Gratitude

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ULTIMATUM

Thoughts and Observations

It has been a while since I have put my thoughts and feelings on paper. And in the time period I have been through so much. I am not even sure where to begin. Love. That is always a good place to start. It is so important to create strategies for ourselves that connect us to the truth of who we really are, and that no one, and no thing is going to pull us off track. Because when we can find ourselves there, that is where the love resides.  That is not an easy task, at least not for me. But it is a good time to check in with who you are spending time with. Do they uplift you? Do they support your growth and true gifts? The best way to identify the quality of your company is to check in with whether you are living in your heart and feeling that love.

Night of Homeopathic Healing Transmission

Some of us are more tired than we are used to. Some of us have been more stressed. Kalpa, Jane’s healer friend from Germany, will be working with us to clear any kind of toxins, in particular residue of radioactivity. 

Please come Wednesday, June 1, from 7-8pm. Anyone is welcome to attend.
Fee $25

Tibetan Pulsing Yoga at The Vitality Center

Just one week until the Tibetan Pulsing Yoga event at The Vitality Center. Chitta and Kalpa are coming from Germany for a weekend of transformation and healing. Check out the flyer below for more information and sign up now to be part of this experience!

February Newsletter

HEALINGFEST

The Healingfest is just around the corner. I am heading out to Colorado Friday to participate. On Monday there is a new program working with the Triad of Change. I hope to bring back the goods. It is nice to know I will be joined by 6 other people from the practice. So we will bask in it all and return home to share with you. On Monday the office will be OPEN and Jasmine Esquerra will be entraining that day. Some of you have already met Jasmine. She is a practitioner who has just moved from Texas and will be around the office a lot. I know she will touch your heart.

VALENTINE’S DAY

Well, we’re on the other side of another Valentine’s Day. This year it wasn’t speaking to me too loudly but I certainly remember some Valentine’s days where my expectations certainly weren’t met, and the day did not go like I planned. I recently read something that I liked from one of the teachers of the PAX work with Alison Armstrong.  Even though Valentine’s Day has passed this gentleman’s advice is still quite applicable as we negotiate “made-up occasions” with our loved one’s.

SAGE ADVICE FOR A MADE-UP OCCASION:

If your fourth grade experience was anything like mine, Valentine’s Day meant decorating the classroom with paper hearts and cutting, coloring, gluing and writing Valentine’s intended for exchange with our classmates.  Sure, there was some tension involved when we wondered how our cards would be received by a “favorite” girl but, for the most part, it was good, clean fun.

How I wish that were still true as an adult.

I have lived through many, many Valentine’s Days since fourth grade.  Prior to my February 14, 2000 marriage to Bette, I can’t recollect too many wonderful Valentine’s Days.  Since then, they have all been great because we create days that work for us both. However, before I met Bette I can remember years when February 14th was a real disappointment, either because of inflated expectations or just plain lousy food and service.

Since February 14th is a totally made up “occasion,” and one which causes untold distress for many men and women alike, why don’t we try fitting Valentine’s Day into our lives instead of shoehorning our lives into Valentine’s Day?  And, if you’re single, either by choice or by circumstance, reject any notion that you’re “less than” just because you’re not part of a “couple.”

If you want to make this year special, for you and for a special man in your life, here are seven suggestions for Valentine’s Day success as offered from a man’s point of view:

1. It’s a Monday, for Pete’s sake!
February 14, 2011 falls on a Monday.  On a day when restaurants are recovering from their busy weekend, many will be pushing an overpriced, overhyped, prix-fixe dinner rushed out of the kitchen to an overcrowded room by overworked wait staff.  It’s a workday for most of us, the lucky ones who still have jobs, so we now have to shift from a full business day to creating a memorable romantic evening… because why?

If you’re going out to eat, wouldn’t it be better to enjoy the restaurant when they can be their best? Why not offer to celebrate one evening during the weekend before or after Valentine’s Day?  You’ll have more privacy, better service and your food will likely be far more carefully prepared.

2. Please don’t stifle our romance
Men love romance.  We do!  We love to see your eyes sparkle, your skin glowing, and your hair shining in the evening light.  We want to you be happy most of all.  The problem is that Valentine’s Day forces us to create romance on demand.  There’s no freedom to be spontaneous.  Valentine’s Day turns what would otherwise be appreciated as gifts of generosity into delivering what’s expected.  Yuck.

