An Intentional Moving Meditation

With Jyoti SaeUn

Experience this simple and elegant  ‘dance’ of energy between the chakras and meridians, the centers and pathways that nourish body, mind and Spirit.

Dancing Meridians, through its positive intentional themes, makes a connection with your highest qualities as you are guided to follow the natural rhythm of the  Chi through your body.      In this introductory  class you will experience the body’s wisdom as it reveals the places where old issues may be diminishing the flow of energy.     Jyoti will demonstrate how these clouds can be cleared so your meridians can dance with vibrant life energy.

Daily practice allows for an elevated flow of energy and a profound sense of one’s own sovereign self.   Meridian drawings showing positive intentional themes and directional flow are included for support

SATURDAY   JUNE   5^th 2010

1:00  to  3:00 pm

Downtown Yoga

220 B Division Street

Pleasanton, CA  94586

$20 payable at the door

Please reserve your space with Jyoti  510 923 9057

Jyoti is the creator of Dancing Meridians, which has evolved from her weekend intensives in Essential SaeUn and through her dedication to a deep listening and honoring of the innate intelligence of the body.  Her background includes counseling psychology and certification in Bioenergy Balancing and traveling extensively in Asia and Europe to explore complementary healing methods.  She resides in Oakland where she is available for private sessions.

DISCOVERY

Love, Forgotten

I have made love

my business

and where has it

gotten me?

–Dorothy Walters, NIGHT AFTER NIGHT

Love is now.  It’s not yesterday.  It’s not tomorrow.  Love is now.  Love has no past.  Love has no future.  Love just is.

Love can only exist here, now, this very moment.  Love can only be given and received now.  Love can only be experienced now.  Even feelings and memories of love way back when can only be remembered now.  Yet, when it comes to our love relationships, most of us are completely unaware of this fact—we go off in our minds tripping into past time or future time, or we’re “twittering” or downloading the latest and coolest apps onto our awesome I-Phones, or we’re somewhere else like making a mental note to take out the garbage later or clean out the cat box—neglecting our love, our partners, forgetting love, now.

Humanity has access to thousands of “How To” relationship books that detail how to hook up with your life partner while keeping everyone else happy, and achieve explosive multiple orgasms, make your own sex toys, and twist your physical body into a double pretzel to drive your lover wild with unending pleasure.

There are also books on the various slants and types of relationships.  Women want to understand men.  Men want to understand women.  We want to be able to communicate to each other and speak the same language, or at least use the same alphabet.  Men want women who are part bitch, part whore.  But should they want children, men also want women who will be good mothers, good cooks, and keep a clean and tidy house while bringing home a six figure salary. Women want men with a well-developed feminine side, who can also throw them up against the bedroom wall and sex them up good and proper, and not wimp out.   And some us (man or woman) just want to be taken care of financially, no questions asked.

Other books regard love as the oldest game in all history, with a clearly defined set of rules—some of which are clearly unspoken, yet universally understood.  The rules and rigmarole of our modern day dating rituals are elaborate.  Apparently, there are lots of them regarding dating: rules for calling, emailing and texting, dressing, eating, drinking, kissing, sex etiquette, and the morning after.  I am certainly not the kind of woman who will eat a meal just before a dinner date so that I can appear to be more interested in my date than in my dinner.  Rules.  Rules.  Rules.  We’re also inundated with scientific rules and expertise that proves once again that we’re just slaves to our biochemical and neuro-chemical responses once we’re sexually aroused—oh the battles of oxytocin and testosterone, and blaming our hormones for our troubles.

We’ve all heard of, or read these books, and thank God/Goddess/All-That-Is for their convenient, accessible wisdom, providing bits and pieces of insight to this mysterious puzzle called Love.  These books have contributed significantly to our collective concepts and notions of love and relationships—but despite savvy marketing, well promoted and attended workshops, and TV infomercials, nothing has really changed for those of us whom love still eludes.  Either that perfect someone is way late in arriving upon our proverbial doorsteps or the person next to us—our supposed Beloved is anything but that.

Collective concepts and notions of love are just that—concepts and notions.  They are not the real deal and completely mind-made, and certainly don’t invite the heart to relax and open.

The truth is, despite the fact that we have developed our minds and created an expanded world in terms of technology and incredible wealth exclusive to a minority of humanity, when it comes to matters of the heart—our relationships leave much to be desired.  For most of us, our relationships have left our hearts broken, crushed, frozen, tattered, and numb, armored and defended, or completely shut down—refusing love.  Period.

