DANCIN' DANCIN' DANCIN'!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!
PASSION PASSION PASSION!!
YES YES YES!!!!!!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
YES!!!!!! DANCIN'!!!!
DANCIN' DANCIN' DANCIN'!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!
PASSION PASSION PASSION!!
YES YES YES!!!!!!
PHOTOS OF ME DANCIN' AND SINGIN'!!!!
Hello there,
I am so high on life today, I just had to share my passion, my heart, my joy with you today! This is me singin' and dancin' in the living room!!!
Much love to you, Heather
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Cultureless, Culture Shock!!!! Has LA gotten more Friendly or Have I Changed?
Hello Loves,
I was talking to a lovely friend yesterday and told him I was in Culture Shock yesterday and he responded, "you mean Cultureless Shock" and laughingly I came back with Cultureless, Culture Shock, and it stuck and I got the title here! LA does have culture, but it's very different then where I've been, it's just a big city and........
I’ve been back now for almost 2 weeks, wow time just exploded by quickly, don’t know where it went to. The first three days I thought “this is great, very easy and I’m already over jetlag”. Well then day 4 happened and it’s like something crashed in me, not sure how to explain it. Here I was almost back on a normal sleep schedule except always sleeping in later then normal and then the shock of being back happened.
But those first three days I stayed with Rob. My days were full of walks on the beach, making phone calls to friends, more walks on the beach-wondering where all the garbage came from-you don’t see thing is OZ, going to my favorite healthy Mexican place Baja Fresh, OH Yummy! And yes Kristin they still have the green salsa and it was just delicious and it’s not even the normal salsa I have. But my taste buds have changed as most everything I loved before tastes very strange to me-I think all that food that is less hormone induced or something, I’m only craving a few things that actually taste good and the lovely thing is it’s all healthy food!
I went on one of my favorite hikes that look out over the ocean and the it was a delight to be back in a place I know, trails I know, seeing places and people I know!
I got to move back into my apartment and oh yum yum…..to sleep in my own bed, to close my bedroom door, oh what a delicious treat. And then to open up the boxes of my things from the garage-it was like having Christmas in March! To see all the things I own! And then TO SEE ALL THE THINGS I OWN! Meaning I don’t own much compared to others but honestly when I have only had one backpack of stuff to myself for 13 months, opening up several boxes made me wonder “do I need all this crap”. “Do I need 20 pair of pants and 30 tops or 100 or what ever it was”? It really made me wonder. Especially when all I want to wear are the things I that I just bought in OZ before I left.
Then I opened up the packages I sent to myself from India, man oh man, I love all these things but where am I going to put it all? So the shock of stuff hit me upside my head and I drowned in it for a bit, had to take a break, then tackle it again. And so it went half the day Friday and all day Saturday, then Sunday, my favorite day of the week! And do you know why? DANCE!
Yes Dance! I went, and it was great and shocking to be around so many people that I knew and knew me. I’d never ever felt overwhelmed by the numbers of people who knew me, but this day I felt it. So much so I just couldn’t hang out with everyone after dance. But to be recognized, to be touched, hugged, to dance with fellow dancers, to feel these lovely beings that I am used to seeing once a week for 9 years, how great it was to be blessed by their company, their spirits, and their touch. Shock or no shock, I felt blessed and alive and it was a delight to dance again.
At dance I had a run in with a beautiful spirit that asked me “what was your favorite part, tell me your favorite part of your trip”? What I found incredible is what came out of me……the first thing was, being given that $2.00 coin from that little girl for my singing. Then I paused and I realized all my favorite moments had to do with singing and dancing in front of friends, in temples, ashrams, or in my place in Bali, sharing my passion was a true thrill to me and felt so natural.
Then the next thing that came to me was when I spent a few days with some friends of mine in Pune and helped coach them on their relationship, it was so organic, so pure, beautiful and so incredible to be the witness of their relationship blossom-how lovely to give back to such loving individuals! All the faces I photographed in Pushkar, Rajastan, I loved taking their photos, I loved how happy and sometimes stoic they were in the photos. But most were so excited to let me photograph them. And then I can’t ever forget chanting in Rishekesh on the Ganges with the mountains looking down on me lifting my soul, lightening my heart and singing to my hearts delight!
