Growing Beauty

What is Sacred Femininity?

2012-02-27T10:59:00.002-05:00

I am so eager to have one of my worldwide teachers in town, describing just what we are learning and teaching here seemed perfect. Sacred femininity is about building a deeper feminine culture for woman than just gathering to share products, stories and venting our lives. It is about discussion of our issues, our ways to bring womanhood into a male modeled business system, discussing self nurturing and what that means, how we reconnect with ourselves when we are overwhelmed, exhausted and burnout. It is about beauty and our bodies when our culture has us doing distortions to ourselves and expectations of youth and looks that is just so off balance. How do we love ourselves, our bodies, our uniqueness in a world that has such limited thinking on these things? It is about all these and more, what woman need to be having discussions about and learning ways that woman nourished and nurtured themselves when they had a stronger community that had a deeper spirit based culture.

We are in a time and gaining power and influence that has not ever been created before with the conditions of our world. As we do this, we need each other, we need our collaborative web to be larger, we are developing this all together as the world opens to our leadership in areas that we have not been in before. There are all kinds of woman's groups about that we can build with. The community here is to go deeper than business ideas and connections. Deeper than marketing and networking. It is about being a woman and the uniqueness of that and how we strengthen and honor ourselves to be authentic and joyful amidst such schedules and programs. It is uniting us in ways that are not typical or part of our culture as an average woman. It is all in the making and it has so inspired me to put forth these teaching, these practices, these gatherings because it is awakening parts of me that nothing else has.

You are welcome to join us this Thursday for a $35 workshop. I also have monthly circles for $10 the 2nd Thursday of each month and deeper classes on my calendar. It is an unfolding time and I am excited to tend and befriend more woman as we create a more balanced world. All ages, all belief systems, all woman are welcome to join us in delighting in our magnificence!

The Bees, Men, the Flowers, Woman. Together they Create Nature!

2012-02-24T19:49:00.000-05:00

Nature offers the best information on harmony, collaboration, connections, the web of life, manifestation. Using nature analogies was always simple for this Garden Goddess to catch. Here is a view that seems most pertinent about men and woman, bees and flowers.

The bee in the garden represent the men. Moving around, a to b, production oriented, very strategic, logical and mechanical. A straight line, the most efficient way there is. The flowers represent the woman, very beautiful and alluring just for the bees to come visit and pollinate them. Their very nature and magnetism is there to attract and engage the bees to keep life going. They are considered like a curvy line, flexible, swaying in the breeze.They are very different in form, in function and truly opposite in such a way that when in balance, a flourishing creation comes. Neither is more important, all traits offered by the opposing nature of each are used in equal amounts to create our outdoors.

A balance is occurring in the world today to bring forth a "bees and flowers" collaboration. Business was designed by men and they still dominate the economic world. Woman however are increasing in the ranks and truly a wonderful balance could occur that would shift our world. Woman must remember that it is not our job to be like the bees, although we have copied the mans way of business. The time is for us to be in business as the flowers, the collaborators, the flexible influence, the for the good of all mentality. It is naturally our way not to compete, but our way to negotiate and work things out in a connecting win/win. It is what we do in our home lives, in our community lives and now we will bring this into the business's world and create a wonderful space!

Nature makes it so simple. We have a distinctly different place in the business world. There is no desire to take over or conquer. It is about blending, making new ways, creativity and artistry.

Then the issue becomes, just how do we nourish this part of ourselves in a competitive world in which we live? Gathering to connect with ourselves, remembering the roots of our essence, learning to fill to overflow, empowerment from within. Sacred Femininity! That is what building a stronger feminine culture is all about. Come join us as we remember how truly sacred we are!!!

http://www.meetup.com/SacredFemininityPA/

Feminine Spirit, Blending Taskmaster and Creativity!

2012-02-20T11:00:00.000-05:00

This weekend was filled with feminine spirit! I was in DC, the political world, and at a local charity event, talking to all types about so many ways woman are collaborating and creating in a new way. It is everywhere across all realms and groups. Woman are connecting to make change in our world. We are dispelling the competitive way and building some great things.

I teach Sacred Femininity, an involved in the green movement and study Tantra Harmonious Relationships and it is truly about the nourishing, nurturing energy coming to all areas of our lives. The flexible balance that woman bring with their power that blends with the masculine world about us. In politics, in woman's business forums, in sustainable community building and the buy local, all this is about nurturing our community to be more harmonious rather than just production. I have a workshop this Wednesday on this very subject and a discussion on how we can reframe how we look at ourselves in the business arena to bring more of our way to the business tasks we have.

The production must be balanced by the maintaining of the production, and that is our general role we add to the world. Very different than men, and balancing to what is going on. As woman forge ahead adding themselves as a collaborative non competitive spirit to where ever we go, the world will change.

Most importantly, we must nourish ourselves first so we can bring this toward the world. We can not sustain task doing without our creative gift. We are great creators, woman, we bring life to humanity. It is now our time to move out and bring this caring, connecting way to business and support the masculine style by adding our unique way of doing things. The community of things, the collaboration, the heart is what we bring forward.

This can not be done by using mans methods. We have a different way and it must be cultivated and supported so our space can be a great harmony of both. It is a balancing time of complementary energies. We are figuring our way. It begins when we nurture ourselves, stay in creativity and flow as must as possible and overflow to the world. We must start by nourishing and filling ourselves first in a deeper way, finding what that means, creating as we learn. We can not do as men using adrenaline to move forward. Woman are burning themselves out, it unbalances our system, creates biochemical illness. We operate in oxytocin which has a different flavor than adrenaline. It is more relaxed, more connecting, flexible and uniting. It allows our natural creativity to come out gracefully. We are not inspired by competitive, straight line thinking all the time. We need the creative flow of oxytocin.

We have not yet mastered this and must indeed do so for our health, happiness and society. I am here learning with you all to be equal and balancing in all ways and what that means! The creating of a new way to bring forth our feminine spirit!

Collaboration, The Art of Tantra

2012-02-13T08:29:00.000-05:00

A great way to look at others and the system of connection and communication that comes from the ancient thinking about harmonious relationships. There are many systems to look at how we relate and connect as energies, different personalities, different strengths and weaknesses, common skill sets among people. Tantra means expansion, so its system is based on coming together for expansion through collaboration.

It is is the way in which tantra is taught that I like. To experience different dispositions in an active, playful way. In doing so you experience, empathize, know what it feels like when one comes from that disposition. There is a conscious recognition mentally but also emotionally and physically. You jump in and out of different ways and realize what is natural to you and what is not. You also realize that these are energies, ways of being and that in the end you can move and be whatever way you want.

Then it becomes play, a conscious choice on how you proceed with others. When you recognize the different types of characters, you identify with them through feeling so they are easier to blend with. You also realize that whatever role you play, it is flexible, it is not who you are really. It becomes a game of blending, of making different roles work together. You can step out of your way and create with another without getting caught up as easily by thinking you are this role.

Through the play and practices learning Tantra, you have a magical way to perceive others and your role in working with them. We shift and switch roles continually with certain groups naturally in life. So through these teachings and the theater of it, you can be more conscious how to connect. You also realize why relationships, especially in groups, can be so challenging when the different energies or roles are all added together. Of course conflict issues and there are leaders and followers, it is the only way that a blend can occur. You learn to be more fluid with yourself and your way, which allows for an easier connection to others.

It is a wonderful experience to engage in Tantra learning. That is why it is monthly held at The Lotus Project. Experiencing group dynamics in an engaging, enlightening way. Empowering yourself through learning about your ways so you can easier experience harmony on all levels. Playing with ideas on this magical hill. We still have openings for our February 18th Class at 6pm. It is a full evening so come to enjoy! Check our calendar: http://www.harmonyhillgardens.com/lotusproject.php

Head Learning vs Wisdom

2012-02-10T07:56:00.000-05:00

I have spend my whole life investigating out of the box thinking. I am a perennial student and my daughter often asked, Why are you studying? I have consumed so many books on so many philosophies that seem contrasting and opposing. I just love to learn and am intrigued by how others see things.

Our culture is really built on the mind, the brain, the words, the logical tangible learning of books. Of people speaking at us at lectures, our classrooms the model for learning. We all have so many things stuffed in our head about so much, some we use, others just stored in the annals. All our great thinkers seemed to struggle in this type of environment.

I suddenly got tired of it all. Listening, reading, filling my mind. Maybe it is my age, maybe just got filled up or maybe a deeper awareness came about. It seemed like we are just on the surface of things, lots of words, dealing with too many details, making it complex and boring. It seems so inactive, so passive really and certianly didn't engage all of me, only my mind.

Wisdom comes from something so different than mindness. It has mind, ideas, words and thinking but it has so much more. It is a knowing of being. It seems like 10 more layers than the mind. It shifts it all to a smile and a settling that is so different than getting something in the mind. Often it is an experience more, with emotion, an exercise, the mind and the other levels all working at once in unison. Where you just know and maybe even words can't even begin to explain it. A deep experience more is what makes wisdom so rich. Way beyond intellectual.

It is the age, from Picean thinking, right and wrong to Aquarian thinking, blending and culminating. If it is the time I am on board. If we are changing or evolving our capacity I feel it. It is as though only experience, presence, really being in it that seems fun. The rest is weighted, stuffed and full. There seems to be a greatness about that I may miss if I get to caught up in the repetitive, analytical lower mind, not the higher capacity thinking. It seems that a great wisdom, an experience in how we operate is shifting and I am very glad to notice. I invite this wisdom way to take me over. I am more interested in that than more information. It is what inspired the Lotus Project to make self awareness, wisdom settle in, stimulating all my senses. Moving into a being that the yogis speak of. You are experiencing what is about instead of thinking about it. I like this way! It makes life richer and easier and happier. Becoming the bloom that is the culmination of all the things we used in growing.

Why Choose Organic?

2012-02-08T12:07:00.000-05:00

So many people wonder why to choose organic? It cost more in some cases and money is tight these days. I want to inspire you on why the money used for this is the best money spent! The process of growing organic is based on working with nature and what is already going on. It has a more blended way of doing things, an honoring of a process rather than a conquering or manipulative thinking. No matter what you are creating, it flows easier and offers greater fruits when you jump on the wave of what is happening rather than power through it with only concern for yourself.

All products are available to us, most things that are cheap were produced cheaply and quality is missing. That may be okay for many uses but when it comes to your body, things you put in it or on it, cheap doesn't work as well. Our bodies are considered sacred vessels, our vehicle for our spirit. To honor it and allow it to offer a graceful, home for moving in the world requires quality! We love expensive fashions, coach bags and designer outerwear, yet what about the things that go into your body? Doesn't seem important for them to be the best so we can operate more effectively?

Things made organically are created out of an honoring, a reverence and an authenticity in doing the process. There is a larger goal of quality, providing the better ingredients and in the way they are created, a consciousness to the larger community. When you choose things that are created rightly, that are made through a kinder process, you choose to honor yourself in using them. It becomes like a chain each step adding a link toward a greater good. It all adds up in a deeper way, you appreciate and enjoy the things you use more and subconsciously choosing quality adds to your being. All these small choices become an honoring of yourself, a deserving of the best, loving yourself through the things about you.

It only makes sense to me to use the finest things I can to build myself within and without. Organic ways do offer the better of the choices when it comes to your body and home environment. Vitality is an energetic state. To be vibrant, to be healthy, to exude wellness comes from using good quality emotions, products and processes. I would rather save money on things outside of me than the things that go within!

Engage Magnificence!

2012-02-06T11:03:00.000-05:00

One situation in the world today that could be remedied would be for us all to ground in our own magnificence! Not in arrogance or better than but in I am lovely me and I am here to meet lovely you. An honor to others, as we say in yoga, Namaste. The light in me honors the light in you. We don't have to be fake or pretend, we don't have to engage where we don't want, but we can move through life more accepting of ourselves and humanness, thus accepting all others.

Nothing comes into your experience that doesn't have an equal expansion/growth to occur. We all have major issues and trials, we share this in being human. To accept that all are doing their best and steer clear of others that are not nurturing our way. They can have a space somewhere away from you that doesn't need to inflict you. Your growth may be to move. The judgement that we feel can be used inward to direct you into a new space. Move to a place where you are cozy and can accept others, they may be magnificent to another and have their purpose here. You need not know or care, listen for your drummer, let them listen for theirs. You lose energy to enjoy when you waste it in judgement.

May this New Year ground you in the wonder you are. May you find ways to nurture it that sing to your heart. May you find love and joy in your life by whatever means works. To engage this magnificence that you are will allow you to be open to others and create a more accepting world to live! We begin with ourselves and reflect out in a new way that magnetizes our world.

Fluidity! The Art of Flowing

2012-02-01T11:35:00.001-05:00

To be fluid, like water, to allow our ourselves to experience flow on many levels. We are told to drink more water to allow our bodies to have ample supply of this element so it functions well on a physical level. Our precious blood flows through all our body carrying the flow of nutrients. Many health issues could be alleviated by have things move in and out of our systems more efficiently.

Our perceptions, our way with others, our feeling bodies, need to flow so we can work together. Fluidity makes a good team a good team. They flow together, the are flexible in sharing talents and skills to make a greater something. Fluidity in relationships is important.

A flowing mind is also important to keep you learning, gathering experience and sharpening perceptions, fluid with new information. We are reevaluating things everyday with a wiser consciousness as we grow.

Harmonious anything has to be flowing, fluid, blend and movement. To achieve any balance in a world of moving atoms, we must have fluidity on all levels in our way. Makes sense to me and why water is an important element on the planet, to our balance within our body since we are mostly water and flow with things without. Even wealth comes from fluidity, affluere means to flow, affluence, currency, a current flowing as in a river.

The year of the water dragon has much to say about the brilliance of water. Our year to flow and understand fluidity on all levels of living. It must be present, it is important to have a balance and understanding within yourself so you may us this word, this motion consciously. It is a powerful idea on many levels! Investigate how fluid you truly are! What that means to you and how you can use it!

Dancing through LIfe! A Worthy Practice!

2012-01-27T07:00:00.004-05:00

I have decided to experiment with Life is A Dance. To practice this I dance everyday in an effort to catch the vibration of how I feel when I dance so I can bring that great joy to life in my regular rhythm of the day. I often tell woman to dance everyday, there is great magic in it for woman. Many look at me like I am kidding. I have seriously investigated this practice. It is powerful and has much ancient knowledge behind it.

One dances purpose is in gratitude to all my teachers, the support and people behind me. At first I would dance thinking "oh thank you for helping me" from a small girls eyes as though I was so needing of help. In a student way. As I have practiced a different view has come to me. From dancing I realized that it is more of a dance for the support I recieve. It is the joy of being taught and supported by a "We" so to speak. The earth supports me on the physical level so I feel the ground and energy under my feet. The different authors and teachers support me in using the knowledge I learned. In practicing knowledge there is additional energy from the knowledge of different systems of thinking, energy of those ideas and those others that think those ideas is supporting and available to me and all who use the knowledge.

In Aharaj yoga we call these eggregors. Energy fields created by lifestyles, cultures, families, communities etc.. Some of them are positive, some not so. When you tap into a positive eggregor, you are connected to all the high ideals of it, the subtle energy of high impressions back you. So my dance to my supporters has shifted to feeling so grounded and supported by the energy of all the schools and communities I am part of. Part of a "we" energy, perfect where I am, happy to move ideas and projects fueled by invisible support, energy available to me as I create. More of a supported creator than one needing help.

Dancing offers you joy, once in joy you can start to shift some of your views, feeling all is well, a practice in gratitude. To spend 15 minutes being greatful each day in movement, a dynamic meditation, generates additional energy to tap into so your may be supported in your creations by the collaborative universal. In a group there is more power. Your groups, your support offers great energy as you create, notice and utilize this feeling of knowing you truly are never alone! There is a ton of energy out there for you once to consciously tap into it! Dancing is an easy tool to raise your vibe by tapping into the grace that already exists in your life! Moving your hips is so supportive to a womans system. How often do you move your hips in many ways? There is grace and hidden power in the svadisthana chakra located in the womb is called "the souls dwelling place" by Deepok Chopra. This is magical and powerful movement for woman that helps them in connecting to their bodies. We are the greatest creators on the planet, we just need to remember that! Sway to the rhythm is a effecting teaching in empowerment!

Magical Thinking

2012-01-24T09:59:00.000-05:00

Magic and thinking! Is that more of an oxymoron? In thinking terms, magic is trickery, deceptive, mysterious, not real. To me it is more like a right brain/ left brain thing. I put forth that the world is magical! As I work with nature it is clear to me that we live in a very magical place! This perspective I want to put toward all life, a right brain thinking. In fact that is the main reason for the Lotus project, I was tired of the left brain learning. We have so much more to ourselves than our mind and we are often using it as though it is the only tool to use all the time! Once you realize that thinking generates things then you must step into other parts of yourself! Certainly it all begins with thoughts but doesn't end there! Our emotions are our power source for movement and I like having them stimulated too in good ways, not just panic, hurry, rush. Your body engaged, not just sitting there, action, doing something to keep involved, engaged, creating, experiential learning.

Magic includes charm, mystery, surprise, perfect meetings, coincidences, perfect timing, great openings, signs for direction, unknown things or things that can't quite always be explained to the logical mind. It has an energy that is different and stirring. I believe there is so much more of ourselves that needs to be known, experienced and explored that will bring us so much more dimension to our lives! I promote that life is magic, I believe that life is magic and I offer classes and experiences that tap you back into this place of magic and reverence. This whole experience on earth, although challenging at times is so opulent! So full of beauty, fun coincidences, so perfect at times, so magical! Jump on board! Open your thinking to creating from all parts of yourself, get the true feeling of flow!

We are continuing to grow through experience. Experience not just thinking. I often think the loop of the small mind, the patterned mind, keeps people caught up in their heads! Step out, switch it up. New ways can only happen through expansion, challenging your limited belief systems. You must investigate new ways, new ideas, things different if you want to change your life experience! You only need to be willing to open to the possibility that life could be magic! Once you open to the possibility, new ways become available to live that way. I believe in the magic of life!! I offer the possibility to anyone willing to check it out!

The Gift of Sound!

2012-01-21T08:17:00.000-05:00

Sound has long been known to change our spirit! Put on the radio, pop in a cd and shift your mood dramatically. We can pass from a sad song that opens our heart, to a rowdy song that gets our energy and power flowing, to a inspiration song that makes us sing our hearts out. Sound is also investigated in current healing, helping patients balance, providing a harmonizing tones that helps the body vibrate. We all use sound so many ways, to yell at someone, to give them a sweet hello, to offer a caring compasionate tone in time of strife. It is vibration, it is rhythm, it is harmony.

We connect with people through sound which is more basic than words. Melodic voices are so pleasant, stearn voices more directive. We are instruments of sound. Over the holiday, I recieved a fabulous book on sound and woman, historical account of our sound journey really. Woman brought the drums, the bells, their voices, their moving bodies to the great celebrations in healing and joy. It reminded me that sound, dance, singing and nourishment was always the womans work. Tied so intricately to the rhythms of nature, the heartbeat, the sways of carrying babes, the 28 day moon cycle like our own. Seasons and cycles, a melody of connection, a dance of the day. We were the keepers of these things. We are the swaying part of humanity that needs to break out into song and dance. Whether in joy, in sadness, in celebration, we have always been the smoothers of these things with sound and rhythm, the softer side.

May you make the most of your music. It is indeed a tranformational tool! This is why we have monthly drum circles! Investigating and enjoying raising our vibe!

Dynamics of A Low Spirit Day

2012-01-19T08:45:00.000-05:00

Yes indeed, low spirit hits us all and often at very untimely times. In fact the times seem the worst possible space. Yet indeed often that is why they are about there to offer clarity in confusion. I ride a high vibe most days and actively generate that high vibe each morning. Some days the activation is not so easy or just won't shift. At times like this I use the concept, when it is foggy and you can't see the path, sit down until it lifts. I know most of us have great difficulty in this. Our society and times claim that ambition, movement and pushing through is our answer. However, this is not the case when it is foggy!

Infact, movements in low spirit is often a way to call in more discord and confusion! Despite our training and culture, you should sit down and sense the situation from more levels than the mind. The low is from other levels that need attention and you best listen to all of yourself. Often you are tired and need nourishment. To step from that and not take the break is truly a grave choice. I have done it often enough to know there is great value and clarity in allowing the low to exist and clear. Actually, it just always pays!

So a note to those in this slow time when nature offers little growth and purposefully so. Nature renews in the low activity time so it can call forth a beautiful, brilliant spring. We do best when we pay attention to cycles of growth, renewal, sleep and release. The release and renewal makes space for new things, answers and growth. So take the break when worn! It will release you to relax and reclaim balance. We do live on a planet with cycles, we are effected and as much power as we have, there is a season to things!

The Children Within

2012-01-16T06:44:00.000-05:00

I don't know if its the age, or the learning I have done or even maybe just the planets and the time. Something fun is going on and I feel inspired like a child. I have been blessed to watch a few small fries during the week and I chose to do this so I could remember fun and giggles, truly quite serious I am even if it doesn't show on the outside.

Today this beautiful Sunday I felt so alive and vibrant as though I saw myself as a group of children, different ones, fun loving and playful, even some whom need discipline. I began to play with that thought, thinking of all the kinds of little people live in me. It was funny because I knew them all even though I had never played with my traits and characteristics in that way.

In the end it became very clear. The huge word is alignment, why we get adjusted. Aligning your energies, alignment in the skies, alignment within. Bringing together all the kids within, the I's that I have, and integrating them into one being. Like aligning the chakras so your divine light can operate. Integration of many situations, failures and knowings to a more focused presence of myself. It sounded wonderful and decided that the unruliness I may have within is not bad or should be trying to delete it, I should try to integrate the playground of my mind so I can transform any behaviours that may seem unnecessary!

Conversation with a Man about Men and Woman!

2012-01-13T09:12:00.000-05:00

A conversation that I had last night with a guy on fb. I had to post because it was an interesting interlude and I want to be clear that although I promote feminine energy, it has a lot to do with men in creating harmony and balance between us!

