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A Meditation Exercise to Reduce Stress

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It is an auspicious time indeed, when the light of Spring comes to us in our darkest hour. . A proclamation. An omen. A sign. . That sometimes (every time) our human eyes are incapable of seeing. That sometimes (every time) an intelligence is orchestrating this play with divine precision. . On this equinox, we are blessed. . That as we walk through this valley of shadows, we remember how good the light of shared humanity feels on our collective skin. . That when we all went inside to work on ourselves, our Mother came out to bathe in the sun. . . The waters. The winds. The land itself. Finally space to breathe. To cleanse. To heal. . And to the dear ones dying, sick, and fearful for what the future holds — your pain is our pain. And you are not alone. . On this day of light and dark in equal measure, we are being asked to hold both. . . The reality we face, and the alchemy potentiating before our eyes. . Today, may we plant the seeds of new life. And tomorrow, may we remember to water them. 🌱 . #equinox #prayer #blessing #healing #light #dark #shadow #alchemy #medicine #love #jai #ॐ

Talking Astrology is one of my absolute favorite things to do. And this Sunday, I’ll be sharing part 1 of a four part series, designed to teach you how to interpret your birth chart! 💫 . This round, we will focus on the Twelve Astrological Houses, which I find to be the least understood. If you are interested in learning more, all the details you need are below. ✨ . Astrology Basics Part 1: The Twelve Houses Sunday 3/1, 2-4pm @urbanwellness Link in bio to learn more and register . At the moment of your birth, the sky told a story. A story that includes archetypal characters, energetic forces, multidimensional areas of life, and the intricate relationships that exist between them all. . This celestial story is you. And the tale is written on your Astrological Natal Chart. . . Birth chart interpretation rests upon four pillars — astrological houses, zodiacal signs, planetary archetypes, and aspects (or relationships) between the planets. In this workshop we will focus on the first pillar, the astrological houses, which can be understood as the stage upon which the various areas of our life are played out. . During our time together, you will learn: . 1. The basic break down of your astrological natal chart . 2. The significations of the twelve astrological houses . 3. How to interpret current astrology based on your natal chart . 4. How astrology can be used as a tool self-discovery, personal mastery, and empowerment . I so look forward to sharing this fun and fascinating topic with you! . As we gaze into the heavens may we see ourselves. And as we look inward, may we see the heavens. 🌛

What I love most about this training is that it will show you that you are already a gong master, and that you always have been. . . These two weekends are less about learning skill and technique (though you will receive this too) and more about remembering your innate ability to express yourself and removing the barriers to doing so. . This training, led by @hamid.jabbar and assisted by yours truly, is very special. It is always such an honor to be a part of it. . Early bird pricing ends on Friday 2/14, so if you’ve had your eye on this experience, now is the time. . The training will be the first two full weekends in March — 3/7-3/8 & 3/14-3/15. . Reach out to @hamid.jabbar for more info. I so hope you will join us. 💕🎶🙏🏽 . #soundpractitioner #soundhealing #soundmeditation #gong #remember #jai #ॐ

Okay first — is this not the most badass picture ever?! 🔥 . Of course it is.... because it’s with the one and only @ultimate_lady_badass !! 🤩 . This was such a powerful moment. I remember feeling like I had no idea where the sounds and words are coming from. They were simply pouring through me from some place unknown. 💫 . And with Paige there anchoring that energy in such a profound way, it just kept flowing through and flowing through. 🌀 . When she and I get together, there is no telling what magic will unfold. She is one of my dearest friends, always reflecting back to me my power and connection. 🌙 . I cannot wait to partner up with her this Sunday, 2/9, for our collaborative event — Yin Yoga and Sound Healing. ✨🎶 . Paige is truly gifted with movement, and there is nothing I love more than channeling beautiful sounds through my being. 🌸 . Check out the description below for more info, and I so so hope you will join us. 🙏🏽 . 🦋 Details 🦋 . Yin yoga is a slow and profoundly nourishing practice. It works with the deep layers of connective tissue and subtle lines of energy in the body, using the breath and long-held relaxed postures to gently release tension, increase range of motion, and move stuck or stagnant energy. . . . When we introduce the harmonious sounds of gong, crystal bowls, healing mantra, and more -- all of the benefits of this practice become amplified. The sounds themselves act as a guiding light, helping to draw practitioners more fully into their breath, body, and being, where the wholeness of their true essence can be remembered. . . . The blending of these two modalities creates a wonderfully medicinal remedy to address our overly stimulated nervous systems in this fast-paced modern world. . . Yin Yoga & Sound Healing Meditation Sunday 2/9, 4:00-5:30pm @pfsfitness (N. Scottsdale) Link in Bio to Register 💕 . #sisters #power #healingjourney #strongertogether #yinyoga #soundhealing #soundmeditation #medicinedrum #chanting #love #jai #ॐ

Throw back to early 2018 when I met this bodacious human! 😍 @sarabrookewolf . . Fast forward to today, and we are at it again with another dose of Yinki Medicine. 💜 . These events are always super potent. Yin Yoga 🧘‍♀️, Essential Oils 🌿, Reiki from a true Reiki Master 🙌, and a beautiful concert of transcendent sounds and songs 🎶 by yours truly. 💓 . There will only be one more of these before Sara makes a big move to Seattle. 😭 So if you've been meaning to come soak in the magic we create together, this is the time! 🧚‍♀️🧞‍♀️ . I so hope you can make it! 🙏 . 🌼Details🌼 . YinKi : Yin Yoga, Essential Oils, Reiki, & Sound Healing Friday, 1/31 at 7:30pm @urbanwellnessphx Link in bio to register ✨ . #sisterlove #magic #reiki #yin #yoga #soundhealing #soundmeditation

