One cold clear December night, I was lured out to my front yard by the magical light of the stars.  This is an often occurrence for me.  Since early childhood, the light of the stars has been so captivating and uplifting to me.  I would get fluttery feelings in my heart and belly and find myself brimming with excitement. It still happens like that.
 
So, this early December night last year in 2017, I went out bundled up to gaze up at the night sky.  This night I was gifted with quite a star show.  Sirius was in full luminosity, twinkling and dancing like a rainbow disco ball.  Procyon was beaming at me.  The familiar shape of Orion was large and in charge of the southeast portion of the sky.  And, then, the black night sky between them started to glitter and glimmer.  Like a flash of on again off again flirtatious light.  I stayed out as long as the cold would allow, and when I came back into the warm house I grabbed my phone, on which I had an app that helped me identify stars, planets and constellations.  Right in the spot that I had seen the light show, the star twinkle show, the star map showed the constellation Monoceros.  Having never heard of that one, I investigated further. 
Monoceros is The Unicorn.  Hold the star phone – the unicorn has it’s own constellation?? Sweet!! How could I not yet know this??  I have some research and work to do!

​Unicorns had been making themselves more known to me also throughout the year.  And this seemed quite significant.  I had also been receiving a lot of light codes and direct knowing info from the Gold Ray, a huge download of info during Summer Solstice from the Gold Ray and some significant info now coming for the winter solstice from the Silver Ray.
 
I use Andaras to bring in and work with Star Codes and Light Rays (star codes are the light codes that come from stars and celestial bodies, see here for more info on light codes).
For my own Christmas gift, I purchased a gold and a silver (clear) andara to work with.
 
Here is a photo from Dec 26, 2017 – my first day playing and activating these beauties.

​Several weeks later, mid January, was doing some yoga meditating movement alignment goodness, and a fully formed light being rainbow unicorn galloped out of this crystal into my room.  It was a wowza moment
This is a pic from that day. Can you see her/him?

​So, I tell you these tales today, as inspiration for your own personal journey of connections.  Your lineages and communications and pathways will be unique to you.  We all call in different lineages and team mates. 
 
If you want to hear directly from the stars, the process is magically simple.  Go outside, be present.  Be open.  BE connected to your own soul center and use your innate skill of direct knowing.  Listen, with your multi dimensional sensory system.  The light from the stars delivers the codes directly to you.  And then the info unfolds for months and years, and your "job" is to make space inside yourself to listen and receive.  

​The magnitude and the amazing power of an Inner Space Journey can be difficult to convey in words, on websites or in promotional materials.  So I share with you today a personal tale of a spontaneous Inner Space journey I went on this morning…
 
I am blessed to have a “room of her own” off my bedroom.  For creation, for movement and yoga, for crystal play and activations.  My sacred space.  I keep my andara crystals on a shelf in front of the window, for sun and moon and star light access.
 
It is super cool how on different days and times of year, during certain alignments the different crystals activate and light up and communicate.  This morning it was electric live wire GOLD RAY.  Of all the crystals that were on the shelf in the sunlight, the golden were lit right up.
 
So, I sat, taking a moment of time for myself, and to tune into the messages encoded in the light codes.  Sitting with and listening to my andaras is my current most favorite way to meditate, to tune in a receive info.  My andara friends do many things for me and with me, but one of the more powerful things is their ability to connect through space and time.  They help anchor and bend light rays.  In ways that make the light ray communication accessible to our human self.  The create pathways for light codes, photonic pulses of light to enter our human energy field, body and our crystalline DNA.
 
I can feel folks with the questions…
How do Andaras work?  How do they help us receive light codes?  And then, what good are light codes anyway?  Are they going to help me with my day to day life?  And if so, how??
Why would I want to tune into my light body, and download light codes into my human form, and recalibrate my DNA?  What is any of that really? And how is it useful to me?
 
I openly share this personal story to answer this question – how it can happen in a multidimensional way.
 
Sometimes it remains elusive to our human brain what exactly the benefit of light codes are, or what it means to recalibrate a story and pattern held in your DNA.  I talk here at Inner Space often about photonic light, and how we can use it to release long held patterns of “darkness” in our own body, mind, emotional field, in our energy field and etheric band of memory. 
 
These places of darkness, what the yoga traditions call a samskaras (subtle body impressions), are these “punches” or “divots” in your multi dimensional self.  They hold fixed places in the brain, and are triggered to fire memory in the synapses.  They mold a groove or “pothole” into your emotional body, ones that we trip on time and time again.  The linger in the tissues of your body, especially the fascia, which acts as the “memory foam” of the body.  They hang out in the organs and in the cells.  They form geometric patterns in your subtle energy body, influencing the flow (or blockage) of prana.  They get coded into the DNA as family behavior patterns and habits, passed down generation to generation.
 
AND – these divots can be filled in with light and love and awareness.  They can be the places that hold our strength.  Our containers and cups of light.
 
