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Curiousity ~ Juicy Heart

Posted: September 22, 2011 in Gratitude, Joy, Learning, Reflections
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There is a sweet and delicious curiousity that is present today.

The weekend is fast approaching. Another Body Electric workshop and there will be men from far and near. I am always curious about who will show up. This curiousity builds in me and augments and amplifies my energy. There is a sweetness that has developed over the years as I have held the space for men to come together and explore on levels that are often taboo and or held so closely as to be inscrutable. My curiousity expands and grows over the weekend as these taboo subjects of sex and sexuality are opened up. My curiousity expands and grows over the weekend as that which is inscrutable becomes clear and manifests some new meaning.

Today I will be infused with curiousity and the sweet pleasure of preparing the nest.

The Sweet Pleasure of Preparing the Nest

For more information about the Body Electric School and the workshops that are held here in Toronto please visit the school website

http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

Hope ~ Juicy Heart

Posted: September 20, 2011 in Art, Gratitude, Inspiration, Trust
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Hope ~ the Mantra for Today

Today I will be hopeful and remain in the expansive quality that opens in me when I am filled with Hope.

Hope to Return - Rome ~ December 2009

Emerging ~ Juicy Heart

Posted: September 19, 2011 in Challenge, Gratitude, Poetry, Reflections
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Emerging from the test on Friday. Today is Monday and I feel like I just woke up after a long sleep. All went well. I am curious to see where this flows to next.

My heart is open and clear. My heart leaps with JOY!

In Blackwater Woods

by Mary Oliver
 
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

Emerging ~ Juicy Heart at Easton Mountain Summer 2008

Thanks to Mary Oliver

Rest – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 14, 2011 in Flowers, Gratitude, Inspiration, Learning, Reflections
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Rest has transformed the way I feel.

Yesterday I took care of many small detailed elements that were stressing me.

Today I feel well rested after a deep and undisturbed sleep. Last night was the first night in many that I felt no pain in the middle of the night. To wake up after a night of rest was delightful.

I feel energized and enriched by rest.

Today I will take care of a few more pieces, I will allow for the tranquility to flow. I will savour the delight of feeling rested and rejuvenated and unafraid.

GLAD for REST ~ September 2011

Glads are a delight! ❤

Hope – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 8, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Trust
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Today is about HOPE

My Heart feels better with HOPE. My mind feels better as well and my psyche follows.

LOVE is the DRUG I am Dreaming of…

HOPE - Love is the Drug I am DREAMING of! - September 8

 

LOVE …

 

Resting- Juicy Heart

Posted: September 5, 2011 in Gratitude
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Resting, recharging.

Resting... ❤

Fabric – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 4, 2011 in Gratitude, Learning, Reflections, Trust
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Weaving the Fabric of Life.

Today as I stretch and get ready for the day I see, feel and experience the depth and strength of the interconnections of life.

A wonderful letter from a man now living in China, a wonderful response to my website from a man in Manitoba, the ebb and flow of clients, the surety of friends, the depth and strength of my husband. All of these interpersonal elements and more unspoken threads weave together around me and form the fabric of my life.

 The fabric warms and shields and soothes me. The fabric is a brilliant colour and has a stimulating pattern, the fabric awakens me. The fabric is resilient and has untested strength, the fabric shields me.

Today I will fall into the depth of safety that the fabric of my life has brought to me. I will cherish the fabric and adore each individual thread. I will savour each fibre that reinforces each thread.

The fabric of life... ❤

Gratitude – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 31, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Learning, Reflections, Trust
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My Juicy Heart today…

Gratitude… ♥
I am grateful today for…
little things…
unspoken things…
the things I take for granted…
…for breath…
for much…
for dizzy and scared…
for brilliant and joyful…
for the really big gifts that life has given me…
for the small and tender memories…
for all the greatness of the all…
for every moment…
♥
 
Today I will be grateful over and over … never counting simply BEing ♥
 

Grateful for the caress of your lips

A New Dawn… A New Day… – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 27, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Reflections
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It is a Nina Simone kind of day…

Slow and Deep and Resonant

The Juicy Heart is welcoming the day. ❤

Grateful today for the wonder of Nina Simone

 

Preparing – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 24, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Joy, Reflections
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This time of year is always like the beginning to me. Transition is in the air.

The earth is preparing for the fall, trees and fruit and flowers are pulling the juice from the earth to enrich themselves, the light is changing in the sky, the weather moves in unfamiliar patterns and I feel like this is the transition into a new time.

And YES! this really is the transition into a new time. There is much to prepare for and lots to dream and scheme and plot and plan and get ready for. I pull the juice from my earth to ripen and enrich my experience.

September will bring a Body Electric workshop to Toronto that we have not had in many years. October will bring some new events into my coaching practice. November will bring some new elements as the Body Electric is here in Toronto again and I will be introducing some new elements into my breath and bodywork practice. December brings a trip to a meeting to plan for the NEW Body Electric and I am excited and happy for this great opportunity.

The real New Year will bring many new elements, several co-creations and of course there will be surprise.

I adore that all around me is getting ready for harvest. The fruit on the vine and branch is developing juice and flesh to burst forth with the ripe sweetness of the fall.

Today I will savour the summer and be active in preparing for the next transition. Loving and laughing and smiling as I live and breath.

Heart on Olive Wood

 
For information about my work, my Counselling and Coaching practice or the Bodywork for Men that I offer please contact me at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca or visit my website at: www.phillipcoupal.ca
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