tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71114918375799997182024-02-07T09:35:47.280-08:00"Inside Out"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974382685228553679noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111491837579999718.post-73422231662255332432017-01-23T22:55:00.000-08:002017-01-23T23:05:09.301-08:00NEW UPDATES ARE COMING SOON!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So much has happened since I have changed my insights on this blog!</div>
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I have had several requests to return to writing about children and spirituality. </div>
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I plan on revamping the site soon.<br />
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I am currently teaching a Pre-K /Kindergarten class. The <a href="http://livingwisdomschoolwa.org/">Living Wisdom School</a> has moved into our new location which in many ways is a dream school facility for us. We have moved to Lynnwood, Washington.We had been located in Shoreline, Washington</div>
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for the past ten years. Now we are finding our way around Lynnwood once again. </div>
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.Our school was founded in Lynnwood in 2001.<br />
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Many Blessings to an expansive new year in many respects. </div>
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As we say often..STAY TUNED IN!!! </div>
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What a whirlwind this spring has been. Since completing my <a href="http://www.anandawashington.org/teacher-training/ytt/">Ananda Yoga Teacher Training</a> this spring, the days were increasing in light, but I have found myself mindfully connecting closer to my heart, and internally slowing down while listening to the inner callings of my soul. Thank you for continuing to read my past entries and sharing this with your friends and colleagues. I find the internet so fascinating and how we can connect globally all around the world with others that I may never have the opportunity to meet personally. I am viewing this blog as a divine service to others in sharing the <a href="http://edforlife.org/">Education for Life ideals,</a> and <a href="http://www.sharingnature.com/about-us/joseph-cornell.php">Sharing Nature</a> philosophy that I have grown to call my life's <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dharma">dharma. </a><br />
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I am here to introduce today, a beautiful project that I am asked to get involved by connecting others through social media. This entry today is to invite others to watch the recently produced; <a href="http://findinghappinessmovie.com/">Finding Happiness movie</a>.<br />
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For the past 20 years I have been apart of a large spiritual community called <a href="http://www.anandawashington.org/">"Ananda."</a> I found Ananda after developing my intuition through self taught meditation, and deep prayers during a particular challenging transition in my early 40's. I have been so blessed in developing life long friendships, spiritual family along with the benefit of deepening my spiritual longing to find truth and meaning in my life.<br />
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Recently in the past two years <a href="http://www.ananda.org/">Ananda </a>has been involved in a more outward ways by sharing the teachings of <a href="http://www.ananda.org/about-ananda-sangha/lineage/paramhansa-yogananda/">Paramhansa Yogananda</a>, and his mission of <a href="http://www.ananda.org/about-ananda-sangha/spiritual-communities/">spiritual communities.</a> They have recently produced a beautiful movie, which I am attaching in the right hand column of this blog. There is a link to the trailer to view, and directions on how to actually host your own gathering of friends and sharing this streaming movie in the privacy of your own home. .<br />
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Are you seeking truth and depth in your spiritual life? For connections to other like minded souls to grow in deeper spiritual understanding?<br />
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Please take some time to watch the movie: <a href="http://findinghappinessmovie.com/">Finding Happiness, </a>and share it with others.<br />
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Any questions that you may have, you may direct them to me on this blog, or contact <a href="http://ananda./">Ananda.</a><br />
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Well this afternoon, I was sipping my lunch soup and wondering how the year has slipped by so quickly. I had a dear friend remark, that this must be your year of study and introspection. She was totally right! I am in the process of completing my Ananda Yoga Teacher Training as a refresher from the year 2002. It takes quite a bit of study, reflection and physical yoga. I am so enjoying this time to dive deeper in the ancient yogic teachings and taking the time to introspect about what the new year will bring. </div>
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2013, was also another deeply inspiring time to study with my spiritual guides, and be certified as a <a href="http://www.sharingnature.com/index.php">"Sharing Nature<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">®</span></a> trainer. With this program, it is taking some time for study and deep reflection as to how I will be applying these deep teachings more fully. They always say: 'If you want to learn something, it is best to dive deep and teach it." </div>
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So 2014, will bring for me personally a time for deeper attunement by sharing these two streams of inspirational light that seem to be coming my way. </div>
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The future, is in Divine Mother's hands. </div>
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Who can resist learning more crafts. We all have creativity in our bones and as teachers we love to see what others are doing. Here were my favorites from our <a href="http://livingwisdomschoolseattle.org/preschool/">last school year, </a>2011-2012. </div>
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The title and photo says it all. This is a guest post from one of our lovely parents at the <a href="http://livingwisdomschoolseattle.org/">Living Wisdom School. </a>I am thrilled to see how many of my readers loved her writing and humble account about her new book and working with her children. Thank you, Nilanjana! </div>
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This blog entry also began with a shared piece of art from one of my internet friends in Ashland Oregon, <a href="http://elainefrenett.com/">Elaine Frenett</a>. It was so magnetic, I know this is how others were drawn to this entry. Thank you again Elaine. </div>
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This was one of my favorite and most meaningful celebrations that we had for our children this past year. </div>
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It surely started our year out in a blaze of magnetism and joy. </div>
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Thank you all for a wonderful year in reading this blog. I am inspired by so many who I have met, and I will continue to meet in 2014. </div>
