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When you arrive on Earth, you are given one precious body.

This is the vessel that carries your soul for the duration of this lifetime you are given.

Your sacred body is your tool for fulfilling what you came here to do, and you must care for it, as it cannot be replaced.

 
 

December 11-18 2018

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My heart travels to the Himalayas of Northeastern India, where a Buddhist monk cares for 300+ children at the Manjushree Vidyapith School and Orphanage. This is one of the most remote orphanages in the world - a 2.5 day jeep ride from the nearest airport, and due to snow, the roads are only passable for a few months every year. As a monk, Lama Thupten relies on the goodwill of humanity for support. The orphanage is not receiving sufficient aid - it is overcrowded and cannot accept all those who need help - so many children are dying of malnutrition and disease. WE CAN HELP THESE BEAUTIFUL SOULS. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY. If you are reading this, most likely you have been given the privilege to have abundant access to education, clean drinking water, shelter, and so much more. Often I find myself feeling so grateful for what I have, and wondering how I can give more. I find myself questioning why so many children are being born into poverty, war, and abuse, and worse - often times are unheard, unseen, and unsupported by a world that is so abundant and able to help them - and often turns a blind eye to their suffering. I can't live in a state of abundance without giving what I have been blessed with - it is my dharma to inspire and empower a liberated life, and that means touching the hearts and souls of children, the beautiful beings who are incarnations of God. They are our planet's future. Service is one of the fundamental practices of a yogic lifestyle. "Sat Nam" - "Truth is my Identity" - is the traditional greeting of the #KundaliniYoga tradition, and we've chanted it together if you've attended a class or workshop with me - or perhaps you saw my recent Tide Pool photo of one of my most potent Thyroid Yoga classics... Sat Kriya. @sat_nam_foundation, the generous group who organized @satnamfestival was founded by a committed team of Kundalini Yogis who are traveling to India with @gurmukh108 to support the orphanage with water, supplies and love. . If reading this inspires you: 1) see @dreadprtroberts bio for how to support 2) www.thyroid.yoga/retreat (a portion of proceeds will be donated) 3) give ❤️ always . 📷 @jennaduffy #satnam #truenature
In my daily prayer to my guides and angels - I ask to be shown how I can be of service. I pray to be shown the mentors, friends, and relationships that will lead me on this path. . Returning home after @satnamfestival last month, I've realized again, how blessed I have been to follow my intuition and go where I am guided. I had a strong and persistent hit that I must go to this #KundaliniYoga festival. So, I booked my ticket and days later I departed Costa Rica and found myself in the Berkshires, dancing my heart out with soul family and remarkable artists and musicians, wiping my tear-stained cheeks after intense Kundalini Kriyas that shook me awake, cleansed me, and reunited me with my radiant lioness. . It was no coincidence that this remarkable festival took place during the auspicious Lion's Gate Portal - August 8 - August 11th - a gateway into the heavens and into higher realms of consciousness. During this time, higher frequency energies from the star, Sirius are beamed down onto Earth, in order to help advance the human race and raise the consciousness of the planet. . The Lion's Gate Portal is activated every year on August 8th when the Sun, Sirius, and the Earth move to specific points in the sky. This is a time where new levels of consciousness are infused into the planet and also into each of us individually. What this energy is guiding us to do is align with our path and purpose, and help our community wake up, rise and activate together. We all chose to come back at this time, to clear any karmic ties from our lineage of our ancestors, heal ourselves, heal humanity and collectively heal Mother Earth. . We are all cut from the same cloth, we are all made of the same elements, and we will all return to the same place. We were all chosen to be born on Earth to help the planet, to help our fellow humans and all life we co-exist with, and to remember, even though we are constantly distracted by our differences, that we are all one and the same. . So, this brings me to why we gathered on this auspicious portal - to come home to each other, to reunite with soul family as we help our global planet heal. 🌿🦋 to be continued in next post....
