EXPLOSION

Just had my first smoothie since doing this very high juice and simple fruit/salad.

My smoothie was blueberries, aloe, hemp protein powder, synergy, raw choc powder and yacon syrup, kept it fairly simple. and it was really nourishing.

I am really thinking/wondering about this food stuff. I am thinking /feeling that overall the basic 'foods' that we consider normal and healthy - the fruits, veggies etc, the basic raw - is only the bottom of the ladder - This provides basic high nutrition for the physical body eh.
I have spoken a lot about living foods for prana .. BUT how much prana/life force is in our purchased food, unless we grow it and or have it local picked fairly soon after picking? our foods are energetically dead.

Even if we are getting the vitamins and minerals we are only reaching a clinical life experience. When we eat alive foods we are plugging into the resonance of cosmic intelligence.

We are in prayer with God.

Without minimising basic raw - I am thinking to the chinese japanese, indian etc etc. and they have their diet, but they also have markets of herbs and stuff, that people have as part of their diet, not just if they are sick.

I am feeling that what I have plugged into with the study from people like David Jubb, Dr. Barry Carter and David Wolfe is food for soul, journeying, communion, shifts in brain wave patterning etc.
Its almost like I feel this is another 'beginning'?

It sort of leaves the other stuff and concepts around how I have perceived 'healthy raw' etc standing.
So where I am now is a big shift.
Throughout my adult life I have been journeying through macrobioitic, vegetarian, vegan raw, living foods etc and then questionning raw or not raw.

Now I have no question, reason being, is suddenly I feel I KNOW that overall not so much raw! but LIVE food - gathered, grown etc is where its at.
The 'stuff' from shops type fresh food (which Obviously I am still getting as well) is bleeding our energy bodies dry. There is no spark, no shakti, prana, chi whatever.

I was in the super market the other day and I am feeling the craziness of it all. Huge buildings that deplete my energies - I gather supposedly healthy under ripe commerically grown food from the refrigerated shelving - I load it into a shopping pram, I unload it all at the desk - I load it all back into the pram again. (these trolly are my security blanket in a super market)

Then I unload into a car. Or better still if Rog is with me, he unloads into the car!

then its all unloaded, then its unpacked - and then it goes into my body.

My mind has been educated to believe that these vegetables and fruit are good for my body. But you know, wake up Ruth, they ARE NOT.

I know that this tropical fruit is tasty - but nutritionless relative. I am sure that I have maybe had a stumbling time, cause of mineral lack. or more so, prana lack.

I have had no mental block about raw foods. I moved through my cravings years yonks - so coming from a 'perceived' good vegan diet - I had no probs with being on raw foods.

The stumbling comes for me, not from lack of intention or discipline, but from the dawning realisation that these foods are not feeding the depth of my being.

When I think back to asian markets and when I remember some of the stuff re china, japan etc. they all have gathered wild crafted foods. which they buy from those who gathered em.

Even organic soils are not optimal and it takes some years to bring a soil back to LIFE. and the life in the soil is the life in our food so to speak.

So at present, raw isnt a question. its live food, and more and more wild food.
Also interested in magnetic blenders and they are not that expensive?
Cor such a sweat this stuff all being in states.

I am so at a learning edge with working with sound and vibration - seeing/feeling that if I by pass the verbal crudd - I can do as much in one client session energetically as I can in half a dozen sessions of just listening, sorting and coming up with strategies etc.

Not really sure what and how that shows up? hmmm. so thats where I feel I have blasted through to.
Feel something is shifting as I emerge into spring!? - do you both feel it to.

We are beaming up to another dimension. I know it, I feel it, NOT to negate our human experience. but this is way way beyond all the 'isms' and 'its' and conceptual prisons of my mind.
NOT to negate anything or anyone, but feel the limitation of it all too.
I feel as ever that ultimately our experience resonates so much around the consciousness from what goes into, around and through our bodies.

