaking soup and salads for the next few days.
Needless to say I am looking forward to Sunday:) What a wonderful week this has been!!!

Giving thanks!

2012-01-27T18:34:00.001-08:00

January 27, 2012
The Wisdom of Surrender
Resistance Equals Persistence
Resistance tends to strengthen the energies it attempts to oppose by giving them power and energy to work against.

We all know the feeling of being repeatedly haunted by the same issue, no matter how we try to ignore it, avoid it, or run away from it. Sometimes it seems that we can get rid of something we don’t want by simply pushing it away. Most of the time, the more we push away, the more we get pushed back. There are laws of physics and metaphysics that explain this phenomenon, which is often summed up in this pithy phrase: That which you resist persists.

Resistance tends to strengthen the energies it attempts to oppose by giving them power and energy to work against. Additionally, resistance keeps us from learning more about what we resist. In order to fully understand something, we must open to it enough to receive its energy; otherwise, we remain ignorant of its lessons. There is a Tibetan story of a monk who retreats to meditate in a cave only to be plagued by demons. He tries everything—chasing, fighting, hiding—to get the demons out of his cave, but the thing that finally works is surrender. He simply lets them have their way with him and only then do they disappear.

Now, this wisdom must be applied practically. We are not meant to get ourselves physically injured. Instead, this story speaks of how, in essence, our demons are inside of us. What plagues and pursues us on an inner level has a way of manifesting itself in our environment in the form of people, events, and issues that appear to be beyond our control. But all these external expressions are reflections of our insides, and it is inside ourselves that we can safely experiment with surrendering to what we fear and dislike. It may feel scary, and we may find ourselves in the company of a lot of resistance as we begin the process of opening to what we fear. But the more we learn to surrender, and the more the demons that plague us disappear in the proces

Songs I heard today

2012-01-27T18:33:00.000-08:00

I listened to her, one of my favorites:) I feel so much when I listen to Joni, my past, my present, my future....I love that I have lived a life with so much music, I have a Dad to thank for that, and his record collection still spinning in Buckingham as we speak:) Songs are like tattoos.

And this one came on while I was cleaning the house today....oh man, makes me stop in my tracks......

star Thrower

2012-01-27T08:51:00.001-08:00

A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement. She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!” The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied, “Well, I made a difference to that one!” The old man looked at the girl inquisitively and thought about what she had done and said. Inspired, he joined the little girl in throwing starfish back into the sea. Soon others joined, and all the starfish were saved. - adapted from the Star Thrower by Loren C. Eiseley

BEST JUICER AROUND...in our opinion:))

2012-01-26T21:50:00.000-08:00

http://slowjuicer.com/

we heart our juicer so much, its small, easy to clean, quiet, and it's a slow juicer so you cut up everything small and it runs slow so that you get more live enzymes out of your fruits and veggies. Most people don't realize that the really fast juicers heat up, and the heat kills the enzymes that you are working so hard to bring into your body! Check out the link above!!

p.s I mean Martha loves it too!! lol

Juice Cleanse Day Seven!

2012-01-26T21:44:00.000-08:00

I started today off with 12oz of Pineapple Juice. Yep, that's right, I broke my own rule and bought a pineapple that came all the way to the west coast of Canada from Costa Rica. This is not normal behavior from me. In fact I might have shunned myself as i made the purchase. I will tell you that it was organic...obvi:) and I will be riding the bus to make up the miles that it traveled. I think that is called reverse carbon foot print. In my defense, If you have ever done a juice cleanse or are planning on it, you know or should know that pineapple juice and basil juice is the best reward. I gave myself this reward on day 7 because I have been motivated, diligent, and practicing more discipline than I ever thought possible. I have grown to love green juice,this from the girl who had the prettiest house plants in all of Toronto because as my love would hand me a thick dark green juice with excitement, as soon as his back was turned I was feeding the plants as I exclaimed "YUM!" I have been just as creative with my exploration of different juice combinations as i am in the kitchen on any given Tuesday. And I have not once looked for the nearest burrito stand. So today I had pineapple juice. I also had a green smoothie this morning instead of a juice. Let me tell you my version of a green smoothie before you think I broke my cleanse. I blend in the vita mix, celery, kale, parsley, mint, green apple,lemon, ginger. I added a little bit of raw coconut water. My reasoning behind this choice goes back to something I learned in NYC from the Colon Hydro therapist that we worked with. Green smoothies that are just greens+apple are really amazing fiber. In the cleanse that we were doing at that time last year, and in many other cleanses out there they call for you to take at some point Psyllium Husks. This has always felt really counter productive to me, because although psyllium husks are considered fiber, when you drink them they expand in your intestines then they are meant to 'scrub' you out. The thing about them is that if you don't drink exactly the right amount of water, they can have the opposite effect and block you up for days! You get bloated, and trust me it feels less than ideal. As I explained my complaints to Mike, our therapist he told me I was right to feel this way, and that yes psyllium could potentially be dangerous. Then he suggested that a good green shake can do the same exact thing without the build up or the fear of not hydrating enough. So we are FIRM believers in the powers of the green shake and always opt for that over psyllium fiber.
Today my green shake was in preparation for my Colonic on Saturday. Yesterday things were not moving as much as I would like so my hope is that with three days of green shakes anything that may be holding on for dear life on the walls of my intestines and colon will be broken free.

