Dance When You're Perfectly Free

Circle of Mana Overflowing Inspirations...

Dance when you're broken open.
Dance when you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free.

Struck, the dancer hears a tambourine inside her,
like a wave that crests into foam at the very top,
Begins.

Maybe you don't hear that tambourine,
or the tree leaves clapping time.
Close the ears on your head,
that listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes.

There are other things to see, and hear.
Music. Dance.
A brilliant city inside your soul!
--Rumi

Samantha Keller's questions:

Are there any areas of your life where you are refusing to bring more joy?

Where would you like to bring more joy into your life?

More joy by really doing what feels good. By choosing what is Life-giving! More baths, reading in bed, dancing...

Prana-fied food, touching the earth.

That is life giving.

Alignments that allow my body to feel joy and freedom. Clothing that feels soft and spacious.

Friends who laugh, flow and sparkle.

MUSIC~~~

LOVE~~~

Making food for friends. Listening

to stories.

That is life-affirming!

Tonight we had our first guests stay with us. I'm feeling the JOY of being able to provide a warm loving space with the comforts of home and healthy yummy food for those traveling. I am so grateful for my gifted house here and for all the people on this planet who have opened their homes to me and took care of me with so much love. I'm feeling the call to reciprocate and invite into a loving space...

Ellen- "I was reminded of an image I have been carrying with me for a few years. One of my friends gave me this postcard that I am attaching. It reminds me of being strong within ourselves and having the support of all of the different versions of ourselves. We do not have to be at battle with ourselves, but rather cultivate all of these different pieces that make us truly unique, honest, and beautiful."

Army of Me, 2003
Artist: Amy Cutler
with love
Ellen
Woman of Intuitive Action

Cosmic Weather Report

My favorite Astrologer (thanks to Samantha Keller~)...

Cosmic Weather Report

August 2010: Spiritual Outlaws

Throughout August the Dark God Pluto dances with five other planets in a series of aspects designed to get you through your hurdles to something golden. Whatever secrets you’ve been stuffing become unstuffed to expose skeletons in your closet. Whatever truths you’ve been running from it’s time to turn and face. Whatever lies you’ve been telling yourself are being battered by twin forces of inner and outer evolution.

Dealing with the Duchess of Death is rarely fun and easy because Pluto’s midnight realm descends several layers beneath surface awareness. It always requires a death of sorts to get down deep enough, death of your fond illusions, death of who you wanted to be, death of some love that’s run its course.

It’s not so much the truths you’re aware of, but demons churning in the karmic gumbo, the soup of the soul down below, who must be faced. It’s not so much the ideas you hold but their hidden roots that spawn your whole world view that must be slain by the unstoppable hand of Kali the Destroyer.

When Pluto engages this many planets in such a short time it’s because the collective contract to hold ourselves back has been strained to the breaking point and it’s time to die to the nightmare and get to the other side. The Dark God summons our vital force out of mass delusion into building a new world in the most crucial part of us—the primal depths within. In that dark hollow we must muster the courage to believe in something beyond the dead stories of the past. If you delve beneath those boneyards you can release your buried love for existence. You can spring your hidden core of love for the heart of the world with resurrective force.

Primal darkness, distortion and delusion are bending this way and that to snap you out of biases of the blood, free you from old karmic stories you’ve been following, feuding tales of loss and lack that have to give up the ghost.

To help you do this for a long time now I’ve been ending each monthly Cosmic Weather Report with three taglines:

Who are you really?

Are you the one waiting with infinite patience for the world to change? Are you the one who vowed to stay true to your love in the time before time? Are you sick to death at pretending to be something you’re not? Who are you?

What are you here to do?

Are you here to ignite the light within you as a beacon to throw off the darkness? Are you here to claim a path of creative transformation through the end time of a false civilization? Are you here to rise above meager intellects who say it can’t be done? What are you here for?

How much longer are you going to wait?

Have you run out of excuses to not be yourself or are you gonna try a few more? Are you going to let the smug lies of false experts and leaders run your life? What about the children? What further incentive do you need to soar through the rigors of incarnation as a free being?

This Plutonian sweep of the dungeons in August clears the way for the Saturn in Libra years, which began at the end of July when Saturn left Virgo. After three years stirring up the body of the Virgin, Saturn, Lord of Karma has entered the sign of Balance, where he remains until the end of 2012.