And you know systers and brothers we are NOT crazy, we are not wierd, in fact I feel almost in beginners mind with some of this stuff that I am plugging into - really celebrate this surge of vibrancy thats flowing into my life right now.

A client said to me yesterday that she was expanding into a new phase and I mailed in her session, NO you are exploding into flower.
When I work with people like long term - like this syster, I am in awe of the power of this work.
So many come temporarilly to be sorted and then disappear and come again when something aint right (like I do this too eh)

BUT when I get clients to a space of them booking in when they are vibrant and well. That is a huge leap into knowing the powers in the therapeutic process.
I feel we can all come from this place of seeking when we are full rather than from a place of seeming emptiness or lack.

The pic is from an unknown source by the way. so if it belongs to anyone, thankyou! - but didnt know it was you!

Love and Life

SUNNY DAYS

Weather has been too glorious to be on computer! These first few days of sun are so precious to our bodies.

My body feels hungry for those rays of warm healing sun, I can feel my cellular tissue just drinking up the nutrient.

Have also been exploring the gems on the Best Day Ever site - for a monthly fee we can access so much info by way of vid, audio and article.

For me a much more nourishing investment than the Spiritual Cinema Club which I cancelled in preference for this option.

Cutting edge energised information. Thoroughly recommended.

Also recently watching the latest David Icke dvd.

If you want to catch up more with shining light into the dark, check in Hollys site at

www.rawcuisine.co.uk

Also offering some cool recipes and other living life alive information and sharing.

Enjoy this sun and allow your body to drink it in. At this time of year its gentle and full of nourishment. Nourishment we cant get out of a bottle!

With our soils becoming more and more depleted we need to 'plug into' Source as and when we can.

And feel inspired to grow some of your own food. The Power of choice as to what you put into your body is amazing when we grow our own.

I try to grow a lot of green leaf and herby stuff, as I want that as nutrient rich as possible and fresh. I feel blessed with the many dedicated local organic growers around me who celebrate authentic farming.

I have to resort to the dreaded super market for any organic fruit, although local outlets are beginning to source more of this also.

I really cant handle the supermarkets for any length of time and rue the passing of the small local green grocers in truro.

Truro has slid into high street stores and the smaller inspirational shops, dont seem to survive the town rentals.

So when you can support those who care about life, our planet and each other.

Support local growers, online sites who invest in sourcing the best for us.

Its such a chore having to order from usa.

Checkout

www.detoxyourworld.com

www.funkyraw.com

www.oceanwavevibrations.com

www.theartofchange.co.uk

LOST SECRETS

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3102044726280108434

Laurence Gardner - Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark

Laurence Gardner presents a miraculous substance, with levitating or anti-gravity capacities. Also, by consuming it, it will balance and optimise ones brain usage capacities.

NETTLES

Nettles can be a nourishing contribution to springtime diet.
Whether you eat them from the plant or juice them or add them to smoothies or salads, nettles will make you sparkle.

They are natures gift - check out the short video clip below. You can use gloves and or scissors too *grin*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpxMDeH1x5Y

SPRING

"Every year at the beginning of spring, the sun and the earth celebrate a union.

The sun fertilizes mother earth, which receives its rays and uses them to produce an abundance of fruits.

Through their meditation on the sun's work on the earth, initiates have understood that this process of fertilization occurs everywhere in the universe, even in our inner life. In human beings, the spirit represents the sun, and the soul represents the earth.

In the spring, just as the earth opens to the rays of the sun, our soul must open to the rays of the divine Spirit in order to be fertilized."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

SPRING IS SPRUNG

Well it might well be spring equinox! - but last night felt quite chilly!!

The morning was cold, and clear skies gifted the dawn with an
awesome morning sunrise followed by a high tide from the sea.

This weekend the powers that be dictate time changes, which the sheeple people that we are, all adhere to!

