What Others Say About Us
Mastery Training Fiji ~ Alan Cohen
Notes from the trip
I find Myself In each Breath | I hired him to exaggerate the way I talk to myself |
Every direction that I aim my Consciousness in Flowers it | Growing & Learning |
Rest as who I am | Get to the place where I feel good about myself |
Quality requires Presence | I have to Be the right person to Attract the right person |
I Am Enough ~ I don't have to qualify myself for being on the planet by digging up an old story that was merely one experience in my Life ~ I Am Ever-Changing and Growing | I Trust my hopes not my fears |
Spirit, please show me the Truth about this | |
Let go of my preferences | Trust the timing of things |
Spirit has our best interest at Heart | All journeys have destinations of which the travelers are not aware Once I get Clear the decision will reveal itself |
Book: Journey To The East ~ Hermann Hesse | Every experience that anyone has ever had is still in the Universe |
The Journey down into My Heart ~ Have Fun along the way | When I think any thought I am sending a pipeline |
Simple Kindness | and I have access to everything in that realm |
I spot it, I got it | |
Building Spiritual Confidence | Focus on something for 17 seconds and add emotion to it |
If I have something important to say ~ say the end at the beginning | and I will be taken to the next level |
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you | |
If it's not Fun, hire it done | Hurt people ~ hurt people |
Sometimes the things that bug me the most Open me the most | The critical voice is not my own |
I can't hear until I’m ready to hear | An insult is a boon to a Sage |
Trust, Allow Support, and take the risk | My attention is my strongest investment |
Sometimes I can't change my environment but | Everyone I meet is playing out my intention |
I can always change my mind | Why would I keep paying to go see the same bad movie? |
Wouldn't it be sad if I finally found a man I COULD Trust | |
My True calling lies at the intersection of | and I lost him because I didn't Trust him? |
my deep Joy and the world’s deep hunger | |
As soon as I Trust myself, I will know how to Live |
Scotland, England, & Ireland
Notes from the trip
I intend to show up Fully. | Have a lot of Joy |
I am Joyfully on the leading edge of my experience, eager and Appreciative | Cultivate Magic & Flow Trusting it |
Be Generous and Patient | Don’t lean into or away from things |
Compassion ~ Growth through adversity | Pleasantly Pleasing to yourself in the company of others |
Separation creates sadness | The Scent in the air is intoxicating ~~~**~~ |
I Am a Peacemaker ~ Shining Light in THIS Moment | If you’ve got to have it in a hurry, it’s not worth having |
Be rooted in your Aliveness instead of lost in your mind | For those of you serious about your Spiritual practice, I suggest you work on your Clown Chakra ☺ |
How I respond shows me how Conscious I am |
Book ~ Spiritual Growth by Sanaya Roman ~ Book of Meditations Science of Compassion ~ Gregg Bradon |
Come back to my Breath and the Present Moment and become Aware | Don’t be dramatic, Be Theatrical |
Honor my function without being totally identified with it | People for the ethical treatment of Sacred Sites |
All things are small things because they are transient | Where is the Humor? |
I Am the Awareness ~ I Am the Witness ~ I Am the Stillness | Mastery of the Flow of Energy |
Death is the opposite of Birth not Life | Feel your level of Aliveness |
Awareness is the beginning of Freedom | Helping others with Aliveness |
Non - resistance is one of the most important things to learn | Access Life Energy ~ put it in a Spiritual bank account ~ Allow the Flow to return back ~ Give it out ~ Receive it back |
I am never upset for the reason I think I am | Spend on what you Love |
Flowers are Powerful Healers | Spiritually bi-locate |
Follow the Magic | Feel where your kinks are |
We are the culmination of our history | Keep the Energies Flowing |
What is habitual ~ what is Fresh ? | Whatever comes my way I use for my Evolution ~ Breath it in |
When you’re moved by Magic, then take a photo | Who Am I ? Who is This One that is this way? |
How we demonstrate Love ~ Look out for each other | Navigate to Truth |
Fun & Full of Ease | Every Experience will Strengthen you |
Koko - Find parts of yourself | Shakti Aliveness in every moment |
Karmic Relief | Everything is a communication of Others |
Crop Circles ~ Embrace a Unique Feel ~ Everything in you gets a Hug | Follow the Magic |
Music ~ Sting ~ Fields of Gold Eva Cassidy ~ Fields of Gold | www.Whatsuponplanetearth.com |
Terry ~ Druid from Avery | Druids spoke Sanskrit |
Stones full of Quartz Crystal | Chalk is Dead Sea Creatures |
Everybody comes from the same nine Mothers ~ so we are all French ☺ | Mandrake~ Purple flowers Flooded Stillness ~ Female Goddess |
Ancient traditions being revealed in a modern way | The Love of letting go ~ The elixir of transformation |
