Heart-Clearing Practice

Heart-Clearing

Our task is not to seek and find love. It’s to remove all the obstacles in the way.” – Rumi

What’s in the way? What are the obstacles? Do we need to find them or just get out of the way?

Join this heart-clearing practice class where we’ll clear the heart from the grievances, traumas and obstacles that are on top in this moment. This won’t clear everything you’ve been carrying, but it may make space for you to feel and let go. You’ll take home heart-clearing techniques you can use in your own practice and life.

$20 in advance, $25 at the door (if space allows)

No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds – please ask for discounts or volunteer opportunities

Register at: http://behappy.simpletix.com//event-detail.aspx?ShowId=39602

How to Survive and Start to Thrive Again

Be Whole Be Happy - How to Survive and Start to Thrive

Surviving Today’s Trauma

This week many people have reached out to me asking HOW we do this. How do we navigate the continued violence, hate, rage, fascism and disconnection that isn’t going away? How do we keep an open heart in the midst of all of this?

It’s a work in progress called How to Survive and Start to Thrive (also working title). And it’s helped a lot of people to reel back, shift the acute perspective we keep being shoved into and remember that there ARE options for how we feel and act, even as hard as things are right now.

A teaching for anyone

In 2017, I created a teaching specifically about this and am going to start recording an online course soon so I can give it to you very practically. In the meantime, I’m happy to give it out to ANYONE. Below you’ll find three links.

The first is an explanation of the five kleshas or the obstacles to happiness according to the yoga and tantra traditions.

The second is the How to Survive and Start to Thrive course. You’ll find four columns: The obstacles to happiness; what we hear in the world; what we think when we hear that message; how else to hear that so we have more freedom to choose happiness.

The third document is a compendium which breaks down 4 or 5 actions to directly uncover our happiness according to the five kleshas.

Stay tuned for an online course coming in early 2019.

While I’m figuring out to how to bulk distribute the file (suggestions welcome), please message me if you’d like me to send it to you.

One thing you can do

One suggestion I have is to practice SILENCE every single day. That’s right. Every. Single. Day. Whether you can take 2 minutes or 20 minutes or 2 hours, turn off everything – including those coping mechanisms and distractions – and let yourself feel, breathe and move through. You’re not alone, and in fact, it can be a sweet relief in moments of silence to feel more connected to the consciousness we’re all swimming in.

I’m here. For you and with you.

Yours in solidarity and in figuring-this-all-out,
Grace

The links

Here you go! Try all three in order and reach out with questions or comments.

  1. the-kleshas-or-the-obstacles-to-happiness
  2. how-to-survive-and-start-to-thrive
  3. kleshas-compendium

Moksha Kirtan – A Night of Community Music

Moksha Kirtan – A Night of Community Music
Cost: Donation Only

Come sing with us! Join in the magical ritual of Kirtan, or devotional singing. All voices, songs and traditions are welcome. Grace will lead this monthly night of chanting (bhajans) to different names and forms of the Divine.

Please bring your voices, any instruments you’d like to play, and an open heart. No religious or spiritual belief is necessary to enjoy the vibration of Mantra, sacred sound, and the harmony and joy that making music from the Heart brings.

Yogassage

Join Grace and a team of massage therapists for a 75-minute guided yin yoga practice with the added experience of massage techniques and adjustments. This evening promises even extra goodness because Grace will be joined by the sounds of the sweet didgeridoo.

Now with fewer spots available to ensure more hands-on attention per yogi!

$40 | 15% off for VIP Members
Space is Limited.
REGISTER HERE
*Limited waitlist available. Cancellations with 24 hours or more notice are eligible for refund (account credit only). Contact management at [email protected]

Why Doctors Can’t Heal You

Warning: This is an opinion filled writing – even a bit of a rant. I mean no offense to doctors, healers and those who devote their lives in service of others.

“My doctor has no idea what’s going on!”

Well, why should they?

When we go to an allopathic, western-oriented physician these days, we have a 5-10-minute consultation in which to upload as much information as we choose to disclose about a symptom presenting itself as bad or wrong. I’m curious in what reality this could be an effective method of healing someone. I’m not harping on western medicine at all; how could ANY healer, be they massage practitioner, naturopath, Chinese medicine specialist, life coach, energy healer or therapist possibly  get an accurate picture of your life and all the pieces that come together to enliven you?

How can we give anyone an accurate snapshot of our lives? Most of us don’t even know what’s going on within ourselves.

And that’s the rub: YOU don’t know what’s going on, so how could someone else heal you?

How do we give so much power to our health care providers, trusting that they understand us, can heal us and declare us cured when most of us don’t have a clue what’s going on inside ourselves?

Sure, doctors, counselors and other specialists know a lot about certain things. But, they hardly know anything about the entire make-up of life that has brought us to their door.  

I would like to argue that YOU can actually know more than anyone else about yourself. Your doctor knows about livers, kidney function, supplements, cardiac health, nutrition, etc, but they don’t know you nearly as well as you have the potential to know yourself.

Want to really empower your health?

Start paying attention.

Notice how you feel after you eat certain foods, drink certain drinks, or interact with certain people. Notice what happens to your blood pressure when you exercise or don’t exercise, wake up in the morning, watch TV, check Facebook, only get five hours of sleep night after night, interact with children, dwell on a conversation with your partner. Start becoming aware of your triggers, anxiety patterns, energy levels and mental cycles.

Most importantly, notice what you feel resistance to, what you don’t want to experience. Notice your discomfort and how that creates patterns that you enact daily.

It can be as simple as that.

Then, if or when you get sick, develop cancer, or start feeling depressed or overwhelmed, you can bring your own unique awareness of your body and patterns, and work together with a specialist who knows about the brain or the lymphatic system, to unlock a more integrated and functional system within your unique configuration of human.

Please, don’t rely on someone else to know you better than you know yourself. You don’t have to know everything about anatomy, physiology or neuro-biology. But you do need to know you.

Kids Yoga Teacher Training

Want to learn how to teach yoga to children? This 3-hour workshop will give you the basic skills and confidence to teach
yoga to pre-k through middle school students. 

Whether you are a teacher who wants to add yoga to your classroom curriculum, a yoga teacher who wants to offer classes to kids, or a parent who wants to practice with your own children, this workshop will get you rolling. We’ll start with what you need to know about teaching yoga to kids, how it differs from adult classes and move into fun games and activities that are successful with different ages. We’ll explore how to theme and design a class, what to do in difficult moments, and how to keep students engaged in the class. We’ll finish with a mock Kids Yoga Class where participants can take turns leading activities to one another, role-play “kid behavior” and receive peer feedback.

$90 preregistration required

Satsang: Nada – Outer Vibration and the Inner Sound

Each week we hold Satsang – “gathering together to share truth” – at the Mokṣa Tantra Center. For two hours we share body geometry (asana), white tantra practice (meditation, mantra, visualization), and teaching and discussion on a given topic. We usually conclude with a puja celebrating the divine within each other, or other energy-sharing practice.

In tantra, a satsang is a gathering of spiritual people for the purpose of sharing practice and wisdom. And this is exactly what we do. Each satsang brings different themes and topics, usually presented by Matthias, with all discussion welcome and invited. The themes and topics generally touch on aspects of sacred sexuality and the embodied spirituality of classical and neo-tantra. Sometimes we branch into relevant teachings from other traditions, as well as the nuances of non-dual spiritual experience.

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