The twentieth century on Earth was the bloodiest, most violent, and most unconscious era in humanity, and we have yet to come to terms with it.  The technological marvels our minds and creative natures brought into reality, allowed us to coldly kill millions of people at the push of a button without batting an eyelash, yet we can’t seem to see to it that every man, woman, and child is cared for, clothed, fed, and housed.

We ignore, and yet simultaneously focus on, the reality of violence that we humans still inflict upon each other, often without the willingness to really see our own behavior. And we wonder why things never seem to change for the better.

It is impossible to walk and talk “Love Thy Neighbor” when we don’t know the first thing about love, or who and what we truly are.  It is impossible to actively love when we refuse to understand and accept the nature of suffering—the suffering we inflict upon ourselves as well as others.  To some people, watching others suffer is entertaining.

When it comes to love and the Beloved, we are so distracted by the world and by our endless lists of “things to do”—that we have to engage our imagination to touch upon the concepts and the notions of love, and perceive them as real, rather than connecting with what love really is.

Because of this fast-paced, technology-driven world, we’ve had to create “date night” to schedule time with our significant others and sometimes even do so begrudgingly, as if we would turn into a hideous dried out pumpkin for taking precious time away from the world to take care of ourselves, our relationships, and precious Beloveds.  Science has created and designed drugs—legal and otherwise—to turn us on, or numb us out from our pain, which is always about the past, so we can pretend that we can and will stay up energetically and sexually, all night long. At least that’s the promise, the tease.  But, maybe we’ll just drink too many cocktails before, during and after dinner, so we’ll just pass out and nothing has to happen at all. And when there’s no possibility for real love or sexual connection, there’s always the sex-obsessed eye-candy of porn—all visual substitutions for real love, keeping us distracted from the love we truly desire.

None of this artificial stuff works for very long.   We get sucked in and caught up in the ya-ya-ga-ga-za-za of the world, trapped in an endless cycle of seeking and despair. And if any of it does happen to help temporarily, we’re ultimately unable to live up to the nonsense long term.  We slowly kill ourselves trying to pretend that the lack of love in our lives is all right—“just hand me my Prozac, a stiff drink, some porn, a healthy bank account balance, let me sit comatose in front of my favorite television shows while I surf the net, let me shop until I drop, let me fuck away the pain.”

Most of us know this path with its various trails and offshoots.  Whether we medicate with drugs, sex, food, shopping, television, or self-help books, some of us continue distracting ourselves for the whole of our lives.  Some of us give up on relationships altogether, sinking into work or other distractions or escapes.  Some of us have nervous breakdowns. Some of us live our lives lonely, isolated and depressed.

The good news is: more and more of us are waking up!

Stop

There will be an invitation.

It will not come tied in ribbons

nor a message streaming down

from the sky.

…In order to hear it,

you will need to

put down all your packages,

stop everything you are doing

and stand very still

then wait…

until something stirs inside..

–Dorothy Walters, A LANGUAGE YOU ONCE KNEW

Stop all that you are doing.  Stop running.

You are awake enough to be reading this, so pat yourself on the back.  You are waking up, and becoming more and more conscious about the endless mindless “doing” that you do—the frantic running away from what is.  You are becoming quiet, more and more still.  You are becoming more and more aware of your breath and the sound of your beating heart.  You are getting face-to-face with yourself, your pain, your perpetual discontent, and your erroneous concepts of who and what you are.  You are getting real with your emptiness, your longing, and your loneliness.  You are witnessing the many ways you distract yourself with shiny objects and habits—all strategies to keep you enmeshed in your mind, believing your thoughts without question, and creating stories around those thoughts.  Yet, life and love are directly experienced in your body from the neck down.

This is the way of it.   This is the way of life, of love, of aligning yourself with your Divinity, finally finding yourSelf.  You are what you have been seeking all along!  It is your mind that keeps telling you otherwise.  It’s time to tell your mind how it really is!

Wisdom Inside You

I am not a Buddhist

nor am I a yogi.

My robe has no

special emblem

or design.

My great teacher

is Silence.

I sit here now

listening.