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Right now most of us are relaxing and reviewing the spiritual thoughts that Christmas brought to us this year. Yes, another year of rustling to this party or that, shopping, tuning into that best present for a friend, or just listening to your favorite musical Christmas piece. But that is the outward form of Christmas. </div>
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The many inner moments of the past week, came disguised with many forms and small packages. This year marks a special seventeenth year that my husband and I will always remember. It was like riding a bike at your fastest pace, but it never seemed to take off fully or was tripped up by yet another surprise. We just had to laugh at it all, try our hardest and keep it all in prospective.</div>
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Christmas isn't just one day for us, it is how we live our lives constantly on our spiritual journey </div>
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May this Christmas be forever close to your heart, and may we all continue to share that light with all whom we meet. I send my warmest blessings of love and light to you all. </div>
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<b>1</b>. The children glued tissue paper, using starch on their jars that made gratitude trees for their Thanksgiving tables. Each jar, we added fairy, magic glitter and well, a little plaster of paris. (I kept that part a secret. Then they magically turned into trees.) The children just loved it. </div>
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<b>2</b>. This is one of our classmates. His picture is in our 3D mural in our hallway. The children love to climb in our outdoor natural play-space. The children had an idea to create this mural for our family open house in November. </div>
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<b>3</b>. Each day at our circle time we wrote what we were thankful for on small slips of paper. The children loved this activity adding several a day. They were carefully hung on our classroom gratitude tree. </div>
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<b>4</b>. Our nature altar was changed with a real tree on of the boys found in our tree playground. It had blown over in a storm so we brought it in the classroom. </div>
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<b>5</b>. We are all practicing our cutting and pasting skills this month. We made our community neighborhoods. The children are also practicing for our all school fundraising project that we will be making for February. </div>
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<b>6. </b>This is our 3D mural. This was a several step process, complete with running paths, leaves glued to the service, trees painted by every child, leaves made from melted crayons, leave block painting and our stumps were made from toilet paper rolls, starch, coffee filters and acrylic paints. </div>
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<b>7</b>. The children love the trees. Their pictures were cut out and put in the 3D mural. </div>
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<b>8</b>. Our community "yogi", fireman came to our classroom. We had a wonderful time with Bryan Dotson. Bryan is a multi-talented fireman and teaches his team of firefighters how to meditate and practice yoga. He was a perfect role model for all our students at our school. </div>
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<b>9</b>. Concentration was another one of my sub categories in our curriculum. These were our Thanksgiving trees that each child carefully painted gold along each stem.This was extremely challenging for five year olds and they took great pride in their finished trees. All their daily blessings were then added to their own trees. Each tree was then taken home for their family Thanksgiving table settings. </div>
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Its been awhile since I have put my attention on sharing my favorite stories for young children. It is that time of year again when we focus in on the holidays and we want to give as special gifts for our love ones. <span style="text-align: center;">This book is so sweet for all the budding musicians in your life.</span><br />
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We were very fortunate to have the distinguished <a href="http://www.davidebymusic.com/">David Eby</a> join us at the Living Wisdom School of Seattle this past month. He and others, shared with us a direct experience of music and vibration.</div>
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As I conclude this month, please visit "Inside Out," later this month and I will compile some new suggestions for all your holiday gift giving. <br />
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I came across this spiritual quote during the week, and I felt inspired to share with one of my photos.<br />
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" When one realizes God, he no longer feels that others are different from himself.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-indent: 2px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;"> Each fall brings such a beauty as every tree, branch, and bush displays its own </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit;">This fall had so many magical moments with my classroom too. The children really opened up to the world of fall and all its beauty. I </span><span style="color: #141823;">received</span><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> comments from my parents about their daily outings with the children and how we were all </span>experiencing this season of beauty<span style="font-family: inherit;"> together. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.59375px;">The colors are so beautiful. This fall has filled my heart </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px;">with such deep love, gratitude and with a humble heart I can surrender more easily to that greater power of spirit all around us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.59375px;">Or then again, is it winter with the sparkling snow or maybe springtime with the delicate cherry </span>blossoms<span style="line-height: 18.59375px;"> falling like a delicate floral snow showers. Is this my favorite season? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.59375px;">As I chuckle I can recall so vividly this past summer photo a day project, with large warm beds of </span>lavender<span style="line-height: 18.59375px;"> aroma that filled my soul to the core?" I just cant make up my mind which season I like the best. . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823;">I have had the thought that all this beauty is from an astral memory. You may begin to ask, what is an astral memory? <a href="http://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/chap43.php">"The astral universe, made of various subtle vibrations of light and color, is hundreds of times larger than the material cosmos."