I'm curious as to your feelings on men, in general. you appear to be all about feminine energy, and not at all interested in men or anything masculine. just wondering.
- I am so interested in men! A strong beautiful playful woman attracts all kind of masculine attention!! Thats why we do it to bring in the fun!
  Not interested in being too masculine myself, that is for men! Interested in strong men and they are inspired by strong female energy !
- Whats your take on it?
  
  i agree, that strong female energy is appealing - the most appealing thing there is. And i do take inspiration from it. it may well be the thing that has given me my most success. i'm in an in-between place, and wondering what to aspire to in terms of relationships, or solitude/self reliance. but the relationships have always been so fraught with tension, which sometimes seems like it boils down to gender stuff. torn.
  - In nature, as I am a flower farmer, nature offers two types of energy in the creation. Masculine and feminine, the bees and the flowers. They are very different, yet together they create nature. So there is a sacred balance between the pairs of opposites. I promote woman being feminine because we are too masculine and we have lost our connection to our nurturing quality. Men and woman have mixes of both in us but woman are built differently and should be operating differently for their balance here. They are not. I inspire woman to bring back the girly girl. Not the dumb blonde but the beautiful flower that she is. Then men go crazy when they connect because the balance of energy equals out and then it is a great relation! It is the laws of manifestation in its highest form. True tantra is about harmonious relationships. Woman can harmonize the planet with their natural collaboration. I am calling on them to do it. As for relationships. Be a strong guy, sunk into yourself and your brilliance. By law you will attract a strong woman. This is the balance. All relationships are different, but a balance must occur. It is the easiest way to look at how to balance it if you make a clear distinction in it. We have our mix of masculine and feminine traits within, they need to be balanced and then we naturally find a balance opposite or lets use complementary partner. Its very easy once you learn about the energies and how they work within and then you can play with them about! All good!
    
    thanks for sharing that. It does resonate, which is the only way i've ever felt that i've genuinely received truth. cool. be well.
    do you mind if i share some of your words with my friends?
    Nope! I might share it as well to others. don't want guys to think i am all about woman only! I just love the harem feel and it attracts a magnetising energy the draws out the good stong men!! Haha!
    
    drew me. keep up the good work!

The Year of The Yow Water Dragon

2012-01-11T07:00:00.000-05:00

Cynthia, an associate in Hawaii. explained the Chinese New Year to us. I thought I would share the thinking for those whom wanted to understand the world through the ancient Chinese celebration. Feng Shui comes from the Chinese system so they predict things by the energies found in certain directions, they try to balance the 4 elements in a space to harmonize it. They believe these effect you, they notice and base decisions on them. Water symbolizes flow and money, so it is a year of flow and the West has the blessings star of money, so recovering is predicted in the West.

Before the New Year which begins on the 23rd of January, they spring clean their homes in an effort to clean and clear the chi, life force in their spaces. This represents an internal clearing and cleaning of their minds and life, allowing for new energy to come into their spaces, minds and life. This way they make room for health, wealth and harmonious relationships that effects their whole year.

The final thing that seemed intriguing is how they celebrate. They give away red money packets to friends and family to symbolize the inner abundance they have and the williness to share it with all. They believe this activates money energy and blessings for the whole year. Sounds like a good way to begin the New Year!

Strengthen Your Sixth Sense

2012-01-06T12:16:00.000-05:00

We all have a sixth sense and have had it all our lives. We may not use it or follow it so it becomes weaker or unheard. This year ahead has lots of intention on developing ourselves as individuals and as a more united humanity. Personally, there is a call for us to tune in deeper to our gifts.

Our intuition is a great guidance system that is available for our use and can be simply strengthened. We just have to know it is there and decide that we seek to tune in more to its subtle nature. I like the word play because there is no right or wrong, no laws that pertain to anyone and it is shear pleasure! I invite you to play with whatever you would consider your intuition or sixth sense in the coming months. There is great power in using this guidance system and alot of universal movement for us all to tap in. It will be easy, fun, experimental and awakening. It will add magic and adventure to your life. It will guide you better than any other thinking system you have. It will be an invaluable experiment to look at things differently. Seeking your path through signs or guidance is a lovely journey.

In case you got tied up in life and forgot about this I wanted to remind you for there is great power to help you in the year ahead!

Blissfully,
Lyn

Beauty and Magnetism!

2012-01-04T10:12:00.000-05:00

Nature offers us such beauty, we are magnetized to be in it, vacation, adventure and just engage. It is the yin to the yang of our lives of production and ambition, the doing. Within ourselves we also have this same balance to be created as we do on the outside of ourselves! For woman this is actually where there power exponents! Beauty and magnetism is our greatest allure and gift! It offers the balance to the ambition and production. In fact we have more creativity and success when we use this power blended with the other.

Over New Years my southern nieces came in and my sister, her daughters and myself and my daughter spend as many hours doing as many fun things we can while they are here. It is a true girl fest of dressing, sparkling, building beauty together with the finest we have and then we go out on an adventure! We have done so many fun things, this year we took a limo up to New York City, strutted around, caught a show and relished in each other. We hit the beach after a fabulous fest and rolled about the Jersey shore in our glory.This one only 24 hours of our adventures as we visit.

The thing in all our activities that is so great is the wonderful harem of beauty we are. It is not being out, it is not in the delight of being in public, it is the hanging together just us in our funness that gives the most beauty! The dressing and gathering up our hair and make up, the limo ride of music and giggles, loving ourselves! The walking about in a group of loveliness everywhere we went. Just being beautiful girls in their joy. No need to even interact with others. To be moving and feeling good. So rejuvenating!

The truest, most fun that we had of all the activities was the great dancing we did! At midnight, there we were the 8 of us. We pulled over on the great bridge to LBI, opened the windows and cranked out tunes to the air. We all jumped out in the silence of the night, under the stars, orange quarter moon low on the horizon and danced our hearts out in joy!!! All alone, not a soul on the bridge, just us beautiful girls in our glitter and glitz danced our hearts out in love of ourselves, each other and the evening about us.
That is what the word Radatakakaya means! Such a joy on every level of cell of your being!

This harem of gals, woman connected in their femininity, graciously all gorgeous and fine, is how we use our beauty and magnetism! How we connect to our sacred femininity to the world and overflow to all others the love of our hearts that flows, collaborates, nourishes and connects! The world seeks the balance of the light, playful feminine spirit about! Sacred Femininity, beauty and magnetism at the height! This gathering of us will fuel us for the year ahead, knowing we are grand, knowing we can do, knowing we create in fun and joy! Reminders of our magnificence!

I find great joy in gathering with girls. Not that men are not a great fun and I enjoy them as immensely as well. Gathering with woman and doing girl things provides a balance and fuel like no other. It is a nourishing that is based in balance, yin and yang, it helps woman to remember the fun of life which is part of our gift. Magnetizing people are created by energizing themselves first. Something woman need to learn on a grand scale. Our tale is one of this practice. Seems simple and silly yet is profound and I have rarely found a woman whom didn't want to dance! Practical, simple things to fuel your life with joy and grace! Just love it!

Sway With The Cycle of The Season!

2011-12-26T09:35:00.000-05:00

On this day after all the giving and receiving, is the perfect time to count your blessings. Gratitude for a year of surprises, remembering all the good that has come from the whole year. Important so you can review for the New Year to come and select seeds to be planted in the future as we celebrate the New Year!

Really go through your year and savor the goodness. Feel the vibration, feel the feelings of joy of the good things that passed. Settling down and savoring, remembering the growth, the fun even the challenge. As you create this good state and when you are in it for a couples days, recalling the joy, then look towards what needs to go. What lessons learned and what behaviours or influences need to fall away in the coming months. A perfect way to end the year and this week between two great holidays.

There is greater meaning to the cycles of the calendar than we realize in our busy days. As a grower the importance of the cycles has been handed down as sacred understanding of working with nature. There is a rhythmic energy to her year so it is important to use it. It has ebbs and flows that if we work with we can accomplish more quickly and in grace and flow.

Enjoy the week counting your blessings and dreaming the new things to come. 2012 has been spoken of for many years. It seems to be a good year in the making so consciously think of how you want to create. We were given the past and the future as gifts to review for greater pleasure in the present. Releasing of the past good and bad makes room for the future. We presently clear our minds, hearts and bodies for the coming cycle as the sun grows toward spring and renewal. Oh to sway to the rhythm of life!

Using Your Workout Effectively on all Levels!

2011-12-15T09:24:00.000-05:00

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I ran today for the first time in a while. A small run too and I was like a turtle with alittle jog the first couple laps. I think I got inspired to do this after the setting intentions class and remembering I am to ground my ideas. manifest them, make them visible and bring them to fruition. The first chakra, muladahara, is about the root, the physical embodiment of ourselves. Grounded in time and space present in our bodies. The end result, manifestation. In the laws of spirit, it you want to do anything high, you must have a sound body first. Physical health is based on this principle as well as Marlowe's Hierarchy of Needs. Food, foundation, support. That is why we must strengthen our physical bodies. It is all about manifestation of ideas. So consider this when choosing your movement strategy! It gives power to manifest your ideas.

The other chakra that physical movement helps is your manipura, solar plexus, agni, or fire in eastern traditions. This is where your vital energy comes from. Your fire, motivation, action, money making capability, your power. This area governs your digestion, fire of course to transform food, your immune system, the protective vital body to keep you healthy and germs incinerated by the fire before they get into your body! Very important to your health and why movement is so important! The reason that people who move live healthier lives and why we are told to workout! You feel this when you activate it. My first laps where harder and as I got adjusted, I started to feel my power and energy shift quickly.

Bringing in these conscious ideas as you work out, considering you are grounding your ideas by strengthening your body, and considering your career and health goals that you desire while doing your movement will make it more effective. Anytime you can bring in mental and emotional ideas to your physical movement you are adding power and consciously developing on more levels so it is strengthing many areas of your body, aligning your intentions!

The third thing I want to share is to look up as you workout. Running makes your eyes go to the ground so you don't trip. However, by adding in the consciousness of looking up at the treeline, the sky line you activate the higher chakras. So you are aware of where you are going of course but keeping the focus high. This noticing of the sky line gives you the beautiful expansion of the upper universe. It just clears you right open! These higher visions, higher impressions could be explained on so many levels just how beneficial they are. Suffice it to say, you are receiving the reflection within of the expansive sky and of course that makes you more open to all possibilities to just focus on it!

Simple, practical ways to live more vibrantly using more awareness, more centers at once, more consciousness in all you do. The yoga of living!

Setting Intentions for Your Life in 2012!

2011-12-12T10:41:00.001-05:00

2012, another year of transformation! In the rush of the holiday, try to set aside time to review your last year generally and visualize some things to become in the New Year! Sitting by a fire or on a night of just enjoying the tree and adornments about, make a big picture review and look ahead!

There is power in this time of year after the solstice begins the cycle of light growing and thus a perfect cycle to ride with your ideas. Winter is said to be the time of year to incubate ideas for the spring to come much like the bulbs! Harboring in and sowing seeds of ideas for the year, flowers to be grown. New Year's celebrates this cycle of new to be brought forth in the coming seasons so work with this flowing rhythm.

Using whatever system you feel most effective, break down the areas of life and set ideas to move forth. Two things to consider are where will the energy, motivation and inspiration come from to complete these tasks? Clearly see the project in completion in your mind! Very important step! Finally, feel the vibes, the signature of how you would feel, how this completion makes you feel! This is energy to move it!

So enjoy the season! Remembering memories of things gone good are part of the holiday. Putting forth new ideas are part of the ending, beginning cycle. Enjoy this process! Magically play with ideas and dreams. It is fun to be inspired to be better, greater, expressive of yourself and what you bring forth.

I intend to grow a community of wellbeing here through The Lotus Project Classes of experiential learning surrounded by nature and grow the Green Collaboration so many can find ways to choose healthier in our local community. I intend to enjoy my new contacts and friends as together we build a healthier, wealthier world!

Blessings,
Lyn

Receiving

2011-12-09T08:01:00.000-05:00

How do you recieve things? Telling tale! Recieving seems to be something people are weird about yet we say we want more. I recieve a gift or a compliment. How do I take it? Am I greatful and accepting? If someone offers help or ideas to you, are you open to it? Or do you have to do the whole deal yourself? 50% of your life you should be recieving while 50% you give. That would be a balanced intake and outtake. A fair exchange.

There is always an exchange going on, giving and recieving. What percentage of your time is in giving and what in recieving? Is there a more balanced way that things should be happening? I find most people want to recieve more and not give so much. Receiving involves being open. Open to recieve what others give. You have to be open and then you have to accept. Sometimes people try to give us things we don't want. I am not talking about that. I am talking about do you accept things that come to you, happily, gracefull and joyously? Or are you recieiving with well, I guess this is good. I guess I will take it. Or are you diminishing what you recieve. Thanks but it wasn't that big a deal. I got some of what I wanted, still waiting. Or wow, you wouldn't believe what came to me the other day. Excited and enthused? These simple things matter. How we recieve effects what we recieve. As woman, often recieving is kind of hard yet we will give til the end. If everyone is giving and no one recieving than whom are we giving to? No one is appreciating all the giving going on if we are not openly receiving.

In nature things recieve as equally as they give. There is a balance going on. A contract between things that each gets what it needs and gives its fruit. Many kinds of needs and fruits harmonizing together. Quite wonderous actually. As you go through the season, notice how you feel when you recieve. See what shows up in curiosity and observation. We are to be recieving 50% of the time, balancing ourselves. Often it is our relationship with recieiving that blocks us from getting the things we want. Sit still, be open, be accepting, not doing but recieving of the wonderful gifts about!

Tis The Season Of Light

2011-12-05T08:24:00.000-05:00

There is so much light symbolism in December. The darkest month of all, calls forth the desire within us to bring in Light! Outside lights, tree lights, candlelight, firelight, the north star, all things to remind us of the return of light on the Solstice. Christmas, Hanukkah, Quanza, are celebrations of light and love in the darkest time of the year.

We share gifts, offer love, eat food, gather about great decoration and glitz! Such a great time of giving and receiving. There is lovely music about, pretty packages and bows, fine decoration to remind us of this loving season and perhaps we do these things to balance this absence of light!

It is a perfect time to remind ourselves to lighten up, take it light, reflect in the light of things, share our light, send Light and notice people's light! With less light around us it is pertinent to look for its reflection in things. More importantly, to strengthen our light inside. We are responsible for this. The outside conditions offer many things to get caught up in. However, the inside conditions always determine the course well beyond what is outside. This season reminds us of this. Will you shine your light in the darkest time of year or will you let the darkness rule? It is our choice and will depend what type of holiday you have so choose wisely. Sending you Light through this holiday season!

Understanding Astology

2011-11-26T11:16:00.000-05:00

Astrology is the oldest science. Understanding the basics is very enlightening. I am not talking about your horoscope! But the real, deeper science of it. Let me give you a simple run down up what is going on, thus I have heard!

Pluto, Neptune and Uranus were discovered about the 1700/1800. Scientifically, this time electricity was discovered and a whole slew of things in the last 200 years regarding light and mental creations. These planets carry frequencies that in discovering them, we open up to the light frequencies of the planets, information, intellectual discoveries, use your own words. The traits or characteristics of these planets open and effect us in our ability to receive frequencies, information, transformation. In learning about anything, we are transformed in light of it!

Uranus is the helper in the mental body. We are learning more about the mental body and how to raise its stream to more positive manifestation. Our perceptions, our belief systems, our thinking patterns are getting raised, light of understanding added, our perceptions being shifted. Its happening!

Neptune is helper of the emotional realm. Higher compassion, bigger hearts, greater love is available in form. Shining light on our emotional being, our emotional awareness realizing our true emotions as they are happening, offering greater compassion to the world at large!

Pluto is making an impact on our physical bodies, our life purpose, our life force having greater expression in how we live physically. Anything from a lower vibration not in alignment is up for transformation. Our resources, our bodies, our health are all up for new thinking!

If you think of our times, our lessons as a system and as individuals, lots of higher ideals and purposes are coming forth in these areas! Fascinating to know the sky reflects the situation! So inspiring to know that we are helped, connected and part of a bigger cosmos moving and evolving. There is a reason for our fascination with the sky. We keep being drawn to it over and over again when we are out under it in its vastness. It affects us, it guides us, it offers frequencies, light rays, all kinds of things scientifically and esoterically. To me so incredible, we are aware on some level! The full moon, the stars, the planets offer us something inspirational and vast when we gaze!

The turmoil about in economics, world wide and personally is all purposeful and evolution of this experience we are part of. Light is shining on the shady, secretive and greedy power that is about. This is all good. Pluto, our physical world and Neptune, our mental body are squaring off! What we think and believe is not matching our manifestation, squaring off in the sky to each other planetarily. Hmmm. Sounds about right to me!

Neptune is also about for next 25 years, the planet of higher awareness, trust, faith, surrender, opening us to greater understanding. It increases the awareness of magical, mystical synergy.

Let me propose that this is all good, well and purposeful. It is the shift in thinking to align ourselves better amongst our bodies, emotional, mental and physical with the spirit in there as well. The universe, planets, energies, frequencies, whatever you want to call it, are supporting all of this on levels. How cool is that! To see this time as the beginning of a new way to align ourselves with greater awareness, understanding and light on our creations! I just love it! Interesting place to be if you are curious!

Free Joy

2011-11-24T11:01:00.000-05:00

I was blessed last weekend to be part of a baptism for my niece Jordan. with a beautiful ceremony and celebration. What inspired me most of all was the quality of love and joy a 4 month old expresses as a response to attention. When you talk to her, she lights up in her eyes, smiles so wide and you feel as though this great love and joy is just surging at you. I have not been around a small one in quite a long time. All babies have this incredible loving smile at you, free joy I call it because there is no way not to feel their happiness and be infected by the pure love and appreciation they reflect at that age.

They are so happy for your attention! They just look at you when you talk to them and suddenly break out into the most alluring smile! It is so beautiful a feeling. It is so genuine and authentic. It isn't the half smile or the look of how are you that you get from people when you interact. Or the things are good that seems just like a rote response. It is this Oh so glad to engage with you as though you were the greatest thing in the world. True interest, true gratitude, true love and joy for your attention. My heart sung so many times through out my visit with this warm smile. So accepted, so delighted, so thankful for your attention. It was heartwarming and reminded me of this true relation. A clear acceptance and thankfulness. How few times we actually offer this to others. Maybe when they do something really nice or helpful do we respond this way. Not often that is for sure.

I am sure this very response they give is why they say, through the eyes of a child. That true happiness comes when you see the world as a child does. Greatful, curious and happy to engage in new things and situations. Almost just waiting for a chance to smile and connect, eager to engage, happy to delight. If only we could remain so simply open to joy. Open to others instead of concerned they may take advantage or wonder what their motive. Just open to what comes and truly receptive to connecting.

On this thanksgiving I commit to approach others as Jordan approaches the world. In wonder, open to any engagement, offering a smile so genuine and appreciative. Being open and clearly looking for the joy in connecting with others in such a basic way. A child smiles as though to say, the light in me sees the light in you. That is basically what Namaste means. It is a soul connection, a deep hello with heart and kindness. Wouldn't the whole world be a different place if we sought to just connect and smile at others. If there is no reciprocity in the engagement or way to work with them, no need to be annoyed or disgusted. Just move on to the next situation open to engage and find the next bit of free joy. No tarrying or judgement, no disrespect, just a happy moving on to find one whom does have something to offer and recieve. Genuine joy in communing. Genuine thanks for the attention. Free joy to carry you as you move this this journey called life.

Gifts of Beauty and Creativity from Harmony Hill!

2011-11-18T07:00:00.000-05:00

Tis the season to Deck the Halls!

Yes I am offering my share of gifts to add to your holiday season! Live green wreaths adorned with natures elements as well as centerpieces for your celebration! Great gifts or for your personal decor!

Wreaths $50

You choose your bow color!

Centerpieces $65

Harvest or Holiday!

Gift Certificates for The Lotus Project Classes are available as well!

Beautiful, unique art!

Artistic coolers personalized for those on your list!

A mix of hobbies, personality or interests!

Gifts created by blossoming entrepreneur Erika Hicks.

Keepinitcooler.com

As we proceed into the glittler of the holiday and the bustle, may you have an amazingly rich and nourishing season. Time to share light, give it and recieve it. Do it well and do it happily. Gifts are all about us so open and enjoy!

Shine your light!

Your Name.com

2011-11-17T11:20:00.000-05:00

Marketing is so shifted to where it truly is all about building to your name.com. Branding means this. You and your philosophy, lifestyle and conversations are now part of your marketing tools of logo, website, graphic images, etc. Your brand is a unique expression of what you bring to the table, what individual value that you bring to a situation. Like your own music you create, Mary Carol of Arachne Design taught me this a year ago.

We all know our passions, skills and strengths. It becomes what does the marketplace want from you? What do you have to offer? Because it is individualized, like our name, and there are so many platforms to add your uniqueness to that blend personal and business, it is about all of who you are. This works out perfectly for woman because we buy this way so we already operate on a more personal, emotional level.

So get clear on that in todays marketing you really are your name.com. Who are you and what value do you bring to the world. In case you were uncertain about Lynhicks.com here is my gold.

I am part of the Well Being movement. I work with magic of nature through growing organic flowers, supporting sustainable business and teaching practices about living vitally on all levels as taught in yoga traditions. I grow, educate and learn from nature how to nourish ourselves on many levels. I passionately share in a unique way this knowledge gained from my own life learning. My forthcoming book, The Path Of The Lotus, Alluring Wellness and Beauty Through Green Living, shares my path of embracing wellness by cultivating the nourishing feminine spirit within.

Get your brand out there! We all want to understand so we can work together. Be clear and grounded in your gold! That is the only way others will see it sparkle. Sing your unique song so we can enjoy it!

Tantric Nutrition Series: Flirting with Food: Glancing, Touching, Dancing, Leading, Preparing Practicum: Art of Sensual Bonus: A Ritual of Food, Breath and Passion. Sexuality, Pampering Relationships!

2011-11-14T13:09:00.000-05:00

I am eager to learn more about Tantra and harmonious relationships from Erika Henson, a monthly teacher from New York. She has put together a 4 class series running monthly at The Lotus Project! Below I posted the remaining workshops. With a partner or alone these classes are a fascinating look at relationships and nourishment from the ancient teachings and are quite enlightening on connection and communication. Hope you will join us. Preregistered, $30 for the first part of the evening, there is a nutritious break, and then a Practicum part to the class where we learn hands on experiences with the principles, $30 per person. Preregistered it is $60 and if you sign up for all 4 over the next few months it is only $50 per evening. The class details are below! Definitely a good Friday night of fun! Awaken to New Ways!

Tantric Nutrition Series 101: Nourishing Sexuality, Pampering Relationships

~ Perfect as a Couple's Date or Experiential Pre-Dating for Individuals with Jitters ~
How to choose the partner that is right for you & Nurture a harmonious relationship !
Understand roles people play and how to consciously interact !
Awaken your passion for love and health !
Sensual and Healthy Nutrition for a Sexy Mind – Clean Body – High Emotions Connection !
Use sexual energy to attract, inspire, create, heal, make dreams come true, be self-sufficient !

