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Guided Imagery Course at Sivananda ~ Bahamas

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Are you ready to tune yourself up and get powerful and practical tools and techniques to overcome stress, improve your health, and gain amazing insights to guide you forward?

Bahamas yogaIf so, please register for my upcoming workshop on Guided Imagery & More to be held in May at Sivananda Yoga Retreat Center in the Bahamas.

We will explore several wonderful types of guided imagery within the context of the seven major chakras (energy centers) and the five koshas (sheaths). You will enjoy the experience of relaxing deeply and activating your energy by the stunning ocean, surrounded by beautiful gardens and awesome people. There’s also yoga, meditation, chanting, delicious food, and so much more!

You’re invited, so please come and bring your friends. You will benefit no matter what your level of experience is.  It’s perfectly beautiful

The Bahamas are very easy to travel to.  Accommodations are comfortable and affordable.  English is spoken & USA money is used.  Passport is required.

9 CEU’s are offered for nurses, social workers, licensed mental health workers and counselors (NBCC).

What:  Guided Imagery and Creative Visualization Course

Presenter:  Julie Lusk, M.Ed., NCC.  Author of Yoga Meditations, 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, Wholesome Relaxation CD, Power of Presence CD, and many others.

Where:  Sivananda Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Bahamas (easy cab ride from Nassau Airport)

When:  May 24-26, 2013 – Check here for more times, places and dates.

Click here for details and registration info.

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Stop ~~ Look ~~ Listen

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It’s the fall where I live and the trees are bright with color, the air is crisp and feels delightfully cool.  Too bad I’ve been too busy to really notice it.

Luckily I came across a quote from Ferris Bueller.  He says, “Life moves pretty fast.  If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”  Not only did that become the reading and theme for yoga class, it inspired me to take the afternoon off and enjoy the fall beauty.

Here’s a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne who said “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”

How about you?  Have you been buzzing through life and missing out on what’s important?  It will do you some real good to take some time out.  It doesn’t even have to take much time.  Remember, even a 5 minute break really helps.                  

Here’s a mini-meditation from my Mind-Body Mastery eBook that can be done anytime and anywhere.  Your awareness will increase and it will settle your mind down and clear your head.

Stop – Look – Listen  Mini-Meditation

  1. Stop – Notice your posture . . . breath . . . energy level . . . mood . . . mental activity.
  2. Look – Blink your eyes several times.  Look at something far away and discover the details in what you see.  Blink again.
    Look at something close up.  Discover the details.
  3. Listen – Listen to sounds come and go.  Simply observe without judging.  No resistance.  No clinging.  Simply listen.
  4. Smile.

 Get the Mind-Body Mastery eBook here if you like mini-meditations and quick and easy relaxation exercises.

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Find a Human Sunrise

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FIND A HUMAN SUNRISE  ~ Alice Walker

When it all seems too much,
when the news is so bad that meditation itself feels useless,
and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of peace,

find a human sunrise.

Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality.
Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment.

People gathering, working to change the intolerable,
People coming in robes and sandals or in rags and bare feet,
And they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not.

But they are working to bring peace, light, and compassion for humankind and to the world.

There is nothing too small any of us can learn to do to help us out of our predicament.  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.  We are the Human Sunrise, brightest when we shine together.

Here are the ‘human sunrises’ in my life:

First, my husband of 35 years comes to mind.  Also, my niece who is an awesome single mother of 3 sons; 4 year old twins and her 9 year old.  My sister is right up there too – not only did she teach 7th grade for for eons, she also taught 3rd – even though she lives with chronic pain from having had cancer – and this is only the tip of who she is.  More human sunrises are the folks who come to yoga through the good times and the trying times, each has such a special life story.  My friends are right up there too.  All my teachers.  I also appreciate all those people who are doing their best, no matter what that might be.

Who are the ‘human sunrises’ in your life?
Please let us know by adding a comment.

Mother’s Day Quotes, Women’s Retreat, Special Sale

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  • A mother is not a person to lean upon, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.  ~ Dorothy Canfield
  • There is no influence so powerful as that of a mother. ~ Josepha Hale
  • All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln

Every one of us has a mother and each of us has a unique relationship with her.  Sometimes it is strong.  Sometimes it is weak.  Sometimes it is loving.  Sometimes it is less so.  No matter what, it is a special bond and it runs deep.

Many of us are mothers to children. Some of us are grandmothers, even great-grandmothers. Others of us know mothering in other ways and through our other relationships with people and pets.

Please take a moment to recall the qualities of mothering you admire and share them below in the comments.

I encourage you to practice a special quality that means something to you as a meditation and throughout the day.

Begin by quieting yourself.  Next, magnify the power of the mind-body connection with the following meditation by using the breath and an affirmation for as long as you like.

Breathing in.  I am .. (state the mothering quality)

Breathing out.  I am .. (state the mothering quality)

Infuse your day with this quality.

Be loving.

Be patient.

Be kind.

Be encouraging.
Happy Mothers Day to one and all!

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Celebrate Womanhood at a Retreat – You deserve it!

There’s nothing like a gathering of women on retreat.  It’s the perfect get-away to share our laughter, our longings, and to learn from one another.  You’ll feel refreshed and ready to activate your dreams and desires and have fun.  

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