Introduction to the Chakra Healing with Angels on July 16th 10-1 www.insightfulrelaxation.com

Yoga Postures, breathing, visualization, and meditation are done with the intention to be open to healing. Meaning you are consciously open and willing to let go of whatever blockage present, even if it feels like it’s impossible. When resistance rears its ugly head that is particularity when we ask the Angels help is clearing our energy systems of blockages that stand in our way or slow us down in our goals. Sometimes the blockages seem totally unrelated to our goals but are keeping them from manifesting nevertheless. When our system is cleared then we can magnify and easily manifest our specific goal towards life, health, wellbeing, etc. The Chakra and kundalini System comes to us 1000’s of years ago from the school of Tantra. Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine work with this energy system to restore health and wellbeing. Chakra is a Sanskrit word related to wheel or disc because people who can see energy see these chakras spin like a wheel. I consider the Chakra system to be our different layers to our Mind. There are many more Chakras than what is mentioned here, but these are the ones that are like major power plants that run along the nerve ganglia of our body. Each system has a god/goddess or yin/yang polarity. When I work with the Chakra system I feel like an Orchestra Conductor. Each Chakra harmonizes with the others. If one system is blocked or out of tune, it affects the entire system. Like a good conductor, you might need to spend more time on one section or system to get it playing correctly before moving on to the rest of the sections. Our thoughts, attitudes and experiences are recorded in our chakra systems. Thoughts are like magnets. When we discover there are thoughts in our mental system magnetizing what we don’t want in our lives, we need to work on consciously removing them, and putting in new thoughts that enable us manifest our goals. The ancient school of Tantra accomplished this by creating Mantra. The yoga and Buddhist schools use still use these mantras today. While learning Tantra mantra I was taught that the ancient Indian government forbade the Tantra missionaries to travel and teach their mantra system to foreigners because they were so powerful the foreigners were using these mantras against India. We will not learn Sanskrit or lengthy mantras, but we will learn the seed sounds of each chakra to energize each system through sound. We will also learn simple Energy Psychology techniques to remove a disturbing thought and instill a thought beneficial towards your goals. I have listed both a Yoga section and a Fitness section for each Chakra. The Yoga section is any exercises that work on more of an energy level. These can also include qigong, and energy medicine techniques. You can think of this as more of the “Yin” way of working with the body’s energy system. The Fitness section is working with more of the physical body in a more “Yang” way. I am very excited to present the fitness section. People need to know there are many ways towards health and wellness when it comes to the Chakra system and what we do to exercise is very important.