November 18th, Flirting with Food: Glancing, Touching, Dancing, Leading, Preparing, break, Practicum: Art of Sensual Bonus: A Ritual of Food, Breath and Passion. includes sensual foods and tantric dinner ritual.

Without creative and passionate sexual energy and the fires of desire awakened, our food and days often become boring and repetitive. Now it's time to learn how waking up your desire and taste-consciousness will also shift your personal relationships! We may start snacking, starving ourselves, or eating out of emotions and habit, we gain or lose weight, we lose consciousness about our food not to mention our words and thoughts, we lack that child-like creativity and joy in every day expressions of sensual delight. Tonight we will learn how to nourish ourselves and our partners, how to entice, play, use our energy for our and a partner's benefit and pleasure, to attract, act consciously with passion, and spark desire, using this fire to transform and waking up this energy to create balance in our lives. In one moment, a perception, mood, and thought can change from rigid to flexible and gentle with one glance, touch, or motion. Come learn, observe, and practice!

Tonight, delight all of your senses in a ritual fit for both the dinner table and the bedroom. Can food, breath, conversation be passionate? Flirtatious? Sensual? Motivating? Desirable? Yes! And it should be. Without spending too much time introducing concepts and theories, we promise you will be inspired to shift your eating habits and create your own miniature rituals that improve your overall health and well-being. The evening includes a rainbow-offering of delicious treats intertwined with discussion and practices that connect you to your own passionate energy and with a partner if you choose. Learn how to prepare food and feed another person with sensuality, love, tenderness so that the food you give and receive nourishes your body on multiple levels and satisfies your cravings. Dress with beauty, care, and attention. Come with or without a friend or partner. Entertainment while you eat is guaranteed, so come ready to smile and be intrigued. While tonight's rating is PG-13 you'll have plenty of techniques, knowledge, and guidance to turn future evenings at home into whatever nourishing scenes you care to imagine.

December 2, Suave Seduction: Recognizing & Creating Your Healthiest Relationships - With Food, People and Yourself, break,
Practicum: Astrological Drama: A fascinating key to understanding People, Relationships and diffusing Interpersonal Drama.

Many times when we don't understand why we do something or why someone else does something we comment, judge, critique, or look with disdain. Our upbringing and ideas can create notions of right or wrong, best or worst, and these labels keep us from expressing our individuality, or seeing the beauty of another's gifts and individuality. We've been sharing new ways to understand ourselves, potential partners, how to choose so our partners complement us and create passion, and tonight we delve even deeper. Planetary types have nothing to do with astrological charts and are a very complementary and insightful way to understand more deeply specific habits, interests, irritations, ways of being, who will get along, and who will rub feathers, why we might disagree with another, or have success beyond the wildest dreams together. Many aspects of who we are, what we like, what we choose, at our true core, can be deeply understood and more fully realized as strong talents through what the Greeks and Romans practiced as "Astrological Drama." Come learn, join consciously into a space designed to demystify, yet intrigue and reintroduce magic into your daily life.

January 13th, Sensual Secrets: Strong Immunity & High Emotions for Explosive Passion, Health, Vitality, Empowerment, break
Practicum: Embodiment, concert, theatre, fashion, talent show, tantric dances and healthy foods- be transformed!

Why practice tantra? How do health, love, passion, vitality, and partnership weave together? Explosive and expansive transformation happens to greater and greater degrees as we grow, expand our consciousness, become healthier, happier, strengthen our vital energy, re-invigorate our immune systems, use our emotions wisely, and partner with our highest selves and strongest companion(s) for ultimate success. Caring for ourselves and others in the most joyful and empowered ways paves the way to truth, admiration, confidence, deep love, and an inner glow that radiates without pause. Discovering our true selves, abilities, potentials, revealing who we can become without wearing unconscious masks, is vivacious, alluring, and sexy. Come play with all of your talents, putting anything and everything you remember from 1 or all of our workshops together in a hodgepodge of review, games, and even more knowledge to have, create, attract, and sustain your best relationships (remember: this knowledge applies to many realms - business, creative, intimate, familial, supporters, team members, etc!)

Nourish and heal with joy and laughter. Our concert is a treat for all senses, watch, play, share, delight, partake however you choose, all for the purpose of unleashing your true self, building confidence, and creating transformation on immeasurable levels. Bring your talents and cameras and appetites for sensational nourishment. In our practicum we'll also learn special tantric dances and magical art techniques as well as talk about and taste some of the most sensual, immune-boosting, emotionally-supportive foods we all have relatively easy access to, and begin to understand just how easy it is to nurture ourselves and have vibrant relationships.

Happy 11/11/11!

2011-11-11T09:47:00.002-05:00

It is so fun when things like these numbers line up so concerently, that they seem to have some magic to them. I have heard many ideas, the internet probably offers more than I will. In nurmerology ones stands for great qualities, unity, intuition, leadership, cooperation. Sounded like womans strengths so I decided to have a huge circle of woman at the farm. If there is some magic to it, we will feel it together and if not, it will be magic enough that a bunch of woman gather together in unity, just being in the beautiful nature of the night, a crisp sky and full moon! Music of course for dancing should always be available when you gather gals! Valerie who runs our drum circles is a musician so she and some others will be playing some wonderful beats for us, $20 suggested donation. I invite those who come to bring whatever they chose to help them relax for a time with us. If you like you can bring some snack or beverage. If not just come, I will have water, some tea, some food. Lauren Nappan will open the evening with a blessing and from there it is all free form!

May you have a wonderful day of ones! Consider ways to use your intuition, cooperation, leadership and unifying traits, although I am sure it will come naturally today! It we all lift off like the Mayas did, know that we were having fun as girls do on our way out of here!

November 9, 2011
The Whole Is Greater
Women’s Circles

Women’s circles perfectly illustrate the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Women's circles are formal or informal gatherings in the interest of bonding, sharing energy, and creating ritual. The origins of women's circles are ancient, but their applications are as modern
as the women who participate in them. There are no hard and fast rules as to how to form a
women's circle or how to run one. Some circles invent their own agendas, rituals, goals, and ceremonies, while others borrow ideas from sources as far-ranging as Buddhist or
Native American cultures. Some circles are open to new members at all times,
while others prefer to practice with a set number of members, closing the circle once that
number is reached.

Stress Free Holiday Strategies!

2011-11-07T17:56:00.000-05:00

Photo by Terree Yeagle

As we approach the holidays, instead of the usual intensity and craziness, try to be proactive. Think of the things you usually get stressed over and have a plan! Part of being stress free is knowing what stresses you and coming up with ideas on how to prevent it or notice it and shift. Prevention seems to be the greatest tool and then shifting techniques when you are stressed seems to be the second most valuable skill.

My three basic ways to switch it up are breathing deep, movement and sound. I know you have most likely heard them before but maybe this year you will try one of them and find it valuable. Breathing is such a simple way to change your biochemical stress that it seems crazy that we don't use this more often. More oxygen, calmer body, clearer head. Movement is doing something that takes you out of your mind and the yipping in your head. To dance, to do jumping jacks, to go do something physical you like at a moment of stress is another way to shift you physiological state. That is why we work out, we oxygenate in doing so and that allows your body to get out of adrenaline and into relaxation. It only has to be for a few minutes, not a full workout just some shifting movement. Sound is one we often use and don't realize it. Put on some music that promotes a feeling different than stress, happy tunes, a song you love, a healing beat. Easy quick ways to destress immediately!

I also want to recommend some of the events here because they are all designed to empower you and thus destress you. Aharaj yoga is all about shifting and clearing stress and anxiety. Sacred Feminine Circles are both in November and December that helps you tap into your energy source within. Is Your Food Stressing You Out teaches you during this season to notice when you are stressed and then not exacerbating it with gluttonous eating to make it worse. The Intuitive Intelligence Class will help you address your holiday problems from a different angle as to solve it and have a great season without the hassles you are predicting. Full Moon Healing and Clearing will help release old thinking's that happen every season. Our Sacred Circle Drumming is obviously using sound to shift you. Fueling Yourself is a class on masculine and feminine energies and how to use them optimally. All these designed to address holiday stress through prevention through an active experience, not just mind learning!

You can give these classes to someone as a gift of health and wellness. They range in price from a small gift to a workshop class and it offers someone an experience to be more alive and alert. I love to share all of these with as many people whom find it helpful. Experience the holidays with vitality and joy! Calendar of events at http://harmonyhillgardens.com/lotusproject.php
Hope you have a fabulous two months of festivities!

The Atom and how it affects us!

2011-11-04T08:23:00.000-04:00

We are all familiar with the atom and that all is made up of them. Each atom has positive, negative sides as well as the nuerons which are nuetral. If we take those two appearing opposing sides and make them masculine and feminine with the nueron the space in the middle when both are in their right ratio, then we have a balanced atom. All atoms are seeking balance, free radicals that cause us bodily damage are just trying to restabalize so the electrons move about and connect with something that will balance it.

As beings we are made up of the two. When in balance we are in creation energy, like a mommy and daddy, their creation being a baby. You can replace whatever extremes or opposites in this equation and the fact remains the same. When blended appropriately, balance occurs, then creation occurs. Like the atom seeking balance, when it nuetralizes itself with another atom, a new thing is created.

Taking this to how it affects us is truly astounding. Take technology, computers, cellphones, etc. They are actually created similiar to splitting an atom, by using only the masculine side of the atom, suppressing the feminine. They use logic, mechanics, processes and actually a computer is posititve ions, suppressing the negative ions. So our home our bodies, our environments are filled with this great stuff yet the feminine, negative ions are missing. They drain and deplete us often and cause health issues because these appliances are seeking to balance their electrons with our bodies. They pull the feminine right out of our bodies in their natural drive to create balance.

Now look at the Green Movement and the environmental movement. Nature is considered feminine in energy or negative when you look at the ion. There is such a push to save the earth when in reality it is more about balancing energy. This is a call to bring more feminine, nurturing ways into our lives in order to balance the atoms. You can take this on so many levels and see the connect here. We have lots of masculine and feminine, positive and negative in us yet out of balance. Then our environment and conditions about us are also trying to get in balance and use us, our bodies and anything else to get those electrons nuetral. It is just science. When we all begin to get a bit more tapped in to emotion, intuition, inspiration and less mechanical task oriented ways, we begin to balance ourselves scientifically as well as all other levels. The science and movements of our time are trying to remind us that both energies are needed in ratio. When they come together in this balance, as the mom and dad, then things are born, new things, new ideas. The process of creation!

Nature shows us this energy when we are in it. We feel settled, relaxed, just better, using her negative ions or feminine energy to balance. It is showing us to use this more relaxed blended style of energy with the other masculine, positive ions all about. We actually can generate it ourselves yet must be reminded and nature is beginning to wake us up to it. Nothing is ever good or bad, it is all part of the learning process as we evolve. When I learned about the atom and thought about it on all levels, it made big impact in understanding so much, health, energy, feminine and masculine poles of things and the nuetral or the nueron, being the creative space. When the ions are balanced the neurons get to play! Nuerons don't have rules like the electrons and protons. Their creativeness is only activated if the ions are stablized in the correct ration! Feel what this science implies to you and let it filter. It is a huge key to creating more balance in your life, health and thus creations! Love it!

Alluring Beauty

2011-11-01T20:32:00.000-04:00

Beauty for woman has become quite the wild expression! Some of the Hollywood favorites, housewife shows and general conceptions about beauty, shifting and changing our looks, our weight, our cheeks, our lips, wild expression is all I can call it. Quite honestly some of the proposed ideas of beauty are not beauty to me at all or any way I want to shine. So beauty is quite subjective, I know from my flower arranging that different styles inspire different people, there is no right or wrong way as really, your way, your style. More than anything it is about being your style. What is your mix of things that you accent as your beauty?

Beyond the extreme self expression of woman and their beauty there is also the layer of sensuality and allure that often create resistance. Wearing certain things, exposing parts of your body, rules and regulations as to what to wear after 40 as opposed to before, rules of etiquette, that offer at best subjective tips. Deeper is the whole issue behind sexual energy, creative energy one in the same but seen differently. If you are too sensual looking you have this judgement, if your show your femininity in ways against the rules you are inappropriate. Just a wild mix of things for woman to navigate about their beauty.

Being alluring,sensual, intriguing, charming, beautiful is kind of taboo in business. Curtail it for business, be more masculine, less alluring more commanding. Certainly many woman push these rules and some industries allow more flexibility. If you are in beauty field or in a feminine field, you can be more alluring. If it is not, other rules apply. These rules seem odd to. If we are to be authentic, why can't we be alluring, intriguing and charming with our sensual, creative nature in all areas?

Sexual energy, creative energy, allure, all these qualities are used in nature to create new ideas, to create life. Thinking sexual energy is about men and seduction is so short sided. Understanding as a woman your sexual and creative energy are one in the same, used for different outcomes. Thinking sexual energy is only used for men and not used in other areas is quite a disconnect. This is live, exciting energy that gives woman an edge, provides for her to create in oxytocin, in relaxation and safety. I think an alluring beauty is one whom shows beauty, style, grace, wit, interest and intrigue in all her life! Many have a disconnect from this well of energy within us just by the rules we have about beauty, sexuality and creative energy. These rules don't allow us to explore our sexual energy in ways that could enhance our life, not sexually but creatively! We can be giggling, alluring fun and inspiring without being less successful in business. Bringing femininity into business, into the workplace is what will help us use this creative energy for cooperation, collaboration, conflict resolution, creating new solutions and connecting with others. Who says we can't be these things in business? Why do we have to be more manly about business? I get that it is male modeled but woman are a big part of the business world now and we can add ourselves into it if we want! Who says we can't use our charisma to attract the things we need?

I am thankful they are changing. Alluring beauty is exquisite! Magnetic, enchanting, charming behaviour should be welcome anywhere! We get to write just how woman show up for business and for me I certainly don't want to be more like a man! It just doesn't suit me! I rather unfold into an alluring beauty!

Positive Focus

2011-10-28T07:54:00.000-04:00

The Secret offered so many people a new look at life. A new way to navigate their feelings and access a different way of operating in the world, tips to notice their feeling state and ways to shift into clearer thinking. It is beyond positive thinking, it is called positive focus!

When things are going horribly, positive thinking, thinking things are okay when they are not does nothing for your vibration or feelings. It is putting a happy face on things which doesn't help if the situation when you don't fully notice and feel your feelings. Positive focus is different. You see the struggle or challenge, you feel the fear, panic, doubt, and you consciously shift to focus on a outcome that works for you. So there is quite a difference. Thinking things will get better when you don't feel that or are in a moment of doubt won't help as powerfully as knowing you are in a jam, Wow, I am certainly in a quagmire, then consciously decide that this is not going to effect where you are going. It is a subtle difference yet a powerful one.

Positive focus is about knowing where you are, feeling the challenge and emotions that go with it and then deciding to put your intention on where you are going. Focusing on a positive direction. You can always choose this, it has not so much to do with your thinking good things, it is more of a feeling that despite current conditions you are focused on moving in the direction you want. It is powerful because it is an aware state, a state that allows you to feel in control of yourself despite what is outside you. You always have control of your vibration. You can shift from what if and the negative to the what if and the positive. What if this comes together perfectly toward my enrichment? What if this is just clarifying my desire? What if I have done my homework and am going along perfectly and this current crisis is just a teaching tool? These types of questioning get us back to the expansive mind, the possibilities so positive focus can help us. Subtle but powerful, a wonderful tool for shifting!

Keep noticing your focus! Thinking your not in a traffic jam when you are is silly. Noticing you are in a traffic jam, realizing you can do nothing to change the conditions and cranking out some great tunes while you sit there knowing you will move eventually and get where you are going is positive focus! There are many obstacles, seeing beyond the obstacle rather than pretending it isn't so big moves you quicker through the course! Positive focus!

It's All About Fun!

2011-10-24T15:21:00.000-04:00

The more I learn, the more ways I expand my thinking from nutrition, to business, to personal development, even relationships, It is all about having fun in all you do! Even in the mundane tasks! The deeper you search for some answer of how to proceed, it is revealed that we must create more enjoyment, pleasure, high vibe, positive energy, whatever you want to call it so you can flow through life. Continually bringing ourselves out of our situation and into a lighter perspective.

The other key is called Selectivity! Select where and what you do put your attention and energy towards. Things we like, things that inspire and intrigue us give us higher energy. It then becomes of matter of how many of those things can we find to put in our day. Create as a habit or better yet turn into some ritual pleasure to raise your vibe. Selecting people, places and things based on how much higher energy they give you.

So again it is all about fun and enjoyment, pleasure even! The more you look for it to be around and select it to be around, the more pleasure keeps returning! Hmmm. I am enjoying learning about life!

Flowers Of Humanity

2011-10-20T10:53:00.001-04:00

Photo by Terree Yeagle

Ladies! Oh how things are so growing among us! It is truly great to be part of the emerging feminine culture around us in our area. Woman's Business Forum, The Chambers Woman In Business, Sisters U, and many other small collaborations are all around us as we connect, create, solve situations and grow towards a nurturing community. I am so eager with my classes and the woman I have meet through the Sacred Femininity Circle here. Not business or networking, but a commitment and connection on building our inner essence, our passion and strength to use for a more graceful life.

On Monday Oct 24th at 7pm I am teaching a workshop, Flower Of Life. It is a classes about the 2nd Charkra, our place of creativity and birth, practices and knowlege regarding this chakra called the Seat Of the Self, or Favorite resting place of the Goddess. Understanding ourselves as woman in a whole new way. 2 hour class, $45. Tranformative.

In November there are 2 womans classes, nutrition class, 7 GatewayYoga Class, and a Tantra Class on harmonious relationships. All inspiring our self development on what ever level you need most help at this moment. Class schedule and descriptions listed here: http://www.harmonyhillgardens.com/lotusproject.php

We are the flowers of humanity! Nourish, nurture, tend and befriend yourself First! It is law and it is the one way you can count on having a wonderfully healthy life! Find a path, find rituals, find ways to daily observe and cultivate your inner beauty so you may bloom fully and beautifully! Blissfully!

How to Nourish Your Spirit!

2011-10-17T11:00:00.014-04:00

Photo by Terree Yeagle

Everywhere we learn the 10 steps to manage anything about our business, how to use social media, how to promote ourselves, how to whatever technical information you want. It is all wonderful knowledge that is so necessary yet if we are not spirited and eager towards whatever we do, all the lists and steps mean nothing. They become mechanical at best, and lots of times we don't institute the steps anyway.

We have to begin deeper with making sure we are nourished as an individual, as one whom wants to learn and is eager to move towards success. It is not a step by step process that will win us the goods, it is a journey of nourishing ourselves that will make us take whatever steps we want. We have to begin with really enjoying ourselves and why we are here, what state we want to be in and how to get there that will make any endeavor succeed. Fueling ourselves first, being playful and creative, then getting to our work in a whole new way!

This month The Lotus Project offers many ways to nourish your spirit. Practical information that helps you get the eagerness and joyfulness back into the journey.

Joanna's nutrition class, Is Your Food Stressing You Out? which is the first key to all, managing your energy, your health, your glow is all found in how you feed yourself.

Aharaj Yoga teaches you deeper levels of understanding your energy. How it is effected by others and outside circumstances and how to manage it towards your goals and plans, not just use what is left to try to get going.

Tantra is the art of harmonious relationships! Who couldn't use that in how to understand others and work with them from a knowing perspective. Basic yet profound ways to work with others!

Sacred femininity is a wonderful way for woman to understand why they are so exhausted most of the time. Learning the power of her own essence and how to nourish it so it will overflow. There is a class on the 2nd Chakra, our sacred space and all the qualities and characteristics, how to ignite them for unlimited energy.

Drum Circles with a bondfire in the sky filled night! Dynamic meditation of relaxation, fun and comradry.

Even the kids with Fall Farm Frolic can engage in nature and learn nourishing ways just by enjoying it through sharper eyes! With or without mom!

Find your space, your group, your activities that fuel your spirit, your fun, your excitement towards life. No matter what happens, a chipper spirit is the best tool to move through anything. You must find ways and put time into nourishing your spirit, your deeper part of you that loves to let loose and play. Then all the rest just falls into place magically, as you seek first to be in good spirit!

Join us in nourishing! Class listing found on The Lotus Project's google calendar at www.harmonyhillgardens.com

Bring Your Problems With You!

2011-10-10T10:34:00.000-04:00

Yes you are invited to bring your problems to the farm on Tuesday night at 5:30 for an empowering workshop on moving through them! Paula Gregorowicz, will share her intuitive intelligence and a process so we may move through some obstacles in our life. Life consists of many issues, problems or challenges that often call us to find a new way, move through something we are not sure how or find a new process that will expand us and thus turn the problem into an opportunity for growth. Perfect Tuesday in fall to clear something that seems to be holding you back. New ways, new perspectives, expanded thinking.

Are you encountering a challenge in your personal or professional life in which you just feel stuck, frustrated, and unable to figure out the best next step? If so, this experiential workshop is for you.

During this early autumn evening you will learn how to tap into your own intuition so you can hear the whispers of wisdom, trust in them, and turn them into practical action. We will be using the power of nature, movement, and space to guide you to a new way of problem solving and making powerful choices. You will walk away with a tangible next step you can implement right away to break through the challenge you bring to the workshop.

A few spaces are left, Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 at Harmony Hill Gardens.
Email, lyn@harmonyhillgardens.com! Look forward to seeing you!

Fuel Yourself with Natures Abounding Energy

2011-10-07T11:34:00.010-04:00

Harvest season in the fall is always so brimming with life and color. If I have learned anything, it is that nature offers us energy, true fuel to help us move about on the earth. Everything is an energy exchange and nature offers us a flowing vibe at any moment to refuel! I hope you catch what I am saying! Nature offers energy! So if you are unfueled, tired, depressed, low vibe, go outside!!!

In my study of energy, the great mind of Einstien, it has become apparent that we are thinking we only thrive on what energy we have ourselves and that is an incorrect view of what is happening! We are in a moving situation of energy exchange. We give, recieve and exchange energy with everything and everyone. The whole concept of grounding is based on tapping back into the flow of your environment and reclaim stability and energy. You are not alone, other people and things can help you in generating energy and thus action. Nature is like the battery charger. Clean, fresh air, new vitality, presence and awareness all charge you in the form we call of high impressions, the highest form of nourishment.

My message is to consciously notice your feelings and experience of engaging n nature this fall since so much harvest is about. Realize you are refueling, how it relaxes you and shifts your state. This is a tool for you to use everyday at anytime. If you want to understand more about this, come to the Wednesday night Aharaj Yoga class. The study of self empowerment begins with noticing your energy and then managing it correctly for what you need. Powerful stuff, just knowing you can draw on nature is a huge tip! Happy Fall Harvest!