Brain is an intention device ~ what thoughts are you having? | Magical practice ~ watching what you watch |
The Something that watches what you watch ~ that’s what Sees Fairies | When you don’t want anything to change, everything can change |
Be with Magic ~ Allow your front surface to Open ~ you are in communion with God ~ taking in the whole way Breath the connection ~ Attract Light | It’s the space between what you see that gives it shape/ form |
Glastonbury ~ Releasing the Medicine that you are ~ Aha | Astrotheology ~ Michael Tsarion ~ Jordon Maxwell ~ The Suns of God |
You forgot you were the continual noticing of your Heart | Surrender ~ Keep renewing myself in the Divine |
Emotionally act as if the room is your Lover | Spiritually Sculpting Moments |
Miracles happen when you are giving and receiving Love | Keep a Magic Journal |
Lilacs and Wisteria | Lift your pleasures to enjoyment |
To see the Sacred is to lift it by seeing the Beauty | I am the Source of my Aliveness |
Bow to Divinity ~ Never a person What can I do to contribute to your success? |
Time of Goddess & Green Man ~ Time of Fruition |
Women owned land and passed it to their daughters | Pre- Ice Age Forest ~ Nature survives no matter what ~ Flora & Fauna from Africa |
Trees and stones are their ancestors ~ were here before the two legged | Black Oaks & Apple Trees ~ Walking on the bones of our ancestors |
Lee Valley brought Healing | The Nature of Love is not safe |
Am I my brothers’ keeper? | Be willing to support Family Consciousness |
What you don’t have is exactly what you have to give | The noticing of otherness hides our own activity |
Pagan means The First | Three Graces to Cultivate ~ Tenderness * Generosity * Respect * |
Don’t be ruled by your preferential security | Once you know, You Know |
Don’t display your freaked outness ~ Never reveal your fears | Transcending of the self~ help another ~ lend a hand |
It’s as special as you make it | Slange ~ Slangeva (sp?) To your good health |
Bus driver Tony ~ Limerick ~ “ buried him upside down to get the change out of his pockets because he was so cheap ” ☺ haha Seeing double, feeling single Bluebells |
People gathered under Sacred Oak Trees |
The most addictive thing on the planet is LOVE | You can’t have Love and restricted breath |
All of our ideas of Spirituality are revealed for what they are ~ looking for security | Continually let go and you become lighter |
Truth is the Ultimate Expression | May the words we speak be wiser than the Silence that we break |
It’s the company you keep | Love is the Law |
Keep everyone’s Heart Warm Free Clear Clean & True | The Nature of Love is to give up your position |
All my fears are unfounded | Struggle is effort laced with negative emotion |
Get away from “how did I create this” | Find the Sweet Spot |
Help crack the tightness of your mind | Love is the Law ~ Thou shalt not have a serious constitution |
Gather the Warmth within you | Salt is Sacred ~ dried by the Sun |
Tree people talk ~ Stones are the storytellers | Eight ~ FOUR LEAF CLOVERS FOUND ~ One FIVE LEAF CLOVER FOUND |
The Goddess is Alive and Magic is her foot | BOOK ~ The Sacred Whore |
Weavers ~ Dreamers ~ Soul Singers ~ Crones | To see Fairies you must Open your Heart & become one with Nature like a Child |
The Light of God disguised as a Beautiful face ~ Aha | Sheela~na~gig ~ Meditate into your womb |
The Body Mind remembers | Dolphins, Swans & Wolves mate for life |
Fungi the Healing Dolphin ~ women who wish to become pregnant | Shaman the Snailman |
Believe in them more than they believe in themselves | Right On ~ Fuckin A ~ SHAA! |
Amantha took us into the Heart & Womb of Ireland | Midwife of Beauty & Grace ~ You made us all feel Irish |
The Irish started everything! Haha | There really are Fairies |
You taught us that our presence is valued in Nature | BOOK ~ Undefended Love |
Want without having to have | Live by the Magic you have been Loved by ~ The Magic of no resistance |
Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it | We carry a transmission of Love with people who take care of each other |
Celebration is our way | Happy recipient of the Happy award |
Magic is Being Human & Being Seen for who you really are | Laughter & Pleasure ~ Miracle & Magic are commonplace |
Be the Magic ~ Every person is a teacher | Be willing to be big in the world ~ bi-locate yourself |
India
Incred!ble India! Since I returned home last Friday I continue to awake at 2-4 in the morning and cannot sleep any longer. My body-mind is still in India. What an amazing adventure! It was filled with so many great moments and deep, and sometimes painful learnings. Starting with the Taj Mahal which is a monument of love built by a Raja (king) for his deceased wife. It put such a spotlight on the potential of love that I lost sight of the beauty I have in my life already. As my teacher always said "comparison is the first step to unhappiness". Fortunately I found my way back to Love in the end.