When I imagine myself as an old woman at the end of my life and ask myself how I will evaluate my time here, there is only one question that concerns me: Did I love well? . There are a thousand ways to love other people and the world - with our touch, our words, our silences, our work, our presence. . I want to love well. This is my hunger. . I want to make love to the world by the way I live in it; by the way I am with myself and others every day. . So I seek to increase my ability to be with the truth in each moment, to be what I know, the sweet and the bitter. I want to stay aware of the vastness of what I do not know. This is what brings me to the journey. I do not want to live any other way. . And sometimes, I allow myself to imagine that each moment in which we love well by simply being all of who we are and being simply fully present allows us to give back something essential to the Sacred Mystery that sustains all life. . Tell me how you are. Don’t shake your head and tell me that a lot of energy is moving or put your hand to your breast with eyes wide and murmur breathlessly about how a lot is coming through you. . Tell me something real, in language rooted in the details of blood and bone, heart and mind. . . Tell me about a moment of real solitude, a moment when you were with yourself and you felt at the center, a moment when you could feel the world, the stars, the galaxies spinning around you. . #findingourwayhome #thisismyhunger #somethingreal #theinvitation #oriahmountaindreamer #nosara
Meet @anneskjoeth. Surf mermaid, #ThyroidCancer survivor and one of the most genuine souls I have ever known. We met by kismet in #Nosara when her boyfriend Denny, my surf coach, introduced us matter-of fact - simply “you two need to meet.” Then we bonded instantly on the water and the rest is history. 🦋 . Anne is the exceptional chef preparing nourishing plant-based gorgeous goodness 🌿 for the upcoming Thyroid Yoga cleanse, retreat and teacher training @vivonosara 💕 (3 months and counting!!!!) and I’m thrilled to create many beautiful healing experiences with her in Nosara and beyond. This woman is truly special. And she’s been through so much and SHE IS is the real deal. 💯 . “Brain fog and emotional imbalances. They can never see I’m sick. They see that I lose weight, they see that I’m tired, but they can never see the battles I have within and I do not tell them. My mind races and I feel alone in the world. I cut my self off from loved ones. I create my loneliness. So why do I do this? I’m convinced people won’t understand what I’m going through. Sometimes I even blame my loved ones for not being more understanding of my condition, but the truth is I have to look within. . Two years ago I packed up my life and moved to jungle, where I’ve been on a strict diet and always get my sleep. My dose of Eltroxin has been more than halved since then even though I should be on the same dose forever. I feel like most doctors don't believe in the body’s self healing properties and how nutrition can either block or aid our healing. . There is so much I can do to keep myself in balance. The days I eat healthy, get all my meals and exercise are always good days. Running keeps me sane, surfing nurtures my soul and fruits and greens keep my mind-body and spiritual body in balance. The days I stay in bed until noon and don’t eat anything are the days I feel ungrateful and sorry for myself and these are the days where it only takes a pinch to throw me completely off. I need to do this healing for myself, focus on myself and then, I’m ready to give a lighter and brighter version of my heart to someone else.“ . #thyroiddisease #thyroidhealing #thyroidwarrior #thyroidawareness
“You’re the guru so visualize healing.” @nahkobear . Savasana in tide pools after Sat Kriya is where I visualize healing. . Sat Kriya is a powerful #KundaliniYoga meditation - one of my favorites - so effective because it stimulates your navel point (POWER CENTER!) or third chakra, which puts your first and second chakras into alignment. When the navel point, your nuclear power, is balanced and stimulated, your confidence can resurrect. It grounds you, allowing for better digestion and elimination, and helps you transcend fears. Righteous! . The main impact of this kriya is to tone the nervous system, calm emotions, and to channel creative and sexual energies of the body. Because you're pulling together in unison your lower chakras, which are associated with your fundamental emotions and needs, the effects are multiplied. Your entire reproductive system is strengthened as you transmute sexual energy into creative energy. Love it! . “Sat Kriya is to purify your being. Disease, ailment, weakness, impotency, laziness and negativity—all improper things will leave you.” Yogi Bhajan . This kriya also powerfully strengthens your voice and is a powerful #thyroid-strengthening ritual - and I can’t wait to rock 11 minutes with you daily during the upcoming Thyroid Yoga training and retreat December 11-18 at @vivonosara! . How to: Sit on your heels with your knees together. Stretch your arms over your head with elbows straight, interlace all of your fingers except your index fingers. Men cross the right thumb over the left. Women cross the left thumb over the right. Stay firmly seated on your heels and keep your spine straight throughout the kriya. Begin to chant "Sat Nam" with a constant rhythm. As you pull your navel in and up toward your spine, chant "Sat" from your navel point. As you relax your belly, chant "Nam." Keep your eyes closed and focus at the third-eye point in between your eyebrows. Rest in savasana for the same amount of time you chanted Sat Kriya. . If you have access to tide pools, your savasana just got even sweeter. 