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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-78132897588204668482016-05-12T17:59:00.000-07:002016-05-12T17:59:53.459-07:0093 Days Grain FreeI dedicated 93 days of my life to being grain free. That means no grains at all. No rice, wheat, corn, rye, barley, buckwheat, sorghum, teff, millet, oats, kamut or spelt. The results? I lost 16 pounds. I am less inflamed. I ate less junk and made better food choices overall. I am getting clearer in my mental, emotional and spiritual world. I have better skin and brighter eyes. I am able to control my sweets intake more. I feel much healthier and in charge of my life!<br />
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I did hop off the wagon for a week; after over three months of no grains I allowed myself a week of eating whatever I wanted. First things first, authentic Mexican cuisine! I was missing tacos and corn chips the most. I had an amazing meal at Manuel's in downtown Austin. The best Mole Enchiladas ever! Plus some chips and salsa, delightful civiché, and venison chorizo potatoe and corn cakes. So worth it! Later in the week I took the liberty of eating pizza (not worth it), gluten free pancakes (sort of worth it), popcorn (worth it), sushi (totally worth it) and tacos from the infamous Taco Deli here in ATX. One of the reasons I love Austin is the Mexican food, so going grain free has been a little hard for that reason alone.<br />
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Overall, I felt decent after eating the grains but gained back two pounds and could see the little food baby in my belly after eating them. I have chosen to continue with my grain free lifestyle and coach others who want to give this a try. 90 Days really makes a difference! Even my mom has been grain free for two weeks now :) If we can do it, anyone can.<br />
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Meal planning and prepping is the key! Stay hydrated and have grain frew snacks handy. Premake lunches and dinners, and have easy foods on hand to satisfy hanger (hunger & anger mixed - watch out)! Apples and peanut butter was my quick fix. I also start every day with with a nutrient dense smoothie and guayusa tea. That keeps me alert and fresh, and doesn't drag me down in the middle of the day like coffee and bagels used to.<br />
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Going grain free has helped me recover from adrenal fatigue and chronic pain. I also released my daily coffee drinking habit which also helped reduced pain and inflammation. I also quit using Marijuana and don't plan on returning to that habit. I love and appreciate grains, coffee and weed, and even the trio of these substances together is a nice treat but frequent use was destroying my adrenal glands, depleting my energy, dampening my dreams, hindering my focus and creating an emotional roller coaster for my brain. I also realized I was numbing myself from a lot that really needed to come to the surface. Grain free has been the start of a more integrated life of integrity, focus, health, wellbeing, stability, creativity, authentic sexuality, mental clarity and overall awesomeness!!!<br />
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I am choosing to stay grain free and will allow myself a cheat week a few times a year. This, for me, feels balanced. To each their own!<br />
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If you are feeling the call to jump off the Grain Train I am happy to help you. Connect with me via ShellieWhiteLight@gmail.com and use subject line Grain Free Consult for a free 15 minute chat to see if grain free is a fit for you. I love helping people reach their best version of themselves, and this has been a big personal step for me ♡<br />
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This was one of my favorite breakfasts. A paleo tortilla I made myself, with homemade sour krout, avocado and two fried eggs. Super yum! The grain free tortilla totally saved me when I needed that carb-y bread like fix. No bloating! :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-36618070641183228602016-01-31T08:22:00.001-08:002016-01-31T08:22:40.032-08:00In Bed With Bread {60 Days of Grain Free Living}<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">I love bread. Bread loves me. Bread loves up on my belly, thighs, arms and butt like it’s his job. Bread caresses me when I’m feeling lonely, and picks me up when I’m feeling down. Bread has always been there for me, and always will be. I love bread....a little too much. I love bread so much, but I couldn’t stop with just having bread as a lover. Bread has all of these tantalizing cousins to get sticky with. The sweetness of Apple Fritters and the buttery goodness of a croissant have soothed my soul on many occasions. Bread didn’t even care, and just watched and whispered “Go ahead, I know you’ll still want me. Maybe now more than ever. Enjoy. I know you’ll be back.” I don’t care how elusive and flakey my darling croissant has been, he’s still my favorite. Maybe it’s the accent. I’ve been in bed with bread (and friends) for a very....long.... time. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Since I was a child I’ve found comfort and solace knowing I could get a hot piece of bread any ole time. I know it seems young to get hooked, but it was love at first bite. Bread just lays around waiting for me to devour it in any given moment, not necessarily with rhyme or reason. Bread and I have enjoyed many random quickies and plenty of long, lavish meals together. I’ve been with bread and the whole wheat family. I’ve rolled around with all of the grains and really gotten with gluten in a pretty promiscuous way. I must change my wicked ways, or bread with have it’s way with me again and again, I’ll keep crawling back, I’ll loose control and then.... </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The guilt, the cravings, the mood swings, the bloating, the aches and pain, the inflammation, the foggy brain and weight gain. It’s all such a big price to pay.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s no longer worth it! This love affair is not healthy. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’m sick of opening my mouth to bread for a late night booty call. All bread has ever wanted to do is get inside me, make me sick, and then I feel like a loser for getting in bed with bread once more. I know bread doesn’t really love me! I also know I don’t really love bread. It’s my candida that actually feeds on the sugary sticky stuff that bread leaves me inside me. And do you know what bread babies look like? A fat and dimpled ass, that’s what. F#@& bread! That’s right! You heard me. I AM BREAKING UP WITH BREAD. As for you Gluten, you can go back to the bloated hell from which you came!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">For all the ladies (and gents) out there who have been in an unhealthy relationship with bread, I feel you my party people! It’s been one hell of wild and delicious ride, but this is my stop. If you would like to join me in this mass break up with bread, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/116247938744578/" target="_blank">I have a support group on facebook</a> that will be very helpful when you get that late night desire to toast and butter that bad boy. Just say ‘No!’ You really have to tell yourself that ‘No’ means ‘No’, and that’s that. The cravings will pass, and so will the excess weight, mood swings, joint pain, forgetfulness, sugar crashes and low energy levels. I am choosing a healthier path, and it might not feel easy at first, or ever. But I have been convicted by Great Spirit to improve my body temple in the holiest ways, and to eat food closer to the earth. I am listening to this calling, and trusting it will greatly enhance my quality of life and ability to serve humanity.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The big questions is....Who to love instead of bread? There are so many FRESH and CLEAN lovers out there! Not that dirty, good for no nutrition bread. Ugh, I can’t believe I literally bought into breads BS for so long! He never cared about my health and wellbeing, only satisfying my cravings to be filled up. This was so temporary and unfulfilling. I forgive myself (and bread) and will focus from now on only on food friends that truly nourish me. There may be times when I feel like there is gaping hole where bread and I used to live together. When I feel that emptiness, I’ll realize that its actually my small intestine clearing out the glue and gunk that bread left behind. The emptiness is good. The absence of bread will open up a new space for healing foods friends to repair any damage. Ahhhhh.....deep breath in, and out. A sigh of relief! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">From now on when I choose a food friend it’s going to be one I know will nourish me and support my goals and dreams. Being on stage as a physique competitor before having children is one of those goals. I am about ten pounds of fat and 7 months of workouts away from that goal, so there will have to be some sacrifice, which I am happy to give. At first it will be hard, because bread is sooooo easy. It’s right there, ready and waiting for you to put something on it and shove it in. But no, I will not be led astray by such connivence. I have some strategies I will share here now.</span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><b>Meal PREP! </b>(Don’t get hangry, Day 4 reveals all).</span></li>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><b>Focus on THE RESULTS you want!</b> (Day 6 is how to make a vision board to remind you daily of the reality you are creating.)</span></li>
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<span class="s1">I hope this article inspires you to be a healthier, happier, holier version of you. You are PERFECT just as you are, and we are always in the making, be molded daily by The Creator. “Give us this day our daily....salad!” will be my new motto! Let me know how I can help you on your OWN life journey. I am here, and doing the work. I am here to HELP YOU do the work, too! One step at a time. To schedule a LifeStyle Consultation with me <a href="mailto:shelliewhitelight@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me here</a>. In the mean time, whether you’re in bed with bread or finally getting out, you’re exactly where you need to be, so <b>simply love yourself</b>. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-36772364416903170472016-01-16T12:38:00.000-08:002016-01-16T12:38:05.409-08:00Perfection SucksWHOA! Is it really the 16th day of the 16th year of the MILLENNIUM?!<br />
It seems we are moving at the 'speed of life'. Even this little Light can hardly keep up!<br />
I have been busy, obviously. I am loving it, yet also need to take time to smell the scent of my fingers setting this keyboard on fire! I want to share my life with you so that you can benefit from all of the work I do. If I am 'too busy', then I am not serving you. From this point forward, you WILL be reading more from me. Busy or not, I am a writer. Let it be known!<br />
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I have not written anything on this blog in a while, and part of the reason for the is because I was 'waiting'. Waiting for the 'right time' or the 'right day' to inform you about the 'right subject matter', waiting for my perfect website to be ready. Then I finally called myself on a very serious dis-ease I have developed in my entrepreneurial years called "Paralysis by Perfection". This means not doing it at all because you don't think it's right or ready yet. This is crap. I will not allow myself to fall victim to such garbage. Nor will I allow you to fall into this trap! As I type these words, will a thousand 'other things to do', I am breaking down the walls of this Perfection Paralysis and beginning a new.<br />
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I had these debilitating thoughts that sounds like this:<br />
"It has to be perfect, it has to be right, they have to be ready, I'm not ready, it's not good enough."<br />
FALSE!<br />
I HAVE TO DO IT.<br />
That's all there is to it.<br />
(You can quote me on that ;)<br />
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Even though I have a new hoop class, got a new massage job, purchased a car, am working on two separate residual income businesses, writing meal plans, meal prepping, working out six days a week AND finding time socialize....I can still write a blog for you weekly. And, I will! Happily.<br />