The Angels of the Chakra's and their messages

Ariel The Healing Archangel of the Soul Star (8th Chakra) and also the grounding (1st chakra) Healing Gift: Our Soul’s Mission Angel messages channeled by Steven Thayer; Please remember, your primary mission as a human being is to bring light of heaven into your life and into your world. Angels are that light. Your heart is the lamp upon which the light can burn. Your life is the lens through which that light will shine. Raphael The Healing Archangel of the 7th Chakra Healing Gift: Divine Illumination You may call upon our presence to help you heal your ills. Each Time you do, we will help you heal simply by helping you discover the truth of who you are. We will help you elevate your vision from seeing life as being so serious, to seeing it as we see it; mystically glorious filled with light and laughter where all your dreams can come true. Gabriel The Healing Archangel of the 6th Chakra Healing gift: Divine Direction When you invite us into your journey, invite us to illuminate your darkness, invite us to provide you with clarity to see what is present in each and all of your life’s situations so that you will know what is the true and right way to proceed. Celestina The Healing Angel of the 5th Chakra Healing Gift: Creative Expression It is a common problem for human beings to think that they are unimportant. “who am I-one of billions-what do I matter?” Please know, you would not have been placed in this world if you were not important. For in the divine plan, nothing is extra. In the divine plan, everything has purpose and importance. …Allow your creativity to flow, reach for the stars and you will find that you are the stars. Faith The Healing Angel of the shoulders. Healing Gift: Faith and the Freedom it brings Freedom is the ability to live without your self-constraints or the constraints of others. It is your innate state of being. When divine faith creates freedom within you, you express yourself out of love, not limited by how others perceive your expression. You are free to express yourself, to follow your heart, to share your joy. You are free to bring your gift, your gift of son, your gift of writing, your gift of healing, your gift of teaching, your gift of art, your gift of wisdom, and your gift of children into this world. Cassiel The Healing Angel of the 4th Chakra, the Heart Healing gift: Unconditional Love. Our purpose, when invited, is to remind you of how unnatural feeling alone, unloved, sad or forlorn is for you. It is our joy, when invited, to extend a vibration that will remind you of the truth. Remind you of your identity and the reality of the world around you. As soon as your heart remembers this reality, it is as though a weight is lifted from you. And as that weight is lifted, tears of great depth are shed, and heartache, sadness, loneliness, are healed. We are often called upon when you have lost a loved one through the process of physical death. From our perception, this is the epitome of misperception. For as viewed from this realm, how could you lose someone when they die? Where would they go? All you have lost is the illusion of who they were. The form that they took. But you could not lose that soul. Daniel The healing Angel of the Liver Gall Bladder and Spleen Healing Gift: Forgiveness Life is too precious, too short, too important for you to be wasting your time judging others, and through your anger, hatred, and resentment, attempting to punish others. Feel free to call up our presence in your own journey to free you from the destructive actions of judgment, anger, and resentment. Sarah The Healing Angel of the 3rd Chakra Healing gift: Empowerment …The very moment, the split second, that you release your fear, we will whisk you forward through a myriad of connections, opportunities and synchronistic experiences that will accelerate your life’s journey. Michael The Healing Archangel of the 2nd Chakra Healing gift: Protection By calling upon our name “Michael” you invite a vibration that you can perceive as the light that can end your fears. It will feel to you like we give you protection and safety. Please know that you are already protected and safe. Our energy simply helps you become aware of it.

Hairy Cell Leukemia and Kale Juice

This is a report of how an Organic Green Kale, apple, carrot, and lemon juice stabilized leukemia blood so no more chemo was needed. HAIRY CELL AND KALE Having retired in 1994, settled on Whidbey Island, and built a one acre commercial vegetable garden, and taken on an expert gardener as a business partner, life was going pretty well. Then one day around year 2000 I noticed something expanding in my abdomen kind of growing from left to right across my mid section. It didn't hurt so I ignored it at first. But I eventually (a year) decided to get a physical which included a blood test. A few days later my doctor call and said I have a low grade blood problem and I need to see an oncologist, (cancer doctor). To make a long story short, I had a bone marrow problem. My bone marrow was producing some defective white blood cells. The defect was that some white cells were being put into my blood with hair growing on them. My oncologist called it "Hairy Cell Leukemia" My spleen was filtering my blood and was putting the hairy cells "in jail" thus making the spleen grow with all those new residents with the hairy faces being captured. This started me on a chemo therapy regiment a couple of times a month at the hospital that took 2 hours per visit. They made me comfortable in a nice easy chair with warm blankets and a thing in my arm that supplied water and chemo. Usually one or 2 other patients were in the cubical with me. After about a year the frequency dropped to 4 times a year. This regiment continued like clockwork until, one day, my partner Sally and her daughter became vegans and acquired a juicer for themselves and started drinking a mix of apple, carrot, kale and lemon juice. One day my partner Sally handed me a glass filled with an ugly looking green drink and said, "drink this." This started me on a daily drink of the green stuff. One and a half months went by and it was time for my chemo treatment at the hospital. I did my blood draw 2 days earlier so my oncologist, a pleasant Chinese man, had already looked at it. When I got there my oncologist said, "What you been doing? Your blood is OK. No chemo required today!" I told him the only change was the green drink. He said keep it up! One of the benefits of good blood is that the spleen wont have to capture any bad guys and will stay small like it should! What I wrote you IS IT!!  The only thing different was the green drink.  My diet was always the same, as it is now.  I may have reduced my fat intake a little, I don’t know.  I’ve been drinking the green drink for about 5 years, and over those 5 years my blood has gradually improved.  No doctor has ever cleared me of Hairy Cell Leukemia!!  That’s why I have to keep going to the hospital every 3 months for a blood test; to make sure it has not flared up, and that my spleen has stayed small.  Hairy Cell Leukemia will never be wiped out!!  Just kept under control. Frank Parente

Scoliosis and Why I'm not Yoga Alliance Certified

Why I'm not Yoga Alliance Certified

While I was riding my bike this morning spirit guided me to write this for my blog. I think this is an important topic because people might wonder why I do not have the E-RYT 500 credential by my name.

