Dear Friends,

Take a dignified posture bringing a sense of strength to your back and a gentleness to your front. Ride a long exhale down your front thinking of someone that makes you smile - feel the glow of caring and connection. Look to the far side of the room or out the window and extend your personal space out to where your gaze lands. Let your muscles soften to gravity. Invite the inspiration of your teachers and mentors to come through you, let your whole body be alive with inspiration -enjoy the moment.

Here in the Northern hemisphere summer has officially begun. I notice the long days and brilliant sunsets trigger a kind of nostalgia. Remembering summer vacation from school, playing with friends outside late in the evening and the sense that our grown up years were ahead of us - that anything was possible. Impermanence was not yet part of the narrative and change was mostly about clothes size, grades and seasons.

Now change is the name of the game. We are learning to find grace in the face of loss and humility in our successes. And we are given a great gift as we mature, the gift of experience, the gift of enduring difficulty with gentleness and compassion. Like the sunsets our lives won't last, they are in the grand scheme of things, fleeting - fleeting and significant. We are part of a giant community and our efforts to find balance, to open our hearts, to help and support others are part of a huge pool of resources that serve to brighten the way for people everywhere. We are in this together and if we can recognize that we are interconnected we will find many resources to support us in meeting our challenges with the wisdom, compassion and power that is always available - to find it we only need to stop for a moment, open ourselves and relate to the environment and receive the resources that surround us.

I hope you will join us for some of our offerings; we are excited to share these wonderful tools with organizations and individuals. The feedback has been very positive and it is a delight to see how people become more empowered, compassionate and shiny as they strengthen their capacity for the practices.

I am happy to be going back to Esalen again this summer. I will be offering a Level 1 in August and look forward to being in their beautiful organic gardens and enjoying the hot tubs.

Many blessings, 

Wendy