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The New Moon is Dark and Powerful

December 31, 2013 by Julie Lusk

New Moon ~~ New Year Magic

Something rare is happening on January 1, 2014.  There is a new moon on the first day of the year.  What a powerful time for getting a fresh, clean start.  This doubles the significance in making resolutions and setting intentions for the coming month and year.

Here’s how to practice Yoga’s Salute to the Moon. It’s a posture sequence that gives strength, flexibility, coordination and balance.  Why not try it now!

Every month, new beginnings are facilitated during the three days of the new moon.  In her book, The Healing Power of the Sacred Women, Christine Page offers these ideas for getting the most from this potent time.

On the 1st day, take time, preferably at sunset, to sit and decide what stories, experiences, emotions and beliefs you are ready to release and what is complete (Purification). Before you finish with a story of experience, it is very important to ask: ‘What did I learn from the experience? What gems of wisdom can I collect? How have I grown consciously because of the experience?’ Place the gems of wisdom in your heart to be transformed into the light of consciousness.

You don’t need to list everything but could just fill a glass with water and surround the glass with your hands and ask that all emotions/ beliefs/stories which are no longer valuable to your soul, to enter the water. Then stand on the Earth and ask Mother Earth/ the Great Dragon to take these energies back into her waters so you may be purified. Then pour the water on the earth with gratitude and celebration.

On the 2nd day (anytime in the day) spend time [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mind-Body Mastery Tools and Techniques, Misc Musings, Stress Relief / Management, Yoga Tagged With: 2014 moon phases, dark moon meaning, new moon activities, new moon meaning, salute to the moon yoga sequence

Holiday Helper #7 Turn Obligations into Energizers.

December 13, 2010 by Julie Lusk

Turn obligations into energizers.  Rituals and traditions that characterize our celebrations can stimulate spiritual reflection, excitement and wonder.

Even exciting tasks, repeated year after year, may turn into obligations.  Creatively update tasks so they provide new energy.  If anything conjures up an image of drudgery, try a new approach that can energize you.

Traditions can help us get through the difficult times when our feelings don’t quite match the occasion.

How are you updating your holiday traditions?  Please let us know thru the comment box.

Filed Under: Holiday Stress Relief, Mind-Body Mastery Tools and Techniques, Stress Relief / Management Tagged With: holiday stress relief

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Playing your Native American Style Flute | There are no wrong notes! All notes harmonize melodically. Reading music is not needed.

Go HERE for handy playing tips, flute care & troubleshooting for Native American style flutes.   

Music Learn to play songs using a unique way of ‘reading music.’  Pictures of what notes to cover and uncover are used instead of reading traditional music.  This makes learning very easy to play. Here is the basic scale. 

Basic Fingering Chart

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    • Scales and Arpeggios.  Get started on the minor pentatonic and major scales. Enjoy advancing to arpeggios, the blues scale, mixolydian and mode 4 pentatonic scales. All on 1-page! Get a chart of musical terms and markings to read timing, embellishments, etc.
    • Templates Julie devised in 2020 to write out your own music. Simply use the staff paper lines to make 6 vertical circles for each finger hole. Next, pencil in the circles to show which holes to cover.  Lyrics go on the dotted lines in between.  The half page format has room below for notes and instructions. Use the full page format for longer songs. Happy creating!
    • Chakra Tone Chart See the yoga (Vedic) and Tibetan notes and tones used for balancing chakras by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound. Yoga (Vedic) notes and tones are based on the diatonic scale. Tibetan tones and notes are based upon the perfect 5th.  Try both to see what is best for you.  Learn more about chakras here.
    • Easy Hand Warm-ups Here’s a great 5-minute series of hand movements & mudras to help your fingers, wrists & hands with easy-to-remember names for each one. Great for musicians & anyone with stiff, painful fingers, hands or wrists. Learn the Hakini Mudra, Beak, Bug, Claw, Paw, Seed, Web, Wings, Eagle & Hridaya. Thank you Christine Stevens at Upbeat Drum Circles for interviewing me.

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    • Creative Spirit by Julie Lusk
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    • Metta May We Be Well by Julie Lusk

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  • Christine Stevens. Take her free course on 3 tips for playing Native Flute for Sound Healing, at Upbeat Drum Circles on YouTube  and on the Shift Network.
  • Clint Goss Music Facilitation and World Flutes.  He offers a free 800 page Flutopedia Manual that is amazing.
  • Julie Lusk offers online and in-person lessons to learn to play the flute as well as how to play the reverie harp, tongue drum, thumb piano, and other similar instruments.  Music lesson details and registration or  Contact Julie here.
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How your Sleeping Side Matters

July 11, 2013 by Julie Lusk

The bottom line is that resting for 10 minutes on your left side after eating can improve digestion and immunity, plus increase your energy and memory.  It may also improve symptoms associated with menopause and the menstrual cycle.  Better yet, sleep on your left side for even better results.  Here’s the scoop on it…

Do you ever feel tired after eating?  Would you like to know something quick and easy to do that involves lying down that will likely aid your digestion and help your energy bounce back too?

Have you ever noticed that “things” seem to happen more on one side of your body than the other?  For example, how rashes, aches and pains, tend to usually show up consistently on either your right side or your left?  Even your vision is different in each eye, isn’t it?

I had the good fortune to meet Dr. John Douillard, DC, and his family of 8 on one of my teaching trips to Sivananda Yoga Center in the Bahamas.  He spoke on the Ayurvedic aspects of digestion.  Ayurvedic is the traditional medicine of India.  He says that “According to Ayurveda, the left side of the body is completely different than the right side, and, while I know it sounds strange, emphasizing the left side for rest and sleep offers some time tested wisdom for very real health and longevity benefits.”  Resting on your left side for 10 minutes after eating a meal will help your digestion and help your energy bounce back too.

“According to Ayurveda,” he says, “the left side of the body is completely different than the right side, and, while I know it sounds strange, emphasizing the left side for rest and sleep offers some time tested wisdom for very real health and longevity benefits.”  Resting on your left side for 10 minutes after eating a meal will help your digestion and help your energy bounce back too.  Get the facts here on why Erik Dalton, PhD recommends lying in the fetal position for hydration of the spinal discs for better back health.

Here are the reasons Dr. Douillard gives for sleeping on your left side and resting for 10 minutes after eating.

  • Facilitate lymphatic drainage
  • Makes it easier for the heart to pump “downhill”
  • Better elimination
  • Support healthy spleen function
  • Encourages proper digestion
  • Helps circulation back to the heart
  • Helps bile flow more freely
  • Brain health (may improve age-related cognitive decline – read more below)
  • May improve menopause and menstrual cycle symptoms – click here

There’s some good anatomical logic to back these claims up.  Watch this 5 minute video for his explanation.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: General, Mind-Body Mastery Tools and Techniques, Misc Musings, Wellness Tagged With: digestive health, Dr. John Douillard, improve digestion, improve immunity, side to sleep on, sleep on the left side

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