Fall Farm Frolic for Kindergardeners and Preschoolers

2011-10-04T10:00:00.001-04:00

Fall Farm Frolic

Announcing a fun fall class for your children that are not in all day school. As a breather for you as a parent or an time to share with your child outdoors, I am hosting 2 1/12 hour Farm Frolics in October and November. Kids voices, their patter, their curiosity all belong about Harmony Hill Gardens. In an effort to share nature and engage with children in this lovely season, I am eager to post these classes.

Each adventure includes simple exercise, nature craft, hike, games and a healthy snack. $30.00 per frolic. Preregistration is necessary at
215-997-5005 or email lyn@harmonyhillgardens.com.

Pass this along to those who have children or may be interested in some outdoors adventure. Dates below:

Tuesday Afternoons: 12:00-2:30pm
Dates: Oct. 4th, 18th, 25th, Nov. 1st, 8th.
Thurday Mornings: 9:30am-12:00pm
Dates: Oct. 6th, 20th, 27th, Nov 3rd, 10th.

For details on Lyn Hicks and Harmony Hill Gardens check out http://www.harmonyhillgardens.com/. Questions welcome!

11/11/11

2011-09-29T11:07:00.000-04:00

Mystic and mystery seems to be elevating! There seems to be a rise in spirit based thinking, consciousness and shifting. I have heard that this date of ones is about a gateway and gathering. In numerology the ones stand for leadership and intuition, a rise in knowing. There is also speak of this being a feminine movement, allowing woman to connect and collaborate consciously for the world to be inspiring, cooperative, working together strengthening their community and culture. We see this very clearly about.

As I heard of this date, a knowing that it is a great eve for us to gather, many and in joy. I invite all woman, their friends, their sisters and daughters, to come to Harmony Hill Gardens, we will have a fire, some music and nature about. We will connect under the stars and lovely evening landscape. We will come together in an effort to join together us all as we move forward anchoring our community in this transitional time of all levels. We will giggle, smile, and connect as uniting forces to help ourselves and our homes, our hearts and our spirits raise in joy. Whatever that means, however that happens, open to raise the vibe by gathering on 11/11/11. 7pm. Hope you will join us! Blissfully!

The Lotus Project hosts Renowed Author and Teacher, Mark Schoofs

2011-09-18T18:10:00.000-04:00

I am so honored to host an incredible Author, Teacher and Healer here at Harmony Hill Gardens on Sunday September 25th from 12:30-5:30! Here in the hidden nook of Hilltown, a renowned author found me and my farm. It is the magic way of the world when you put ideas out there. Through a fellow student whom had been to a seminar here, Mark Schoofs heard of this healing spot and gave me a call. After meeting and recieving a copy of his book "Soul Freedom, Sacred Aliveness", we chose to host a learning about the flowers.

I have read many books, deep esoteric ones, sacred religious ones and most of the great literature and thinkers that we have access to. So I was surprised to find Mark's book so shifting, simple and transformative in perspective. I even passed it on to a few friends whom learned something large from reading it. My dear friend whom is not one to study the things I do found it to be very enlightening in how she approached her world. He has a gentle way, an simple way to put things and easily have you connect to a deeper part of yourself.

He will be having a 5 hour workshop on Sunday called Practical Soul Fitness. The key word being practical! It is not some esoteric deep study of principles or laborous thinking or contemplating. A teaching on managing your spiritual resources in a changing world. This healing workshop will guide you in awakening the soul, the sacred, true Self within you, & learning to manage your soul adventure, your human incarnation experience, from the heightened perspective of soul purpose, wisdom, peace and love.

I am excited and intrigued to spend an afternoon with him! Details below:

He is a National Workshop Leader

Author of Soul Freedom, Sacred Aliveness:
An Extraordinary Guide to Coming Unconditionally Alive.
Mark Schoofs workshops are known for taking each participant into their authentic next steps of personal awakening.
Suggested offering for the event $75-150.00
His site: www.LightandLove.com * (800) 223-0393
—Personal Healings & Readings available by appointment—

You will leave this workshop feeling spiritually invigorated!

Come and join us as we open ourselves to new ways to share our light!
RSVP: lyn@harmonyhillgardens.com, 215-997-5005 or connect with me through the various other networks we connect on!

Simple Ways to Detoxify Your Body

2011-09-16T13:55:00.000-04:00

Great news to find that we can do things in our regular lives that will help detoxify our system from physical, emotional and mental debris! It is always the little things that can be added in that can truly make a difference and bring about change. Baby steps they call them. All my study and the creation of the Lotus Project comes from me learning practical, simple tools to shift my life.

Most important is breathing. We shallow breathe constantly in emergency, under stress and hurry. Sounds silly but it is the way our bodies release 80% of their toxins. 80%!!!!!! Look in science, look to Eastern traditions, look to a physical trainer, whatever system validates it for you, they all say the same thing! Deep breathing fills our system with oxygen and allows the cells the nourishment to let go of toxins. It also helps everything, digestion, heart rate, relaxation. In yoga they use many techniques, one is call bellows breath. It will actually give you energy if you are sleepy at your desk. The reason they want us to exercise for health and move is to blast more oxygen into our systems which helps it thrive. That simple! Breathe deeper or you could head to New York and go to an oxygen bar! Allow a breath, deeply exhale rhythmicallly a few times and you are clearing your system. Very important, very simple, no time at all!

In Ayervedic medicine, in saunas, in steam baths in spas another technique is used. Sweating in hot environments draws toxins out of your organs and puts them into the blood so they can released. Deepok, Andrew Weil, so many doctors claim the wonder of this detox. Sweating is your cleansing system, it is why you work out to a sweat so toxins release through the skin. After you sweat you go into very cold water in many sciences. That is to recirculate the fabulous clean blood back to your organs in refreshment. It does wonders for your skin, and so much internally that you can't even imagine. A great way to do this at home is when you are in the shower all cozy and hot, switch the water to ice cold and stand there for a few seconds. Once you have done it for as long as you can take it, switch back to hot. Do it a few times if you really want to be effective. Even just once will help your system and give you a surge of happy, new energy. The chill wakes you up but does so much more for your body!! Easy, effective, and can be done daily!

I have learned so much of healthful, living in practical effective ways! Rarely does anyone make leaping changes. The Lotus Project classes offer lots of simple wisdom just like that to help live a more vibrant life! So there you have two great ways to health, the question is will you try them??????
Blissfully,
Lyn

Being Yourself!

2011-09-14T12:53:00.000-04:00

Seems like such a crazy thing to say, Be Yourself. Who else would you be? Yet how many of us have not fully embraced themselves and are still trying to be what we are supposed to? We hear the words, we act like we understand but I want you to investigate it further than your mind and the words. I posted the unusual saracinia flower tubes because they are quite themselves in an interesting way. No worries what others may think, carnivores to boot, lovely and interesting if you ask me!

I speak to you about this from my own experience. Yes, parts of me are my authentic self but as I grow and become wiser I see roles I have played and how they have gone against the real Lyn. For example, when my daughter was small we would have an family, friend Earth Day party. One of Erikas good friends was not allowed to come because that holiday was not celebrated. I was hurt and asked the parent, what do you mean, they celebrate it in school, I am an organic grower. It was never truly explained to me but there was an element that maybe I was some sort of witch or pagan. That shifted me for the rest of the years of raising her. Not wanting to appear abnormal. Not fully sharing my beliefs about nature and its affect and power it offers us constantly.

There are many examples of this, where we adjust ourselves for the situation, to blend in. This is a great art when done coming from the place that you embrace yourself and are adapting to another. Often it is not done in that way and we take it as a judgement against ourselves and act from that place rather than an honoring. We quiet our beliefs in a way that puts judgement and non acceptance within us rather using it as a true art of knowing how to connect with others on their level while still embracing ourselves as magnificent and different, unaffected by anothers remarks or commentary.

I have always been one who delves into deeper study, philosophy, spirituality, psychology. I have done that quietly, almost in hiding for many years. I have shared it here and there and often have met with commentary how I am too deep, do I really believe that, Oh Lyn you are out there. As I have studied openly this past year, I have found that it is perfectly fine to be that way. Others who are like me are just coming out of nowhere. To think I was trying to fit in to a set community at the dishonor of being myself. Not that you need to shout out your individuality loudly, but you must put it forth in a magnetising way so you may find others that support that part of you. It is so rewarding to find like minded people in all we do. I am asking you to expose the deeper self out there as well. It is so very rewarding and to think I waited so long to nurture that part of myself.

We are all individual and it is the diversity that weaves the beauty of the whole. Nourishing yourself at the deep level of yourself is very transforming. We spend way to much time trying to fit into the groups we are in instead of shining ourselves. Maybe some people do care and chit chat about you yet really far less than we think. Everyone is so worried about being exposed themselves and in their own worries to be focused on you. You will find joy and happiness quickly when you allow yourself to be you own individual. Maybe the masses will make fun of you but you will find those with your same thinking as well. The growth and joy from connecting with them will far outweigh the judgement of those others. We all value different things so expose yourself so you may find others that are in line with you. We are all so different and not everyone will like you no matter what. We have definite people we like so allow others the same freedom and rather than take it as a judgement against you, take it as a sign to keep finding your type amongst the crowd.

I offer many classes at the farm to assist in this self empowerment, self honoring process that are much more powerful than what I have found in the community. Maybe it is for you, maybe not. We never know until we try. At least you can come visit this beautiful spot, that alone offers healing!
Love and Light to all in this transitional time!

Transformation All About!

2011-09-06T11:19:00.000-04:00

Everywhere you turn, everyone you talk to, and with the ecomony or astrologically, there is great transformation about! It is the time and the aspects all about us are in support of becoming something greater than what has been! Whether it is personally or within your business life, change is here and we must embrace and use it to our unfolding!

I am writing to cheer you on toward your transformation in whatever way you find yourself. If you have doubt, fear or anxiety, I want to give you great encouragement that now is the time! All things are in great need of improvement and it begins with us and within ourselves. We get caught up in reacting and moving in directions because of the external situations. The season of fall is about and with it comes the shift of the cycle of life so I am calling you all to shift within as well. Becoming more aligned with what you are here to do, how you are to affect others and what you are offering to the world at large needs to be seen.

I, too. am in this cycle and using it to propel me towards offering my gifts more than ever. We are in many places and roles because of choices relating to the outside situations. This is no longer a way to move and operate, we must grow in authenticity towards what our essence, our inner being wants to share. If it is uncomfortable or different than what you have been, I offer you support that it is perfect to shift and switch despite what others may think or expect of you. There is only one of you and what you have to offer is important at this time of great transition. If you have a deeper calling, a individual inspiration that may be of the beaten path, please follow it through and bring it forward. The world is demanding a great shedding of outworn allowing space for new and different ways. Allow no one and no thinking that doesn't support you forward in this heartfelt change. It is necessary and it will give you great pleasure and success if you follow that impulse. It is time and I offer support and belief in your transformation!

I have found great joy in reaching beyond what I have been and have created. I have found great support and energy to offer my greater ideas to the world. I have found others in this very transition and offer you to be part of the great energy of change that is around you. We are here to develop ourselves beyond the familiar, beyond what is accepted as normal, beyond what we have been so far. It is a continual growing and becoming the whole while we are alive. Certain times and cycles come about on grand scale and effect everything towards a new way and we are in one right now! I want to encourage you to move with it, to use the energy that is powerful and awaiting you to grab on. So if you are at a crossroads or admist a shift, ground in and keep going. The world is supporting you and allowing you to go for it! Jump on the wave and become even greater and wiser than ever. It is time!

A Green Wedding

2011-08-30T22:41:00.000-04:00

Any wedding I participate in is on its way to being green! Using organic flowers and a local farm is an easy way to keep the local green principle. I am excited by the brides that care about the environment and the local culture enough to include them in their gala! I have worked with such creative girls bringing organic flowers to brides, always inspired by the artistry in the way they pull the green theme throughout their wedding.

Currently, I am preparing for Monica's wedding at Bartram Gardens. She lives in California and found me on the web looking for a local grower. She spent the last few months collecting a rustic medicine bottles, old kitchen tins, blue and green glass vases, pitchers, syrup bottles, to name some of the mix she found on Etsy. Mixed in groupings dabbling about 16foot. long home style tables will be her rustic creativity filled with flowers! Exciting when you get to work with containers that are all different and blended. We also created a Chuppah out of cedar tree poles to adorn with flowers that will look amazing among the gardens. I am very excited to see her unique blend of containers with my flowers decorating her big day!

Each bride has taken the green ideas of saving, recycling,and reusing to their individual unique presentation that represents how they live more consciously about the planet. It is truly a great future trend that the Royal Wedding highlighted. Elegance, sophistication and green thinking go together perfectly. I will post photos so you can see this lovely event!

A Growing Feminine Culture

2011-08-15T11:00:00.006-04:00

Devas, Goddesses, Contessa's, Cleopatra's, Wise Woman, Womans Leadership, Braveheart Woman! These are the names of the latest movements in our world today. Lovely words, finally words that celebrate a deeper feminine culture and I couldn't be more intrigued to learn this way with all woman.

The last few years I have truly seen it fuel all around me into all kinds of collaboration of woman sharing, helping each other, pullling sources, connecting together. It seems to be evolving from business mentoring and girlfriend gathering to even more essential information of building ourselves, creating a culture that allows woman to develop their uniqueness, strongly support by the spirit of other woman.

I too love it all! I have always been called to gather woman, intermingle friends, introducing new allies in creating. Through my study in the School of Integral Self Development I have connected with traditions of feminine essence at its core, building a culture that allows us to tap into and generate our own energy with support.

I want to find all groups and put out there a call to join together on nutrition, relationships, managing challenges, developing ourselves! Knowing self care first comes first and finally hearing and acting on that. It is the only way for us to begin to awaken our feminine energy. To rejuvenate a more creative way to approach all the current conditions in an effort to truly, richly support each other on a deep level and we must take the time to work on ourselves first. We are in this all together as the base of our families, communities and many other millions of networks, support and cooperation we provide in unison.

The Lotus Project supports this feminine culture and is putting forth some collaboration and learning. All classes involve active learning, practices or some sort of experience, not just lectures. Come join me for Feminine Qualities of Leadership on August 30th at 7pm. We also have two special classes in the upcoming weeks. Erika Henson teaching Sacred Relationships Tantra Principles, great for all wanting to learn more on harmonious relationships, Sept. 10th. Diane Wing, MA speaks on Toxicity in the Workplace, managing challenging people and situations, Sept. 15th. Valerie Hopkins facilitates a Womans Drum Circle and I share the Art of Movement in an evening around the bondfire , Sept. 17th.
http://www.harmonyhillgardens.com/lotusproject.php has a calendar and further details. Please join us in branching out and connecting all our feminine movements into a Local culture for us all. I am all in!

Photograph by Terree Yeagle, themomentphoto.com

Protection and Clearing for All, Especially Healers!

2011-08-12T13:00:00.001-04:00

I had to write this after my Feminine Circle tonight because an energetic healer brought to my attention the importance of this. If you are in healing of any field and are concerned about protecting your energetic field, not sure if you are protecting yourself from others energy, most especially your clients, I have a fabulous solution for you!

I have Aharaj Yoga classes here on Wednesday night at the farm. I as an empath am very effected by others emotions. I love this yoga because it helps me in discriminating my emotions from others as well as be able to help others without taking in their energy. This is so important because when you take in anothers energy it can effect you in a miriad of ways. Most importantly, it is more challenging to clear. Unfortunately, we will consider it our emotions, our lower vibe and try to mentally fix ourselves when infact it is not ours. Being protected and discerning this is very important for our own health. Aharaj teaches you about protecting your energy field and clearing it. It is very strong protection for you so you may share your gifts properly and let go.

I don't consider myself a healer so I never thought of the value of this practice to healers. However, after speaking to one this evening, she expressed to me that it is a big problem in the art of healing. So I had to put out there the opportunity for you to check it out. My next class is the last Wednesday in August at 7pm here. However, my teacher will be teaching a Saturday class on August 20th at 11:00 at Harmony Hill Gardens while I am away. I wanted to put it out there for those who feel in need of support in understanding this.

Aharaj Yoga is the yoga of self empowerment. It is about strengthening and protecting your energy field. It is the basis of all martial arts, considered spiritual Akidoo. It is more of a Marial Arts, learning katas instead of asanas. As you open your chakras through yoga or other practices, you become very receptive to others energies. In doing this it is so important that you understand how to protect yourself from others negative energies or lower vibrations so you may remain healthy and directed. You will quickly learn ways to do that and be easily able to use this to make certain you are managing your own energies and not others. You may want to check out a class, they are only $15 and see if this is for you. It will be invaluable to yourself as well as those you heal!

Namaste!

Personal Transition

2011-08-08T16:23:00.000-04:00

It seems many are in a personal transition or a reinvention of themselves these days. The ecomony down for 3 years, business being done a new way, all the old ways seem to be pushing us forward to expand in new ways and try new things. For me, this past year has been quite a transition. My child left last fall for college and a huge opening towards life came about. Never to parent the same way again was opening and a bit ungrounding as well.

I must say it has been quite a year. I have tried to keep my mind open for what it is to do next. My marriage shifted which turned out quite well but took some time to create a new way to be partners without the connecting link of a child.

I started having classes here at the farm which kind of came out of nowhere really. I began a study with a Russian school after the Vibrant Living Festival, the School Of Integral Empowerment, and turned out having three of the teachers stay here and hold seminars in the winter. It turned into having classes here to help others find new ways to shift and transform in this new world about us. It has been great fun and interesting connecting diverse beliefs. I have opened tremendously to new thinking and old traditons. Nothing exactly planned yet a wonderful way to share the land. I always wanted to do that but this just thrust it forward.

The flowers are always grounding to me. The organic market doesn't seem to grow as quick as I thought. I have some weddings and wonderful weekly customers, celebrations here and there but not quite enough to sustain me. I have been doing that for many years and wonder how I can know so many people, share so many flowers through the Chamber and networking yet get such a small market share. My guess is that I am to do something more, something larger or it would be booming by now.

I am in one of those moments where you feel between the two trapeze. I have shifted from one place to the next. I am seeking my new place and have not gotten there yet. My ideas are out and growing yet it seems as though I am still not filled with tasks to do completely. I am in that space of newness and not yet sure what it is and if I am there. We always want to change and become so quickly and I am one who lacks patience. It has been a year? Why have I not figured it all out yet? Why do I still feel in transition? Well a year is a short time compared to 19years of one main goal. I have many years ahead and 12 months isn't going to solve what I am I to do with the rest of my life now that I am an empty nester. I think in our ambitious society with quick answers and google, we are hard on ourselves and wanting to find things so quickly. It doesn't unfold that way and it is okay to be in limbo sometimes. It is important to watch and stay calm even when everything shouts something else.

I had to write this so others in transition and transformation would not feel alone or bad because they didn't figure it out yet. I too run into struggles with the deep questions as all do and I too feel pressure to know! Yet with all my study and life experience I do know that large shifts in life are not quick and smooth. They are drawn out and they require important decisions and clearings to see truly where the path leads. I do know that being authentic means embracing the changes and notice the field about to find what I should be doing. It also means it takes some time to get comfortable with yourself in new ways that may be different from what you have been and with those you have been. These ways and patterns that need to change at this time run deep and have been about along time. It takes great patience to allow yourself to flower and to let it happen rather than try to make it. I do know that I am a teacher and studier of the ways to be our best. In my own self development I can learn to help others with theirs. I enjoy the conscious look at the things we are doing that make no sense and have courage to change myself even if it is hard. I investigate ways to be more present and alive and the systems and world is shifting in all this. So feel a comrade on the road if you are also in a reinvention of your business or yourself. It is always a new day and new ways can be found. Know there are many in your shoes and we all feel abit ungrounded between the trapeze. It is also exciting, quite intense, even scary to revamp on grand scale. But then I am an adventurer and was never one to want to do the same thing over and over again. So to grow is to be a bit lost. To expand is to be uncomfortable. I feel it and it is not always so lovely. However there will be greatness at the end of this mid air fly. As my Babci would say when you told her strife, what are you gonna do? It just is. So I embrace the scary as well!!

Get The Giggles

2011-08-04T22:27:00.000-04:00

The weekend is upon us! Find yourself some joy to spread around! Get the giggles! I am heading to the beach with my neices, sister and her family, mom and I know I will laugh! I must! That whats free time or leisure is. It is sucking up some nature, some family or friends, great food, new adventures and some laughter.

I scurry to get it together, life full of issues, problems, work and ideas, stepping away when it seems not the perfect time, yet knowing that nourishment comes from nature, love and laughter. So off I go to contemplate the ebb and flow, remembering whatever way the tide, it always turns! Life is full of them and as you get older it seems like more riptides! A true adventure or tradegy, depends on the day so I won't pack any seriousness!

I seek the giggles of the ocean, of children, of comraderie! Riding the relaxation station tube in the ocean, flying bodies as the wave throws us about, teenage bikinis, giggles, laughter galore as we try to ride the waves of life! ENJOY YOURSELF THIS WEEKEND! Our laughter can raise the vibe!

Individual Expression

2011-08-02T17:21:00.001-04:00

I must express my excitement for unique individuals! I love characters, people with quirks, oddities and artistic expression. I think it comes down to individuals whom embrace themselves and you can feel it the moment you meet them. If I were to use my judgement I was raised with, maybe I would not know many of the coolest people I have met because of the constraints of how we are taught to view folks on first glance. Growing up in Doylestown, a very WASP area with not much cultural diversity may have created the intrigue to notice others from different cultures, backgrounds and traditions.

I hosted the second annual Vibrant Living Festival on Sunday and couldn't have been in more glee with the diversity of people here. It ranged from corporate to college professors to many from other countries and cultures to dreadlocks! I was so in joy! All types together on one piece of land learning together about living more vibrantly! The characters were diverse and sooo interesting. All with common purpose, all one humanity! It was peaceful, joyful, friendly, open minded, and enlightening! I felt so proud to gather such a mix here in a community that I love but doesn't have the diversity in people. We had so many tradition represented, kids of many countries, different languages being spoken, different dress and sparkle going. It was the most accepting community of people have been in a longtime. You usually have to hit the city to find this.