😉 . Counting the days till our #thyroidhealing retreat! 🦋 . #playaguiones #nosara #nahkoandmedicineforthepeople #healyourself
This is @donnalynncivello, very first yoga teacher when I began practicing in Brooklyn in 2009... she was my catalyst to embark on teacher training with her as my guide, and gave me the courage to quit my corporate job in Finance to live my truth as a full-time yogi. I hope this message helps you today. And I pray you have a teacher and friend like Donnalynn in your life. If you do, tag them and remind them you have their back, too. ❤️ . We shared an amazing adventure in Costa Rica last week. When she returned home to NYC, she sent out a newsletter and I was moved to tears by how only a few days here with me moved her so deeply. What a gift to witness the jungle medicine on my special friend! . “She saved me and funny enough, I didn't realize I needed to be saved. I honestly thought I was fine. I was so - as they say in Costa Rica - "deep into the matrix" that I wasn't able to process any of what was happening to me. It's amazing what the jungle does to you -- it calls to you. When I just stopped long enough to feel the earth beneath my toes and listen to the howler monkeys and tropical birds, I realized I was home. When my friend would put her healing hands on me, I would immediately break down into tears - tears of joy, tears of confusion. It was a pure release from holding onto so much this difficult summer. Who knows what life has in store for any of us? All I know is that I'm not really afraid of dying, I more afraid of NOT LIVING anymore. All this time, I hadn't really been allowing myself to feel what I was feeling. I was on autopilot trying to "keep it all together." But for what? All I needed was space to feel the ocean air and breathe. The earth has all I ever needed. She called me back to a place to remember how special I am and how free my spirit really is. Now that my spirit is out of the box, she will never be able to be caged again. Thank you Fern Olivia, you are my angel and my savior. I thought I was your mentor, but you have clearly shown me that you are my greatest teacher. I love you. xo” @donnalynncivello #myangel . #playaguiones #nosara #oceanmedicine #yoursoulspeakingtoyou #listen 🌊🌿🦋
Dancing is my church, my medicine. Today I danced for nearly an hour in my @salvajeswimwear in front of my mirror. I sweat, I laughed, some of it on my Instagram story so if you’d like to be inspired to move your booty today, there’s plenty of it. 🍑 😂 🙌🏽 . On a serious note. My teacher @gurmukh108 recommends dancing at least 20 minutes every day - ancient cultures have used shaking as medicine, why? Because it works. 💕 she says shake to the point that: ‘your innards are shaking, your lips are shaking, your eyeballs are shaking, your brain is shaking… like you’ve been plugged into a wall with high voltage.’ Shaking will fix ‘every single thing’, according to #Gurmukh: ‘If you have disease, if you have depression, if you have anything going on that doesn’t keep you in harmony with your divine self – gone – with the shaking,’ she says. . It’s #KundaliniYoga. It’s also your innate rhythm of life. Your body knows how to heal! . Most of us have been taught to be afraid of our wildness. We have been taught to be experientally allergic to behavior that appears ‘out of control. Shaking allows us to reclaim our wildness. #freethefeeling . Shaking is ultimately a way of healing our internal fragmentation and dissolving our sense of separation. It allows us to connect with all parts of ourselves, especially those that have gone numb. As we allow the great intelligence that pervades our bodies and all of life, to start teaching us… we are taken into ever deeper connection with ourselves, others, nature, the elements, and the larger cosmos. As we shed layers of false identity, we connect to the deepest and most unique part of who we are, our essence, our soul. . And as our sense of boundaries melts away, and enter the undifferentiated vastness of Spirit, we also start experiencing the most expanded and shared aspect of who we are. . I am the POWER that PROCLAIMS divinity. So are you. . #shake #everyday #truenature #puravidacostarica #nosara #playaguiones
