Author: Ki McGraw

My girlfriend’s birthday is coming up. I sent her a special piece of jewelry. She’ll wait to open it on her 66th.

After sending it, I felt relief as if the jewelry maker released me from my role in getting the piece into the right hands. In my next meditation, I received the vision of millions of watermelon tourmaline crystals set in an infinity choker to adorn the world in the illuminated rainbow colors. As if what I gave was returned to me, multiplied.

What gifts do you offer? Are you open to receiving those gifts back to you multiplied? Ki to Happiness is dazzled by karma’s immediacy.

This full moon lands on the 39th anniversary of my psychotherapeutic career. Having spent the last couple of Covid years reworking my manuscript about it, I feel filled with memories of the thousands of hours deeply witnessing other’s personal processes. I am forever benefited by my clients’ courage and bravery to look within and change what they can about themselves to become a better representative of their wholeness.

My teachers, therapists, and mentors all have contributed to my own interpersonal process which effects how I offer my professional services. My peers walk beside me on a broad garden path all heading toward on open field of loving acceptance of all that is. Like the serene moon, sometimes bright, sometimes dark, constantly changing.

What fullness do you feel with this moon? How can you best embody it? Ki to Happiness embodies body mind spirit integration to the he best of her ability today like everyday.

In the Pacific Northwest, the month of June is referred to as Junuary due to its chilly wetness. This year has been record-breaking with atmospheric rivers dumping down on us with temperatures in the 40s. Any weather is good for practicing yoga indoors, with enough heat and ventilation.

At the end of the day, after practicing and teaching, it is perfect weather for snuggling my cats. I curled in close to Paka, our Irish Red long haired ginger Maine Coon. Then I felt the big two legged cat, Bob, double snuggle me from behind, a first post stroke.

What can you do in any kind of weather? What blessings may come? Ki to Happiness counts the double snuggle blessing twice.

Sorting through some of our memorabilia, I have come across VHS tapes and DVDs of our yoga instruction since the 90s. Some have been digitized. All instructions have been repeated and are available on Facebook in our Live streaming group page.

Still it’s hard to let them go. They represent decades of effort and intention well manifested. As I release them, I do so knowing that the effort and intentions are available for our next manifestation.

What have you done with your old media? Can you let its essence remain? Ki to Happiness enjoys the roses’ perfume long after the petals are gone.

When resting long and deep, all levels of consciousness get resourced and processed. Our wakefulness is refreshed, the unconscious parades it’s dreams about, the dreamless deeper sleep integrates both. To awaken to this depth is called Turiya in Sanskrit, meaning the fourth level, beyond the other three.

Maha avatars, the Great Ones, hang out in Turiya. Their appearance in that state of consciousness is less dreamlike, and more of an apparition. Rarely have I had such a visitor as I did last night so to resource and process my life material for sharing with you.

How well rested are you? Can you allow yourself more downtime for deep replenishment? Ki to Happiness shares the gift of the Night Visitor.

Hatha Yoga Center hosted a farewell gathering for our graduating Kiwi, who returns to New Zealand tomorrow with her JD. In preparation, I peeled the ginger root and put it in a tea pot with boiling water to steep. Bob suggested I plate some treats he got for the occasion in addition to the vegan Mexican wedding cookies I planned to serve.

In 23 years of countless HYC gatherings, for the first time Bob contributed in this way. I share with you my delight in his thoughtfulness of others, his foresight to gather his offering, and his generosity. His stroke recovery goes far beyond the physical.

Who’s delighting you? Can you share that? Ki to Happiness shares the treats beyond the physical.

When I was a kid, my mom took me to my first yoga class. The gift of that experience continues to inform and guide my life. As a nine-year-old, I felt naturally strong and flexible in postures.

My own gifts aligned with the gifts of yoga. Feeling like my insides fit the outer world, boundaries disappeared. Oneness, the ultimate gift, keeps giving itself to me with each practice.

What gift has yoga brought to your life? How can you best share that gift? Ki to Happiness shares the gift that keep increasing the more she gives it away.

In my active outward life yesterday, I taught class and had a couple of private sessions. My inner life needed some downtime for processing the effects of the new tool I’ve begun to experiment with. Additional issues required backup.

I called out for help, and my helpers needed help, so they called out for help. Working together, they’ve woven a safety net. I blog from its support now, leaning back into its comfort.

What kind of back up do you need? When you get it, can you allow yourself to rest in it? Ki to Happiness feels the golden interconnection of others backing me up.

I started using a new tool yesterday. I will let you know how it goes. I always experiment on myself first, before offering something new to someone else.

Whatever the result, already I notice a deeper connection to possibilities. There’s a feeling of benevolence occurring behind the scenes. This evokes my belief in miracles and magic.

Do you believe in miracles and magic? What helps you connect to possibilities? Ki to Happiness experiments.

Hatha Yoga Center has two community members who’ve graduated from law school. We witnessed the festivities yesterday, proud of them and their accomplishment. Now that they have finished, it’s time to begin again anew.

Graduation indicates something is over. Commencement, however, signals the start. Today, like every day, we start the rest of our lives built on the past.

What begins for you today? What lessons from the past will help? Ki to Happiness commences to live evermore consciously.