It seems like everyone I meet is either moving to a new location, starting a new job, a new relationship, a new health routine, up-leveling their commitment to their family, relationship, business, career, spiritual practice. You name it. Fill in the blank, right for you. The status quo is absolutely OVER. We are ALL UP-LEVELING.
Read MoreThe above is a direct quote from my amazing husband, James Kawainui. We were sitting at the kitchen table, talking about a post on FB that deeply disturbed me. Someone I know personally had written the following on her page in response to all the trauma and divisiveness going on in the US today:
Read MoreThere is so much anxiety running through the collective right now, and believe me, I have been feeling it, too. Music is one of our greatest allies to help soothe our emotions and our nervous system, especially when they are both hellbent on leaping into fight or flight. Offering music to our precious body is one of the most nourishing things we can do for our health.
Read MoreBack in 1967, a group of 90 or so Benedictine monks from a monastery in the south of France became ill. Men who had been used to sleeping four hours a night and working all day had grown irritable, lethargic, exhausted, and susceptible to illness and disease. Over a period of time, numerous doctors were called in and not one of them could understand what was happening.
Read MoreI’ve been using this time to study and grow (as I imagine many of you also are doing). One of my mentors shared a quote from a work by the poet & playwright, Christopher Fry, and when I read these words, my heart broke open:
Read MoreThe day I played my first crystal singing bowl was (without exaggeration) one of the most important days of my life. Right up there with the day, I was born and the day James and I married. I will never forget the moment it arrived. I was living in Espanola, NM, twenty years ago, when a friend called to ask me if I’d ever heard of crystal bowls. “No,” I said, and she responded, “they are right up your alley”. So without even thinking, I ordered one, sight unseen, a 14″ classic frosted G bowl (for the throat chakra, of course :-))
Read MoreOne of the topics I discuss a lot with my students is that Healing is not all Peace, Love and Light.
Healing is transformation. And for most people, transformation demands gritty, uncomfortable, rubber meets the road, day after day, practice as we learn to accept what’s happening, in the moment, in the now. All the sensations, feelings and vibrations pulsing through us … all the anxiety, worry, pain, discomfort, struggle, frustrations and then some. Saying “YES” to all of it and making the choice not to resist. It is the sadhana of sadhanas. Healing is spiritual practice on steroids.
Read MoreI originally wrote this blog in 2012, right after Hurricane Sandy. James and I were 75 miles southwest of the “Eye of the Storm”. Our love and prayers are with each and every one of you. Stay focused, clear and present. We are holding you all in immense LIGHT.
Read MoreBreaking new ground, Ashana blends her signature sound with Sanskrit and Sikh mantra, Tibetan and Native American chant, a song of devotion to the Virgin Guadalupe in Spanish, a hypnotic version of The Prayer of St. Francis, and an angelic choir of voices singing music inspired by 11th century mystic, Hildegard von Bingen. This is the music of the new paradigm, birthed through sound and vibration from that all-embracing, tender pure source from which all religions spring.
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