Author: Ki McGraw

Staying home and staying healthy even as we slowly reopen has gifted me with a new tool. Lymphatic drainage assists in removing the debris from our system, facilitating nature. I posted a brief video of using cool green tea bags to massage lightly as directed in the flow of the lymph.

Beauty is not just skin deep. The skin is the outer representative of how the lungs are doing within. Skin brushing also helps move the lymph and cleanses the lungs. In today’s meditation, I will demonstrate that as well. Fortunately, yoga practices assist in lymph movement, also.

Are you feeling the need for assistance in cleansing your body? How radiant and glowing is your skin? Ki to Happiness keeps practicing, learning, and adjusting the tools accordingly.

Our safe reopening continues during the firestorms. With all the window shut, and the air purifier on, classes continue. Safe practices are offered, and encouraged.

Snow days, spending summers on our Canadian island, living through three level five hurricanes on Kauai and Guam, as well as sicknesses and injuries of the past have a prepared me for this time of being shut in. My introverted partner happily watches sports as we get along, together, with different strategies.

What has prepared you for this time? How well are others in your household doing? Ki to Happiness is grateful for the lessons from the past.

Safely starting to re-open businesses in this polluted air, we take a step back, towards staying home and staying healthy. I notice our three cats, all finding cubbies into which they are able to stay quiet. Close to the ground. With the air as clean and filtered as possible.

I love witnessing their natural adjustment. Nobody has to tell them to lay low. They simply follow innate guidance. I am happy to follow their lead, adjusting and adapting practices and habits to meet this present need.

Are you laying low? What practices and habits will support you now? Ki to Happiness breathes in the Guidance.

In our smoke filled environment, we persist in slowly reopening. On my main street through campus town, other businesses are closing. On the other side of the planet, our son is still unable to return to us, despite his having had a terrible motorcycle accident which resulted in a couple of broken bones.

His dad’s belly was in knots. After successful surgery, and being released from the hospital, much healing is going on. In the improved quality of his voice on the phone, belly knots softened. Our bonds deepen.

What bonds are you deepening? Is there healing accompanying this challenging time for you and yours? Ki to Happiness experiences healing as contagious.

Continuing to safely restart business during fire season poses greater threats. The viral issues are informed by air quality, challenging the immune system with the presence of particulate matter.

Yoga practices offer us breathing techniques to help, provided that they are practiced in a safe environment. Air filtration devices, and the N 95 mask can assist. It is predicted that at 11 this morning, air quality will improve in my area.

How is your air quality? Can you adjust your practices in the present environment? Ki to Happiness breathes freely and deeply in the safety of Hatha Yoga Center.

Six months ago today we began the live streaming our yoga classes. At that time, our teacher for Tuesday morning chose to live stream from home. As we safely start to re-open in our area, she has returned to the Hatha Yoga Center to teach onsite as well as online.

I share this progress with you. It has come at an important time for me. One of our entries has been vacant so long that it had become regularly occupied by homeless person. When I tried to exit through that entrance, he assaulted me. With him gone now, the entrance is able to allow our teacher as well as our students to enter.

How are things progressing for you? Any setbacks as you are attempting to move forward? Ki to Happiness sees setbacks as an indication of progress occurring.

Awakening this morning to the smell of smoke, my first priority is to check on my cats. All are well. Checking my inner domain, all is safe. Sniffing out the windows, the source is revealed. Our area is presently inundated by the wildfires due to an unusual wind pattern.

Seasonally, fires burn the old deadwood, resulting in clearing. What remains contributes to fertilize the soil, so new growth can begin. Our masks may assist us in breathing through this fire season. As will staying home and staying healthy.

How is your breathing today? Are you able to adjust to these changing requirements for your health? Ki to Happiness breathes freely and deeply, safe at home with my cats.

As we safely reopen businesses, many are grateful that we are able to resume work. Essential workers may have a much deserved day off. Spending time outdoors in the bounty of summer may be freely enjoyed by all.

At the Hatha Yoga Center, our Tuesday morning class will resume here on site with all restrictions observed, as with the rest of our schedule. We are happy to have this small shift in the direction of normalcy after nearly 6 months.

Have you been laboring? How will you observe this day of celebrating the workers among us? Ki to Happiness thanks all workers, and wishes everyone a happy Labor Day.

Continuing to observe the guidelines for phase 2 safe reopening, some businesses are opting to have a brief holiday. Hatha Yoga Center, however continues. It has been our tradition for decades to offer classes during many national holidays.

Teaching yoga has had me off schedule with the rest of the populace forever. Offering classes when they’re most likely to be attended, means that before or after business hours, or on the weekends, I am serving. This has strengthened my relationship with my witness state of consciousness.

Are you working this weekend? Or are you taking a much needed holiday? Ki to Happiness witnesses your effort, in gratitude for all you do.

Continuing to safely reopen our businesses, I’m happy to celebrate the birthday of my big brother. While he lives in another state, and has a different timeline, and restrictions, he will be celebrating in this unusual environment. I am glad to have been able to gift him already, and as we had a wonderful visit at my yurt.

Patrick is a Virgo, which is nearly my opposite. From him I learned many things, including how to love someone with detachment. Truly, as our birthday cakes become filled with candles, I’m grateful we simply continue to live. Always great to compare notes on our different chosen paths as well as our common history.

Do you have siblings? What have you learned from those relationships? Ki to Happiness wishes all brothers and sisters of divine-mother-father God, happy birthday!