Posts Tagged ‘Joyful living’

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

Excitement the totally JUICY state.

Cultivating and developing excitement and the glory of anticipation is a life long pursuit with me. I revel in the joy and pleasure of all that can be savoured in a prolonged period of excitement.

YES! This is all about SEX and YES this is all about living every day. I feel so much more, life force, juice and pleasure when I can be excited. Especially when my excitement is about what is happening, and what is going to happen and what has happened. I am in a state of JOY so much more often when I am excited and reveling in what is going to take place.

I can even feel this excitement about filling in a form and submitting documentation that needs to be painstakingly put together. I sometimes need to look at the far bigger picture to get the thrill in place.

Today I will feel all of the excitement about having a day. I will revel in the glory of what is. I will smile and enjoy every flash of pink and feel all the JUICE I have. This will be my challenge and my meditation for the day.

Excitement - Creating a JUICY State - Toronto December 2011

 
 
 
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Building – Growing – Constructing – Fabricating – Enhancing

Having a day to feel all there is in the Ecstatic Dance of life. I choose to build and grow, developing the strands of life that allow for a richer and more embodied and engaged experience.

 The day will unfold and I will construct, fabricate and enhance the rich elements of life that come my way. I choose this over the darker side which is more destructive seems to unravel me. I will build my day weaving together all that is as I journey my way to the other side.

Today I will find pleasure in the process. I will enjoy and marvel at the construction and build of my day. I will sleep well knowing that I have lived fully for another day.

Building the Day - Room 13 Easton Mountain Dec 2011

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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im·ag·i·na·tion

noun

1.

the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
2.

the action or process of forming such images or concepts.
3.

the faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.
4.
the product of imagining; a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.
5.
ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness: a job that requires imagination.
 
Seems that at least a part of imagining is being able to bring whatever has come to mind, the imagined element, to the forefront of the senses.  I believe that simply living in imagination without any embodiment of the imagined would be too sterile and mind centered for me. I must allow my imagination to come to fruition and become reality. Not all of the time but at least some of the time.
 
I am glad that I am able allow my imagination to come to life.
 

The Rialto - Venice 2009

 
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gra·cious
adjective

1.

pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
2.

characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: gracious suburban living; a gracious home.
3.

indulgent or beneficent in a pleasantly condescending way, especially to inferiors.
4.
merciful or compassionate: our gracious king.
 
Welcoming Diversity

Good GRACIOUS ~ Welcoming Diversity

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Today as I transition I will have lots of time to reflect with myself about what this pretty momentous weekend has delivered to me.

There are two elements floating in my being at this moment.

The first is if you want something there is no one more important in “getting” what you want that yourself. If I want something to change I will have to change to begin, inspire, create the change that I want…

The second is how shocked I was to see how difficult it was for me to feel and be a part of… I know that for those of you who know me this is pretty obvious; however, I was challenged to find my place in a group so diverse… at the same time I come out of this knowing that I will need to lead… So if I am a part of or not I know that there are several challenges ahead for ME to BE.

Love the universe at this moment and loving my place in it… So looking forward to what is unfolding for me and those I am near…

You must ask for what you really want... DON'T go back to sleep" Rumi

More as I journey home.

 

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
Dancing on the Ecstatic Path
Spring 2012
Explorations in Rope
Spring 2012
Exquisite Connections
June 2012
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

-♥-

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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Opening

There is endless possibility in opening. Although an open state is perhaps more vulnerable there is more in the openness than in a closed state or a defended state. 

Today I will be open and allow myself to lead out of that openness. There is nothing getting me off track, I don’t need the map. I will be confident and true to my heart and to the JOY that underlies all that I do.

I will be inspired by opening into the great power of JOY.

“Far better to live your own path imperfectly than to live another’s perfectly.” -Bhagavad Gita

Open HEARTED Joy - November 16

 

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Pink Tour – What does this mean?

Today a friend challenged me to illustrate a particular point about leading and the power and passion involved in moving forward. This forward motion can be about my life but often in this moment it is really about my moving my life forward in conjunction with other aspects and elements of my community and those that are around me. I so very often do not see or experience myself as a leader when I very much am leading. Often I have no idea that i am mentoring and modelling a particular group and way of being when it sees to come naturally.

I can no longer wait for someone else to lead the way because I am already on my way. Join me on the BIG PINK TOUR BUS

The illustrative point of this analogy of the BIG PINK TOUR BUS is that the whole thing is kind of like ME driving the bus. I am no longer a passenger, I am the driver. I work for my own tour company so the tours are really my choice. Being a savvy operator I always check with those around me to see what they would like. I am actually the leader and the one moving the whole operation ahead, setting the course and direction, creating the tone.

Funny thing is I very often don’t know exactly where the bus is going but I do know that I want the trip to be fun, uplifting an unpredictable and joyful experience.

The JOURNEY is really important, the DESTINATION not so much. Dancing on the Ecstatic path… rather than forging my way through and having the path be a particular way before setting out.

My BIG PINK bus!

ZOOM-ZOOM

Driving my BIG PINK bus… Destination unknown – Ecstatic Juicy Heart Surprise! Surprise! The bus is totally diverse. The whole tour company a sexy surprise! Tour Operator Uniform — TEE HEE
 

SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
The Tour BUS is full of Diversity!
Always a package full of delight and surprise!
 
 

TOUR BUS OPERATORS UNIFORM - TEE HEE

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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