Author: Ki McGraw

Happy Valentine’s Day. Bob and I celebrate 24 years together. Through all of the challenges, our common values keep us together.

Practicing yoga, eating a whole food plant-based diet, abstaining from pollutants, loving our 31 year old son and our cats sustain our relationship. Our commitment continues to sustain the Hatha Yoga Center. Our community members share that their participation in the Hatha Yoga Center helps them to sustain their loving efforts in the world.

What sustains your loving efforts in the world? Can your values guide your choices to keep your heart open? Ki to Happiness stays committed to heart opening practices today and every day.

After conducting a private session and teaching a safe yoga class, I proceeded into my eight week review of my healing process. My chiropractor took new x-rays as well as treating me with laser and Graston technique. Overall, we are impressed with the progress, and planned our next refined steps toward complete healing.

For a second opinion, I consulted a nurse practitioner at our neighborhood health clinic. Having waited nearly 6 weeks to get the appointment, my healing is nearly complete by the time the nurse practitioner examined me. Other than recommending, I come back if things worsen, she recommended, I update my wellness metrics which will wait as I celebrate my progress with conscious rest, light yoga practice and tremendous gratitude.

How do you celebrate your healing? Can you take a moment and acknowledge your progress? Ki to Happiness celebrates by gratefully continuing on the healing path with support and refinement.

Today I’ll get new x-rays to check on the progress of my healing. It’s been eight weeks. I’m envisioning healthy, strong bonesas I continue improving strength and flexibility with soft tissue healing.

During my yoga practice yesterday, I listened to music intended for bone and joint healing. I imagined those vibrations entering into my left wrist and bringing integrity to all the components. 15 bones, myriad tendons and ligaments, muscles and fascia are all healing, and returning to full function.

What are you envisioning? What might help you open up to that vibration? Ki to Happiness envisions health and vibes with healing.

As we observed the lunar new year of the wood dragon, we enjoyed some traditional deep cleaning and some treats afterwards. I sipped ginger tea and opened my fortune cookie. It read “you’ll receive good news from afar.“

I brushed away my crumbs and removed my tea cup, then checked my phone. Good news from afar had already showed up. Wonderful to hear from friends around the world all observing the fortunate Dragon Lunar New Year. With joyful optimism, I tended to my container garden, hopeful for the benefits that may come with the wood element this year.

What would you like your fortune cookie to say? With optimism and hope, what would you like to plant with these new energies? Ki to Happiness feels fortunate and hopeful.

More than half of the population on the Earth observe today as the beginning of the New Year of the Dragon. It’s fiery energy is likely to replace the gentleness of last year’s Rabbit. It’s predicted to do so with lots of support for the wood element, even as the earth element is diminished.

What this means for each of us is personal depending upon our natal astrological information. In general, likely not a great year for real estate or mining, but a really good year for forestry, botany and publishing. Overall, it promises to be a year of mythic proportions.

Do you observe the lunar new year? Can you take guidance and wisdom from those who do? Ki to Happiness takes guidance and wisdom from old systems of understanding as well as new.

Trying a new and inventive way to keep my Facebook and blog relationships fresh. Let’s see if I can publish this now.

Last night, we entered into a new lunar cycle. The new moon in Aquarius invites us to set intentions for creative ways to participate in community. Erratic, unpredictable, and inventive, Aquarius invites us to imagine new ways to harmonize with others in our roles and relationships.

I find the courage to change myself, and compromise with others when I can sets me in good relationship with others. Doing so now projects a good trajectory for the whole next month. I envision a world of everyone taking part in bringing about love, harmony and beauty in peace.

What is your role in your communities? What can you change about yourself or compromise to uphold your highest vision? Ki to Happiness aligns with her desire for a peaceful world by starting with herself.

Sometimes the little things in life pile up. Cats misbehave, eyes itch, spouse irritates and healing takes time. Fortunately, yoga practice strengthens one’s ability to witness the pile, and offers ways to diminish one’s attachment to it.

I remember that I am not my reaction. Composing myself, I align with my intention. I am a Spiritual being having a physical experience, experimenting in this learning lab of life and can respond to all with breath as I ask for Guidance which always comes in the form of peace.

How big is your pile today? Can you take time to compose yourself? Ki to Happiness gets up early to have plenty of time to experience peace.

Working with one of my private clients yesterday, I delighted in her progress. Instead of her responding to my prompt reminding her of our session, she reached out to me first. She directed the session, stitching us back together to where we were last time together, and then moving into her present material.

As she considered her options moving forward, I helped her tether her choices to the effect each option has on her habits as she experiments. When our choices lead to healthier habits like consistent yoga practice, we are in alignment with our values. She appreciated that approach to privately track her own progress, internalizing our efforts.

How aligned are your habits with your values? Can you track your own progress privately or do you need assistance? Ki to Happiness privately progresses and helps others do the same.

A lifetime of yoga practice gives me a healthy baseline of strength and flexibility. Adapting my practices, I’m finding my strength returning with flexibility on its way. Thank goodness for my helpful team of teachers covering some classes for me and my partner tolerating my daily details for 7 weeks during my recovery from one simple fall.

I see my doctor for my eighth treatment today. I look forward to sharing with him my improvements from simply three days of adding mudras to my daily practice. I am forever blessed to have found him nearby, able and willing to use his multiple skills for my healing benefit.

What is your baseline of strength and flexibility? What can you do to bolster both just in case you, like me, experience, a simple injury? Ki to Happiness recommits to daily yoga practice in gratitude for its many benefits.