So, back to my personal tale…
 
I have been getting the inklings of remembrance again that November is a “divot” in my family history and story.  And in my own heart, mind and body.  When I was nine, in November of 1979, my mother mustered up her strength and courage, and made a move to take us away from the house we were living in with my father.  He was abusive - physically and mentally, emotionally.  We had many scary moments, several hide outs in battered woman and children shelters.  Many long scary nights and days and years at home. 

On this November morning, we were making lunches and getting ready to hop on the school bus.  When my father got in the shower, my mum told me to take my brother and sister and down go the neighbors house.  There is a lot of intense detail to this story including 9 year old me listening on the basement stairs to the police tackle, handcuff and haul my screaming crying father away.
 
The imprint has been a deep rut in my memory, energy field and body.  I have been working on it for decades in a variety of ways.  It is clearer and “better” each year.  But here it is, November 9 again.  And here it is, up again for review and upgrade.
 
So, this morning, when I walked into my room to engage my morning “soul centering and alignment” practice – seeing this gold ray.  I was pulled into and softened and allowed myself into awareness of this confluence place where the mental pictures and memories of that day, the physical places it was lingering in my body, the emotional divots that were full of tears needed to be shed.  I let myself feel it and empty the pain through tears and movement. 

The golden light and gold ray held a very strong Father Sun/Father Sky energy.  It was exactly what I needed.

I posted that morning on Facebook:
 
The andaras say....it’s a GOLD Ray Day...
The GOLD Ray of Light
💫Activating Lifeforce 💫
Supercharge your inner energy battery🌟
💛The “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow🌈
Creation Source Energy
Warmth of Inner Earth🌍🔥
☀️Light of Central Sun ☀️
Drink it in today...golden effervescent light codes...
💛Thank You Sunshine, Father SUN 💛

And then the LIGHT began to fill the room, and fill me.  I could breathe in and drink in the codes of light that were pouring my way, from the sun, being bent by the andara crystals, and flooding into my awareness field.  It was a beautiful self healing radiant moment, series of moments.
 
This kind of thing is what happens on the regular when I work with folks at Inner Space.
When you bring light into your body, mind and energy field, you communicate on a photonic level with your DNA.  You rewrite the story. 
 
Today is a Code Day, with the numerical date of 11/11.  Plus 2018 adds to be an “11” year (2+0+1+8=11).  So, we get a triple 11 today.  The energy of the number one is about beginning new, it is a reset point.  The 11 is double that 1 energy.  I see the 11 as the two columns of the strands of the DNA.  And the light codes we bring in today are communicating with the crystals in the DNA, with the telomeres.
 
What “divots” do you have in your field?  What sticky points do you have from your past in your physical, emotional and mental bodies?  What can you do for yourself to shine the light of your own awareness onto these dark sections? 
I suggest taking some time to be present with yourself.  To relax and breathe into your body.  Notice everything you feel and sense.  Just BE. that simply doing that, being aware, sitting with yourself and holding space for the thoughts, feelings, memories, physical body sensations, that that is HUGE.  Then make an action of brining in some light. Connect to the sun.  Invite the solar rays into your multi-dimensional field.  If possible, do this outside in the sunshine.  Near a window, go for a walk.  Do it while you rake some leaves.  Do it in a way that is playful and fun. Awareness is your path back home to wholeness and integration.  That is the way to fill the divots of darkness inside with radiant light.
 
It’s Never Too Late, to come on HOME…
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0oIzCp8oQA
 
In Light,
 
Julie
 
PS – and, doing this for yourself is awesome and something you need to do regularly.  There are times, especially with the larger deeper patterns and “divots” where it helps to have someone hold space for you.  This is what I offer here with an Inner Space Journey. Together we scan your field (energy field, body, mind, emotions etc).  We identify areas that are holding deep seated patterns or density.  We invite in the solar rays of rainbow light.  To fill you with radiance, effervescent light codes, to rewrite the story, to recode the DNA.  I am here to assist you anytime you are ready!  https://www.innerspacehealing.org/your-inner-journey.html
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The “Green Comet” aka  Comet 21P/Giacobini–Zinner is a comet that orbits periodically through our solar system.  Looking at the oval shaped orbital path of this comet, it travels just beyond the orbit of Jupiter and then swings quite close to earth’s orbital path.  So, it bring with it codes and information from the gassy giant Jupiter, and all the space along the way through the solar system, gathering particles and energy from the orbits all of the 6 closest planets to the sun.  These planets have also been very visible to the human eye this summer.  Both of these inputting info to our earth and human collective.
 
Comets capture the imagination and the wonder and awe of humanity.  They give us a common focus.  They deliver particles of life, dust, gases, pieces of star stuff.  They illuminate both a path in the night sky, and a neural pathway of inspiration and knowledge in the human collective consciousness.  
 
There are three activation possibilities from these inner solar system comets. 
 
