XVI. Keep going

Upcoming yoga offering, puppies, gorgeous art, an easy sprouted baked oatmeal recipe, 5 part yoga Kriya for prosperity, oracle card reading & lots of love.

Apr 21, 2023

UPCOMING IN PERSON OFFERINGS //

Come together in my studio for yoga & meditation :: 4.23.2023:: 3-4:30p.m. CST :: We will gather to share cosmic insights, kundalini yoga, meditation & celestial healing movements. 💃🏻Tune in and meditate, slowing down and dropping into our hearts. All welcome. No experience required. Love of animals highly encouraged. 🦁 🐶 Let me know if you can join & I’ll send you the details.

MOMENTS OF PRESENCE //

COOL THINGS //

IN THE STUDIO //

This week I want to share a favorite finished piece of art that is awaiting it’s divinely timed release into the world. Come over to see it in person! The colors are gorgeous in person.

THE EVER-UNFOLDING SELF :: I AM MAGNETIC

The Ever-Unfolding Self series includes layers of sacred geometry, specific astrological & cosmological inspiration of the Northern Hemisphere, a variety of postural silhouettes dancing atop the surface as a self portrait diving into love. I Am affirmations are painted in oil as a vibrant positive, powerful layer of statements meant to transform limiting beliefs & align with the highest vibrational frequency possible. These powerful affirmations amplify positive neural plasticity by tapping into the quantum field through the power if feeling. This experience casts spells to bring your dreams into reality. When we're tapped into our innate gifts and honor our joy, we expand time, increase our joy, and attract abundance.

36 x 48 inches

Acrylic, oil & glitter on canvas, 2022

WHAT I ACTUALLY MADE IN THE KITCHEN //

SPROUTED BLUEBERRY BAKED OATMEAL

INGREDIENTS

2 cups old-fashioned oats
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
¾ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt (or ½ teaspoon regular table salt)
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 ¾ cups milk of choice (almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk or cow’s milk all work)
⅓ cup maple syrup
2 large eggs or flax eggs
3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter or coconut oil, divided
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
12 ounces or 1 pint fresh or frozen wild blueberries

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9-inch square baking dish. Once the oven has finished preheating, pour the nuts onto a rimmed baking sheet. Toast for 4 to 5 minutes, until fragrant.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the oats, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Whisk to combine.
In a smaller mixing bowl, combine the milk, maple syrup or honey, egg, half of the butter or coconut oil, and vanilla. Whisk until blended. (If you used coconut oil and it solidified in contact with the cold ingredients, briefly microwave the bowl in 30 second increments, just until the coconut oil melts again.)
Reserve about ½ cup of the berries for topping the baked oatmeal, then arrange the remaining berries evenly over the bottom of the baking dish (no need to defrost frozen fruit first). Cover the fruit with the dry oat mixture, then drizzle the wet ingredients over the oats. Wiggle the baking dish to make sure the milk moves down through the oats, then gently pat down any dry oats resting on top.
Scatter the remaining berries across the top. Sprinkle some raw sugar on top if you’d like some extra sweetness and crunch.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes (if using frozen berries, 45 to 50 minutes), until the top is nice and golden. Remove your baked oatmeal from the oven and let it cool for a few minutes.
Serve as-is or with toppings of your choice. I love a maple syrup drizzle. I prefer this baked oatmeal served warm, but it is also good at room temperature or chilled. This oatmeal keeps well in the refrigerator, covered, for 4 to 5 days. Freeze up to 3 months. If desired, simply reheat individual portions in the microwave before serving.

originally adapted from Super Natural Every Day by Heidi Swanson.
MAKE IT GLUTEN FREE: Be sure to use certified gluten-free oats.
MAKE IT VEGAN: Use non-dairy milk, flax eggs and coconut oil.
MAKE IT NUT FREE: You can skip the nuts, or use pepitas (green pumpkin seeds) instead.

YOGA & MEDITATION //

SUBAGH KRIYA

This is my favorite 5 part Kriya. I started doing it regularly in 2017 as suggested by Guru Jagat. Part One can be done on its own for prosperity.

June 21, 1996

Each exercise in this five-part kriya must be done for the same length of time, either
3 minutes each or 11 minutes each.

Part One

POSITION: Sit in Easy Pose with a light Jalandhar Bandh.

MUDRA: Bend the elbows, angling the forearms up and outward with the fingers at the level of the throat. Begin with the palms facing down. Alternately hit the sides of the hands together timed with the mantra below. When the hands hit facing down, the sides of the Jupiter (index) fingers touch and the thumbs cross below the hands, with the right thumb under the left. Yogi Bhajan said that crossing the thumbs in this way is the key to the meditation. When the hands hit facing up, the Mercury (pinkie) fingers and the Moon Mounds (located on the bottom of the palms) hit.

EYE FOCUS: The eyes are 1/10th open. Focus at the tip of the nose.

MANTRA: Chant the mantra HAR with the tip of your tongue as you alternately strike the Jupiter area (palms facing down) and the Moon area (palms facing up). Pull the navel with each HAR. This meditation was taught to the rhythm of Tantric Har by Simran Kaur.

TIME: 3-11 minutes.

