Shine On Yoga

10/29/2024

We are incredibly grateful to have completed a very intensive Family Constellations Training with Marielena Obienic of Systemic Engineering of the Soul.

This is a Quantum system that is extremely effective for:

Interpersonal relationships
Grief and loss
Anxiety, depression, and trauma
Patterns of addiction or self-sabotage
Physical health issues (linked to unresolved emotional dynamics)

Family Constellations Therapy, developed by Bert Hellinger, is a therapeutic method aimed at resolving deep-seated family dynamics and generational trauma. This approach holds that many personal issues stem from unconscious, inherited family patterns. Hellinger believed that family systems—across multiple generations—carry unresolved trauma, guilt, and emotional burdens that can influence an individual's current life. By bringing these hidden dynamics to light, the method seeks to create understanding, healing, and a release from patterns that may be impacting one’s well-being.

Key Principles
The Family System and Ancestral Influence: Hellinger posited that everyone belongs to a "family soul" or "field" of intergenerational influences. The emotions, traumas, and unresolved issues of previous generations can be unconsciously carried forward, manifesting as issues in descendants.

Orders of Love: Hellinger defined natural orders within families—such as belonging, hierarchy, and balance. When these orders are disrupted (for example, through exclusion of a family member), it can lead to “entanglements,” where individuals unconsciously attempt to resolve or “carry” issues for other family members.

Entanglements: According to Hellinger, individuals may unconsciously take on emotional or behavioral patterns to help or compensate for another family member. For example, a person may repeat patterns of loss or failure to mirror an ancestor’s unresolved trauma, thus remaining "entangled" in that person’s fate.

The Constellation Process
The process of a family constellation involves setting up a visual representation of the family system. This is often done in a group setting, where other participants stand in as representatives for family members, though it can also be done one-on-one with physical objects or simply as a visualization.

Setting Up the Constellation: The individual (known as the “seeker” or “client”) identifies a core issue they wish to resolve. The therapist then guides them to choose representatives for various family members or significant relationships.

Revealing Hidden Dynamics: As representatives interact, they may express feelings, emotions, or physical sensations that reflect the dynamics between family members. This "systemic" approach brings forward the underlying relational patterns and emotional bonds that often remain hidden.

Resolution and Healing: By acknowledging the presence of these hidden dynamics and offering symbolic actions or statements, family members (represented by the stand-ins or objects) can achieve a sense of peace, balance, or reconciliation. The client often experiences this as a sense of release or a new perspective on their family history.

Our amazing teachers work:

https://www.mysystemsoul.com/

10/14/2024

To live well and savour more moments, to sip from the arc of aeons, to revel in the riot of colour that’s our life, to see the poetics of nature and not pass them by. That’s such an art. All the money in the world isn’t worth the ability to learn the art of living well. - Richard Rudd
Gene Key 32

09/25/2024

It is essential to tune our voice, our greatest instrument, each day. I love to hum, AUM, and play with different vocal range techniques to keep my channel open and tuned to the cosmos.

In most all of the classes I teach, I work with the voice in some capacity and love to learn from song carriers and artists that bring song medicine to communities.

I learned this song from my singing teacher, Meg Chittendon
and I am sharing with the students in my Anatomy & Physiology class.

Check out this wonderful song medicine, Net of Remembrance by Ahlay Blakely. Here are the words:

Everyone feels and carries
different parts of the story

and together we weave
we weave the net
of remember
or remembrance

we are not made
we are not created
to hold this
hold this all along

from the album Spells from the Unknown

09/02/2024

True Education is about the Art of Beingness -

Its not about doingness -

Life skills are about doingness not about beingness.

Education is the art of drawing out the soul genius that lives inside us all.

We all come with conscious and unconsciousness.

We have super skills and extraordinary challenges.

When our system is working correctly and it’s in an environment that brings calm and ease, genius is always the case.

The problem is that the system is not working correctly so it is very difficult to digest correctly or to be in the correct environments.

What to do??

The importance of Self-development to become True Guides for Children

Through self-development we learn the art of nourishing. When we establish an inner nourishing standard the children will be in the presence of a good example and will receive nourishment. If we are malnourished in any of the three facets of life giving education, then ease and a harmonious rhythm alludes us. When the guide (teacher/parent) is not in rhythm, then the children will easily fall out of rhythm.

Rudolf Steiner, the creator of Waldorf Education says, ““Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.” It’s not easy to listen to the books of each child. We want them to be in our book. We want the book to look, act and feel a certain way. We as parents and educators need to continuously work on our own self-development so that we can know our own books and in knowing our Self, then truly we can speak and live in truth for our children.