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I realize what truly feeds me. I am filled up when I see another's cup overflowing, especially when only moments ago it was empty. I am a muse. A muse is one who (according to Webster) "a woman that is the source of inspiration for a creative artist". I am that. I am my own muse, and desire to me an inspiration for YOU as your creative, artistic self.<br />
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"But I am not an artist", you mind lies to you. YES YOU ARE! LIFE is ART.<br />
Our words are our art.<br />
Our actions are our art.<br />
Our jobs and ways of earning money, this is also art.<br />
Parenting is art.<br />
Everything is art.<br />
Therefore, we are all artists.<br />
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I am a muse for each of you, no matter what you do.<br />
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This is a declaration, a proclamation for myself and all of you.<br />
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I DECLARE I WILL CREATE AT WILL AND AS SPIRIT FLOWS THROUGH ME.<br />
I DECLARE I WILL LET ALL RESISTANCE TO CREATE PASS AWAY, ALLOWING THE AUTHENTIC FLOW TO PERMEATE THE SPACE AROUND ME.<br />
I AM AN INSTRUMENT, PLAYED BY THE FORCE, FOR GREAT SPIRIT.<br />
EVERYTHING I DO IS INSPIRING, IS ART, IS LOVE.<br />
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How have you created your life today?<br />
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If you would like coaching on how to create a life that you love to live, with the tools to live it powerfully, I am here. I take on ONE private coaching client a month. Is it you? :) Are you ready?<br />
YES. You choose when you are ready, not the circumstances of your life.<br />
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I have a variety of ways to assist you in becoming the force you want to be in this world.<br />
<a href="mailto:shelliewhitelight@gmail.com" target="_blank">Email me here </a>if this piques your interest.<br />
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Until next time, cheers to living in the moment, with grateful breath and love at the center.<br />
Blessings to you and all who love.<br />
Aloha Nui Loa xo<br />
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One in Heart,<br />
Shellie White Light<br />
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PS. One of the ways I am able to live on my own terms is working for myself and my affiliations with other companies that create residual income. If you are interested in learning more about these companies and how creating residual income works, <a href="mailto:shelliewhitelight@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me here</a>. Aloha!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-3943196349169859452015-09-27T09:51:00.000-07:002015-09-27T10:19:11.392-07:00Love is the Medicine ~ The Completion of the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2015<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Today is the day</b>. The only day that exists in this moment. Not yesterday or tomorrow, only today. This particular day in time is quite the special one as it is a Total Full Blood Harvest Super Moon Eclipse. It is the fourth Blood Moon since April of 2014. There have been 54 Blood Moon Tetrads (series of four) since the birth of Christ. 5+4=9. 9 is a number of completion. Life as we have known it no longer exists. We are ushering in a New Era. Not only is the Moon in an auspicious placement, but all of the planets have aligned in such a way that it is undeniable that we are at the crest of a phenomenal astrological wave of inspiration, change, release, upgrade and ascension. The purpose of this blog is to inform you of the ways that the Universal Heart & Mind is here completely in support of your highest evolution and transformation, and to tune you into a an aspect of an ancient story that is still being played out. The Great Mother and Holy Father are here holding you in the highest divine White Light as a Sacred Child. This is a time for healing. This is a time for forgiveness. This is a time to acknowledge your true self and express it without shame, guilt, fear or falsities. <b>It's time to show up. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Blood Moon signifies the rising of a New Dawn. As Venus is currently the Morning Star, the Goddess is calling for recognition. I choose to recognize her in a way that is meaningful to me, and I feel will be refreshing for millions if they choose to digest it. I want to share a perspective of a very old story with you that may inspire you.... or may piss you off. However it lands within your being is perfect. My intention is love, truth and peace, so I trust that no matter how it lands, it will weave it's way into your heart with ease and grace. It is the story of Christ, in a very different light than you may be familiar with. This is more of the full story as it has made itself known to me, not just the masculine dominated patriarchal pages that we have been force fed through religion and politically edited texts. This part of the story includes a very special lady, one that has been a mystery to many throughout the ages. A lady of light who is the counterpart to the co-creation of Christ Consciousness. Now is the time to see her more clearly, as she steps out of the shadows and to the forefront of the stage on which this drama has been acted out for the last 2000 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her name is Mary Magdalene. She is mentioned 12 times in the New Testament, showing up for Yeshua (Jesus), her beloved teacher, friend, healer, guide and companion, in the most meaningful of ways. I am not going to completely claim that Yeshua and the Magdalene were married or making love or having babies, but I am going to pose it as a possibility. She was the one that showed up for him in the most potent of ways, and her presence and lineage is more powerful than any of us may realize. Yeshua cast seven demons from her, she supported him financially, in one text is says 'he kissed her on the [mouth]' and was his companion, she washed his feet with her hair and tears, she was there at the crucifixion, and she was the one who waited at the tomb and witnessed his resurrected form for the first time. To me, these are all extremely significant. There is not any 'verified' text pointing to a marriage or a sexual relationship, but I have an intuition and a deep cellular knowing that Mary Magdalene was an initiated High Priestess and was a Tantric Ally for the Ascension of Christ. What I mean by Tantric Ally is this. For Jesus to do what he did (miraculously heal others and defeat death within his own body, eventually ascending in his light body to the ethereal realms) he practiced. He practiced breathing, He meditated, He fasted, He prepared. There is over a decade of Yeshua's life 'missing' from the Bible. There are sacred texts from India and other holy lands that lead us to believe He traveled to these lands and learned of the ancient ways of mastering the mind, body and spirit. He had teachers, and the Magdalene was one of them. Tantra simply means to 'to stretch'. Christ's life has definitely stretched our ability to love and receive love from Our Mother/Father God, so I would say it is Tantric for sure. Tantra is simply a weaving, a seeking of truth and a path of awareness. This is very much the Christic Path. Mary Magdalene was his Tantric Ally because she HELD SPACE for him to be the Master that he was. Holding space for his teachings. Holding space for his death. Holding space for his resurrection. Holding space for ascension. Holding space for His Mission to be grounded in solidly to this Earth Grid. Obviously Jesus needed a very powerful and devoted team to help him ground this impeccably powerful frequency of Unconditional Love onto this planet. She helped Him in ways we may never know. Whether they were making sacred love, married and eventually procreators to a mysterious lineage matters not. What matters is the Goddess that assisted Christ in his mission to bring this Light to this planet is SEEN, HONORED and WITNESSED. Now is the time for us to see. Now is the time for us to witness this resurrection within OURSELVES.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This Full Blood Super Harvest Moon Total Eclipse is a perfect moment in time to re-write all of the old stories that simply suck and don't make sense.</b> I grew up the only daughter of a Baptist Minister (and both of my grandfathers were also ministers, my great-grandfather, too). I never felt comfortable with the hellfire and brimstone teachings of needing to be 'saved'. I knew in my heart that God was Love, that Jesus wouldn't damn anyone for inter-racial or gay marriage, and that just because I wanted to explore sexuality before I was married that wasn't a sinner. I knew that there was more to the story than what I was being told. Now, I realize I am helping to re-write this story and bring to light some of the aspects that may help you make more sense of it all. I do feel like this is the time of the 'Second Coming of Christ'. <b>To me, this Second Coming is the Arising of the Christ WITHIN us. Jesus is The LIGHT within our very souls, the LOVE that we are made of! </b>Not something outside of ourselves that we must beg to and plead for. He said it himself "the kingdom of heaven is within in you". His teachings were not of separation, judgement, hatred or fear. His teachings were to love each other, and he was surrounded by women and men who held him up and helped carry him forward. I feel that now is the time to recognize those Goddesses and begin to approach this story from the Perspective of the Divine Feminine, which has been buried, shamed, forgotten, abused, distorted and dismissed over the years in a very unfortunate way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As this Moon turns Blood Red it is time that we acknowledge the Sacred Blood that comes through the womb of the Divine Feminine. If we honor the Blood of Christ then we also can understand that our own blood is also sacred, especially the blood that would have made life, the blood that monthly flows from our Holy Chalice...our Sacred Wombs. These teachings may be hard for some to hear, and that is ok. I fear not the judgement or misunderstandings because now is the time for me to personally release the stories of fear and shame around my blood, my sexuality, my healing, my love, my life and my image. I am here to share with you the deepest of my truths on this day because TRUTH is the only thing that can really set us free. I feel that our wombs are the Holy Grail. That is how all of this connects. Mary Magdalene may or may not have birthed a child conceived with Yeshua; they may or may not have been married. But one thing is certain, she was a key element in the story and she was silenced and made out to be a whore, which is not true and never mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Her LOVE was a gift to Yeshua and helped make it possible for His purpose to be completed. Whether she birthed his child or not, she birthed his purpose. We are still helping Her complete this purpose, as we acknowledge and recognize that we are also Christ Like Beings placed on this planet now to help the entire planet ascend! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If Jesus healed people from the confines of death and turned his own body into pure white light then WE CAN DO THIS TOO! <b>John 14:12 states this powerful truth</b><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #5e5e5e; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">:</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;"> “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b> </b>We have a huge responsibility as we awaken to this truth. Stay with your breath, tap into your stillness, and operate from there. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">So, here we are. This is how I am choosing to re-write a story in my mind that has haunted me and millions of others for millennia. If I choose to change the stories that were written for me around shame, guilt and suppression around sexuality, the Sacred Goddess, my divine monthly Moon Blood flow, and the power of Love and healing that is very present inside me then I am doing myself and everyone else a huge freaking favor. There has been so much pain and death around this story, and people do horrible things and call themselves 'believers'. I encourage you to tap deep down into your truths and drum up what resonates with you MOST on this Full Blood Harvest Super Moon Total Lunar Eclipse. Allow that which no longer serves your highest good to be completely released back to the realms of unconditional love. Let your demons know you love them, thank them for being your teachers and release them back to the Father who can manage them much better than you. Dissolve the old habits holding you back from truly stepping in to your full potential. Release the thoughts that drag you down. Let go of relationships that disrespect your heart. Forgo circumstances that are mediocre to allow for opportunities that will enable you to FLY!