Greetings and good day to you!
First off, if you’re considering joining the Energy Codes Book Study that starts next week, today is the last day to get the Earlybird discount.
You know how the early bird catches the worm? I suspect you’re not too interested in worms (unless you really are a bird), but in this case, the worm is $50 in savings (which, in my mind, is infinitely more appealing than actual worms. They are so not my favourite creature - No offence worms).
The Energy Codes is hands down the most impactful and transformative book I’ve ever read. It’s had so many positive effects in my life (see one of the unexpected ones below) that I had to get certified to share it with others. From having more energy to putting in way less effort for far better results, from improved relationships to more abundance than I’ve ever imagined, it’s changed my life in every way.
More info on the Energy Codes Book Study (scroll down towards...
First off, in case you don’t want to hear about adventures in Mexico and just want to get to the upcoming Energy Codes Book Study info, here it is. (But let me just say that without practicing what I learned in the Energy Codes, our recent trip to Mexico would have been way more chaos and way less relaxing.)
Click one of the links below for info on the upcoming Energy Codes Book Study starting on Tuesday, April 18.
Longer entertaining version is here
Short and less entertaining version is here
If you’ve done the Book Study previously, reply to this email to request the special rate of $97.
Note: There’s an Earlybird Discount for first-timers until April 11 end of day. You’ll find info on that in the FAQ of the longer version.
Now, if you’d like to hear about how a holiday can be relaxing amidst chaos, read on.
Up until this year, my kids and husband have been in separate school systems, meaning that they never had the same Spring Break. This...
One of my intentions when my first children’s book What Makes a Dancer got published a few months ago was to go share it at schools.
I had visions of reading my book to groups of enraptured students to help them increase their love for the power of dance.
After much outreach and action-taking, my dream came true this past week (hooray!). I got to do book readings at two elementary schools in Calgary. There were many learnings from the experience so I thought I would share them with you.
Learning #1 Using the Tools
Although I’ve taught all ages of humans from 6 months to mid-90s, this new experience had me feeling nervous. It was just enough outside of my comfort zone to cause me to take notice.
Here are some strategies and mindset practices I used as the nerves came up.
Back in the days of yore, I taught the dance option at a high school in Calgary. In my first year, the class was held in the theatre. There was a stereo on wheels that we used for the music. It was handy in that it could be rolled around and it was also not handy because there was no remote control. I had to walk up to the stereo to stop and start the music. (Come to think of it, I could have just asked whoever was closest to turn it on or off, but that wouldn’t have occurred to me in those days… asking for help was not something I knew about.)
So, I put on a lot of miles moving to and fro to do the music. One day, as I approached the stereo to turn it off, it stopped by itself.
“You guys!” I exclaimed to my grade 11 class. “Did you see that!?! The music turned itself off!”
They nodded but didn’t seem nearly as excited as I was. No matter; I had enough enthusiasm for everyone.
The next time I walked towards the stereo to...
This past Saturday, my daughter, Zoe, got her black belt in mixed martial arts. It was a gruelling 6-hour test that was a culmination of thousands of hours of training over the past 8 years.
There were kicks, dive rolls over bamboo (and humans), weapons-work, joint-lock, flips, sparring, jabs, crosses and uppercuts. There was philosophy, endurance, stamina, grace and flexibility. There was also a great deal of stress (especially for me). Of course, there was stress for Zoe too. Hers was prior to the test. Mine was during.
I’d love to share with you a few things that I learned from the experience.
Learning #1
Zoe created a kata (a routine of moves that was to represent her learnings over the course of her training). There were advanced components like a back extension (a backwards roll that pushes up into a handstand), an aerial (cartwheel with no hands) and a forward roll into a kip-up (kind of a half-forward roll that she sprung off her shoulders and onto...
When I work with clients, we generally start our sessions by celebrating wins and miracles. Why?
Several reasons actually.
1- What you focus on expands so when you start off with wins and miracles, you’re making yourself more magnetic to more wins and miracles, which just makes good sense.
2- We’re looking for things that have shifted because that’s an indication of growth and expansion on an inner level.
3- When things shift on the inside, they show up in the outer world. The key to this point is that generally, when things shift in the inner world, we attribute the changes to something outside of us, but guess what?!?
When things shift in your outer world, it’s always a direct result of something that’s happened on the inside.
That’s why you’re probably doing better than you thought.
For instance, last summer, my 14-year-old son, Oakley went from a hard no to doing yoga with me to attending some live classes together, even at 6am!...
Happy End of February! I’m always thrilled about the end of the month because I love the fresh start that’s right around the corner. Hooray for new things!
I had an experience recently that showed me how wonderful it is to ask for help. I thought I would share it with you because maybe you’re under the impression that asking for help is a sign of weakness.
Or maybe you think that independence is where it’s at.
Or perhaps you believe that it’s more efficient just to do everything yourself.
(I’ve definitely been there on all three of those misconceptions.)
My lesson on asking for help came in the wonderful package of shopping for jeans. (Up until last week, that phrase would have made me shudder. And my lip curl. And my eye twitch. Quite a visual. I hope you’ve tried it out for yourself.)
Have you ever experienced challenges whilst buying new jeans? I have. So much so that the last time I bought jeans was approximately 10...
The word love can be pretty charged. Every person has a lifetime of experience behind what the word love means to them.
In some recent courses that I’ve been taking, love has really opened up for me (and I already thought I had a lot of love) so I wanted to share what’s made a difference in my life.
For many people, the frame of reference for love is in relationships. You give love, you get love and that’s what we know.
There’s a bigger love though, that’s completely available to anyone, regardless of how you’ve experienced love in the past.
It’s actually the love that everything in the universe is made of. The more you can open to and receive this greater kind of love, the more you’ll be able to love yourself and, consequently, others.
Much of this love can be experienced through nature. It’s valuable to start actively noticing how you feel in the face of some of the following types of experiences....
Happy Valentine’s Day!
You’re probably receiving 782 Valentines-related messages today and I don’t normally craft my messages around specific days (I’m counter-culture like that) but I thought it would be weird to totally ignore it, so here’s another to add to your virtual pile.
Seeing as how we’re celebrating love today, I thought it would be beneficial to share one of the ways I’ve built up my self-love over the years.
Although I’ve always seemed to be pretty happy from an outside perspective, for many years my inner world was very different.
There was a whole lot of critiquing going on in my mind. Judging myself was just a way of life. I was oh-so-very-hard on myself. The kicker is that I didn’t even know that I was doing it. There was no awareness and so I was really leading this dual life - happy and positive to others, mean and demanding to myself. It certainly took a lot of energy.
The worlds of personal...
The other day Paul, Oakley and I were out for a walk. I don’t know what it’s like where you live but here we’ve had warm spring-like weather followed by very cold weather, followed by warm weather and so on. What that means for the purpose of this story is that the snow fell, then thawed, then froze, then thawed and so on.
Because Paul was in the lead on this particular walk, we found ourselves bushwacking on an urban trail by the river. (He doesn’t tend to stick to any main routes.) I wasn’t prepared for bushwacking so my shoes didn’t match the very-slippery-semi-melted-somewhat-muddy steep riverbank conditions.
Both Oakley and Paul had to hold my hands and hoist me up the treacherous path so I didn’t end up seated in puddles or sliding down the hill. Gradually we made our way to the top where there was a wonderfully clear sidewalk.
There was also a woman who must have been in her 70s at the top of the path. She had a dog and a...