3. Ask for what YOU need, not what’s expected by others
In “Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women” we discuss getting what you need and what will make you happy.  On Valentine”s Day, what you need is whatever would make you upset if you didn’t get it.  Being told you’re loved and cherished, or appreciated in another way, might be a need for many.  Time alone with a loved one, a time when you feel special, could be needed by many as well. A $200 dinner plus card, flowers, chocolates and champagne?  Is that really something you need? Or is it something our culture says you should have?

4. Ask for what would make you happy
Let him know what you need from him to feel loved and special, and then allow him to provide it in his own way.  Also, be specific about what would make you happy.  ”Honey, after I’ve snuggled in your arms and read the card you chose just for me, what would make me happy is a 20-minute foot rub.  I’d also be really happy if we could celebrate by going to that great restaurant we both love, but instead of on Valentine’s Day, I’d prefer either this weekend or next, when it won’t be so crowded.”

5. Don’t begrudge reminders
Remember, men don’t come with the ability to read women’s minds, but we so want to win with you.  Unless you tell us, we won’t know what you need and might likely guess wrong about what would make you happy.  Don’t make that mean we don’t care.  We care, but we’re not women.  We need your help. We also might need a reminder or two.  Strategically placed Post-its, emails, voicemail messages, they all help keep us on track.

6. Appreciate the effort as well as the result
Men live for the appreciation of the women they love.  Appreciation is the fuel that fires our engines.  Please remember it’s never our intention to disappoint you.  If what was provided didn’t match the picture you held in your mind well, we might not have had that picture.  If the food or the flowers or the candy isn’t perfect, that doesn’t mean we wished otherwise.  Appreciating his efforts will keep your man wanting to provide for you, and that let’s you both win.

7. Above all, love yourself
If Valentine’s Day is about love, than who better to love than yourself?  Take the time to reflect on everything that’s wonderful in your life.  List all the lives around you that you touch.  Toast your own qualities and accomplishments.  Give yourself something no one else would ever think of. Make the day your own.  Or, ignore it completely. Whichever you choose makes it the right choice for you.

So I hope this works for you.

LEVELS OF CARE

Let me just take a minute to explain the intention behind the levels of care, and the overall objective of this work. Ideally this is a method for healing, for you, your life, your family, your community, the planet. How does Network and SRI do all that?

In Level 1 we are working on creating new strategies in your body so that you can leave more in ease and connection. Our bodies take on lots of stress; from emotional, physical and mental overloads. In level 1 we are making quick contacts within the connective tissue to allow the nervous system to reconnect, to reset, to redistribute, and to release tension. In Level 1 your body learns to get breath from one end of the spine to the other. Muscles move, stretch, and reorganize. Once the tension has dropped your parameters are low, there is ease in the system and it feels good. Your body can adapt to its environment more easily with low tension.

Anyone new to care is in Level 1, also known as Discover. The beginning of this work requires commitment and determination. You know something much greater is waiting for you. It takes different amount of times depending on your spine, your history, and your lifestyle. If you have been injured or if you have a particular amount of stress mounting in your life, it is always good to revisit Level 1 and increase your frequency of visits.

Level 2 – this is the time for Transformation! This is where you reclaim yourself and go into action with all that is Discovered in level 1 and at present. This is where change occurs! Power! We are expanding the gateways, in depth and movement. The rest of the fuel, or tension, remaining in the body is directed into these gateways, and oscillation between two gateways is established. Once this oscillation is developed, cleanly and efficiently, the old stories that have been running you for a long, long time, lose their hold on you. The most effective way to be in transform is to receive two entrainments per week. That way you can keep the action in motion. The action that you take out of the office is significant. This process begins at The Vitality Center and continues in your life. That is the most important part. What is your roadmap? Where are you going? What do you want? Are you willing to fight for it? Are you willing to step into the unknown?

Level 3 – Awakening. Are you living in joy, gratitude, awe, compassion and contribution? When life takes a hold of you like this, or gives you moments or experiences of this you are living in this state. In Level 3 your heart stretches up off the table and becomes the 3rd oscillator with 2 other gateways. Tears of gratitude might roll out. You can experience an altered state of bliss, energy and love. Most of us move through all these levels, and few of us yet stay in Level 3 all the time. This is the play of the shakti, or our paths towards freedom. When you lose this state, what happens? Where does your mind go? What stories are you telling yourself?

