We are coming to the end of an era. The end of personal identities formed on values and ideals that no longer serve the frequency of truth and collective harmony that is rising as our consciousness continues to retune itself into a higher octave…

We are all being called more than ever to examine where we’ve reproduced the old paradigm of separation within ourselves, and how this impacts the way we live, lead, and love. This Aquarius Full Moon offers potent medicine to see how reclamation of our maverick parts is needed to further elevate Humanity into its next expression and dimension.

There are a lot of big emotions swirling in the ether right now. And verbal processing can only take us so far.

Working with the body through conscious, wild movement, combined with sound and the energetics of a trauma-informed container can create the conditions to go deeper into our cellular structures & soul blueprints to repattern our thoughts, words, and actions. And to allow us to reconnect with lost parts of ourselves, to reparent our inner kids that are often burdened with holding the energy of unexpressed, unprocessed emotions.

The Winter Solstice marks the darkest night of the year, just before the days start to stretch longer in the Northern Hemisphere. It is a time to go within, to see by the light of the mind’s eye all that has transpired since the longest day of the year with the Summer Solstice. It is a time to reflect on the blessings and unexpected gifts within the challenges of our lives, and to honor our experiences so we can share the abundance of their lessons with others.

Ohana means family in Hawaiian. Many of us search our lives for the kind of connection and intimacy we wish we could have received from our birth families. This is where we can turn a victimhood story into an empowered approach; we can choose to create our own “chosen family” by fostering connections and community no matter where we land.

Anger is perhaps one of the most sacred, misunderstood, and controversial emotions in the spectrum of human experience. Our hegemonic cis-gender norms assert the belief that anger is "too dangerous" for girls to have, so they are "allowed" to be sad, and boys aren't allowed to be sad but can be angry as that suits this outdated notion of "masculinity." This contortion alone feeds so much of the unconscious reproduction of anger and its discontents in our society.

On a personal level, many of us first learned about anger in our childhood homes and neighborhoods. We may have physically, emotionally, or psychologically experienced its expression with trauma and wounds visible and unseen. As adults, we may not know how to relate to this energy when it comes up within … So we stuff it down with over-eating, numb out with Netflix, or perhaps "slash and burn" relationships in outbursts we later regret. Anger is a signal of boundaries crossed, a call for love over betrayal -- from others, and from ourselves. Anger is a signal of love disappointed, and a portal to deep healing, repair, and soul-level alchemy to forgiveness and self-love.

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"Not all who wander are lost" - J. R. R. Tolkien

If there was ever an astrology sign that embodied Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey (upon which Tolkien's famous "The Ring" is based, and the majority of film, TV, and novels), it is Sagittarius. This is because the sign treads lightly, lives more in the present than in the past, and embraces the adventure of life. It is the energy of The Fool in Tarot, the start of the deck of cards, the leap from expectation into the unknown. 

It is in the embrace of the unknown, the "Trust Fall" with faith that we can learn our greatest life lessons, which also happens to a passion of Sagittarius. "Leap and You Shall Learn."

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Our Human journey and our Soul's path, is mirrored through astrology, the lunar cycle, and the planets. When we learn how the energy of these cosmic systems impact our own, we can choose to direct our personal energy in ways that flow much more ease-fully with Nature and Her rhythms. We can harness this information as a tool to gain a better sense of relationship dynamics, our personal preferences and behavior patterns.  We can consciously create greater balance in life, in how we invest our energy in our work and business relationships, family life, education and travel, creative projects, spirituality, etc.

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Astrology has been used for centuries to understand personal destiny and rhythms, relationships (especially family, lovers, business partners), life events, etc. Paired with an understanding of the Lunar Cycles, especially for women who experience their own "moon" (menstrual) cycle, this information can help illuminate the ever-evolving dynamics of life on Earth and beyond this planet, and how we personally experience our lives.

Working with these natural, cosmic rhythms on a personal level can help with managing your energy, your health, vitality, and stress levels, and give an opportunity for you to reduce the amount of self-criticism and self-judgement for your own way of moving through the world; it creates a sense of authentic empowerment when applied to your everyday life.

The Everyday Alchemy Workshop will include:

1 - Lecture and Discussion on Astrology, Lunar & Planetary Cycles, including relationships to elemental energy (e.g., earth, air, fire, water) and the chakras

2 - Experiential exercises & Journaling & Sharing exercises to personalize the concepts

3 - Meditation, Pranayama, and other techniques to integrate and embody the concepts

4 - *Guidance for practical application and integration of the information into daily life for decision-making, self-inquiry, planning, productivity, and creative inspiration

*A beautiful, extensive workbook will also be provided to guide and facilitate workshop and post-workshop incorporation of the topics

Are you creating experience of self-worth based on a construct that was given to you or are you creating in alignment with your Soul’s Truth? We get on the rat wheel because we have a notion of work and self-worth that is an illusion … that we have to struggle to get it, keep it, etc. We keep chasing something that is seemingly always already out of reach (e.g., “This is what success is”), and end up “sacrificing” our personal lives, and trading our physical and mental health for this illusion. We can unknowingly create patterns of, as Dr. Brené Brown says, “hustling for our worthiness,” at work and elsewhere in our lives.