Day seven is done:) Many Blessings!

Expect Wonderful!

2012-01-26T13:19:00.001-08:00

Your heart knows all kinds of things about you that you at times forget. Let your heart lead you. Trust those feelings and ideas that come from your heart. Realize your emotions--feeling excited, ecstatic, moved, thrilled, elated--can't be faked, and are indicators of something powerful and meaningful to who you are, and obviously to your happiness.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

A really amazing Beginner Juice cleanse I found!!!

2012-01-26T13:06:00.000-08:00

I am posting a link to a really amazing Cleanse that I just found. After Beth's comment of curiosity on last nights Cleanse update I got to thinking and set out to find some good easy beginning cleanses to share. I am an avid follower of My New Roots blog ( see link under my links list), and she recommended this Blog by another Nutritionist, The Holy Kalehttp://www.theholykale.com/ this blog is filled with some yummy information as well and low and behold I found a great Cleanse!

info about THK cleanse
directions for the THK juice cleanse

So if you are thinking about a cleanse check out this one. I'm going to follow it on my next one:) I really like how she encourages just a few days and then to work up to longer. Remember also that the amount of juice is totally up to what you are feeling. I have been drinking 64 oz a day on this cleanse, but yesterday I had less. I just was not as hungry. It truly does vary.

Daily OM

2012-01-25T19:09:00.001-08:00

January 25, 2012
Before the World Wakes
Morning Meditation
In the first moments of day before our mind is fully awake can be a wonderful time for meditation.

Just before the coming of the pale rays of dawn, Mother Nature exists in a state of flux. Earth's energy is stable, free of the disordered vibrations that are a by-product of humanity's comings and goings. In these first moments of day, when the sun's golden light is only just peeking over the horizon, our animal mind remains in the land of slumber though we ourselves are awake. Deep sleep has washed away the impurities of existence that accumulated within us, so our mental, physical, and emotional potential is heightened. To meditate in this peaceful yet energetically charged in-between time is to connect with the divine in an extremely intimate fashion. We discover a new kinship with the universal life force during morning meditations because our awareness becomes a mirror for earthly consciousness—we wake as the world wakes, quietly embracing the joy of being and setting the tone for a serene, fulfilling day.

In the first glorious glow of morning, the light, air, and energy flowing around us speak in hushed tones of the activity to come. While we recognize that another day of being means becoming once again immersed in the challenges of action and reaction, we also understand that we can draw upon the unique energetic qualities of daybreak for comfort, creativity, and vigor. There is bliss in the simple knowledge that we have been given the gift of another day of existence. We are inspired by sights and sounds of the sun's gentle ascension. Birds serenade the luminosity, which grows richer by the minute. And though we may feel a residual lethargy, our vitality returns as our meditation helps us to become one with the stirring of other beings rubbing the sleep from their eyes. At the start of each day, our destiny has not yet been written, and so there is nothing we cannot do.

How we choose to meditate is less important than our choice to attune ourselves to the spirit of wakefulness that travels round the world each and every day. Even the briefest moment of quiet contemplation in the muted light of the sun can put all that is yet to come into perspective. As a consequence of our daybreak reflections, our lives are imbued with the same stability, tranquility, and increased awareness that humanity has long associated with the stillness of early morning.