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">To tie it all together and wrap it up with a beautiful bow I will leave you with these few key points. *Mary Magdalene represents the Divine Feminine in a story that has been very overly masculinely communicated; she brings balance and can show us how to perceive Christ/Jesus in a new light, allowing this energy to fully arrive on the planet, leading to the 'Second Coming' which is actually the arising of the Christ Consciousness inside of our beings. *The Blood Moon is an opportunity to honor the Goddess more fully by acknowledging that Moon Blood from a woman's womb is a sacred fluid that should be honored and given back to the Earth with love and reverence, not discarded and deemed disgusting. This is life force. This is sacred. It is a gift. *The power of Christ is within YOU, and your ability to heal yourself and the world around you is a real experience, not something outside of yourself. *Heaven is also inside of you and we can choose to experience heaven or hell at any moment. Your kingdom in within. On this unique day in space and time I ask of you, dear brothers and sisters, to honor yourselves as the High Kings and Queens you were born to be, the Holy Children of The Divine Mother/Father God/dess that thought you into existence! NOW IS THE TIME AND WE ARE THE ONES!!!!!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">RISE UP AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS! FLY INTO THE UNKNOWN AND FEAR NOT! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">We are One with the very Source that Created All Things, and this is our time to show up and shine. I am here for you, here with you, and here as You. May all beings everywhere be peaceful, healthy, holy, happy, liberated and in their highest divine Truth. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">To all of our relations. Aho. Amen. So it is. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blessings and Love ~</span></span><br />
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Episode Two ~ Liquid EyeLiner and Mascara Volume Secrets<br />
Episode Three ~ Quick & Lush Lip Tricks<br />
Episodes 4-6 ~ Glittery Sparkle Bling Blast<br />
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I read this amazing book in less than a week. I reveled in it. I cried with it. I felt it's truths and understood Dinah's struggle. I was there with her, the only daughter of Jacob, resilient in a man's world. Basically, in the Old Testament there is brief mention of Dinah, and the story of her rape is slightly mysterious. This novel that is fictional, but based on this historical setting, ploughs deep into the feminine realms of ritual, rite and community around a woman's first blood. Ceremonies and sacraments that have been lost, but in the telling of this story, are found again. Have a listen to my short video review and grab a copy for yourself. It's worth the read. Also, if you feel moved, find a Red Tent Sisterhood or Gathering in your region. Gathering with women simply because you are all women is very powerful! Sister support is crucial! </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-10648040194981301322015-08-24T16:11:00.001-07:002015-08-24T16:15:56.062-07:00How I Consciously Deal with Depression, Anxiety and Mental Instability As many of you who read my daily posts know I was in a bit of 'funk' for about a month.<br />
The last time I was feeling this 'funky' was when I eighteen years old, and diagnosed with 'manic depression' also know as 'bi-polar disorder'. Because there was a 'history' of suicide and mental illness in my family, the doctors diagnosed and medicated without asking me a few questions that I think (on hindsight) would have been appropriate. Questions like "are you using any recreational drugs or alcohol?" "What foods are you eating?" "How much soda are you drinking and cigarettes are you smoking?" No one asked me those questions. The answers to those questions, especially to those of you who know how healthy I am now, may shock you! I am now 30, and haven't felt these feelings for almost a decade. It came as a surprise when I was feeling those old demons of self hatred, low self esteem, and apathy begin to rear their ugly heads once again. I thought I had 'beat' this disease....so what is it doing here? What does it have to show me? I am more conscious now, so I am willing to look, listen and learn.<br />
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<b>When I was diagnosed with these 'disorders' at the emotionally ripe age of 18 I was certainly involved with many behaviors that were certainly destabilizing emotionally.</b> I weighed 50 pounds more than I do now, worked at Hooters, ate fast food friend chicken multiple times a day, drank six packs of beer and liters of whiskey all by myself....nightly, smoked two packs of Newports a day, drank Mountain Dew by the liter on the regular, used cocaine on the weekends and eventually it didn't matter what day it was. I was a mess. Of course my emotional body was 'manic/depressed'. I was all over the map with food, drugs and poisons. After two years of being on prescription mood stabilizers, anti-depressants, birth control and pain medications and finally hit a wall and realized I needed to change. Being all over the map emotionally and mentally, and half-dead spiritually, was a result of my choices. After some really intense consequences leading to getting run over by car while I was drunk and landing myself in court appointed re-hab....I finally made some different choices. This is when I found massage school and everything was on the up and up from there.<br />
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I found a book called "The Natural Medicine Guide to Bi-Polar Disorder" by Stephanie Morhan. I made it my bible for two years and followed her five steps to healing.<b> I quit my medications cold turkey and replaced them with fish oils, B vitamins (ate them like candy all day) coconut oil and avocados, clean water, and LOTS of self-help books</b>. I made it my mission to reverse this 'dis-ease' naturally. And lo and behold, after two years of being very dedicated to my practices and nutritional values I felt like I was well. Truly at peace. Feeling happy and healthy! Vital. Free. <b>Healed. </b><br />
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Fast forward in time through my epic life of travel and glam hoop performance and here I am almost ten years later, experiencing FULL ON what felt like a relapse. I didn't fall back into any of the old patterns of drugs or alcohol abuse, but all of the same horrible feelings were there. So clearly, clearly there. This time, because I did not turn away from my experience, but chose to face it consciously, I was able to truly understand what it's purpose was. I saw this 'depression' as a balance to my 'mania' of travel, and I saw this experience as a teacher.<br />
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<b>Instead of drinking booze, I communed with Grandmother Ayahuasca. Instead of smoking cigarettes, I prayed with Grandfather Tobacco.</b> Instead of working at Hooters to get through financial crises, I promoted selling festival tickets and worked on my writing, beginning to create new content for the programs I want to have in place by the end of the year. Instead of eating a bunch of fast food, I fasted. Not starving myself, but taking a few days off of solid food here and there to really feel into the depths of what was happening. So much beauty is in the breakdown. I allowed the breakdown to show me the parts of myself that were lacking discipline, love and feelings of inadequacy. I learned to love those tiny bits that have been hiding in the shadows. Even the brightest of lights hadn't reached all of my tiny parts yet. Finally, the White Light is seeping through the skinniest cracks. Nothing can hide from the Light of Love.<br />
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<b>I let the feelings come instead of stuffing them down with mundane pleasures. </b>In the ceremonies I partook in, I cried. I cried for everything. For Cecil. For the Charleston 9. For the ruined rivers. For the grieving mothers. I cried for so many reasons. I let go of so many self imposed expectations. I cried for the generations past and the pain that was yet to come. I cried a river of tears. I prayed my tears would turn into rains. It was downpour, and I became empty.<br />
I was ready for a New Love to fill my cup. I came to Jesus. I prayed to God. I became humble, shaking, in awe of the power of my own mind.<br />
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In the middle of this current depression that had been in remission since 2007, <b>I decided to start working out for 15 minutes everyday</b>. That was one commitment I decided I could make. I signed up for fun and free 30 Day Challenge and am now on Day 20. I feel so amazingly good! It's amazing was a few weeks of working out can do for your mental reality. I feel 100% more focused and motivated in every area of my life than I did two weeks ago.<br />
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In addition to moving my body, <b>I also took it upon myself to call on my community for guidance</b>. I got hundreds of responses, and felt so loved and appreciated. When I was down, I had friends I could count on! I received an outpouring of support, and my community made it possible for me to muster up my courage and just face it! I sat in a sweat lodge, drank healing smoothies, lemon water and soothing herbal teas, used essential oils, took salt baths, took council with sisters, cried...lots, slept...lots, jumped in super cold spring water, hooped my heart out, hung out in nature, cried a lot more, slept a lot more, questioned my whole reality and at one point....I gave up.<br />
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<b>I fully surrendered.</b> I let the current of sadness take me, and it lead to me to such a beautiful place of acceptance! I finally let all of the elements of my life sink in and fall into their place. I saw what within me was changing. I could see the actual transmutation that was taking place, and seeing how I was struggling against the changes. Once I could see this clearly, and see how I felt I should continue, I decided it was a good time to bring in the Kambo Medicine.<br />
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I have benefitted from receiving Kambo in the past on a physical level. It helped me to heal some addictions to sweets, coffee and tobacco. This time, my eighth round of the frog's healing venom, was dedicated to healing my mind, and helping me love the parts that felt lost and judged. It worked, and when I say it worked, I mean everything finally fell into place. I felt the peace I needed to see my worth, and continue on my mission! I know I could have eventually gotten here without the Kambo, but these tools are here to help us rapidly transmute and transform. These jungle medicines are here to help humanity evolve quickly.<br />
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<b>We must respect these medicines</b>. THEY ARE MEDICINE. Not recreational, hallucinogens for getting high or having a good time. They are for disease reversal and healing. Food, plants and certain animal poisons have healing qualities, but only if we fully respect them and give something back in return. We can't just say "I need that" and take it. We have to develop a relationship with these earthlings. <br />
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I sweat my complaints right through my pores through the workouts, sweat lodges, bike rides and hoop sessions. I vomited out my need for control and surrendered back to spirit with my Vine and Frog rituals. I stood my ground in front of the spirits testing me and pulled through the funk with an OPEN and GRATEFUL HEART!<br />
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You can do that, too!<br />
