Month: January 2023

As we welcome the fresh new energy of this lunar new year, I adapt my yoga practices. Having swept away the bad luck of the past, the clean space invites good luck to fill the void. Gentle Hare posture and Cat replace Tiger.

While teaching, the fog and rain turned into huge snowflakes. A sense of peace replaced the deluge. Long absent students returned to join us now that the intensity of the tiger has passed.

What practices do you need to adjust? How can you best release the traumas and intensities of the past? Ki to Happiness walks in the snow or rain, practices Tiger or Hare, (always Cat) and deeply rests.

Today we welcome the lucky, fertile and friendly rabbit/ cat year. Setting intentions for a fuzzy and frisky year is auspicious on this winter’s day. Counting our blessings so they multiply is a good way to start.

My blessings include a miraculous beginning to the day as a long standing physical issue resolved itself in the night. Four years ago, I distended my right hip’s illiopsoas bursa. This morning I discovered my innate healing potential took care of it.

What blessings would you like to see multiplied? Can you take the time to express your gratitude for them today? Ki to Happiness is grateful for all that has occurred bringing me to the awareness of miracles everywhere.

Today is the last day of the year of the Tiger. We all know what happens if you catch a tiger by its tail. Instead of grabbing it and upsetting the beast, let’s use the energy today to conclude any of the epic dramas of the last year.

I propose we thank the Tiger for all of the challenges, recognizing that we have survived and grown in strength and perseverance. All cats, big, and little like tuna. I will offer big tuna to my cats as a symbolic gesture of appreciation for the Tiger in them, as well as a welcome for the Year of the Cat/Rabbit ahead.

What have you survived in the last year? How have you grown through your ordeals?Ki to Happiness recognizes growth comes through the opportunities challenges present.



When we moved here, our new landlord sent me an article from NewsBreak. Since that time, I noticed myself scrolling through its app with a negative result. So I removed the app from my phone and am fasting from it.

Instead of scrolling, I called a friend. I noticed the positive result of truly connecting with a real person. The news we shared of each other’s lives deepens our bonds.

How do you take your news? When you notice it’s having a negative effect on you, can you change your source? Ki to Happiness is well enough informed to choose real relating over doom scrolling.

Today, the planet mercury appears to move forward in its pattern. With it, communication, and transportation is more likely to also move forward. After the frustrations and challenges of the last three weeks, this is welcome.

Having made good use of the time for reflection, there is potential for great healing. Perhaps there can be a feeling of clearing and freshness. I have honored the shift with fresh dishes, whomping up vegan Saag as well as Mac and Cheez.

What would you like to say? Where do you wanna go? Ki to Happiness says thank you for the time to reflect as I go about my business.

Sometimes the tasks in our lives seem enormous. When we break them down and do a little bit at a time we experience success. That gives us enough juice to do a little bit more.

It all starts as we get up in the morning. Making the bed. Feeding the cats…bit by bit with rests when we need them… we grow into ourSelves.

What enormous task do you need to break down into tiny, doable steps? How does it feel to take one step? Ki to Happiness has become a Blogger, Holistic Counselor, Dancer, Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master, Vegan, Poet, World Traveler, Wife, Step Mother, Cat Staffmember bit by bit…

Happy MLK day. I am still dreaming his dream becomes reality. The four chambers in my heart, while separate, all beat for one purpose.

Similarly, separate cultures and peoples could align with one common purpose. Furthering the manifestation of spirit on this earth brought us all here. It’s up to each of us to find the rhythm and timing.

What do you need to do to keep the dream in your heart alive? More connection to spirit or manifestation? Ki to Happiness finds balance with right rhythm and timing.

I walked out into the record-breaking warmth in search of my favorite winter bloom. Sarcococca doesn’t look like much with its evergreen leaves and tiny white flowers. The shrub’s scent is the harbinger of Spring, blooming in midwinter.

Some describe its scent as vanilla. To my sensitive nose, it smells like the Earth, waking up and offering its promise. Yes, the days are still short, and we will have further cold and dark days, yet the scent emboldens hope and faith.

Do you have a favorite harbinger of Spring What emboldens your hope and faith? Ki to Happiness sniffs the air.

From our earthly vantage point, planets appear to move forward, then backward, which is called retrograde. Later they appear to move forward after they appear to be standing still which is called stationed direct. Yoga teaches us the macrocosm is reflected in our inner microcosm, indicating people similarly move forward in some areas of life, then backwards for a time with periods of standing still before forward movement occurs again.

During this period as Mars has stationed direct, we may use the energy to pause and compose ourselves anew. Doing so we can integrate the lessons learned regarding our masculine, assertive, warrior like energy for future efforts. Soon, Mercury will also go direct, assisting us with communication and transportation, but until then we may best allow time for reflection.

How comfortable can you be with standing still? What lessons have you learned about your warrior energy that you can integrate as you reflect? Ki to Happiness is composing herself.

For eight months since we learned of our potential need for this relocation, our energy has been attending to conflict resolution as well as the daily necessities of life and work. The process narrowed my vision so as to keep my sights set on the goal. Yesterday we learned we’ve prevailed.

As we went out for our walk in celebration and trauma release, my eyes widened and my sight cleared. As if I had a fisheye lens in which to see the entirety, I witnessed Grace unfolding and engulfing our circumstances. Delivered from injustices, I wept and walked in gratitude for my yoga practices, prayers and people who have had our backs all along the way.

Who has your back? What helps you prevail? Ki to Happiness sees clearly in gratitude for all that has had my back.