We can choose to reclaim our experience of our own worth in ways outside of the context of our work. And we can choose to empower our own creation energy, our Divine Masculine, and shift our relationship to contemporary culture’s current paradigm of #HUSTLE, work addiction, and disordered masculine energy.

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Our Body is our Home. When we seek to create change in our life, to be "reborn" into a new job, new relationship, new city, or even a simple new self-care routine, we can benefit from learning how to support our bodies in adjusting to change.  

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Whole Human Alchemy & Consulting is honored to collaborate with Maha Rose Center for Healing to bring one of our signature workshops, Radical Self-Love, to the Adidas Women’s Running Loft in Soho, NYC.

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Be it an intimate partnership, a coworker, a close friend, a child, a new business partner, our energy communicates even more than words and actions. This workshop offers time, space, and teachings to delve into how you relate to others as a way to care for yourself and cultivate bonds that are balanced, sacred, and heal the legacy of dysfunction so often learned in our primary family systems.

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Anger is perhaps one of the most controversial emotions in the spectrum of human experience. Our hegemonic cis-gender norms assert the belief that anger is "too dangerous" for girls to have, so they are "allowed" to be sad, and boys aren't allowed to be sad but can be angry as that suits this outdated notion of "masculinity." This contortion alone feeds so much of the unconscious reproduction of anger and its discontents in our society.

On a personal level, many of us first learned about anger in our childhood homes and neighborhoods. We may have physically, emotionally, or psychologically experienced its expression with trauma and wounds visible and unseen. As adults, we may not know how to relate to this energy when it comes up within …

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We know Life and Self-Love is more than just Insta-worthy pics of multicolored macaroons, crystal & candle-lined salt baths, and gel polish that matches our matcha. Authentic Self-Love can appear to be elusive to define, create, and experience partially because #selfcare and #selflove has become usurped by hyper-commodification and hegemonic cultural narratives of privilege. These can play into our deeply embedded wounds of unworthiness from childhood experiences of core shame, intergenerational patterning and epigenetic, and normative gender-biased agendas that purport women must take care of others before ourselves. We may also have difficulty loving ourselves if we didn’t witness or experience that growing up in our families of origin, or perhaps we experienced forms of trauma that created associations with love as something dangerous, something we had to earn, or for everyone else except ourselves.

In this workshop we will honor the next turn on the wheel of the year as we welcome the Spring Equinox, Ostara, on the same day as a Full Moon in Libra. Perfectly aligned, Libra brings us qualities of beauty and justice, asking us to harmonize our relationships with ourselves and each other. We are called to recognize our part in the whole, our interconnectedness and our interdependence. 

We cannot create or grow new projects, new habits, new experiences in life without understanding that we are supported by all that is around us in our creation. And what we create has direct affect on the world. In this way, it is with the energy and intention of grace that we can infuse our personal endeavors as gifts that serve our greater communities, country, and Mother Earth.

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...Release what truly no longer represents Who You Are.

...Connect to your deepest intuitive desires and dreams.

...Intend to experience Ease in how you move through life, and Grace in all your Creative projects.

We can choose to swim up river when the time is the time. We can also experience Ease and Grace in all that flows to and through us for our highest expansion. Suffering through our life experiences is optional. All is happening for us, not to us.

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In this workshop we will get Diana (Goddess of the Moon) and Auntie Flo (your Menstrual Cycle) on a conference call for a Strategic Planning session to synchronize and thrive - in our business, in our personal lives, in 2019 and beyond.

Try as we might to control Nature, She ultimately has a powerful seat on our Executive Board. We can learn to work with the energetic data, intelligent rhythms, and supreme cycles lunar and menstrual flows offer us. We can learn to coordinate these points of information to effectively manage our own biological rhythms, feel more balanced emotionally throughout our cycles, and maximize timing for creating and birthing our personal projects and business offerings.

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In a culture that commodifies self-care as just another hashtag, that glorifies over-giving, admonishes time-off or giving to one's self as "selfish" (especially as womxn), it can feel like a highly political act to take time to authentically give to one's self.

We deserve to move out of this societal guilt and internalized pressure. We deserve to embrace our birthright of worthiness of love and care no matter what.

How we show up for ourselves reflects in how we show up for our clients and colleagues through our businesses, in our intimate partnerships and friendships, in our family and community. How we care for ourselves is a reflection of our willingness to receive love, our connection to our own power and worth, and our tactical priorities in life.

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Your Body is literally a Temple. We receive divine inspiration through our individual form. We then set forth to motion this energy, in creative acts of manifestation in our lives and the world. In a society, however, that encourages bodily dissociation (e.g., digital devices, Netflix binging, etc.), we can end-up being less mindful about our relationship to our body and have difficulty "hearing" our own intuition. Our bodies can take a beating from our Minds, and we are learning more and more about the Mind-Body connection, e.g., how diet impacts mental health / how our thoughts impact disease.