I have spent many years filling my toolbox with tools to help myself overcome disease and misfortune, and I love sharing those tools with other people. If you are looking to transform you life, and want to uncover the best tools for you to use, <a href="mailto:ihearthoopdance@gmail.com" target="_blank">I encourage you to email me and receive a free 30 minute session with me that will open you up to new possibilities and beyond</a>! I love to assist my tribe, especially when my story can relate to your story. We have each other, so never feel alone.<br />
<b>That is what community is for.</b><br />
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The question I was left with was this. "If I am so much healthier now, why did I relapse into depression?" The answer? <b><i>Cycles</i></b>. My emotional cycles have ups and down. The stars are in a unique cycle that was causing almost EVERYONE to 'feel the funk'. There is a cycle to the seasons. A cycle to my purpose. A cycle to the sun's flares. A cycle to it all. I decided not to attach a bunch of stories to it, and let it simply be a wave of emotions. No stories. Only self-care and nourishing.<br />
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I hope this authentic account helps you to understand that you are not alone in whatever you may experiencing! There are so many people that have reached out to me to simply say "I can relate to how your feeling. I've been feeling the same way". This is not a coincidence. This is synchronicity, and we are all linking up in the unseen realms. There is more than meets the eye to every situation, and <b>sometimes all we can do is trust. </b><br />
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<b>To receive a free 30 minute consultation with me in my budding Illuminated Lifestyle coaching, email me <a href="mailto:ihearthoopdance@gmail.com" target="_blank">here.</a> I know it can get intense, which is why I want to offer my help.</b><br />
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<b>Until we speak again, blessings, love and gratitude on every level!</b><br />
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<b>PS: If you are in the Austin area, <a href="mailto:ihearthoopdance@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me</a> if you are interested in receiving Kambo. </b><br />
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There is a fantastically rare Full Moon on Friday. This Moon is Blue, which means it's the second one in one month. Last time it happened was in 2012 and won't be blue again until 2018. I always like a rare and potent moment in the cosmos, don't you?<br />
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Once in lifetime certain opportunities come along. For some, it's a lucky lotto ticket. For others, a chance to strike fame. For everyone there is only one. It's that one chance you either take or you don't, and either way, you remember it. In the stars it shows that there is an opportunity of the nature amongst us NOW. For me, it's quite clear. I am fishing up my final draft of my first book proposal ever, and submitting it to the Transformational Author Writing Contest on the SAME DAY as the Full Blue Moon on Friday the 31st. I feel like I have a good chance of winning one of the choice prizes and I am holding that vision. I am also totally unattached to the outcome and feeling like I am #winning already, simply because I am finally writing the book and steadfastly on the path.<br />
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Oh, my book is called '<b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shelliewhitelight" target="_blank">Make Love to God: Arousing the Connection to Your Wild Heart, Ecstatic Spirit and Perfect Purpose</a>'. </b>I think it sounds awesome, of course I'm a little biased.<b> </b><br />
'<a href="http://www.facebook.com/shelliewhitelight" target="_blank">Like' my page to stay informed</a> on the release and program launches for this! It's juicy ;)<br />
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What is your once in a lifetime chance that is happening as we breathe this breath? Can you even see it? It may be very subtle, and require a closer look or deeper listen. Whatever it is, embrace it and say 'YES' to the 'YUM' :)!<br />
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Here is a really amazing Blue Moon Blurb from Sianna Sherman (<a href="http://www.siannasherman.com/" target="_blank">amazing yoga priestess chick</a>):<br />
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<b>1) Blue Moon – the 2nd full moon of July. The last one was Aug. 31, 2012</b><br />
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<b>2) Guru Purnima – the full moon to celebrate the transmissions of our teachers</b><br />
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<b>3) Lunar Lammas – the full moon to celebrate the 1st harvest </b><br />
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<b>There’s a tremendous amount of energy building throughout the week and we may find ourselves in review of the past 3 years. It’s like being on the edge of a precipice of massive change and wanting to take a leap of trust into the Universe. We are in major karmic review and at the same time, we might feel an immense urge to go for it, get out of our comfort zones, take a chance and toss ourselves fully into our visionary dreams. No doubt, it’s going to bring up fear, resistance and denial, yet the longing for truth and love is much greater than the limiting forces.</b><br />
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<b>Remember to practice. Soften within and listen to your heart. Get together with your heart tribe to sing, dance, chant, and meditate. Be outside in rhythm with nature and welcome the intensity of the surging life within you.</b><br />
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Thanks to Sianna for such insight! :)<br />
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That's quite an impressive moon! Keep your prayers strong and give all of your gripes to the Highest Source of Love that exists. <i>This is our chance to really breakthrough. </i>I believe in myself, and I believe in you. I believe in your believing in yourself, most importantly, and that is why my career is shifting towards Life Empowerment Coaching. Whether it's mind set, motivation, inspiration, sexuality, body image or positivity coaching - it's all about you believing in yourself, loving yourself, and being your own best friend! This Full Moon Blue Moon, I choose to attract three new coaching clients so I am offering a 75% discount on my 6 Week Life Empowerment Package. Includes 6 private weekly sessions, techniques for transformations and lots of yummy homework and followups. I'm really fun to hang with and love to inspire people, so if this appeals to you let's schedule a free consult<a href="mailto:ihearthoopdance@gmail.com" target="_blank"> here</a>, and just put in the Subject Line: "Yes to Life Empowerment!" :)<br />
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My prayer for you this Blue Moon is simple. LIVE WHILE YOUR ALIVE! Tilt back your head and hooooooooooooooowl in wild wonder. Why not? THIS LIFE is only once in a lifetime. I hope we all really get that. That was what propelled me around the world without and address for 5 years straight. This is my only life. Not a dress rehearsal. Once in a Blue Moon comes a life like this. Make it your own, and then give it up to God. All of my love.........<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The New Moon is a time to go inward and explore the darkness. From the darkness sprouts all new life. A lotus must spiral through the mire before unfolding to the morning sun. A baby must incubate in the lightless womb for many months. Night falls daily, and we slumber in the absence of the sun. The New Moon opens a portal for us to release that which no longer serves us. This particular moon, in Cancer, asks us to consider the following questions: </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">What environment provides beauty for you? </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">What aspects of your life need drastic change? </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Are there family patterns you are unconditionally playing out? </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">We have the opportunity to weed our inner garden, plant new seeds, and create something so amazing, something we have only glimpsed in our imaginations. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Tonight, for my New Moon celebration and inner gardening, I am leading an elemental journey through music and dance in the town where I grew up. I am here in South Carolina, getting back to my roots, and wriggling down deep to the source of my cycles, patterns and pre-determined personality quirks. Tonight as I dance, I choose to dance the demons keeping me from succeeding to the surface, so they can experience love and appreciation for the ways in which they have served me. As they arise from the deepest, darkest realms of my roots, may they be released with ease and grace. May my process feel beautiful and raw, an inspiration to the dancers around me; a source of strength for them to do that same. My prayer is for us all to feel at Home in our Own skin and bones. Temples in the flesh. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Please continue reading to take in the words of amazing astrologist Pat Lilies, who write for The Power Path. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I hope this New Moon blog inspires, ignites and encourages you to make any changes needed in your life. We are all in this together, and we one of us make a change, it's felt worldwide in subtle and sometimes obvious ways. Blessings and Beauty to you now and always <3</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1;">The following write up was excerpted from www.ThePowerPath.com</span></h3>
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Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at<a href="mailto:PATLILES@aol.com" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cd3b33; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> PATLILES@aol.com</a></div>
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Sun and Moon in Cancer ~ 23º</div>
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The emotional dial is turned way up at this point in the year when the Moon is in its own sign, Cancer, and is joined by the Sun for New Moon. Mercury and Mars also in Cancer are joining the party. A party for Cancer includes all those things she rules ~ food, family and the comforts of home. With the Moon as ruler and as the cardinal water sign, Cancer rules our emotional bodies, our receptive nature that waxes and wanes like the Moon’s light bringing constant shift and change. The fourth sign of the zodiac is a curious mixture of security needs and the unending flow of adaptation to change. Cancer rules the fourth house of the zodiac where she is guardian of the home, our foundations, ancestors, our intimate private lives, the mother. Introverted Cancer rules the breasts and the stomach translating to nourishment and what will support family. The watery, Moon-ruled nature of Cancer greatly heightens and sensitizes intuition, and she can feel the shifts in emotional tides before they are even expressed. Often accused of moodiness, it’s just her responsiveness to the emotional currents that puts Cancer in a different stream than the rational, intellectual concerns of those around her. Captain Picard in Star Trek always included his beautiful empath in his council for good reason.</div>
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Mercury and Mars (14º) are also in Cancer and are EXACTLY opposing Pluto in Capricorn (14º)! Oh my!</div>
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Mars has been highly interactive with the Sun and Moon in the last two months. There’s something we need to pay attention to here. Mars adds an element of haste and urgency to everything, we get too much on our plates and the energetic feeling is one of intensity. Add those ingredients to the mental functions of Mercury and in the sign of emotional Cancer and you have a recipe for breaking out of deep emotional patterns, family patterns, patterns that run in the background, feeling patterns, patterns that hold your personal power small and rigid. Cancer tends to develop defenses to protect its emotional sensitivity, so if defensiveness rears its head, check inside that exposed emotional artery for clogged energy that wants release. Avoid dwelling on emotional replays of past hurts and slights and use Mars’ energy for activities that enhance the feeling of Mars empowerment and action. With Mars, God of War, opposite Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, you may see power struggles and resistance with others or within yourself. There’s a push to win, dominate, break through or to accomplish something big and make big changes that free your emotional energy and really change up your life.</div>