</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18.59375px; text-indent: 2px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">opens up all our </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18.59375px; text-indent: 2px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">senses by looking at these astral colors of leaves? </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 2px;"><span style="color: black; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px;"><span style="color: #555555; line-height: 18px;">This is beginning to feel like a </span></span><span style="color: #555555; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">heavenly </span></span><span style="color: black; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #555555; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px;">memory that can touch us so deeply and we can experience it at any moment during </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px;">our day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; text-indent: 2px; white-space: nowrap;">daily shower of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; text-indent: 2px; white-space: nowrap;">beauty opening </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; text-indent: 2px; white-space: nowrap;">up every part of my being. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am not sure I will ever really know from my rational mind. But I can reveal in sharing </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">this deep inner love with my students </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;">and all whom I come in contact with. It comes from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;">a deeper </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;">sense of knowing something that is beyond myself. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;">The deepest longing </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.59375px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">chants written by <a href="http://www.ananda.org/about-ananda-sangha/lineage/paramhansa-yogananda/">Paramhansa Yogananda</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsYiFuOWpQ">Oh God Beautiful </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.587499618530273px; white-space: nowrap;">He gently, looked up to the sky, the meadow, and began to chant:"I get it now,"as if </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.587499618530273px; white-space: nowrap;">"God is everywhere. Everywhere you look." How profound this statement</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.587499618530273px; white-space: nowrap;">for a four year old. How </span><span style="line-height: 18.587499618530273px; white-space: nowrap;">long did it take all of us to realize this?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.587499618530273px; white-space: nowrap;">I leave you with that thought of inspiration and I hope that </span></div>
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Yesterday I started the day by asking Divine Mother to be with me and give me a day just for her. I asked her to show me the perfect Divine Mother Day, dedicating the entire day just to Her. I have lived in<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Santa Cruz, California</strong> all my life, and never before have I seen so many examples of her beauty and grace. I saw seven miracles yesterday in total. And I hope that by sharing them with you, you too will be inspired to have your own Divine Mother Day.</div>
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The day began with a beautiful morning walk as the sun rose along the beach in Capitola. During the entire walk I asked for Divine Mother to be with me that day, and to open my heart to feel her joy and love. I walked all the way down the beach to my favorite place where I usually like to do my <a href="http://ashramgirlinthecity.com/2013/01/19/yoga-healing-tips-energization-exercises-of-paramhansa-yogananda/" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #743399; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Yoga Healing Tips: Energization Exercises of Paramhansa Yogananda">yoga exercises</a> and practice morning <a href="http://ashramgirlinthecity.com/2012/12/06/how-to-meditate-meditation-for-beginners/" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #743399; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="How to Meditate: Meditation for Beginners">meditation </a>in the healing rays of the sunrise. The place where I usually go is a bit hidden, and not many people choose to climb down the hillside where I go, so close to the breaking waves. This morning I had it all to myself, and the sun happened to be shining on the water with a line of sunshine heading directly toward me. I felt the warmth and let it soak in all over , awakening my body cells and helping me to start my day <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">right</em>.</div>
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After I finished meditating I gazed out across the ocean. To my surprise my gaze led me straight to the spouting of a <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">humpback whale </strong>(Miracle #1). Yes. A whale! And not just this one whale, in fact, that day there were a pod of about 20 humpback whales in the ocean just in front of me. They were off in the distance, but not far enough away that I could not see their spouts jetting out of the water and their flippers dancing in the wind just as if to wave “hello!”</div>
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In all my life growing up in Santa Cruz, I have never come close to anything like that moment.</div>
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After I was finished being amazed, I walked home to be with my divine mother on Earth– my mom, and she suggested that we head off to visit the <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monarch Butterflies</strong> of Natural Bridges State Park.</div>
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The monarch butterflies migrate every year just around this time (October) to nest in the warm sunny Santa Cruz. The butterflies are like flowers with wings, fluttering about busily yet with such a stillness and calm strength about them unlike anything else. They just cover the area so that everywhere you look (Miracle #2)– you see a beautiful orange flashing across the gentle blue skies. Sometimes they flutter solo, sometimes in pairs, and other times they gather together in big bunches on the eucalyptus trees.</div>
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My mom and I just sat together looking up and watching silently as they fluttered overhead.</div>
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Then I heard the screeching of a hawk in the nearby trees. I immediately began scanning the trees for this hawk, hoping to see a red tailed hawk. Red tailed hawks have always been a special sign in nature to me, as they have signified important moments and big changes in my life.</div>
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I kept my eyes on the spot where I heard the call, and finally saw the beautiful moment where the hawk spread its wings, calling to its friend across the grove. I had never before seen<span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this</em> kind of hawk. I learned later from a park ranger that it was a <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">red </strong></span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shouldered</em></strong><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hawk</strong> (Miracle #3)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. These hawks are like the monarch butterflies in that each year, they travel afar and then return to the same place to nest.</span></div>
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After a delicious and healthy lunch I went home to join my dad for a paddle boat outing we had planned the day before. We knew it was going to be another bright, sunny day– and wanted to spend it out on the water.</div>