Beaming with happiness today, with the announcement from @wsl about equal prize money for women and men in 2019! This is a huge step for sport, especially our amazing sport of surfing - which I am just a baby mermaid in and loving every day on our beautiful ocean. Thank you to the women in our sport who have paved the way and those who have inspired me to surf - surf sisters @kassiasurf @katherineterrell_ @anneskjoeth @tiana.yoga @jenstones @nosaramermaids, and all the ones that who have used their voice to empower us all! I am so incredibly proud of all of my sea sisters and mermaids who I get to enjoy this amazing lifestyle with, who get me out of bed to surf sunrise - you all inspire me! To the next generation, I am so incredibly happy that you will have an equal platform to showcase your talents! I hope this is just the beginning! Things are changing and this is a great standard for other sports, opportunities, media, and the way we treat each other as a global family! #catchthiswave 🎉🙏🙌 #womenwhosurf #menwhosurfwithus . . Also inspired by the stunning @annalzapponi creator of the @salvajeswimwear I love to surf in. Her story is incredible - she moved from California to Costa Rica and makes these suits here, she takes the bus from Nosara to Jaco and Hermosa where she collects the fabric, sews and ships out each package herself. She’s wildly devoted and I feel the energy she puts in her work while I’m out there riding waves. 🧜🏽‍♀️ . Ps. I’m also super thankful for surf sister @emilybegins and her beautiful @firewiresurfboards. I’m manifesting my own for #playaguiones... 7” or around that size. Hint hint universe 😉🌊🙏 . #puravidacostarica #nosara #surfbabes #herewithmagazine
My first time. Tears streamed down my face. My body shook, prayer beads of sweat graced my chest and my hands and feet were vibrating with electricity. Four years ago, I experienced my first Kundalini Yoga class at @goldenbridgeyoganyc, and the profound magic has kept me devoted to this practice. It has healed me, held me, embraced me. It is the one thing that has remained a constant in my ever changing life. . I arrived home feeling inspired from #satnamfest in the Berkshires a few weeks ago, after 5 full days of classes, chanting, music, meditations, and deep connection to my soul and sangha, beginning at 4am for morning sadhana. Big shifts met my life in the midst of the powerful Lion’s Gate Portal and I emerged Victorious. . New to #KundaliniYoga? . Depending on the kriya (sequence) you may experience meditations where your arms are lifted or in a particular mudra (hand placement) for an extended period of time, or asana such as camel bends, leg lifts and push-ups, jumping jacks, or shaking and dancing to loosen anger, doubt, and fear. . Expect to do poses for longer than you’d want to do them on your own. Why? You’ll get past that threshold of comfort—and this is how the layers begin to peel away and you begin to strip down the stories you’ve told yourself about why you can’t get x desire, x goal. You ultimately strengthen your radiant body so you can become that magnet for prosperity, careers, relationships, and the healthy, illuminated body that you so deeply desire. . BENEFITS: WHAT PRACTICING KUNDALINI 1-2 TIMES PER WEEK (or daily!) CAN DO . Focus on your experience: you’re entering a gathering of enlightened saints, high-vibrational souls. Show up, do your best, and come back again, again and again. You will absorb more from the practice than you realize. Embark on your journey home to your soul every Saturday & Sunday as I guide your Kundalini Yoga journey @bodhitreeyogaresort #playaguiones #nosara 🦋 and December 11-18 for a special Thyroid Yoga retreat, cleanse and training @vivonosara! #waheguru
In Kundalini yoga, chanting the Ajai Alai mantra for 40 days in your daily sadhana will give you great strength to overcome any obstacle, lifting you from negativity and re-aligning you with the Divine Vortex. It’s something I am devoted to chanting and playing every day, and learning and reciting this mantra is part of the upcoming Thyroid Yoga retreat and training @vivonosara in December. Throughout my journey to reclaiming my radiance, this mantra has uplifted me again and again, and has inspired a major moment of creativity and expansion. When I first created my essential oil blends, I received the divine download to call the brand “Ajai Alchemy” with the intention that my creations would also help you to feel invincible. Ajai Alai Mantra Meaning: Ajai Alai – Invincible. Indestructible Abhai Abai – Fearless. Unchanging Abhoo Ajoo – Unformed. Unborn Anaas Akaas – Imperishable. Etheric Aganj Abhanj – Unbreakable. Impenetrable Alakkh Abhakkh – Unseen. Unaffected Akaal Dy-aal – Undying. Merciful Alaykh Abhaykh – Indescribable. Uncostumed Anaam Akaam – Nameless. Desireless Agaah Adhaah – Unfathomable. Incorruptible Anaa-thay Pramaa-thay – Unmastered. Destroyer Ajonee Amonee – Beyond birth. Beyond silence Na Raagay Na Rangay – Beyond love. Beyond color Na Roopay Na Raykhay – Beyond form. Beyond shape Akarmang Abharmang – Beyond karma. Beyond doubt Aganjay Alaykhay – Unconquerable. Indescribable “Memorize this mantra by heart and start chanting it, and see the situation solved and the opposition dissolved right in your presence. Rather than arguing, questioning, answering and talking, just start chanting mentally. See what happens. I am not telling you that you will not face difficulties, because it’s the faculty of the moon to wax and wane; but whenever you are waxing and waning, and you are being attacked in one way or the other, start chanting it. You will excel. Accepting this is the beauty of every woman.” — #YogiBhajan My favorite version to chant is by @ajeetmusic, and last month at @satnamfestival when we sang together in sangha, my heart exploded into a million pearls of light over the ocean. 