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Mercury and Mars will each take a turn at triggering first Pluto in Capricorn and then Uranus in Aries from July 15 (New Moon) until July 25. (Just what the Sun did last week). It creates a background of crisis/opportunity that is exemplified by Greece and the European Union situation. Greece is a Capricorn country as is Brussels, Belgium, seat of the EU (and Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iran, Mexico). Greece is exposing the financial, governmental debt game that they are resistant to and no longer willing to play in a win/lose paradigm ~ a perfect example of the crisis and exposure of no longer functional concepts in our social/financial/governmental/corporate worlds (all Capricorn ruled) by Pluto’s passage through this sign 2008-2024.</div>
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We have two annual retrogrades coming up soon. Uranus in Aries moves retrograde from July 26-December 25 moving ever closer to a square with Pluto until December. We’ve completed all seven exact squares of these two collective, transpersonal planets – the birth is complete. Now we learn to live with the infant. Uranus can open you to the unexpected in whatever house it transits through. Fresh energy, inspiration, unconventional turns, and discoveries await you. The rebel within you may soon make itself heard.</div>
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Venus also moves retrograde on July 25 having just entered 1º Virgo. She will begin moving direct on September 6. Retrogrades can help turn us inward and encourage extreme manifestations of the planet. You may find yourself more creative in your finances, more organized in your personal space, more critical of your relationships, more willing to make health-oriented changes to improve your magnetic attraction. Watch for Venus as Evening Star on the 18th meeting with the crescent moon as she marks her final gateway completing a long cycle and marking her descent and disappearance into the underworld before she reappears next month as the morning star beginning a new cycle in Leo. For a deeper study of this beautiful cycle of the feminine see http://venusalchemy.com/venus-initiation-teleclass-series/</div>
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At this Cancer New Moon, realign with the feminine gifts of support, nourishment and fertility. Bring your feelings to conscious awareness in every situation you find yourself in and heed the messages of your feeling state. Honor the feelings of others. Nurture the new beginnings of all you want to see grow in your life.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07/22 Sun enters Leo 9:30 PM Mountain Time</div>
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07/31 Aquarius Full Moon 8º 4:43 AM Mountain Time</div>
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08/14 Leo New Moon 21º 8:54 AM Mountain Time</div>
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Edisto Island was named after the Edisto Indian Tribe that lived and prospered here until the early 1700's. I have visited their burial sites, and places where relics lie. I have researched what I can of them, only to find dead ends and some simple imagery of hunter/gatherer basket weavers. I feel deeply connected to this tribe, so much that perhaps I had a life once as one of them in the 1500's. 500 years later I sit on the same sand, telling a different story. Perhaps I was a Twisted Hair, one who orally passed on stories, teachings and ways of life. Perhaps I was just The Observer; a part of the whole but not manifest in body. Either way, this island, this shore, this tradition....is my home. </div>
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As I sit here, watching my 2.5 year old nephew being read a story by his mother who is freshly pregnant with her second child....I realize the responsibility I have. I must birth this book for all of the women who need hope, not for themselves but for their children. I have the responsibility to birth this book <i>before</i> I birth a baby, so that I can give this story and message the same type of attention I would give my own child. This message is equally as important to me as the conception of a child. I will nurture, prepare, pray, provide for and purposefully place each word into this carefully crafted creation so that millions of women world wide will absolutely benefit from this book being birthed.</div>
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Because I am blessed to remember I am being called forth to speak.</div>
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There is a truth that exists inside of us that resonates when we see the colors of the rising sun or the sparkle on the ocean surface. Something is ignited when we witness a baby born or feel the wind on our face on a mountain top. This truth is one we can't quite put on our finger on, but we can point to it. My prayer is that my words will point to this truth in a unique way for each reader. May different aspects of my story touch a special spot on each heart, and make a positive change.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-4138616101047237922015-06-11T09:12:00.000-07:002015-06-11T09:12:51.693-07:00The Write TimeToday is a very big day for me. Not only have I begun to type this blog, but I have finally begun to type my book. I have been 'writing' my book for what feels like years. What I mean by writing my book is I have been LIVING the story and keeping detailed journals, blogs and face Creating the content. Feeling the creative cauldron bubbling. There is so much to share! Travels. Lifestyle choices. Sexuality. Dance. Love. Play. PASSION!!!!<div>
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I love my TRIBE so MUCH! They have helped me raise the funds to enter the contest! </div>
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Today, as Mercury goes direct and finally out of retrograde for the time being, EVERYTHING feels in alignment. More so than ever before. I have been procrastinating on writing this book for years, and now..... IT'S TIME! I am glad I waited though because now ALL of my World Travels will be featured....Hawaii, Australia, Peru, Bali and my travels across the country and back. Plus, everything I've learned up till turning 30. I have learned A LOT in these short and adventure packed 30 years! </div>
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This book is not just about my travels. It's about how to live an illuminated life! A life of adventure no matter your physical location, a life of passion no matter your day job, a life of sensuality regardless of relationship status, a life of fitness no matter your body type, a life of LIGHT and JOY and SATISFACTION! It's about the mental state it takes to truly live an illuminated life, a life that inspires the light in others. </div>
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Sound good?! Then please SHARE this BLOG because from what I have researched I need a HUGE platform for the publishers to consider me. In the next 6 weeks not only do I need to write an award winning book, I need to increase my platform by a few thousand followers. So please, if you have ever been inspired by me then share share share my blog, my facebook pages, whatever floats your boat! I just gotta get out there, ya'll! <3 </div>
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THANK YOU. Thank you for reading this because I know that if you are reading this then you will for sure be stoked to read my book(s), which makes me want to hug and kiss you!! </div>
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If you are inspired to donate to my 'Shellie Is Finally F*$#*!G Writing Her Book' Fund then please send any amount of donation to ihearthoopdance@gmail.com via PayPal gift. It takes a lot to write and publish a book and whether or not I win this contest....I am writing this God Blessed Beautiful Book that has been pushing it's way through my womb for years! With you all as my witness.....</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343371404166992189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326566343621302172.post-61574244397634007622015-05-16T01:30:00.000-07:002015-05-16T01:30:01.138-07:00Becoming A GodmotherMakani Maitraya Best<br />
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This is my best friend Omni Love. Aum, her partner, is also my dear brother and friend.<br />
They just made the most beautiful baby appear on this planet, and named Kellen and I Godparents.<br />
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I have not birthed my own child yet, but one day will. I am so thankful to get the practice on Motherhood through Kellen's three kids from his previous marriage, and now with Omni Love's little baby girl. I feel blessed to have so many amazing little children around me (and with all of my other friends giving birth, that number just keeps growing)!<br />
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One thing that is interesting that is very obvious to me (and to Kellen) is how much my desire for a baby has increased while being in the presence of a mother who has just given birth. All of her hormones designed to facilitate a head over heals love affair with baby are contagious! My eggs are dropping all over the place. Haha! It's kind of funny, actually. Kellens offering to get my a kitten and all sorts of things. Truly, I am just ready to focus on writing my book. These blogs are helping me get in the habit of daily writing. Thanks for going along with me on this journey....hopefully one day you can say you read my lil' ole blog before I was an international best seller ;)<br />
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It has been just amazing watching Omni Love's transition into motherhood. She is full of grace. She makes it look seamless. I know she is having her highs and lows, but I can tell by her palpable field of love that she is just overflowing with agape (the highest form of love) for this little being she has just birthed. Truly, an honor to witness.<br />
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Aum is also looking very natural as Papa Puma, as well. I love seeing my brothers stepping into their roles as new daddies! It's such a special site, so sweet to see it all unfolding. So many couple friends of mine have had babies this spring, it's just lovely!<br />
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I'll keep this one short and sweet. I have been bursting at the seems to share Makani's beauty, but tried to keep it in until she was at least two weeks old. She is smiling and squirming and being the healthiest little bean ever! If you are inspired to purchase some of Omni Love's amazing handmade feather earrings or Infinity Facial Oil (cleared my acne) then please click this link and make a donation to supporting this beautiful family:<a href="http://www.gofundme.com/omnilove" target="_blank"> www.gofundme.com/omnilove </a><br />