(1) Meteor Showers - They leave behind a trail of debris that the earth ends up moving through each year as it orbits the sun.  During this passing through the debris field small particles burn up as they graze the atmosphere and we get a meteor shower.  These meteors are light codes being delivered from the comet to us on earth.
 
(2) Catching a Glimpse - The comet itself is visible.  For this Comet 21P we need high powered binoculars or a telescope to see it.  The visible light emitted from a comet transmits light codes.  Catch a glimpse if you can!
 
(3) Following the Path Through the Sky - The comet as seen from our vista here on the earth surface moves along the night sky and looks like it is traveling through different constellations.  In effect, it illuminates or lights up, and brings our attention to those stars and planets and constellations it is moving through.  It does this for us energetically even if we cannot see the comet with our human eyes.  In my experience, those of us that spend time under the night sky, we will be drawn to look at a certain part of the sky or a certain constellation.  We might not even know why, and then later we research and find this comet may have been the reason. This happened for me this summer.  I kept seeing the North American nebulae, which site in the constellation Cygnus the Swan.  During this research, I round out that Comet 21P was cruising right by that nebulae this summer.  So my natural free attention was drawn there.  And it just may be thanks to the green comet!  And to be clear - the comet is not physically near any of these stars, as they are far away from our solar system.  It is just how it looks to us on “planetarium earth”.
 
Comet History
Comet 21P was fist observed in 1900.  During this epoch, it was widely believed that all the stars we could see where part of the milky way.  For centuries it was common thought that earth was the center of the universe, and all other bodies revolved around us here on earth (geocentric model).  Of course many if not all ancient cultures knew the truths of the galaxies, but that is a conversation for another write up.  Folks like Copernicus, Kepler, Newton and Galileo influenced and changed our human view to a model where the sun was the center of our solar system and the earth and the planets that orbited around the sun (heliocentric).   Comets expand human awareness of the universe.  As they are “different” and change the night sky from the usual sights.  They, just by there very existence and the way they travel in the night sky teach us how the universe works.
 
Comet 21P has a period of 6.5 years, meaning it comes back around to the same spot on its elliptical orbit every 6.5 years.  Here is a good read on the comet:  http://earthsky.org/space/2-comets-21p-giacobini-zinner-wirtanen-2018
 
Recent Activities
The comet came very close to earth and the sun on September 10, 2018.  The comet close approach to the sun (perihelion) and the time when it makes its close approaches planet earth are two different and distinct alignments that this year (2018) coincided on the same day.  Very rare.  There was a significant moment of exchange that happened on September 10, 2018 Comet 21P to planet Earth.

​And, interestingly enough, on September 11, 1985, the Spacecraft ICE (International Cometary Explorer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer ) flew right into the plasma tail of the comet to collect info and data.  So this September green comet communication is a “thing”.  If the close encounters of this comet and earth interest you, this website lists the years (http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0021P/index.html).  There is a lot to be correlated about the visit of this comet and the awakening of our human experience.

The Draconids Meteor Showers is activation possibility number one from above.  When the earth passes thought the comet trail debris field from the pathway of the Green Comet, we see the Draconids Meteor shower. Meteors are named by the radiant point - where the meteors seem to project from as they streak across the sky. Draco – The Dragon is the radiant constellation. Tales and myths speak of these meteors coming right from the red eyes of the Dragon.  Because of the close approach of earth to the comet this circle around, we have an opportunity for a big meteor storm this year. 
The Draconids general are at max viewing potential from October 6 – 12, with a peak around October 8.  We are in a good viewing moon mode as the new moon this month is on October 9, so the night sky will be dark and good for meteor viewing.
 
Read more at: 
​http://earthsky.org/?p=180611
http://www.topastronomer.com/StarCharts/Constellations/Draco.php

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Exploring further activation possibility (3) Following the Path Through the Sky (listed above) let’s look at the path the green comet will be traveling for September and October.
 
 Thanks to the work of http://blog.emout.org/en/2018/06/12/bright-comets-of-2018/ and several other researched sources I can tell you that:
 
“It could even be visible to the naked eye (obviously with very clean and clear skies) towards the end of August and remain like this throughout September. Its path will be very interesting not only for its expected brightness, but also because it will pass prospectively close to some open clusters.”
 
Dates where comet visibly passes celestial objects:
July 4 it will in pass the open cluster M39
August 27th the NGC 1502 cluster
September 13 we will see it near M37
September 15 close to M35. 
September 23 it enters the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn
September 26 pass Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)
At the beginning of October, it will touch the NGC 2301 cluster and a few days later M50 and NGC 2343. Finally, at the end of October it will pass NGC 2362.

The Sun Conjunct the Beehive Cluster – July 27, 2018
 
When the sun moves through the Zodiac Sign of Cancer during late June through late July, it encounters and lines up with our closest star nebulae neighbor.  The Beehive Cluster is a group of over 1,000 stars, connected by gravitation pull to each other.  This star cluster is one of our nearby neighbors.  In the Orion spiral Arm of our Milky Way galaxy.  Right down the road in galactic terms. 
 
