Month: August 2020

Traveling in this present environment, masked, changes the way we interact with one another. We lose so much of nonverbal cues without the ability to see the nose, mouth and jaw. Eyes become the focal point. Important to have eye contact.

Looking from my soul into another soul is deeply intimate, potentially. What is seen may be surprising. Sending love and connection is completely possible anyway, across the veil, mask, or aisle.

Are you comfortable looking into another’s eyes? Can you send love and connection across the divides? Ki to Happiness smiles and breathes with eyes wide open.

In addition to challenges regarding the various rules and requirements of the viral issue, travel also upsets the digestive system. With climate and time changes, different foods and water, constipation and diarrhea often result.

Yoga offers us guidelines and tools to assist. Changing my eating and sleeping patterns before travel helps me synchronize with the new location. As does the cleansing practice of Nauli. Using abdominal muscles to massage the digestive organs assists. I will be demonstrating that momentarily on today’s Hatha Yoga Center live steaming group page effort.

How’s your gut? Anything hard to digest on any level? Ki to Happiness assimilates the best and evacuates the rest.

Traveling yesterday, I found three different opportunities to live stream supportive yoga practices. As this is the “summer of the road trip“, perhaps others will benefit from these offerings, wherever you go.

They certainly help me. As do many more which I will continue to show from the road. Join me there as a Facebook friend, or on Hatha Yoga Center live streaming group page. Today, I will next clean my sinuses in support of my immune system as I demonstrate the use of the Netti pot.

What do you need on the road? Where can you find some privacy in and few minutes to tend to those needs? Ki to Happiness has taken this show on the road.

Bags are packed, my ride to the airport is certain. Continuing to safely start to reopen here will no doubt be a different experience than the other locations where I will be. So I pack my flexibility, my acceptance of things I cannot change, and my serenity first.

As I look around my world I’m about to depart from, I am full of gratitude. Mostly, I have wanted to thank all of those who have assisted me in the coming to this now. My cats, family, friends, students, clients all enrich my life with purpose and meaning. Truly, I thank you, also, dear readers, for sharing your time, your attention, and your deep thoughts on all of these topics.

How easily do you leave? What is it that you will be returning to? Ki to Happiness puts the good in goodbye.

I’m curious what I will find next with my upcoming travels tomorrow. We continue safely starting to reopen here. In other areas, different programs are in effect. Helps me to release judgment, and pack plenty of acceptance as well as masks!

I am a champion packer, having spent a lot of my life with one bag at least half packed. Perhaps my best tool, is to start early. And always, to call upon assistance from the traveling saints.

Did you travel domestically this summer? Are you a good packer? Ki to Happiness sees us all as travelers here, most needing food and shelter.

Weather forecast indicates that the heat dome is likely to send temperatures close to 100° here. Starting to safely reopen will begin with the windows. Little air conditioning in the PNW.

Being raised in St. Louis, I love the heat. I remember frying eggs on the sidewalk, beef roasting in pots in parked car windows, playing in the hose, the taste of water coming from its long coil.

Do you like the heat? What memories does it bring up for you? Ki to Happiness stays cool in the shade now, remembering.

For the first time in 10 years I have not traveled abroad this summer. Continuing to safely start to reopen, I am able to witness the subtle changes in light, and temperature indicating the passage of time. Without the complication of jet lag, cultural shifts, language barriers, etc. instead I experience the slow changes rounding out the year.

Travel has broadened my world completely. I value the many lessons it has brought. Detaching from ones home, culture, and patterns affords exploration of other ways to live. Staying put also has its advantage.

What have you learned from your travels? How happy are you to stay put? Ki to Happiness loves with detachment.

Today, I celebrate the anniversary of my first blog here. One year ago, I had no idea we would be facing the present issues that are on the planet. Blogging has been a companion during this five month period of sequestration, as well as before. I begin daily on September 23.

Next year on this date, I will reflect back on today. I wonder what huge planetary changes await us. Perhaps just what is necessary to awaken us all to our Oneness with each other, and all that Is.

Where were you a year ago today? What small effort did you make that has continued to companion you all year? Ki to Happiness is giving my blog a hug for being such a reliable companion in this most Unprecedented year.

Summer has subdued itself as we continue to safely start to reopen. A few leaves on the trees are beginning to turn golden. There is a different sense of time passing during this most unusual summer.

The fresh cool air takes me back to childhood summers in Canada. Each breath, like biting into an apple, sweet and crisp. The light is diminishing. This season is evaporating into the cycle from which it came.

What time does it feel like to you? Which summer delights still await? Ki to Happiness loves good sleeping weather.

Life continues as we safely start to reopen businesses. There’s greater traffic. And yet the come back of the wildlife lets its presence be known. Yesterday, the interface between the two was disastrous for one beautiful young seagull.

The gray winged white beauty was swooping down to some food visible in the middle of the road. The car nearly dismembered one wing from the rest of its body. We came to assist. We reached out for help. Ultimately, the authorities took the bird.

How is the interface between reopening and the benefits of the closure in your area? What do you do when you see disaster? Ki to Happiness does her best and lets go of the rest.