–Dorothy Walters, MEDITATION

We are grateful for the self-help experts, but enough! We don’t need any more experts with expert opinions, and their amusing charts and statistics to know and see the facts, nor do we need another self-proclaimed tantric master or spiritual guru who really is just another money hungry con artist or sexual letch beneath all the incense, mantras, rituals, and spaced out followers proclaiming only s/he can deliver you to Nirvana or Samadhi, and get you to experience Paramatman, or get you to manifest a luxury sports car in three minutes flat!

Our mentors and teachers are still humans evolving and embodying more and more light with each inhalation of breath, and letting go of something (just like the rest of us) with every exhale.

Receive their gifts, but keep your power so you can offer your gifts too.

You already are the Divine Self.

You are your own master.

You are your own guru. So, own it! Be your own guru!

Have a good look at what’s going on in the world.   In many ways, it’s a frelling mess, chaotic, out of balance, ugly, violent, and disconnected.  Yet at the same time, the world is beautiful, peaceful, and perfect.  The world is you.  The world is me. We are the world. We know something’s way off balance, but we also know it’s all good.  That’s the way of the world.  To think of the world as either good or bad is insanity.  The world is the way it is.  The world is a macroscopic, collective manifestation of all our relationships—whether personal or business. The world is a reflection of each individual’s respective collective experiences.

A peaceful world starts with a peaceful you.  Have a good look at that.

So, let’s all get real and start looking for the answers within each and every one of us.

Answers are stirring within, endeavoring to reconnect with our true natures.   This is the Divine within each of us who recognizes the essential nature of goodness residing in our hearts—no matter how closed off, no matter how damaged by the past.

Love.  Love.  Love.

The first thing about love is that we are love.

We are love.

As humans we all want to express and share love in a way that’s true for us, and we all want to be loved.

You can be a hypocrite and declare that’s not true, but the fact is we are all here for the very same reasons—to express love, to share love, to be loved, to find love.   None of these can be actualized until we realize that we are love.

The second thing is that we are life itself.  Love is the state of being life, an expression of the Divine.  The search for love is not a search for anything or anyone outside ourSelves.  It is the realization that we are all expressions of love, and that to be loved is about realizing who and what we all are beyond form, beyond the physical, beyond our human conditioning, beyond our titles, identities, achievements, and possessions.  From this realization, everything we do and say is imbued with Divine light, with conscious presence.  Love begets love.

Sex—The world’s substitute for Love

I

said to Love,

“I want to pull your pants down.”

And she said,

“Fine! Don’t bother to even ask.”

Though now Tukaram is wondering

why there are so many sexually frustrated people

in our universe?????

–Tukaram, translated by Daniel Ladinsky Love Poems From God

The world and its experts have hypnotized us. We have been conditioned to believe that worldly pursuits for power, wealth, material things, and ego gratification are much more important than love.  To compensate for this hypnotic filter, we have settled for the entertainment and distraction of sex—the world’s substitute for love.  We have also fallen prey to the pseudo-spiritual practice of westernized tantra—which has nothing whatsoever to do with true Ancient Tantric practices.  Tantra is one of the most “googled” terms on the internet by teenagers all over the world.  I have heard first-hand teenagers blatantly reference tantra as being part of the “new age California fuck-fest scam”—wild indiscriminate sex galore for one and all under the guise of finding God.  It is popular new age entertainment in the western world of sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, and new age bliss bunnies pandering to soft porn,  and is utterly misleading in its flagrant misrepresentation of the Ancient spiritual-yogic practices of the far east—Hindu Tantra, Taoist, and Buddhist Tantra.

Adding to the entertaining and sensationalism related to the spiritual junkie’s search for love and amazing sex is the latest befuddling new age notion of programming in “the one” by making a list of all your wants, needs, preferences, non-negotiable must-haves, and “shoulds,” so that “the one” will miraculously materialize in response.

The reason this programmed list fails to deliver is that it’s still based on getting what you lack. It brings more suffering and more of what’s missing in your life because most of these wants and needs are borne of selfish and shallow past experiences—all the disappointments and past pain from previous relationships.

The Cosmic Law of Attraction says that “like attracts like,” and what you focus on you will bring about.   Focusing on what you don’t want just brings more of what you don’t want right to you.  Some folks say that opposites attract, but perhaps what’s really going on is a magnet between you, and the qualities in another that you lack and desire to develop in yourself, whether you are conscious of this or not.

So, what about love?

The topic: Divine Lovemaking

Click the title or play button below to listen!

