Author: Ki McGraw

Yesterday, my Facebook account hit 5000. Many of my friends never look at Facebook anymore. So I asked if folks wanted to stay friends this way. It’s been amazing to get the feedback.

As a non-technical person, I resisted social media. I only came to these platforms when it became necessary to have a digital presence here. Little did I know that I would make real true long lasting meaningful friendships, reconnect with long friends and family as well as develop our hybrid yoga classes to see Hatha Yoga Center through a pandemic! Thank you all for all your comments, questions, likes, shares and donations.

What technical support do you need to continue your practices? How can Facebook be utilized toward your highest vision? Ki to Happiness continues to practice with or without tech support to hold the highest vision of peace on earth for our whole family of human-kind.

On this day of celebrating consumerism, I will continue my tradition of making gifts, and only shopping secondhand. Our next batch of Reiki infused candles are in the works. Farmers market treats await our sons visit.

Simple pleasures uplift my soul. I’m so grateful for all who gave thanks yesterday. We lift each other up as we choose into the attitude of gratitude. Resonating together, our bonds strengthen.

How will you observe this black Friday? What gift do you truly wish to offer those for whom you are grateful? Ki to Happiness offers deeper bonding to all grateful hearts.

This day is designated on the American calendar as Thanksgiving. In these Covid times, it is a day of adjusting traditions. While many are traveling, there will also be empty places at the table.

With greater simplicity, perhaps there can be even more gratitude. As we each consider truly what we are grateful for in our hearts, we grow more compassionate. Free from restrictions, our hearts heal into choosing gratitude for all our many blessings to share with all, near or far.

What old traditions will you observe? Are there new traditions to include? Ki to Happiness traditionally teaches yoga at 10am at Hatha Yoga Center, now as a hybrid class.

In my 20s I had a vision of a healing retreat center. I had a desire to create it with my associates. We drew up plans and looked at various locations. Each of us had different skills to offer. After five years, our association disbanded.

With today’s drone technology, I saw a documentary last night capturing footage of such a place from long ago. I’ve been to the cite but couldn’t see it from above then. In recognizing the similarity between it and my vision, I realize I was remembering the past.

What desires have you not met? Where do visions come from? Ki to Happiness meets the vision of the future with the lessons learned from the past.

During this Thanksgiving week, I am grateful for the power to utilize my agency. Yoga practices give us ample opportunity to rehearse for life. Prioritizing my higher self and it’s guidance, all issues become exercises in choosing to follow the Higher Power.

Yesterday when there was blood in my cat’s urine, and the website still didn’t work, I turned to my husband for a hug. He didn’t have one to offer, feeling so low in these dark, cold, wet days as Covid restrictions continue, with few students and fewer donations. I was relieved for his honesty. I used my agency to do the spiritual push-up into my gratitude practices.

How powerful do you feel? Can you make use of that power to choose where you put your attention? Ki to Happiness employs her agency to align with the Highest Power: ThanksGiving!

Welcome to the Thanksgiving week. I’m so glad we have this time in our country when we pause to reflect on the many blessings in our lives. In my own private country of Self I honor Thanksgiving daily.

I am thankful for your eyes on these words. I am thankful for Hatha Yoga Center community, near and far, new and old. I am thankful for all of these practices ever nudging my consciousness toward that which lives is all of us.

How does your Thanksgiving week look? What can you give thanks for now? Ki to Happiness is thankful for Us.

In first coming to Seattle in the 80s, I was unable to see the mountain. When I moved here in the 90s it escaped my view for years. In driving to the mountain, I still couldn’t see it. It’s vastness engulfed my experience to the extent that it was not visible.

During my third trip to India in the 00s I was blessed by many yogis, Sadhus and Rishis (seers). Sleeping in a large communal tent on a cot during the Maha Khumba Mela, I saw Mount Rainier! She came to me! As if the vision of the Holy Ones had entered me, I could see what they see.

What are you looking for? What will it take for you to open up to find it within yourself? Ki to Happiness seeks That which lives in us.

All writers agree that revision is a necessity. It’s completely normal that the first effort is rough, that’s why it’s called a rough draft. In revision, we refine that roughness.

In yoga practice, we also refine our roughness. We bring the breath into areas that have otherwise been neglected, stressed or misaligned. In doing so, we revise our embodiment.

What rough draft needs revision in your life? How can you best refine yourself in the direction of your desired embodiment? Ki to Happiness revises daily with yoga and writing.

We awaken into a world that has just gone through the longest lunar eclipse in over 600 years. This brings us into the awareness of all that we may wish to release from our heart, finding it unworthy to remain there. Now there is more room for all that is completely worthy to fill the heart.

Some of us are working on a more personal interior level of individual issues. Others are working on the social exterior level of collective issues. Together, may we use these energies to release personally and planetarily all that is unworthy so that we may go forward.

Have you been working more on the individual or the collective level of consciousness? Can your heart open to all that is worthy personally and collectively? Ki to Happiness awakens to the open heart worthy of collective peace.

Our IT guy got the website back up! It brings me to the awareness that we are not alone. We need others every day in order to do what we do. I need someone’s eyes to read these words.

My clients need me. Our students need us. And yet I also have need of both clients and students. This is not codependency. It is mutual interdependence, based on the connection between and among us all.

Who needs you? Who do you need? Ki to Happiness needs to thank you for our mutual interdependence.