What an auspicious and fun time to be alive! We want to sincerely wish each of you the most expansive and joyful start to 2011. An interesting energy has been moving through the holiday season with us at Gaiatri in Nelson. Following an incredible year of community and heart-expanding teacher trainings, typically Anna and I would be spending our time off with days up high, skating under full moons,  and practicing by the wood stove. However, time off and messages of slowing down can come in a myriad of forms. Anna is healing from a fast and unexpected knee surgery, and I am nursing a knee from an encounter with a tree. Both are synchronistically timed and welcomed in lessons of slowing down, being as quiet as the falling snow so as to allow these messages to be whispers from the heart before they need to become any louder. I often think that is a strong gift of the practice of yoga practice, the creation of a still and quiet place whereby the Spirits that guide our essence are able to speak to us quietly, gently, yet firmly so as to not accelerate louder messages. Therefore, I personally have had a lot of time to catch up on, well, everything. People are always asking me for a list of resources as to what I am reading, watching on YouTube, or general places to spend down time. This is a list that all of you are really only getting because I have had an elevated leg for a few weeks. So here ya go, Happy New Years~ (I take no responsibility for the content on any of these sites or in these books. Please use your own discretion, I may be “rabbitholing” due to large amounts of turmeric and traumeel..)

Barbara Marx Hubbard: Women Waking to Purpose

Gregg Braden on the God Code

Mark Robert Waldman: How God Changes your Brain
David Wilcock: 2012 Event Horizon

The Known Universe

Brene Brown on the Power of Vulnerability

Bringers of the Dawn

The Spell of the Sensuous & Becoming Animal by David Abrams

Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
~Anais Nin