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When we arrived we heard that the harbor was just finishing a giant anchovie clean up. Every so often, there is an influx of the anchovie population, in which too<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>many anchovies enter into the confined space of the harbor, use up all the oxygen, and eventually begin to die out. Though the harbor crew and clean up volunteers had already left, there were still hundreds of seagulls swarming the entire harbor, feeding upon thousands of anchovies<span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. I had never been able to see them up so close, practically right on top of our boat, and I could see them literally begin to take off for flight by running on top of the water (Miracle #4). </span></div>
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As we continued paddling further out into the harbor, we saw Miracle #5: a pack of sea lions rolling and playing together in a group of nearly 12! My dad and I had never seen them doing this, let alone right in front of us! They apparently will band together to frighten the groups of anchovies together so that they may then feed upon them. Right after this, I saw Miracle #6– a huge swarm of anchovies that flew up onto the surface of the water, practically flying, with beautiful silver rays of light playing in the sun.</div>
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Then to our left a pair of sea otters floated right next to us (Miracle #7), tummies up, playful cute faces looking toward us curiously. They hung around us showing us their moves– beautiful spins, twists and turns with the water, deep dives, and big smiles!</div>
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There may have been many more miracles happening that day, but so small and sweet that I hardly even thought to count them. That is the way that Divine Mother is. She is there with us, giving us even the smallest things–hardly noticeable as we rush about our days. But she does this because she wants us each to know that she <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</em> always with us, just waiting patiently for us to see her and let her in. So that we begin to feel her presence <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">everywhere</em>. All she wants is for us to feel her love and to share that love with all.</div>
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So why don’t you try it for yourself? Ask her for a Divine Mother Day, dedicated just to her nature and the miracles of her beauty and grace.</div>
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Leaves in the autumn came tumbling down,</div>
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I believe every school classroom all over the northern hemisphere is celebrating the seasonal changes now as we celebrate autumn. Our classroom at the <a href="http://livingwisdomschoolseattle.org/">Living Wisdom School of Seattle, </a>is no exception. Our focus this month have been the beauty of trees. I like to build on the spiritual experiences for young children through the study of our earth's natural rhythms. </div>
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Just to name a few qualities that I focus on: inner power, strength, calmness, beauty. and stability. Tree medicine comes through many experiences in the classroom. We can share a powerful story from nature, a song, interwoven bark textures, and though a multitude of visual art creations. </div>
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I love the fall and all the many ways it can open the heart in nature.</div>
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Our class plays daily in our natural playground filled with Cedar, Douglas Fir, Maple, Alder and Hemlock trees. Is is a joyous sight to behold. The children and I love to bath in this carefree childlike setting, filled with make believe bears, gnomes and fairies. The children are transported to a magical wonderland of their make believe worlds and story telling. </div>
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I began my blogging journey in August 2011. I was one of the very first <i>Education for Life</i> teachers to take the leap of faith after researching how to write a blog for about a year. Actually it was just getting up the nerve to write. Who would read it? What would I call it? Are others even interested in a different point of view when educating the whole child through the <a href="http://edforlife.org/">Education for Life</a> principles? Would anyone be willing to listen to my inner dialog or chatter about alternative lifestyles? </div>
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One hundred and fifteen entries later, and well as they say, the rest has been history. Our small group of teachers are now expanding all around the globe. Many of our teachers are expanding on their own blogs.( These are at the side panel on this blog) </div>
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We had our second Education for Life Conference this summer at our <a href="http://www.anandauniversity.org/">Living Wisdom College </a>campus. It has been so wonderful connecting with educators in India, Australia, England, New York, Oklahoma, Canada, Italy, well there are too many to remember exactly. It has been an exciting time. </div>
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This past month in the history of my blog, I had over 1600 readers. It is mind blogging. Where do you all come from?</div>
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I will be having a <u><b>free drawing</b> </u>for one of two selected books :</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/For-Goodness-Sake-Discovering-ebook/dp/B0030XMEIK">" For Goodness Sake".</a> </div>
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I am attaching the links for you to read a review about each book. </div>
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After one week, I will have a drawing for this book. The only catch is that you have to add your name at the comments below and how I can contact you. This will be so helpful. Please let me know why you would love to receive one of these books? </div>
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Thank you again for reading and returning to my blog. I am humbly grateful and glad that I could share. </div>
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Joy to you,</div>
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Every September I begin our year with the unit: "All the world is my friend." This is a song written by: <a href="http://www.ananda.org/about-ananda-sangha/lineage/swami-kriyananda/">Nayaswami Kriyananda. </a> This has such a broad way of introducing new friendships, cooperation and harmony in our daily activities. </div>
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The words to the song:</div>
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All the world is my friend</div>
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When I learn how to share my love.</div>
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When I stretch out my hand and smile,</div>
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Then I live from above. </div>
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Here is the <a href="http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=MICFJ">link </a>to the music. </div>