My call is to open yourself up to being your own unique expression that you were created to be. To let go of the judgement and education you have inherited about things and seek to understand other cultures, peoples and ideas. It is the Aquarian Age of collaboration and that includes all humanity. We may go to different stores, eat different food, study different philosophies and live in different ways yet we all are seeking the same things of security, growth and love. The diversity of it all as you investigate it, is really only on the outside. The traditions may be done differently, the names of things called something else but the kernel of it is the same. Love is always at the core in all traditions and all humans desire more of it. We here came from so many other lands and traditions. It is what has created the USA. So delve into your traditions, cultures and let it show your heritage, your uniqueness and your individuality.

We are sold these looks, these ideas on the media that are just so plain boring. If we all look the same, think the same, act the same, there is no room to grow, learn and expand. You need different folks so you can become more wise and have more knowledge. Create your own look, way, thinking so that together we have differences to learn about more. I love people different from me so I can expand. If we have the same everything there is no exchange worth having. It is a wonderful fabric we have in the world so weave your own square and intrigue others to notice it!

Vibrant Living!

2011-07-23T10:53:00.001-04:00

I am very enthused to share all the different ideas and philosophies on Vibrant Living with the community on Sunday July 31st! Growing comes from learning and finding small ways to tweek our daily lives and find more energy, fulfillment and fun in life. It seems that stepping outside our current paradigms is part of us learning to live more vibrantly. More creative, out of the box thinking fuels our creativity and enhances our lives. There are so many levels to add shifts that can exponentially enhance each day! I am glad to offer many ways to do which helps develop a brighter community. Never do all things work for all people! We are individuals looking to bring out our best. We all have success in some areas and need work in different areas from each other. That is where collaboration and sharing comes in. What has helped me can help someone else who is struggling in an area and visaversa. This is the wonder of life, each of us has ideas and gifts to help each other become more brilliant! I am happy to host such and event.

We have great speakers in the form of presentations and workshops throughout the day. Each targets an area in life, a chakra center which helps us in balancing the whole. From nutrition and physical well being, to relationships and connecting with others, the power in effective action, compassion and understanding for others, individual expression and creativity, focus and discipline, and lastly being connected to the overall greatness of the world we are part of. This is the integral self empowerment we will be sharing about in order to help you create a grander version of yourself.

Music occurs through out the day opening with opera, an array of singer song writer melodies, healing music of other traditions and ending with a drum circle of Native American tones that is memorizing. Flutists, didgeridoos, drums, a huge fire, a tremendous sound experience like no other. They say sound vibrations move your state quicker than any mind thinking strategy. These artists will let you experience what that really means. We have a world renowned sound healer, Raphael flying in just to share with us his gifts with an array of instruments that should be quite a wonder.

There is only healthful food available through the day. Lite raw fare that will amaze you how much nourishment is in raw food and how to prepare it beyond the salad. Nutrition is the one thing that we miss often that can change your states, create health quicker than any other method. It is all about how we fuel our body, whether depression, illness, or just finding more energy. We often miss the incredible science of food as one of the greatest ways to look and feel more vital! Foundational information that you can add to your daily regimen. Megan ODonnel, Matt Warner and Arnold of Arnolds Way will share their wisdom with us!

Vendors offering services and products that bring consciousness into our purchase habits. Green thinking is not just about the product, it is also about the experience you have when you purchase for your own health that also helps all life. It effects you in many other subtle ways, like when you buy something for a charity, it offers a vibration of pleasure because you are doing service. There will be a mix of complementary ways to deal with health issues using alternative medicines. Lauren Nappen whom I go to for nutrition, adjustment and other forms of healing will be giving a lecture as well as have her magic tools available. Seeing health, happiness and vitality on many levels emotionally, physically and mentally is truly part of vibrant living. To open your mind to many other ways of life than the standard western way enhances so much! Eastern gifts of meditation,yoga, Reiki, massage offer so much toward developing ourselves and our joy. There was an article on just that in the newspaper today and this week at the University of Pennsylvania they are sharing findings on the Brain and Positive Psychology dealing with how we can change and grow our capacity continually through our brain states. It is all connected and time to institute new ways.

Being here on the farm offers it's own gift toward healing. A special place that has had many joyful gatherings and great teachers have passed through. They say all things leave a vibration or an imprint on a place. I have worked to create a positive space here among nature. Working with the land, allowing it to lead me on how to tend and work it. I have many classes, great thinkers and teachers here to remind us of ways to shift and be more creative in this fast paced world. The Lotus Project is about becoming. Becoming our best, most high individual expression, different from others and open to share our gifts! These are the things you will find here on vibrant living and no matter what your system, what your belief, you will find things to enhance your life easily and effectively. It is not a book or a quote or a thinking. It is an experience, a gaining of knowledge and doing that will create a vibrant life. It is connecting and learning with others that adds to life. So join our day and see how good it feels to expand!

Here's the link to be part of it! http://vibrantlivingfestival.com/

The Joy of Aging!

2011-07-19T15:18:00.000-04:00

On this lovely morning, I am called to review the joy of time and living quite a while. Our culture scares you to age, being 30 sounds so old when you are young. Yet from thirty onward, where the age seems to be a burden I have found my best years most especially in awareness of what is really going on. Each year seems to get better on my inside and its growth feels so good that the outside things that don't work or are going down hill as they say don't mean as much as I thought they did. I guess that is the joy and process of aging that is so lovely! The beauty of the flowering!

As we all have time and study in whatever system calls you, the systems we are learning in all offer us the opportunity to see how we must align our energies. How we look at the system, the chakras, the 12 steps, the ascendants of religious ways, the psychological self actualization, whatever it is that you use doesn't really matter, it is individual. It is the look at how the different parts of yourself are scattered a bit and need to meet each other and become blended that matters. Time allows you to witness this and it is so very rewarding! To get more things in the right direction and less things out of alignment. The areas of development that you must work on become clearer and although it is effortful to blend them, it is effortful not too and you realize effort is growing. As we age we accept the effort as part of this experience and put the effort into the right direction. It is not so bad to get older in body with this concentrated force available to us.

So yes I am wrinkled more than I was, I have signs of careless use of my vehicle, I am not so outwardly pleasing I guess in my forties as I was in my 20s. I am more accepting of myself and feel more beautiful inside. I feel the brightness refining as I age and when I look in my eyes, even though I have wrinkles about them and an aged face, I see a brightness that was not as clear when I had outer beauty and youth. This inward love and acceptance of myself in all my individuality is very pleasing. It is nice to know with effort I can change anything and that the aging process is natural and actually is more of the tension I have held all my life in not accepting myself than an environmental process. Maybe as the belief settles in that wisdom is quite beautiful as well and releasing the belief that I am getting old, I will find myself more relaxed and the wrinkles and issues in my outer body will leave me. Then I would have the best of both worlds. Imagine that, to be beautiful and wise, glowing with inner beauty so much that my outer beauty just refines. Hmmm. I like that and will enjoy moving through time joyous about my aging and all the things that come with it!

Pleasure!

2011-07-15T21:52:00.000-04:00

Pleasure is such a lovely word, such a lovely feeling! So many of us have lost touch with pleasure! That delicious feeling, sensuous, tingly, the warm fuzzies oozing from your body. Not mind pleasure of Oh it is a pleasure to meet you kind. I mean real, relaxing, joyful pleasure.

Pleasure, play, joyfulness, creativity, fun, flowing feelings are feminine. They come from our feminine energy, our nature side. The masculine is more power, do it, force ahead energy. It seems we have lost touch with this feminine energy, this playful, life is fun, giggly attitude. It is truly apparent, there is alot more serious get it done attitudes and it is unbalancing things. That is why there is a huge woman's movement going on, on all levels. It is considered a time of great balancing, a time to harmonize all these energies!

Woman having been in the business world which is a male model, have had to use their masculine side to operate in the system. So now we have alittle too much yang and we wonder what is going on. Their is a great imbalance between creativity and production. Fortunately, woman are realizing that this system is not working for their bodies or their minds. One is not better or greater than the other. We are all to be a blend of these energies. Yet woman's bodies, their biochemistry can not function properly with too much mechanical activities! They are not best in competitive environments, they thrive in nourishing, inspiring, heart felt environments. Cooperative, collaborative, creative is the way of nature and the feminine energy.

Feminine energy is pleasure, it is deliciousness of life. The fun and flowing, conflict solving, heart awakening vibe. We all need to create more of this in our lives! Men and woman! Relaxed, smooth, sensual, appreciating moments. That will help balance the world. Enjoying the moments, going with the flow, inspiration in action as Ellie Drake calls it. It is a more joyful way of moving than mechanical, organizing, list doing stuff. We are not having enough fun! We are too serious, too driven and not appreciating the gifts about. The simple pleasures in life! We have heard it enough and now we must partake of it. All the task doing is driving us into lower states. We need to be smiling, taking it all in, moving in a more joyous, inspired state. Our world needs more of this. Being in the moment, flowing to the next, seeking the beauty, the exquisiteness all around us in our lives. This is what nature is, this is what the movements about are really showing us. To experience what is going on as we create, in a alert, observing, chipper way. We take it all too seriously.

So try to feel more pleasure. True pleasure that makes your heart sing. Find moments in each day that you consciously put aside time to get that mmmmm feeling. It calms you down, it allows you to relax and enjoy life. There is so much opportunity to be in joy in the summer. Lots of gatherings, lots of connection, lots of nourishing and playing around. Get into it! Really savor the moments and extend them. Remember how that feels to enjoy vibrationally. Not just the words or the thinking. The feeling of joy as you move about in whatever you must do. It will help us all! The world will be raised with more of this energy, this awareness of pleasure in creating, in working and in living.

Scientifically it balances your body from the adrenaline and cortisol, turning on your parasympathetic nervous system. Emotionally it relaxes you and allow your mind to perceive the greatness all around you already and will inspire you towards more of it. Mentally it awakens a sharper mind that is more open and willing to grow and expand,. Spiritually it allows you to connect with more of your true nature that is not rigid and mechanical. Inspired, In Spirit. It is flowing like the butterflies and buzzing like the bees. So jump in and have a good time! Raise your state to joyously inspired through the pleasure of it all! In doing this, we will remember joy. In remembering that life is to be joy, we will unfold a more pleasurable life. The essential energy is inspired action with pleasure. If you can not do that in work, find it is play. Then maybe, once we all feel that more relaxed creative way, we can turn our lives and the whole planet into a more joyful place!

Summer Glow

2011-07-11T13:55:00.000-04:00

Here we are intrenched in the summer whirlwind of sun and fun! Gathering, eating, playing, even overindulging. I had to write about an experience that happened last week and it gave me a new perspective on summer glow! I was so crazy and enjoying family and here and there, up late, many gatherings while they were in town. I had good fun but was slowing losing vibe and energy.

I believe that we have more energy than we use. We are energy, e=mc2. It is that simple so it is a matter of managing it in a way that works. We are constantly in changing times and situations, whether good or bad, are moving so we have to find a fluid way to deal with this truth. I realized that the standard things that would raise myself in the morning, were absent. I didn't do the nourishing things that set me up for great joy in my day. All was there for it to be there, but there is a self fueling that we must not cut out! All is less rewarding if you do not fuel your light yourself each day.

So as I continue with the huge schedule and have so much fun planned seems like more days than not, I will remember to start my days with my practices, dancing and utilizing the aharata katas as I would in daily life. I am reminding you to do the same in the holiday season of heat. Ground and keep the keys that allow you to remember to be joyful, enthused and really be present and available to enjoy it.

Keep that summer glow by fueling yourself first my friends!!

The Joy of Shifting Times!

2011-06-26T09:23:00.000-04:00

The Russian school I study imparts Astrological thinking of shifting times. They call this an explosive, unstable year! Great words to describe what is going on all about! I have seen great joy in this time with the transitions about me! They say it will be a time when people begin to live more of their purpose and get richer rewards from life living on the deeper level! I have witnessed this with my crowd and it is delightful!

Beth, one of the dearest friends in the world to me. High school friend and college roomate, I have lived with her deeply entrenched in my life most of my life. Her family will be moving to New Hampshire in a couple of weeks realizing a long dream of living and adventuring in the New England life style. It came quite quickly and quite beautifully to them. Ann, another high school friend moved to PA after living on a farm growing in Mass. She quickly as well has made a move to live on land again and reconnect to growing her medicinals at a new home. My brother in law has just purchased a fishing luxury boat, a dream he has had for a long time. The perfect addition to their summer beach house! The spirit crowd I hang with, I have seen so much development of these individuals and leaps and bounds of teachings and access to old wisdom get propagated quickly around the world in just the 6 months I have been involved! Just great manifestations of ideas going on all around me!

I too, had a great transition with my Erika heading to college last fall. Since then I have manifested The Lotus Project, a celebration of art, music and empowerment learning all amidst nature. Classes here, new people, great thinkings, raising the vibe of the world. I also have found the local green community which I have been trying to get together for years. It seems as though, one is thinking of something and it happens more quickly in these times. It is full of hope and joy to see all about me find a richer and deeper connection to themselves and the life values and styles that fit their individual spark! Woman are gathering with deeper purposes in mind than drinks and jewelry. Blessings and fine intentions being set at gatherings with consciousness in mind that never seemed as much a part of our activities. There seems to be great good works happening while there is crisis occurring about. The explosive unstable year also has brightness and realization with in it! It truly is an incredible time!

I hope that what is all about you, you too find the speed of blessings! Despite the challenges that seem to be getting thicker, at the same time there is a rich deep awakening to your self as I seem to be watching with those I love! Great shifting is about! Nature is showing it, situations are manifesting and people are changing there way of being to fit with the times! It is magical and joyous to be part of such a great time! The blessing is here! Be aware and enjoy!

Crisis Averted

2011-06-24T08:30:00.000-04:00

I had to share a new understanding that has come upon me. In expanding your thinking you have to test or watch, observe how the new thinking applies. I had a crisis that may have turned my world into a completely new direction and twisted up all my plans forward. As you know I am one to study philosophy and attempt to bring new thinking about so here is an expanded view for me, as always an old wisdom that you finally catch the deeper meaning.

When in crisis, it is very important to catch yourself or find a way to get into the witness, observation role. I know this is easier said then done. I also know that it is why we practice, practice yoga, deep breathing, any mind calming practice, so that in the event of a crisis, our practice and training gets into the scene and helps support us.It does get easier with practice! So in the latest situation I was in, panic ensued, fear, world crumbling emotions which means energy, heavy, weighted, thick and scary. And the situation was that I was ill prepared on my part which makes it even worse cause you want to start those tapes that tell you how stupid you are, how you should of done it right, how you acted wrong and guilt is a heavy emotion.

I was sitting in this crazy heavy energy, emotion, and feeling it, like wow, this is bad. Instead of crying and in panic, the observe role reigned! Yeah, one for practice! I thought here is a lesson and a big one at that. Rather than panic and get all stirred up, look at the situation and dynamic and see how to act best. Now when things are crumbling, we do not know how to act best because it is a new situation and we are growing so we don't know what to do next. Then came the Aha moment. When in this, witness role attained, it is then that we go within to whatever great power, essence, heart, we believe exists in us and connect. Connect in the stillness, calmness, brilliant sweet vibe we have tried to cultivate that gives us safety and grounding. This is why these moments of crisis come, so we may stop and connect more deeply with our capacity, our strength, our deepest part that is ourselves in greatness. If we could truly catch that, understand that a crisis is opportunity for growth and embrace it, make it a reality instead of wondering why me. Then we can begin to get in control and move through it. Big task I know!

However, it did indeed work! I calmed down, got still, allowed the way of emotion, energy to relax into the knowing that I am safe and connected to a source within, my essence that can help me get through anything if I am aware that I have that part of me and that I am learning a lesson in awareness. Then as you connect to that part of you which we all have so brightly, you get settled that you can manage and you slowly try to figure out the next move. The next move will depend on the direction of the situation. It is a time when stopping is very important and cautiousness is appropriate as well. This is when they say ground, which means be grounded like a plane, sit down and get clear and aware. This allows you to stop the flow or really ride the flow to your calmness. Honesty, detached thinking, clear objective looking, grave reality are present, your are in your power.

In Esoteric Astrology, which is the father of all science, the cosmic activity is very unstable and explosive at this time. There is a movement of clearing, negativity arising to the surface in our internal world and in the external world. The eclipses which we have many this year are drawing forth the unwanted, unhealthy thinking's. If this is the case, then it behooves us to practice clarity, awareness and calm thinking as we clear out the viruses in our mind of any belief that we are not completely connected to Everything about us. In realizing the separate nature of the mind and bypassing that to the sense that we are connected to all and something so brilliant lies inside, guiding us forth if only we connect to it and cultivate our awareness of it. Then life becomes the adventure of living on the edge. The panic turns into more vibrant living, thrill on the edge living that can be inspiring if we remember the rule. You are expanding and in that moment getting closer with your inner essence is the purpose of crisis and in fact the answer to all questions!

Steps Forward

2011-06-19T17:47:00.000-04:00

Photo by Terree Yeagle, artistic photographer, themomentphoto.com

Wow! Has life become exciting this year! So much newness, connection and learning with The Lotus Project! We have these ideas of what we want to do, many of them new and different than what we know, and we try to do actions to create and implement them. Since they are different or new, they are expansive, we gain more skills and learn alot as we move into unknown territory. It seems any given day can turn into unknown territory with its unexpected events and actions taken that don't quite get you where you are headed. These steps forward. We are enthused and as we move we realize we don't know all the answers, aren't sure how to proceed, wonder if we can manage it. Expanding, growing anything in your self or the ground, has a certain level of discomfort, not normal, unrelaxed feeling to it. As that feeling comes forefront, there is the moment when you aren't quite sure whats next and it is a window for any fear, anxiety, doubt, whatever your pattern to come up. You get a moment where doubt in your ability at that moment can start a whole mind trip about not moving forward. It becomes a moment in self awareness to realize you are in a new deal, don't have the answers and you proceed forth with steps, baby steps as you gain the new skill or move forward in expansion. This is part of self growth and development!

We all have this in many areas of our life as we continually grow and expand. We look at this stress or anxiety as scary, unwanted, and hard. Yet effort is always in everything we do. Is it really soooo hard? Really? Isn't expansion, the thrill of doing something new, your giggly and scared at that same moment, really a negative state or is it a positive thrill of being alive, alert, vibrantly paying attention to the next move! Definitely not like the stress of someone hurt, or sick, a real situation that causes anxiety in the negative, you want to help but feel helpless. These steps are really subtly different fear, a useful emotion of excitement and panic, an art to stay between the two. This is the art of living, finding that line of thrill for yourself as you expand into newness that inspires and stretches you at the same time. These are steps forward that are actually cool moving energy. There is power hidden in that moment of Can I really do this. Really getting aware of the emotions, the energy moving through us, identifying it truly, seeing how it is useful or using it to avoid situations. A subtle perspective I just noticed in the past year more clearly and under guidance of learning Aharaj Yoga, integral self empowerment from Master Perun. We get stress or uncertainty and immediately if we don't really feel this emotion, we could lump it into a fearful mind pattern. In truly observing the feeling, identify its subtle differences and notice if it is stress to avoid or is it really a stress thrill that comes with learning and growing. A good stress or resistance that has power and energy in it. Really a subtle art of being aware and discerning this energy, this emotion.

The new people I have met. The community I am becoming apart of and drawn too has changed from the rest of my life. I always enjoyed individuals and the more unique and original characters. Opening the farm to empowering learning has expanded my circle in so many realms and unexpected realms of thinking. It is exciting. It is an open adventure! I like the thrill! I am uncomfortable not knowing exactly how it will unfold but trusting the process to unfold. This discomfort is of a different type of stress that comes at times of expanding and learning. I enjoy learning so much that the fear and afraids of it not going forward as I think it should are okay. Age does bring wisdom! I will continue though to move in steps, a bit at a time. That is the way to overcome anything that needs to change for yourself growth! I can do that! You can too!!! We can use this discomfort and turn it in to power! A new spin for certain! Thank you Master Perun for your guidance in learning this subtle difference. For the study of discernment and empowerment!

Directions to the Harmony Hill Gardens

2011-06-14T12:09:00.001-04:00

Yes indeed we are hidden in the corners of Hilltown even though we have a Sellersville address! We are just above Chalfont so if you get any other directions you are heading wrong. Here is a help and I hope my web friend gets them on the site soon! We are excited to have you visit our back woods nook! 1341 Mill Rd.! Some times when you put in Perkasie it gives right directions rather than Sellerville. Crazy technology.

From 202 Chalfont:
Go right up 152 at Manhatten Bagel. At the end of 152 make a left on Hilltown Pike. The first right, Green St. you turn right. The first left is Mill Rd, turn left. Go into a sharp bend and after a bridge the road goes left and Harmony Hill Gardens is strait up the driveway!

From 313:
If on 313north, go right onto 113. Follow until you get to Diamond Street at a traffic light.
Head south, left on Diamond St. Your 4th road is Mill Rd. Make a left and at sharp right bend in the road take the driveway on the left.

5:30-7:30 Thursday afternoon is our Green Collaboration Express Networking Event!

Reality Check

2011-06-10T07:29:00.000-04:00

It is wild to me how many people I commune with and what the issues are! We are all quite unbalanced if you ask me. Go to an alternative healing and they will remind you that we are moving so you go off balance to get on balance again and again and again. We live in a world that says one thing and then people do the other. We try to find kindness and then meanness comes from some source. We get the things that should make us happy then we complain about something else. It is a trip of experience to surf this world. It is truly delusional on all fronts and I crack up about people who think anything other.

It seems clear that we have to go within, find some sense of ourselves and try to move in that direction. Chances are that everything or it seems like it will challenge you along the way to that direction. However, if we can get the clarity that this is the deal here, instead of thinking we are in some other reality, it becomes less painful. Moving in mud is slow and laborious at times, but we still have to forge ahead, and if we get less personal about it and the reality here, we find fun along the way! Everyone has challenges and questions and unanswered issues. We are all in the same boat despite what people show or pretend to be. There is uncomfortableness in this world and we are all just trying to find techniques that help us get back on track and rebalanced. If we would embrace that we go along way towards movement.

Each answer brings another question, each question gets harder to answer. These are the ways of it here. It is a journey, and adventure although at times we all feel it is a nightmare! That is why I started the Lotus Project with the empowerment classes in topics that to me seem to make a difference. We get peace and sense of control as a creator in different ways and the task is to find those ways that work for you. That is the answer to the question. What are your doing to fuel yourself, to strengthen the goodness inside that you are so you can move through this obstacle course? That is the answer that works for me. Any number of things you do can bring relief and strength, we are all different so the methods are different. There is no one way to experience things and Thank Goodness! That is why I study Aharata, negative states exist and how do you move them is what the katas teach you to do so quickly. Sacred Femininity helps me realize that I have so many ways to operate as a woman that I was not taught that makes it easier. Nutrition can make or break your day, bad foods often offer bad moods and we eat them when we are already in a bad mood so it gets worse. Movement elevates your mind state, sitting and laying down make it lower. All these little tricks are what seem to be the mission in life. Find your bag of magic to shift you back to the creator role. The internet is filled with webinars, sites, information galore on how to shift. If you have high pain, a answer is close because pain is a great motivator to action.