I have been working closely for the last year with a local sacred stone chamber site.  It’s origins remain mysterious, but the info that has been gathered points to it being an astronomical alignment calendar site.  The chamber is aligned to the setting summer solstice sun, as well as other stellar setting alignments.  I have been doing a lot of fun “field work” with this chamber this summer season.  This stone chamber is of classic “beehive” domed construction, much like the beehive chambers in Ireland.
 
I use some modern technology - like apps on my iPhone such as the Google Earth, the compass, and a sky watching app called Sky Safari - coupled with energy awareness, meditation and contemplation, and deep respect and honor for the builders, ancient users and guardians of the site – and of course some good ol’ paper and reading research, books, local libraries and particularly illuminating google searching.  With this combined multi-dimensional research and field work, I encountered the awesome info - via my sky app on my phone – and being in the right place at the right time with the right tools.
 
I noticed that the Beehive Star cluster (in the constellation Cancer) was very very close to the sun.  The Skyfari App has this awesome “time” feature where you can fast forward or rewind through time and watch the sun and stars and planets move across the sky.  Standing at the mouth of the opening of this chamber, looking through time and space, I found that the Beehive Cluster was going to exact conjunct the sun on Friday July 27, 2018.
Same day that lots of other exciting astronomical alignments were also happening (that day we had a lunar eclipse and full moon and Mars Moon Earth Sun alignment).  Wowza.
 
Knowing somehow that this is VERY significant for this sacred site, for me personally, for the region I live in, and the planetary energy grids as a whole, and the global collective consciousness, I dug much deeper into the “what, how and why”.
 
As an astronomy geek from way back, I was at first surprised I had not ever really heard of this star cluster.  It first came into my awareness last year.  So I went into research mode, trying to find out particularly what the Native star watchers and shamans might have known about this cluster.  I have a ton of info, and would be so glad to elaborate and share much more with anyone who wants to chat about it…but knowing you have busy lives and only so much time to read this, I will summarize the important points…..
 
The Beehive Cluster is associated with the pineal gland in the human body.  This association comes from the fact that in the midheaven (or top of the circle) of a traditional astrology wheel or chart, we have the zodiac sign of cancer.  Also, the location of the star cluster in relation to the body of the crab (as drawn by the stars) appears to be in the “forehead” of the crab.  I have also deduced that these beehive stone chambers were used as temples of sound.  For vocal toning and chanting.  The monks in Ireland built many temples and dwellings and spaces of worship out of this corbelled dry stack stone beehive shape.  One article I read talked about them being able to hold 10-12 monks standing shoulder to shoulder in a circle.  While the article did not state this, I got the strong and clear message that these chambers were used for (among other things) chanting.  Vocal toning.  Sound healing resonating chambers.

I decided the most potent thing I could do was go to the chamber and tone, on the 27th, when the Beehive Star cluster was in conjunction with the Sun.  To honor this sacred site with a return to its intended use (one of them, for it has many many functions).
 
In doing so, I have recorded a few things to share with you.  One is a recording of the toning I did on Friday July 27.   Click below to listen....

The other is an audio recording I did back at home…when I realized that I have a beehive chamber I carry around with me everywhere I go.  My SKULL.  And the chanting, while fun to do at the chamber, is meant to be done for everyone everywhere.  Done by anyone that wants to re-activate their pineal gland.  Open their third eye and their sense of intuition and inner knowing.  Their ability to see (and hear) through multi-dimensions.
 ​

I am in process with designing some in person and on-line gatherings to share this awesome illuminating fun activity.  So look for that in the near future.  Wanted to introduce this topic, share some insight, and these tones and frequencies with you today.  For your use and enjoyment and re-activation.
 
I also got a strong message that the work I have been doing quietly for the last year with this site is ready to be publicly talked about and shared.  I posted my first “public” thing about it from the field in front of the chamber on Friday July 27.  And on that same day I got tremendous feedback from so many directions.  It was and is astounding.  I have a lot more fun and powerful stories to share about this.   For now I leave you with this “juicy nugget” of connection, between a neighboring cluster of stars, our sun, and our planet, sweet Mother Earth.  May light and truth and awareness and clarity reign for all!!
 
And if you are looking for a few reference points, here are a few good articles.  I also wrote up a blog post about what it means for the sun to conjunct something.  Also dated August 1, 2018, so the one right before this. :-) 
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https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Beehive-Huts-of-South-West-Kerry
 
http://www.starmythworld.com/mathisencorollary/2017/2/1/the-blessing-of-the-beehive-cluster

Hello Friends!  Happy Last Day of July!
On August 8, we have a numerical double date, the 8/8 Gateway.  During these dog days of summer, the light codes that come from the sun are very amplified.  We are in a corridor of energy and sun codes source codes that travel down our Orion Spiral Arm of the galaxy and come through our sun to our solar system and right into your windows on earth.  Last summer, I was inspired to craft a series of free community guided energy alignment techniques to help us all facilitate this inner space energy flow.  I named it "A Great Eight".