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The children begin to sing this from the first day of class. I offer books, puppet plays, yoga practices, games and art activities to bring in the theme for the month. </div>
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This year I did a few new activities in case you read my<a href="http://chandi-holliman.blogspot.com/2012/10/all-world-is-my-friend.html"> October entry from 2012. </a></div>
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Integration of whole body drawing with our feet. When we draw with our feet, and switch to the hands it all seems easy. We draw with play dough, sand, in the air and on each others backs. This is so exciting to be silly with our new friends. </div>
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Sewing patterns with our friends</div>
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Harvesting sunflowers together from our school garden. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of the girls in my afternoon Prekindergarten class was coloring with our <a href="http://www.bellalunatoys.com/stockmar-beeswax-block-crayons-16.html">block beeswax crayons</a>. She said to me: "These need to be cleaned." So I had told her about an idea that I heard and never thought I would have the opportunity to actually try it since I knew it might be time consuming. But we pulled out basic <a href="http://www.celebratetherhythmoflife.com/2013/04/how-to-clean-beeswax-crayons.html">vegetable oil, and a small bowl.</a> We began to rub and rub. All the markings came off on our paper towels. It made hand made paper. It was so lovely and reminded me of all the felting projects that I love to do. I couldn't throw the paper away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> So tore it up in small pieces and glued it as land continents on our globe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This added another level of fun. We cut out many photos of animals that lived around the globe and glued them to our world.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The children also put a large floor puzzle together using the same principals of maps and habitats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The mural had so many beautiful stages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is the list from what a mural can accomplish in a classroom setting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Celebration of harmony, cooperation, and joy in class. Dynamic tracing hands, right and left hands, cutting, pasting, geography, animal habitats, willingness to help others, gross and fine motor skills, sewing, sensory integration, grip control, recycling, singing , watercolor techniques, blotting, crayon resist, sponge painting, and blending.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">One of the students as she helped me commented: " Wow, I had no idea, we did all that!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is beautiful."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What a lovely way to honor our friendships and live in harmony with the world all around us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Chandi</span></div>
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The beginning of a new school year is filled with many projects to accomplish and new families to greet. The children need to melt their energies as one and just begin to settle into new classroom </div>
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Last year about this same time I wrote about the change in our seasons, and rhythms with our families. If you didn't get to read it here is that <a href="http://chandi-holliman.blogspot.com/2012/11/peace-gave-us-seasons.html">entry. </a></div>
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I was writing about my new habit of driving in my car to our school. </div>
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Well this year, I am creating newer habits and have switched my impatient look at the annoying stoplights. </div>
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Silly for me, I have always had some great moments while sitting at a stoplights. </div>
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I have for many years prayed at a stop light for others and blessed them while I am waiting for the lights to turn green. Another more expansive thought is by trying to visualize and imagine, all the many stop lights in the world at different intersections. We are all connected at this exact moment in time, all throughout the world. You can realize the unity of people, cultures, cars and all kinds of emotions happening everywhere. Simple as it seems. Give it a try. It can brighten you day. </div>
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I can get carried away with it and often brings me deep inner laughter and joy. </div>
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But then as the light turns green, I am off to my next thought and moving along my way.</div>
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So now this fall, I am changing my morning habits to embrace new rhythms. In new ways I am changing small things as I begin each day. I leave earlier each morning, pack my lunch the night before, prepare my veggies for my juicing the night before ,and my morning yoga/meditations are fully recharged and inspiring. I find myself arriving totally recharged and refreshed. My day just flows beautifully.</div>
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I think the children feel it too. It is glorious. </div>
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This brings me back to rhythm. What types of new rhythms are we all creating each day? Each moment?</div>
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How long does it actually take to create a new rhythm or habit? I am sure the experts have many opinions about this, but in actuality does that really matter?</div>
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I have found new habits and rhythms create enthusiasm and honestly that is how I love to start every day. </div>
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With joyful, calm enthusiasm. This also sustains me as my inner reward to keep going everyday. </div>
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One of the new ways of sharing on my blog for the next few months will be more photos of our activities and less writing. </div>
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Another commitments of change this fall, is that I am retaking my <a href="http://www.anandawashington.org/teacher-training/ytt/">Ananda Yoga Teacher Training</a> again after 12 years. This is a thrilling time. </div>
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There is a old saying that goes: "Try it you'll like it." </div>
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Try some new rhythms of change. Let me know what is happening in your lives, and how your family is turning into the greater rhythm of life all around us. </div>
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I have been teaching Ananda Yoga to children since 2002, when I received my first training from Ananda Yoga. This was also the first year of the Living Wisdom Preschool which is now the Living Wisdom School of Seattle. Just as the school has evolved with over 50 students my yoga classes have also evolved over the years. I am now teaching 4 classes a week during the school year to about 40 students. The ages I mostly teach are ages 3-8. </div>
