KY Classes are on hold for now

Next week Monday the 15 March, I'll be teaching my last Kundalini Yoga class at the Breathing Room in Maadi. I hope to get back to teaching end of April. I was trying to arrange that my husband, who is in the process of getting his IKYTA teacher certificate, would teach the classes. His schedule is booked, so that didn't work out.

I invite you to check out the many wonderful yoga classes at the Breathing Room while I am away.

My sudden departure does need some explaining. Yes, it does involve a journey. I'm assisting on a documentary production with a filmmaker friend from the states. It's a small production, which means that I play many roles. Most importantly, I'm back to filmmaking. Storytelling. We'll be filming in the deserts of Egypt.

His timing for this project is perfect. I've been going through much soul searching in finding my "creative self." I've been hard on myself these last few years for my inability to rise above my perceived challenges, and therefore my perceived unproductiveness.

Over the last few months, I've been making peace with my Self. I'm learning to "be". Just BE. One difficult, easy, depressing, joyful, complex and simple lesson that I had to learn since I moved to Cairo Egypt in 2007...just be. I am -- I am.

In this state of being, I changed my mind; changed my perspective; changed my projection. I'm much kinder to myself and in so being, I vibrate with the cosmos. And yes, the cosmos vibrated back, delivering this beautiful film project.
I visited the monastery of St. Antony for the first time in October. The Priest said that he will see me again soon. He is right. The first part of the filming project will start here.

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To balance yourself and act balanced, you have to be intuitive. You have to know what you are doing. Do your beliefs support your projection? If not, the chemicals in the brain go awry. That divine infinite self colorization which is our neuron activity will go wrong and you'll not be happy."
§ Yogi Bhajan §



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Kundalini Yoga Classes in Maadi

Join us at

the Breathing Room

in Maadi for Kundalini Yoga Classes

Monday, 5 PM to 6 PM

Building 12, Road 251, Maadi, 2nd Floor
for more info: theBreathingRoom.blogspot.com

The Breathing Room has wonderful instructors offering a variety of other yoga styles. If you can't make it on Monday night, please join one of the other classes. Click on The Breathing Room "SCHEDULE" for the yoga classes.


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To be congruent

You cannot be truly healthy if you are out of alignment.

You cannot be truly honest with yourself or others if your head and heart exist as two separate forces within you;

You cannot ever know what the fulfilled life is about if you are always compromising your intuition and inner guidance for fear of the consequences;

You can never consider yourself a truly honest person if you live a life of continual compromise and self-betrayal.

Nor can you fully heal when you fear truth and honesty.

credit to Carolyn Myss

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Practicing Long Deep Breathing

LONG DEEP BREATHING – Either sitting in easy pose or corpse pose, relax your chest and shoulders.

Draw a long deep breath through your nose.
Inhale, filling the abdomen, or even pushing it out. As the muscles of the abdomen draws down the diaphragm, consciously move the air down into the lower area of the chest cavity.

Feel the lungs filling in and through the chest. Imagine a big pitcher slowly filling with water. You are filling your lungs with air, starting at the bottom and slowly reaching the top.

Once the lungs are completely filled in this manner, hold the breath lightly for a moment. Don't lock your neck or tense your body. Just suspend the breath.

Then as you exhale, rather than contracting the chest, slowly allow the abdomen to shrink back, your abdomen will move in towards your spine. Contract the entire length of the diaphragm, from the upper chest to the abdomen, so that all the air is squeezed out.

Welcome to a New Year

Today, a dear friend forwarded me two documents. I am posting one of them here to share in the hopes that if you are visiting this blog, you will take time to read:

Ho'oponopono -- Healing Through Radical Total Responsibility

The idea of Ho’oponopono is to work directly with The Divinity, saying to
The Divinity incessantly:
“I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for {whatever is going on in me} that I perceive this in a certain way. Thank You.”

Then, allow The Divinity to make the corrections, which is to transmute the garbage (memories) in subconscious mind back to Zero. From that Zero (void), Divinity can come forth.