I did spend many years refusing to constantly change my clocks, until I made a muddle with a client appointmet time! - Now I just comply like everyone else! hmmm.

From today we are blessed with more light to nourish and replenish our being.
So soon as this weather warms up! - I look forward to my body bathed in warm sun light again.

I am amazed at how the blossom has sustained its hold during these fierce winds!
Joyous Spring!

THE HIDDEN VOICES

Cornwall's magick is held in trust in so many of the ancient stones.
To be in the listening of these ancient sacred spaces is an experience of the higher realms - realms from which we can resonate with the hidden vibratory voices within the consciousness of these stones.

I Have been looking through an amazing book called The Romance of the Stones by Robin Payne. I interacted with this book some time back, and am feeling once more called to journey to the stones.

BEFRIENDING MIND

Seas are still quite turbulent and tonight brings a high tide again.
As I shiver on the cusp of spring! I have been witnessing how the relationship with egoic mind is a life long process of learning.

Its natural and normal for mind to measure worth by how we are thinking/feeling.

We can shift our minds response to the day and or events, by looking into nature, substitution of thoughts, and purely by witnessing.

Remember YOU are not mind. mind is there for you as a tool. not YOU as a tool for mind.

So first and foremost we needs to stabalise our relationship with our mind - once we have got that clear and mind knows its boundaries.. then we can begin lovingly to assert that skill into other areas of life/relationships and celebrate enquirey into other facets of minds gifts.

The work begins with the very mind we often think of as who we are.

So within the work of the therapeutic process of wholistic life therapy, in which I share and work, sometimes mind will dance in the radiance of inner openings and feel good.
Sometimes if clearance is happening and egoic mind feels challanged by the turn of inner furniture, we might feel turgid and or depleted.
Mind will seek the familiar, it will also evoke familiar response in others so as to surround itself with the familiar.

So remember to gently pull back from investing in the patterned responses that dont work. and celebrate and continue to feed the aspect of minds wonderful powers that can and do enhance us.

Reflect on this again, and again and again.

NEW MOON TIDES

The new moon tides dancing with some unusually high winds has evoked the sea into action.

These pics are from down penzance area.

The car park down perranporth has been well flooded at high tide! and after the sunny warmth last week! these past couple of days have felt freezin!

Keep warm!

FEELING WITHIN

Feeling within, sourcing the intuit knowing that has been suffocated in humanity - Those systers who remained in touch with their intuit wisdom were burnt! - The thinking mind has been pedestooled and aggrandised so it rules our lives.

How do we source back into the depth of our intimacy with Self, with Cosmic Intelligence.

The gamut of workshops, literature, and varying 'isms' - is this the door to feeling within.
I dont personally perceive so.

I feel the 'feeling' is about becoming still, listening, watching, attuning with the grace showering into our lives in every moment.
Gazing into the flames of a fire as we feel the power of sacred space and circle energies.
Breathing into the spirals of life shining from eyes as we see and feel beyond the meeting of personalities.

Life is a grace - and all of nature is nutritionally showering us in grace.
The power of grace lives in harmonious living, primarily with our own selves.

The grace of communion with other is the thread of love woven into life.

Is this grace bestowed on us by others - no I dont feel so, I feel this grace is gazing at us from within and without into our miraculous lives.

Can others open us to attune with this grace. Yes I feel they can. Well I know in my own life that this has been my experience. An invitation is a door opening, not an addiction in attachment.

Grace is the very life force, the pranic flow, the shiva and shakti merging.
A child coming earthside, a daffodil smiling and a 'look' that penetrates into our very soul.

Grace flows through the intricate web holding the matrix of humanity in heart.
How often do we need to remind ourselves and each other to
WAKE UP.
To see from the grace of higher mind, not from indoctrinated mind. To see the truth of the mania that is expressing around us as what is real and meaningful!

Let us remember that being alive is more than clinical life, its about pranic life, living life ALIVE - and appreciating the grace.