I can’t forget Lombok for it’s lazy days that are made for relaxing and healing filled with meditation, yoga, snorkeling, eating, reading, writing and doing it all over again 2 or 3 more times. The snorkeling there was just so fabulous and breath taking. And to learn more about Muslims and to witness one of their celebrations, hummmmm….Just lovely.
And then there is New Zealand, first the best part of New Zealand was to have Rob there, to have someone I knew and knew me so well there to share with, laugh with and to explore the most photogenic and possibly the most gorgeous place I may have been so far in my life. To share it with him and see all those mountains, rivers, water falls and eat all that delicious food and to feel so spoiled and taken care of, it was bliss! To travel by car is the way to go there and especially with great company!
I did my first massage client on Saturday, it felt so very strange to be back at work, luckily I only did one client. But technically today is the day I have chosen to officially go back to work and it’s the first day I feel grounded, back to almost normal, yet still a little bit of a fog still hang on. But I had a lovely experience of going to a student of mines houses and cut her hair, that felt so right. It felt so good to be back at doing hair.
I have a feeling things will be changing a lot in the next month. My heart is giving me answers of where to go, how to go and what do to make me happy. It’s very different then before I left. So I am ready to hang on for the ride and let it take me on this roller coaster called life.
I will say it’s nice to be home to a place where people know me and I know them. Yet on the other side of things I am checking out places in the surrounding areas wondering, am I supposed to be in LA? Am I to be in the woods? I am hearing of so many that are off in the woods and only coming to LA every few months to make money, do some workshops and then off again. It’s pretty amazing.
I think LA has either gotten nicer or I have completely changed. As now I’m back, I’m not in a hurry to get any where, I just want to enjoy the journey of being here in LA, being stable, take in the people around me, smell the ocean and the jasmine and honey suckles around me. I have had more people talk with me, make eye contact, say hello and just overall be friendly. I think I got an attitude adjustment while I was gone, THANK GOODNESS! Love these adjustments!
In fact I had a great experience yesterday, I went off to my favorite grocery store-Trader Joe’s-I think it should be world wide, my opinion, love this place. I was waiting patiently for this guy to back up so I can have his parking spot and just enjoying being there in the lovely warm sun, when this guy came up behind me and started honking. Then started yelling to move, then these other people said to him “hey fella, we are all here, stop your honking” quite friendly like. And he responded “she shouldn’t have a license to drive” angrily and impatiently and they responded “no I think you shouldn’t have a license to drive”. I was so excited, A. I was calm and not bothered by his upsetness, as I couldn’t do anything to get out of his way, there was no room and B. to see that others were standing up for other LA people, how beautiful. I park, he drives off and this woman stops and says, “he was rude wasn’t he” to me. Wow! Yes there are people like that guy, but there are so many others so friendly and helpful.
I think I’m just a lot less stress and not looking for everyone’s business so it’s nice to just be present with people. So it makes it a more happy place to be and so I’m calmer, happier and more open. I had one guy in a café turn to me and just start talking happily along saying “if people don’t want to talk to me, I talk to them anyway. I let them know that I won’t be ignored, that I am here and will talk to them and amazingly enough I get really great results of people talking with me and knowing I’m a guy they can talk to”. Pretty funny, I’ve taken the other way and I like his way. But pushiness, hummm….I think there is a place for both.
Been spending some great time with friends and just drinking it up and I feel so much more connected and working toward what I want-more of a community in my life here at home and my extended community of friends-abroad! OH, if you want to get ahold of me, three great ways!!!! Home phone: 310-915-8575, Cell phone: 310-621-6991 OR for FREE www.skype.com at heather.rhea.dawn, give me an email or call any time!
