Life Happened!
Photos are from a friends B-day party, friends and I goofing off, dancing and playing together!
Hello Dear Ones,
How are you? I trust your soul is happy, thriving and bubbling over for everyone to enjoy your preciousness! For me life is just taking off, so much that it feels like I’m trying to catch up some what. It’s funny, here I had a few slow weeks and I was wondering what was happening in this city-how was I going to stay here and create the art I want and get more clientele and then- Life Happened! Yep, Life Happened!
Firstly, I got a phone call from a woman who did an interview with me on Sacred Sexuality for Women, back before I left. She is putting together a DVD and wanting me to be on her DVD talking about Sacred Sexuality for Women and taking a select few women through the process of touch, body awareness and how to be with a partner intimately. This DVD is going out to her email list of over 70,000 women to be sold. I was blown away!
If that wasn’t enough she said “I want to do another interview with you but you’ll need to expand your website so you can keep up. As this time it will go out to 1000 women. As soon as I send out the interview, each one of those 1000 women are expected to call you, talk with you and maybe even set up appointments with you”. I sat there, I’m sure looking calm, but inside excited, shocked, and thinking how this could change so much in my life and then the overwhelm of taking so many phone calls in as well getting my website up and going better as well as needing to start a weekly newsletter for my work.
The filming happens on May 31st! This will be a lot of publicity once it come out in late July!!
So I felt I was doing quite well with that. I then got an email from someone who knows I teach Sacred Sexuality, saying that there are two people looking for teachers, one in a festival and one in Mexico. I wrote both of them not even thinking anything of it but how exciting it would be if I did get to do some really great gigs like these. A week later I get an email back from the man in Mexico-he wrote me as if I was already taking the position. He called me a day later, we talked and after a few phone calls, they said “you have a half hour to decide”. My brain just said, “why not-this is MEXICO-CANCUN, FOR A MONTH”!!!! So I said yes!
So this is it, he wanted me down there for 2 ½ months, I told him I’d go for a month, try it on for size first. I’ll be teaching at a NUDIST RESORT!!! Never taught nude before or to nudists, though I have talk to people that were nude. Plus I get to do private sessions with the couples and most all of the people that go are couples! It’s just thrilling that I met exactly to what they wanted after they saw my website and what I do-as I teach more then just one thing! I love that I’ll be able to get this work out to more people-people from all over the US, Canada and even Europe.
So now I thought I was doing REALLY GREAT! When I email a friend in Canada and she’s putting a class of people together for me to teach in Canada, near Nelson, an area I’ve wanted to go to for years, in August!
What is so great is that I am gone for a month in Mexico, teaching, relaxing, sharing, playing and then I’ll come back, roam around Southern California, seeing friends and checking out the surrounding area of LA-just in case I ever do decide to take the leap and move out of LA to a place where trees grow and rivers run and fresh air blows!!!!
I got a huge wake up call a few weeks ago-I took a class on Lymphatic Drainage Massage. I fell in love with the idea of supporting people to cleanse, to heal, to take care of themselves. All my life I’ve been about the body-a trained personal trainer, aerobic instructor, a dance and body awareness instructor, massage and healing, so why not go for it and become a Colon Hydrotherapist???? I have been having fantasies for about a year now, since my month in the Sivanada Yoga Center about doing workshops on health, cleansing, yoga, nutrition and dance.
What is so very perfect is this: go to Mexico from June 17th-July 15th, I explore Cali for 12 days, and on the 28th of July the Colon Hydrotherpy training starts until August 8th, fly out to Canada on August 10th or 11th for 2 weeks to teach and see a friend I haven’t seen in 8 YEARS. We met in Calcutta India and have been in touch since then. She has now been married for 7-8 years, with 3 gorgeous kids. So this will be great to see her and meet her family and also teach! So that means I’ll be gone a total of 2 months-in which I’ll sublet my room out!