In Level 3 one visit per week will sustain you.

What I notice in the office is the people who have the most consistent results, and life transformation are the ones who stick to the recommended visits per week. I honor your financial obligations and want you to be aware that if you are getting fewer visits per week than recommended than the results will vary. And if you are someone who is coming less and less, please understand that I cannot create the same experience with minimal visits. Recommit. Please take this into account. Contemplate what I am saying, and invest in yourself. It is worth it. Trust me.

Regardless I am always happy to work with you, and your families. I am seeing amazing results in so many of you. And I am so happy to see life present so much more than you could have expected. I am thrilled to see families reconnect, and possibilities open up.

SNATAM KAUR

Friday, March 11th. Join me for her only visit in the Bay Area this year. She is so god-inspired and beautiful to be in the presence of. Her music is heart felt, and will open your heart BIG. If anyone wants more information check out the following link http://rudramandir.com/performance/snatam-kaur-guruganesha-at-scottish-rite-center.html.

COMING IN MAY/JUNE

Tibetan Pulsing and Constellation Work. More to come…. Save the dates! Memorial Day weekend, and the following weekend.

January Newsletter

NSA TRAINING INTENSIVE

I’m writing this as I fly back from the NSA Training Intensive very full. Once again, I am blown away by the depth, simplicity, range, and potential of this work. In every exercise we did to refine our skills, holding one small contact, the amount of global change in the body was tremendous. The smallest contacts resulted in the greatest shifts. To create connection, then oscillation, which then brings the somato psychic wave through the body, destabilizing the structures, sense of self, to create new behaviors, and indulge in higher forms of consciousness, in such a way that the body’s natural inclinations for defense are no longer reaching for that defense. In that higher state of consciousness where the mind is no longer directing, but moreover a ‘knowing’, and a sense of oneness takes over. From these strategies, from the triad of change and learning which part of the triad brings us the greatest change, we learn how to step into transform, and the make the necessary changes we need to make, and step into awaken where the experience of a heightened sense of love, community, gratitude, trust, and knowing takes over. And to feel the ease, the effortlessness which takes over when we have stepped into the truth, that is the aim of our sustainability; to sustain our beings, our souls into this heightened state of awakening.

The pathway there is the exploration I am doing with all of you, and you are doing with me, and we are all doing it as community. And sometimes those parts come out that we really don’t enjoy. Those doubts, unworthiness, suffering, where one morning you’re connected and loving, and by the afternoon you feel so unworthy that you just want to run away and hide. And you don’t really know how you lost your peak state to end up in such misery. However every time you find yourself in that unpleasant state (sometimes even torturous), your being is telling you something. There is something yet to discover, something that you didn’t allow yourself to feel. It takes vulnerability or intense suffering to become aware of it. And every time this cycle happens, it’s another opportunity to break this pattern, and stand in the truth. At what point are you going to draw a line in the sand and say “Enough!”

The Triad of Change has been created to give you the tools to break these patterns. In February at the HealingFest in Colorado, Donny (founder and developer of network) is teaching A NEW HEALINGFEST PROGRAM!  Reorganizational Living:  Mastering Your Triad of Change. This NEW HealingFest program is for anyone who wishes to understand and master the science and art of fundamental change. The central focus of this intensive workshop is the application of the Epstein Triad of Change. Knowledge of one’s personal Triad – the use of Behavior, Structure and Perception – will help one develop, support, and encourage the continuing growth, healing and evolution experienced in NSA and SRI care. Through presentations, live demonstrations/interventions and small group workshops attendees will formulate and master individual personal success strategies for progress in health, wellness, relationships, business, play and life. By distinguishing the order of experiencing life through the modalities of Behavior, Structure and Perception, you will find out how to instantly increase your available energy and reorganize your body and life.  This ALL NEW program is not to be missed!  I will be there!  Will You?

INTEGRATE THRU AWAKEN WORKSHOP

February 27, 2011 from 10am to 3pm

Please join Jeannie and myself in this SRI workshop where we will explore integration through the season of awaken, experiencing stages 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

We will have a limited number of spaces and would love to get your participation. This is open to people who have moved through level 1 of care.

