I received this in my inbox today and I felt that it is important to share. It’s a David Korten’s vision for the new economy that needs to be created on the planet and I very much resonate with this vision. This is a powerful, intelligent, succinct analysis of today’s global problems offers some far reaching solutions that along with practical, humanitarian and financial directions include awareness of unity and our spirit nature.

It’s a 50 minute video, but well worth the time (I watched the whole thing). If you’d rather read about it, the New Economy Working Group website is here, and David Korten’s website is here. The presentation is here.

This book is an answered prayer.

You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been quiet lately. It feels as though I’ve been less inspired to write in this blog, but I’m still marvelling at the everyday miracles of life… 

This year has been my year of really stepping into my healing path and my role as a healer and teacher through yoga, Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy and shamanic practices. Visit my website at www.yoga-om.ca for more information about what I am up to!

If you are a friend and have been using this blog to keep in touch with me, then send me an email or call me so that we can connect! 

Love and Light,
Janice

I was actually scared to teach authentically. I thought students may think I was weird, or going too deep, or even being offensive by speaking about Spirit, or emotions, or old wounds.

Slowly slowly slowly, I started to introduce my authentic teachings to the class and trust that the students who are attracted to my class are there for what I have to offer. And I am more enjoying the class as a result.

This last session, I’ve been focusing on a different chakra (energy centre) in the body and building a theme around each chakra. It’s been deep and great for me, and hopefully for the students as well.

Before I delved in, I kept getting the message “Go deeper still….  Go deeper still…”  And, so I am.

I’ve recently found a new location to teach — Illusion Studio – it’s a belly dance studio and a lovely and large space.  I loved the last space that I was in, but it was a small space, and I’m looking forward to expanding into a larger space.

I’m also going to offer a Friday morning class. This one will be an Ashtanga class (a flow class), and will have a different flavour than my Tuesday evening class. 

I’m excited about it!  If you want to check out my yoga website, visit it here.

• He has a great spatial memory. He always has. For example, we turned onto a highway on the weekend and he said, “This is the way to we drive Grammie Rosie to the airport”. (We dropped Grammie Rosie to the airport three and a half months ago!)
• He’s got a great memory. He knows almost word for word most of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. He can remember more of it than I could.
• He has amazing rhythm. We were watching the Santa Claus parade yesterday and and he was right on beat with the drummers in the various bands.

We’re all gifted at different things… What are yours?

I am starting to offer healing sessions to others, in the form of Reiki and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) treatments.

My goal is to provide at least one hands on healing and one distance healing session a week. 

More information about my sessions can be found here.

If you are in the St. John’s / Mount Pearl area and are interested in a healing session, let me know!  If you live in other places in the world, I can do distance healings as well (hard to believe, but true).

I’m in one of those times right now.

Drawing in energy.

Reflecting.

Growing.

Nurturing myself.

Rooting in my home.

Purging.

Growing, growing, growing.

Mel and I were discussing one night last week how we haven’t had any blue jays in our backyard and we would love to attract them in.

Sure enough, the next evening, we were treated to the presence of not one, not two, but eight blue jays in our yard, taking turns eating from one our bird feeders.    (We didn’t do anything different to attract them in, but they must have gotten our message to visit us nonetheless!)

One of Alex’s favourite exhibits is the seabird exhibit because you can hear the sounds that different seabirds make. Since birds are also one of my favourite things, we both thoroughly enjoy the exhibit together and are learning what puffins, gannets and murres look and sound like.

The Rooms is a beautiful building with huge windows that overlooks the harbour and has a beautiful view of St. John’s and Signal Hill. I’m thrilled that we’ve found this treasure in our city.

After I planted a bunch of them, I found out that I planted them too shallow (they need to be planted about 2-3 inches deep), so I guess I’ll see how the first batch will turn out. Tonight, I purchased 70 more bulbs to plant in the lawn. I’m excited about the thoughts of crocuses blooming all across our lawn in the spring. We already have a few crocuses that have been planting around one of our trees in our front yard, which was a pleasant surprise this last spring, but the more, the merrier.

The iris and tulips were planted in our flower bed, the daffodils will be planted near the house on the edge of the lawn and the crocus will be planted throughout the lawn. I love digging in the dirt, so I look forward to doing this! This is my first time planting fall bulbs and I look forward to being rewarded in the early spring by all of the brilliant colour. I also love that these are all perennial flowers that will grow back every year.  Yay!

My clover planting experiment that I mention here worked out okay. I didn’t plant the clover seeds at the best time and it took longer than I thought to germinate and grow, but now I see that clover is starting to grow in large patches all over the lawn. Spring is the best time to plant, so I’ll sow more clover seeds in the spring. We still have a lot of dandelions growing in the yard, but they are smaller Fall Dandelion, which I’ve learned to tolerate. We’ll mow it before they set seed and that’s about all that we’ll do with it. When there were less of them, I tried picking the heads by hand, but there’s too many of them so it became futile (and I was also starting to wonder if it was causing them to send up more heads).