Ok loves, I am off to a gorgeous hike! Oh that is another thing, I don’t remember LA being so warm and lovely. Yet others seem shocked by it too. I think the Universe finally heard that I want to be warm!!! YES!!! Off I go and much love to you!
Oh, if any of you are in the area, I’m having a coming home party this Saturday, or if you want to fly on by, come on over! Love to see you! Love, Heather
I was talking to a lovely friend yesterday and told him I was in Culture Shock yesterday and he responded, "you mean Cultureless Shock" and laughingly I came back with Cultureless, Culture Shock, and it stuck and I got the title here! LA does have culture, but it's very different then where I've been, it's just a big city and........
I’ve been back now for almost 2 weeks, wow time just exploded by quickly, don’t know where it went to. The first three days I thought “this is great, very easy and I’m already over jetlag”. Well then day 4 happened and it’s like something crashed in me, not sure how to explain it. Here I was almost back on a normal sleep schedule except always sleeping in later then normal and then the shock of being back happened.
But those first three days I stayed with Rob. My days were full of walks on the beach, making phone calls to friends, more walks on the beach-wondering where all the garbage came from-you don’t see thing is OZ, going to my favorite healthy Mexican place Baja Fresh, OH Yummy! And yes Kristin they still have the green salsa and it was just delicious and it’s not even the normal salsa I have. But my taste buds have changed as most everything I loved before tastes very strange to me-I think all that food that is less hormone induced or something, I’m only craving a few things that actually taste good and the lovely thing is it’s all healthy food!
I went on one of my favorite hikes that look out over the ocean and the it was a delight to be back in a place I know, trails I know, seeing places and people I know!
I got to move back into my apartment and oh yum yum…..to sleep in my own bed, to close my bedroom door, oh what a delicious treat. And then to open up the boxes of my things from the garage-it was like having Christmas in March! To see all the things I own! And then TO SEE ALL THE THINGS I OWN! Meaning I don’t own much compared to others but honestly when I have only had one backpack of stuff to myself for 13 months, opening up several boxes made me wonder “do I need all this crap”. “Do I need 20 pair of pants and 30 tops or 100 or what ever it was”? It really made me wonder. Especially when all I want to wear are the things I that I just bought in OZ before I left.
Then I opened up the packages I sent to myself from India, man oh man, I love all these things but where am I going to put it all? So the shock of stuff hit me upside my head and I drowned in it for a bit, had to take a break, then tackle it again. And so it went half the day Friday and all day Saturday, then Sunday, my favorite day of the week! And do you know why? DANCE!
Yes Dance! I went, and it was great and shocking to be around so many people that I knew and knew me. I’d never ever felt overwhelmed by the numbers of people who knew me, but this day I felt it. So much so I just couldn’t hang out with everyone after dance. But to be recognized, to be touched, hugged, to dance with fellow dancers, to feel these lovely beings that I am used to seeing once a week for 9 years, how great it was to be blessed by their company, their spirits, and their touch. Shock or no shock, I felt blessed and alive and it was a delight to dance again.
At dance I had a run in with a beautiful spirit that asked me “what was your favorite part, tell me your favorite part of your trip”? What I found incredible is what came out of me……the first thing was, being given that $2.00 coin from that little girl for my singing. Then I paused and I realized all my favorite moments had to do with singing and dancing in front of friends, in temples, ashrams, or in my place in Bali, sharing my passion was a true thrill to me and felt so natural.
Then the next thing that came to me was when I spent a few days with some friends of mine in Pune and helped coach them on their relationship, it was so organic, so pure, beautiful and so incredible to be the witness of their relationship blossom-how lovely to give back to such loving individuals! All the faces I photographed in Pushkar, Rajastan, I loved taking their photos, I loved how happy and sometimes stoic they were in the photos. But most were so excited to let me photograph them. And then I can’t ever forget chanting in Rishekesh on the Ganges with the mountains looking down on me lifting my soul, lightening my heart and singing to my hearts delight!