How we care for ourselves is a reflection of our willingness to receive, our worthiness, and our tactical priorities in life.

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This online Yoga Nidra practice is designed to balance the heart chakra, to meet and integrate Shadow and Light parts of your psyche, and to clear and remove blocks to receiving love, prosperity, and nourishment.

It is a time just for you to connect with your Self - to lessen the grip on self-expectations and judgements, to create deep rest in the body, and allow the subconscious and unconscious beliefs that inhibit the experience of pleasure and joy to be released through the Yoga Nidra process.

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We know Life and Self-Love is more than just Insta-worthy pics of multicolored macaroons, crystal & candle-lined salt baths, and gel polish that matches our matcha. Authentic Self-Love can appear to be elusive to define, create, and experience partially because #selfcare and #selflove has become usurped by hyper-commodification and hegemonic cultural narratives of privilege. These can play into our deeply embedded wounds of unworthiness from childhood experiences of core shame, intergenerational patterning and epigenetic, and normative gender-biased agendas that purport women must take care of others before ourselves. We may also have difficulty loving ourselves if we didn’t witness or experience that growing up in our families of origin, or perhaps we experienced forms of trauma that created associations with love as something dangerous, something we had to earn, or for everyone else except ourselves.

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New Moons are times to set intentions for the cycle to come, and engage with the energies of the zodiacal sign it takes place in. Monday, February 4 brings a New Moon in Aquarius, and the ringing in of the Chinese New Year in the Year of the Pig ... Both have prosperity and expansion qualities that are resonant with the numerology of 2019.

Aquarius teaches us to embrace difference and originality as key to our Future — yet, human concepts of duality can be both a tool for healing & learning and can become a weapon for pain & separation when acted upon with fear-based thinking.

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We cannot love others unconditionally until we love ourselves unconditionally. We cannot love ourselves until we consciously accept ourselves as we are. This is the lifetime assignment for us all - individually and collectively - learning how to love ourselves back into remembering our innate goodness, our wholeness, that our true nature is love. Each step we take towards this Truth infuses our creative energy with the resonance of Love.

The Full Moon in Leo on 1/21 brings an invitation to come home to our own hearts, to courageously shine a light of conscious awareness and compassion for our own journeys, and embrace the energy of rebirth that comes with the first lunar eclipse that accompanies the full moon. Leo's messages of the heart, family systems, creativity, loyalty, our presence and projection, how we lead our lives and how we lead each other are especially highlighted.

Register - go to the Workshops tab in the MindBody website listing for Shambhala Yoga & Dance St Marks location! :)

2019 is a Year of Receiving and Manifesting with Empowered Will -- both for the benefit of the Self and for The Collective. It is a Year governed by the Number 3 and the 3rd chakra, the Solar Plexus - Manipura - Our Will, our Birthright to take Action in the world and Rise to our Highest Expression.

The challenge with fully tapping into this critical, powerful energy center to manifest our goals and desires is that we are living in an era of constant sensory stimulation, distraction, and a privileged overwhelm of options. Our attention, our focus of our energy is our power. When we are distracted outside of us, or doing too many things at once, our power is overly dispersed -- like sprinkling water here and there in a field and expecting an ocean to rise.

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How do you desire to lead your life? Do your daily actions and mental patterns, structures correspond with your Highest desires and design? What is the legacy you are here to create for your Soul’s fulfillment, and to the healing benefit of our Collective experience now and for generations to come?

We all have a purpose that can become our compass to lead our lives in alignment with our own Truth. The start of 2019 with a New Moon in Capricorn and a partial Solar Eclipse is an astrological “Moment of Truth.” We are encouraged to clean-up and compost any remaining rubble from last year’s intense retrogrades during the Dark of the Moon and partial solar eclipse. We are called to receive the inheritance of our Soul’s vision and manifest our destiny with the paternal clarity of this Capricorn New Moon and the Fortune of Jupiter in its home sign of Sagittarius. We are invited to declare the direction we shall point the compass of our lives and encouraged to solidify our destiny in both very mystical and practical ways.

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We gather to share our scars, our stretch marks, our laugh lines. We gather to warm ourselves with long hugs, heart-full sharing, celebration, ceremony, and much needed company.

2018 was a helluva year for us all. So many women felt the intensity of global and personal struggle as deep psychic collective wounds triggered in us the places we too needed healing and clearing. Such gore and gorgeousness in the glory of our efforts. Such beauty in our courage. All so that we can more fully embody our strength, our power, our own truth, and walk in greater clarity and alignment with our Soul’s path -- to serve our highest selves, our loved ones and family, our businesses, our community, and the collective with ease, grace, and love.

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In this workshop we will get Diana (Goddess of the Moon) and Auntie Flo (your Menstrual Cycle) on a conference call for a Strategic Planning session to synchronize and thrive - in our business, in our personal lives, in 2019 and beyond.

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