Ron Nikel C-MMT

27/09/2024

"What I like most about change is that it's a symbol of hope. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.'"

~ Linda Ellerbee

I am committed to change and hope. I have heard my entire life that what I am reaching for is impossible. My mother gifted me a teaching which I hold dear to my heart. Don’t listen to anyone else, if you want it, believe in it, no one else matters, you can have it. So each step I have taken has always been based from an optimistic perspective of hopeful optimism. I have learned much in this process. Often times it also requires surrender and a dropping of expectations. In this process of being hopeful we may encounter self limiting beliefs and thoughts. By stepping into hope it is an opportunity to challenge and change those deeply embedded patterns and abandon those old stories.

The end of each chapter we write should end with ourselves being the hero in the epic story. (A lesson passed to me by David Donovan)

10/09/2024

This talk between two of my teachers Tara Brach and Gabor Mate has been wonderful to listen to this morning. I have committed to myself to stay committed to my practice of deepening my ability to stay in my heart. Hearing their perspective on suffering in this very difficult time in the world and their very vulnerable sharing about their own experience is inspiring.

Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD - Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher

10/09/2024

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I see this playing out all around me...not only in my own behavior, but in those meeting around me as well. We see it playing out in communities, cultures and the world. Waking up to these patterns of reactivity allows to break a cycle and reach for that ease and freedom that we are all desire. An exercise that you can try for yourself is to inquire deeply... what are the ways that I am caught in the repetitive behaviors that have me locked into repeating patterns of suffering and difficulty.

25/07/2024

Wise words from my spirit sister Natalie Kellar on the somatic experience of anger. In my work over the last 2 years with myself and now with my clients, there is an invitation to alchemize anger. It is time for us to work with anger in a skillful manner, to release its grip on us. Why? As you may have heard... "the body keeps the score" - unfelt, unexpressed emotions get stored in the tissues, sometimes resulting in autoimmune diseases, cancer, inflammatory diseases.... got any of those?

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'This starving makes it fat."

How do we starve our anger?

We don't allow it to live.

We don't allow the fire in our belly to rise up and become voice and tone.

We don't allow our hands to make a clenched fist or to rise up in protest to injustice.

We don't allow an impulse to make a boundary, to come out of us and say, "No! No way, I won't go there. Not again, not this time."

When we don't allow that, we know that anger gets suppressed, it gets shamed and hidden.

Then the anger gets somatized and becomes things like cramps, passive-aggressive communication, or confusion in our relationships when we don't speak our minds.

That doesn't mean you should always say everything you have to say but you have to negotiate with that and know your anger.

AHO

- Natalie Kellar

21/07/2024

"You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey." Just saying, change your thoughts, change you story.

21/07/2024

Caught in a cycle of negative thoughts, lots of fear, anxiety, feeling cut off and alone? Tara's talk this week is a good one to tune into.

Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD - Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher

20/02/2024

Sometimes our most obvious destructive behaviors conceal something else that is even more difficult for us to acknowledge. We may be willing to acknowledge our anger, but unwilling to look at the fear and vulnerability beneath it.

Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon’s Mouth”

06/02/2024

Shiva Shambho Retreats and Energy Body Wellness is excited to announce that we are co-creating with Tierra Encantada, a week long retreat. March 30th - April 5th 2024 in Nosara, Costa Rica. We will be spending a magical week together practicing and learning, expanding, integrating, settling and connecting. Presence is a state of being, expansive, connected, still, free, easeful, full of compassion, tapped in and turned on, and full of joy. The facilitators and teachers will be leading us in daily practices with :

Meditation: Daily mindfulness meditation and movement meditation practices.
Breath: A deep dive into sacred breath-work to deepen your connection to presence and well-being.
Movement: Develop more presence through body awareness with yoga and ecstatic dance.
Sound: Tap more fully into your energy body through sacred sound practices.
Natures Medicine: Through healthy eating and through a sacred plant medicine ceremony

Follow the link for more details and registration.

https://www.shivashambhoretreats.com/pathways-to-presence-retreat

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Offering wellness retreats in Nosara Costa Rica. Meditation, Mindfulness, Sound Healing, Breathwork, Yoga, Movement and Plant Medicine Ceremonies.

27/03/2023

There are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon."

— Marlena De Blasi