Divine Lovemaking Radio Show

All problems arise from running away from “what is”.  Everyone (even a “New Ager”) is trying to escape from “what is”.

Rather than resting in the knowledge that we are energy beings on this physical plane, and therefore gifted with the capacity to be and do anything we can imagine that brings us joy by focusing our attention on those images and pictures of what and how we want our lives to unfold, and focusing on joy and feeling amazing—we’re always striving to become someone or something else, instead of being who and what we are right now, because we don’t like who and what we are right now. We’re always engaging some technique to change life as it is right now, to get away from this moment and that moment, to get to something bigger, better, faster, skinnier, sweeter, stronger, and on and on and on and on…

Because we are creative energy beings, we are naturally expansive. So there is nothing wrong with expansion and wanting to grow beyond what we have created, yet for many of us it doesn’t happen because we’re still doubting and hating ourselves, ignoring or ignorant about the mastery available in paying attention to how we feel.

We are supposed to feel good from one moment to another.

We have all been programmed to feel good and feel pleasure in limited doses, if at all, and then feel guilty because we are enjoying ourselves too much. We have been programmed to focus on what we don’t have and how bad we feel, and from this lower vibration, from a place of self-criticism our future reality is created with more things manifesting that match this vibration of lack and denial of our Divinity.

Check it out for yourself, and be honest, really honest.

Can we be still? Behold Silence? Be open to “just be” for now? Can we allow what is?  Can we allow the truth of how we feel to guide us, even if it’s less than stellar and allow an amazing memory that made us feel incredibly blessed to serve us to bring us into a better feeling place?

Beauty and peace surrounds you.  Have a look around you. See your surroundings for the very first time with fresh new eyes.

From here you can shift and honour your Divinity.

You are the Divine-in-the-Flesh!

Believe it!

Love, now—Marja West

Copyright©2010 Marja West/AbsoluteBalancedMastery. All rights reserved.

These people are continually bitching and moaning and complaining.  They’re always blaming and/or criticising someone or something, blaming God and the Angels, refusing to take any responsibility for the reality they create, and justify their behaviour as just stating their opinion.  They covet their self-righteousness and victim hood and kvetching as if they were jewels in their crowns of glory (or is it thorns?).  It’s very unpleasant to be around people like this, it’s a “yuck fest” as my friend and colleague, Maria, would say.

Yeah, it is.

Moreover, people who are addicted to complaining and being right continue to draw to themselves more experiences to complain and be right about.  I have observed these folks “jones-ing” to complain about something and when they didn’t have anything to complain about, actually began complaining about life going way too smoothly—waiting with baited breath for the other shoe to drop…and then it does, of course, and they’re right once again, and alone.

There is an attractor pattern that draws these folks to us—perhaps as an exercise in acceptance and compassion, or forgiveness and patience, or an opportunity to dissolve a pattern of dysfunction and realign our energy system to magnetise more pleasant experiences, particularly if we find ourselves surrounded and systematically drained by nasty complainers and whiners.

What to do?

Simply observe such folks (like yourself, maybe?) with compassion, without judgment, without endeavouring to get away from them, or push them away, or fix them.  If there are aspects you enjoy about these folks, focus on those aspects, they may or may not transform, just be open to the possibility.

Easier said than done… just do it, already.  Clarity arrives soon enough.

Pushing these kinds of folks and experiences away from you only draws even more of these folks and experiences to you.

The Law of Attraction will make it so the Universe will keep these folks out of your reality.  Your energy fields just won’t be compatible.

Look around you and take stock of your circle of friends and colleagues, people in your immediate sphere—they are energetic matches to you.  Do they make you smile, bring you joy and laughter, is it easy to be with them, or do they bring you down with their constant cravings for attention by complaining and controlling everything and being right about whatever?  Do they reek of resentment and self righteousness by making everyone and everything, including you and the dogs and cats and the furniture and the weather and the traffic and the neighbourhood smells and the cost of petrol and lines at the supermarket and the terrible restaurant with their stupid waiter and their over-priced bad chardonnay and the fashion statement of the girl-next-door and so on and so on and so on…. wrong?

Relax, proceed, live your life focused on beauty and your great fortune of Being.  In any case, the only thing that’s ever right is the Universe, life itself.  Let the Universe handle the details and say “YES”! to attracting and magnetising abundance and positive experiences, filled with loving, joyous and delightful people, and watch your magical life unfold.  It works like a charm.