We are all in this quagmire together. Reaching out with others and finding ways to enhance your inner state goes along way toward how you see the world and the response you get back. Yeah there is always something going down that is a challenge. Expansion is a challenge. We like challenge! When we were little we always tried to do things we couldn't do. It was fun for us to try new things. That is all we wanted to do was learn with curiosity. We still have that character inside us. Tap into it with whatever gets you there. That is the wisdom of a child! They don't care if they mess up because it is how they learn! They find it fun and exciting! They learn new things and feel proud.

I had to put this out there so everyone could remember that everyone is in the same crazy world. We are not special or screwed when we have challenges! We are like every one else. The key is to find methods to deal with them and at different times different things work. So to be on the mission to find tactics seems to be the path. Reach out, there is so much out there. The law of development is running this world. Develop or get beat down by the challenges. It is our choice every day, every minute. Even if you make a wrong choice not to grow it doesn't matter. You will have the next minute to awaken and eventually will. I have yet to talk to someone who is still in the same place they were a week ago. What is empty must fill, what is filled must empty. It is law and it is impersonal. It is just how it is. Find ways to work with it! Otherwise you are just another tale of woe and we have enough of them already!

The lotus can't bloom unless its roots are in the mud!

Green Collaboration about Town!

2011-06-07T15:42:00.001-04:00

Walking the path in collaboration!

I am excited to host the 1st Green Collaboration Express Networking Card Exchange on Thursday, June 16th at 5:30-7:30! After 6 months of meeting green businesses in our area, listening to ways we can all work together for a healthier community, we have established a wonderful group to educate and offer more sustainable local business. If you are green in any way or know other green businesses we would love to have them become part of this movement in our area. Despite our seek and find efforts, there are lots of great green choices that we may not of found yet so we request your help! Spread the word and get involved in whatever choices will be easier and healthier for you and your family!

We intend our facebook page to be a resources for us locally to find options as customers and businesses so give us a " like" to our fb page!. We will get a site going soon, as we continue forth with our membership and community educational plans. If you have any suggestions of a good informative topic or a place that you think would help educate the community, we would love to hear. It is our community so together we can make comfortable green choices for our own health and wellbeing!

We will also be putting together a GC coupon card that will be available to consumers for discounts at local member stores and services. A way to have you learn more about our local companies at a savings so we can transition to some new thinking and purchasing. We have some great ideas and people to get our community more aware of options and choices. Social responsibility in our ways and our shopping. Green solutions can be found in helping with allergies, illnesses and just general life style choices. So exciting!

As always we love a crowd here on the farm, engaging in nature, breathing clean fresh air and connecting in purposeful powerful ways! The green movement has been advertised extensively yet making the local choices about us is something we need to learn. It is a passion of mine to promote this way of living where we are more connected to our community and our wellness as individuals as well as the larger group. I think the movement is creative, open ended and an adventure toward vitality for us all!
Join in on this thinking and help spread the word!

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Green is the color of the heart in the yoga world! Hmmm. It makes sense!

What a wonderful, nourishing way to be!

Laughter

2011-05-31T15:35:00.000-04:00

Laughter is so joyous! To me it seems as I have gotten older it just isn't around as much! Such heavy dutiness, sick parents and friends, economic concerns, death even in the picture more now! So we must look for it or create it more consciously than when we were young! Kids add a tough of laughter to life! My daughter is grown now so new sources of every day laughter need to be sought!

I get too serious sometimes so that is the first tip! Don't be so serious all the time! All that is going on doesn't need your true attention and not your serious face for sure! We get so caught up in our misery of our story! Really? Next week it will be a whole new slew of seriousness so give it up! Is it really sooooo serious??? Only certain things are really serious! Thus the phrase lighten up!!

Shit happens! It just does! Actually, some of the most horrifying situations I have been in have had great laughter in them as well. Natures way to balance the heavy! When my dad was dying of cancer, despite the horror, we had much laughter in the craziness and heaviness of the situation. Find it! It is worth it! It is funny even when someone falls! I know people don't laugh but really? I feel at a party last week going outside and it was hysterical!! I laughed so hard which allowed others to laugh. It really is funny sometimes the bad stuff!!

Look at the faces of these kids! So sweet is makes you smile and if you look close it will cause a giggle! Group shots always have some laughter to them!!! People eating brings laughter as well!!

Laughing is what they call a dynamic meditation. Dynamic meditation is great fun because it is consciously being while moving. We do laughing meditation in the School of study I belong to and it is so much fun! Hard to make yourself laugh at first but once you do it you start cracking up at the meditation and it becomes pure joyous laughter! Very healing and lightening! Simple way to create more laughter!

If something funny happens, really get into the laughing of it! Exaggerate the laughter, really revel in it and the pure fun of it! Laugh harder than necessary and you'll see what I mean! Great state shifter!

Find ways to laugh at yourself! It is quite fun to watch yourself as a creature of habit. Like, you must take a certain route somewhere or do something some specific way! We all have these oddities which are really just unconscious habits! Notice them and crack up! I have a huge mess in my tupperware container area. Every time I go in, I can't find the right lid, they are disordered barrelling out of the cabinet at me! Total mess. I do order it at times but just doesn' stick! It is a perfect thing for me to laugh at when I go into that cabinet! Really quite funny moments! Find yours!

Make a conscious effort to have a crowd that cracks you up! My friends make me laugh sooo! In fact, if they don't crack me up now at this age, I no longer have time for folks! My family and certain business folk are enough challenge to life at times so my friends better be quite humorous or why spent the time?? It is called free time for a reason!

Really consciously create more time for laughter! It is such a healing, anti aging, joy producing activity! There is nothing closer to you in each moment than a giggle about something! My friend Terree and I always have some tale about life that surprises us and cracks us up! It is so right there and humanity offers alot to find humorous in this colorful world!

Giggle it up!!

Living Powerfully

2011-05-23T14:21:00.000-04:00

It has been a powerful study, Aharata. I keep posting about it because I know many of you will enjoy and benefit from it. I and my husband who does practices with me, and not just because I coerce him, have found it to give us a powerful sense towards living. So I once again throw out there for anyone seeking something, to investigate this practice. It is a study in awareness that simply helps you become more aware and thus be able to rebalance to when and where you are strong in your life.

To me living powerfully is taking whatever situation I am in, accepting it with its constraints, limitations or emotions, noticing that I am in a state that won't help me move forward most efficiently and then quickly finding a way to get back to movement in a direction that I choose. It is a big request in a world of so much stimulation, responsibilities and commitments to keep on track with and unexpected situations that mix up the path of things. However, these techniques have helped me quickly notice negative states and patterns and then actually move through them quickly! And that there is some good news to share!!!

Tonight, Monday at Sanktuary Spa in Lansdale at 7:15, a Russian Master will present a free presentation about Aharata, Aharaja Yoga, and Integral Self Development. I invite you to investigate tonight! We have a weekend seminar at Harmony Hill Gardens over this holiday, Friday thru Monday for deeper understanding. It is a great teaching that has become available to us. It is simple, it is powerful and it doesn't take hours a day to utilize these techniques. They are simple and energizing as well as fit into our hectic life pace. I hold classes at the farm on Monday nights learning the practices and tranforming our energy and vitality, emotionally, mentally and physically. I am enthused to share this information with you all!

Come join me and you will thankful that you did!

Light up the world!

2011-05-15T09:00:00.000-04:00

Photo by John Mark Courtney. If you look closely, the drops look like the earth and remind me of our global community!

We are all lights inside, energy awaiting expression. We express ourselves in many ways, positive light ways and of course our trained, reactionary dark negative ways. The process seems to be overcoming our dark reactionary ways and transforming them to more light positive ways. Some days we have success, other days we do not. We actually need both or there would be no growth or enjoyment of the positive ways without the more challenging ways to contrast it.

The light positive ways are magical! They are transforming, involve creativity, fun and laughter, a lighter load. They involve connecting and collaborating, working with others and provide ripple effects beyond what we know. Life is light, times are good, we feel like we are flying. We truly can create more of these experiences in our life, it is part of why we are here. To learn to express our energy in brighter ways even though our training has been a bit dark. The world is full of criticism, why it can't be done, how it won't work and we truly are just trained in this critical orientation. To see the world as lovely, things as possible, infinite opportunities abound takes some training.

I created the Lotus Project for just that. We are all potential flowers moving our way toward bloom. We just need information about things that get us growing, that work and are supportive in nature. There are many paths one could take and so much information out there. Seek and find they say. I offer classes at the farm to support others in this journey. I am creating a community of forward moving folks, putting time into building themselves and consciously expressing more positive aspects. You need support, techniques and it takes weekly practice to overcome this life long training in a critical world. I invite you to come to the farm and be part of our community. The land itself is very relaxing and healing. Many great people and events have occurred here and all that effects a space. This year I have reached beyond friends and family to share this space with others openly, to teach, to come learn, to wander, to create, to enjoy.

My ways are not classic or conventional which I think we all agree those ways don't work or the world would be thriving. A new awareness is entering us all and I am supporting that in any way I can find. I want life to be magical, fun and enjoyable despite the current conditions about and am always seeking others with this desire and any information to live this. I invite you up here to partake. I request that you offer this to your friends or family that are like minded to these ideas. I enjoy gathering, I enjoy expanding and I am open to share however, whatever works and with whom. Come join our community and help us build ourselves to be more empowered, more joyful and brighter lights in our community! My links are below, pass them on, join in, and lets light up the world!! Soon my website will have all the classes listed and the link to a calendar. Until then, I need everyone to help spread the word! We are all unique expressions that are exquisite. Lets uncover that together and find ways that work and share it with others. This is our purpose so I look forward to building with you!

Lyn Hicks, Living Green Expert

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A Call To All Woman

2011-05-11T08:17:00.000-04:00

Dear Woman Friends

I have been about town for a long while and attended many classes and woman's groups. I think there is a need for a deeper development of us as individuals. We know the does and don'ts of business, the efficiency, the steps to, the mechanical means of things. There is always new and good learning available out there on these topics and I enjoy learning this. What is missing to me is gathering with the purpose to develop our individuality. We need a study in understanding ourselves on a deeper level. More study of woman's ways and how we present ourselves in the world, ways to improve ourselves on a visceral level instead of just speaking our business, looking a certain way or using a particular startegy in business. Going deeper inside ourselves than our surface actions or traits.

From my curious study to take the woman's movement to the next level in my 40's, it seems that uncovering more of whom we really are away from our roles and tasks is a key to authenticity. We are busy and often put ourselves last and this is the very thing that makes us feel exhausted and overwhelmed. We do not make the renewal time for ourselves, expect others to offer it and then have nothing left. Learning to understand woman as magnetizing, collaborators.. our more feminine traits along with ways to observe ourselves and really come from our individual centers so all of our life can create an authentic and rich existence. All these tasks, duties and list of things leave us tired and less than passionate. Creating more joy and richness to all our roles seems to be important learning at this time.

I invite you to join Sacred Femininity Circle here that will focus on just that. A deeper understanding of ourselves as woman and ways to empower our true nature to come out. Gathering together to learn about ourselves in a way that is creative and gets us understanding woman's gifts, how to balance them with our tasks and duties and how to regenerate ourselves. We don't take the time for ourselves to regenerate. When we do we are not always effective about doing it or utilizing the principles that will truly regenerate us as woman.

For those who are looking for such learning I hope to share with you what I have learned through my seeking. There are greater things we can do for ourselves to connect deeper and to allow more of who we are to show up in all our roles and tasks. Our bodies are biochemically different than men's and we need to honor and nourish ourselves properly so we may have energy and power to move in the world more joyfully. The craziness in which we operate, especially at my age makes for health issues because of years of this run down rush to manage everyone and everything before ourselves. I hope you join us the 2nd Thursday of every month at 7pm at Harmony Hill Gardens in Hilltown. I am trying to build a community that supports empowering ways and thinking so we can have richer lives. To experience it all with greater flexibility and understanding of our uniqueness, this is truly bringing your gift to the world!

Going with your gut!

2011-05-09T17:57:00.000-04:00

Visceral means base, earth, crude or deep emotions and refers often to the belly. It is like going with your gut. Not your mind and thinking, more of a deep feeling or your root vibration. Often we talk one thing but deep inside feel something else. We are saying things are good but we really don't feel that. We talk at the world but from our gut which projects its own language to others we feel differently. This is very important knowledge to grasp because it is part of the trick of getting where you are going in life. You have to come from this core and align it with your other parts, your words, your true beliefs, your ideas, your emotions. We run into people and they tell us one thing but we know somehow they aren't really good, they may not look good, their voices is weak, their energy low. We really don't fool others with our words.

I will offer you some thoughts so you notice this in yourself. The purpose of the Lotus Project is to bring forth learning that empowers you really, not just mind learning, we have had enough of speaking our words or hearing ideas but not making them knowledge through action and experience. That is why I like experiential learning. I mean that we learn and get the experience of awareness of it, then we can truly apply it to ourselves. Then we can viscerally project clearly to others. It is important to understand this. The law of attraction works on this visceral level.

Emotions are what create movement or actions. We are often disconnected from our emotions or stuffing them down so we can't even tell you what we are exactly feeling sometimes. We say we are ok but are not. It is far better to acknowledge your feelings, identify them and then try to shift them, than pretend you feel another way. Viscerally you are communicating always to others, all can pick that up without even consciously trying. Not in telling people you are bad but noticing when things aren't going so well, taking the moment to look at it and then try a practice to shift it. Do this before you engage with others then when you present yourself, you are clearly communicating and a connection can be made clearly, being centered they call it. There are easy techniques and a many ways to do this so it is important to put some in your tool box for life! We are evolving continually to understand ourselves and there is huge amounts of knowledge being shared at this current time so we may be more congruent beings. We are divided from ourselves with too much minding! I offer Aharata here at the farm because it offers quick and effecient shifting practices, a way to use your lower emotions to serve you. It also makes you more aware of your own subtle vibrations consciously as well as others so you have more clarity. As I learn these things, I am trying to bring them forward for us all to use to create a finer life!

This is why they tell you not to leave your house if you are in a bad mood because you will project that vibration so it will magnetize other low vibrations at you. It is why they always say affirmations won't work unless you believe them possible because visceral wins over mind. It is your core like in pilates or working out, where you truly come from, your power center or your core place of projection. If you are floating in your head all the time you forget to be in your body and that you are a whole unit here. Intellect is only one form or plane of operating. Your emotions, your stance, your voice, your heart, all these things are projecting forward communication to people. Being grounded and centered means coming from your visceral level aligned all the way up your spine through your action, heart, voice, focus and larger connection. You are like a tree, rooted and your trunk is straight and stable. You know when you meet someone like that. You instantly trust them, you need no credentials, no intellect about them, you just know on the gut level that this is the deal. We all want to be that and work on purpose to share our gifts. We may share our gifts but until we align all these levels clearly, connecting with all parts of ourselves through focus, we will not share them as brilliantly as we want.

We are moving so quickly that we run out of time to tune in, or get clear or get grounded. However, we would be more forward moving if we took the time to notice these things instead of wasting time projecting so many things to people that they get perplexed, we are like pigpen with a mess around us that is invisible to most but is felt. If you are stressed, pissed, overwhelmed, exhausted, scared, doubtful, whatever, you best notice and shift it. Shifting is much easier using movement or sound than the mind. Moving forward aligned, we can create much easier!

Hope that helps!

Mothers Day Wisdom

2011-05-06T09:18:00.000-04:00

Along with spring comes Mothers Day! No surprise it is celebrated in spring when creative energy is high as woman are the creators of humanity! Our feminine culture is being recovered where we actually were all about collaborating and connecting to empower our own energy rather than share it with each other. I love the surge of the woman's movement now and all the great wisdom being brought forward regarding our feminine essence and nature. The world needs this balance of connection, conflict resolution and inspiration.

In Mother Mayas book, an ayurvedic healer and strong teacher of woman healing themselves, she speaks of our connection to our mothers being so important to our health. Honoring our feminine lineage, appreciating and loving our moms deeply even if we are a different type of woman than was appropriate at their time. Our mothers came from a different time and were taught different ways of being. Often they were in a more critical environment and not honored much for their gifts. Around the world woman are suppressed in many countries, not as free as we western woman. Our mothers were in an era that is not so as mobile as ours, they were treated as less and thus passed on ways and beliefs that we often feel like me need to overcome.

We are the next generation and the good news is we are different and offer our families and children much more evolved ways to grow and become. Despite the critical ways and competition of woman before us the movement is to overcome this and be more collaborating, more in our feminine energy of tend and befriend. Our mothers developed strong male energy and patterns because that is how they build the way for us in the world. These traits are more competitive, hierarchical, dictating and critical. Knowing that in the end this paved the way for us to be in a male modeled world and being thankful for the strides they made. We are now open to bring the kinder feminine traits into the world and share them toward all, collaborate, inspire, motivate, conflict solve and connect. Start by offering that to your Mother even if she displays that more dictator like style. It was the way that were taught and it is not personal, her ways come from survival and the path of evolution. Honor her for paving the way for us to have a gentler voice, knowing that she loves you the way you love your children but the expression is different from a training of a different time.

I talk to so many woman and they have such mother tales that are not necessarily good or supportive. To let go of the annoyance and pain that their way has caused truly in your heart will help you honor her and yourself! We are woman, any aggrevation we have toward our mothers is actually reflected back to us since we are part of her. When she uses some of that less than supportive tone, or that look of authority, smile and send her love from your heart. She knows no better and often fielded way more meanness from her mother. Be glad you are the next generation and that we can offer our daughters a more supporting way, teaching them that it is safe to be more feminine, more loving, more connecting and more supportive than our mothers ever got the opportunity to be. They came from a very judgemental time and we can break that cycle by being less judgemental to them knowing this way doesn't build anything or anyone. They paved the way for us and for that great honor should be giving to them, celebrated for how they moved woman forward and thanked that we can reveal more of woman's kindness that will create a more harmonious world. Challenging as it may be, it is one of our purposes to model our great acceptance so our daughters my see us model greater traits toward all. She gave us life and that alone is a great gift! Love your Mother this weekend with all your heart and it will do you great good! It will warm your heart and fill you that we are indeed the next generation of caregivers!

Expanding Green Thinking

2011-05-04T17:03:00.000-04:00

Wanted to post exciting news on offering florists and garden growers alike news on organic flowers! How to use them, what to use and thinking outside the box to offer a greater experience to use natures gifts. Here is my first blog on the Florist Chronicles! Proud to share such information!

http://www.floristchronicles.com/2011/organic-flowers-the-greener-way

Garden Chores of the Spring

2011-04-30T07:31:00.000-04:00

Such a great time of awakening! The garden calls you to come out and play! Curiously, investigating what has returned and what exists that you forgot, what has outgrown its space, all the fun and games of gardening. As the weather warms, we want to quickly make everything beautiful and perfect. In the garden there is no real moment where all is like that. There are many plants and many times of bloom for different species. Some plants haven't even surfaced yet so keep you mind open to starting the process. It is a season long process with many twists and turns! The garden adventure is flowing and full of surprises! Control is not a word that works there.

Clean your beds and cut off any dead or old stocks so the energy can go back to the roots and base of the pant to emerge new growth.

Notice what is coming up, what needs more space or dividing. Great time to divide plants and place the extra into a new spot for expansion. The April rains will help water them in and adjust to their home. Plant sharing is a great delight amongst gardeners. We give away lots of perennials and the pass along tales with it. I remember who gave me what and it adds a deeper dimension and camaraderie to the garden tale.

A great rule of plants is to notice their habits and put them somewhere that needs that growth pattern. Often times what we consider invasive is a good plant to place in a tough area. Under trees so you don't have to weed whack around them or in an area that is hard to tend. I often put invaders in areas hard to mow or on the edge between the grass and field areas. They choke out the weeds and add beautiful texture to an area that seemed a challenge. Using plants to solve your landscape problems is one of the gifts of these more aggressive friends.

Remember all is not up yet. The daffodils and tulips will fade away into nothing and other plants will emerge. I often forget what exists and in spring try to fill in space only to find a plant underground already just not quite emerged. Be patient. It doesn't all happen in a day in the garden.

Plants jump around if you ask me. Sometimes I wonder how things got places. Clear on moving feet away. Things do reseed and then there are the unexplained and you just go with it. Often you can move these things to a better positioning if they jump in off center. In growing organically we welcome the imbalances because nature really does operate with harmony and we aren't in the season enough to see the balance.

Curiously allow things to make their own pattern. Control is an issue in all of life that we wrestle. In the garden, it is best to flow with what is happening. Your garden is part of a larger ecosystem that will continually try to balance itself because there is harmony happening within nature. Often we are looking only at a piece of that system in our garden where as nature is balancing systems and regions. To me this is the unpredictable magic that I like. Reminding me that we are part of a bigger scene and that the unexpected is actually a delight alot of times.

Always get more perennials! Each year add new ones. Nature abhors open ground so it will grow something there and it will be what you consider weeds. Perennials ground in and become maintenance free, making weeding less of an issue. They grow larger each year and when you divide them you can use them in another area. This cuts down on your need for annuals that will need to be replaced every year. It is nice to have annuals, but they are accents to your garden. Perennials add get texture and adventure in blooming through out the season.

Finally, just enjoy being in nature. Spring energy will fuel you just being in it. Enjoy messing in the spring, allow the adventure of your garden to be a work in process through to July. Let is be a process and not a chore so you can be fueled in creativity. It continually unfolds as we do. It is not static or the same ever. It offers a good lesson in life to be open, curious and allow things to be where they want to instead of always having rules. It is quite the unexpected adventure! Enjoy it!

The Art of Sacred Feminine Dance

2011-04-27T10:15:00.000-04:00

Photograph by Terree Yeagle, artist

One of my gifts is that I like to study things,I am investigative when I am interested as we all are. I have got to share my latest find in self empowerment that is effective. Extremely! I have learned some traditional Red Tent teachings recently and found some great practices that ancient Egyptian woman used to build their feminine essence, thus power. These seemed to be woman I wanted investigate considering all our role models which there are few.