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<span class="s1">And it feels SO good! Dang. Me and my babe, Kellen, we were apart for two whole months and celibate with each other for four months (for plant study purposes) up until Thursday April 22. It’s about two weeks later and we’ve emerged from a beautiful cocoon of reconnection, rekindling, and reality bending love making. Wow.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This blog is an experiment for me, as I have never publicly written about my sex life for an audience as ‘intimate’ as Facebook. TodayI am breaking through a major barrier in my writing. I am going to do my best to describe with a certain balance of details and appropriateness....my orgasm.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I promise I’ll get to the actual orgasm in the next few paragraphs. What would an orgasm blog be without a little foreplay, anyway? ;) It would be short and sweet and to the point, but this orgasm, and this blog, were a spiraling vortex with infinite directions and inexplicably beautiful scenery along the way. My orgasm was an adventure, and this blog is my way of picking up the cookie crumbs to find my way back a life I knew before this orgasm. But the cookie crumbs aren’t there. There is no ‘way back’. It was a portal....a way in. Here I live, at this new level. In this new and higher dimension of love, not wanting to find my way back, happy for the fire at the belly of the stove and all of the passion and purpose brewing away. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I do not feel like a lost child. I feel like a found woman. Many of my sister-friends around me are pregnant and having babies. It is so beautiful to watch and witness. Swollen bellies and glowing faces, loving partners and parties with tiny little things. My thirty year old body is like ‘yes! Babies!’ and then my nomadic heart says ‘yes! but later!’ and then my career oriented and adventurous mind says ‘condoms! more condoms!’ Truly, being a ‘woman’ in her power in this moment for me looks like so many beautiful choices! I am happy to have made the choice to write these words for you, as I am preparing the way for something explosive....something that has the power to make babies, but can be used also to create in any realm. The All Powerful and Magical Orgasm!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It takes a lot of dedication to commit your orgasm to a higher cause. If you don’t ‘state’ the cause, it’s all good because obviously the underlying force behind most orgasm is love. There are many different levels of love when it comes to orgasm. It may be for the love of the actual orgasm itself, and not even for the person helping facilitate the orgasm. But for me, I have found that the most powerful, gushing, full body, rolling, long lasting, take your breath away and forget your name for a moment orgasms....comes from being in the presence of love fully with the human you are making love with. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">That’s right. Fully present in Love for a mind-bending, reality expanding, better than any drug life changing orgasmic bliss. FULLY present. Not thinking about someone else, or the clothes in the dryer, or what’s for dinner, how the kids are getting home, what he said to you last week, the weird thing your boss does with his lip, the tv shows you need to catch up on or even the way your body looks......all of these thoughts will put the orgasms in the ‘short and unfulfilling’ category. I found I had orgasms like this with men that I didn’t have any emotional connection with at all in my late teens and early twenties. It wasn’t until a few years and potent realizations around monogamous sexual cultivation with one beautiful human that I realized the depth and profundity potentially present with every opportunity to have an orgasmic, ecstatic union. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">My orgasm asks that you please respect it. If you want to talk about it, or the place where it originates (ah-hem) then please do so with respectful words and thoughts. My orgasm has her own rights, and she tends to be less shy when she feels trusting, safe and open. She wants to fully show up for you! So....Without further ado....</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Simultaneously, we climaxed and crescendoed on the same note, during the same symphony, sung by the purest of angels, in the lush gardens of Eden, at a moment in time where every single thing in the world was beautiful, everything electric in my body was sparked and my heart felt like it was a liquid lava field seeping into the cracks of the earth, filling me up completely, merging with him completely, feeling the essence of God completely.....boom. Pure awareness. Ecstatic bliss. Oneness. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Our bodies intertwined, pulsating in unison, reaching the climactic experience at the same time, in the same breath! Time stood still. I have no idea how long the actual ‘orgasm’ lasted, but riding the wave before and cresting to shore after seemed like an entire lifetime. I so love Kellen. His touch feels like home.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">After four months of being celibate due to our extensive plant studies in the Amazon earlier this year, we are finally reunited...with no restrictions on carnal fun ;) Our days have been a haze of delicious reunion here on the luscious island of Mama Maui. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I feel so trusting in the love that is flowing through me. I’ve been happily writing, and lots of creative yum came through in writing workshops we are co-teaching at upcoming festivals like Bhakti Fest and Celebrate Life Tantra Festival. Kellen and I will teaching couples breath work, serving cacao and tea and enjoying ourselves this summer and upcoming seasons. We are joyful and relaxed in the frequency of reunion.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">May you be blessed with compatibility in your relationships and connections. My best friend has just had a baby! I venture into another world now...being a Godmother! I have the honor of helping my friend introduce her first child into this realm! It’s very exciting. Lots of good vibes here in Maui and I’m feeling so much gratitude for my Ohana here on this island. It is magical the way we are all so supported. Aloha Nui Loa!</span></div>
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I begun writing this on the plane from Tokyo to Maui. I finish writing this sitting in my best friends jungle cottage in Huelo, helping her prepare for the birth of her first baby. They plan to call him or her Makani. It is the New Moon. I am choosing to finish this writing project today and make way for the new one. My book. It is time! I have dedicated over a month of my life to writing about how Bali has changed me and for this I am grateful. Now I know the dedication it takes to write at least two to five pages daily. It is not easy work, and there are days when it just doesn’t happen. But overall, I stuck to it and have something to show for it. I am not sure just how many people have actually read it, but honestly, I don’t care. I needed to do this for me. I needed to do this to clear the pipe line, to pave the way for the more powerful work: My Book. The first of many. I realized being in Bali that my main purpose in this life is to write and talk and do it with passion in front of the right people, at the right time, with the right message and make an impact. I have a potent story and when I tell it, hearts are opened and lives have been changed. I am feeling very good about this and want to continue on this path of writing, speaking and helping others realize their gifts through my gifts. Truly, that is what the White Light is for. It is for reflection. Illumination. Realization. </div>
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<span class="s1">Then, once I have a book that sells a billion copies I get to talk about it, which is the really fun part! I love to talk especially when it’s helping people find their center and discover options they hadn’t considered before. I have known since I was a child that I was meant for big things, and I know that my books are a huge part of it. They are a platform for me to launch from, into the ocean of inspired speaking, motivational performance, youth empowerment, feminine empowerment and self love exploration. I am just one woman, one voice. But I have the courage to tell my story, speaking up and out, ready to ride the wave once people start listening. I have had the support of my beautiful parents to do this my whole life, and now my community is beginning to support me as well. If you are reading this blog, you are part of this support team. THANK YOU! This is the last of the regular blogs and now I will write blogs once a week, maybe more here in there if there is something super epic occurring. In the meantime, sign up for my newsletter HERE and stay posted on the happenings that way. I love you dearly and really appreciate your time and energy. Now, I am off to celebrate the birth of my first godchild and also Earth Day, and my Beloved arrives in five days!!! We haven’t seen each other in TWO MONTHS. Once we have throughly reconnected. there will be a blog on that for sure ;) That one will be juicy indeed, and perhaps with a PG-13 rating as well. </span></div>
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Roosters call out at dawn. The cicadas are blaring if its full sun. It’s easy to wake up with nature when you have a live alarm clock outside your door. You would never find that in the city, a rooster as your wake up call. As I sit on my personal porch the sweet man running the bungalow brings me a tea cup, tea bag, dried coffee, sugar and a thermos full of hot water. I as I rise with the morning morning, and sip my black tea while watching the woman place the daily offerings with intention. The smell of the sweet incense is forever with me. The offerings of smoke, food, fruit, rice, all placed on palm leaf sections, left at various times of day can be found in front of every shop, every temple, every place deemed sacred or simply a spot fit for devotion in the moment. The beauty here is deeply impressed in my heart. The simplicity and reverence resounds in my soul. The structures have left a permanent memory in my mind, palaces and carvings and statues galore. The people have shown me how to be a more dedicated, decent human being. Bali is now in my blood. It has entered me through every sense and cellular aspect of my being. I have absorbed Bali into my very essence. I will carry her with me. She and I are One.</div>
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<span class="s1">I bored a plane soon to fly away from this lovely island to another tropical paradise, Maui. I left from Maui and to Maui I shall return. My original plans before my best friend told me she was pregnant was to stay six months, and travel to Thailand, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet. I still have this grand goal. Next year and in the years to follow I will set foot in all of these beautiful lands and leave no spiritual stone unturned. I am not seeking. I know whats there. Inside me, that is. I not 'looking for myself'. I found my essence a good while back. I am here to observe as much beauty as possible on this planet while I can, and traveling to some of the most incredible lands on the planet seems to reveal beauty in ways I could not imagine. I am not seeking my self anymore. I am perfectly found. I only want to steep myself in the experiences that these magical lands have offered wanderers for eons. I am happy to be going to Maui...again. I find myself returning to this particular paradise over and over again since 2011. It was my first "Big Adventure". And now, The Biggest Adventure of all awaits....a child is to be born! I am ecstatic and feeling very happy about this upcoming blessing. Bali has been one beautiful and wild ride, through and through, and now I feel the real work will begin as I arrive to support my beloved Best Friend in the Universe, Omni Love, as she enters the final weeks of her pregnancy. She is going to be a mommy! And I an Auntie. This is a special time, and I feel very blessed that I could go to Bali and back and still arrive in time to be a part of it all. My Beloved partner Kellen will arrive also, just a week after I do. This is extremely exciting for two reasons: one, he has never been to Maui so I get show him my Hawaiian Homeland, and two, we have not seen each other for TWO WHOLE MONTHS! Eeek! Close the doors and don't come a knockin', that's all I have to say about that ;)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Packing. I pack all of the things and it doesn’t take me as long as I thought it would. I tape up the hula hoops and tuck and squish all the clothes. I make everything very small and I purposely leave a couple articles of clothing behind that I secretly hate and never wear. I check out and pay the lady for two nights and a bottle of water. 305,000 rupiah. That's a little under $30. She says I can hang in my room until my taxi comes. Good. I need a little more time. I drink a little more coffee and have a few more moments of sun by the pool. I shower. I rinse my body with the last bit of Balinese water that I will feel on my skin for a good long while. But, I know this is not goodbye. It doesn’t even feel remotely close to being goodbye. I know it is a “thank you for coming, see you again very soon” type of moment between her and I. We have an agreement. We like each other. Our first encounter has gone extremely well and can still be improved upon! Everything has room for improvement, and I would say my first trip over here was a phenomenal start. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">From teaching at the most epic international hoop gathering of Sacred Circularities, to performing at Bali Spirit Fest, to giving body work, breath work and Human Design sessions, to stabbing my finger in the spiky tree, to communing deeply with the lotus pond, to being a Queen in a Water Palace, to hooping my heart out, to praying traditionally as the Balinese do at the Water and Mother temples, to the salty oceanic awesomeness, to the volcano, to the rice fields, to the best friends and new friends, to my first medicine drum, to the sunrises and sunsets, to the geckos and monkeys, to befriending amazing musicians and singing my story to my peers, to the love, the light and the letting go..........</span></div>
