One Fierce Lady

Mother Nature has raged and left her beauty and power upon us. What will we do with the information that was given? The way I see it we have a choice to either embrace or contract, which will you choose?

On Saturday and Sunday, as I read the posts on facebook I was not at all surprised by the reactions of many people who laughed, complained or blew off the almighty Mother Nature. We live in a world of such disconnect from nature, in which a bug can be crawling nearby, a fly buzzing around or a spider nearing our path so unaware of the beauty that is connected to these beings and our first instinct is fear and to kill. How about the rain that falls upon us in our everyday lives, never allowed to touch our skin or to take a moment to stick out our tongues to taste what is most natural; simplicity and basic survival skills have been lost as our spirited selves or natural instincts are no longer nurtured or engaged.

I speak from my own detachment where I spent most of my life fearing nature and all beings big and small along with my ignorance and unconscious living to the suffering of animals that I “nourished’ myself with because I did not try to find out what the truth was; I followed what society carved out for me. My personal journey includes a life from spirit, to party, to sobriety, to my practice of Yoga to a life changing job shift from Commodities clerk to Yoga teacher to Tracker School learning primitive skills to reconnect and reclaim my spiritual being. I choose to live and blaze my own path that allows me to feel empowered.

With all the reality shows on the air, we Americans are more interested in the pain of other people than finding what makes us passionate and alive. The media coverage through this storm and all events, pull us in and consistently create more anxiety of our already frightened minds. It is a never ending loop that unless we take a look at it, it will always be there.

Everyday is an adventure I create (or invite ) often including challenge, fear, inspiration and the undoing of habitual patterns that I have the pleasure and pain to unravel to get to the my authentic self.

So go out of your comfort zone and take yourself or your family into the woods, go out without an umbrella, don’t harm even the smallest little being but honor and embrace all that surrounds you. Maybe the next time you are challenged by Mother Nature you will have a little more ease and connection to her. Tonight as I swept the debris from the driveway, I was blessed with visits from a frog, mosquitos, a chipmunk and a deer.

A Post in Hiding The Spirit

Spirit exists in all of us (the divine, connection, instinct) and Spirituality is what you practice (repeat, habit, custom). So when you hear someone say they have spirituality or a spiritual practice; it simply may mean they are experiencing their spirit.

These last couple of months my spirit feels like I have not been paying as much attention to it. I have been observing, okay judging the mind chatter, those thoughts that say, I am not worthy, I can't, or the being hard on myself.

It has been almost three years that I retired my pink trading jacket from the New York Mercantile Exchange to follow my dharma (purpose in life, duty). I was called to travel, pilgrimage & allow myself the freedom to be "me"; the divine being that I lost track of for many years by my party & material lifestyle; which all were blessings and experiences I would never trade for anything. May I add that quitting your job with no plan seemed a bit crazy by the people that surrounded me but I knew it was what my heart & spirit needed.

I am preparing to launch my vision to help heal the universe & the beautiful beings in it. But creating this has come with lots of challenges. Twenty five years later I still carry around the pain from experiences I had from childhood and continue to relive those moments. I realized that I may have done the healing for the mental and emotional bodies but my spiritual and energetic bodies still needs nurture and Love. It is an ongoing journey to heal the pain but what emerges out of it is the gifts to share with others; we are never alone in any given experience.

Through the practice of Yoga I learn to connect my mind, body and spirit and breathe energy into the places that have been sleeping. I continue to awaken and find that I am limitless and forever grateful to the pain that brings me this incredible strength.