I can’t forget Lombok for it’s lazy days that are made for relaxing and healing filled with meditation, yoga, snorkeling, eating, reading, writing and doing it all over again 2 or 3 more times. The snorkeling there was just so fabulous and breath taking. And to learn more about Muslims and to witness one of their celebrations, hummmmm….Just lovely.
And then there is New Zealand, first the best part of New Zealand was to have Rob there, to have someone I knew and knew me so well there to share with, laugh with and to explore the most photogenic and possibly the most gorgeous place I may have been so far in my life. To share it with him and see all those mountains, rivers, water falls and eat all that delicious food and to feel so spoiled and taken care of, it was bliss! To travel by car is the way to go there and especially with great company!
I did my first massage client on Saturday, it felt so very strange to be back at work, luckily I only did one client. But technically today is the day I have chosen to officially go back to work and it’s the first day I feel grounded, back to almost normal, yet still a little bit of a fog still hang on. But I had a lovely experience of going to a student of mines houses and cut her hair, that felt so right. It felt so good to be back at doing hair.
I have a feeling things will be changing a lot in the next month. My heart is giving me answers of where to go, how to go and what do to make me happy. It’s very different then before I left. So I am ready to hang on for the ride and let it take me on this roller coaster called life.
I will say it’s nice to be home to a place where people know me and I know them. Yet on the other side of things I am checking out places in the surrounding areas wondering, am I supposed to be in LA? Am I to be in the woods? I am hearing of so many that are off in the woods and only coming to LA every few months to make money, do some workshops and then off again. It’s pretty amazing.
I think LA has either gotten nicer or I have completely changed. As now I’m back, I’m not in a hurry to get any where, I just want to enjoy the journey of being here in LA, being stable, take in the people around me, smell the ocean and the jasmine and honey suckles around me. I have had more people talk with me, make eye contact, say hello and just overall be friendly. I think I got an attitude adjustment while I was gone, THANK GOODNESS! Love these adjustments!
In fact I had a great experience yesterday, I went off to my favorite grocery store-Trader Joe’s-I think it should be world wide, my opinion, love this place. I was waiting patiently for this guy to back up so I can have his parking spot and just enjoying being there in the lovely warm sun, when this guy came up behind me and started honking. Then started yelling to move, then these other people said to him “hey fella, we are all here, stop your honking” quite friendly like. And he responded “she shouldn’t have a license to drive” angrily and impatiently and they responded “no I think you shouldn’t have a license to drive”. I was so excited, A. I was calm and not bothered by his upsetness, as I couldn’t do anything to get out of his way, there was no room and B. to see that others were standing up for other LA people, how beautiful. I park, he drives off and this woman stops and says, “he was rude wasn’t he” to me. Wow! Yes there are people like that guy, but there are so many others so friendly and helpful.
I think I’m just a lot less stress and not looking for everyone’s business so it’s nice to just be present with people. So it makes it a more happy place to be and so I’m calmer, happier and more open. I had one guy in a café turn to me and just start talking happily along saying “if people don’t want to talk to me, I talk to them anyway. I let them know that I won’t be ignored, that I am here and will talk to them and amazingly enough I get really great results of people talking with me and knowing I’m a guy they can talk to”. Pretty funny, I’ve taken the other way and I like his way. But pushiness, hummm….I think there is a place for both.
Been spending some great time with friends and just drinking it up and I feel so much more connected and working toward what I want-more of a community in my life here at home and my extended community of friends-abroad! OH, if you want to get ahold of me, three great ways!!!! Home phone: 310-915-8575, Cell phone: 310-621-6991 OR for FREE www.skype.com at heather.rhea.dawn, give me an email or call any time!
Ok loves, I am off to a gorgeous hike! Oh that is another thing, I don’t remember LA being so warm and lovely. Yet others seem shocked by it too. I think the Universe finally heard that I want to be warm!!! YES!!! Off I go and much love to you!
Oh, if any of you are in the area, I’m having a coming home party this Saturday, or if you want to fly on by, come on over! Love to see you! Love, Heather
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