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<span class="s1">To sweet, generous, beautiful, bountiful, brilliant, breathtaking Bali....I love you!</span></div>
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Ahhhhhh....white sands, turquoise water, full sun, good food, great company and mushroom tea! Ha! That about sums it up. The rest is just details about giant monitor lizards, bad psy-trance music and snorkeling. I really needed a vacation while on, um, vacation. I had been working for four weeks straight, three weeks teaching hoop dance at Sacred Circularities and one week assisting and performing at Bali Spirit Fest. I hadn’t had the chance yet to just full on relax, and when I saw Tammy while riding down the street on the motor bike, saying “Im headed to the Gili’s”, everything in me screamed “I’m going with you!” And so, I did.</div>
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<span class="s1">I packed a little bag, grabbed my hoops, extracted some funds from the ATM and hopped in a cab with Tammy and Sita to catch the boat to Gili Air. There are multiple Gili Islands, all of which I want to visit someday, but today we were headed to the Air Around this time of year there is always a big after party for the Pirates Retreat, which is a small fire and flow festival that happens on it’s own little private island. The Pirates after party consists of non-stop psy-trance music which to me is some of the worst music to my ears on the whole planet, except music that has negative lyrics. I have no judgement, it’s just far from my personal preference of musical choice. But it's all good, I'm not going for the music, I'm going for the people and the place. Plus, it's healthy for me to step out of my comfort zone now and again.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We arrived on Gili Air after an hour taxi ride from Ubud and an hour boat ride from the port. We took a horse and carriage (no motor taxis here) around about half the island to find a bungalow for the three of us to share. We found one called Puri Air and made ourselves at home. We unpacked and went across the street to have a sunset dinner. After dinner we decided we would ‘take a nap’ and then head to the party. I went to sleep around 8pm and I had my alarm set for 10:45pm. It never went off. Instead, we awoke around 4:45am and went to the party then! It was still bumpin' full on. We enjoyed the sunrise and danced to some not-so-bad psy-trance, practiced some hoops and watched the crazy kids who had been burning fire all night continue to spin away. It was actually pretty fun. I saw my friend Yul from Peru who I had spent two months in the jungle with out there. We told each other we would end up meeting and Bali, and there on Gili, we did! We danced and I hooped and we could only take so much of the crazy psy-trance and littered beer bottles. It was time we went for our breakfast. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">After breakkie we rented some bikes and headed to the local reggae bar for some magical mushroom tea. Yes! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We sipped on tea and did yoga and headstands and then got into the water. To me, this was the most the magical moment of the trip. The water was perfect in temperature, color, current and caress. My body really appreciated soaking in the salt and my eyes were happy with all of the brilliant sparkling ripples and waves. I felt like a mermaid! Sita and I just giggled and swam around. I recognized what a blessed life I live, and I would need to hold on to this moment of recognition later in the day when events took a slight turn downhill....more on that later.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">After what felt like hours playing in the shallow waters of shore we decided to rent some snorkeling masks. We rode our bikes a little further down and came across our good friend Gail O’Brien who had just finished teaching at Pirates. She took us to her super cute little cottage and walked us around the garden. In her garden were these crazy huge monitor lizards that looked totally prehistoric and like they could definitely eat me if they wanted to! I took some film and footage from a distance. There was this one moment where I thought the lizard was going to attack a little cow right in front of us, but no! It just made a weird little farting sound and slithered back into the water. It was certainly an odd site to witness! All on camera. I’ll eventually post it on my YouTube :)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">After some lizard watching we went for a snorkel with Gail. It was kind of sad for me to see that the reef on the shore was all pretty much dead from blasting it back in the day for fishing purposes. Now there are still some really beautiful fish, but the reef is grey. I experienced the same thing snorkeling in Australia, and in the Bahamas. I have yet to see live, vibrant coral reef. I know it’s out there, but it is a sobering reality to see how much of it has vanished. On the bright side however, there were sea turtles and beautiful rainbow spectrum fish, polyps and all sorts of interesting creatures that I dared not go near, but enjoyed hovering over the seascape and the beauty that resided there. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">After snorkeling with my lady friends we took our bikes all around the island. It doesn’t take long to ride around the island at all, maybe 30 minutes, but we took all day between tea and friends! We did some shopping and had a nice lunch. I got lots of nice little gifts for the kids back home, my parents, my friends and my lover. I realized I needed to go to the ATM after all of that and lo and behold, guess what I found was missing?! MY ATM CARD! I didn’t panic though. I remembered how perfect life felt only hours ago in the rippling light waves of the ocean, smiling and feeling at peace. I made all the calls needed and was able to borrow enough from my friend to get back home. Thank God for my sweet Beloved Kellen who went above and beyond to make sure I could access all of the funds I needed for the remainder of my stay in Bali, and baggage fees backs to the islands. It takes a community sometimes to help you out in a time of need, and I am very grateful my friends were able to say when I needed to ask.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We had a nice hoop session on the beach. I have become obsessed with practicing balancing the hoop on the tip of my middle finger over my head. After our sunset beach hoop session, we had a nice dinner of yellow fin tuna and caught a horse back to our bungalow in a downpour. Another early bedtime for us crazy kittens.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We awoke, had our morning meal, watermelon juice and tea, and then made our way back on the boat and in a cab to Ubud. I only had three days, two nights left, to be in Bali, with a few loose ends to tie up, so I checked into a cheap bungalow with a nice pool and decided that after all of this time with friends and faces, I needed to just chill. Me and the pool. That’s it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I love this place so much and feel so honored to have been here for five whole weeks!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I am definitely returning next year with more time, more money, and more space in my schedule for unplanned adventure, as this spontaneous trip to the Gilis was just what I needed.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Truly, a blessing of blessings to lounge in blue water on white sands with good friends by your side. Looking forward to having my lover with me next year as this place is totally romantic. If you are looking for a lovely place to honeymoon at anytime, Bali is your best bet! Until next time, stay shining....</span></div>
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From Tirtagganga, I made my way to Canggu to visit my friend <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/KayoAnimeClothing" target="_blank">Kayo (amazing clothing designer)</a> and catch the last <a href="http://www.lovedustinthomas.com/" target="_blank">Dustin Thomas</a> show, with <a href="http://www.itsjuswright.com/" target="_blank">Jus Wright </a>opening. I love these kids. They are the voice of a new wave of music. These musicians sing of real time world issues and real life stories pour from their soulful sounds, and they do it with hearts a flame. My first taste of music like this was <a href="http://www.nahko.com/" target="_blank">Nahko</a>, with whom I was able to spend beautiful time with in 2012 and 2013, even performing with him and Medicine For The People for six shows along the East Coast of Australia. Dustin has performed with Nahko and is now on his own mission, with a big voice, big hair and standing tall. I really value his passion for exposing truths that many may not uncover on their own, but music has a way of weaving it’s way into the hearts and psyches of so many. Dustin is on a fiery path, blazing a trail along with others like Nahko, Jus Wright, Sara Tone, Trevor Hall of SOJA, Michael Franti, Matisyahu, and so many more that deliver a potent message with their pleasing sounds. I like to choose music of this nature, that is still underground and independent, to perform my hoop pieces to, to help get these musicians exposed and appreciated. It worked with Nahko's music , and now I have the whole hoop community obsessed, haha! Dustin, your next buddy! Be ready hoopers, some new jams are headed your way.</div>
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<span class="s1">The show was so much fun! I danced with my hoops for some of Jus Wright’s songs, helping to get the crowd stoked and dancing. Then, Dustin rocked it and got the crowd to donate over 4 million rupiah to fund buying guitars for local village kids who want to play music. An inspiring site to witness. The more I listen to music like this the more I want to play music like this. It ignites something within me that desires to use my voice in a more powerful way. I love telling stories and singing, so I feel that once I learn an instrument other than my own voice, that song writing and performance of this nature will unfold naturally. It was a really powerful moment being on that beach at Old Man’s Beer Garden with Dustin and Jus on stage resounding a noise that helped hundreds find a center point in a world of chaos. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Before the show I took a while to myself on the beach with my lighted LED hoops and just gave the local stall owners a surprise light hoop show. It’s color therapy for me, and it’s nice to just dance to dance, knowing others are watching but it’s not officially a performance or anything. It’s just for the Love. Music for the Love. Dance for the Love. Love for the Love.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">After the show I was blessed to catch a sleepy ride back to Ubud with the boys. I wasn’t sure exactly what I would do when I got to Ubud at 3AM but luckily my brother had a bed for me and I got a little sleep between roosters and village sounds. In the morning I still wasn’t sure why I was in Ubud and so I hitched a ride towards Clear Cafe, thinking I would get some ‘clarity’ at Clear, along with some yummy breakfast. Before we even got to the main road I saw my girl Tammy FireFly, saying she was headed to Gili Air Island for a little R&R and to visit with all of the tribe who would be there for a post Pirates Retreat Trance Party. I’m not into psytrance but I sure did like the idea of heading to the beach with some girlfriends! I never made it to Clear Cafe that day, but I did end up on a boat headed to the sunny Gilis! Spontaneity and adventure are always first on my list at times like these. When in doubt, do something you weren’t expecting.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Today as I awoke the sky was pink and the earth was misty. There was a fine line between heaven and the ground. Perhaps I have found a place where the two become one. The ocean lies on the horizon, and some mountainous islands sitting as if they were afloat on the majestic sea. The thousands of lotuses open and close, devoted to the low light, and the fragrance of incense and frangipani’s wafts through the air. My ears are not distracted but soothed by the constant sound of the ever flowing spring fed fountains. My eyes relax as I take in the early morning sunlight through the trees, giving thanks for another day in this blessed, beautiful, holy land. I can see dozens of fountains from my pillow in my hand carved wooden bed. I feel the wind and smell the morning mist. I am honored to awake in such beauty; a waking dream. I give thanks.</span></div>