Dr. Hew Len says that he was originally trained to go out and help people, but then he realized that that doesn’t work:
What works ultimately, is when I realize that the world is within me, and that to change the world, I have to change it within myself.

I have to change whatever is going on in me (my memories), which requires taking 100% responsibility.

The Ho’oponopono process is: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever is going on in me that I perceive this in a certain way; Thank You.”, and allow The Divinity to do whatever, with NO expectations.

I have come to the realization that the world is what is going on in me.

When a “problem” comes up in my life, I say: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever is going on in me that is causing me to feel this pain; Thank You.”.

Built into the “I Love You” is the process of repentance and forgiveness, and that is my responsibility.

Divinity’s responsibility is to say: “I have heard you”, and then: “I am going to take care of that for you, and I am going to erase it when I feel it is right and perfect to ME to do so”.

My job is very simple: - I take 100% responsibility for whatever is going on in me, and Divinity will do whatever needs to be done.

If I knock, the door will open. If I ask, I will receive.

the mind is only moved by 2 Laws: Memory and Inspiration

Dr Hew Len points out that the mind is only moved by two laws: Memory or Inspiration.

When I say to The Divinity in me: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever is going on in me that I perceive this in a certain way; Thank You.”, Divinity knows what the garbage (memories) are, but it is not something that I know.
I know that my intellect has no idea of what is going on, because out of 15 million bits of information available, my conscious mind is only aware of 14/15 of them.

Dr Hew Len says that nothing can happen to us unless it is already in our data bank (subconscious mind), because that is the Law of Cause and Effect.

So I look within myself, and ask The Divinity to erase the causes in me (whatever these memories are) what would cause me to see the world in a way that The Divinity didn’t create it.

I know that Divinity created the world perfect.:
I say to The Divinity in me: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever is going on in me that I am experiencing this; Thank You.”

Q: What gets erased by The Divinity so that my problems stop?
A: I have no idea: - That’s The Divinity’s job, not mine! – I am not doing The Divinity’s job.
Divinity erases; I am just saying: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever is going on in me that I perceive this in a certain way; Thank You.”

By saying to that which is in me “I Love You”, I am allowing The Divinity to transmute the errors (memories) in me.
“I am saying to The Divine in me: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for this pattern in me; Thank You.”, because I want to disengage from my memories, and allow The Divinity to erase those memories”:

The Divinity is releasing and erasing the memories in me that cause me to perceive things to be a certain way.
I only work on the garbage (memories) in me that causes me to experience things in a certain way.
Divinity created everybody perfect, what is not perfect is the garbage (memories) in us.

When I say to The Divinity: “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever garbage there is in me, that is causing me to experience rudeness; Thank You.”, The Divinity is then willing to reach down into my subconscious mind, and erase those memories, bringing me back to The Zero State.

The Universe was created out of the void, so when my mind goes back to Zero, I am free.
Out of this Zero State, Divinity then sends inspiration, so that I know what to do.

I am not here to save anybody; I am just here to clean my own stuff (memories).
Source: Zero Limits – By Dr Vitale and Dr Hew Len; News for the Soul Internet Radio.
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It's New Years eve, Full Moon, and Blue Moon

The full moon at 6:20 pm as it rises above the Red Sea.
It's new year's eve! Today we all get to experience not only a full moon, but a rare blue moon. The blue moon means a second full moon within a month's time. The last time we had a blue moon on December 31st was in 1990, with the next coming about in 2028.

What an amazing time for us to celebrate, reflect, and center ourselves.

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First Concentration, Then Meditation

This is my spot and view for today. I'm trying to create three yoga workshops for the upcoming year. The workshops will be held either in Cairo, or at Ain Sokhna.

Before the invention of watch, Yogins used to calculate time by measuring the shadow in day and study of the movement of the stars in the heavens at night. They were perfectly exact in their calculations.

(No one comes here in winter, and thank God! I have my meditative space on the beach. Ain Sokhna, Egypt)