Virgo is the Get Real sign of the zodiac. Saturn in Virgo produced a necessary cleansing and purging, a self-scouring wake-up call to get us to realize how far our lives had gotten off the track of the soul. We’ve been summoned to get virginal by disentangling from false compromises and self-betrayals. We’ve been asked to gain the innocence of the child who always knew there was a simpler and purer way.

For three years Saturn’s demanded we get real. Life itself has sent message after message that there are better things to do than sell your dreams for false security. Destiny has been trying to get it through our thick heads that there’s a realer way to live than by lubricating the gears of a broken system. Life lessons have come thick and fast to jerk us out of mass delusion. True to Virgo, the most finely-calibrated sign, the degree of difficulty this presents to you is the precise degree your life has strayed from your inner truth and needs to be put back on track.

Now that Saturn has entered the airy Libra domain of Balance, a new phase of soul purpose is beginning and will grow stronger for the next two-and-a-half years. We’re emerging out of years of self-criticism into a calling of kindred spirits to band together. We’re accelerating out of Virgo’s heavy earth realm of judgment toward Libra’s airy realm of creative breakthrough. Having raised our awareness of what wasn’t working, we’re moving on to see how that too was a passing phase in the greater give and take of Universal Balance. So when imps and demons continue to poke their heads out of the woodwork now it’s mostly for artistic purposes. When your awareness is drawn to how out of balance everything is, it’s to ignite your creative hunger to bring something new to the world.

Between now and the end of 2012 you’re invited to the great unmasking at the World Masquerade Ball. You unmask by challenging the boundaries of your imagination, pushing into open territory that transforms life into art. Let each difficulty dare you to redefine what’s possible. Follow the examples of John Coltrane, the Grateful Dead at their best, and Stevie Winwood and Traffic, who blew beyond former boundaries of what music was.

Traffic created songs by living together and dropping acid and jamming for days on end with tape recorders rolling, then coming down and reviewing what they’d played, and polishing the best bits and pieces into songs they took into the studio. Each time they came out of the studio they created whole new genres, not just songs.

The Saturn in Libra years are asking you to orchestrate jagged pieces of the past into new music. The ringing gong is calling you find your tribe, claim the life you were born to live, make your life an art that’s never been done before.

When a band of visionaries unites to push the boundaries of the known universe, they throw open the stuck doors of evolution for everyone. They reconfigure existence along new lines. They harness passionate devotion to the Muse into a morphic field of resonance others can enter into and there transform. In such a way we become spiritual outlaws stealing boredom and complacency from the stuck world.

Forward!

Mark Borax

Soul Level Astrologer

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Lessons On Humility

The best offerings of gratitude to a teacher in ascending order:

1. Gift them offerings, smiles, flowers, incense, etc...

2. Do something for them with your body, i.e. make them food, drive them places, clean for them.

3. Practice what they taught you.

Jayendra, profe de Anusara arrived on thursday from Amsterdam and it has been as if a joya (jewel) fell into my lap. I was craving a teacher and an opening inspiring yoga "practice." A reminder of the light, and the magic in it all. Teachings to spark my passion again.

I was unaware until yesterday that he was not only going to teach a weekend of workshops but also a week long teacher training.

Tonight I was blessed to be able to make him a dinner of Quinoa with broccoli and carrots (from the local farmers market where you can bring your compost twice a week too!) and steamed kale with ginger and soy sauce. Raw chocolate bliss-balls for dessert!

To sit with such a teacher so experienced in THE PRACTICE and be able to provide food made with love, and sit in his company and hear his stories- such an honor. He lived at Gurumayi's ashram for 7 years and began practicing yoga about 30 years ago! humble humble, like standing in front of a grandfather red wood tree and trying not to try to figure out what to say or ask.

So, I continue to flow, with the gifts that arrive.

Learning to teach all the elements of the heart-connecting thematic practice of anusara yoga along with all the priciples of the postures, in spanish. Totally humbling learning exactly how to say smoothly, rhythmically, and with a yogic intonation, "raise your arms to shoulder hight, turn your right foot forward 90*, exhale bend your RIGHT knee, etc etc..." And then to connect it all to how we are ultimately the universal, always in pulsation between one-ness and duality. PLUS add at least two heart qualities such as, "with the extension of organic energy, celebrate the JOY of connecting to something greater."

For those who know anusara, there are lots of subtle instructions that put us in therapeutic alignment and that open us up to a feeling of "ananda" or bliss. I'm figuring out the tricks of how they make their classes so yummy and inspirational.