We went to Mathura (birth place of Krishna), Bodhgaya, and sat under the Bodhi Tree where Buddha meditated. We went into the caves where he sat. But for me, the most touching experiences were connecting with the beautiful people of India. It was on my way back down from the caves that I had a very profound experience. There sat a young man, blind and deformed in his body with his pan held out for donations. As I approached him I could hear him say "NAMASTE, NAMASTE, NAMASTE" over and over and over again. I will never forget him. I gave him 50 rupees and one of my fellow travelers reached down and touched the side of his face. I could see that he was so moved by this. (I bet it has been a long time since anyone has touched him in that way) as she moved on I stood there watching him as he moved his hand to the other side of his face requesting another touch and continuing to chant Namaste.
Namaste means "The Divine in me recognizes the Divine in you" What a Beautiful word.
There is no such word in the English language that creates the connection that I felt when I spoke it and received it from the hundreds of people I met after this incident. What a teacher he was. I have known this word Namaste for many years but it had a whole new personalized meaning to it now. This one word went on to pave the way for the deepest experience of connection I have ever known with people whom I could not speak any other word of their language.
We made our way to Varanasi and participated in a special meditation on the sacred Ganga (called the Ganges River by the British). It was here in Varanasi where the streets were filled with such chaos that I learned about "being in the flow" with ALL Beings. There were cars, buses, tractors, cows, goats, rickshaws, dogs, bicycles, and people galore moving in every direction you can imagine and somehow it all worked. There were no accidents no red, yellow, and green lights. It all flowed and moved with such presence and purpose. My favorite image is of a donkey with a pack on its back running down the street amidst all of this. He had no human with him yet he knew exactly where he was going as if he was off to work in morning rush hour traffic. I giggle when I remember this but it was a great learning for me to accept the movement of life and to flow with it.
Next we moved on to Allahabad and joined in with the other 35 million, (yes that is right, 35 million!) other people who attended the Kumbh Mela festival. It is the largest festival of the human race which commemorates the most important episodes of Hindu mythology, including the battle between the Gods and demons for the possession of the Kumbh (pitcher) filled with Nectar. The legend immortalizes the victory of virtue over vice, good over bad, morality over immorality and life over death. We arrived on the most important bathing day when the Naga Sadhus (highest Holy Men, naked because they have denounced everything including their clothing) come down from the Himalaya Mountains and bathe in the Sangam, the holy confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and Sarasvati rivers. After they were finished, we were given the Blessing of bathing as well.
That night I joined several others in our group and were led to the Naga Sadhu's tent area where we were treated as their guests. We spent the entire night moving from camp to camp where we were offered and shared their Chai tea and smoked their pipes with them. We were also fed a very delicious meal. There were a few Babas who spoke broken English that translated for us, and one Beautiful man, Raj, who escorted us to the prime spots. The presence of these Beautiful Beings was astonishing. I guess I had imagined that they might be kind of spacey or out in another zone, but no way, Raj even knew that I had to pee and asked me if I needed to go now or do I want to wait until the next opportunity. I was so touched by his gentle care for me in such a simple but deeply connected and present way. This is how it was the entire time. Everyone I looked at SAW me and acknowledged me. Wow, how wonderful it would be to live this way all of the time. They do.
We met the leader of all of the Sadhus a Wonderful man, Sampat Puri Ji Maharaj who is 113 years old (he looks 70) He gave us a mantra and shared his wisdom. He said "When you have seen the lowest you are the highest. One is everything when you are zero". He also gave us this message as did several other Sadhus: "Where the Lady is worshiped, there is Wealth". In India the ladies are the Goddess of Wealth, Lakshmi, Ram. I LOVE this! I know personally when I feel honored and adored I will will do anything for you, give you all I have. I believe most women are this way.
We also visited a very Joyful Sahdu called Kal Yugi TEA Baba. He was great. He owns nothing yet has everything. As we approached he ran quickly to his neighbors to borrow mats for us to sit on, he had torn a sarong in half to include us all. For the last 6 years he has only consumed his amazing Chai Tea (which he made for us) and smoked Hashish. He said he cries very much when he eats so he only drinks tea and smokes hash. He said "Remember the name of God in all you do, Purify your actions, behind the desire is the Divine". Sit at the right hand of God.