JuIcE CleAnSe DaY SiX

2012-01-25T19:04:00.000-08:00

hi loves, day six here:) What an interesting day it has been! I woke up late! For me anyways, I opened my eyes at 9, I have not been setting an alarm because I have been just getting up between 5 and 6 on my own. I think my body just needed rest and I am surrendering to whatever my body needs right now. So needless to say i did not attend a class at my studio because I never would have made it in time:) I had a rough night last night before bed, lets just say things were 'Flowing' a lot. So when I finally fell asleep I was exhausted! This morning I felt fine, but I did not have the hunger I usually have in the morning for juice...curious. I had a pear ginger juice and tea and water, then at 11:30 I had to stop everything because my colonic was in two hours and you should not do liquids or food for that matter at least two hours before. I want to take a minute to talk about that actually.
I am under the impression that a lot of Colon Hydrotherapy places give incorrect information about what to eat and drink before. I have had friends tell me that they were offered no instructions and others tell me that they were just told not to eat fatty stuff. I'm really surprised and a little appalled at this direction. If you are getting colonics for the first time you should def do some sort of mini cleanse before. Even if you do steamed veggies and juice for a few days, or juices and smooth soups, you will be giving your body a nice break, and it will create less blockage for when you are on the table. There is not a lot of education required for someone to become a colon hydro therapist so PLEASE do your research, make sure that the person has been doing it for a while, see what their background is,read reviews. Its really important! Don't just blindly go into it.
OK end of rant. I went for my Colonic and my experience was pretty good. I chose this place because they offered Gravity feed Colonic. I do not like the open machines at all, I had my first experience on one and it was a cold let down. When we were living in NYC we had a bunch of Colonics at my dream place called Gravity. It was really one of the best experiences of my life and it will be really hard to live up to it. The Therapist that I had today was really cool, and I really liked her vibe, she studied nutrition, she got into the business because of her own success with lifestyle change and colon hydrotherapy, and we just had a really good conversation. The office that she works out of in a Naturopathic Doctor's office but the emphasis seemed to be on weight loss and management, they also offer Laser therapies and some other stuff I had never heard of. They do however use my favorite skin care line Eminence. Honestly I am really confused about the place part Doctors office part spa ish, but none the less this was my first colonic in Vancouver.
I have to admit that I am a huge fan of Colonic Therapy. I think it feels amazing, especially after you get over all of your fears, which lets admit are only there because you think they should be. Yes you are on a table half naked covered in only a towel with a little tube in your bum, but the most important thing to remember is that the Therapist is there because they want to be. In fact they went through a training to be there. We have so many taboos concerning Bums and what comes out of them and we need to wake up and see that good clean colons are the gateway to good clean bodies and happy health! Take it from me, I am a once afraid to talk about poop lady. Now i will talk about it all day!
So For 45 minutes I was on the table chatting with Lisa about lots of cool stuff and my colon was getting cleaned. She even used a chlorophyll treatment which I had never had before. I did not have any major releases, it felt really mellow. But as a more experienced Colonic participant just informed me, some colonics are really powerful and some are mellow. its all up to the body that day. I learned to drop my expectation and go with the flow:)

Day six is coming to a close, I feel pretty good, tired but still moving right along. No crazy food cravings, Im not ready to give up my first born for a burrito, or trade in my Grandmother for a loaf of bread. This so far has been a really great experience:)

<3<3<3

jUICE CLEansE day five!

2012-01-24T19:58:00.001-08:00

I cant believe that its day five;) over half way done;)) Im actually in this moment not feeling the best. Im really tired. I was up at 5:45 this morning wide eyed and ready to go so I think Im Crashing.
Through out the day I felt great, i drank lots of juice water and tea and I even had some coconut water;) we get thos amazing raw unpasturized not in a tetra box kind. Its the drink of the Goddess!
My day juices were the same but this morning I had a Mineolla tangerine juice with ginger. YUM!
Tomorrow I go for a Colonic! I cant wait;) Im also going to attemp a full yoga class at Prana. I have ben doing my home practice but adding lots of yin poses and taking it easy. We shall see how.i do!

Many Blessings!!

Rob Brezsny' Astrology!!!

2012-01-24T16:42:00.000-08:00

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Elizabeth Alexander says that in
order to create a novel, a writer needs a lot of uninterrupted time alone.
Poems, on the other hand, can be snared in the midst of the jumbled
rhythms of everyday chaos -- between hurried appointments or while
riding the subway or at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew.
Alexander says that inspiration can sprout like grass poking up out of the
sidewalk cracks. Whether or not you're a writer, Sagittarius, I see your
coming weeks as being more akin to snagging poems than cooking up a
novel.