I started training and teaching yoga 25 years ago. I was already and nationally certified fitness instructor with several fitness certifications. The most well-known is the ACSM (American Counsel of Sports Medicine) fitness instructor certification. I worked really hard studying and training for all of my fitness certifications and had already been working as a fitness professional for 10 years before I started my career in yoga.

When elite sports clubs started to offer yoga, there was no one to cover for their classes if the instructor couldn't make the class. So a TriYoga instructor trained me to help her when she needed a sub and then she eventually asked me to take over the class. I enjoyed yoga so much that I continued training in Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Bikram, Yin, Restorative, Yoga for Cancer and Breast Cancer, Viniyoga, Krishnamacharya Yoga, Paramahansa Yogananda, Kundalini, Sivananda, Yoga Tune-up and more. I started teaching 25 years ago and have had a successful and happy career. I do not stick with one school of yoga but I teach mostly from the styles of Krishnamacharya and his students. I also enjoy Bikram and Yin.

I have been asked to do teacher training but for some reason I never felt a calling for it. I have taught private teacher trainings to other fitness instructors and they were able to use my training as continuing education. I think the reason is because yoga teacher training is quite a business. Because it is difficult to make very much money teaching classes and it is easy to get depleted of energy (instructor burn-out), many seasoned yoga teachers go into the business of teacher training and trying to run studios. This was not where my path was to be. I enjoy being more of a service provider than running a business. I enjoy doing healing work and training people in energy therapy. Getting back to Yoga Alliance.

Yoga Alliance started to become a popular organization about 10 years after I was already teaching yoga for private clients and group classes. I don't think Yoga Alliance is bad for yoga but I did not feel attracted to get involved unless I wanted to certify and train instructors. There are many international organizations such as the Yoga of Krishnamacharya (which I received my certificate in India) that have no interest in being involved with Yoga Alliance either. I do feel like it's a little disturbing that Yoga Alliance has become a monopoly for instructors to get Certified through. It seems like more people are more concerned about Yoga Alliance certification than what yoga schools you were trained in and how much you can work with other people's bodies. I can always tell a good long-term yoga teacher because they can spot anyone in class and know how to work with them. From an advanced fit individual, to an injured person, an out of shape person, a person with a spine condition, etc. For example, I have a double curve in my back, or double Scoliosis. It is really rare to find any Yoga instructor, or any other medical professional to see and realize that I have a back condition. Even though I have had an X-Ray of my spine showing a curve when I was a teenager with back pain, the doctors thought the curve was due to my pain. It was my gymnastic coach that noticed something was unusual about my back but no one ever treated it and since I always exercised it never bothered me. I have seen so many Osteopathic doctors, Chiropractors and Physical Therapist, and not one diagnosed my condition. A double curve in my spine! Finally, I diagnosed it myself. I knew it right away after watching "Yoga for Scoliosis" with Elise Browning Miller, a senior Iyengar yoga instructor. This was at AGE 50!! When I went to my Osteopathic Doctor for body work, I said, "I have a double curve in my back right?" He said said,"Yes, you do!!" He then pointed out where they were on my back. From what I understand from looking at her website, Elise is not a Yoga Alliance Certified instructor and she conducts teacher training without Yoga Alliance Certification. So I think that when you have been teaching yoga and fitness as long as I have, it's more of a matter of choice than necessity regarding Yoga Alliance. If I was just getting into teaching yoga now, Yoga Alliance would be a natural part of my training.