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I feel like a Queen. I am actually staying in a villa that was formerly royal headquarters. There was a time when this was truly a palace, now it is mostly a place for tourists to view and local children to swim, but luckily, I have a connection to a friend who owns a beautiful villa on the property. I am using this time and these sacred grounds for creation. I am allowing my waters of creation to flow. Of course, my moon water has also come during this time. By moon water I mean ‘my period’. This is auspicious in my eyes, as a woman’s moon time is her prime peak of creative focus, a time for nesting and being nurtured, and a time to honor the waters of the world. So Here I Am, in the Palace of Holy Waters, being served delicious and nutritious foods, writing, dancing, and feeling right at home as a royal citizen of this precious planet. </div>
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<span class="s1">I am only here in Bali for one more week. I am writing this on a Thursday and I leave next Wednesday. I will be back on Maui in 8 days. Wow. It’s kind of crazy and hard to feel into that. I feel like I am just completely arriving, actually. I am just learning my first words of Indonesian and Balinese. It’s peak Durian season! I am just now beginning to know the names of the beautiful faces I have been meeting and seeing over and over again amongst the festivities and social happenings (which are ALL the time in Ubud). I really love it here. I tell the truth when I say I will have a home here some day. One day, hopefully in the near future, I will have a place here in South East Asia to call my own, a place to keep my ‘Bali Wardrobe’ and snorkeling gear, my Asian adornments and Hindu inspired altar pieces. I realize I want homes in many regions of the world; Continental North America, Hawaii, Asia, South America and even though I haven’t been there yet I feel the call to Southern Europe. As a global citizen, I feel blessed to be able to travel the way I have, to stay in places like this beautiful Water Palace, from where I write these words. </span></div>
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As my skin is softened and browned by the sun during my time here in Bali, the waters have softened and suppled my soul. I feel more radiant and in my female prowess than ever before. Finally, I feel like a woman. I have embraced my power, my beauty and my mission ten fold since setting foot on this lovely land. I am beyond grateful for these people, the culture, the food, the wisdom, the volcano which I have to visit first thing when I return, and especially thankful to my dear sister in creation Jaguar Mary who created Sacred Circularities, the platform that I love so much that brought me all this way. I may have made it some other way at some other time, but I am so glad I was invited to teach hoop dance in Bali! I keep saying it over and over again, but it's real....Dreams Do Come True!</div>
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<span class="s1">Lunch is now served, so it is time to retire from my keyboard for the day. Until tomorrow, be well and vital in all that you do, and know that time is only a tool to keep us on track in achieving our purposes, passions and positive perceptions. As the time has flown by as swiftly and silently as an owl in the night during my time here, I realize that we are simply spinning, turning, twirling like the tides, neither coming nor going, but moving in the moment, as the moment also moves. It is time. Whatever you desire, now is the time. Follow, reach, grab and go. Don’t cling or hold, just flow with the wave. Wherever it drops you, there you are. Sometimes you get lucky, and the tide drops you in some magical royal quarters at a beautiful Water Palace in rural Bali. Hold the Flame!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I spend the next four days posted up in a place called Ani’s Villa which has an amazing pool with my lovely sister from London, Sofia. I stayed there during my Bali Spirit Festival experience. I attended Bali Spirit Festival as a Presenter’s Assistant by day and Fire Dance Performer by Night. Wow, what a powerful and potent time for this festival to be in full swing, with Saturday as the pinnacle, as a Full Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse darkened the skies with a rosy hue. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Thursday was a blast as I assisted Mailaka for her 5 Elements Dance Activation. It was really fun and informative to witness this shamanic dance journey being held in the open container of a festival scene. I am used to small, intimate dances in candle lit spaces with women I know, and this was a day time, open air space with many faces I’d never seen. A perfect situation for me to grow! I helped set up the altar, retreat flyers and such, getting the space dialed in. Once we got started and were going strong there were a few folks on the outskirts just watching and wondering what on earth this fun was, and it felt really good to pull them in and say ‘Dance with us! We are currently dancing for ‘the earth element’ (or fire or whatever element they came in on). It was a super delightful experience to dance with all of these beautiful beings, holding space while Malaika facilitated with ease, grace and power. She even received sign ups for her <a href="http://inmyelements.com/elemental-embodiment-retreat/" target="_blank">Elemental Embodiment Retreat w/ Deya Dova</a> and for her <a href="http://inmyelements.com/5elements-dance-teacher-training-bali/" target="_blank">5 Elements Dance Activation Teachers Training</a>! I am all about helping others step into their power, and these trainings are certainly one fun and full on way to do just that. I’m really grateful for my continued studies with my Shamanic Dance Mentor, <a href="http://www.inmyelements.com/" target="_blank">Malaika Darville</a>. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">That night I cruised over to the beautiful resort where Bhakti Night was being held. I love devotional music. Being raised in the church I sang hymns of praise, and now the earth is my church and I am still singing praises to the Most High just in different languages and contexts. I will always love music and music will always love me! I was very inspired by tonights music, especially <a href="http://www.peiasong.com/" target="_blank">Peia</a>. WOW! Her voice blew my mind and melted my heart. I will be listening to her and picking up on the tones and vibrations, allowing my own voice to mimic this angelic vocalists. She is truly a gift to this planet and the heavenly realms. PachaMantra was also an amazing inspiration to me with their danceable medicine music and multiple musician band. Every time I listen to music that moves my soul I realize this is part of my highest calling. This experience in Bali has led me to an understanding of my higher purposes and gifts, and I really look forward to what they look like when in full bloom. Right now, the little lotus seeds have been planted in the fertile grounds of my humble heart, and with practice and prayer I will nurture them dearly. Another seed that was planted came through the meeting of an old friend, Eugene, who is putting on the first Tantra Festival here in the states this September. We both feel that my hoop dance and breath work offerings would be a perfect match. The Tantric Path has been a study of mine for the last 8 years, so I look forward to deepening my connections in this realm. Thursday was a lovely first day for me at Bali Spirit Festival on every level.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Friday was a very different type of day. I have just come from a full on three week retreat and right into festival mode, and had to be honest with myself and take a day off! There was no assisting or performing scheduled for me that day, so I slept in. Upon waking Sofia informed me that our neighbors had acquired the tiniest little kitten who’s mommy had abandoned it. They were leaving and needed someone to care for it until it found a home or the rescue people could come. Of course Sofia and I said yes and we took this precious little cat, a sweet little calico no bigger than my own tiny hand, under our motherly wing. We fed it every two hours with a syringe and it was so tiny that we even had to help the little critter pee since usually it’s mom would lick it to help it do that. We used a wet cloth and it worked. Talk about bonding! Sofia was the one who really stepped up since I had festival responsibilities and she did an amazing job. We even made a little bed in a bag for it and took it shopping with us and everything. We even took the little thing out to our friend Lenna’s birthday dinner with us and let all of our friends see how cute it was hoping one of them would want it. No one could take it, and eventually Sofia had to give it to the Bali Animal Welfare Association. I hope they care for it properly and find it a good home! It is literally the cutest little cat I have ever seen and it opened my heart up so wide and big. Funny how something so small can make you feel love so big.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Saturday was a massive day at Bali Spirit. That night was the Total Lunar Eclipse, with a Full Blood Moon in Libra, and also the night I performed with one of my favorite down tempo electronic dance musicial duo’s, Desert Dwellers. The day began very early at dawn as I arose with the geckos and lovebirds to catch a taxi to the daytime location of Bali Spirit Fest to assist Malaika with the Shiva Shakti 5 Elements Dance Activation at 8AM. Getting a taxi was a minor nightmare, and then finally the one we did catch was some random man on a bus who said he knew where he was going but stopped his huge bus every five seconds to ask random sidewalk strangers where the place was. He also kept changing the price the entire time. Well, hello eclipse energy! I could tell today was going to be one heck of a ride....and it was, starting on the rickety bus with the nice but odd man who finally got us to Purnati for BSF. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We arrived just in time for the Shiva Shakti activation and wow, what a special and amazing experience. We united our Divine Feminine and Masculine in really sweet exercises, together and apart. Lots of eye gazing and soft touches. Much celebration of the beauty in the other and recognition of uniqueness. It was lovely. Then, to my surprise, Malaika called me into the middle of the circle and blessed me with a red rose and flower petals that Kellen had requested be delivered to me. It was our two year anniversary that day, and since we couldn’t be physically together he had Malaika honor me in front of 50 other people as his Divine Beloved Shakti! I accepted the rose and cried with happy tears and could feel the love all the way from Texas! What a beautiful honor and surprise. Thank you, Kellen! I love you baby. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">After the dance, pool time and delicious noms I got super glittered and glam for the evening of music and performance. I felt SO honored to be taking the stage with Desert Dwellers, Tammy FireFly, Dai Zaobob, Forest of Liquid Fire Mantra and the amazing Tribal Fusion Dancer Deb Rubin. What a dream team! We all were dressed and made up and sparkling to the nines and ready for the show. We rocked it solid with fire palms, staves, bugaang, fire hoops, double fire hoops, aerial silks and exquisite stage presence. Truly, I had the time of my life! With it being my Two Year Anniversary, a Full Moon Total Lunar Blood Moon Eclipse, Day 3 of Bali Spirit, and my debut performance with these epic musicians, I felt like my life reached a pinnacle moment of completion. Love, Purpose, Passion, Travel, Artistic Collaboration and FUN...it really all came together for me on this night in Bali. I am feeling so beautifully blessed, and if this is what the first year of my 30’s looks like, then I can hardly wait to see how this precious decade of my life continues to unfold. Giving THANKS!</span></div>
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