Warm late spring greetings to you all!
A recent New York Times article calls a common pandemic feeling of stagnation, that blah I-Can't-Do-Anything feeling Languishing.
A follow up article suggests that the opposite of languishing is Flourishing.
How in the world do we get from here, languishing, to there, flourishing?
Maybe the best "person" to ask is Mother Earth herself.
Remember early in the lockdown hearing how astonishing it was to see how quickly Mother Earth could heal when we stopped doing what we were doing?
The waters healed, the skies cleared, the animals flourished.
All in a miraculously short time when we were forced to slooow waaay down
So as eager as you may be to get "back to normal", whatever that is for you, remember the gift we gave the earth by NOT moving so quickly, by NOT being unconscious and on auto-pilot.
See what happens if you commit to being more present and aware of the beauty and joy available in every single moment. Try not missing the gifts of the earth that keep giving, her amazing capacity for healing and growth.
To me, nothing compares to growing something, or having a garden, no matter how small.
Even planting one seed and watching the miracle of life happen.
Witness the magic; see how a tiny seed remembers who it is meant to be and rises up in the most miraculous way to create something that is seemingly impossible, something unimaginable compared to the tiny seed from which it came.
That gives SO much more than seemed possible!
This is MAGIC.
This is FLOURISHING.
I can't think of a more appropriate word for it. It is precious and amazing and the essence of life on this beautiful earth.
Now is a good time to remember that this capacity for amazing and unimagined, even seemingly impossible, growth is our birthright as well.
We all have seeds of untapped potential, germinating, ready to sprout when the conditions allow.
I invite you this summer to deliberately create the conditions that WILL allow your magic to grow and blossom and bear fruit.
Let yourself come fully to life and shine your light for all of us to see. And let yourself rejoice when you see how miraculous you truly are when you agree to FLOURISH
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“Be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.”
― Rumi
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💚FREE GIFT FOR YOU🌱
In the spirit of all of us needing new growth and healing, I'd like to offer you a FREE downloadable yoga nidra that can help you plant your inner garden.
Enjoy this Solstice gift to plant, tend, and uncover the magic of your untapped potentials and give birth to seemingly impossible things!
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Click link below for your free gift!
Perhaps as we near the solar eclipse happening on June 11 and the summer solstice on June 21, we can move from dull to brilliant, from languishing to flourishing, by witnessing the majesty, abundance and joy that summertime brings. We can be like the sun in the eclipse-though hidden for a moment in shadow, remembering and then recovering our capacity to shine brightly.
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There are so many ways to help yourself stay well and optimize your health, yet in my mind, Yoga Nidra is still the BEST medicine
Yoga nidra guides us to much needed integration, balance, clarity and vitality so that we can each share our unique magic with the world
It is time to slow down and heal deeply
As we each heal, we heal the whole.
Commit to offering the gift of your healing to the sacred web of life
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Here are the virtual offerings for June
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June Yoga Nidra
Community Based Yoga Nidra for Razz Yoga
* free for Razz Community
$20 drop in
Friday June 11 at 7pm EST
Global Donation Based Yoga Nidra via Zoom
~Tuesday June 15 at 7 pm EST
and
~Sunday June 27 at 1 pm EST
Join me LIVE via Zoom for a deeply restorative and healing practice, especially beneficial for the nervous and immune systems
and enjoy the physiologic effect of
2-6 hours of RESTFUL sleep!
* All registered participants will receive the full audio recording after the class
* No prior experience required -this is a restorative practice done lying down-NOT a posture practice
Can't join us live?
The recording will be offered on my website after the class for $10
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Individual guidance via Zoom
Summertime, the season of joy and abundance.
If you aren't feeling it, I get it. You are in fine company.
It has been a long year(s).
If you are looking for guidance and support as you find your way back to your heart I'd be honored to offer what I have learned on my long tumultuous yet transformative journey toward healing and wholeness.
My work is not dogmatic; there is no "right" way to heal.
I simply hope to offer you an opportunity to be seen and heard, witnessed, so you can see and hear yourself and find your way home.
I offer a pallet of possibility for you: mindfulness meditation, yoga, yoga nidra, western medical knowledge and neurophysiology, energy medicine and life support to guide you in finding your gifts so that you can share yourself with the world
These self empowering tools and practices have transformed my life-and continue to do so.
I'm honored to share them with you.
Remember: your healing work serves us all🙏
$88/hr
Email me to inquire about availability
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MORE FOR YOUR HOME PRACTICE
(AND awesome gifts for those you love💝)
Visit my store for NEW full length yoga nidra recordings
from all of the past virtual sessions-
☀️Join me & 31 experts for for the Global Conscious Health Summit 2.0
beginning June 3
My Talk is Saturday June 5
Foundational Healing:
Creating Space For Flow And Transformation
"As our world appears more and more out of balance, our destruction of the natural world increasing, there is a vital need to remember what is essential, simple, and sacred.
There was a time when the language of the Earth was the language of our daily lives, of planting and harvesting, sunshine and storms.
The words of the sacred were stars and seeds, mountains and rivers.
The soul and the seasons of nature moved together; they spoke the same mystery, the beauty that is within and around us.
It was all as natural as breathing, not needing to be remembered because never forgotten.
How could you forget the wind on your face or the songs of birds?
How could you forget the rise and fall of the tide?
These were not stories written in books but lived from morning until dusk, until dreamtime wove another texture into the firelight.
But now we live in a time of forgetting, when the deep resonance between our souls and the soul of the world has been covered over.
So there is a pressing need to remember, to recognize this hidden lifeblood of all that exists, its rhythms and movement, and how it makes itself known to us in different ways."
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
From his new book: Seasons of the Sacred: Reconnecting to the Wisdom Within Nature and the Soul
And another lovely post from the same author:
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/where-the-horses-sing/
Wishing you deep re-membering, balance and ease as we move into the joy and abundance of summer ( and deep love, rest and gentle turning inward to my friends in southern climes!)
Take gentle care
Flourish, SHINE and grow!
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Love
gina🙏💕