Creative Expression

Creative Expression is important to overall wellness/wellbeing and important to others too! I get to have a career to express myself creatively. Today I will teach a senior fitness class, a group cycling class, and a gentle yoga class. I have been teaching fitness for over 30 years. With all of my training, education, and experience, I put it all together creatively while I teach. I also get to put together music that helps me with my creativeness. When I teach I usually let myself be guided by drawing on my extensive fitness/yoga background, combined with the music, and most of all the energy of the students. I like to add some playfulness to our experience and try not to be too serious, although, I am very serious over everyone’s safety and wellbeing. Other ways I express my creativity is cooking (rarely do I use a recipe), dressing/shopping, planting flowers and vegetables, taking art classes, planning classes and workshops, learning new things, reading, watching a movie or show, going to a performance, drawing with my grandkids, playing with my grandkids, family and friends, walking the dogs, exercising, writing, singing, dancing, speaking and making love. I bet so many people express themselves creatively without even realize it. Our bodies are an amazing outlet for creative expression. I always encourage students and clients to connect with their bodies and to breath. To those of you, who read this post, let go of self-judgments, have fun, be like a child and play. Don’t worry about drawing inside the lines, be more colorful, and let go a little of your perfections. If you are at work and sitting in front of the computer, take a moment to stretch, smile, and breathe deeply.

Mother Healing

 "As your feelings toward your mother heal, your desires manifest more rapidly and accurately."

At night before I go to bed, I like to pick a card from my Magical Mermaids and Dolphins cards from Doreen Virtue. These cards help to show us what blockages we have in our subconscious mind that might interfere with our goals and manifestations. The card I pulled last night was "Mother Healing." I have had this type of card come up several times with other decks in the past, but didn't understand what the message was since I already am quite healed regarding my mother issues. Before I drew the card I was feeling some anxiety so I was really curious of what card I would pick to see if I would get some insight. So...I was a little disappointed when I drew the Mother Healing card. 

As I opened myself up to guidance I was told that there was more healing to be done with my mother and it directly relates to my anxiety I suffer with. As I listened to the counsel from my Angeles, I learned that when I was young I felt disappointment from my mother and other negative energies that are still in my system. These old negative energies are influencing my feelings of fear and anxiety that I have sometimes. So I prayed and opened myself up to the Angels to heal me. I had an immediate response of healing. I also did this first thing when I woke up before and after I said my morning affirmations. 

I share this publicly not because I wanted to, but because I was guided to. Anxiety and fear is a real problem for so many people. Anxiety and fear is like a energetic blockage of like a "field of onions" for most people. It also seeps into your energy system like a virus, and it starts to take on a life of its own. Sometimes its right in your face and other times it's hidden and you don't realize it's there until "Pow" it socks you in the stomach. 

May 9, 2016

Environmentalism and Self-Wellness
I am so excited to share with you that I just completed Doreen Virtue's course on Fairyology. Fairyology is the study of fairies, elementals, mermaids, etc. I learned the history and how all of this relates to environmentalism and manifesting on earth. I also learned how to give ferry readings. In addition to my fairy cards that I've used for 10 years in my practice, I recently bought the Mermaid and Dauphin cards for readings. I love them! The Mermaid and Dauphins are water elementals. They assist us to manifest goals especially regarding career and or other big life changes, by helping us realize what might be blocking us in our deep unconscious or subconscious mind.
Completing this course has made me even more aware of world wide environmental issues. One of the new things I do is actively bring bags with me to put litter/trash in when I take my dogs for their daily 3-4 mile walk. Environmentalism covers a wide range of topics including animal care, and rights, Air pollution, chemicals in products that will pollute our environment, clean water (ocean and fresh water), recycling, etc. I'm not perfect but I am striving to do better to be an environmentalist. 
After taking this course I became very interested in researching the topic on if people have experienced a healing from acts of environmentalism. As a Wellness Professional, I have learned about, researched, and witness the benefits of many forms of: fitness/exercise, diet, alternative medicine, psychology, energy therapy, yoga, qigong, meditation, vacations/retreats, petting animals, spirituality, attitude of gratitude, prayer, etc., benefiting a persons' overall health and wellness.
I am looking for participants who are willing to give me their story and let me share it publicly on how acts of environmentalism caused a healing for them-self or someone they were praying for. A healing could be mental such as healing a mood disorder, attitude shift, answer to a problem or challenge, a physical healing such as an injury or disease, or any other intense healing you would like to share. 
You can also share how not being environmentally conscious or acts of non-environmentalism caused some sort of reaction towards self-wellness. I think this is also good to look at.