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Now often I get many puzzled looks about how I can teach a 3 year old yoga but I have found teaching to the young child can be uplifting, joyful, creative, and entertaining. I believe in teaching children's yoga it is all about moving, centering, listening and creating a deeper state of calmness that a child can tune into on their own. </div>
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Many hatha yoga traditions are generally known for toning and stretching the muscles, building strength and flexibility. It also promotes cardiovascular health and emotional well-being and providing stress relief. Yoga also stimulates and invigorates internal organs and thus encouraging the body to heal itself and one that really helps our children is it improves concentrations and focus while increasing mental clarity. </div>
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But Ananda Yoga also provides our children about body control and breath without force, and a gentle ease of,well being connectedness, vitality and inner joy that can help children in their daily routines. Ananda Yoga helps us tune into our bodies opening up the energy channels, that awakens the subtle life force. We learn how to move the energy inward, feel and then move it upward. The children learn the subtle ways to tense, relax, and feel their energy. </div>
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Ananda Yoga also uses subtle affirmations with each asana. The children can memorize these and use them in their daily lives when faced with different circumstances. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I often teach asanas each week the exact same way,and build on their strength and I tune into the asanas that are their favorites. I have found the ages beginning at age 4 the children really need to build core, upper body and upper leg strength. This helps them in all areas of their physical lives. I have found yoga strengthens their bodies to make them stronger runners for soccer, stronger upper body strength for swimming and leg strength for body awareness and control of their upper torso.</span><br />
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T<span style="font-size: small;">he next stage of our yoga class is "<b><i>Direct Experience."</i></b> These are the times of deep concentration. This can happen during our "deep relaxation" visualization journey that the children go on, a short meditation we practice together or a song that I sing while ringing our ending bell: "I am rocking until I get real still "segment of our class."This is ultimate climax to the class and the ultimate joy of experiencing the deeper aspects of yoga together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">All of this is done with familiarity from week to week can be with games, stories, puppets, story cards and songs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I have many tricks in my magic basket from 12 years of teaching yoga, that I share. All the classes build on one and other/ It keeps things actively calm and calmly active.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the very end of class I offer our" S<b><i>hared Inspiration"</i></b> segment of the class. This is when I pull out an muti-faceted glowing egg. We all pass our egg around as we share together the quality of the color that that the egg is releasing for us. As they <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Imagine-Self-Color-Changing/dp/B0014ZDRMS/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1378185610&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=Orb+glowing+eggs">hold the egg, </a>it turns spiritual colors. The colors represent, love, wisdom, calmness, truth, healing and kindness. They love to hold the egg and share their quality their families after class .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Above all of the techniques and rituals of any yoga class, it is my deepest devotion to share yoga with children. I am humbled and honored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I bow to the soul in you,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I bow to the soul in me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and together we are one.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Namaste</span><br />
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The summer is slowly ending, but I can say the life of a teacher is always in clear focus.</div>
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The past three weeks, I have been changing my classroom at the Living Wisdom School and creating my yearly curriculum. There are a few new changes in our environment. Every item needs to be cleaned, and moved to create an uplifting foundation for the new students that arrive on Wednesday. Some how it feels like I have been going at "turtle " pace though. I like to spend quality time in my classroom meditating, singing and actually creating some new art. This year some new felt pieces and art will be added into the classroom.<br />
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The environment is the third teacher and helps to uplift the spirit of the child. I like to prepare my classroom with soothing harmonious colors, materials and fabrics. This year especially I am focusing on beauty and calmness. Mentally I place each item in a certain location that can uplift and spark inner love, creativity, and beauty for the young child.<br />
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I believe that children don't need a lot of unnecessary materials that clutter their environments and spaces. The materials I use are also natural woods with the elimination of unnecessary plastic in the space. I also create all my own visuals. I don't buy teacher materials to put up all over the walls. The art on the walls, are there to stimulate children's creativity and instill the qualities that everyone can be an artist. We all have creativity deep within our beings. If I am teaching an aspect I will add my own visuals. These are just my own personal views and are very subtle to the spiritual child.<br />
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I begin imagining children playing in a certain location before the first day of school. What area will have the most children playing? What is the flow in the classroom? Are their areas that a child can play alone or with others? Are their areas for drawing, reading, and block play? Are there dark spaces? Is the lighting soft? Is every corner uplifting without clutter? Are the counters clean? Are there plenty of baskets for natural material: rocks, drift wood, and shells? Does the classroom flow with ease? Is there a space for all the materials?<br />
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I also place an importance in meeting my students before school starts. I like to bond a little with them and make them at ease with the new transition of entering the Living Wisdom School.<br />
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This past week, I added a whole new cooking area for our room and painted this picture that hangs in our reading area. We are doing more cooking this year, so the children will be practicing along side of me while we prepare: soups, breads, muffins, fresh organic juices, and moon biscuits of course.<br />