For your's go tohttp://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/
He is one of my favorites!!
<3<3<3

And FOR your Long term 2012 report go to http://bit.ly/BigLife

Expect wonderful!!

2012-01-24T08:54:00.000-08:00

Silence and stillness.
Sinking into either of these for a little bit more of your day, is deeply nourishing. Regular time in silence, or stillness or both deepen your presence and ground you in ways that are tangible and potent.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

~I really resonate with this today, as i look out my window into the very grey day, My surroundings here are very wet, cold, and a thick grey I have never known. Inside my home I have surrendered to our cozy cave like bedroom, The bed is made, covered in Books and journals. My yoga mat is at the foot of the bed, my juice, water and tea are at my side, sage and white copal are burning and candles are lit. As I move from reading/researching/writing to little naps, to meditation and yoga I am so grateful that I have this time and space to myself. I feel the blessings that are abundant in my life, and I also recognise the strength that it took to give myself this gift, a moment in time for me, just me.

In deep gratitude<3<3<3

an excerpt from today's Daily Love that I LOVED..

2012-01-24T07:32:00.000-08:00

"Every time there is a dark night of the soul in a relationship it's because there is something that isn't Love coming up and asking to be purified. If we want to have more Love in our lives, we mustn't ignore these moments or try to put them off. The idea is to go STRAIGHT into them so that they can be purified and then let go of them".

~Mastin Kip, The Daily LOve~

Power Path New Moon update!

2012-01-23T19:22:00.001-08:00

New Moon Update
1-23-12

Dear Friends,

The New Moon was at 12:42 AM Mountain Standard Time on Monday January 23 and we are still in its influence. This is a time when depression could hit or you could become overwhelmed with the disruption and destabilization around you. This is a good day to pull your energy in and focus only on the tasks at hand. Don't get distracted by others and their process. You will likely have many things on your plate. They can all wait. Take time for yourself and yourself only even if it is just to watch a bad movie. Stay out of judgment about events and situations, as they are all just temporary. Take a break.

One way to "take a break" is to imagine you are taking yourself out of gear and experiencing just being, with no agenda, and just being neutral. You have been operating like a car in second gear trying to go 100 kilometers per hour in this moving centered time. You will wear the engine out. It is much more efficient to be in a higher gear, however to get there you must first bring yourself to neutral. So in taking a break, visualize yourself at neutral, drop everything, nothing going on, and then decide which gear you need to be in to take advantage of the movement in your life.

Due to solar flares at this time you may experience electromagnetic interference in a very physical/emotional way; irregularities in heart rate, breathing, balance, headaches, mood swings, digestion, energy levels and difficulty with mental focus. This will all pass as you shift into gear again.

Happy Chinese New Year and the Most Auspicious Year of the Water Dragon!

Blessings,

Lena

JUICE CLEANSE DAY FOUR

2012-01-23T19:20:00.000-08:00

Day Four and I feel amazing! I have been having headaches at night, and they wake me up in the morning....early, but as soon as I am up they go away. Not sure what that is about but Im drinking more water and a little coconut water too, maybe that will help or maybe I am doing a lot of detoxing at night. This morning I was up at 6 am, I had tons of energy! I made all my juices for the day and while I sipped on a pear, lemon, ginger, TURMERIC juice I answered emails, applied for three teaching positions with organizations I would LOVE to work with, signed up for a Trauma Yoga Teacher training, and skyped with a dear friend to plan her visit. Then I took the Bus to North Vancouver and meet my dear sweet Yoga buddy and we sat in a coffee shop and talked about yoga for three hours. I sat in a coffee shop!!!! I was fine, I drank herbal tea and sipped on a red chard, carrot, celery, green pepper, Roma tomato, and dill juice:)

I am ROCKIN this cleanse!!!

<3<3<3

Message from Steven and its exciting!!

2012-01-23T13:08:00.001-08:00

The new moon in Aquarius (11:39pm Pacific time 1/22), Sun and Moon together in awareness at the center of life's interrelationship. Essence alignment. A new beginning based in global perspective. At the full moon on 2/7 it will be launched with passion toward a spring of revolutionary emergence.

