2 Great Retreats w/Gloria & Greg! Sonoma, Oct 17-20th, Costa Rica, Dec 7th-14th - Experiences that will change lives.

I have led multiple Yoga retreats and I never fail to be amazed at the astonishing effect these excursions to sanctuary have upon those who participate.  Simply put, something magical and mystical happens when a group of high-intentioned individuals make the decision to gather together in a breathtaking natural environment for the purpose of uplifting and expanding their consciousness.  The result is something beyond words, but I will attempt to express the sublime experience of a yoga retreat.

As near as I can explain it, something happens while at a yoga retreat that breaks the bonds of ordinary awareness and expands the consciousness of the individual to a level that would otherwise have taken months or years of ordinary living to attain.  This acceleration of evolution is mystical, meaning that the explanation of the change is beyond logic, reason, and commonsense rationale.  The term from quantum physics, “quantum leap”, comes to mind.  A quantum leap in physics is the phenomena where an electron orbiting the nucleus of an atom changes its position without having traversed the space between its old and new orbit and without taking any time to do so.  As scientifically verifiable as this phenomena is, it is also on the order of a miracle, for science has no explanation how this effect happens.

The great metaphysical question is now posed:  if an electron can do this, can a human consciousness do it as well?  Can a human consciousness make the jump from a lower state of awareness to a much higher, more powerful, more intelligent, more loving state of consciousness instantaneously?  And the overwhelming proof throughout the history of mankind is a resounding “YES!”  However, there is something a human desiring such a change must do in order to be eligible for such grace to descend upon them:  they must put themselves in the position for such a transformation to take place.  They must be willing to break the bonds of ordinary routine and engage a willingness, open-mindedness, honesty, and adventuresome spirit and seek experience that has the potential to produce such radical change.

A Yoga retreat is exactly just this sort of departure from the routine and ordinary, the commonplace and normative experience of regular daily life.  The Yoga practitioners who engage the willingness and eagerness of spirit and dive into the adventure of a yoga retreat put themselves into a vortex of radically expanding potentials and possibilities that would otherwise be unavailable had they not made such a decision.  A new world of experience, insight, realization, and fulfillment comes available to the yoga student who makes the choice to breakout of the ordinary by attending an excursion to a Yogic sanctuary because they followed their heart’s intention with an action that facilitates their heart’s desire.  It is a formula for transcendent experience that works every time.

This is what a yoga retreat can do for you.  It can lift you up out of old patterns of behavior and perception and set you on a new path toward your fulfillment and heart’s desire.  The wonderful human potential teacher Dr. Wayne Dyer loves to quote the great physicist from the early 20th century, Max Planck, who said “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”  The implications of this spiritual, scientific, and metaphysical Truth are staggering.  What this axiom really means is that the effort expended to alter one’s perception is infinitely more powerful and dynamic than any amount of physical effort expended to change external circumstances.

Gloria & Greg specialize in local and international retreats.  Our local extravaganza this year will be at the gorgeous Mayacamas Ranch in Sonoma, October 17th - 20th.  Gloria's one of a kind international retreat will be in Costa Rica with her beloved teaching partner Deb Stone, December 7th - 14th. 

For more information and to register for Mayacamas Ranch in Sonoma in October, please visit:
 http://www.theyogafusion.com/retreats.php

For more information and to register for Costa Rica in December, please visit:
http://www.gloriousyoga.com/Retreats.html




The Yoga Fusion
2217-N San Ramon Valley Blvd

San Ramon Ca 94583

Thank you.

yogic massage touches the body and the heart

    While I have been a bodyworker/massage therapist for many years, I have also been a recipient of bodywork from many different teachers with varying styles.  While I’ve learned that all bodyworker/massage therapists have something unique to offer, I will never forget the experience of the first time, many years ago, when my primary yoga teacher, who is a skilled bodyworker, laid his hands on me to release a pressure point while skillfully moving my body into a deeper range of motion.  My intuition told me, “here is someone who really knows what he is doing.”  Not only was there a trust and security in knowing that he knew the mechanics of my body, the energetic transmission through his hands was astonishing, unlike anything I had ever felt before.

    This man’s skill and knowledge of bodywork coupled with his decades long practice of yoga at the highest level enabled him to transmit the most phenomenal energetic resource through his hands directly into the area of my body that most needed it.  It was an electric experience, one that I’ll never forget and it influenced me, as an aspiring bodyworker at the time, to build this same extraordinary capacity into my hands-on touch and massage therapy.

    This experience was nearly a decade ago and it gave me the humble realization that coupling a strong and vital yoga practice along with bodywork and massage therapy would give me a profound synergistic advantage.  This advantage would be the transmission of great healing energy, or “prana-lifeforce”, developed through my lifelong practice of yoga into my deepest intention of healing and bringing relief to others through hands-on touch.  With my original yoga teacher as inspiration, I’ve experienced for myself that a consistent practice of yoga over a long period of time produces an inner reservoir, a container, if you will, of energetic vitality that can be directed, with intuition and intention, through my hands directly into the tissue and energetic release points of my massage clients, resulting in great relief and healing.