I'm immensely enjoying painting the picture of my life, and taking the steps of practicing what I soon will just- be doing. To remember this time of discomfort, and all the other times of discomfort when I chose to challenge myself because I had faith that I could do something as long as I wanted it badly enough to practice it and prioritize it. So much possibility!

These days, when I arrive to a new location where I will be staying for at least a few days, I make an alter with my favorite inspiring cards, letters, artwork, yantras, leaves, feathers, found/gifted treasures...Lately on my alter I've blindly chosen a quote from a pocket-sized pile that my friend Abigail bought for me on an adventure in Northampton, MA. My Argentina quote is, "It's ok to do it wrong." This sit's next to a heart shaped note that says, "Every moment is magic mango land~Abundance ~Love."

and

"Could you imagine growing up as a duckbill platypus? Probably not. Nothing is as it seems. Could you imagine all you truly love being the simple manifestation of what you call, 'your life.'"

One love~

Majamudra

Another mindblowing few days. With our first Acrogreen Tranquilo~ i.e. bodywork/therapeutic flying/ harmonium/ indian sutra chanting/ potluck/ beautiful people/ magical vibes.

An amazing anusara yoga teacher arrived from Amsterdam and gave a weekend full of workshops that opened me up in ways I had forgotten I could open, and clarified many pieces to a few positions that give new life to my yoga practice. Jayendra gave me a 50% discount I believe because I live with him and buy lots of fruit to fill our fruit baskets on the kitchen table. He's leading a four day teacher training. The yoga community here is psyched! I am so grateful to have a teacher!

Juan Pablo (acroyoga co-teacher) gifted me the Buddhist Translation of my name along with Andres Cordero (profe de budismo)... Samantabhadri~~

I am intriged and am learning the idea that everything that comes our way is because of our past actions. We are constantly creating new karma with our present actions. An interesting way of saying that we are never completely in the present. A new take on "be here now," and all the meditations that focus on being present. Hearing this reminds me of the importance of serving others, living ethically and thinking about the ripple effect that we are creating in the world and in our own future.

Samantabhadri is the white one. Wow!~

Samantabhadri is a dakini and female Buddha from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. She is the consort and female counterpart of Samantabhadra, known amongst some Tibetan Buddhists as the 'Primordial Buddha'. Samantabhadri herself is known as the 'primordial Mother Buddha'. Samantabhadri is the dharmakaya dakini aspect of the Trikaya, or three bodies of aBuddha. As such, Samantabhadri represents the aspect of Buddhahood in whom delusion and conceptual thought have never arisen. As font or wellspring of the aspects of the divine feminine she may be understood as the 'Great Mother'. Seen differently, Samantabhadri is an aspect ofPrajnaparamita. ^[1]

Samantabhadri is a figure found primarily in the Nyingma or 'Old Translation' school of Tibetan Buddhism. A figure that is nearly equivalent to Samantabhadri in the 'New Translation' or Sarma schools is Vajradhatu-ishvari, who is dark-blue in colour and her consort is Vajradhara.^[2]

Samantabhadri is the expression of a concept essentially inexpressible in word or symbol, the ultimate voidness nature of mind. This aspect of the dakini is beyond gender, form or expression. According to Simmer Brown ^[3] the power of the dakini in all her forms is based on the fact that all meditation practices ultimately point to the Samantabhadri dakini. In her iconography, Samantabhadri is white, the primary symbol of the wisdom aspect of mind - in contrast to her consort who is sky blue, representing limitlessness and formlessness. Like her consort she appears 'naked' (Sanskrit: digambara) and unadorned, representing the essential nature of mind. Samantabhadri is usually shown in yab-yum union with her consort but she is sometimes shown alone, seated in 'lotus posture' (also known as mahamudra) with her hands in meditation posture in her lap.

Yeshe Tsogyal was known as an emanation of Samantabhadri, according to Judith Simmer-Brown in her subtlest form Yeshe Tsogyal was known as "expanse of mahāsukha Küntusangmo [Samantabhadrī], the all-good queen".^[4]

Abraham...

You are loved. All is well.

Peru Fights

There are many ways to visit Machu Picchu...This is how we like to do it!

