"Walk as if you're kissing the Earth with your feet"

“Walk the Earth” - Thich Nat Hahn

When we walk, like we’re rushing, we print anxiety and sorrow on the Earth. We have to walk only footprints of peace and serenity on the Earth. Be aware of the contact between your feet and the ground beneath you. Walk as if you’re kissing the Earth with your feet.

I teach this message from Thich Nat Hahn, a renowned Spiritual teacher, in my classes as a gentle reminder that we can move throughout our day with intentionality. Yoga is all about Intentionality. We must be intentional with the practice and the way we move our energy on the mat. This requires some effort and dedication. It is a mindful practice in and of itself. How do you move about your day? When you catch yourself rushing when you don’t have to…..let this be a friendly reminder to slow down.

Healing Tools to raise your vibration

What are some things you surround yourself with to keep you on a positive path? It’s all too easy for our minds to wander in a negative direction... to lose focus... we somehow find the burdens that weigh heavy and complain internally til we explode.. The hardest part is picking ourselves back up from the eruption, dust off the debris. So how can we stay committed to our dreams, our practice? What if just simply placing those gentle reminders all around us could help guide us towards more gratitude, happiness, inner peace, adventure, possibilities of what could be rather then what isn’t in this moment?

.... to eventually dissolve the pain and suffering from our lives (past or present..) and to foresee a brighter future with more of what we want...

No one ever said it would be easy, each day brings on a new experience and it’s own challenges for sure, but it’s what do with it and how to move on from them that make all the difference...

Ask yourself.. what do you do to make shifts in your world when things get shaken up?

Here’s a few ideas from my “healing toolbox” that have helped me along my journey, I hope they help you too....

•Journal

•Positive affirmations

•Aromatherapy

•Yoga

•Meditate

•Run / Hike

•Gym Lift weights ..recently boxing (yang to my yin to release some deep emotions)

•Listen to positive personal development podcasts

•Read mostly spiritual & adventure novels

•Mantra Sacred repetition with Malas

•Place positive mindful messages all over to bring a smile to your face and know all will be ok (as you see here in this pic, I have water bottles with inspirational stickers, print outs of quotes, affirmative agenda, spiritual clothes, notebooks for experiences and podcasts around me always, even in my car!)

•Post inspiration on social media / blog (this is not just to share for others but for me as well - Law of Giving and Receiving -inspiration shared is SO much more powerful and they are constant reminders to continue the positive work you are doing)

•Breathwork

•Energy medicine

•Play games with family and explore (rather than just watching tv)

•Healing Bathing rituals (epsom salt bath with aromas, crystals, gua sha, abhyangha self massage, Reiki cleansing, smudge home)

•Create make music

•Dance

•Animal therapy

•Cook a delicious meal paired with a good vino

Please do share if you too do some of these to regain balance or others I didn’t mention! Curious to hear your go to’s!!

Solstice Offerings...

Hello Summer!

There is something so sweet about the transition to Summer. Stepping outside to those beautiful days of sunshine upon your face, birds singing, music blaring out car windows, and when your feet hit the sand for the first time at the beach! How can we welcome this new change better than honoring Summer Solstice! A time for celebrating the longest day of the year and our entry into those gorgeous Summer months to come! 

Throughout history, many cultures associate the Summer Solstice with a renewal of Spirit, Mind & Body, as well as a celebration of joyfulness and fun the sunshine evokes. Many hold ritual significance during this time of year, the Solstice is a time to celebrate the light of consciousness within ourselves and within each and every person, to reflect upon the potential for consciousness to awaken.

What will you awaken and stir up inside, as you indulge in these Summer months to come?  What better way than to honor this shift than with devotion and movement, through an ancient physical, mental and spiritual practice that originated in India. The word ‘Yoga’ derives from Sanskrit and means to join or to unite, symbolizing the union of body and consciousness.

Come join us in this celebratory practice either in the comfort of your own safe space at home or with a Complimentary Session of 108 Sun Salutations on the International Day of Yoga ~
June 21st 

Moving from ordinary to auspicious...the number 108 has many important and symbolic meanings in diverse disciplines ranging from mathematics to religions and spiritual practices, martial arts and yoga.

The act of practicing 108 Sun Salutations draws together some very potent yogic practices.

• Bhakti - devotion
• Seva - Selfless service
• Tapas - effort, heat, discipline, zeal.

So, why practice 108 Sun Salutations?

There are time we may feel disconnected or drained spiritually, (winter can do this for sure!) this is a practice to build heat within our body - burning away what is not serving us and giving us a burning desire to serve others; to make an impactful difference; to act upon which we stand for; to embrace and surrender towards our higher purpose. Transforming the mundane to the beyond....

~May you always blossom to your fullest potential, Rachel
 Keep scrolling to see if you can make an upcoming local event to keep you growing :)

Quote, Attract Good Vibrations

Plant your seeds with intention (good and fertile soil) and trust in the process that it will blossom....

"Each of us is what we are because of the dominating thoughts we permit to occupy our minds. The human mind is constantly attracting vibrations that harmonize with that which dominates the mind. A thought is thus 'magnetized' with emotion may be compared to a seed that, when planted in fertile soil, germinates, grows and multiplies itself over and over again, until that one small seed becomes countless millions of seeds!"~Think and Grow Rich, Napolean Hill.

#mindfulness #loveblossoms #mindfulmoment

Find your Flow

Find your flow, sometimes we rush through life forgetting to take a moment to just be, just breath. Embrace the stillness within the busy-ness. #yogaeverydamnday #bestill #transform #loveblossoms

You are not your circumstances

We are not our circumstances. Change your thinking, change your Life. 
Still reminiscing from today's incredible master workshop with Wendy Gross-Pinto @yogaandhealingcenter ✨🙏🏻❤🦄 

#yogaeverydamnday#mindfulmoments #blessed