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In the pre-kindergarten classroom I use uplifting but soothing colors. The classroom is a nurturing space for a young child. For many children this is one of the first places away from their home. My classroom provides the bridge into a more traditional classroom. I use soft lighting, plants, flowers, crystals, and soothing colors.<br />
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"No matter what work I am called upon to perform, I know there is a way to bring beauty and inspiration into it. May I always be alive to beauty and creative inspiration."</div>
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Many Blessings,</div>
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This summer has been full of many beautiful memories thus far. One of my greatest joys this summer has been selecting organic produce from our CSA and now our <a href="http://anandafarms.com/">Ananda Farm on Camano Island.</a><br />
I have had many wonderful opportunities harvesting fresh lavender, kale, and greens this summer.<br />
I didn't pick this artichoke but I couldn't resist taking a photo of it. They are so beautiful in the gardens this year.<br />
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The focus today for our link up is: "What are your favorite recipes for the summer with your children?"<br />
I have just received a new Omega juicer and I am in love with my summer selections.<br />
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I love sharing fresh juices with my family, grandchildren and my students.</div>
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I have been leading the 5-7 year old group this year in our Living Wisdom Yoga Camp.</div>
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I will continue to write about my 15th year teaching at the Living Wisdom Yoga Camp in the next few days.<br />
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But for now I am just getting my feet wet as I begin to prepare intuitively for our school year beginning in September. I am exploring my first class with the <a href="http://www.celebratetherhythmoflife.com/2013/07/announcing-planning-session.html">Waldorf Community</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09961004165403730591">Lisa Boisvert Mackenzie</a>. I met Lisa a few years ago when we were both doing another online class together through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FairyDustTeachingBlog">Fairydust Teaching. </a>Lisa is a profound writer, teacher, parent facilitator, and mother. I love reading her blogs and experiencing the simple life she leads in Vermont.<br />
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The internet is a golden opportunity to enrich our lives while meeting fellow teachers all though out the globe and I have found it deeply inspiring sharing ideas together.<br />
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I am catching up on her latest training late each evening. It takes all my willpower to not fall asleep while reading the materials. Our weather here in Seattle has been so beautiful, and while I am not complaining teaching outside each day in Yoga Camp can really zap my energy levels.<br />
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But as the title of the blog today: I am just<i> <b>tiptoeing in the water</b></i> while thinking ahead for my new class, families, and fall registration.<br />
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But not to soon, I am still feeling the bliss of this beautiful Northwest summer we are having.<br />
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Happy Summer<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974382685228553679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111491837579999718.post-71182950159898989582013-07-18T21:11:00.000-07:002013-07-31T22:41:46.607-07:00Stepping into the light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have just recently returned from my annual silent retreat that I take each summer. A great Indian saint said: <a href="http://www.anandaclaritymagazine.com/2011/09/yogananda-god-thanksgiving-joy/">"Seclusion is the price of greatness."</a> So it is with this spirit I packed up all my belongings, left my natural surroundings, and began to quiet the murmur of my soul. </div>
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My days were spent in meditation, yoga, chanting, spiritual journaling, praying for my loved ones, reading spiritual literature, and for the first time in many years, I'm rekindling my practice of drawing and painting. </div>
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This year was a beautiful time of solitude. I bundled up all my camping gear and headed to a nearby lavender farm. My heart really wanted to be close to the trees. </div>
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I spent six nights in a small tent underneath large cedar and pine trees. I awoke each morning to nearby forest birds singing a boisterous symphony chorus of various songs. Their methodical melodies joyfully awoke my senses. Each sound was in continuous harmony, gently reminding me that I was <i>Only</i> a visitor to their natural setting. </div>
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During the school year, I like to teach my students about becoming a part nature's existence. I found it deeply inspiring this year to become so still in nature. So this was a profound journey into the heart of nature each day. </div>
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Now, I am back home into my natural rhythm of daily life in the <a href="http://www.anandacommunityoflynnwood.org/">Ananda Community</a> with a harmonious spiritual family and deep soul friendships. </div>
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Re-entry from not talking for 6 days can be a little challenging at first. You just want to hold onto the inner <span style="text-align: left;">silence and peace for as long as you can. </span></div>
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I have found each summer day upon my return refreshing, and my energy is recharged. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I would like to leave you with some lovely photos I took during my seclusion and inspire your thoughts of experimenting and trying to take a seclusion for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The light beckons all of us a home to his guiding presence.</span><br />
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Welcome again to Warmheart Wednesdays. It has been a whole week and time has gone by so quickly.<br />
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I want to feature an activity that was linked up last week, from<a href="http://riverblissed.blogspot.com/2013/06/camping-in.html"> Susan Tara at River Bliss</a>. She shared so a great summer project that could be adapted almost anywhere. Even on a rainy afternoon, this would be a glorious afternoon activity. I love how she turns out all the lights and makes the campfire glowing.<br />
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The weather here in Seattle for June has been so beautiful. Our summer is in full swing. Acutally I have lived in Seattle my whole life and I have never seen a June like we have had this year. We are truely blessed.<br />
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I was able to join my grandchildren for a fun enchanting end of the year party that their family organized for all their school friends. Truly, I believe my daughter is living out one of her childhood experiences. She was never really one that enjoyed crowds of kids, so she often preferred a fun day at a wild slide park. But as we all have to go through life experiencing events over and over, this was her own magically way of sharing this with her children. A fun day was had by all.<br />