Notes from the field from Peru:

07/26/2010 Saludos! Today we left Pampallaqta, the community that has become our home over the last three weeks. We are both sad to leave all the wonderful relationships and experiences behind and also excited to travel to Lake Titicaca. In our last few days in the community, we were able to reach our goal of finishing the roof of the community center – it looks terrific! The community was also very excited and held a ceremony to celebrate the completion. They decorated the entryway of the center with a big wreath and flowers, kind like a wedding trellis. They also placed the traditional symbol of a cross and two ceramic bowls on the apex of the roof for good luck. The cross had symbols of a sun, a hammer and chisel, a rooster, a ladder, and a flag of Peru and represents the workers and God. The two bowls on either side of the cross are painted with Incan symbols and designs. The combination of the cross and bowls represents the blending of two cultures represented in Peru: the Spanish and the Andean indigenous. This past week, we also continued to go to the local school every day to teach English and basic computer skills and play with the students during recess. We loved being with he children but also realized how hard it can be to keep an elementary school classroom disciplined and on-task! In the final days, we were challenged by the community to one last soccer game, U.S. vs. Peru, and lost miserably. We also taught some community members how to play ultimate frisbee. Our leaders Sam and Andy led us in an acro yoga workshop and we learned how to both “fly” ourselves and “fly” our group members. Some of us have been practicing these acro yoga moves on our own time as well. Yesterday we celebrated our despedida or farewell from the community. The first part of it actually took place inside the community center. Most of the town was there, including our local contact Karina, our host families, and the mayor and other local leaders. As a token of appreciation, the group had created two big cards that said “thank you” in Quechua and Spanish. We had also prepared a few songs for the community, “Lean on Me” (the a cappella version) and “Every Little Thing is Gonna be Alright” by Bob Marley. Some of the group taught the community a Shakira dance to a song that has been on the radio constantly since we arrived. Everyone also had a chance to speak and share their experience with the community. After that, we all had lunch together, exchanged gifts with our host families, and finished the party dancing!

07/19/2010 Hello from Peru, We continue to enjoy life here in our host community of Pampallaqta and the surrounding areas. Last weekend, we took a hike based out of the community to visit nearby Incan ruins. Throughout the hike, we were dwarfed by the snowcapped peaks towering above the Sacred Valley and have come to really appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. Later in the weekend, we settled in to watch the World Cup finals with Peruvian popcorn. The popcorn is made very similarly to popcorn at home but it was extra special because it was made from local corn that has much bigger kernels. The soccer fervor was apparent in our own community as well, and some of the community members challenged us to a game. Bolstered by some local talent, we won 5-0! This past week we did a lot of work on the community center. We made 728 more adobe blocks by mixing the mud ourselves. Now, we are moving forward with the roof of the center and started raising the wooden trellises today. Our goal is to complete the roof by the end of the week. We also began a secondary project with an elementary school in a neighboring community. They had invited us to come to their “sports day” on Thursday, and we spent the day playing games with the children. We played soccer and taught them games like tunnel tag and snake tag. They taught us their own favorite games as well. They also taught us a traditional dance, and we taught them the Macarena! Today the first group of our students returned to the school to start teaching English. Both our students and the school children are extremely excited about this! Teachers at the school have also asked us to help teach the children learn computer skills. The local municipality gifted the school with some heavy-duty children’s laptops, but the teachers don’t know how to use them. We will start these classes tomorrow. On Saturday, the group went to Pisac, one of the three major cities of the Sacred Valley during the time of the Incan empire. The town was celebrating the Fiestas de Pisac in honor of the local patron saint. The members of the local communities were dressed in elaborate costumes and performed traditional dances. We also visited the Pisac ruins and were, once again, treated with spectacular views of the valley below. While at the ruins, we ran into Flavo, our guide from the Lares Valley trek! Saturday night, we stayed in Ollantaytambo, and the group was thrilled to take the first hot shower in weeks! Before heading back to the community, we ate breakfast at Hearts Café, one of our favorite eating spots so far in Peru. The café is run by an NGO that supports work with children and women’s health issues in the communities surrounding Ollantaytambo.