SEASONAL SHIFTS

The hedgerows are beginning to ooze spring food, nettles, goosegrass, dandelion and some I am still learning to identify!
Green is stretching into our lives, already the early spring colours of white and yellow flowers are shifting to pinks and blues of valarian and bluebell.

Cornwall is still ablaze with daffodils and the fields full of pranic leaping and skipping lambs.

The seasonal shops down Perranporth are just begining to flex their muscles preparing for the easter tidal wave of visitors!

I love this time of year, and yet also mourn the solitude and snuggle of the winter nights - Where we are at Harmony Cottage we are more affected by the tourist industry, not as rural as Bramble Cottage!

The birds are full of song and the sunny days are reminding me of warmth to come.
Enjoy this time and notice how hungry the body is to get out into that sunlight.

UNDER THE STARS

Under the stars, I seem to be no place. Like being under a waterfall of energy.
No longer conscious of the chill, snuggled in an inner warmth.
Life is so mysteriously magickal.

SANATANA DHARMA

"In a world sometimes clouded with ignorance and darkness, the fire of spirituality must awaken within humanity.

That spirituality must go beyond sectarian considerations, 'My religion, your religion,' to arrive at something called 'Sanatana Dharma' or the 'Eternal Religion of the Soul'." - Hindu Sage

Sanatana Dharma embraces all of life and focus's on our intimacy to the Cosmic Forces as we embrace our life and serve others.

The sannyasi tradition embraces Sanatana Dharma and takes us within the inner temples of knowing and guidance.

MIND

"Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God.

Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease.

Note: The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over." - Eckhart Tolle.

From The Power of Now

RIGHT OR HAPPY

Would you rather be right or be happy?

So often we forfeit happiness by our determination to cling to our point of view.

You have a disagreement with someone you love and then replay it over and over in your mind, convinced the problem is theirs.

You wish they would see it your way. But you keep silent; after all, it’s their problem, right?

Eventually one of you makes contact and climbs down from their position. Only then are you both happy – once you give up the need to be right!

Chris Attkins M.Dip.H, GHR Reg., GQHP

http://www.vision-unlimited.co.uk/

FROM THE UNREAL TO THE REAL

Om Asato maa sad-gamaya;
tamaso maa jyotir-ga-maya;
mrtyor-maa amrutam gamaya.
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih.

O Lord Lead me from the unreal to the real.
Lead me from the darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.
May there be peace, peace, and perfect peace.-

A Sanskrit invocation from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads 1.3.28).

ARATI

Among Hindu rituals there is perhaps no one ritual more well known than the arati ceremony.

Anyone who has visited a Hindu temple has been allured, or due to insufficient knowledge perhaps even apprehensive, when the lamp of fire passes from the altar to the congregation and circulates from person to person.

The origin and significance of this colorful ritual speaks of its inner charm and potential to dispel all fear arising from the ignorance of material identification.

The most sacred river of India is the Ganges, which Hindus literally believe flows from heaven to earth for the purification of all whom its waters touch. To the Hindu the Ganges is divinity in the form of a river.

www.atmajyoti.org

BLUE BELLS

I had my first blue bell experience of the year today.

I love their expression.

This time of year is so nourishing, The early spring sunshine is appreciated by all of nature.

The sky is so blue and the sea is sparkling in the suns rays.

Appreciate and celebrate life in all her miracle.

Get your body into the sun, feel the cells drink in the nourishment of sunlight - enjoy.

LIVING LIFE ALIVE

Feel its going to be a sun-day.

Notice growth in hedgerows, all drawing on the forces of the earth and light to grow -

Notice the blossoms being seduced by the sunlight.
Notice how people smile when the sun is out.

Watch this force in you, notice it, notice the parts of your body that move when you breathe.
Notice the parts of your body coming back into communion with you as you breathe.

Remember breath is life and its there to unconditionally help and support us in every choice, every decision, every dream, vision, and aspiration.