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As the year ends for classroom teachers, the first couple of weeks are almost a daunting task to actually tell the body to slow way down. How do we do that? How can we actually just be? The school year is divided up into so many single tasks that seem to roll out like a long carpet, that never stops. I like to visualize a palace with the carpet of our tasks filling up the whole castle. The children are the princes and princesses. We are there to serve their needs as best we can.<br />
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But now the summer is for us to replenish our mind, body and souls.<br />
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I have over the years really loved and cherished the summertime.<br />
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It is a time for me to remind myself that I am to slow down my mind from chattering, planning, and become one with the spiritual energy all around me. I begin to notice nature more profoundly, the birds, the warmth of the sun, and of course lets not forget the flowers. As I slow down I am inwardly more creative. I listen to the whispers of my soul more profoundly and the inner lessons that I am to receive.<br />
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I begin to look at my body temple. How can I replenish it as well? How well am I eating, sleeping, and exercising. I am I drinking enough water? I take the time to juice daily and eat organic foods that are grown right outside my door.<br />
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This next week I will be taking my annual meditation seclusion. It is a time of complete silence. I will not have emails to answer, phones,or internet connections. It is a time to dive deep into the spirit and to replenish my soul for the year that will unfold in the fall.<br />
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May we all find solace in this season of warmth and inner joy.<br />
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Since the summer began I have been browsing the internet and posting to my <a href="http://pinterest.com/chandih/its-sum-sum-summertime-summertime/">Pinterest</a> page on sharing specific summer activities with your children. I was actually overwhelmed and didn't know where to begin. I have over the past two years been able to share my ideas over specific "widgets", on different blogs, that allow the reader to collaborate their creations together under specific themes each week. What a great way to expand the love. I choose Wednesdays as a way to tune into the middle of the week. Though these melodious inspirations from global bloggers, I am hoping to share with all the blessings I have received through linking up to their numerous sites. Many of these are listed on the right hand corner of this blog.<br />
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I wanted to start off with a great summer idea that came from one of the teachers at our school. She is a mother of three very active girls. I just loved the way she mapped out the whole summer with different themes and activities for them to focus on. </div>
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Yesterday I was at a summer solstice celebration and my granddaughter handed me this tiny leaf. She knows how I collect heart rocks and finding beauty in nature. She thought this could be added to my collection. She is such a sweet and gentle spirit. "Here, Oma, this is for you!" Not thinking of herself, she handed right to me.<br />
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Happy solstice and for a beautiful summer yet to come. </div>
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Make me the sea,</div>
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Make me the sea.</div>
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Wave of the sea, dissolved in the sea</div>
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Wave of the sea, dissolved in the sea.</div>
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Oh, I am the bubble make me the sea.</div>
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The <b><i>"wave of the sea",</i></b> is our very last celebratory unit that we participate in our classroom. </div>
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For the past 11 years, I had started the tradition of taking the children to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound">Puget Sound</a> for our all school field trip.This year was no exception. The Puget Sound is only fifteen minutes from our school. </div>
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. The children explored the Puget Sound seashore at low tide with teachers, parents, grandparents and friends. </div>
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The next day in the classroom, I wanted the children to recreate the living tide pools that they saw. </div>
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The children were reminded about all the tide pools and sea life they had viewed.</div>
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We love this chant at the Living Wisdom School. We use this song particularly during this unit and our children know it well. It is often requested to sing repeatedly.</div>
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I will leave you this evening with this <b><i>beautiful chant. </i></b></div>
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Today we celebrated our last class for the school year. In the past two weeks we finished up our garden unit and spent some time with creating our habitats for the new caterpillars. </div>
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Divine Mother always has her own timing while working simultaneously collaborating with nature.<br />
We were late in the season to start this project but our caterpillars hatched just in time for our last day of school.<br />
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The items were shown to the children and then they explored in the forest for the same items to duplicate.</td></tr>
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Yoga postures and stories about Gerdy and Caty. Gerdy is a goose and Caty was a caterpillar. I created a yoga story that was told all week in class about how the caterpillar and the goose becoming fast friends. . </td></tr>
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This was a very sweet video that our children were able to watch. They were only three years old when this was taken, so it was exciting for them see how fast they had grown in a year's time. </div>
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But the most exciting was for the children to watch the birth and unfolding of these amazing creatures. We were all in a state of reverence as we carefully set them free today. As Divine Mother's perfect metaphor, it was time to set the butterflies free and for our children to spread their wings and fly too. <span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="fcg" style="color: grey;"> </span></span></div>
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What glorious smiles on their faces as we shared our last precious moments of our school year together. </div>
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