Through the School of Aharata Study I found the Sacred Feminine Traditions. Most importantly, the art of dancing! We all like to dance and it warms our heart, especially if no one is around. You are free as a bird to allow the rhythm to take you. One of the greatest practices that has brightened my world is dancing daily. Playing inspiring music each morning and dancing 3 songs. It is a powerful practice and does many things at once that are important to put into your day.

1. Dancing for woman is like a prayer. When you catch the vibe, it is a magical world for woman to dance! It is our highest form of movement for the female body. When you put on a tune that you love, get into like a trance by closing your eyes and just moving your body, think of the greatest good that exists, the light stream you are part of and just dance filling yourself up, you are in a dynamic meditation, a form of prayer.

2. You are moving easily and getting in an artful, graceful workout! If you put on upbeat music and really feel the joy of this, you are raising your vibration, moving joyfully, getting the funnest workout so you start your day fresh, alert, joyful. You begin to be able to move your body intricately in your torso, allowing your spine to realign and gain flexibility.

3. You build your feminine essence. The art of dancing awakens your svadhisthana chakra, our feminie center. By moving our hips, our center of balance, we truly free up energy there. This is an area for many woman that has issues, they have energy blocked there. Dancing begins to move that energy clearing up the clog and allowing the energy to move upward the spine. Your chakras are considered junction points to the energy world and are represented by Lotus flowers, swirling up your spine. Sensual dance awakens creative and sexual energy for us to use. This helps woman have more energy for their tasks and it is the female bliss, oxytocin not adrenaline energy so we flow through life with a more pleasurable feeling.

I have been doing this dancing and 2 other songs after the first. The 2nd, filling up with gratitude for all the teachers, guides, lessons and helpers I have had through life that have given me great wisdom and learning. It is glorious to dance in gratitude and creates one of the highest states. Finally, I dance a song to love! Love for my famiy, my friends, my farm, the community, and the world. I empty out all the joy I filled with the first two dances and flow it out into the world, being this great channel of joy I created.

At the end I am refreshed, renewed and alert. I feel joyful to go into my day. Sometimes I just dance in the shower but after 3 months of doing this, I find time in my day to dance. It creates a high state of joy through artful, graceful movement. It has added so much to my day! I have better intricate movement of my body, I feel grounded into myself, still working on balancing myself stronger in both legs. I find myself appreciating my body thus myself more. I feel good, pretty, sexy and powerful! All just from dancing in the morning. Pretty powerful and easy enough to add in somewhere!

Had to share wonderful learning. I am teaching the principles I am learning through a Sacred Femininity Circle here on the farm. I also am having a few classes at Blooming Glen Farm CSA this season. I am teaching one there on May 3rd. The 2nd Thurs. of the month at the farm,I host a $10 class for learning. I also offer another class each month that is on the Deeper Study of feminine essence. We learn practices, views of things, do exercises starting to understand the power of the Svadhisthana Chakra and how to use that energy for life. I have a deeper teaching tomorrow at 7pm, Thursday April 28th. Such good news to bring to ladies. Self empowerment and protection! What more great purpose is there than to learn with my fellow flowers of the world to break down the competitive environment of woman. Instead to learn to build connection, tend and befriend. Try this dancing! It will change your state, your thinking, your life. It is the Art of Sacred Feminine Dance!

The Lotus Project Presents Two Special Guests on Wellbeing and Yoga!

2011-04-23T14:59:00.000-04:00

Blessed we are to offer two delightful people in experiencial teaching! The farm is most importantly to host guests that create an experience rather than just classes directed at your mind! Being actively engaged in learning with all senses alert and focused! The natural surroundings begin that process but the Guest Teachers take it from there! I have been around a bit and been to many teachings, classes, seminars, networking events and gatherings of folk. I have invited the cream of the crop learning that will leave you with a new perspective to take home with you toward empowered vibrant living! Join us in the transformation and strengthening our lights!

April 26th, Tues at 7pm
Getting Well to Being Well to Well Being
with Dr. Lauren Nappen
In a world that feels more chaotic than seamless, how does one achieve and sustain anything that closely resembles Being Well? Journey with Dr. Lauren Nappen, chiropractor, spiritual intuitive and holistic healer, who's been serving and inspiring our community for 18 yrs. as she helps us explore Wellth, Vitality and Wholeness. Magical in her teaching! You won't want to miss this. $30.00

I have only the highest recommendation for Lauren as an individual and healer! I have learned many tips and tools from her and have seen her awaken many friends and family to a new look at health and wellbeing, helping them realign their lives.

May 4th Wed at 7pm
Anusari Yoga and Essential Oils
with Denise Orloff
Flow with grace surrounded by nature as we breathe, move and enjoy asanas. Denise brings her extensive experience, New Zealand beauty, essential oils and brilliance to the practice. Special evening class and hope to have her again as the season continues. A unique experience of yoga amongst the gardens. $20.00

I am excited to take yoga with Denise out in nature! A wonderful teacher to have here!

Join us in the transformation! 215-997-5005

Spring Exuberance! Celebrate Well!

2011-04-21T07:14:00.001-04:00

Spring comes with an unimaginable sweetness and exhilaration! Restlessness, nostalgia, longing for something undefined and indefinable, these also are the marks of spring; there is wistfulness to her gaiety.
The Theosophical Movement March 28

Great wishes to all for a wonderful weekend holiday! Earth Day is this weekend where we celebrate the Earth and it seems perfect that it fits with Easter and Passover. All celebrations of spring come within the same few weeks and I am certain that is no accident. So whatever is your belief I wish you a great time of celebration as the earth is filled with the energy of renewal and awakening.

In Scandinavian tradition, Oestara is the Goddess of spring that awakens the earth from the slumber of winter.

In Christian tradition they celebration the resurrection of Christ.

We celebrate with eggs for the chicks hatch this time of year, in old lore the light breaks through the shell to begin new life.

Rabbits are represented because their is always a great abundance of them thus to symbolize the great energy about.

The flowers of this time of year are mostly yellow and purple, the colors of the individual and the spirit in Eastern traditions. Representing rejuvenation of both in this new cycle.

All the earth is reborn this time of year in a magical display of colorful trees like the magnolia ,red bud, cherry and forsythia. Flowers are blooming, daffodils, tulips, crocuses, violets and snow drops.

Growers plant their seeds in expectation of an abundant harvest.

The earth and humanity celebrate together the great awakening of another cycle of spring.

All these systems are about rebirth and renewal. So take time to feel blessed and honor stepping into a new cycle of life. All things are changing, growing and becoming. With the earth energy high it is the perfect time to move forward in areas of your life that may have been stuck or on the back burner. With the great gatherings, wonderful food, spiritual celebrations and color of the earth, take time to ride the high energy and transform or renew yourself. It will be easier this time of year than any other time. There is a spirit of hope, wonder and movement to help you ride the wave of rejuvenation. At the touch of spring we also feel the stirrings of the spirit in our heart.

I have always been one to investigate and celebrate many traditions. We chose to celebrate on Saturday night with a community bond fire and drum circle to celebrate music and healing. I love appreciating many traditions since they all come from humanity and have a common purpose to celebrate growing and becoming. Experiencing the different traditions has always inspired me to understand people and realize in the end we are all the same. In celebration we want to enjoy the moment, share with loved ones and of course feast heavily.

I invite you to join in on Saturday nite at 7pm with us as we host a large bond fire. Family, friends, community and music to celebrate our beautiful earth through the Indian tradition of drumming. All are welcome, there is an optional donation of $15.You may bring marsh mellows to roast or a light snack to share. You can bring any instruments you have or just come as you are to feel the lovely energy of community on a spring night! Happy weekend in whatever tradition you celebrate!

Blessings to all during this great season of awakening!

The Lotus Project: Upcoming Classes at Harmony Hill

2011-04-19T22:29:00.003-04:00

I am waiting to get my site updated with classes on it. Until then my blog will have to do it! Lots of great things going on, ways to empower yourself amidst nature! Jump in and catch the vibe!

Morning Practices every Saturday 8:30am
Swing in on your way out for the day
to do energizing movements to add
power and joy to your day. Simple, effective
and fun for adults and children.
An introduction to Aharata and creating
a high energy state to have a great
day. 20 minute practice. FREE

April 23rd. 7pm
Drum Circle
Join us for a bondfire and drumming
on a spring evening amongst nature.
Learn Earth Wisdom and the healing
rituals of ancient traditions using music
and sound. An experience you won't
want to miss. Bring any instruments
you have, drum, morrocas, rattles.
$15.00 optional donation

April 26th 7pm
Getting Well to Being Well to Well Being
with Dr. Lauren Nappen
In a world that feels more chaotic than
seamless, how does one achieve and
sustain anything that closely resembles
Being Well? What does it look like?
How does it feel? Journey with Dr. Lauren
Nappen, chiropractor, spiritual intuitive
and holistic healer, who’s been
serving and inspiring our community
for 18 years as she helps us explore
Wellth, Vitality and Wholeness. Magical
in her teaching, you won't want to miss
this. $30.00

April 28th. 7pm
Sacred Femininity Circle,
A Deeper Study
Workshop designed to get a deeper
personal understanding of your feminine
essence, unlocking your power to
move more joyously through the hectic
world. Knowledge and practical
practices woman have preserved to
connect to your power, passion and
beauty. Transforming practices that
will awaken you among the gardens!
Your invited to take flowers as a reminder
of your power of creativity. $35.00

Mondays. 7pm
Aharata, Yoga of Self Empowerment
Rooted in Kung Fu and Aikidoo, also
called Aharaj Yoga, learn this very powerful
way to create high-energy states
toward your life goals. Learn techniques
and practices that will shift your
state and prevent you from lagging in
negativity or lethargy, and feeling
overwhelmed. Clear your connections
to past experiences and the people
that quickly weigh you down. Practices
are simple, easy and effective and add
to the challenges today's life and time
presents. Discussion of the principles
of energetic protection as well as
Katas, or practices. $15.00 $15.00

May 4th at 7pm
Anusari Yoga and Essential Oils
with Denise Orloff
Flow with grace surrounded by nature
as we breathe,move and enjoy
asanas. Denise brings her extensive
experience, New Zealand beauty, essential
oils and brillance to the practice.
Special evening class. We hope
to have her again when the weather
warms. A unique experience of yoga
amongst the gardens. $20.00

May 10th. 7pm
Create Your Own Cutting Gardens
Learn what flowers and perennials
to grow so you may have fresh cut
flowers for yourself all season. Possible
special guest Kate Sparks from Lilies
and Lavendar. $25.00

Aharata Class Monday! What is it?

2011-04-17T11:49:00.001-04:00

I am so excited to share this class weekly with you on Mondays at 7pm. It is $15 per class as a yoga class would be. However we need no mats, just ourselves, men and woman alike, children, all whom wish to learn to be able to shift from a negative, lethargic state to an joyful one in minutes. No thinking, no more ramble brain or calling friends to tell your woeful tale! Effective clearing exercises that work quickly to get you back on track to your goals.

What is it?
Aharata comes from very ancient times, warriors of the Himalyans, and is known by many names, the base of many martial arts. Often called Spiritual Aikedoo. It was used as a practice to strengthen focus and power toward goals. Katas are the name of the exercises, as asanas are the name of yoga postures. We discuss the energy field, how to notice it more clearly, why it is important to be aware of yours, practices to generate higher energy and protect it from others fields that may be less than supportive. It is quick and transforming your understanding of how we can easily get back into our power and focus.

Who benefits?
All can benefit, even children. When you are feeling tired, uninspired or lethargic, it quickly changes you to an energized state. Helpful to kids and adults whom have difficulty focusing or are overwhelmed. If there is an issue at work or family, where a negative situation or bad circumstances are about, these katas are quick ways to bring you back present, out of your mind, and focused on what tasks are ahead with clarity and positive emotion.

Why bother?
In times like today there is so much going on around us. Many disasters in the environment, the economy and in our communities make it a challenge to be positive and focused. We are often overworked trying to survive, drained from so many more tasks than we used to do to succeed. We end up with our bodies here, our minds rambling about all kinds of issues, our heart sad, and our spirit out of gas. This study is so transformative to change all these conditions quite simply! The techniques can be done anywhere and only take a minute or two. Once you understand the ideas from the class they are easily instituted into life situations and are so very transforming. You don't need an hour to meditate, food from your refrig., someone to vent to or to go for a run! You need to notice your state and use the appropriate practice to shift your energy.

I invite you all to engage in trying this class. One class and you will understand the importance of your energy management, what that means and how to create a higher level of it to live life. It is the most transformative movement I have ever come across and it requires little time which to me is very important! A experience you won't forget!

Invitation to Flower This April 14th!

2011-04-12T08:08:00.000-04:00

I invite you to join me on Thursday to empower yourself into a wonderful flowering beyond! I have a beautiful Master coming to give a workshop for $45 if you preregister, $50 if you don't on this Thursday, April 14th. I just spend 4 days at a workshop with her and I am over the top with wonder at the femininity concepts she has taught! Things we all should know and should of heard as girls and woman. You will be transformed to be part of this. An incredible teacher and wise woman that you must hear!

On this glorious morning as I wonder around and collect the beautiful specialty daffodils that are about, greeting me in all their uniqueness, I am filled with great joy that each one of us is as special and beautiful as these lovely flowers! We need to honor ourselves and learn to bring forth this exquisiteness that we are! You will be thankful that I offered such a powerful woman to awaken your great beauty within! Please contact me asap and join us in the great movement of becoming our beautiful selves!

Love and Light to you all!

Goddess Glow Adventure!

2011-04-08T06:27:00.001-04:00

Photograph by Terree Yeagle

Yes it is lovely to be Queen! I love this photo and all it implies! I am heading out this morning on a retreat to the woods of the Delaware Water Gap and Gaisler farm. Heading out this a.m. to meet a Russian Master, Stella to learn some ancient practices and knowledge on Feminine Essence. I am very enthused to be part of this learning and woman's movement and look forward to sharing it with you all!

So wonderful at this time to see the woman's movement gearing up in a new direction where we honor our feminine, magnetic, seductive and creative side. Not like the old days when woman need to be like men to compete or be part of the world. The new way of honoring our seductive, magnetizing nature, our exquisite unique beauty, our Queen like nature! Honoring our communication skills, our inspiring and connecting style, our nurturing non competitive nature and our uniquely feminine ways. Grand time in the world for woman! So many movements in this direction! The revival of the Red Tent and the ways of the Persian Queen!

Excited and enthused I head forth this day to pack all my lovely clothes, scarves and accessories, make up and adornments that make me feel beautiful and Goddess like! On Thursday April 14th, I will have much to share and even the presence of Stella at the farm to teach! May you join us then to awaken your deep feminine nature so you too can learn to unfold your unique queen like ways and your life can blossom as the lotus! We all are exquisite like the flowers, our own individual essence hidden within, awaiting our attention to unfold into more of ourselves! A wonderful journey awaits! Look forward to sharing it all with you!

The Awakening of The Lotus Project!

2011-04-03T16:59:00.001-04:00

Photograph by Terree Yeagle

The Lotus Project

As the lotus grows from the depths of the muck, through the water and opens

it petals to the sun, we too have a journey of becoming our exquisite bloom.

The Lotus Project is a space created just for that, cultivating creativity, healing,

wellbeing and celebration. It is a venue that integrates art, music, and education

amongst flowers and nature’s bounty in an effort to develop our connection with

beauty, the earth and thus ourselves.

This is the beginning of the huge endeavor to create a healing green event spot at Harmony Hill Gardens. Deemed the Lotus Project by Terree Yeagle as we dreamed of an event spot that housed art, nature and music all in one venue. We do not yet have the ultimate dream green buildings and spaces that will unfold on this project but we do have the fabulous land and gardens about and much space to create and learn. So here begins the project of learning and empowering folks at Harmony Hill Gardens! I will post the schedule of events on my website which is underconstruction at this very moment so this may be added. Face book will keep the schedule for all to see so you may engage on this beautiful spot and enjoy nature while transforming!

April quick preview: All among the beauty of nature!!

Mondays at 7pm Aharata, Yoga of self empowerment, you want to learn this!

Saturday mornings at 8:30 Free Morning Practices

April 14th Sacred Feminity Circle, 7pm, free lecture, afterwards,8-10. a 2 hour workshop for $50! Russian Master Stella will host this powerful evening and am truly honored for her visit! You will want to stay for the workshop, her teachings transforming.

I hope to have her Wed eve at Serenity Spa in Doylestown to open her knowledge to even a larger crowd of woman. Incredible study of our Feminine Essence!

April 23rd, Drum Circle Bond fire on Easter Saturday!

April 26th, 7pm, Lauren Nappen speaks on wellness! So honored to have her speak and share her magical words.! She is my alternative healer and have gained much as have so many of my friends by her healing.

April 28th, pm, Sacred Feminine Circle, Deeper Study. If you like the other basic class, you will truly enjoy this knowledge on tapping in more to your empowering spirit!

Please let me know what you would like to join in on! Good stuff! Woohoo!!

Magnificence!

2011-04-01T08:27:00.000-04:00

Magnificance! Such a beautiful world! There is so much magnificance at any given time that we miss! With spring, you just can't miss it. As all awakens it just surges through you as you drive around, walk to places, see trees started to leave up and bloom even! The earth has warmed up from this inside so despite the cold about the plants grow from the roots and then send the energy upward. From the inside out spring is surging upward and forward no matter what. We too must move our energy upward to the newness of life each day.

This is the most beautiful world and we often forget that through all our strifes, pains, situations and challenges. In spring it is hard to miss the growing of green, the color of the heart chakra, the greening up of the season. A heart movement of nature saying yes to life after the rest of dark winter. We clear so we may see the new growth, find things coming about that we wouldn't of noticed last week. It is a promise from nature that all gardeners await! Keep a keen eye and focused attention on the growth and follow the cycle to your own magnificent flowering! Splendor comes from within as does warmth and growth! Enjoy!

Feminine Leadership Qualities

2011-03-29T10:21:00.000-04:00

The beauty of the spring tulips in Holland gives me such a vibe of feminine essence! Powerful, strong, directed and beautiful, pleasing, cooperative, inspiring! So many things are out now in the feminine movement! I listen to many speakers, go to many teachings and have jumped in with The I Am Woman collaborative. In all of it I have learned the most powerful tranformative knowledge with the later. Ironically, since it is about woman's essence, this knowledge is not efforting or hard, when I hear the principles it makes such common sense as though I should of known. That is when you know you hit teachings that ring to your core.

Most importantly, we need to understand what are feminine qualities. Our world has portrayed a twisted view of woman in a competitive arena with looks, weight, images and even personalities that do not sit welI l within me. I also have many female comrades that I have traveled through life with and we have journeyed together trying to find our way as woman and have done well in certain areas. However we are coming at it from the wrong angle gathering, enjoying and sharing energy with each other, not necessarily focused on building our own. We do claim energy being together that fuels us but to do it from the point of really knowing what it it that fuels us from these gatherings. Do we really have a handle on our qualities as females that make us stronger in business, as friends, as families, in relationships and with ourselves fueled and beaming toward life? I never sat in on that conversation before and have been to alot of leadership woman speeches. It was more how to compete and thrive using that male modeled business world. As I have studied this definition has finally shown up. If we are not engaging in building our feminine gifts, we are burning out on adrenaline. We must be in inspiring environments, collaborating, negotiating with our great communication skills, caring with purpose as to what we do so we open our hearts, creating more relationships and client based motivated spaces. These qualities fuel us with hidden energy that replenishes and is distinctly different than male ways of doing things.

The other more important piece to me, is the time and learning deeply what that means. Gathering for the purpose of training, practices and small ways to shift our thinking so we may put the time in efficiently and purposefully to tap into ourselves and our own energy. It is not about us sharing our energy with others, we naturally do that. It is about developing ourselves so we are more empowered to overflow.

On April14th at my farm, I have Reena Desai from LA coming to speak from her intense study of the feminine ways. She is inspiring, beautiful, well educated and successful in organizing social change. I was astounded on the perspective she offered and how it has shifted my perspective on self empowerment! I invite you to join us for this Sacred Femininity Circle at 7 pm and learn more about yourself and how to profoundly tap into your feminine ways to produce more joy in your life. Effective, simple and pleasurable ways to step deeper into your well of energy. On the second Thursday of every month I will have these gatherings here amongst the flowers. I am excited to share Reena, she was my introduction to this knowledge and has taught me empowering perspectives and practices that have me desiring to share this with all woman in my community. It is wonderful when you really find a path that helps tremendously opens up your life! Radastakakaya! Such a JOY! Please joins us and email me of your interest. You will find this talk to open us a new way of looking at things that feels more comfortable and inspiring!

Love Your Wild Side!

2011-03-25T11:02:00.000-04:00

We all read how you shouldn't reject yourself, love your mistakes, etc.... and yet it seems so hard to get. We hear it, we attempt but that critical parent, that voice of reason is hard to let go of. It is so ingrained in us in so many ways. We have been so mistrained in the use of our minds!! Imagine if Thomas Edison listened to his inner critic? We would have no electricity! Our mistakes are our foundation, so important to who we are today.

Last week I was reading this article on creative energy and it hit me! A aha moment! All the energy, creative energy tied up in the battle within. You start out doing something, fully having fun, you are your authentic self in those moments and then it takes a turn. You go over board and it turns out wrong, A misbehaviour. You tie all the things that lead up to that bad choice into how horrible you are when only the end was a problem. Then you go through this inner battle, beating yourself up, how unruly you are, how stupid, whatever. Then every time something reminds you of that, here comes that critical voice reliving the tale, you lose energy, you feel low. So much energy is tied to that small ending that went out of sync. You started out looking for something or trying something in the name of adventure and fun. You lost track and took a bad turn and now all this time, memory, mind talk is tied up in it. What a waste of creative energy! You hide it within, you try to compensate, you try to cover it up from yourself and others, all such a waste of time. We have been trained to do this, we have been taught to not love parts of ourselves that were unruly or not conforming. We bury it and wonder why we get exhausted, why we have no energy. After years of this and many unsavory tales, we are leaking so in this dark areas.

It hit me that it really was a small part of myself that went offbeat. The ending of the acts that were wrong. The ending choice. One small part of it. For some reason that was enough to ruin the whole experience of learning. We focus on that small piece instead of really reviewing the whole tale for all it is worth. Rarely to we set out to hurt others or make a bad choice, it just happens at the end and then the cover up, the disconnect takes our energy to pretend and hide. The silliness of it hit me that there is so much energy hidden in the process. So much energy to move ahead and be wiser, more alert, more aware. You usually love something about your unpredictable side, that bad girl, that wild side. You like that crazy part of yourself until it goes arye. You should, your probably were having some fun, some excitement until the bad choice shifted it.

