~Live consciously, be yourself~

Join us for an afternoon on the lovely Whidbey Island – stones throw from Seattle – for heart-centered meditation, clear blocks to the expression of your true self and explore your style of mindful living!

On this mindfulness journey we will be using body-centered exercises to get the chi moving and connect to the heart energy. Through the heart we will connect and meditate on your true self, your path and the aspects of yourself that are not being expressed fully.

An important part of the workshop will be the identification of the emotional blocks that are getting in the way of you living your life fully. We will do this through journaling, meditative introspection and group discussion. You may or may not already be aware of your blocks, but through the process of exploring this and witnessing each others process, we will help to shift and transform the energy allowing greater space for your true self to flow. Andrea will also incorporate mini- energy sessions to help the blocks to shift.

On leaving the workshop you will take with you valuable tools and insights to help you continue to connect to the heart space to clear blocks to the expression of your truth, your own style of mindful living.

Where: The Yoga Lodge, Whidbey Island

When: Saturday 16th March, 2013 // 1pm – 4pm

Cost: $75

RSVP: andrearae@gmail.com or (360) 544 2820

If you have enjoyed the Alinga blog, check out my primary blog, Mindful Mojo Project, a blog launched November 4th 2011. After a blogging hiatus I am back at it. I would love to hear what you think! I love it when people share their experiences and ask questions. This is a fun forum which promotes inward exploration and expression of your truth!

Mindful Mojo Taster:

Happy Mojo // #2. To Live or To Love // The Mojo Within

The Alinga blog will primarily be a forum for updating you Re: classes and new service. Feel free to peruse archived blog posts. I always had a lot of fun writing the Alinga blog posts, particularly the Aussieisms!

Love and light,

Andrea Rae

Meditation:

By taking the time to be still and take care of what is going on within you, your emotions, thoughts, worries, this clears your energy, balances your emotions, and then allows you to express yourself more fully whilst still being connected to the body. It is an art, the balance of inward connection and outward expression of your truth!

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(Via Mindful Mojo Project, via Bindu Wiles)

Out There

by Deborah Mears

Out there

You’ll see it all.

The floating ends

will meet and mend,

and you wil be yourself;

your fully formed,

though always changing,

self of selves.

Every clumsy backward look

will pay for itself.

Every tear you’ve cried,

or wanted to cry,

will set your broken bones.

The rips in your heart

will no longer

need to be guarded by steel girders,

banyan trees,

or even rice paper.

Not so much as a 

dragonfly’s wing

will you need

to cover the bludgeoned place,

to protect the private you

you love so much

and hope to save intact

from what has seemed years

of relentless pummeling.

Go and live and love

in peace, my friend,

for surely there is love

to enfold you,

and life to be feasted upon:

your portion is boundless.

Love will be the more

you’ve wanted.

You will know it when you see it.

You will love yourself 

as no lover

has ever had the courage

to love;

and the warmth you’ve wanted

will line your pillowcases,

dance upon your windowsill,

and hide

at the ends of your socks

awaiting your toes.

Bindu has extended her pay-what-you-want coaching sessions due to the amazing response and her utter joy in doing them!   Click here for info.

(via Mindful Mojo Project)

In our culture we grow up censoring the way that we talk. For those of us who feel deeply, it can be a challenge to traverse a culture that judges people who feel deeply.

Have you ever been told you are too sensitive? Have you been told you are too emotional? Have you been told you need to reign it in and get a grip? Have you been told you are exaggerating? Have you been told that you are misunderstanding the situation?

A lot of people have spent their lives being told they don’t have a right to their feelings, that in some way they need to change how they feel. I don’t really think that that is possible. Your emotions are your emotions, period. That is not to say that within an emotional response there isn’t room for change. Often a strong emotional response is the mind-body communicating something to you, that something does need to change, shift and transform, but to clamp down on it and deny it completely creates disharmony rather than allowing the real issue to be revealed.

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