KIRTAN CHANTING

Let’s all go chant together Saturday night!

Saturday, January 22, 8:00 PM – Berkeley, CA

Kirtan @ Yoga Kula
1700 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
510-486-0264
www.yogakula.com

I play Dave Stringer in the office regularly and if you like chanting you will most definitely enjoy this!

TOMORROW!

Alison Armstrong’s work around men in women is so useful, I truly believe all women should take her classes. She is offering a free evening tomorrow night. If you can arrange your schedule to attend, I highly recommend it.  Come to Making Sense of Men in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 18.  It’s an information-filled three hour seminar – for women only – that delivers powerful information you can put to use immediately

LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST

Thank you for committing to your growth, to yourself, to the community at large by diving into this work. I serve you with as much focused attention, love, and skill level as I possibly can and I am committed to my own personal growth, and to my skills as a practitioner, and to forever expanding my service in community. If you have people that would benefit from care, or businesses that would be interested in learning more about reorganizational healing, please let me know so that I can take the necessary action steps to serve.

December Newsletter

DECEMBER  OBSERVATIONS

With December almost half gone, it has taken me a little while to get clarity on what I want to share with you. The Transformational Gate is behind us and to the 20 of you who went on your own personal journey to transformation; I just have to say I am awed, grateful, blessed, and inspired. I know for some people you wanted to bolt during the Friday night talk.  For others, it all built up by the end of Saturday and early Sunday. Whatever and however it happens, it is all designed to bring to awareness the shadows we bear, and get into the light, and love. And it happens for everyone. What struck me more than anything was the community that developed amongst you all, the love for one another you developed and shared. Because that is the point of it all! That is it! It is not about ourselves, and what wounds we have endured, and the ‘poor me’ feeling we can all relate to, it is so much bigger than that! It is how can I love and serve others? So as we all integrate this new information and this is for everyone in care (even if you weren’t at the gate) have the awareness to notice where you are putting your attention. And where do you want to be putting your attention?  And see what questions emerge from that place.  My question for me right now is… why do you leave your heart? Or why is it not safe to stay in your heart? It’s juicy!

HOLIDAYS

So here comes the holiday season. Already a Happy Chanukah…as it has come and gone. Growing up Jewish in the East Coast, I still don’t really relate very well to this time of year. It’s not that I’m a Grinch, or a downer, it’s just that I really would like to promote sharing, giving, and connecting all the time. With that thought in mind, I wish you all a holiday season full of love, stretching your boundaries, walking outside your comfort zone, to give in ways you haven’t and touching people that perhaps you wouldn’t. If you have ‘issues’ with family members, explore new possibilities. Try forgiveness, or, just reach for something different. Come bless the holiday season and each of you at a potluck at my home December 18.  (More details to follow.)

VACATIONS – GOING TO NEW YORK

With that said I will be with my kids during the last week of the month. The office will be open that week on Monday afternoon (No Noon Hours), Wednesday, and Friday mornings. We will be CLOSED on Thursday evening. Dr. Theresa Lau will be covering the practice. Some of you have met Theresa before. She is local and was at the San Francisco Gate with her whole family! I hope you will all be open to working with her and her gifts.

UPCOMING EVENTS

TIBETAN PULSING:  As you know in November I spent some time at a Tibetan Pulsing retreat. This is a form of body work that is very complementary to NSA and brings you deep inside and creates community. I have been participating in this work for about 5 years, and my hope is to inspire you all into joining me so that we can give and receive this work together. I have scheduled Kalpa and Chitta to come and do two groups with us in May/June. You can mark your calendars now for Memorial Day weekend, and the following weekend. It would be lovely to have you join us.

ULTIMATUM: A week long program with Donny is coming up, in Colorado, early January.

TRANSFORMATIONAL GATE:  The next Gate is in Denver, February 18th. The next Gate after that is in Como, March 25th.

THANK YOU FROM TARITA

I am sending thanks and gratitude to everyone who scheduled Numerology Readings and Life Enhancement Consulting sessions in the month of November and most especially to Jane for the opportunity to connect with each of you.  I am honored to have shared such sacred space with you.  Thank you for opening your hearts and allowing me to reflect you strengths and gifts back to you!  Blessings and Be Well. Tarita