Month: May 2020

Just as I was coming to the end of my ability to remain flexible and open, we receive some good news. Our governor has shifted his categorization of yoga studios like ours from phase 3 to phase 2 for a re-opening plan. This prompted me to immediately learn all of the guidelines so I can get everything in place in the next 11 days.

With just five students here, we will be honoring all restrictions. Many will choose to remain practicing yoga remotely. And we will all stay tuned for further information regarding more complete re-opening.

What good news have you had? What is necessary for you to prepare for the re-openings in your world? Ki to Happiness reopens the heart to this flexible shift.

It happened yesterday. After all of this time staying home and staying healthy, I felt the desire to control the reopening. Learning that our attorney general is suing the state for closing his gym, and that the state is suing two different gyms for not closing has catapulted me into the desire to simply re-open June 1. I can make it till then.

As soon as I could recognize this, I “turned it all over” immediately. To my Higher Self. To the Higher Power that connects us all. Just because I am over it, does not mean it is over. Or that it will be over on my timeline. Letting go of my desire to control, and accepting Life on Life’s terms, returns me to today and the gift that is now here.

How is your desire to control? What is your sense of timing? Ki to Happiness relinquishes control now.

As we continue staying home and staying healthy, our neighbors to the south have reopened. Finding their orders to be unconstitutional, people are encouraged now to go out and get their haircut. And maybe have some dinner out.

I cut my own hair. I love to cook for myself and others. Much of my life will remain the same. Tethering my efforts to the central principles and values most encapsulated by the yoga path, keeps me consistent.

What will change for you as we continue to re-open? And what will remain unchanged?Ki to Happiness accepts that the only constant is change.

Today, more nonessential medical and dental procedures resume in our area. Masks and gloves and social distancing becomes more commonplace. We adjust to the new rules, day by day, one location at a time.

I have put a mask on one of the teddy bears in our window. A small boy was delighted when he looked up and saw it. He showed his dad. Small moments of grace lift me, so I share with you. Another-my antisocial husband welcomed an opportunity to have me safely serve someone lunch! The highlight of our week.

What are the new rules in your area? Where have you experience delight? Ki to Happiness sniffs out grace, with or without the mask on.

Digging deeply into my own material, staying home and staying healthy has resulted in much personal progress. And while there have been challenges professionally, there’s also been remarkable progress here, too. Thank you for finding your way to read the blog in its new home, and my apologies for any glitches along the way.

Now that I am streaking my blog here, and streaming my classes and meditations on Hatha Yoga Center live streaming group page, and doing most of my private sessions remotely, old issues, problems, conflicts, complexities are gone. New issues have come up, requiring attention, patience, perseverance, and new skills.

What has your deep digging revealed to you? What new issues have come up? Ki to Happiness knows the old issues are resolved when replaced by new ones.

As we continue staying home and staying healthy, I am delighted that I’m able to still blog. Having made tremendous changes to my website, it was a tiny hiccup yesterday in which perhaps it looked like my assistant did this blog. And it may not have posted in the right spot either. And yet I am here. I will continue.

We have small A boards which we put on the street as our marketing. One of them is chained there, to inhibit theft. It often gets knocked down by big winds or by belligerent neighbors. Each morning as I return from getting the newspaper, I check it. And I put it back up again. And again. It again. It’s resilience inspires my own. It stands up.

Are you able to continue what you have started despite setbacks? Can you get back up when you’ve been knocked down? Will you let others help you? Ki to Happiness resiliently continues to get back up.

Staying home and staying healthy has allowed me to get just the right help so that I could re-launch my Ki to Happiness website. My blog has a new home. May it serve you.

Creative juices, together with persistence, patience, and plenty of technical support have helped me to manifest. Check it out, when you get a chance. And feel free to “ask Ki anything“.

What do your creative juices want to manifest? What support do you need? Ki to Happiness supports each of our true creative desires.

As we continue staying home and staying healthy, more choices present themselves to us as soft openings are happening in this area, and perhaps in yours as well. Conflicts arise as people with different opinions and different experiences clash. And yet for those of us with spiritual practices, yoga among them, are able to see from a higher perspective that the One who unites us all is on all things, in all things, in each one of us. Always and in all ways.

The Sufis call this “reconciling the irreconcilables”. Within each one of us, there are a multitude of opinions, having had plenty of variable experiences. As we become more coherent and integrated we have greater access to the Higher Power.

What disparities within can you heal today? Are you willing to forgive others who have not yet done this work? Ki to Happiness forgives God’s world.

Continuing happily to stay home and healthy, I’m able to improve my surroundings in the tiniest ways. Looking at the mighty violets gracing our studio, with their cheerful blooms, I am happy simply to tend to them.

Violets from a spiritual perspective encourage correct movements. Learning such, and recognizing that they could thrive in our north facing yoga studio, I’m so glad I got them years ago on the recommendation of one of our community members. So while she is not here in person, as I tend to them, I think of that dear one.

Any simple pleasures that you are finding in this unusual time? Able to feel the love for those who you are unable to physically be with? Ki to Happiness loves you all, and sends loving support for you and your correct movements.



The spring swing has shifted our temperatures. As we drop back into the 50s and 60s, perhaps some of the heated division on the planet, in our country, and in our local area and will start to chill.

Yogic theory as stated in the Upanishads includes the postulate that what is within is with out, and that which is with out is also within. The microcosm and macrocosm are mirror reflections of one another. In this way, every effort we make to heal all the divisions within our self benefits humanity, as well as life on Earth.

Do you notice how the weather affects you? With cooler temperatures, what division within yourself can you heal? Ki to Happiness recognizes that “cooler heads prevail”.