Month: January 2024

Honoring dad on his 1st anniversary of what he called “checking out”, I heard his words coming out of my mouth. I purchased some new bedding in the wrong size. Struggling to put it on, I said “das ok”.

He often mispronounced the expression “that’s OK” on purpose, being silly. We learned to say it back to him when the little frustrations of life would mount. After his multiple TIAs and his stroke, it became a way for us to shift our reactions away from stress and toward responding with acceptance of his detriments which he could do nothing about.

Who’s words come out of your mouth sometimes? What helps you shift toward acceptance? Ki to Happiness breathes and remembers to keep a perspective on what truly matters, which is peace, love and serenity.

Today as I honor my dad’s one year anniversary of his departure from the earthly plane, I’m thinking of it as Freedom Day. He is free from pain and suffering as well as worry and taxes. He is free to allow his essence to pervade all he loves: nature, beauty, balance and Mom.

Synchronistically, I am likely to be freed today from my brace, depending on what my doctor says during our appointment. Since dad also broke his left wrist, I feel his essence is within me in this new way. I hope to be able to put his wrist watch on my wrist, sealing my inheritance from him.

How do you celebrate someone’s life once they are free from this earthly plane? What can you free yourself from that might make your life more worth celebrating? Ki to Happiness is free to celebrate life and its essence.

One year ago, my dad had his last day of life. During this year without him, I have felt comfort in seeing his essence in ducks, hawks, and clouds, hearing his voice in the wind, and dreaming of him free from pain. Mom has survived this year without him and has taken her rightful position as Queen of her castle.

I miss his sweetness, so I’ve become sweeter. He was my step dad, so I learned from him the step dance I still do with my step son. He was an outdoorsman, so I spend more time outdoors, looking up at the sky for clouds and birds, remembering him with sweetness.

Do you still have your folks? How can you best honor their memory and legacy? Ki to Happiness honors her living mother’s choices and becomes sweeter in honor of her dad.

In the aftermath of my birthday celebrations, I reflect on the many smiles, stories, calls, gifts, and love that I experienced. Friends and family, students and clients, cats and one big old dog at my favorite turn-around shop all made for a memorable day. I’m growing in patience and gratitude as I recall the blessings of the day.

Flowers, books, cards, clothes, boots, jewelry, and Epson salt gel all surround my lit candles. I offer them all up as an offering to the great I Am presence within each of us who are living now. We share the Earth for this precious journey of growing into our Higher Selves for a while.

What love helps you grow? Who companions your journey of life? Ki to Happiness grows in loving companionship with those who show up.

After having a fabulous session with my doctor and a great morning of serving my clients, I rested into time off for my birthday. Bob took me out for a special birthday burrito. Then we shopped together for flowers to grace our ramp and deck.

As the evening progressed, I felt the day brought a good conclusion to my 62nd year, despite my broken wrist. Then an energy vampire tried to bring me down by triggering my old kid fears. After all these years, practices and healings, I simply removed myself from the situation and let it right itself instead of leaking triggered energy outward.

How gracefully can you remove yourself from situations that trigger you? Can you redirect you energy away from those who would attempt to take it from you and pray for them to learn to align with their own energy Source? Ki to Happiness celebrates 63 years of practices and healings with which to align with Source.

This full moon brings to light energies set in place a couple of weeks ago when the moon was new. Reflecting on our unconscious issues, now we can do something conscious with the innermost material that the full moon brings up. While this can be a challenging process, it’s well worth it as we view it as a growth opportunity.

Growing beyond our previous reactivity, we choose to respond in accordance with our truest intention. Utilizing yoga practices helps me avoid escalating problems into crisis so I can find calm solutions. Each lunar cycle gives us a chance to improve this natural process.

What has this full moon brought to light from your unconscious? What can you consciously do with that now, in alignment with your truest intention? Ki to Happiness consciously practices yoga to respond with peace to the challenges this moon has brought up.

With tomorrow’s full moon approaching, I feel the effects today. My sleep was filled with dreams. My awakening brings me to my unopened birthday gifts and bereavement over my dad’s approaching 1 year anniversary of his passing.

It’s a good day for alternate nostril breathing. The practice of anuloma viloma pranayama joins together the different energy channels for balance. Birthday/death anniversary, wakefulness/sleep, right/left nostrils and brain hemispheres unite with the practice.

Can you feel the moon filling? What helps you stay balanced? Ki to Happiness practices full moon salutations, one legged balances and alternate nostril breathing to stay balanced as the moon fills.

It’s been 15 months since our ceiling began to leak. We’ve had five different property managers in that time who kept passing the job on. Finally yesterday, the cosmetic improvements of sanding the puttied holes and painting finished the job.

That coincides with the cosmetic improvement of my healing wrist looking more like itself again. both my inner world and outer world are looking better. The yoga path addresses this mirroring in sublime poetic verse in the Chandogya Upanishad.

How is your inner world? Can you see it reflected in your outer world? Ki to Happiness delights in cosmetic improvements as they reflect deeper changes.

My girlfriend shared with me her early morning awakening to a tremendous Light that had no external source. Without fear, she stayed present as there appeared an energy body shaped like a person ascending into that Light. She reported a great wave of comfort as she interpreted this inner vision as indication that her dearly beloved recently deceased friend has made the journey to the other realm of Light.

No practices or beliefs, rituals, or observations were required of her. “All are forever welcome” is the way one mystic stated it. This awareness reinforces my practices, beliefs, rituals and observations so as to kindly allow my soul to bask in the presence of the All Pervading, All Forgiving, All Welcoming Light.

If all is forever forgiven, how does your life change? How do you honor the One who welcomes all? Ki to Happiness starts each day welcoming the Light of forgiveness into the soul.

My tenure as a yoga teacher is based on my daily practice. When someone teaches, and they don’t practice, it seems out of integrity to me. As a yoga teacher trainer, accepting students into our program requires them to have a two-year history of daily practice.

During this month since my wrist injury, I have continued to practice daily, albeit modified. As I gently return to teaching more, I will continue to modify my approach to teaching as well. Practicing and teaching brings integrity to body-mind-spirit which I have to share with the world through classes and private sessions.

What do you practice daily? How do you share it with the world? Ki to Happiness practices what she teaches.