Thrilled to share with you the news of the plan for reopening our state. Our governor announced yesterday that June 30, 2021 all Covid restrictions will end here! Earlier, the CDC announced that those with double vaccinations are free from their masks now.

We are nearing the end of this most unprecedented time on our land. Much has been gained amidst the terrible losses. It’s time to finish up those projects that were supported by the restrictions and count our blessings!

What projects do you want to finish? How can you sustain the blessings of this time? Ki to Happiness will never finish counting the blessings.

After my second phone call with a long lost dear friend, I feel grounded. Some unfinished business is now completed. The arc of our relationship has turned into a full circle.

That circle now embraces the years that have passed since we last deeply shared. Parallel stories, memories of our history and the forces that held us apart all culminate in a felt sense of an energy hug. Together with our shared practices, the frayed edges of our years apart heal.

What business do you have unfinished? How can you facilitate its completion? Ki to Happiness breathes in this fullness.

With the energy of the new moon still upon us, we are feeling that something’s happening. Some states are reopening as are some countries. Soon there will no longer be a mask mandate indoors. There’s a cautious excitement building.

In the University District where the Hatha Yoga Center is, we are above 80% vaccination rate. A couple of new students have joined us and more online! Beginning to see a light at the end of the Pandemic tunnel.

Can you feel it? What would you like to do with this fresh energy? Ki to Happiness recommits to the practices that have supported me through many dark tunnels.

Today the silence of the dark moon is upon us. Deep focus on gratitude for the sustenance for all that supports our physical nature will result in a healthy and fulfilling full moon in a couple of weeks.

This occurs as we prepare to shift into the sun sign of Gemini. With it, an emphasis on creative communication is advised. Combining these two astrological energies, it’s a great time to express your creativity through communication in physical ways.

What are you grateful for in the physical realm? How can you creatively communicate that: in singing, writing, speaking, dancing, painting, sculpting, cooking, designing? Ki to Happiness is doing it now. I’m grateful for you, dear readers, and I’ll be bringing it through in my yoga instruction tonight at 530.

After my morning practices, I am full of a sense of abundance. I have made it through so many challenges in my life, without the strength or resource to do so on my own. I have a keen sense of benevolence supporting me, guiding me, and protecting me.

When I look at the newspaper, I am aware how miraculous that is. I am healthy, still working, somehow able to honor all my commitments and feeling joyous. I love sharing that with you, here, as well as on the Hatha Yoga Center live streaming group page, live in person classes, and in private sessions.

How is your sense of abundance? What practices support you in choosing into that awareness? Ki to Happiness is grateful for the abundance of support, protection and guidance daily body mind spirit integrative practices bring.

That’s not what I call mine. The word always sounded too formal. I call her mom. In my heart, I call her mama. I’m so glad I still get to call her. She’s 83. I will call her as soon as I finish writing this, dear readers. She may be reading this now. She was my first reader, and my first fan.

My kid is off the hook. I give my stepson room to express his love and care for me in anyway he chooses, at any time. I reflect on the many ways I’ve mothered in my lifetime. I cherish the opportunity to nurture: pets, plants, students, clients, other people’s kids all have given me the gift of finding this outpouring from my heart.

Are you able to call your mom today? What do you expect of those you’ve mothered? Ki to Happiness wishes you all a happy Mother’s Day every day.

More than anything else, we would like to experience ourselves as an understandable human. As we take the time to back away from judgment, we widen our perspective. With enough distance and time, our understanding may grow.

The more often we repeat this process, the more likely it is that we will offer this to others. When we don’t understand someone, instead of judging them, we may take time and space from them, so we may broaden our view and remember that we’ve had to do that with our own issues in the past. Over time and frequent repetitions, we come to experience the world with all of its complexity as meaningful.

What have you come to understand about yourself? How does that help you in understanding others? Ki to Happiness is an understandable human living in a meaningful world.

Like you, I deal with ordinary problems and challenges daily. I include them here so you know I am living with you on the same planet. Yoga offers me all kinds of tools with which I can wash my eyes and see freshly the beauty that surrounds me, anyway.

Having practiced this morning, instead of seeing through eyes filled with yesterday’s issues (news, schedules, exhaustion) or today’s problems (misbehaving cats, yack on the floor, loud neighbors) tears soften my windows of the soul. I see the artwork I’ve made of my gemstone collection. I have framed my window on the world with a lifetime of loving rocks.

How fresh are your eyes? What do you need so that you can see the beauty and the majesty? Ki to Happiness washes the eyes with yoga.

Nearly 2 years ago I started blogging daily here. I had something in mind. What has occurred isn’t that. Instead, the Covid pandemic upset all our plans. Still, I persevere, as do you, dear reader.

I felt motivated to make use of the extraordinary time by revising my memoir. I’ve made great progress with lots of assistance. As we continue to reopen, my available time shrinks to accommodate more students, trainees, and lots of private clients. That’s what I had in mind, after all!

What have you had in mind? Are you able to adapt to the changing circumstances? Ki to Happiness adjusts to what fits.

Four years ago, my husband got very sick on all levels. At the time he said he died. Certainly, he is a very different person now. His essence continues. As time passes, he is well, without outward symptoms. The medical system came through for him with surgery, pharmaceuticals and charity.

The energetic widowhood I have experienced is private. Publicly we continue to present a united front. We are together, with our cats, our son, our studios and our practices. This is not the case for two of my long term besties. Both shared yesterday that each of their partners died 4 years ago. Cancer took one. Car wreck took the other. Clear contrast from the dramatic statement made by my very living husband in the same time frame.

Have you experienced loss of a partner? What remains of them, still living in your spacious heart? Ki to Happiness remembers herself to the love through yoga.