What a gift. I am so Blessed and so Grateful.
Notes from the trip
Mother India will show you what you Love & Resist | What is Real cannot be threatened |
She will bring out your preferences | What does my Heart want to do |
Empire of the Soul | Sit back & Flow |
Be Kind with each other | Wait & Yearn |
Watch your reactivity | Om Namo Narayan |
Learn to Love Everything you see | Ganesh Tent Welcoming Committee |
Allow All of It In | Remember Our True Nature |
Maya—Goddess of Illusion | God Is Love |
In India Men Hold Hands | God is Everywhere |
Bhai = Brother | Love is Everyone |
Bhen = Sister | Guru is One |
GOD = Generator - Order - Destroyer | All the rivers come back to the Ocean |
Krishna God of Love - Sneaky Trickster - Cow Herder | If you're going to see differences make Art out of it |
Cultivate Letting Go & the Knowledge will come to You | Sangam - Yamuna Ganga Saraswati - Three Rivers |
Who would I Be if I were Born Here? | |
You don't visit India you only Come Back | 113 years old Sadhu Leader—Sampat Puri Ji Maharaj |
Realize your Own Divine Identity | Mantra—Om Satchit Atma Sarupaye Paribrahamaye Namah |
How do You Live Within GOD? | (All Is One—Soul is One—God is One) |
Find Your True Will & Be Resolute | The secret to Long Life - Chant the name of GOD |
Death is an Intermission | Where the Lady is Worshiped, there you find the Wealth |
True Calmness Comes from True Seeing | See the lowest - You are the Highest |
The Spiritual Journey is from the background to the foreground (GOD) | One is Everything when you are zero |
Relaxing the Veil of illusion | Take One Good Promise in Your Life |
Taj Mahal - A Monument of Love | Leave Your One bad habit here |
The Heart just wants to Be Loved | Die Again Born |
Be Aware of the One who is Aware | |
Nirvana - extinguishing all of the body's attachments | Kal Yugi TEA Baba |
In the middle of the sneeze is Nirvana : | Mantra - Jai Bhart Maa Om Namoh Narayam |
The ego says we must have more than our means | Om Shiva - Good Relations with Each Other |
Give More Trust than the circumstance demands | Shiva is the Original Name Of GOD |
Give the Universe the opportunity to show you how much it Loves You | No Food for six years. He cries very much when he eats. Only drinks Chai Tea and smokes Hashish |
Are my actions Opening All Beings? | Remember the name of GOD in All You Do |
Wisdom is to NOT act right away | Purify Your Actions |
Be Ordinary - Just Become Human | The Absolute & Pure Soul Are One |
Behind your greatest fear is the Gift for All of Us | Devote to the Lady First, then you will have Wealth |
Sleep happens by the Grace of Surrender |
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Gods Gentle pull back | Sri Digambar Sri Mustgiriji Junakaoha (Foreign visitors tent) |
Be Present in All states | Suram Temple |
Buddha contemplated "What Is Life"? | Everyone is the same kernel of Consciousness |
Don't attach your Freedom to some future happening or event | Sit at the Right Hand of GOD |
Tibetan Buddhist - Interdependence - Action - Devotion - Help Others Don't harm Others | Just Be Yourself |
Om Mani Padme Om | Vivek - Spiritual Discernment |
Meditate On Loving Kindness | Zero belief in anything |
Don't halt Life while you're sitting around processing | I am My Own Master |
Feel Others First | When what you have sought for you recognize |
Offer Your Heart | Wizardry on subtle plains |
Be Simple in the Heart | It's the edges where you grow |
3 Things I need to show more Compassion- Touch - Soften Face - Smile | Surrender is earned after effort |
Health is the Greatest Wealth | Who Can I Give Love To? |
Artfully become the thing we are in Awe Of | |
Our time together is so short |
Couples Retreat in Hawaii
For the last several years I have been Blessed to be a participant with Warrior Sage out of Canada. Recently my partner and I went to Hawaii for a week of deep learning and discovery about ourselves and our relationship. Following is but a wee bit of an example of what I learned. I highly recommend this course to those, such as we, who are Spiritually Awakening and are willing to open up, expose, and move beyond those places of closure within our beings that prevent us from Loving Fully.
I found out right away that those places in me were the very areas crying to be Loved Open. I had created these "positions" of opinion and gathered evidence to support them, meanwhile crushing the sweetness of this new joyous connection I had found with my beloved. I was attached to the way it/he must be for me to give all of my LOVE, Trust, and Commitment.