Abundant Blessings and Love to All,

Marja West

Copyright © 2010 Marja West/Absolute Balanced Mastery.  All rights reserved.

I am well known for being politically absent and more focused on co-creating well-being among earthlings and the countless other beings bound to Gaia.  I’ll say this over and over again and again:  THE WORLD IS NOT THE PLANET!

With this in mind you can either read on or drop me like a bad habit.

“Presence”, that is, being present to life as it is, is very tricky.  And without a clear understanding of how your mind works and how your emotions work, “presence” will just be another concept to strive for.  The word strive is more running from what is, right now.  The whole point of “presence” is to allow what is.

I urge one and all to live each moment presently, rather than get all caught up in the hell of incessant broadcasting of news, whether in print, on television, radio, or the web.  Most people are on auto-pilot when it comes to the media cartel— droning out to the constant need of the constant stimulation they provide, not to mention the rush of subliminal energetic potions received.  Yup, that includes your addictions to your beloved I-Pods, browsing the web because there’s nothing else to do, talking non-stop on your cell phones and working your PDA’s, darlings. This need for distraction is escaping life as it is.  Have a good look.

How many of us can actually receive and allow a moment’s peace without “shoulding” and “stressing out” about what to do next???  How many of us can actually meet someone new without comparing them to someone else?  How many of us can enjoy a walk in nature without mentally or verbally labeling and naming the trees, the birds, the butterflies, the flowers, the rock formations, the current phase of the moon, or experience something fresh for the very first time, even if you’ve done it or been there many times before?

Did you know you’re actually doing whatever you’re doing right now for the very first time, Now…?  It’s new, Now, fresh.  Get it???

If you’re not present, where are you– in the past?? In the future?? Spacing out in some parallel universe???  Living life by default habitually?

Hello??  You’re here on planet Earth!

You will raise the vibration of the planet significantly by being present to your life.  By focusing on your life and managing your life force, which by the way, is your creativity, you will assist in engendering peace for humanity, the animal and nature beings and serving this beautiful planet– In doing so the Universe and the Law of Attraction will support you in rich and amazing ways.

Unless you are presently an Israeli soldier, or actually in Lebanon, or having a direct experience from the acts of violence occurring there, you are actually being manipulated by the media cartel, to use your imagination to dip into that reality, in order to serve their agenda to get you to generate more terror and fear and despair and horror and anger and rage and hate and violence for all the world to feed off of, and thus creating more terror and fear and despair and horror and anger and rage and hate and violence.

Have a good look at this and see for yourself.

Many of you are familiar with the Global Elite and be well aware that the “ge”, as I prefer to call them (it’s cute, yeh?), want nothing more than to terrify us with horrifying images and headlines, they want nothing more than to polarize us and get us to blame and hate each other enough for us to kill each other without batting an eyelash. This has been going on and on and on and on for millennia.

It will take much more than being awake to end this madness.  Waking up is one thing, then, there is dealing with reality as it is.

If you want to truly do something concrete and real about the world and end all of the suffering and violence, please check yourself and work out and dissolve the suffering and violence in you!

Self-blame, self-criticism, self-hatred, self-importance, self-judgment and self-punishment– are among some of the acts of violence towards the Self on a personalized level, and do nothing but promote endless self-inflicted suffering.  It doesn’t take long for this suffering to spew out onto others.  From within, goes without. Your outer reality reflects your inner landscape.

Can you see how this contributes to the state of the world?

You are the world, just as I am the world.  Don’t put the state of the world on God, Goddess, All that is.  We are the world.  We are the suffering of the world.  We are the violence of the world.  We can transform the world.

Please have a look at this.  It’s true, isn’t it????

If you really want to contribute to peace on this planet, please allow peace within YOU and live it.  If you are not at peace, please face that reality, and accept it without trying to change it or get away from it.  Accept and be present with your non-peace.  Transformation occurs naturally, spontaneously.  Like yourself, love yourself, warts and all.

My friend and mentor, Fredric Lehrman, shares this brilliant affirmation with many:

“The more I like myself the way I am, the more I am the way I want to be.”

The Universe is all powerful. The power of the Universe resides within each and every one of us.  Know it and live it.

Peace and Love Be You,

Marja West

Copyright © 2010 Marja West/Absolute Balanced Mastery. All rights reserved.