I noticed this morning, that we are eight days away from 8/8.  This website page has eight, approx 8 min guided journeys (audio files) for you to use freely.  You could do one a day.  They work as stand alone or you can link them together to make a 48 is minute practice.  Or you can pick and chose.
While these were recorded last year, I just listened to them again this morning, and they are every bit as potent and relevant for this now energy moment.

Every moment that you turn your attention to being a conduit of light onto and with this planet, you are making a difference.  You are raising the vibe of the earth and humankind and building a better world.  

"Master Your Inner Space, and the world around you changes."

https://www.innerspacehealing.org/a-great-eight.html

Today is flag day in the good ol’ USA
 
One of my main lightworker gridworker “jobs” as of late is to anchor as much light and love and clarity into the earth and the energy grid system of the earth as possible.  One way I have been using the landscape around me is to create use the existing structures, and create networks of light.
 
The networks I have been connecting this spring have been the Sycamore trees, the tall pine trees, church steeples, water towers and now FLAGS.
 
I was fortunate enough to host my friend and mentor Katie IndiCrow here in Massachusetts in January (her first in person trip to USA) .  She noticed the preponderance and sheer everywhere ness of the American flags.  On flagpoles, on telephone poles, on houses and graveyards.  On memorials.  Growing up with it, I was pretty used to it, so it was not something I thought much about.  Seeing it through her eyes was cool and new.
 
During ongoing gridworker private training with her this spring, she suggested I connect the network of American flags. Right away I saw how it could be done.  Each one set to anchor light.  And freedom and sovereignty for all!  I have been doing that here for last few months.  Every time I see or drive by a flag, I say “let freedom reign” or something like that that springs to mind.  Sometimes out loud, sometimes quiet,  sometimes a hum or a song comes along too.
 
Will you join me today on Flag Day friends?
Use any flag or flag pole you see.  Every white or silver flag pole has it’s own light column. 
Draw in a beam of light from the sun and stars.  Down the length of the flag pole.  Direct it with your mind into the earth.  The crystalline grid of the earth is open to receive the incoming codes of light and freedom.

Each is both anchor of incoming light and a broadcast tower of freedom and sovereignty.
 
And if you chose, you can also broadcast this message
(or your own similar high vibe message of joy and freedom)
 
May All Beings Be Happy
May All Beings Be Free
May All Know Peace and Joy
One World Nation
Indivisible
With Liberty and Justice for ALL

May Day Greetings Friends

We did it, we made it to SPRING – to MAY – YEAH !!
Traditionally this was a day to gather and celebrate the return of spring, the start of the growing season (for Northern Hemisphere cultures), and a time to connect to the Spring Energy of clearing, cleansing, making way for the NEW. These gatherings often included a May Pole dance.  Where dancers would each hold a twine or ribbon, attached to a tall pole or live tree, and dance a dance that created a woven design on the pole or tree.  And then dance in reverse to unwind it all.

The image of the May Pole dance has been coming up for me a bunch in the last few weeks.  Both for myself, and my own inner spring “cleaning” self care rituals and ceremonies, as well as working with my beloved clients in managing their energy fields and bodies. 

Your energy, your life-force (your prana, your chi) flows though you in pathways, streams.  Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) calls them meridians.  In Yoga & Ayurveda we call them nadis (Sanskrit for stream or channel).  The metaphor is like a garden hose that water flows through…your energy, your inherent life force flows through these pathways, these rivers of life, these “tubes”. 

Keeping prana flowing freely through the nadis is one of the big benefits of the practice of yoga (as chi flow is for Qi-Gong and Tai Chi).  We know that knots or tightness in the multidimensional body leads to diminished energy flow in the channels.
 
There are thousands and thousands of these nadis in your human energy field.  In yoga philosophy, we describe the master nadi, the main river of life as the central channel that runs along the length of the spine.  We use this sushumna nadi as the master attuner for the energy field.  When prana is free flowing in it, then all the others attune to this master rhythm. 

Imagine your spine and your central channel as the May Pole.  And the ribbons and the dancers represent every thing that has ever danced its way across your life and your attention field.  Everything you have ever heard and said.  Every single experience you have had.  Each one has the potential to wind around you, like a maypole ribbon, interwoven within your multi dimensional body mind soul field.  If you have enough of the ribbons wrapped tightly enough it impedes the free flow of your energy.  We all know that feeling of being “all bound up” by a memory or an emotion or a thought.  And having this binding translate over the physical body.