🌊🧜🏽‍♀️ . #thyroidhealing #kundaliniyoga
One year ago was my first day in Nosara. I arrived on August 31, 2017, the night of a 5.8 earthquake that shook the big glass house I was staying alone in for a month - and my soul convinced me to return two months later and I kept on living here, and here I am. . If you have been fascinated by my stories, know this - what I show is usually the glamorous side of my life. . For six months out of the year, we have extreme heat and it doesn’t rain a single day, the dust makes you cough and even after a shower you may still find dirt in your ears. . The other six months - rain is plenty and sometimes the thunderstorms are so intense, the power goes off all over town for the entire day and if you’re a digital nomad, good luck with all your meetings. I love the courage it takes to live here. I love the huge 8-inch grasshopper cousins that attack your face and latch on and flap their wings with no mercy. I embrace when the water goes off and I come back from a surf all sandy and hope my hose has enough water in it from the last rinse that I can at least get the salt off myself and my board. I love the feeling of almost stepping on a stingray and with a little squeal, jump on my board and paddle as fast as I can past the break. I love the feeling of not knowing which friends will be on the beach for sunset and which in the lineup, I love the surprise of it all. I love not planning phone calls and hang outs. I love the synchronicity when you see someone in “town” you haven’t seen in months and they came to your mind in a meditation that morning. I love that I can’t get mail here. I love that I don’t have an address in #playaguiones. . I love that #Nosara called me here. I love the courageous, wildfire hearts who also love the beauty and stoke this special home has welcomed into our lives. . If you’ve wondered, that’s the real deal. ps. My hair turned from red to blonde in the sun. I may never straighten my curls again. Au naturale, in all ways. I hope this inspires you to love the freedom & natural simplicity in your life today. ❤️ . Thank you @mindbodygreen for celebrating me with the feature in your Transformative Travel series! #linkinbio or www.mindbodygreen.com
What kisses your skin on the daily? . The whispers of sacred sound, scents of nature, and massage with luxurious botanical oils are my holy rituals. 🌿 . I’ve tapped into infinite potentials for healing miracles and the medicinal qualities of plants by creating Ajai Alchemy, a line of all organic, therapeutic apothecary blends based on the power of essential oils, blessed with the Ajai Alai mantra, sacred Sri Yantra, and of course - love. . I’ve seen my blends make their way into hands and hearts around the world, and evoke everything from profound self-love, healing, and exploration, to abundant vitality, creativity, courage and freedom. My life has been deeply touched by the extraordinary powers of these oils through the stories I’ve heard of healing miracles - everything from thyroid nodules to anxiety and infertility. . Each of us has our own unique gifts to give to the world, and in turn, the world will reciprocate and gift us with a life that loves us back. In terms of health, we’ll have a body that loves us, and serves as a finely-tuned vehicle that we can use as a resource to serve the world. . Creating essential oil blends has been a joy and a gift to birth into this world. . Ajai is all about being our own alchemist… because you know exactly what you need to feel free, nourished and loved. The question is, are you listening? .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to my dear friend Jenny @living_wholly for the beautiful opportunity to share my alchemy and my soul’s work on her special platform! . Link in bio @living_wholly for the full interview or https://livingwholly.co/blogs/news 💜 . Ps. My friend @jennylovescastro, founder of Living Wholly is an incredible woman with outstanding tenacity for navigating through a diagnosis of a borderline ovarian tumor and each day standing up for a holistic lifestyle for her and her family. She has created a platform for cultivating community and soaking up the wisdom that surrounds us in the wellness world. I am blessed to know her. ❤️ . 📷 @ryanjohnlee
 
 
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