07/12/2010 Hello from Peru! We have returned from our amazing trek, and we are now in the midst of working hard in our homestay village. The Lares Valley trek was challenging but amazing. Our guide, Flavio, was full of great knowledge about Incan history and spirituality, and he started our journey by making an offering of coca leaves to the spirits whose presence is still strongly felt in this regions. As we walked we were surrounded by stunning views of the Andes including waterfalls and canyons. We hardly saw any other people, just llamas. We soaked in hot springs. Our group hiked up to 15,675 feet to Sicllakasa pass, the highest point on the trek. Some of us found the trek very challenging, but everyone made it through. On Day 4 of the trek we got up at 3:30 in the morning to make sure that we would be some of the first to enter Machu Picchu to climb Wima Picchu. We would have to say that Machu Picchu rates in our minds as the most amazing ruin in the ENTIRE WORLD! The quality of the stonework is genuinely not to be believed. We couldn’t fit pieces of paper in between massive stone blocks that must weigh several tons. A memorable moment was looking down on the city from Wima Picchu while the group’s leaders, Andy and Sam, “flew” everyone acro yoga style. We descended from Machu Picchu only to find pizza waiting, another if not quite so spectacular highlight. After one well-earned day of rest we headed into our homestayes. Which is where we find ourselves now. The welcome party our community threw for us was awesome -- people greeted us on the street and showered us with flowers as we entered the village. We had a feast and a dance party and then headed off in pairs to our new homes. We were immediately impressed by how much the community members had done on our building project prior to our arrival. We have started our work and already the walls are head high. We’re all working very hard preparing dirt to make adobe blocks and laying bricks. Fortunately our blocks are quite a bit smaller than those at Machu Picchu and weigh a whole lot less. That’s it for now. More soon.

07/02/2010 Saludos desde Peru! The group arrived into Cusco where our second leader Andy met us and immediately introduced us to the culture with a taste of granadilla (brain fruit), a local delicacy. We loved eating “brains!” Before heading to our orientation site, we took a stroll around the main plaza in Cusco and soaked in the beauty of this amazing city where indigenous and urban Peruvians, expats, and travelers mix against the stunning backdrop of the Andes Mountains. We then hopped onto our bus to travel a few hours to Chacchapata where we settled into our hostel located on the family farm of our local contact Karina. We spent a bit of time exploring the farm and enjoying the animals (sheep, dogs, and cows) and then ate a hearty home-cooked meal of quinoa soup. During our first full day there, we attended the Ollantay Raymi Festival. During this celebration, the indigenous groups from the mountains gather together at the Incan fortress in Ollantaytambo – hundreds of feet up a terraced mountainside – and act out the ancient Incan story of a prince trying to steal away a princess. They wear traditional costumes that they have made from handspun wool dyed with natural plant dyes, and at key parts of the story, they emerge like a blast of color as they dance out from behind the green terraces. It was absolutely breathtaking. The students had a chance learn and participate in some of these traditional dances accompanied by Andean flute and drum playing. Later that day, the group hiked around the ancient ruins in Ollantaytambo where homes were made of huge stones transported from a mountain one hundred miles away. The Incans created waterways that travel for miles from the city up into the countryside. It has been amazing to be in the Sacred Valley. The next day, we hiked from Karina’s farm to Pumamarca where the Incan military had their fortress. The military used to live deep in the mountains and created canals so that the snowmelt would travel down the valley to Ollantaytambo. During this hike, the group decided to take some time to quietly reflect on the trip so far. Surrounded by the distant sounds of the river below and the beautiful mountains of the Sacred Valley, the group spent time in solo meditation and commented that these moments were the icing on the cake of this spectacular day. The following day, we went to a local primary school and spent time with the 4-6 year olds. We played “duck duck goose” and learned a local game in Quechua. In the afternoon, we traveled to a community with traditional weavers. They showed us the whole process of weaving, from the sheep to the loom. They even sheered a sheep to show us how the process begins! Then we saw how they make the dyes, spin the wool, and bring it to the loom. Today we begin Lares Valley trek! The next time we write, we’ll have visited Machu Picchu.

Traditional Clothing at lake Titicaca with co-leader superstar Andy.

The students from Global Routes Peru Program 2010 practicing some rockin' Acrobatics

during their free-time!

Agentine angels

It was a rough night in my cozy bed here in Buenos Aires. It was one of those nights where I hit bottom and asked myself all the questions that come up every once in awhile since I've been moving around for the last five years. "what the f am i doing? where am i, what am i doing here, what is important?"as if nothing really had sentido anymore.

I new I was being completely silly, and doing everything that the buddists, hindus, yogis and Abraham Hicks would advise me not to do.

Yet it felt so amazingly good to cry and to feel! Human! It gave me so much compassion for all my friends and loves who are going through or have gone through depression or super difficult times. In these moments I always send out a prayer to the universe, "HELP."

