Month: August 2025

I received an alarming email with time sensitive material requiring a digital signature. I faced the issue with my good posture and conscious breathing as I did my best to scan the QR code and open the document. It wouldn’t open so I reached out to get some help from my administrative assistant, as well as the potential originator of the need for said document.

After calling, emailing, and texting them, I prayed to Saint Isidore de Seville, the patron saint of all things technical which helped me let go of the issue.  I shifted my focus onto preparation for my evening classes, ever grateful for yoga. My nervous system regulated itself easily as I felt the grace of the Helpers, reminding me that this is new for me and that all will be well in right timing.

What helps you regulate your nervous system? Can you give yourself grace when facing new challenges? Ki to Happiness applies yogic awareness to tech challenges.

As a yoga teacher, I often remind my students and trainees that the meaning of yoga is union. There are lots of interpretations of what that means. Broadly, it means to unite with the One in All.

During this time of great social unrest and division, there are those who would like to interpret my actions and belief systems as belonging to one or another different camp. In the last few days I’ve been accused of belonging to this or that party. I like to party with the One in All, on and off the Yoga mat, in my meditations, and I pray we all find a way to Peace.

Have you ever met someone who believes exactly what you do? How do you deal with others who have different beliefs? Ki to Happiness sees the One shining forth in myriad guises like is stated in the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.

My mom‘s cardiologist is retiring. He has companion my mother through several decades of heart issues. Next she will work with a nurse practitioner, as is becoming more common in the USA medical system.

Mom has taken it well, has expected it for quite some time, and looks forward to meeting a new helper. I appreciate her openness and adaptability. As a doctor of Healtheology, I support other’s choices about healing and health whether they align with mine.

Have you worked with nurse practitioners? Are you able to find your way through the USA medical system? Ki to Happiness takes responsibility for her health as supports others in doing the same.

As Bob teaches his classes on Sunday, I have a day off. I attend his classes, but I do not take care of his students or any of their peripheral needs. I simply direct the students back to him to handle their accounts, or any of their particulars.

That allows me on Monday to be back on duty refreshed and resourced. The blessings of a day spent practicing, walking, bike riding, hanging with my cats and talking with my brother are available for rippling outward to my students, clients and community. Staying balanced between being off and on contributes to my ability to serve in this capacity for as long as possible.

How is your balance between being off and on? Which do you need more of? Ki to Happiness has rebalanced with the necessary time off and is ready to be back on again.

I greeted a couple of new students in my beginners class yesterday. We got started on time as a few late arrivals straggled in. We accommodated them by rearranging our mats to make room.

One of our studios holds 15 students easily. Had I known that our total attendance would increase to 18, the other studio could have been better. We stayed put as we were 20 minutes into the hybrid class.

 How much can you accommodate others? What can you do about limits to time and space? Ki to Happiness dances on the limitations, like Siva shows us.

Sensing another person‘s unrest, one might inquire as to what’s the trouble. When the response is “nothing”, or “it’s not about you”, it’s best to avoid mind reading. It’s better to read one’s own mind.

When I stay in my own lane, I stay in my own mind which is a comfortable place where I am familiar with my own issues. In doing so, I choose peace. From here, I can extend the peace I experience to all circumstances in confidence that they will resolve themselves at some point.

Are you a mind reader? Can you read your own mind? Ki to Happiness reads the short story of her mind in order to choose peace over conflict.

As the weather shifts from heat wave into cold front, rain has graced us with its blessing. Washing off the dust and refreshing the parched earth, our garden waves it’s gratitude to the gentle winds that brought the moisture. Less sunlight hours and the lower angle of the rays signal the leaves to start changing into their true colors.

Those of us with time to spend in nature benefit from grounding in these natural forces. Harvesting the fruits of our efforts, we learn lessons that may yield more bounty in seasons to come. Taking time to reflect encourages our shift with these natural cycles.

Have you done all you wanted to this summer? What remains for you to attend to before true autumn? Ki to Happiness synchs with nature.

I fell for a Facebook poster. “His” poetry duped me into friending “him”. In a few minutes, I recognized my error and unfriended “him”.

I unduped myself in record time.  I will continue to be trusting, friendly and open. I’ll be doing so with greater discernment, even as I forgive myself for falling prey to another imposter.

When you fall, how long does it take to get back up?  What are your blind spots that allow you to fall in the first place? Ki to Happiness sees where she was once blind.

Mercury has gone direct. With it, communication, transportation, and electricity is sorting itself out for greater ease. In addition, we have Venus, the planet of loving beauty aligned with Jupiter and its enormous benefits of expansion and abundance.

With this celestial support, the assertive energy of the Lionsgate and the awareness is that came forward with the Aquarius full moon, can now move forward. It may have been a sticky conflict ridden transition, but we are here now. Harmonious energy abounds as we release the most recent lessons and transmute them into blessings, attracting more beauty, love and assertive energy to extend to the world.

Can you open yourself up to this celestial support? Are you willing to let go of all it’s taken  to get here and embrace the benefits available now? Ki to Happiness grows through the lessons and offers them as blessings to the world.

Bob’s emergency tooth extraction resulted in great relief. He proceeded to teach his evening class even with his swollen face. He expressed his gratitude to me, the medical and dental system

Despite the many cracks in these systems, they’ve worked for him again and again. Overall, we are both more committed to the necessity of dental care. Taking responsibility for health begins with the mouth.

Are you current with your dental care? Do you recognize how your oral health affects your overall physical condition? Ki to Happiness brushes, flosses, tongue scrapes and gets regular check ups considering it mouth yoga.