Throughout the week, moment to moment I peeled away shells that had been there for many life times, I believe. I find it difficult to really explain the depth at which we were operating, so I will share my notes with you and perhaps you will find a nugget or two that may serve you in some way.
Much Love,
Sanandra
Notes from the trip
We are here to Magnify Love. | Every meeting is an opportunity to exchange gifts. |
We are either Growing or dying. | Life is Easy - Are you willing to do it Joyfully? |
Discover the Truth about what is happening. | Sawu-bona - I see you (greeting). |
Commit to staying with it. | Sikona - I am here (response). |
What if you would never leave or they could never hurt you? | You come to Life because of the other. |
Put your relationship first. | Rework your languaging patterns. |
Loving no matter what - the power of Adoration, Love, and Praise. | Don't Imprison. |
Eliminate the threat of leaving. | Give your partner more Trust than they deserve. |
Forgive all of those little things. | I keep identifying myself as a New Being. |
Daily Intimacy (full engagement, open your heart, hold nothing back). | Be Open to Newness. |
Give each other room to move around in. | Keep re-creating your relationship. |
Create a soft place to land. | I give our relationship a Fresh Start. |
Our space friends travel with their etheric bodies. | I give Myself a Fresh Start. |
Loving Truth and the power of vulnerability. | I give You a Fresh Start. |
Seeing the Higher Meaning and Constant Growth. | Commitment is the doorway to Freedom. |
The Power of Appreciation. | I know you always have a positive intent for my Heart. |
We have a Spiritual purpose to serve each other. | Create and Build Trust and Respect. |
We are One Being showing up in Two Bodies. | Open in the midst of it. . |
Share Life, Humor, Music & Sexuality. | Open To Me. |
Our relationship is a House. | |
You and I are moving towards the same thing, hand in hand. | Bring Him/Her into Your Heart. |
I see you with brand new eyes. | Honor each others need for space |
Eliminate acidic sarcasm. | Relationship is: harmony - disharmony - repair |
Love is Eternal, so it takes its time. |
Peru
Many of you have asked about my Peru trip and I must say it has been difficult to capture the vastness of such an experience and write it down.
I traveled with 40 other wonderfully Enlightened Beings from Warrior Sage out of Canada. We were led by it's founder Satyen Raja, his wife Suzanne and their two children Satori and Shaman, as well as our other Awesome guides Kristi and Kassim.
We spent our first week travelling, visiting, and hiking, and hiking :) in and out of the many Sacred sites in Peru. We would Give Thanks and do Ceremony with our guide Don Jorge Luis from Lake Titicaca.
The second week we travelled by boat to Corto Maltes which is along the river out of Puerto Maldonado. It is a wonderful retreat site in the jungle. On the boat we met our Shaman Diego, his amazing wife Milagros, and their baby boy. The experience with these Amazing Beings changed my life forever in a very profound way.
Notes from the trip
I choose love. | I send love to all beings. |
I breathe down my front, circulate up my spine, over my heart. Tongue to the roof of my mouth, I recognize what is in this moment. | I return to my core essence. There is no such thing as transformation, there is nothing to transform. We are perfect, whole, and complete at our core. |
Three part breath. | Teach me in a gentle way |
Noble silence. | Let the wisdom in my words be greater than that of the silence that I have broken. |
I keep opening and sending love. | Let it be. Let it breathe. |
Live a simple life. Simplicity of heart. | Sit in uncertainty with an open heart. |
Care for one another. | Relax the shells that bind God's presence. |
Rest in the unchanging. | What is real cannot be threatened. |
Be humble. | Better a broken arm than a broken spirit (children). |
I am gentle and I soften myself. | Give to me the wisdom in a way that I can integrate it in my life. |
I love my body in every way. | I remember my core vital essence. |
Transcend anything by loving it. | We tend to get what we expect. |
Our space friends travel with their etheric bodies. | Love without fear. Right hand on heart. Left hand on the solar plexus. |
I don't look at my footsteps. I have no personal history. | My inner world of wisdom connects me with the mother. |
I find myself boring and humanity interesting. | I leave space for magic to happen. |
Mastery is a moment to moment practice. | I make my work a sacred practice. |
I give up my attachments. | Condor represents infinity and eternity. |
I give what I don't have and didn't get as a child. | Puma represents the present. |
I intend to develop more consciousness. | Snake represents the inner world that is always young and renewed. |
Be a better person. | The lake represents the feminine. |
I love others even when I am fucked up. | The mountains represent the masculine. |
I have divine courtesy. | Feel infinitely in and infinitely out. |
I don't know anything. | I notice my noticing. |
I let the flow of life bring me what I need. | I trust in the process of my life. |