Life is so amazing! And in all of this. I learned a huge lesson in trust. Not only that the Universe will provide and listen when you ask the right questions, but again, be careful what you ask for as I asked to be an international teacher. Last year I said “I want to work on the road, share my work and teach internationally”. So here it is. On top of that another great lesson is to relax in the here and now with business. As Saturday I had a games night party. My friend Paul was playing is accordion-which he’s just amazing at!!!! But I got so into it I cut my thumb-literally the tip of it, off. Remember, I do massage-I need my thumbs. I look down, I put it above my head, I cleaned it (I won’t go into the holistic way of healing things quickly-if you want to know ask and I’ll tell you!!!!). I had to take Monday off, and in that I didn’t think of work and phone calls just came in! I booked some appointments for the next few days and by Tuesday my thumb was good to go and now it’s almost gone!
I love that when we stop thinking about “working” work comes. So I have relaxed around this area this week and everything has just come to me-friends, regulars I haven’t seen since I’ve been back and new clients from an ad I didn’t even put out recently called. We do so much pushing in our lives, so much-doing and thinking, sometimes it’s best to just relax, do something fun for yourself and that is when everything comes to you.
This has been a powerful week, my creative juices has started up again and I have broken out my sewing machine, scissors and fabric. My jeans are now shorts, my t-shirts have gone through a make over and my fabric is turning into creations wild and beautiful to dance in!
I’m learning more and more each day to dream big of creating, being creative and take action on it. What are your dreams? What do you fantasize about? We die when we stop dreaming, I know that now, as I stopped dreaming for a few years and it was painful. I laugh more now, I feel more alive now. I feel so much lighter and accepting of life and of others. It’s a powerful time!!!
I have started changing my diet-this doesn’t mean diet in what people think of as “a diet”, I mean as food intake. 3 weeks ago I gave up chai-for those of you who know, it was my drug of choice!!!! I didn’t go a day without it if I could keep from it. I stopped it 3 weeks ago, I stopped bringing home milk, yet organic yogurt with live cultures in it and cottage cheese are still in my diet. I can already see a difference in how I feel, how I see my body and how I want to live my life-completely healthy. Not saying I’ll never have a chai again as I feel everything in balance. If you do something every once in a while, that is healthy. I think when we go to the extreme is when we get ourselves in trouble.
That is why when I helped my mother-when I was 17 years old, to lose 89 pounds I told her-we are taking NOTHING out of her diet, we are only going to give her a tablespoon less of food each meal for the first week, for two more weeks we’ll take 2 tablespoons off of food each meal and on and on until 1 ½ years later and going from a size 22 to a size 9, back up to a 10 as it looked better for her. We added walking to her daily regime and she got to have her favorite desert once a week-a Snickers! So nothing was taken out, just less was taken in and much was taken off over time with a little exercise-as her doctors said she couldn’t exercise.
If I can help people clean their bodies through nutrition, exercise, cleansing, fasts, colon cleansing, dance and yoga then how lovely would that be!!! I’m still researching colonics to make sure this is definitely what I want to do, but honestly since last year it’s been in the back of my mind, and when I took that class on Lymphatic Massage I just haven’t been able to stop thinking of it and now I’ve started coaching my friends on diet, nutrition and massage more and more. It’s very exciting. I want to help change the world. Show people how to live a healthier, more happy life through loving themselves through their food and activities. Of course I’ll still do the couples work, but this works with that beautifully!
So this is my life! It’s very new, very exciting and I’m riding the wave of it, hanging on for dear life at times-writing up contracts and conditions, fliers, booking flights, writing on what will be presented on the DVD as well as working on staying up with writing on my book-which in the past 1-2 weeks have been put on hold. But the great thing is when I do write on it, I write for 2-2 ½ hours at a time! That’s exciting too!
I’d love to hear from you, I’d love to know what you are up to and how your heart is doing. Life is always ebbing and flowing and life is too short not to reach out and tell someone you love them. So reach out, tell someone you love them. Allow someone hold you when you laugh or cry. Share you! Let me tell you, before this DVD thing happened I was ready to go move in with a family member I was so distressed about my business and life. It wasn’t a fun time, but coming out on the other side has been so nice. So it’s not been all up, it’s been up and down, the key thing is know that the only thing that stays the same is change it’s self and that when things look not so great, that things will change soon for the better. Look toward the light, feel your light and open your heart, go play and do something fun and things will change. It’s part of us caring for ourselves.
I send you love, many hugs, and I hope to see you soon, if not in person, in photos or in my dreams. Love, Heather