Let life in, let life touch you, let life live and dance inside of you again and feel yourself blossoming into YOU.

No matter what our choices, what we eat, how long we sit in meditation, if we dont dance with life, through the precious joy of breath, we dont feel life.

Live Life Alive

FEATHERS FLYING

Blue skies, profusion of primroses and blossoms as cornwall dances towards springtime.
The birds are celebrating this time with wonderful morning and evening songs and the hedges are now invitingly full of young nettles and goosegrass. Plenty to juice and have with salads.

Another young pheasant is encroaching our resident pheasants territory! - The other day, I heard such a commotion outside and looked out to see the two of them in display combat.

My first humanistic tendency was to shoo the intruder away, but I resisted the desire to intervene! and watched in awe and joy at the skillfull and empowered way these two male energies danced the dance.

Of course I couldnt help but hope that 'my' pheasant would win the day - grin! -

I started to realise that this was really more a ritual than a battle. A ritual to assert territory and domain. I was witnessing ancient arts of communion and communication. There didnt seem any desire to harm in this instance, just a very beautiful ritual to assert territory.

A few feathers flew and a few squawks - I guess maybe next year or the year after our resident pheasant might give way to the younger upcoming dominant male - but for now he reigns supreme and has been coming as usual for his breakfast.

Enjoy your day with love.

EURYTHMY

Many spiritual traditions embrace the power of movement and gesture in spiritual practice.

Dance and Mudra evoke creative forces and insights from within.

As in many disciplines of movement, there are physiological benefits, but the essence of the movement and gesture is so much deeper.

We are born out of spirit. In our minds, our hearts, and our bodies we bear the imprint of Spiritual Word and Music. In eurythmy, word and music become visible through our articulate gestures.

Eurythmy is a specific movement art originated by

Rudolf Steiner

in the early 20th century.

Steiner used the experience of colour as an expression of movement.

The arms in the central horizontal position resonate the colour green, the central colour of the spectrum. When the arms bend in a downward or inward expression they express more blue or purple.

When the arms reach up they express into yellow, orange and red.

When I used to work with children in Sun Prayers we would utalise this expression of colour as a way for the children to remember the positions.

So I would invite them to stretch up into the red, to bend into the blue etc.

Children intuitively attune and remember the flow of movement from their primordial knowing.

Whereas they would often not remember if I just showed them the positions.

Although today, eurythmy is often used in therapeutic modalities, there are still seekers and traditions who draw from within it, the spiritual gifts of deepening our experience and attunement with god.

Rudolf Steiner:

That is the essential point — that Eurythmy is visible speech, visible music. One can go even further and maintain that the movements of Eurythmy do actually proceed out of the inner organisation of man.

Anyone who says: “As far as I am concerned, speech and music are all-sufficient; there can surely be no need to extend the sphere of art; I, for my part, have not the slightest wish for Eurythmy”; — such a man is, of course, perfectly right from his particular point of view. There is always a certain justification for any opinion, however conventional or pedantic. Why should one not hold such opinions? There is certainly no reason why one should not — none at all; but it cannot be said that such a standpoint shows any really deep artistic feeling and understanding. A truly artistic nature welcomes everything that could possibly serve to widen and enrich the whole field of art.

Lecture of 26th August, 1923

THE SUN

Om Suryaya Namaha - Adoration to the guide of all - one of many varying translations for this ancient mantra.

We can intensify the sunrise experience with the practice of
Surya Prana Mudra - receiving the benefit of the sun's rays through the palms of the hands.

The sun is the source of all life on our planet. It gives life.
We would not exist without the sun, but despite this so many of us give little attention or appreciation to the sun.

The coloured sky just before sunrise is filled with a special energy called Usha Shakti and we can nourish our lives by taking these beneficial rays into our bodies, hearts and lives.

