Month: March 2024

Hatha Yoga Center offers classes today onsite as well as online. Bob has consistently offered Easter Sunday classes since 1977. I’ll serve scones and tea with a few Easter treats in between and after classes.

Last year I was not in attendance as my family gathered to memorialize my dad’s life. He would always quote his grammar school teaching, “ Easter time is the time for eggs and the time for eggs is the Easter time.” Remembering him on this day brings me joy.

How will you observe Easter? What is resurrecting in you? Ki to Happiness resurrects her true identity of Eternal Spirit in temporal matter daily with Hatha Yoga.

During this last day of Lent, some observe Holy Saturday. At this point, any of us who have given some thing up, have recognized that we didn’t need it after all. Some give up the drink, others abstain from junk food as new habits replace those that no longer serve.

This year, I gave up cussing in recognition that my language had devolved since breaking my wrist. My wrist is doing quite well and I feel better about my word choice. I don’t plan to resume cussing as I prefer using my voice to sing the praises of what’s good and right.

How uplifting are your habits? When you let go of one habit, what do you replace it with? Ki to Happiness wishes you all a Holy Saturday.

This year’s Good Friday lands on a personal day of celebration. 40 years ago on this date, I had my first visionary experience. It rocked my world and awakened my heart to what transpires beyond what appears.

Beatitude replaced my view of dumpsters, rats, and overgrown weeds. The celestial music of the Spheres sounded the trumpets, obliterating the beeping of delivery trucks backing up in my alley. The Earth softened to cushion my path as I continued on my corrected way ever toward the One.

What is good about this Friday for you? What would it take for you to feel great? Ki to Happiness celebrates 40 years of awakening to the reality beyond appearances.

As some of our students observe Ramadan, I’ve been assisting with their issues around fasting. On this 18th day of their 30 day commitment, there is ample feedback they’re receiving from their bodies which requires adjustment.

It’s not the abstaining from food and water during the daylight hours that disturbs their energy, it’s the breaking of the fast with gorging late at night. Breaking fasts with light, easy to digest foods helps with good sleep. Preparing for morning consumption before bed insures sustenance is available for predawn hydration and nutrition.

What kind of fasts have you observed? What lessons have you learned from them that influence your every day life? Ki to Happiness breaks fasts in the way that Ayurveda and Hatha Yoga teach.

I’m celebrating the progress my clients are making. Letting go of fantasies, whether positive or negative, gives freedom to face reality. Putting feet on the ground, progress is possible.

When we are unsettled, things need to clear before progress can be made. Overtime we learn the kind of circumstances that destabilize us. Choosing stability, consistent practices are more likely to reveal peaceful guidance.

What fantasies appeal to you? Can you let them go with love and face your reality with your feet on the ground? Ki to Happiness faces the reality that consistent practices will guide progress toward peace.

“All of this is full. All of that is full. From fullness, fullness comes. When fullness is removed, fullness remains.” This prayer begins one of the classic Upanishads texts which underpins the Yoga Path. On this full moon morning, I feel the truth of it.

My heart is full of gratitude for all that has occurred in my life. Our classes are full of students, as my schedule for private sessions is also full. All my relationships are full of love and compassion arising from practices that fulfill my connection the One in All.

What is your life full of? From your bounty, what do you offer the world? Ki to Happiness is “full of it”… and makes a silly word play about it for you to chuckle.

Today’s full moon lunar eclipse prepares the way for the the upcoming solar eclipse. Those of us who are sensitive to such patterns may be experiencing disruption in sleep, and a general sense of being unsettled. Drinking lots of water, exercising outdoors in nature, and practicing yoga are all advised daily, and especially at times like these.

The specific way that each of us experiences these patterns depends upon one’s own astrology. While many scoff at what some refer to as pseudoscience, others benefit from aligning with helpful suggestions to navigate disruptive energies. Hatha Yoga practices the integration of the sun and moon channels within the body daily so these energies can be utilized for growth in consciousness.

Have you been feeling unsettled? Can you take a walk in nature, drink extra water or practice Hatha Yoga? Ki to Happiness stays grounded in these energies by practicing what she preaches.

I read Isabel Wilkerson‘s book, Caste, in 2020. Last night we watched the movie, Origin, based on the book and the author’s process of writing it. Both the book and the movie are worth the time.

As we explore the “origins of our discontent”which is the subtitle of the book, we gain perspective on the issues plaguing our planet. Personally enlightening, we are each moved to overcome the divisions within ourselves so as to cease from projecting them outward. Yoga which means Union give us tools to overcome the unconscious conditioning of caste and offers a method of finding contentment in connection to spirit, available for all.

Have you read the book or seen the movie? Can you take the time to become conscious of these issues and overcome the conditioning within? Ki to Happiness is content since doing this work through Hatha Yoga.

Our first amendment right brought me to blogging years ago. I appreciate this platform as it gives me a place to exercise that right. In doing so, I encourage you to exercise that right yourself.

In totalitarian societies where censorship reigns. there is no protection of free speech. Without that protection, freedom suffers. Yoga supports freedom to choose what speech we expose ourselves to as well as what we express.

Can you choose consciously what to express yourself? Are you willing to take responsibility to avoid exposing yourself to undesirable expressions from others? Ki to Happiness freely expresses the benefits of practices which support peace and chooses to abstain from divisive expressions.

I awakened this morning from a vivid dream. One of my many teachers and mentors and I were catching up. I told him I heard he died, and he let me know he is very alive in another plane of consciousness.

He had to wear special glasses to be able to see me in this realm. I wanted to share with him a project. I’ve been working on to get his input. Being with him is all the input I needed in order to keep my dreams alive.

Have you been visited in your dreams by others who have left this realm? Who might inspire you to keep your dreams alive? Ki to Happiness dreams of energy continuing beyond this earthy realm.