I woke in the morning vulnerable, my heart hurting, my soul a little chaffed. I cancelled my plans to go to the farmer's market and to play harmonium and chant with some new beautiful goddess sisters. And took the bus for an hour in the early morning with my co-teacher Juan to the final Buddhism class at the yoga studio we would be teaching at later that evening.

The profe, Andres Cordero, blew my mind for 3 hours as I sat there remembering about the path to enlightenment, surrounded by such sweet community, all striving to be the best humans possible.

I had 5 hours open post-class to explore the neighborhood of San Isidro before teaching AcroYoga that evening. There I was with no plans, apprehensive because I stood out as the foreigner, telling myself to remain calm find presence. Open to whatever would come my way in the next 5 hours. Then two sweet angels started speaking to me and asking me the getting to know you questions...de donde sos vos? que haces por aca? etc...

Marcus was short with a shaved head, very buddha looking, and carried a big drum and mallet. Joaquin was tall with sparkley eyes, a gentle simplicity and walked with his bike. They invited me along with them to lunch together. And we left the yoga studio and started walking, drumming, singing to the devis (goddesses).

At Joaquin's house, still living with his parent's and 5 brothers and sisters, we ended up hanging out in his room for awhile. His walls were painted with Mantras, inspirational quotes and original artwork. I played m'bira while Marcos Drummed and Joaquin sat in meditation. After, I invited Marcos to fly. Then Joaquin flew me and I recipricated with leg love (thai massage for the legs). Marcos was sitting in meditation, I laid down with my hands on my heart, feeling the healing. Joaquin stayed on the floor in post-acroyoga bliss... We were all sharing the intense feeling of being high on life, love, sharing and the joy of being able to go deep with people we have just met. Our brothers and sisters!

For lunch we put together Quinoa and cut up vegetables of every color and put them in the wok. Surendering to the flow~I not only was taken care of by these beautiful angels, I was cooked a meal full of love. The universe provides. When we give up everything is when we receive EveryThing. This reminds me of my friend Ankur's book "Sometimes We Walk Alone." He walked the same path for 22 days that Ghandiji did for his salt march in the Gujarat Province of India. Ankur did this all without any money, his flute, journal and a change of clothes and he was taken care of each step of the way.

Back to Marcos and Joaquin, still smiling and excited about their lives and sharing with me! We head over to Juanito and Titi's house for a going away gathering. Juanito, Titi and Marcos are leaving in a few days for an unestimated amount of time. They're traveling through Boliva, the Jungles of Peru and Ecuador to end in Colombia for a Kriya Yoga initiation in December. Maybe I'll see them there, as i envision being in Colombia all of November.

On the way to Juanito's in this pretty suburbian neighborhood we pass by a man sitting in lotus on a tree stump with a osho meditation book in his lap. We all namaste and bow to each other. Excited that others are feeling the vibration and seeking it too... We run into other friends on bikes, kiss kiss, mucho gusto...smiles. We run into Juanito too, biking in multicolored indian pants, buddha-style hairdo, huge smile, sparkly eyes...he'll meet us at his house.

A group of spunky early twenty-something gals arrive with their guitars and super open fun personalities. Milagros (miracles) sits next to me and tells me her life story (22years) and her future dreams and that she is Joaquin's partner and that they're really happy together. She's the first person I've felt totally free and flowy with since I got here a week and a half ago. I am so grateful. We laugh and can't stop laughing. I love when that happens! Every time we'd look at each other we'd just keep on laughing, not even knowing what we were laughing about. Such amazing medicine~LAUGhtEr.

The guitar starts it's magic, and the drum re-appears, my mbira too, some cymbals, shakers, meditation bowl...More friends arrive and we're all singing and playing our random instruments in the semi-dark living room feeling the love vibration for a few hours. Free, non-judgemental communica-shun.

I love how when anyone enters a room here, they come over and kiss me on the cheek, and not just a peck, but a "hi, you're already my friend, and your beautiful" kiss on the cheek. They do this to say goodbye too. I think I'm really good at the hellos and goodbyes. One love.

So I head out to meet up with Juan to review what we would be teaching in our class. I find him in a corner fruit and veggie store and can't stop laughing when he asks me how my day was.

We teach a sweet inspiring connected acroyoga class that leaves everyone wanting more, smiling and hugging each other. And I am reminded of the beauty of it all, of what I do, of this lifetime. That I am free and I am loved.

SARK:

clusters of

angels

all along

your path

wherever you go

there are

clusters of angels

on a mission

these angels

surround your soul

wherever you go

whatever happens