The sun gives healthy lungs, tones the endocrine system, especially the pineal gland, nourishes our skin and our temperament.
Taking the sun through the palms of the hands and even the souls of the feet and storing the shakti in the solar plexus empowers our day, our lives, our wellness.

In the Surya Prana Mudra, the rays of the sun activate nerve teminals in the hands, and the activated energy passes back through the reflex nerve terminals into the brain and lungs.

We do benefit from the rays of the setting sun, but not as powerfully as the sun rising because the setting sun rays do not contain the Usha Shakti of the rising sun.

Just before the sun has risen we can receive the usha shakti through the eye nerves directly into the nervous system - drawing on the laws of chromotherapy, which is one of the oldest practices of medical and healing known to humanity.
Palming is also a powerful practice for nourishment.

Become a child of the sun and allow the power of sunrise to seduce us into the light and abundance of springtime.
You will so truly feeeeeeeeel the power of this practice.

I was first awakened to the power of the sunrise through the guidance of Swami Gitananda - His guru son now follows the lineage of this ancient tradition stretching far back through a lineage of ancient teachers.

"The Sun is the Source of healing energy. This healing energy affects air, water, plant life, even the earth itself and man ingests and digests these solar activated sources. Man is photosensitive and without the sun he would die. It is almost impossible to think of truly healing any disease of the body without sunshine. Yet sick patients are seldom allowed in the sun in our modern hospitals even for brief periods of time." - Swami Gitananda

BEST DAY EVER

The Best Day Ever!

Out in the world, you'll meet a certain thing
Once you know, you make it so, you will start to sing.
You should laugh 'cause, it’s really up to you,
Even if you get it wrong, you’ll get it right the next time through.

Once you have direction, and once you know the game,
You’ll stand at the crossroads where every choice is the same.
After a while you'll know exactly what to do,
Even if you get it wrong,you’ll get it right the next time through.

Life is true and life is exact.
What you give is what you get and also what you get back.
No use in crying, let's dance with the few.
Even if you get it wrong,you’ll get it right the next time through.

You are here to grow and learn by your mistakesIf you don't, if you won’t, they’ll repeat at higher stakes.
When you believe that there is nothing you can’t do,
Even if you get it wrong,you’ll get it right the next time through.

I wish you well, good luck with your endeavor,
Every moment is magic and this is the best day ever.

David Wolfe
www.thebestdayever.com

SEE FROM HEART

"Take yourself to a beach at dawn, and in the quiet, walk alone until the full sun warms your skin.

Find a place in the centre of a forest and sit in peace, observing, feeling and allowing all to occur.

These are but a few ways of capturing where you could be all the time. In the middle of a day of busy work, your heart could feel that it is bathing in the light of god.

These feelings are often so foreign to us that we find ways to denounce them.

In modern times the quest for spiritual life is often misguided. We search for structure and once again become entrapped in the practice of theology.

For each and every one of the billions of people that reside on this incredible planet, our spirituality is personal. It can be reached through the better known ways as long as you percieve them as just a springboard, not as a foundation. God has endless ability, and most of us are still struggling with a fraction of 1% of the 100% that is possible.

Our own arrogance permits us to believe that we know enough to put words into the mouth of god when in all earnestness there are no words necessary. Reaching into your soul will do more for you than searching outside of your awareness."

"Habitual patterns can be resting places for our weakness"

Brian Clements - from a wee book called spirituality in healing and life.

WHO KNEW

Who knew?
Did you?
The few?
Could it be this good?
Did you know it could.

A high, so clear, so bright,
To set the entire world alight,
So high, so fun,
Will you be the one?

Will you do what it takes,
And play at the highest stakes,
And put it all on the line
To discover it in time.

Finding the space to be detached,
Refinding the egg to be rehatched.
Are you ready to soar,
Or are you a bore?

