Warm Holiday Greetings to all of you!
✨ I am so looking forward to the return of the light-in every way!✨
These have been very challenging times for all of us, for so very long now, and I wish for all of us to work diligently to grow rather than shrink through them.
As we approach the Winter Solstice, I'm thinking about how I might stoke the fire of my inner light so that I can shine more brightly
I invite you to join me so we can all shine together.
Now is the time to find your path and shine your gifts into the world for the benefit of all of us. The winter season of rest and restoration is essential for the deep necessity of this work.
We each have our own individual healing work to do, our own path to tread, yet although the journey is unique for each of us, it is important to realize that we are on a collective journey as well.
We are each an essential part of a whole and so are never alone.
Every step toward healing that you take is a step forward for all of humanity.
What a gift your healing brings!
I'm always inspired by the inimitable Joanna Macy.
Her Five Vows seem like a worthy aspiration for moving forward into a new healing year with more light, kindness, love and and clarity for ourselves, each other and the world💕🙏
So much is known, at least in the complimentary and ancient medicine realms, about the role of rest, meditation, energy work, diet and stress management in maintaining health and well being.
This pandemic has brought that truth home for me more than ever, though there is far less attention to this than I would like in the western medical model.
There are so many simple ways that we can help ourselves stay well and increase resilience . As you know, deep restorative rest is at the top of my list, as is meditation and energy work and healthy eating...there is so much we can do!
Fear robs us of our restorative functions.
In this years long state of chronic fear and worry, all resources are preferentially diverted toward survival rather than healing. There is no resting or digesting in a state of chronic stress.
I've heard chronic stress aptly described as "highly well armored hopelessness". I've known this place far too well and I'm betting some of you do too.
Please do not underestimate the detrimental effects of living in fear for the last 3 years...(likely longer than that if not a lifetime for many of us!).
Even if you have managed to NOT live in fear (congratulations🎉), don't forget that we are ALL affected by the energy of the collective, whether negative or positive. And we can always use more love😍
We live in a world of outrageous pain.
The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love
~Marc Gafni
One of the simplest and often forgotten things we can do to maintain health and well being is to be sure to get plenty of deep restorative rest. Interrupting the busy-ness is a challenge for many of us but the benefits are enormous!
Give yourself the gift of yoga nidra to empower your journey.
I invite you to try yoga nidra daily for a week or two (or more) to see how powerful it really is!
Join us for a live session and receive a recording that you can use again and again, or visit my website store for a free rainbow yoga nidra and/or many more options.
🎁A gift for you:
23 minute Loving Kindness meditation
yet another way to support yourself and all of us🙏
Yoga Nidra is truly an integral part of the transformative work we all need and long for.
It is good medicine and yes, an outrageous gift of love!
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Here are the Live Online Yoga Nidra Offerings For December:
Community Yoga Nidra for Razz Yoga
Friday December 10
7pm EST
Donation Based Yoga Nidra via Zoom
✨✨Welcome back the light on this (almost) Winter Solstice✨✨✨
Sunday December 19
1PM EST
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In Any Event
If we are fractured
we are fractured
like stars
bred to shine
in every direction,
through any dimension,
billions of years
since and hence.
I shall not lament
the human, not yet.
There is something
more to come, our hearts
a gold mine
not yet plumbed,
an uncharted sea.
Nothing is gone forever.
If we came from dust
and will return to dust
then we can find our way
into anything.
What we are capable of
is not yet known,
and I praise us now,
in advance.
~ Dorianne Laux
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Individual Guidance via Zoom
Give yourself or a loved one the gift of guidance in these life changing times.
My intention in this offering is simply to hold reflective space so that you can see your light.
Finding a trusted empathic witness has been essential for me in my healing journey. I'd be honored to hold that space for you.
Together we can plumb the depths of your heart so that you can remember the unique gifts that you are here to share
You WILL shine again...or maybe find your light for the first time.
If this resonates, click the button below for more info
Remember that there are lots and lots of yoga nidra recordings available in my store.
The gift of deeply restorative rest is a thoughtful holiday gift for YOU, as well as for your friends and loved ones🎁
Thank you from my heart for supporting my work
🙏💕😴
"What if you are the Light?
What if you're the agent of illumination a dark situation begs for?
Anyone can be the Light, at any moment.
I can’t personally end all wars, solve global warming, or transform vexing people.
But I do have some influence on everyone I brush up against. No matter who you are, or how tough your situation seems, I believe you can illuminate your world.
I believe it's the only way the world will ever be illuminated... one bright act of grace at a time."
~Elizabeth Gilbert
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May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter, so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within.
May you grow still enough to hear the trickling of water seeping into the ground, so that your soul may be softened and healed, and guided in its flow.
May you grow still enough to hear the splintering of starlight in the winter sky and the roar at earth's fiery core.
May you grow still enough to hear the stir of a single snowflake in the air, so that your inner silence may turn into hushed expectation.
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
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Wishing you a restful, peaceful and healing holiday season and a beautiful, fresh shiny new year✨
Let's light bonfires of outrageous love, kindness, joy, health and compassion
Do your inner work and let your beautiful light shine into the world
✨We are all more than ready for the return of the light✨
Be that light✨
I celebrate you in your healing work-it is a gift for us all🎁
love
gina🙏💕✨
