Blooming Lotus Center

01/11/2021

I have been a massage therapist for over 30 years and I love seeing that more information is out there about the benefits. I'm getting my massage tomorrow!

Think of massage as an indulgence? Perhaps. But it can also be a powerful tool for health and well-being — from easing pain and inflammation to soothing stress and anxiety.

27/12/2019

Wishing you moments of silence........................

(toni)

13/12/2019

Recently a client shared that taking a pause for gratitude was making a significant change in her stress level. Let's all take a moment to "pause"!

Neuroscientists have found that if you really feel it when you say it, you'll be happier and healthier. The regular practice of expressing gratitude is not a New Age fad; it's a facet of the human condition that reaps true benefits to those who mean it.

15/10/2019

This is a wonderful resource in our area!

The Christine Center is a spirituality and wellness retreat center in Central Wisconsin. Located only a few hours from Minnesota and Illinois, our retreat center offers programs for personal spiritual retreats, yoga retreats, and health retreats as well as group and corporate retreats for people acr...

20/09/2019

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
Maya Angelou

Diane Leonard

05/06/2019

Finding stillness in the midst of our active world. My go to is nature and meditation.

Slow...down...

30/05/2019

Vulnerability and the Tender Heart “Ultimately it is on our vulnerability that we depend.”—Rilke As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the explorer, bravely facing danger. In the Buddhist understanding, however, the greater courage is not demonstrated by agg...

27/05/2019

I love seeing this and recently talked to someone from a different school district that said they were thinking about having kids do yoga when they have detention. Creative idea!!

A head praises a project taking yoga into schools for children with social and emotional challenges.

13/05/2019

It's so gratifying being a yoga teacher and hearing the many ways that this ancient practice has a positive effect on people. I can see it in their faces at the end of class. If you have been thinking about joining a yoga class but hesitate because of inexperience or health issues I offer private yoga sessions and call it "Jump Start Your Yoga Practice". Let me know if you would like more information. I also teach Gentle Yoga at the SP YMCA on Mondays nights at 6:30 and Gentle Therapeutic Yoga Thursday mornings at a dance studio in Plover.

In the middle of a prescription painkiller overdose crisis in the United States, a San Diego VA study finds that veterans with chronic pain would be well-served to put down the pills and pick up a yoga mat.

10/05/2019

Happy Friday!

Cartoon by Maria Scrivan

10/05/2019

The power of the parasympathetic nervous system.....

08/05/2019

Trees. There is more going on than what we can see. Thank you trees for being our teachers!

According to scientific evidence, trees are way more intelligent than we have ever imagined. Some of the findings of the tree-whisperer Peter Wohlleben are the following: Peter is a German researcher who not only enjoys being surrounded by trees, but he has also devoted his life to studying them. He...

06/05/2019

29/04/2019

Take time to breath, be and feel.

15/04/2019

For the love of feet!

Soothe and stretch your achy feet with this much needed TLC.

02/04/2019

The World Needs You Guilt and anger and fear are part of the problem. If you want to save the world, save it because you love it! —Gary Snyder It is easy to feel overwhelmed by global problems. Climate change. Children fleeing violence in Central America. Wars across the Middle East. Streams of re...

29/03/2019

Happiness of Being Japan’s most beloved Zen poet, Ryokan, was known for being unpretentious and wise. Like Saint Francis he was a lover of simple things, of children and nature. In his poems he writes openly of his tears and loneliness during long winter nights, of his heart leaping with spring bl...

12/02/2019

"I realize I will never be pretzel like, but also now realize that doesn't matter." I love teaching yoga and after receiving this statement from a class participant I feel I am on the right track!