    In addition to relief and healing, the transmission of lifeforce energy through the hands simply feels wonderful; there is nothing quite like it.  In my experience, truly effective bodywork must include an intelligent and compassionate blend of the necessary physical movement and pressure along with the element of compassionate touch that relieves, soothes, and elicits a great feeling of pleasure within the body.  One without the other is incomplete and ineffective; skill in bodywork requires the ideal combination of compassion and precision.  Intelligently combined, precise physical movement coupled with compassionate and relieving touch delivers great healing.

    I love hands-on healing through bodywork and massage.  I have countless testimonials as to my effectiveness as a healer but the only one that really matters is yours.  If you haven’t given yourself the gift of energetic healing through yogic massage, you really, really have something to look forward to.  Years of yoga and hands-on healing practice has given me the blessing of being able to intuitively “read” bodies and what they need coupled with the internal resource of healing energy that I can direct precisely where and how it is most needed.  I can humbly say that I have a wonderful touch and that you will feel the difference. 

Please call me for an appointment.  (925) 705-1228 or send me an email at
Upwardspiralyoga@yahoo.com

Thank you!

Prices:  
60 minutes - $75.00
75 minutes - $95.00
90 minutes - $115.00

LifeCoaching: Change Your Life For The Better, NOW

What exactly is Lifecoaching and why is it generating such extraordinary interest with so many avid participants?  20 years ago, scarcely anyone had heard of lifecoaching.  Today, this dynamic way of achieving human potential is being utilized by people from all walks of life, business, personal, relational, athletic, and creative.  There is always one primary reason why any form personal development creates such an enthusiastic response:  it works.

From my own perspective, the purpose of lifecoaching is to empower a client in the accomplishment of tangible and meaningful results in an aspect of their life that is profoundly important to them.  Those who are drawn to lifecoaching are individuals who are no longer willing to settle for mediocrity and have the strong desire to break out of limiting patterns of perception and behavior that restrict their quality of life.  Lifecoaching clients feel, down into the marrow of their bones, that there is so much more available to them, in terms of fulfillment, meaning, passion, and satisfaction.  This “burning desire” compels a lifecoaching client to seek for the solutions, the tangible means by which they may change their mental perspective, their beliefs, and their actions in order to live what they know in their heart is available to them.

My job as an experienced Lifecoach, one who has worked with hundreds of  individuals over the last decade, is to bring out the very best in the clients I work with.  I am trained in a variety of creative and dynamic processes that literally change the mind of the person I am working with.  Rather than attempting to alter the external circumstances of the client, I work with an individual to transform the beliefs and habits of perception that are causative, that is to say, the patterns of thinking that create the conditions and circumstances of life.  Without this fundamental alteration of thought and belief, any attempt to change life circumstances for the better is notoriously ineffective.  I have worked with many, many clients who have experienced the frustration of continuously trying to alter a negative situation in their life, to no avail, until they sought assistance in getting at the root cause of the difficulty, the beliefs and mental habits that create and sustain such difficulty.

To pursue lifecoaching, an individual has already achieved the breakthough of realizing that the answers lie within.  From this moment of clarity, the potential for rapid and profound transformation and accomplishment is set in motion.  When I initially consult with a prospective lifecoaching client, the conversation is designed to go right to the heart of what the clients wants - really, really wants.  When the desire, the intention to be achieved, is crystallized, the lifecoaching sessions that follow frequently become the most profound,  moving, and dynamic learning adventures the client has ever experienced.  This is because I know how to get to the root cause, the place in consciousness that is origin of the difficulty or dilemma and I know how to assist clients in changing their minds for the better, quickly.  Not years of endless therapy, counseling, or futile “self-help” work, but dynamic experiential processes and activities that literally “re-wire” the brain into new habits of belief and self-confidence that make an immediate and tangible difference in the lives of my clients.

If I had named the new and emerging field of lifecoaching, I would have chosen the phrase “destiny consultant.”  My greatest passion and joy in life is being a consultant who assists people in realizing their dreams, their passion, their purpose; in a word, their destiny.  I see the results, the compelling and extraordinary results in the lives of those I work with and I love sharing this process with those who are willing and ready to undergo transformation.  Not mild improvement or slightly measurable progression, but a dynamic change in the experience of living with respect to an aspect of living that is of the greatest urgency and importance to my client.

Whether you seek improvement in personal or business affairs; whether in health, relationship, finance, or romance; whether in spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical matters, the common denominator is your Mind.  As the great spiritual genius Lao-Tzu comments in the Tao, “correct your mind first, and all the rest will follow.”  If you have a “burning desire” for improvement in your life and you are no longer willing to settle for less, take the action now to get into the solution.  Call me or email me now for a consultation and discover for yourself the power of transformational conversation, conversation that goes right to the heart and releases the  knowledge, power, and action you need to fulfill your desires now.