The Chinese call this the Year of the Dragon, considered fortunate, a peak of flowering fertility. With Pluto in Capricorn, Jupiter in Taurus and Mars in Virgo--grand trine in earth signs--a big year of reinforced physicality, historic transformation rooted in the force of deep nature.

Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn gives wise mind the assertion of primal power. Saturn in Libra grounds us in love, the harmonious solution. Neptune and Chiron together in Pisces brings healing dreams in spiritual sensitivity.

This is the seed germination point for a very powerful year.

Steven Robins

I have the sweetest friends.......really...

2012-01-22T18:36:00.000-08:00

My Boo is in Colorado Taking time to hang with his Soul Brother, and they stopped by to see One of MY Besties at her and her partner's Bar the 1up...look what they sent me:)))))
I love all you guys too!!! so Much! <3

2012-01-22T11:35:00.002-08:00

Struggle and effort imply that things are difficult. They create the experience of difficulty, and challenge. When we approach something with effort or struggle, we express an underlying belief that what we want is not just available to us. We express doubt that we deserve it and that it's natural to experience what we're inspired toward.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

JuicE CleAnSe Day THREE....

2012-01-22T11:35:00.000-08:00

Day three and i am definitely not feeling well:( I knew this was coming so it's ok, but woah! I feel really really spacy, I had a rough nights sleep with a head ache all night. I chugged water all night so I was up having to pee lots! I ran out of celery and a few other things this morning so I made a quick trip to Whole Foods...I could barely carry my basket! Feeling this spacy is so different for me, and reminds me how much food really does ground us. Other than floating a mile above my body Im ok. No food cravings, no wishing for a burrito(my ultimate favorite), just drinking up all this yummy green goodness!
This morning I juiced Kiwi! They are so good with lime juice, and I like it because it is thick. I juice the entire kiwi, I don't peel the skin off. Currently I'm sipping on Celery, apple, green kale, parsley, mint, fennel, lemon. It is really good. Fennel juice is amazing I highly recommend it!
I was recently asked why i don't juice beets and carrots and that is a really good question considering the standard juice in any health food store is carrot celery beet. We don't juice beets and carrot because they are REALLY high in sugar. Which is ok if you are comfortable with that, but on a juice cleanse it is best to bee juicing Greens. The amount of sugar in beet and carrot juice is not good for our bodies to have to process on an all juice cleanse, it can send your body and your liver into shock. So definitely be aware! If greens are too strong for you, add an apple into the mix, apples sweeten the green juice and lemon balances it out. Occasonally I will add a few carrots into a green juice, and every once in a while a beet, but mostly I avoid them. There are so many amazing combinations out there with more health benefits why not explore!!

Peace and love and JUICE :))

JuIcE CleAnSe Day Two....detox...

2012-01-21T18:30:00.000-08:00

I'm feeling the detox today! And I sure am glad that i could just stay home! I think that it's really important when you cleanse to give yourself the first few days to say home. You need to be in your comfortable surroundings, close to the bathroom, and not have too much on your plate. You body deserves that, and if you cant make the space for that you really could send your body into distress. After day three most of us will feel better, the major cleansing has taken place, although if you are cleansing a system that is VERY toxic it may take longer.

I know that it is really hard to make time in our lives for cleansing, but I strongly believe that taking the time will allow us to better serve ourselves and those in our life that matter. When you cleanse you get clear, and not just physically. Mentally we clear the cobwebs out and find a clarity that creates beautiful energy in the body.

I stuck with the pear, ginger, lemon this morning. Its so good and the pears really get things moving:)

After that I had my version of The "mean green" the now famous juice from the beautiful film Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead.

Green apple, kale, celery, chard, cucumber, ginger, lemon, parsley, and mint! It is so good!!

This afternoon/evening I did my favorite right now~Spinach, celery, green pepper, zucchini,cilantro, jalapeno, lime, Roma tomato.(I know, I know tomato in the winter?? Totally not my style but its really good in the juice, and I find that Roma tomatoes always taste the same, watery)

I took a long hot bath this afternoon and I have been reading/ researching all day. Nice and mellow. I hope tomorrow to have the energy to do my Yoga practice:) The last two days I have just been doing Yin Yoga before bed.

That's all for now! I hope this is inspiring someone out there! Please let me know if you decide to do a juice cleanse!