Yoga literature calls these The Granthis.  The Sanskrit word granthi means “knot” or “doubt” and also means “an especially difficult knot to untie.”  There are three major granthis to untie as you progress your way through freeing your flow of energy.  One in your lower abdomen/lower spine that is said to correlate with fear, anxiety about survival, base needs (food, clothing, shelter), feeling grounded.  The second is between the navel and the heart, around the base of the ribs, and this knot is associated with your personal power and “I AM” presence.  The third is described as being in the forehead, around the third eye, and the knots there inhibit the flow of clear seeing and thinking, and mire you in illusion and doubt.
(if you want to read more this is a good resource article https://jivamuktiyoga.com/fotm/untying-knots-bind-us/)
 
How do we proceed to unwind these knots?? There are many prescribed methods in the practice of yoga, and you are free to research and follow any one of these that resonate for you.  I am not going to recommend those yoga traditional methods (like applying the bhandas and doing severe or austere actions to burn them away).  I find those personally to actually bind me up further, and are just not that pleasant.  I find that what helps me personally is making things super FUN and JOY filled.  We can follow the lead of our ancestors who danced the dance of the may pole at this time of year to unwind and release.

May Pole Inner Ritual of Unwinding and Renewal

Take a few moments to yourself to breath, ground and center.
Connect to your core.
Connect to the core of the earth and get grounded.

Sit or lie or stand still, and breathe, watch allow what you notice in your body. 
What part of your body can you feel first? Which part is speaking to you the loudest right now?
You might ask it what it may be holding, or communicating, and then take a moment to listen.

Follow the flow of your sensations to notice feel and allow your awareness to flow with several body parts or areas of the body.  And include the mind/thoughts and your emotions as things to notice and be aware of.  While some knots will appear in the physical body, many others will present in the mental body or emotional body.

Put on a song – pick a thematic match to what you are feeling, or a song that helps you move and groove, any speed, and genre, your choice.  Or make a playlist of several favorites.

Rub your hands together and get your energy flowing, then place your hands where they are called to go, anywhere on the body or in the air or on the ground.  There is no prescribed way to best do this, and the most potent will be a self directed experience, a ceremony of meditation in motion.  Then move your hands in such a way that you begin to unwind.  Pull, push, sweep wipe the energy away.  Dance, stomp, prance, using arms legs spine, whole body.  Twirl, whirl and unwind these invisible ribbons, cut the threads that tie and bind you.  Get out your machete or chain saw (imaginary!!).  Bathe yourself in light or flame.  Douse yourself with oil or water.  Smudge your field with sage or herbs.  Use a spray of water and essential oils.  Or paint or write, there are as many ways to do this as there are individuals.  Find your style, your method for this May Day.


Make it fun, make it powerful.  Make it joyful and potent. 
You will get the inner sign when you are complete.
Then call in – light, love, joy, new fresh spring energy!  Let that flow of renewal energy flood your field and nurture you at every level.  Honor yourself and your journey, and sit or stand quietly again and see how you feel now.  How much you have shifted your vibration and created free flow in your field.
 
Happy May Day! !*
 
* PS – do this anytime this week or month, or anytime you need it, we are free of the old style of “having to do this on a certain date”.  We are operating in unity field, so anytime you are able is the perfect time 

​The Five Vayus – The Winds of Life – Energy Currents
 
Prana is life force, the primal and vital energy of life.  Prana is the animating intelligence of the universe.  Creation flows or breathes this force into every living being. Prana follows patterns and flows in ways we can learn and master.  Just as the earth has streams and rivers and oceans that circulate the planet’s water, and the atmosphere has streams that direct air flow and drive weather patterns and moisture in the atmosphere, your body and energy field has currents of air and prana and energy flow that you can actively work with to embody balance. 
 
Just by learning about these flow directions, and bringing your awareness to how they move energy thru your body and field already is creating balance within.  You can also use pranayama (energy aligning breathing techniques) and visualizations to direct these currents for smooth free balanced flow.
 
Prana (life-force) can be subdivide into 5 constituent flows with distinct directions and characteristics.  Ayurveda calls these the Vayus (the Winds).
 
Prana-Vayu flows in and upward
Apana-Vayu flows down and outward
Vyana-Vayu flows from core to periphery (center to edge, centrifugal)
Samana-Vayu flows from the periphery to the core (edges to the center- centripetal)
Udana- Vayu flows all around, swirling whirling spirals
 
Here is a diagram to show these flowing current patterns….
(note the color code of above list to the picture)

 
Currently, in Spring of 2018, we are under some heavy influences of wind.  There have been storms and blowing currents and intense weather throughout the planet most of March and April.  And currently there is a solar wind blowing from the sun towards earth.  We live in a constant influx of media and information.  All of these are having a cumulative effect of overly activating the Prana-Vayu (pictured in purple). 

An over excited updraft of Prana-vayu can lead to: - increase of anxiety, swirling thoughts and an overactive mind, trouble settling the mind down at the end of the day, trouble falling asleep and staying asleep.  Headaches, jaw stiffness and pain, teeth “stuff” (esp molars), sinus pressure, pressure behind the eyes, vision fluctuations, frayed and wiry nervous system – generalized feelings and ungrounded-ness and trouble settling yourself.
 
