How to Live with Intention

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Nowadays, our society is so focused on working harder and longer, acquiring possessions, and achieving titles that we often lose touch with our true nature—that wise, beautiful, loving, and vibrant being within each of us.

We can get caught up in unconscious and unhealthy patterns developed over the years. Before we know it, we’re just going through the motions each day. But there is a way to return to a more intentional way of living. It begins by setting your intention for a balanced day. String enough together, and you’ll soon be on your way to an intentional life. Living an intentional life involves carrying out each day with consciousness.

When you’re living with intention, you do everything with a conscious intent, which aligns with your core values. This involves clarifying your dreams, setting defined and clear intentions, and crafting a lifestyle that is aligned with your core, deepest desires.  Continue reading “How to Live with Intention”

Holistic Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica

Come join us in Costa Rica to reenergize, reconnect, and renew!

Offered and led by Fernanda Beccaglia and Corinne Rosita Aulakh

Join us in Costa Rica for a unique and nourishing week of healing yoga, meditation, nourishing meals, healing vegan food and juicing demonstrations, energy healing work, rejuvenation, and Caribbean beach relaxation in stunning Cahuita, Costa Rica.

Costa Rica Holistic Yoga Retreat
Reenergize, Reconnect, Renew in Costa Rica! (Fernanda Beccaglia)

Your week in Paradise includes a unique opportunity to deepen your self-awareness with twice daily yoga asanaspranayama, and meditation practice coupled with personalized energy work as well as delicious homemade vegan meals to heal and cleanse the body, uplift the mind and the spirit.

A very special yoga meditation with horses is included as an optional activity to help you find a more intimate relationship between you and the world around us.

(All levels welcome for yoga and people new to vegan foods, even absolute beginners.)

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Equinox, New Moon, Rosh Hashanah and Navaratri Blessings

The time between Equinox and New Moon draws us into deep quiet and a clear sense of waiting.  There is attention, watching and listening.  What does Spirit want to bring?  What insights of the world beyond want to whisper their hidden secrets? 

In many ways life is a series of endings and new beginnings. Just as the Moon wanes and waxes, and the days grow shorter and then longer, our lives too are constantly in transition. We are constantly saying goodbye to someone ~ or something.

Photo: Fullorissa.com
Photo: Fullorissa.com

A friend, colleague or teammate is moving on. An old part of us, an old attitude or behavior that no longer serves is being released.  We may be physically moving our home (a big event!) or metaphorically changing our perspective by releasing unhelpful thought patterns (no less important!).  This cleaning out prepares us for new blessings of wisdom and insight. 

This is why the Vedic tradition has always held such transition points as sacred times for meditation. In Sanskrit they are called “Sandhya,” those meeting points between night and day, dark and light, ending and beginning.   

Literally “Sandhya” means twilight. Twilight is a powerful time to honor the continuity of our lives, to give gratitude for another day in which to learn and serve, and to open to the wisdom that the Divine has to offer us. 

A similar phenomenon happens in the transition of the season from Summer to Fall.  As one season ends and another begins, there is an opportunity to reflect deeply on our direction in life, and to choose our course for the upcoming period.
So as we enter this time of new beginnings —Equinox, New Moon, Jewish New Year and Navaratri (nine nights of the goddess)—it is time to see where we have we been playing small.

Here are 5 tips for imbibing this season of Equinox, New Moon, Rosh Hashanah and Navaratri (the nine-night festival of the Goddess which starts on this New Moon):

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