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When I started this blog in September 2019, I intended for you, dear readers, to interact as you might in an advise column. I chose the tagline “Ask Ki Anything”. I clarified “except tech.” After 420+ days, I’m now also open to tech questions!

Thank you all for bearing with me as I made errors, fumbled, misspelled, and slowly improved. I have expressed the stress I’ve experienced with hacking, scamming, and phish. I know you can relate. Now, I’m on track with all my tech issues! I’ve even surpassed my tech therapist in one area! I taught him how to email one of our private group classes to a nonmember through IDM, once my helpful husband showed me how!

What would you like to ask? How are you doing with all you are learning in this political, pandemic, economic environment? Ki to Happiness is open to all your questions.

During our Sunday morning Hatha Yoga Center live streaming classes, Bob Smith continues to refer a to a movie series that he and Daniel Maguire would like to name “ enter the body.” A satire on Bruce Lee’s famous “ Enter the Dragon.” I appreciate the humor, and laughing emojis in the comments from those participating.

Last night, we watched the original 1973 movie. It is funny to look back on those days and those ways. While the movie project is likely to never occur, it’s good to see Bob and Daniel joking around, and having some fun as we continue practicing yoga, staying healthy and observing our area’s restrictions.

How’s your sense of humor? When’s the last time you looked back to 1973? Ki to Happiness looks back, breathes and smiles.

We awaken into a new world today. Many of us have felt it coming for a very long time. Jupiter has conjunct Saturn in Aquarius. This heralds the new age of Community Consciousness.

The Piscean era that we are exiting held the traditional approach. One person in power held the consciousness for others. Now, there is no need for an intercession. We all are equally able to access Higher Consciousness. May we do so responsibly.

Are you ready for “peace to guide the planet and love to steer the stars?” as the 5th dimension sang about in the 60’s? Can you feel the shift? Ki to Happiness sings in delight.

The social and cultural revolution of my youth is portrayed in this 1973 documentary which has been updated in 2019. The epilogue of Sunseed is worth the time spent viewing. While politically there is much work to do, the revolution has been quite successful in the social and cultural realms.

I am evidence. My love of yoga, meditation, nature, and veganism all attest to the huge impact the revolution continues to have on me and those I influence. The dream is still alive. Lets “run it forward” as the aboriginals from down under say.

Are you still aware of the dreams in your heart? Can you release enough of the challenges, disappointments, frustrations to resurrect it? Ki to Happiness dreams of a loving and peaceful world.

Hatha Yoga Center respects and observes the Phase 1 guidelines, as our Governor has mandated. Live streaming classes keeps us in business. Others in our building our exiting. A flurry of activity occurred about this yesterday.

I was just entering HYC to teach my 10am class. A dancer was waiting for a class that did not occur. She was not informed. She did, however, let me know that their lease will not be renewed in February. They have been in the building since the 1940s.The property manager arrived and received the key from another tenant, and both left. I will miss them all.

Is your neighborhood stable? How are you with the exits in your area? Ki to Happiness stabilizes with yoga.

Fall deepens. Cold windy darkness descends. All creatures look for comforts. This brought in a homeless trespasser again. No mask. I encountered him as I was putting out some Thanksgiving decorations.

He pretended to be interested in yoga. I’ve heard it plenty of times before. I responded respectfully. He asked how long I’d been practicing and how old I was now. I’m pretty sure he wet himself over it. Or crapped his pants. A widening dark spot down his pant leg spread as he exited, jaw dropped, eyes wide open. I scared him. Truth can be scary.

How do you greet the boogie man in your life? Who is scared by you? Ki to Happiness faces fears with love.

While delving into my writing project, I came across a quote from 2017. It’s from Sraddhalu Renade, an educator in India. “Yoga is like homeopathy or a vaccine. Feeing a little pain in the practice wards off bigger pains later.”

I like that statement, and I’m happy to have just had my morning dose. I look forward to sharing some of the blessings of it with you here, as well as in every class I teach, like tonight at 530.

Do you experience a little pain when you practice yoga? Were you aware that it may ward off a bigger pain? Ki to Happiness takes a dose with gratitude.

Settling back into Phase 1, adjustment and adaptation are essential. Overall, I am satisfied with my shifts. Then there’s the alarming email indicating double charges on my credit card for one tech account. Cortisol rises, fearing another hack like in the past.

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shows up like this. Recognizing it, the rising prickly heat alerts me to work with my breathing and my attention. Realigning with my highest values, and my choice of attention, brings me back to the present. So much easier to help others this way. Yet that practice strengthens my ability to do so for myself.

Are you familiar with PTSD? Do you know anyone that doesn’t have it? Ki to Happiness chooses to come back into the present, disempowering the past.

At noon today our state resumes Phase 1. Since Hatha Yoga Center was never allowed to move past Phase 1.5, very little will change for us. Sniffing around my neighborhood yesterday, I found very little will effect us.

The yogic lifestyle protects me from despair. I gathered lots of groceries from our local Safeway which is scheduled to close in order to be redeveloped. We are well supplied.

How are you with the restrictions in your area? What saves you from despair? Ki to Happiness is unPhased.

While this New Moon is upon us, I am aware of my many blessings. The unusual circumstances that we have been living through have resulted in me reaching out. Others have also been reaching out to me, too.

The reward is great. I feel rich in friends. Near or far, old or new, all are among my delight in life. “Friends are the flowers in life’s garden.” This sentiment was embroidered on a guest towel in my girlfriend’s bathroom which I made use of many times over our decades of love. Like all flowers, friends deserve tending.

Have you been tending to your friends? Have they been tending to you? Ki to Happiness intends to.