Children reflect the adults around them. They show us where we need to see more or go deeper. They are helping us to heal and move forward into the future. We need to listen to them. They are filled with insights and creativity and if given support and guidance they cooperate and harmonize.

09/01/2024

It is time now! Self - Care is REQUIRED!

and it's more than just moving the body in any activity.

A conscious discipline body practice is essential to full embodiment on earth.

I am forever grateful to my introduction to yoga and meditation in 2004.

However, I am indebted to the teachers that truly gave me the keys to the kingdom with somatic movements and kinesthetic awareness.

In the beginning I was harming myself with yoga and it took me years to wake up and unravel the harm that I inflicted on myself.

Thank goddess for the amazing guides that have helped me to understand this difference.

I'm grateful to chart the path of teaching adolescence embodiment practices so that they can find the NOW and be innovative and creative today ! We need them :))))

Looking for support, reach out - https://www.ambermelendy.com/home-777

08/30/2024

Education is about Beingness

Its not about doingness

Life skills are about doingness not about beingness.

In this world We want /need both.

When you educate you are drawing out the soul genius that lives inside us all.

We all come with conscious and unconsciousness.

We have super skills and extraordinary challenges.

When our system is working correctly and it’s in an environment that brings calm and ease, genius is always the case.

The problem is that the system is not working correctly so it is very difficult to digest correctly or to be in the correct environments.

Our ancestral trauma keeps us locked into unhealthy patterns that restrict the flow and block our minds into narrow-ness

dah dah dah... more is coming.

08/30/2024

"The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. That is how people care for themselves."

~ Barry Lopez

Art my Me. :)

08/28/2024

Excited to offer
Anatomy & Physiology for young girls! I'm crafting curriculum from Western, Eastern & Indigenous perspectives.

08/26/2024

This coming year I am offering some enrichment programs! Please reach out if you would like more information.

07/18/2024

Getting super excited to roll out this incredible game next week in my Rose Tent: Yoga & Mindfulness Training for Young Girls! I've been developing it over the last few months and it's coming together...

Portals to Infinity is Game for Kids that help them to embody healthy rhythms, learn about the ancient wisdom traditions and design a version of the game based on their unique-ness.

YES!!! What else is possible?

https://www.ambermelendy.com/home-777

07/17/2024

The best description I know of the Aquarian Age and the nature of this gate (30) is above the lines: Freedom recognized as an illusion and limitation accepted as fate. This is the nature of what we are moving towards: the illusion of freedom. Freedom does not exist. This is the recognition that we all fit into a pattern and in that, we all have our place, and in that, limitation is a grace. It is not a punishment. This is the nature of what we are moving toward. The emotional quality of this gate is driving us towards this. It is an extraordinary thing to recognize that the deepest force in the emotional motor in this stream, what it is really looking for, is to get out of the experiential business and to be satisfied with the pattern that gives value to the nature of what it is to BE.

Ra Uru Hu

07/10/2024

Waldorf Education is built on 2 pillars;

1. Healing
2. Thinking that begins in the heart also called Etheric Thinking or Living Thinking

We are blessed this week in Center for Anthroposophy Renewal Training, to have Robyn Brown as our keynote speaker. Robyn is the author of A Practical Guide to Curative Education, The Ladder of the Seven Life Processes. The Preface to her book begins with an introduction to Karl König’s work. He described the seven life processes not as forms in the sense of anatomy or physiology, but as a living and weaving etheric being.

“He sad the processes need to be taken as a whole, as something that lives and weaves: something that first establishes a rhythmical connection with the surrounding world (breathing); makes itself a “house” (warming); fills this house with substance (nourishing); breaks this substance down by its own effort (secreting); re-establishes it again in making it into its own substance (maintaining); grows; and reproduces.” An incredible book of curative education that speaks volumes for the world today.

1.Healing

Robyn says, we come into this earth plane with two bodies; an Individual and Hereditary body. This thinking aligns with the Human Design system as well, and I will expand that in another writing later. She continues describing that we have a great opportunity with children ages 0-7, because we are able to help children clear the hereditary body with correct movements and develop a healthy will which will be their foundation for the rest of the life. If we miss that opportunity and instead fill their will with much conditioning, programming and trauma they will have to work it out through the rest of the life - and it’s harder. It is essential that we work with this hereditary body so that we can become what we are destined to become in this lifetime. By overcoming the hereditary body we have the strength we need to be our full self or the truth of our higher self.

I will continue more later...

If you are looking for support in Education, Homeschooling or guidance on healthy rhythms or understanding your child better through the lens of Human Design - Reach out!