Nautical Days & Filberg Festival

Weekend of Celebration

I'll be at Nautical Days!

Dona Anderson

Something for Everyone!

 

Nautical Days 

Two Summer Festivals with lots to see and do.

A great list of events to experience along with vendors for shopping 
and food!

  Filberg Festival

I hope you're having a wonderful summer!!!!!!! 
Tell us about the summer festivals and events where you live! 

Yoga Rocks with this Combo!

Yoga Teachers & Practitioners!

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Dona Anderson, Simply, One Breath At a Time

Poem shown above is from the Relaxation titled
Peace, in Simply, One Breath At a Time
by Dona Anderson

 So many poses, styles and lovers of yoga!

I love sharing, and it's even better when I get to share with you about YOGA!

We're all busy so I thought I'd save you some time.  Here are 3 earlier posts with information that may help out with your yoga classes, home practice, wellness groups or to keep as a future resource.

5 Tibetan Rites
Relaxing and Meditative video. In the post I've also added in a link to more information about the poses, warm ups, and alternatives.

Laughter Yoga
Laughing has great benefits and even a quick unplanned group laugh helps.
Have you tried Laughter Yoga yet? Here's a video to check out.

Bedtime Poses 
Working or Aging, many of us have problems with sleep. Link to 4 poses to help.

I hope you'll pass on what you find interesting.

Namaste.

August 6, 2015 Update
Saw this article and thought I'd add in in here for you.
4 Restorative poses to help Adrenal Glands
 

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Comments welcomed, links below.

Thanks!

Patrick Swayze & Wife Dancing At World Music Awards 1994

The Beauty of Dance

A Partnership!

Dona Anderson

I had to share this with you, and also so I can easily watch it again and again!

So smooth, so graceful, so romantic ... True Art at its Best!

 Enjoy!

Imagine You're in a Place Where Roses Bloom

Love Roses!!!

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Roots to Breath Wellness Moment 

Can you smell the soft scent and
feel the smooth petals of the rose?

Sharing with you a short, simple poem to sit with on a beautiful warm summers day! 

Dona Anderson

Let me sit for

awhile in

this place where

the sun is warm

and

roses bloom…

 

Poem from the meditation, Garden in Your Dreams,

in my upcoming book, Moving Forward from the Heart

Update - Book is now alive and  beautiful
more information on the Resources Page!!!

Photo for this post only.

©Dona Anderson 2015

 Thanks for sharing this wellness moment with others, thanks!

The To Do List is Growing!

Tying Up Loose Ends

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The story that started with Socks!

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New Socks.

The first time I put on the socks in this photo, my toes were getting caught up inside so I wanted to see why.

On the inside there are all these long threads.

Years ago I saw something similar mentioned about a tapestry.  The picture on the front was beautiful, but the back side was a mess if it's not fixed, cleaned up, looked after.

Is this where the phrase - tying up loose ends comes from?

This made me think of other things.  Sometimes people, places, and things look great on the outside but on the inside there can be lots of problems, troubles, illness, hardships, loss, etc.

From space our World, our Earth, our Home looks peaceful and beautiful yet on the surface in amongst all the tremendous beauty, there is so much to fix, clean up, look after and care for.
.

The To Do List is Growing!

Each small positive action will make a difference.

Thanks for Your HELP!

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What it Means to Me!

Moving Forward from the Heart

Time to Let the Baby Out!

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It is always a bit scary to let your work out for everyone to see.  I've been working on this baby for over 4 years and it's time to let it go so I can find out what is next for me.

The following excerpt from the book talks about ...

What Moving Forward from the Heart means to me!

When I wrote Simply, One Breath At a Time I had the title right away, and then with this book I only had a few ideas for the title until Moving Forward from the Heart came to me at the end, long after all the writing was done. It was in one of those still, quiet times and it made perfect sense.

Since completing this book, I can see now that I was unknowingly writing from my Heart and Soul, and my Heart wanted to know more about compassion, hope, the ability to change, and forgiveness.

My Heart wanted to know more about how to heal, open, love and most of all how to move on and forward.

I’m always sharing things on my Blog as I learn from life and time, and now I am also learning from all the meditations in this book.

They nudge me to let go of what I need to and remind me to live my life now, celebrate all that I am, have and can be.  They remind me to celebrate others and our beautiful earth.  They give me strength and courage, and ask me to think, to see, explore and to share.

One of the Meditations says it well, it’s a place for messages

Check out the Moving Forward label below for
previous posts about this new book!
More will be added over the summer and fall.

You can be part of a Global Compassion Meditation

Compassion is travelling around the world tomorrow!

Chopra Center Global Meditation

July 11, 2015

JOIN IN

Dona Anderson

If you haven't seen any event info on this yet I thought I'd let you know about the free Global Meditation happening tomorrow. The link below is for the sign up.

Chopra Center Global Meditation on July 11

Dona Anderson

I'm not available for this event and I know lots of you won't be either so lets think about compassion and peace and how we can bring more of it into our own lives and interactions with others.

To help us, here is a meditation from my new book Moving Forward from the Heart.

Enjoy!

One Hug

There’s one hug and a breath waiting!

It’s waiting to be found as you soften to let go of stress, let go of struggles, and let go of thoughts.

Allow any distractions you experience to move through you, and use your breath to bring the mind home to this present moment … allow only thoughts about relaxation to be in this moment.

Notice what is happening within and around you as you open up your arms wide to give yourself a big hug … gently rub or pat yourself wherever you can reach on the neck, back, shoulders, and arms … really feel the hug … feel both parts, the giving and the receiving … feel the comfort in being present right now.

Stay here a bit longer to just breathe one breath at a time … breathe in feelings of connection, reassurance, acceptance, love … breathe in feelings of safety.

Slowly return your arms to their resting place and let your body and mind settle again … let your next breaths fill your whole body with feelings of peace and calmness.

Begin to focus on the center of your heart and allow it to be full of a wondrous bright white light that is beaming with joy, and wants to sing out to the entire world … the songs of the heart are of love, courage, hope, compassion, and gratitude.

Remember your hug, did you feel these feelings, did you feel this fullness, this singing of your heart.  In your heart songs you’ll hear words about beauty, smiles, warmth, and forgiveness, did you feel these in your hug … did you feel the magic of your life?

As you stay resting, you can also hear honesty, wisdom, and understanding in the words of your heart songs, and you can let this moment lead you further into a place of nourishment and restorative healing.

Visualize the beautiful light from your heart moving now through your body and spreading your songs.  Embrace the energy of the light and the words, embrace the feelings of your songs as they circulate within and then around you.

Is there some left to give away, to offer out to others?  You can send others your heart songs to help them also come to a place for nourishment and restorative healing.

One hug and a conscious breath have connected you 

 to your heart and out into the world …

One hug and a breath opened you to 
what is precious, what truly is important
and to what truly makes all

our hearts light up and sing … 

~ Enjoy a period of relaxing Meditation ~

Moving Forward from the Heart

Copyright ©2015  Dona Anderson

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