We can balance out this tendency in many ways.  Therapeutically, we would target both soothing out and softening the over predominance of the “updraft”, along with opening the downward flow in the Apana-Vayu channels – to help you ground, soothe and get steady.  We need to give the “extra” energy that is flowing up and out a pathway down and in for balance.
 
Here is a list of some of my favorites and most easy to use and effective techniques…

To pacify and soothe an overactive Prana-Vayu
- Keep yourself warm, keep your feet warm, use hats, scarves, shawls on your head and neck/shoulders
-  Eye pillow, to rest the eyes and relax the muscles, warm eye pillow even better
-  Enjoy periods of quiet with minimal stimulation (avoid TV, media, reading etc esp  right before bedtime)
- Warm baths, self massage with oil, eating a bit more healthy fat (avocados, healthy oils) – keep yourself lubricated
-   Warm beverages (tea, lemon water, spiced chai minus caffine)
 
And, then we stimulate the Apana-Vayu to open the channels of “down and out”:
- Foot massages, rolling a ball under soles of feet, grounding feet to earth
- Self massage or use of balls on the Marma points at top of shoulders, top of thighs, sole of feet
- Thigh stretches, particularly ones that focus on seating the head of the thigh bone deeper into the hip socket.  Forward bends, standing poses, restorative yoga poses, Constructive Rest position.
- creating ceremony to release unwanted thoughts and energy patterns
 
If you would like some personalized advice and assistance getting your mind clear and balanced, and getting grounded and steady, an Inner Space Journey is a great way to balance the 5 Vayus, give yourself a spring tune up, and ensure your energy and inner wind currents are flowing smoothly.

I am also offering a classes on April 15 at Inner Space called "Ground on Down" to hold space and offer tools and techniques for balancing the 5 vayus, specifically opening the Apana-Vayu. There is a class in person, and an online version so everyone who wants to participate can connect in.
Click here for details...

Your core is a filament for energy flow.  It is a column of light.  This column can be as thin as a gossamer strand, or as wide and magnificent as you create it and empower it to be.
 
The ancient yogis called this strand of light the sushumna nadi (sushumna = she who is most gracious, nadi = stream or flowline).  This central nadi is the main flow line for the energy field of your body.  It is the major central river of life of the human body.
 
This central channel works a lot like the wire filament of an incandescent light bulb.  The more prana/energy/electricity you pour through this filament, the brighter your light shines.
 
The doorway to your core is your belly, your navel and solar plexus.  Bring your attention into this core door (your upper abdomen) and access this central light channel.  Do this by feeling your skin and surface of your belly (with a helpful notice of your breath moving the belly, or the feeling of your clothing on the skin there).  Then take your attention into the depths of your belly, deep deep into the core location of the spine.  Once you “hit” the central channel you will feel a “zip” line of energy awareness from tailbone to top of skull.
 
Run your breath and your attention down to the tip of your tailbone as you breathe out, and up to the crown of your head as you breathe in.  Get your life force flowing in your central channel.  Turn on your inner light bulb!
 
Connect again to your core, your soul center. 
Then make a connection from your personal human body core to the core of the earth body.  Run your energy down through the soles of your feet, through your energy roots, deep into the soil of the earth, through groundwater pockets and bedrock, through layer after layer until you feel warmth.  This warmth leads you to the molten core of the earth.  Breathe in this liquid fire light, and offer your inner sunlight and warmth back to the earth in a feedback loop, belly to earth core.  Once you get that running, make an intention to connect with both the solid iron inner core of the earth (for strength and stability, for magnetic spin).  Then make an intention to connect to the crystalline core of the earth (a geometric lattice work of crystalline light).

Keep running this loop of your body core to earth core with every breath.  Keeping that connection, extend your awareness up up up to the sun.  It can help to reach your arms overhead and/or cast your gaze upwards.  With open arms, call in the light and warmth and full spectrum light from the sun.  Pull it with each inhale into your belly, and with each exhale extend your inner light up to greet the incoming sunlight. 

Visualize and feel a huge column of light, from earth core, through and surrounding your body and up on into the sky and extending up to the sun. Step your feet a bit wider apart and open your arms a bit wider than shoulder width.  Visualize this as a magnificent column of light, with swirling energy flowing up and down and all around in flow.

Though these instructions are detailed and your first few times of doing this may take a bit of time to focus on, once you get the hang of this it can be done in a quick instant at any time anywhere with your attention to connect to core, earth core, solar core and invoke your light column.  A quick easy fun way to raise your vibration and increase your light quotient!

​Greeting Friends and Light Beings!
 
I am writing to you today to talk about the current energetic gateway into the heart.  I have been feeling for myself an increased activation of the cosmic heart center.  This heart space has been called the Spiritual Heart, the Universal Heart, the high heart.
 
The month of January was very active for incoming energy codes and information to planet earth.  The moons and then the partial solar eclipse at the end of the month completed a cycle that began last August with that solar eclipse.  The light that is streaming in now activates us to this universal cosmic heart energy space.
 