I realized that I do like my crazy side. Often it gets me into great things, it lands me in fun situations and exciting adventures. Sure it has taken me down some dark roads but I learned from them. You more fully learn from them when your accept them in their totality, not just the ending where you humiliated yourself or embarrassed yourself. The part before that was when you were most alive and engaged. This made me review those hidden dark sides and me and reclaim so much energy I was leaking and boy did I get the Lighten your load. I felt so light, loving that wild girl. Realizing the end was just a dead end and I hadn't quite learned from it if I disliked part of myself. I embraced the scary side and decided to love it. To love the bad decisions and crappy things I had been trained to hide within. It sooooo freed me! It dissipated them. It let them go and a smile came to my face. Energy came to my body! Laughter filled me up. Wow! It was exhilarating!

I share this with you that maybe you too can be liberated from past misdeeds. Who cares, we all have them. As a parent I never hang on to the misdeeds of my child. I can't even remember many bad things my daughter ever did. Why would I do such a thing to myself. Clearly remember my mistakes and use them against myself? How insane! How draining! How unwise! No one ever means to mess up but as humans we just do and it is how we learn. Like Thomas Edison, he just keep loving his idea and trying again. And look at the genius he brought to the world. You to can bring your genius to the world by loving it all, even the parts that make you want to cringe at your stupidity. It shifts you so energetically! It releases toxins out of your cells. So you did some unsavory things, we all have and no one really cares. You truly are the one that keeps it alive and energy hiding it. Free it up by loving yourself in all the craziness! I wouldn't of landed into the great places I am if I didn't have that wild side that unpredictably got me here. Your self rejection is truly a waste of energy to move today toward so many things that you could create. May you free yourself by taking a moment to just love it all. There is no reason to reject anything about your ways. It is a self hindrance and it holds lots of creative energy awaiting to be activated toward something good.

There is absolutely no logic reason to reject anything about yourself. It is all good and here for your learning, the good, the bad and even the ugly. It is all just learning! Good luck with this, it will transform you if your truly get it! To love the ying and the yang, the dark and the light, the pretty and ugly will open up a new world. Not to mention how lovely it feels to have no reason to beat yourself up another day! Woohoo! Enjoy your wild side, it will make for a great weekend!

Empowered States! Find Yours!

2011-03-21T22:31:00.000-04:00

I know I have spoken about Aharata and you must wonder what is going on! I have truly found transformation through this study that is so far beyond anything I have ever learned. Those whom know me know I am a deep study girl. I am an incredible researcher when it comes to something I like. I will share a great experience I recently had.

My oldest friend Sheila and I went to our old hang out at the Neshaminy Creek. We played hours and hours so many days there when we were young. It was not far down the road and in those days you just could disappear in the summer and our parents allowed it. My brothers and our whole neighborhood would go on adventures there often. What prompted this was I was on a conference call studying Aharata and we were told to go to memories of when we felt so empowered as though we could conquer the world. Not from approval of others but when we believed we could anything.

In this I remembered the creek and the survival tales Sheila and I made up. It was her birthday so I suggested we head to our old creek spots to inspire us. We did last Friday and it was such great fun. Amazingly the creek appeared so the same. We hung out and yipped with our toes in the water where it was shallow with the deep calm section coming at us. It was incredible as the sun streamed through the trees. It really connected me with those great empowering memories, her and I , survivors, warrior girls pretending we had no family and had to survive alone on the creek. Being there was so powerful and the point was not to just recall the memories with your mind, but to get deep into the feeling states of that time. It tapped me into an energy source we all have that only includes ourselves. Powerful stuff!

I invite you to do the same. Maybe you can't go where you used to go, but recall in your being those times in your life. The world is hairy right now and it seems what we have done in the past is not working anymore. So much strife, financial struggle and reworking things is going on. Tapping into your power that you used so long ago can help to awaken it again toward what is happening right now in your life. We must get out of just thinking and tap into the emotions and states that include more of ourselves than we have been taught exists. I am greatful for this journey that Aharata has shown me. In a time when normally I would feel out of ideas, I have found ways to transform things from the deeper levels, to feel the shift in my cells. It is a unstable time about us, new ideas, new ways are necessary. Try to tap into that deeper sense of power and see where it leads! It is an exciting journey! At least you can try to remember when your power was about in these disempowering times.

Spring Equinox

2011-03-18T10:57:00.000-04:00

As a grower this is an auspicious time. The cycle of the seasons offers an experience of light growing in day length. The light and dark are equal at the equinox and from Sunday forward more light will be available to us. As a zone 6 gardener you could see the importance of capturing this cycle! As a human being know that light and bright energy are available for you to use in your endeavors! You are so effected by this and if you notice the power awakening around you just from the earths cycle, you can use it to move you quicker and with less effort. Very exciting news of spring!

The Goddess Oestara is about, awakening the beauty of the earth for the spring season. Maya, the great Goddess and also the representative of the illusive beauty that will engulf us with the spring season. Step out and enjoy this high energy that causes all peoples of all times to celebrate the awakening of growth. The cycle of growth and manifestation. Nature calls you to engage with curiosity!

Clear your gardens, rake up some leaves, ground into the earth in whatever way works. As gardeners we are preparing the soil and beds for the new ideas and seedlings we are growing this year. We welcome the perennials and cut off any dead growth and clear winter warmth to allow the sun to warm the plants and soil about the roots. These tasks can have a deeper, multipurpose for us than just ideas in our heads. Clear all parts of yourself as you notice the newness of spring, mentally, emotionally, and physically, put it out with the compost. It is experiential existence, being in the moment with all of your bodies aligned to partake in spring activities. Easter eggs, daffodils, palms and colorful hyacinths! Mmmm, the wonderful sensory perception of spring! Take it in and allow it to relax and settle you to know all is moving forward no matter what!

Your Life Purpose

2011-03-14T13:54:00.002-04:00

My 100th blog written! Perfect time to talk of the deep stuff! Much talk about success and purpose. I have been to many lectures, workshops and teachings about this very thing. I must proclaim that it is apparent that a life's purpose should be the base for all action. For your life to have a purpose you must step into a responsible role of sharing yourself in a unique way that inspires others.

Be the rock that begins a ripple. To find and grow your purpose you must put forth time to figure your self out. In the hustle and bustle of activity that life holds time is a fleeting thing, yet to your best you must step back to review the panorama of things. This is the thing that most people fail to do. I am to busy to figure out what I am here to do.

I advocate that in this great spring season you put forth some concentrated focus to review your life and see how it has woven to this point. I must select and nurture the flowers I want to grow in my garden. We must select the ideas we want to promote to further our lives and effect others. We need to give this attention if we are to truly bloom. All don't have the same level of responsibility so our tasks and influence vary. We do however all send out a great many ripples!

The world is in a challenging time so it is of great importance to reflect on what is going on and consciously pick a course to proceed. The economic rules have changed and there is a lull in this expansion. I support this as a perfect time to step back and review your direction and begin your expansion from an inner level. This is not just a mental review of things. You need to engage in a deeper experience that includes your heart, your body, your spirit as well as your mind. Alignment of all your ideas, all your parts, all your power in a focused concentrated way is what living on purpose is about. This requires a more experiential style of study that is not found in our business lectures of the day.

When you take this time to settle into yourself, to review your emotional life, your physical presence and your thinking to align them with the spirit that makes your distinctly you, then transformation and movement is quick and rapid. You must seek out when you had inspired states, the power to change the world, the feeling of openness that you could create anything. To find that flow of energy that is fueled by your own essence is not taught frequently enough. When your talents of yore that fueled you when you were young with all the possibilities in the world, are pondered upon, a great energy fills you. From here a sense of power that provides a clarity and movement of inspiration. From this state you are rightly aligned to look at yourself and unfold the purpose that your spirit, heart, mind and body came to forth to share.

Photgraphic Artistry by Terree Yeagle of Themomentphoto.com.

We need to begin to bring ourselves into alignment with ourselves, Our emotions here, our minds thinking of this and our body chasing after is not the way that brings effective living. We are here to experience. We are in a time when a more conscious movement is needed for us all to create a world that encourages all to achieve their highest intentions. We need to set the stage by doing it for ourselves first. What a wonderful place we have the hands in making. Being told what is the way it should be is outdated. Creating a more aligned life that supports all rather than a small group is what we are meant to create. Harmony begins within. You must cultivate the time for Man know thyself. In doing so then your life purpose will bubble up from the depths and your spring will cultivate the growth of great ideas that are distinctly yours.

Integral Self Empowerment. I am a student of this teaching and plan to host learning what that means in today's world at Harmony Hill Gardens. Come join us as we transform ourselves to live in purpose. We are all a Lotus Project! We have the power to align towards a new way of living!

The Beauty of the flower

2011-03-11T10:54:00.000-05:00

I love to grow and nourish flowers! There is this sacred feeling of offering what is necessary to make something grow. We all do this with the things in our life! Our businesses, our families, our ideas. We feed them what nourishes them and they unfold into their own manifestation! As a philosopher, growing offers so many analogies to the art of living. It's words are inspiring, grounding in, taking root, emerging, life cresting the mud, the stems growing towards the sun, the branches spreading out, the flowering of things, the fruit after the flower!

What brings me the most joy is the process. I would not arrange flowers if I did not grow them. I am a grower more than anything. Last night I began to grow a Sacred Femininity Circle. A place for woman to deeply nourish themselves. It was sooooo wonderful to plant that seed and start that journey with others. I have always been a gatherer of people. This gathering was so deep to my heart and of my very essence of purpose here at this time in the world. Woman are the highest form of humanity flowering. These I want to grow with and flourish more than anything. I am a woman. To grow myself only grows the whole of females. To grow together offers even greater creative power and effect in a world that so needs nourishing. Such lovely woman I had the experience of sharing with! I am blessed to be part of the whole growing process in all ways!

Joy is such a fine, rich vibration. We don't create enough of it. We look for it to come, we know when it shows up yet don't create enough of the vibration for ourselves. To learning to do that in subtle ways effects the whole presence of joy about. Blessed I am to be studying such a powerful emotion with others! It is the root of the Goddess Glow!

Classes At Harmony Hill Gardens

2011-03-05T15:37:00.000-05:00

As spring awakens, I am so excited to see the daffodils come up. I have been outside starting to clear the gardens and it is most inspiring. New growth for the farm is also emerging. I am offering education here this season, practices and knowledge that will add vitality to your life! I love to learn empowering techniques on all levels, so the classes are about empowerment towards a rich life of higher feelings. There are some new ways to look at the world coming around and I am one to investigate and experience them. I feel blessed to have found people and techniques that are transforming. It is time to step it up in world.

My website is getting updated and will eventually have them listed. I am scheduling now so I wanted to put out there some ideas to intrigue you. It is fun learning outside in nature as well! I hope to have you learn here with us this season. I will keep you all informed through all the channels. If you teach something that people need to learn, I would happy to speak with you. It is time to collaborate, connect and share if you have gifts that could help people live more happily, let us teach these things!

Regular Classes;
Yoga with Denise Olenoff
Aharata with Joshua Duncan if he is in town!

Monthly Offerings:
Sacred Femininity Circle that I will be teaching on Womans Empowerment
Living Green in Style to educate others how the green movement and choices are wellness choices.
Floral Arranging by myself or Kate Sparks. Hands on learning and creating with cut flowers.

Specialty Classes:
Nutrition with Crystal O'Connor of Your Intuitive Appetite.
Aligning Your Business with Your Soul's Mission with Diane Wing, MA
.Art Class that I am still investigating.
Musical Performance in Fall
Drum Circle for all to experience
Vibrant Living Festival Jul 31st, learn empowering ways to live vibrantly!

I will attempt to draw Masters here for us all to learn from on Tantra, Aharata, and Sacred Feminine Essence Teachings. This would be a great blessing!

Another great teacher I would love to have come speak is Lauren Nappen on whatever she wants to share!

To these great ideas growing this season so we all may feel better and more conscious in life! This is a healing piece of land that I offer up for us to learn on amongst natures beauty. Please partake of it all! Radastakakaya! Such a joy!!

Courage, Strength and Goddess Glow

2011-03-01T23:58:00.000-05:00

We all are experiencing and are part of the woman's movement in so many ways. There are great business groups out there, friends gathering, neighbor groups, spiritual groups, healing groups. I think all of these gatherings, females empowering and encouraging others is very important to the evolution of woman as well as our society at this time. Woman energy is different than men's. We operate in a business model molded by men. It seems that we are all trying to find balance and authenticity in being a woman with so many tasks and roles.

I am most passionate about working with woman and their inner beauty, their essence, there innate nature that is very individual. I feel myself that I have been uneducated about the real magnetism that makes me Lyn, empowered and beautiful. In this current world, I think we all are attempting to understand our feminine energy and develop it to settle more into ourselves for who we are and value that in a mans world. It is not just about adapting to the way things are being done, it is about putting more of ourselves, our feminine selves into a world that doesn't yet equate our value and energy as different, distinct and powerful.

When I speak of Goddess Glow, I am not talking just a beautiful woman, who sits about deserving or passive waiting for the world to offer her what she needs. Or one who fullfills others with nurturing and nourishent and is dancing about joyfully. Or the female energy that is passive and subservient, inactive or dependent. I am speaking of Cleopatra and her thinking, her way of being. A beautiful glow, a strong leader, a magnetizing woman. One who clearly came from her feminine essence and did it gracefully, magnificently. The strength, courage and beauty that she portrayed is what each of us have within. We are not tapped into that power. We all need more foundational value for ourselves so we can move unshaken continually,. We need stable ground that allows us to awaken our strong creative and emotional energy consistently and utilize to go forth harmonizing our lives.

I have been on a journey to study this magnetism, this creative power and inner essence. Through the I Am Woman Movement, Braveheart Woman and so many other great authors and healers I have found practices, ways of thinking that resurrect the Red Tent. Woman gathering for a deeper meaning, 1st to awaken their essence and power and then allow that to flow out from them to others rather than giving til there is no more left. To bring back the deeper stronger community of woman, nourishing each other and building a culture that allows our femininity to flourish and find its balance in this world. Our culture as woman has to go deeper into connecting with ourselves and our own beauty as creators.

I am having a feminine empowerment gathering next week at my home. I will be doing this once a month here,which will be wonderful when the weather warms and the flowers grow. I am scheduled for 3 classes at Blooming Glen Farms through their season and have a meetup group in Philadelphia. There is a call and awakening about that I am truly supportive and part of. I invite you to share in these practices to develop yourself first. To tend and befriend your soul and being first and allow the sacred feminine energy within you to guide and direct you through your many tasks with more connection and purpose. Courage, strength and Goddess Glow.

Clearing the Past

2011-02-25T14:24:00.000-05:00

So we clean our homes, our bodies, our environments about our spirit in an effect to get lighter, more open and effective. We want that. To clear the past and be present watching the river of life flowing towards us. It is all good until the clearing because something important or long standing.

What about when you are clearing smoking, you get it, you want to but you don't. Or eating emotionally. You see it and watch it but you seem to be unable to clear it. Or what if it is your marriage that needs a complete clearing, thats not like clearing old newspapers. These things are more challenging because they are based so in low vibrations. Low sad emotions. Clearing them means feeling them and getting the root out. They say constantly that it is a feeling universe. Using your feelings to propel you if they are low. Easier said than done.

That is why I am thankful for the Aharata. It is about these low vibrations locked within and using our fury to transmute them. So many connection to past things, people, situations that are alive and draining us. We know this. You can talk it out but that doesn't move it. It releases it for a moment. You have to take an action step and that is when you least want to. If is is the rooted in patterns that we have experienced for so long and the low emotions are so old it seems harder. They teach you to move and express these low vibrations with out having to think all to much. It is about the feeling. You think to help generate the feeling but the feeling is what you have energy tied in. They show you how to express that low emotion in an kata and transform it. You express it with breathe and sound and then it is gone. It transforms your state.

I had to write about clearing because it is not always this lala activity to get rid of things. Some things are more deep and require work to express them. Yet the work could be looked at as movement. A practice to move out some of your old pains and tales through breathe and expression. It has helped me quicker than any other philosophy I have found thus yet. Something you may want to investigate. Movement and expression go together. Express is a verb. It requires movement. So that is why we must do something physical. It is not just about looking good. It is about feeling good because you transform emotional energy when you move. Why not clear your past with all bodies in unison with one practice. It involves your workout, your mind thinking of what to clear, your emotions and feeling the low vibration, and then that energy transforms your feeling to allow new energy it. Very enlightening! Very vibrant feeling! It is like consciouness, prayer, exercise, expression and movement all in a series of katas. Very effective use of your energy!

More than anything just move. Move through your life. Feel your body. Clearing does make you lighter and your area expands when you are not clogged. Yeah it may seem hard. But this is what we are here to do. We are to express our own unique self so we can shine more light towards each other. The light needs room and we don't need the darkness within. When you decide you want to shine more you find you have lots of energy tied up in past things. So just get to it. Spring is here with high energy to support you in transtiion. Not to mention, the planets, stars and universe. So move and express! That is what we are here for! Aharata reminds us that we can become an integrated being and move as one!

Signs of Spring!

2011-02-24T07:48:00.000-05:00

At last! We know it is on the way!! Spring signs are everywhere despite the snow cover this morning! Birds are more active, buds are forming on Quince and spring trees, the pussy willows have catkins! Lavender and so many other plants were growing under the snow and have new growth on them as the earth warms up!

Spring creates so many traditions across the world! From the beginning of time people have celebrated rebirth when the earth warms. In Scandinavian Tradition, Oestara, the Goddess of spring, dances about the earth and awakens the plants. Maya, another Spring Goddess, found in many traditions, gave rise to the May Day practice of dancing around the pole weaving a ribbon. May 1st is considered her celebration where you are to leave anonymous flowers at ones doorstep. All great stories of awakening. And of course we have Easter in the Christian Tradition that Jesus rises up to heaven! The great rising, awakening, transformation, it is that time!

Using the power of this cycle is important to our lives. Energy is building so it is time to take action and move those ideas and dreams you created in winter. It is the season of action and growth. There is the famous spring cleaning which helps you purge what is unnecessary as you move your ideas to fruition. Very much like cutting all the dead off the perennials so new growth is not hindered with the extra dead stalks. All these activities are not just physical actions. They effect our emotional and mind beliefs as well so consciously engage all parts of you as you prepare for spring. Use these clearing activities as an inward exercise too. Maybe a cleanse of some type for your body or a one day fast. Your home, your garden, your body, your life, these all are your environments that need to prepare for the spring burst!

So ride the energy of spring and use it's power to help you emerge from a winter of reflection and planning. It is time to act, move, create and enjoy the warmth that comes. Engage in nature with your being, you are created from nature and it heals you more than you know! Great things are growing here at Harmony Hill Gardens!! Wake up to the joys about!

Vibrant Living, Wellness and Green

2011-02-18T08:18:00.000-05:00

I choose green more out of vanity and health more than any other reason. Being green is not all about saving the earth. Most people feel this is a revived "hippy" movement and maybe it is. They see the 60's types living off the land in squallier and minimalistic and do not want to be that. I am too young to have been a hippy and I like luxury and sparkle as much as I love gardening. Health is what inspires me to be green. I am just leading you to open to the great well being available without turning "granola" if that is not your style. A few reasons I go green! More to come!

1. Saving the earth is a by product of green. Green is about honoring ourselves, creating harmony and wellbeing in our homes, providing a healthy place for our family. Becoming a green advocate was a process I have experienced and created a heightened sense of wellbeing in me. I made wellbeing choices as the mother of the home, to provide the best nutrition because if my child is sickly or my husband has a heart attack it is on me for what I feed them. I purchase organic because we eat 3 times a day. It is the one thing that creates our bodies. Like the old saying, garbage in garbage out. I know we have miraculous powers of healing but no need to push the envelope. Why have a Coach bag when your insides are unhealthy and on the way to being poisoned?. Just makes sense to me that it is the best money spent.

2. I made wellbeing of our home through environmental products because Tilex about killed me years ago when I had a cleaning business. I wanted to clean without the obvious staunching, unhealthy smells of toxic chemicals as you know from the aisle in the grocery store! The dishwasher residue didn't look like it was helping my family so I sought out quality for our eating surfaces. Once I started using Melalueca products, I become educated about how the personal care products in our home are regulated by default while commercial industry has regulated standards. It wasn't my mission to be green, it was a mission in health.

3. As I started growing vegetables, I didn't use chemicals because it seemed against providing healthy food. Spray my food?? Didn't make sense. I also live on a farm with a well house and well water. I didn't use chemicals because I didn't want to drink them. I also didn't want to be a mixologist and end up hurting myself. It was a lazy choice really. Not as universal as you might think. Obvious over time working with the land, I realized my wisdom of wellbeing. It didn't start out that way. I learned to cook lightly and healthy because it takes less time and I am not all about cooking.

4. I use local products and town stores because it is a pleasure to support other business owners in my community. I like visiting mom and pop shops for the neighborliness of it and your are known. Not because it is important to buy local. It is a natural community choice. I joined the CSA to save myself from growing vegetables. It was easy and it supported another farm that I could drive by as I meander Beautiful Bucks County.

5.I donate clothes because it seems worthy to help out others less fortunate rather than throw them out. I always liked hand me downs for gardening so I could look good while gardening but not ruin my own pretty clothes. My girlfriends and I had gathering where we would clothing swap and it was fun! I clear my house out because we need to declutter spring and fall naturally. Donating to the salvation army saves on waste. It also helps others in our community. It wasn't about being recycle and reuse, it was a charitable decision. Later I learned Feng Sheui and that it brings in more chi, allowing a healthier home. Perfect!

6. We reuse here on the farm because we can't afford all new everything. It was a way to make due and it inspires creativity. It was economic.

7. I promote nutrition and health because it makes us all look and feel better. I am 46 and I want to be a beautiful old woman without plastic surgery or fake cheeks. I use organic products on my face because Denise who makes them is from New Zealand and has beautiful skin. She is worldly and shining. I want to be like her. I want to age gracefully and enjoy it. I know these choices make me more vibrant. Your skin is your largest organ and it absorbs incredibly. I would rather it absorb plants than manmade anything!

8. I am a cofounder of Green Collaboration, to make a healthier community for us all. Offering green choices so I can find them for myself then promote them to the average person who wants to be more vital and vibrant. Local ways to help us, help our neighbors and benefit our our community where we, our kids and family breath and live. I love all the beauty in Bucks County and want it to stay open and lovely.

Choose green because it makes you well, your family healthy, your space and yourself more beautiful! That is what it is all about. Healthier families, healthier homes, more conscious living for our towns and the effect is a more healthful earth. It is just that simple! Look good, feel good, live Green!