<3<3<3

2012-01-21T18:18:00.000-08:00

Seeking implies that something is lost. It implies that it's possible to lose things. It depends upon duality to even exist. The truth of oneness resolves all sense of seeking. We are everything we seek. So there is no need to do or discover anything, only to be.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

The Feirce Face of the Feminine~ Great tedtalk

2012-01-21T13:40:00.000-08:00

quote of today:)

2012-01-21T09:52:00.001-08:00

"Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them."

- Carlos Castaneda, was a Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author.

2012-01-20T18:12:00.001-08:00

The universe creates an Answer to every problem the moment the problem occurs. An open heart discerns it, while a closed heart obscures it.

~ Marianne Williamson~

I just love her so much!

JUicE CleanSe Day OnE *****

2012-01-20T18:06:00.000-08:00

well I started my cleanse today and I feel great. I started the morning off with 12oz of Pear, Lemon, Ginger Juice. Then through out the day i have consumed 64oz of green juice. I made some Delicious combinations, I really surprised myself. I'm feeling a little tired about now, but that is to be expected. And I definitely can feel my body beginning to detox. BRING IT ON!!!

Two of those milk bottles a day is 64oz. It's really not that much, and I drink it in a fancy glass to make it fun! I am going to do a green smoothie when and if I feel like it just for the fiber to help push out anything that may be stuck in my pluming:)
Honestly the juices I made today were so FREAKIN good that I was really excited:)

Yay for Health!!!
<3<3<3

Steven Robins!

2012-01-20T14:25:00.000-08:00

The mid-winter new moon, Sun and Moon meeting in Aquarius (11:39pm Pacific time 1/22), heart and soul together in the spacious awareness at the center of life's interrelationship, seed essence alignment turning point for the year. It will be launched with passion at the full moon on 2/7 toward a new spring of revolutionary emergence.

The Chinese call this the Year of the Dragon, considered a time of good fortune, a peak of flowering fertility. With Jupiter in Taurus and Mars in Virgo aligning with Pluto in Capricorn (grand trine in the three earth signs), a year of strong, activated physicality, historic transformation rooted in the force of deep nature.

Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn gives wise mind the assertion of primal power. Saturn in Libra grounds us in love, the way of harmonious solution. With Neptune and Chiron moving into Pisces together, a time of healing dreams in spiritual sensitivity.

2012-01-20T14:10:00.001-08:00

Make the most of sun and the incoming solar flares. Take time meditating to consciously draw in this powerful energy, accepting and receiving it with appreciation. Open the soles of your feet and intend to become a channel for it to flow into the Earth and nourish all life, renewing and uplifting you and the whole world.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

First juice of the cleanse! Pear,ginger,lemon!

2012-01-20T11:03:00.001-08:00

So yum!

2012-01-18T16:22:00.001-08:00

What aRe You doing with the gift that is YOU?

Women's Support

2012-01-18T11:23:00.000-08:00

We MUST support each other!

THE DAILY OM

On making ourselves happy...

2012-01-18T09:07:00.000-08:00

I'm making myself happy by attending a Tuesday Night African Dance class. I signed up Solo and Last night I had my first class. I loved it. My teacher is amazing, you know, one of those people that just drips love from every pore, she almost sings when she talks, a heart exploding example of how doing what you love is so important, and so life affirming. I've taking a few classes when I lived in Santa Cruz, always loving it, but never making the time for it. It's funny, I love to dance, I even feel these days that I need to dance on a medicinal level, and I'm comfortable when it's to music I love and my own choreography. But when I have to follow instructions I lose all the grace and coordination that I thought I had. My New teacher said some thing last night that made something click in me, "the most important thing is that you smile", it's true! When I missed a step or realized that I was out of sinc with the group I did not care because I was having fun and smiling. I focused on the music that I love so much and I just rolled with it. At the end when we circle up for solo time in the middle, When all the women were feeling self conscious about dancing in the center, I went in with ease and my cells were jumping up and down doing flips because I had no fear and a big smile on my face:)

Expect WOnderful

2012-01-18T08:23:00.001-08:00

Doing what makes you happy, raises your vibration. Higher vibe states, allow you to listen to your soul more easily. It can be as simple as listening to music you love. If you want more clarity and knowing in your life, do what makes you happy, then take time to be and tune into you.

Life at the Ideafrontier

Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy

Quote of Today!

2012-01-17T14:00:00.001-08:00

"The Optimism of Uncertainty" by Howard Zinn
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world . . . An optimist isn't necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction."