Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

Celebrating the Winter Feast and Christmas at home for the first time in  10 years.

Days of Baking and Decorating and then Feasting and Celebrating with Neighbours, Friends and those I Love.

I missed my brother and his family. I loved and enjoyed connecting with my Mom by baking and cooking from my heart as she always did. 

Love and enjoy!

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Today Finding the Light.

Yesterday was a revelation and an inspiration. I got to find a little light in what I do and offer in this world. Working with a client I was totally touched and my heart was opened when they said” This is like going on a journey with my brother, we are discovering and learning together.”

I got to look inside, see my light, see the place in me that holds my heart and know that my heart was being seen and experienced for what is was being offered as.

Pleasure, inclusion and the unity and balance of being together. Being part of the Tribe and being together on the journey was reassuring and balancing for me. This simple statement offered me inspiration. I got to see my inner light as I guided another to seeing their own.

Love and Peace

Finding the Light - Day after the Winter Solstice - Toronto 2011

 

Creative Expression is a constant source of Juice!

What travels trough me as creative energy manifests in so many ways. I love how I feel when I am creative and when the creation is moving through me.

Creative Expression - December 2011

Inspiration – Juicy Heart

Posted: December 17, 2011 in Inspiration, Joy, Learning, Poetry

Today INSPIRATION is from a Poem:

Everything is Waiting for You

Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

— David Whyte

Inspire – Water Taxi Venice 2010

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vi·tal

adjective

1.

of or pertaining to life: vital processes.
2.

having remarkable energy, liveliness, or force of personality: a vital leader.
3.

being the seat or source of life: the vital organs.
4.

necessary to life: vital fluids.
5.
necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; indispensable; essential: vital for a healthy society
 
-♥- Reaching down and into that part of me that is VITAL -♥-
-♥- Extending up and out of that part of me that is VITAL -♥-
 
 
 
Living in LIFE Force
 

Hungry today!

The state of being hungry can be the springboard to NEW.

Being in a state of desire and hunger for something has very often been a great place to start.When I am hungry I generally launch in. When I am hungry I usually am in for the whole meal. When I am hungry and I am cooking I am usually sampling and very much enjoying the act of creation.

I am enjoying all of the hunger that I am able to use as I plan my season for 2012.

Glad today to be hungry and working on my next steps. I am very excited about what I am cooking!

Hungry -♥- Juicy Heart - Toronto Spring 2009

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February 2012
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Power Surrender and Intimacy by the Body Electric School in Toronto
 
 
YUM
  1. An expression used to indicate delight in regard to a certain food’s flavor

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My version: ~ The sound made when releasing through a hum, with the tongue lowered… and expressing delight!

Today I will be in the YUM of release. A day when I take care of chores, the laundry, repositioning all of the supplies from the weekend. Today I will take care of all of this and be in the YUM of the release from the weekend. YUM … -♥- … YUM … -♥- … YUM

And I can smile and be grateful all at the same time…

LOVE -♥- Juicy Heart 

YUM … -♥- … YUM … -♥- … YUM

YUM ... -♥- ... YUM ... -♥- ... YUM - an expression of delight - Bologna 2010

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Making certain to be on purpose with a Vision.

A Vision of the future. A Vision of the moment. Being on purpose with what is in my vision helps me to get more of what I want in Life. This is “Law of Attraction” material.I like very much to be on purpose with my vision, making certain to be dreaming of what I truly desire. What would I like to see? What do I desire?  I know that I like to choose what the future will look like. I know that I can not predict or be exact with the future, so therefore I make sure that my vision of what is there is filled with the elements that I work to create in my life. I know that I want to create: hope, purpose, enthusiasm, positive attitude. The more I can look at the future with enthusiasm, hope, purpose, enthusiasm and a positive attitude, the more I will actually manifest.

Oh YES! Sometimes there are little blobs of shit that need to be taken care of. Such is life. Bad things happen. Better to acknowledge and deal with this bad stuff, than let it fester and get unmanageable. Then get right back on track with creating what I want, envisioning a future full of hope and a life full of purpose.

Today I will maintain a VISION that is full of Hope and Purpose ++++ PLUS ++++ I will be Playful and Enthusiastic! -♥-

Purposeful VISION - Venice 2010

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On the Banquet Table of life today – Motion.

mo·tion

noun

1.

the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
2.

power of movement, as of a living body.
3.

the manner of moving the body in walking; gait.
4.

a bodily movement or change of posture; gesture.
5.

a proposal formally made to a deliberative assembly:

I am really referring to the first definition, the action or process of moving.

Yesterday was full of motion on many fronts, the primary front was in a creative realm and I found I was moving with a great momentum within creating big pieces of my mission, my dream.

There is nothing like the forward motion involved in creativity. This forward motion is very straight ahead and direct, and is very reassuring to me. However with creativity there is also a lot of chaotic motion. This chaotic motion is actually full of fun and at the same time freaks me out because it is not straight forward and is not at all reassuring for me. The chaotic motion involved in creativity is a where the fun is. The chaotic motion is where there is much that is unknown and unpredictable. I must relinquish my sense of control and balance in the chaotic motion and simple allow for trust.

Today I will feel pleasure in the unexpected and in the unknown. I will seek a creative and juicy path. I will trust and feel joy. -♥-

Motion - Juicy Heart - Toronto Summer 2007

 

A new workshop being offered here in Toronto
Dancing on the Ecstatic Path for Men
Bridging the energy of Earth and Sky with the Energy of the Heart
A two-day exploration of Erotic Energy
Techniques will involve Touch, Breath and Movement
 
Toronto – Ontario – Canada
February 4th and 5th 2012
 
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Adventure.

Adventure is a key ingredient in the Juiciness of a heart full of passion. When I stay in an adventuresome being I am able to be more curious. I might suddenly vear off the path, I might be a little erratic, I might race ahead or dawdle along. The course of the adventure is never really known and there are many surprises along the way. I adore playing in the unknown and being startled and teased by the many surprises. 

Sometimes the adventures might even be in LOVE! I adore being able to LOVE as if it was a big adventure!

Today I will play in the Adventure of LOVE and LIFE

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A poem for the day of Adventure

love is a place
… & through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

♥ e.e. cummings

 
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A picture for the day of Adventure

Peace & Love 4 Evryboy - Venice 2009

 

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Adding to my Adventure

A new workshop being offered here in Toronto
Dancing on the Ecstatic Path for Men
Bridging the energy of Earth and Sky with the Energy of the Heart
A two-day exploration of Erotic Energy
Techniques will involve Touch, Breath and Movement
 
Toronto – Ontario – Canada
February 4th and 5th 2012
 
For more information contact me at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
 
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