"I do whatever I need to do to keep my inner world peaceful.  
​My inner peace is essential for my health & well-being." - Louise Hay

All The Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and shores and hills..

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator 
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.

- Hafiz
(translation by Daniel Ladinsky)

"I've come to see that the body is a direct link with the soul and what happens to the body actually helps us come into communication with our souls."
- Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D.

"The body can speak of our emotions even while the tongue remains silent."
- Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz M.D., PhD.

Recommended Reading:

"All Is Well: Heal Your Body with Medicine, Affirmations, and Intuition"
by Louise Hay & Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz

"Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing" by Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz

"Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being"
by Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D.
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"Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine" by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.

"When the Body Says No: The Hidden Cost of Stress" by Gabor Mate, M.D.

SA - TA - NA - MA  Meditation

SA - TA - NA - MA  Meditation is becoming scientifically recognized as a powerful tool for increasing all aspects of cognitive function (perception, thinking, reasoning, remembering) as well as for stress reduction.  The Canadian Alzheimer Society is now recommending this meditation as a daily practice to enhance short term memory and slow down the effects of Alzheimer's disease.

The SA - TA - NA - MA sounds come from one of the oldest Sanskrit mantras Sat Nam = my "true essence" or "true identity".  SA - TA - NA - MA is an acknowledgement of the circle of life (birth, life, death, rebirth or the infinite).  When toning the sounds in combination with particular hand gestures or mudras, we invite the following interpretations to manifest:

SA - thumb and index finger; seal of knowledge / expanded field of possibilities
TA - thumb and middle finger; seal of patience
NA - thumb and ring finger; seal of vitality and aliveness
MA - thumb and pinky finger; seal of mental clarity and clear communication

Welcome to the Fall 2016 season of yoga & core coaching classes!  I am delighted to have so many regulars returning after the summer break, and I am excited to welcome all new students to your home class!  For this season, my teaching theme is titled "Gather Up The Sunbeams of Each Day".  Inspired by both an adventurous hiking and camping trip in the Yukon with my children, and a poem written by BC's first female licensed hunting guide Gerry Bracewell, I hope that each class will provide you with the physical, mental, and emotional space to gather up and embody the sunbeams in your own life.

"Oh heart that's beating fitfully within me,
be brave and strong to overcome what may.  
Heed not each little sadness thrust upon you,
but gather up the sunbeams of each day."

​- Gerry Bracewell, Chilcotin Cowgirl Poetry