Are you ready to take it all the way?
Then today is the day! - David Wolfe.

check out
www.davidwolfe.com
www.thebestdayever.com

WELLNESS

"When the intelligence of the universe goes to your body, effortlessly and spontaneously, then you are in a state of health"

"Health is that state of awareness in which your intelligence, and all the elements and forces that structure your body, are in complete harmony with the elements and the forces that structure the body of the universe."

"Entrainment is a state in which there is a harmonious interaction of elements and forces between different relationships."

"If a mother holds her baby to her breast, after a while the babies heartbeat begins to have a rhythmic relationship with the mothers heart beat."

"Your body has a circadian rhythm, which is a resulte of the earth spinning on its own axis. For every change in nature during a 24 hour cycle, there is a change that happens to you, because you are part of nature."

"Stress is anything that blocks the intelligence. Anything that causes resistance to the flow of intelligence".

"Energy of the body has to be kept in balance through the use of other energies that come in the form of breath, food, water, sunshine, exercise and sleep"

"When the body is in complete wellness it is part of the cosmic dance"

All Quotes for Deepak Chopra - taken from various writings/books

CHAKRAS

The chakras (wheels) are the channels through which non physical energy comes into our system and activates the nerves and glands.

The non physical energy system is interconnected by 72,000 nadias (focus/pathway flows of energy)

The three main nadis are Ida, Pingala and Sushumna.

The chakra system is an ancient path of attuning with the inner worlds for personal and spiritual growth.

The chakras are portals between the inner and outer worlds and are each associated with the elements of earth, water, fire, air, sound, light and the power of thought.

In yoga science it is said that the kundalini shakti is seduced from the base chakra when the body has become purified and harmonised through the living of yama, niyama, and the experiential practice of asana, and pranayama.

Hatha Yoga is the balancing of the Ha and the Tha, the Sun and the Moon.

Ida nadi is related to the moon, and through an intertwining pathway expresses through the left nostril. Its qualities are cooling and passive.

Pingala nadi is related to the sun and through an intertwining twin pathway ends in the right nostril. Its expression is heating, active and motivating.

The science of Swara Yoga draws on the powers inherent in knowing how to utalise the flows of breath through either or both nostrils.

We know that the predominant breath flow alternates between the two nostrils every couple of hours or so.

Ultimate health can only be experienced when this patten is harmonised.

There are times we can utalise this knowledge, to cool the body, to warm the body and to nourish our intentions of sadhana or wordly practice.

No matter how much we apply the principles, if pingala is strongly predominant when we sit for meditation, the mind will be active and intrusive.

If Ida is strongly predominant we will have what we often call a 'good meditation'

However our personal observation of our practices, might not in fact reflect their truth worth. Often a frenetic meditation can be purging and releasing deep seated blockages.

The essence is not so much our perception of experience, but more the predominant brain wave patterns which truly determine the worth of our times of meditation.

The Shakti energy rises, moving through the elemental and pyschic experiences as she journeys towards Shiva.

Despite much frivolous talk of the awakening of kundalini. Most people misinterpret their prana awakening for the movement of kundalini.

The Shakti is powerful and can burn us out, literally. So in the pranamaya kosha we have 'granthis' knots that have to be pierced protecting the ignorant from damage.

There are three granthis and each calls specific yogic practices to joyously open and allow the passage of shakti.

The practice of swara and laya yoga can be enhanced by conscious food choices so as to have the body, mind and emotive turbulence calm and pure.

The true and ancient use of herbs and potions to enhance consciousness was sacred - we can utalise powerful consciousness enhancing foods to nourish our intimacy with the divine essence within us.

Did anyone see the lunar eclipse last night! - awesome. Down here it seemed to haze a little during totality and my visual perception was a vague maroon type colour,no orgasmic red! - anyway good to be up on the dunes and just be in the majesty of it all.

MARCH FULL MOON

May our Rainbow Space be fertile, spiralling around us as we move in the Sacred march full moon. May the energy shared here be held strongly within each of us.