I myself have been experiencing both energetic and physical awareness of this.  Some of which include tingling in the skull, in the ears, down the neck into the back wall of the ribcage, scapula and heart – some tingling in the fingers and a feeling of energetic fullness in the nadis down my arm and in the pocket of the elbow and in the wrist as well as the knuckles of my left index finger.  How you feel and experience this will be unique and all your own.  I share my experience of it not as a map but as a door opener for you to recall how this has flowed through you.
 
As those of us who teach or work with clients or hold space for families or workplaces know – the folks that come on your path have a way of reflecting and mirroring back the pattern from other perspectives.  Back in the days where I was running a yoga studio it always delighted us to compare notes at the end of the week, and see that many of us had taught a similar sequence or chose the same pinnacle poses for classes that week.  We were tapping into that collective stream of consciousness to determine what movements would align and benefit us the most at that time of season and under that energy. 
 
Likewise I have been blessed to work with clients the last few weeks who are also delving into the sacred space of the heart.  I pay close attention to threads that show us feedback from the collective consciousness.  The high heart is calling us – and I have spent time opening and re-opening my own personal embodied gateway to this space. I have researched and synthesized some information from a variety of sources.   I present it to you below for your use and illumination.
 
In hridaya love,
 
Julie

Hridayam – The High Heart
 
Activating the emerald jewel of the inner heart gate
 
We are currently in a time of high heart chakra awakening
The events of the outer world are driving each of us to a choice point
What are we going to hold vibrationally deep within the magnetic torus field pump of the heart?  If the events of the world send your energy outward, to what is wrong and how to take up a battlefield posture, you will dwell in the realms of fear and scarcity, of anxiety and dread
The darkness will be encroaching and the pull will engulf you
 
You have the choice to use the outer darkness to blanket you while you soften into the inner core of your own heart.  Using your human heart as the doorway, you move in to deeper and deeper layers of self, through your inner space into the sacred heart, the secret heart.
 
The tantric Himalayan masters spoke about the hridayam, the high heart. The lotus within the lotus.  The Hridaya linguistically breaks down into hrid = center and ayam = this or “I am”.  So, your Hridayam is your I AM CENTER.
 
I will offer some of the scholarly and ancient writings for reference, but as slways the best way for you to gather information is from your own experience, your own body and energy field. I just recorded a intro to using Sanskrit bija mantras (seed sounds) to bring yourself to the spaces of the heart.  Sanskrit is a vibrational language, and just hearing and more potently making yourself the sounds will bring you right to the vibrational state and frequency.
 
The Human Heart Center (Anahata) is accessed via the sound YAM (pronounced yum)
 
The I AM Center (Hridaya) is accessed via the sound HRIM (pronounced hreem)
 
Listen here:

The sage Ramana Maharishi called the Hridayam *
“the seat and source of consciousness, identical with the Self, the very Core of one’s being, the Center, without which there is nothing whatsoever”.  The Hridayam is that which attracts everything to itself; it is the place where the “ultimate Divine” dwells in each human.  Light originates here and then flows upward to the crown chakra and down to the other energy centers.  It is not an organ nor does it correspond with one, It is pure consciousness, beyond space and time, transcending the Mind.  The Heart is the Self, - the Heart, which is pure consciousness, includes everything; it is indivisible”
*Sourced from Richard Leviton’s book The Emerald Modem: A User’s Guide to Earth’s Interactive Energy Body
 
In the writings of by T. K. Sundaresa Iyer we read,**
"Just as there is a cosmic center from which the whole universe arises and has its being and functions with the power or the directing energy emanating therefrom, so also is there a center within the frame of the physical body wherein we have our being. This center in the human body is in no way different from the cosmic center. It is this center in us that is called the Hridaya, the seat of Pure Consciousness, realized as Existence, Knowledge and Bliss. This is really what we call the seat of God in us. It is this Hridaya that is said to be different from the physical heart, regulating the blood circulation. The Hridaya has its being on the right side and is not commonly known or felt. The primary thought in us arising as 'I,' when traced to its source, ends somewhere in us and this place, where all thoughts die, where the ego has vanished, is the Hridaya. From this center is felt and enjoyed the Pure Consciousness.
Hridaya described as 'the literal, actual, physical seat of the intuition of the Self' has the meaning explained above. Perhaps the words 'physical seat' may create some confusion. What it really means is that there is a center of Pure Consciousness in the physical body. It is related to the physical, but is not itself physical.
The word Hridaya is a composite of hrid and ayam - "center, this". It is the center on the right, which we reach as a result of meditation (Samadhi). From the Hridaya, consciousness arises to the sahasrara through the sushumna and from there spreads out to all the parts of the body through the several 'nadis'. Then alone we become conscious of the objects around us. Man, due to the illusion that these have real existence, experiences suffering, as he strays far away from his Self. The seat from where all these arise and manifest is the Hridaya.”
**Sourced from http://www.angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/hridaya.html