Maybe we’re not meant to figure it out. Maybe we’re meant to drop the burden of trying to hold it all together. Maybe we’re meant to let everything fall apart. . The paradigms. The belief systems. All the things we think we know and organize our lives around, only to become imprisoned by those same beliefs. . The only thing I know for sure, is that every time I think I know, something crumbles that tower of belief to the ground. And once again, I’m left with only the rubble to make sense of. . . But, the rubble itself is the most sacred gift. . It is holy ground, hallowed and sanctified with the energy of pure potential. . . It is in the rubble where we face the rawness of both our humanity and divinity. It is here where they can alchemize to transform our worldview into one that is infinitely more expansive and whole. . . And again, just when we feel we have a grip on the way things are, that same grip becomes the catalyst that crumbles those structures to the ground. And here we begin the sacred dance in the rubble of creation, preservation, and destruction once more. . . This is ascension. This is evolution. This is the healing and awakening of our planet. . . I was recently introduced to the teaching that true wisdom does not come from anything that one can “know.” What we can “know” is static. Unchanging. Unmoving. A stone tower of belief that we imprison ourselves within. . . True wisdom is always changing. It is flowing, moving, creating, evolving. And the key to accessing it is learning how to change our perspective. Over and over and over again. . Perhaps if we could remember this, we would be more comfortable in the rubble of our unknowing. . Maybe then we would stop building towers on top of the truth of the world that has been here since the beginning. 🌍 . . Maybe then, we would let the towers fall that we and our ancestors have been carrying on our shoulders for a millennia. And from the rubble, the fertile soil for real wisdom can be remembered. 🌱 . . #remember

At the end of last year, I wrote this post but was too shy to share. This year, I’m still shy, but I’m sharing anyway. . . “The Winter Solstice always seems to bring up all the feelings for me. I think this year is especially potent with it also being the end of a decade. . . “I can’t help but to contemplate all that has happened in the last ten years. All of the challenges. All the growth. The very many ways that I have changed. . . “This time 10 years ago I was finishing my first semester of graduate school. I hadn’t even found yoga yet. . . “When I look back, what I see most is how scared I was. . . “Uncertainty. Doubt. And a deeply engrained belief that I was not good enough, and that I couldn’t do it. . “To be sure, I still feel these things. But after 10 years of noticing, breathing, and of holding my own heart in my hands — the manifestations of these fears have eased. . “Like the way mountains over a millennia smooth themselves from jagged rocks into rolling hills — our inner landscape too must whether the winds and rains of our journey before the terrain becomes easier to walk upon. . . “Healing takes a long time. Creating new habits, new patterns, new beliefs, takes a long time. It is not something that we can measure in weeks or months or even years. But rather in decades. And even in lifetimes. . . “One thing I can say with absolute certainty, is that I am so much braver than I was 10 years ago. And to this, I have 10 years of practice to thank.” . #youcantrushyourhealing #becausereallyitsaboutthejourneyanyway #gratefulforallofit #allofit #keepgoing #keepgoing #keepgoing #iloveyou #thankyou #iloveyou #love #jai #ॐ

Phoenix friends, I am so excited to be bringing a very special offering back to @metta_yoga ! ... Please join me this Sunday, 1/19, for another Sacred Sound Journey session. 💫 ... This event will include: ... • A heart-centering meditation 💗 • A sonic journey complete with Gong, Crystal Singing Bowls, Medicine Drum, Chanting, and more . • Guided vocal toning to seal the experience • Loads of good vibes from like-minded souls walking their path 💫 ... I so hope you will join me. You can follow the link in my bio to register. Many thanks and blessings, friends! 💕🙏🏽 ... Sacred Sound Journey Sunday, 1/19 2:00-3:15pm @metta_yoga . .... . #soundjourney #soundmeditation #soundtherapy #crystalbowls #gong #heartcentered #phoenixevents #phoenixaz #selfcare #love #jai #ॐ

Back to the real world they say. But I disagree. For the days I spend in between are realer than real to me. . . Holidays, travel, family, snow, time and space to journey inward, and a decade new birthed before my very eyes — it seems the last few weeks happened in a blur. A beautiful, bumbling, and blessed blur. . . And my only desire is to remember. All that has been learned and let go. All that has been loved and then loved harder. . So here’s to the days in between. And here’s to the days that lie ahead where the opportunity awaits to integrate it all. . . May I remember to do so with love and compassion, patience and intention, and then probably more patience. And when I fall, as I surely will, may my return be graced with the swiftness of a journeyer well traveled. . 🌸 Yoga & Sound Offerings 🌸 . Tuesday 9:00am Vinyasa @sumathletica Old Town Scottsdale . Tuesday 6:00pm Sound Healing Meditation Authentic Yoga North Scottsdale . Thursday 9:00am Vinyasa @sumathletica Old Town Scottsdale . Thursday 6:00pm Astanga Mix @urbanyogaphx Central Phoenix . Saturday 8:30am Astanga Mix @urbanyogaphx Central Phoenix . Saturday 4:30pm Restorative & Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx Central Phoenix . Sunday 8:30am Karma Flow (5$!) @urbanyogaphx Central Phoenix . Sunday 10:00am Urban Flow @urbanyogaphx Central Phoenix . Sunday 1/19 2:00pm Sacred Sound Journey Intention, Prayer, Ceremony, & Sound @metta_yoga East Phoenix . To find out more about these and other offerings, visit kariannlevine.com. Link in bio. . #newyearreflection #journey #traveler #betweentheworlds #itsallabouttheintegration #soundmeditation #soundhealing #yoga #love #jai #ॐ Photo by my sweet sister Holly who is taking a social media hiatus. 💕

My Bro. Love him more than I could ever say. 💫 . #littlebro #bigheart #love #jai #ॐ

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