COMMENTS: You should not do this exercise more than 3 minutes when you are working during the day, or you will become too rich. I am not joking. Doing it for 11 minutes a day is more than enough. Doing it too much will be greed. It stimulates the mind, the Moon Center and Jupiter. When Jupiter and the moon come together, there is no way in the world you will not make wealth.

NOTE: Part One can be done on its own for prosperity.

Part Two

POSITION: Stretch your arms out to the sides and raise them up to a V shape at a 60-degree angle. Face the palms forward and spread your fingers wide, making them stiff. On the exhale, cross your arms in front of your face, left arm in front of the right. Inhale and return your arms out to the V shape. Continue crossing the arms, keeping the elbows straight and the fingers open and stiff, alternating the position of the arms as they cross.

EYES: The eyes remain closed.

MANTRA: Move the arms in rhythm with the Tantric Har, but do not chant this time.

Part Three

POSITION: Keep your arms extended at 60 degrees. With your fingers, make a fist around your thumb, squeezing your thumb tightly as if you are trying to squeeze all the blood out of it. Move your arms in small backward circles as you continue squeezing your thumb. Keep the arms stretched with the elbows straight. Move so powerfully that your entire spine shakes.
You may even lift slightly up off the ground.

MANTRA: Chant the mantra GOD powerfully from your navel. One backward circle of the arms equals one repetition of GOD. The speed and rhythm of the chanting are the same as in the previous exercises.

Part Four

POSITION: Bend your arms so that your forearms are parallel to the floor and the palms face the body at the level of the diaphragm. One palm (it does not matter which) is closer to your body. To begin, the right hand moves up a few inches as the left hand moves down. The hands move alternately up and down between the Heart Center and Navel Center in a smooth
motion to the rhythm of the mantra below.

MANTRA: As the hands move, chant HAR HARAY HAREE, WHAA-HAY GUROO in a deep monotone with one repetition of the mantra approximately every 4 seconds. Chant from your navel.

TIME: If you are practicing the exercises for 11 minutes each, chant the mantra out loud for 6 minutes, whisper it strongly for 3 minutes and then whistle it for 2 minutes. If you are practicing the exercises for 3 minutes each, chant the mantra out loud for 1 minute, whisper it strongly for 1 minute, and then whistle it for 1 minute.

Part Five

POSITION: Bend the arms in front of the chest and rest the right forearm on the left forearm, palms facing down. Keep the spine straight and keep the arms steady and parallel to the ground; don’t let them fall.

EYES: The eyes are closed.

BREATH: One-minute breath. Breathe slowly and deeply so that one breath takes a full minute. Breathing consciously, inhale for 20 seconds, hold for 20 seconds and exhale for 20 seconds.

COMMENTS: It’s a complete set. This is all called Subagh Kriya. If God has written with His own hands that you shall live under misfortune, then by doing Subagh Kriya you can turn your misfortune into prosperity, fortune and good luck.

By tendency you are not very agreeable most of the time. You are more concerned with your scare tactics and insecurities than with your power to expand. I’m going to give you a very handy tool—one that you can use anywhere—and you’ll become rich. I’m not going to give you printed money, but I will give you a tool for prosperity. I would like you to be your own judge and see how it works. There are a lot of things you can’t do. You can’t look unique. You can’t look extraordinary. You don’t want to be excellent because you are afraid of the responsibility. But if the psyche is corrected once in a while—for a few minutes here and a few minutes there—you will be surprised how much good you can do for yourself.

To become rich and prosperous with wealth and values, is to have the strength to come through. It means that the transmissions from your brain and the power of your intuition can immediately tell you what to do. You will be in a position to change gears smoothly. If you need to go in reverse, you can go in reverse. If you need to go forward, you’ll go forward. This is a very old and simple system.

This meditation can be found in the book, Success and the Spirit, an Aquarian Path to Abundance.

DID YOU TRY THIS KRIYA FROM AWHILE BACK?

Healing Ancestral Karma Meditation

INSTRUCTIONS: Sit in easy pose. Place your right hand at your heart centre on your chest, palm against the chest. Place your left hand on your back also at your heart centre, palm facing outside. Chant the Guru Ram Das Mantra.

MANTRA: The Guru Ram Das Mantra – “Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru”

LANGUAGE: Gurmukhi

TRANSLATION:
Guru – teacher or guide that brings one from the darkness to the light.
Wahe – exclamation of ecstasy like ”WOW!”
Ram Das – literally translates as “God’s Servant”, but also refers to Guru Ram Das, the Fourth Guru of the Sikhs

MORE INFORMATION: This mantra was given to Yogi Bhajan by Guru Ram Das in His astral self. As Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru of the Sikhs, was known for humility and healing abilities this mantra is also known for its healing qualities and for imparting humility to the one who chants it.

This mantra relates directly to the healing and protective energy represented by Guru Ram Das. The mantra is comprised of two parts. The first part is a nirgun mantra (Guru Guru Wahe Guru). This projects the mind to the source of knowledge and ecstasy. The second part is a sirgun mantra (Guru Ram Das Guru). This means the wisdom that comes as a servant of the infinite. It is the mantra of humility. It reconnects the experience of the finite to infinity.

TIME: 11 Minutes

EYES: Close your eyes.

MUSIC :: Guru Ram Das by The Sat Nam Sessions or Guru Ram Das by White Sun

JOURNAL PROMPTS //

CARD READING FOR FUN //