Let us truly acknowledge the Spirit, the Source within us all and may we know and understand that our lives are blessed.

Appreciating the light we share - May the fire of deep love ever keep us warm."

ESSENCE OF GOD

"Ein Sof represents the true hidden essence of God, which is entirely unknown to humans.

All human knowledge of God is really of the ten emanated Sefirot.
The Jewish mystical doctrine known as "Kabbalah" (="Tradition") is distinguished by its theory of ten creative forces that intervene between the infinite, unknowable God

("Ein Sof")

and our created world.

Through these powers God created and rules the universe, and it is by influencing them that humans cause God to send to Earth forces of compassion

(masculine, right side)

or severe judgment

(feminine, left side).

You can learn about the individual Sefirot by clicking on their pictures in the diagram on the left.

You will need to get to the website, by clicking on one of the links to get to be able to do this. I doesnt work on the image here.

The right side represents the principles of unity, harmony and benevolence, as embodied in the Sefirah of Hesed.
It is associated with the bestowing of generous goodness upon our world.
It is the masculine side.
The Left side of the Sefirot structure is the side of power and strict justice, the values embodied in the

Sefirah of Din.
It is the female side, representing the fearsome awe of God, and the principles of separation and distinction.
The unrestrained dominion of the Left side gives rise to Evil"

Eliezer Segal

KABBALAH

"Kabbalah — the world’s oldest body of spiritual wisdom — contains the long-hidden keys to the secrets of the universe as well as the keys to the mysteries of the human heart and soul.

Kabbalistic teachings explain the complexities of the material and the nonmaterial universe, as well as the physical and metaphysical nature of all humanity.

Kabbalah shows in detail, how to navigate that vast terrain in order to remove every form of chaos, pain, and suffering.

For thousands of years, the great kabbalistic sages have taught that every human being is born with the potential for greatness.

Kabbalah is the means for activating that potential. Kabbalah has always been meant to be used, not just learned. Its purpose is to bring clarity, understanding, and freedom to our lives"

WWW.KABBALAH.COM

POWER TO ACT

Discipline is part of our journey, part of our nourishment. Discipline is the nourishment and is required to follow any path with any degree of satisfaction in fulfillment and success.

Whatever we each feel is a result of our habits of living, thinking and acting.

To change our experience we have to make choices that support our desired shifts and aspirations.

Part of waking up is in celebrating the inherent divine power within.

Understanding the power to act and the cause and effect of karma makes us face ourselves - remembering that we are responsible for all that happens to us!

Knowing the law of cause and effect, has empowering potential. We can embrace the power to act and choose right now.

PRANA SPEAKS

The subtle life force of prana has a voice - the primordial voice of inner wisdom supports our souls unfolding.

We are free to listen to the voice of prana or the voice of the addictive mind.

The mind has established control over our body, our lives, our choices.

The mind is skilled in 'tuning out' the voice of prana.

For many the power of prana is utalised in addressing and dealing with the abuse of mind perpetrated in our lives.

We end up 'prana depleted' and we find various terminologies to describe 'prana depletion'

The prana life force within us is nourished by the subtle prana in living foods, fresh air, the earth and water and warmth of sun.

There are specific nerve receptors in the base of the lungs that channel prana to the subtle body. Many dont even utalise the low lung capacity.

We live in overly heated, unventilated dwellings. Many buildings in the states are designed without opening windows and rely on vititated air to sustain people!

Why do we feel so vivified by the sea, in the mountains, by fast flowing water? The prana vivifies us.

Traditional healing sanctuaries offered air bath, sun baths, plenty of fresh air and fresh living foods - our present day buildings of healing, are closed, with little chance of feeling sun or air. The food is off inferior quality and with so much emphasis on hygiene - patients are surrounded by chemicalised pollution of cleaning fluids, off gasing and invading their lungs.

Prana is speaking to us constantly. Wake up, listen and feel.