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Dear one,
The winds of change are blowing yet again. They're gathering up the debris, that which has been loosened up and unfastened, shed or cut down. The winds corral it all into corners, lift it up into the air for one last dance, and set it down in a new place, no longer where or what it used to be. When the wind has diligently cleared a new space and "what was" has been given a place, the yearning-wishing-praying that has been waiting for a season builds up hope. "Maybe now... Maybe today... Maybe it's my time.... To rise up... To come into expression... To become who I am." What are the winds of change carrying away for you? What are they bringing close? Who or what is it that you are becoming? A POWERFUL SPRING CLEANING:
May the winds of change prepare you for a good adventure, Shira Oz-Sinai
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Dear one,
A lively flock of robins is currently occupying the four trees outside my window. Like the Chinese New Year on February 1st, their return heralds the coming of spring. While I watch them gather in groups and make their way together from rooftop to lawn to tree, I'm reminded that we humans make our journey through life together too. Albeit less visibly than birds, we bring our family systems with us wherever we go. From ancestor to descendant, the gift of life is passed down to us. This imperceptible link to those who came before us imbues us with the strength to survive and the courage to thrive. The same energy of creative power can be felt in the depth of winter when outwardly little is happening, but inwardly the next iteration of life is germinating. As we expand into spring, we follow this pulse of aliveness into expression. With our family system behind us and our flock of acquaintances, colleagues, and friends by our side, the future is as open as the sky. May you and your flock soar this coming season, Shira Oz-Sinai Dear one,
We have officially entered the time of goo. This is the phase in the flow of the seasons and our own lives in which we incubate our dreams, our next steps, our most intimate passions and desires. It's a profoundly inward time that may outwardly look and feel like depression or a withdrawal from the outer world. It may include unusually low energy, groggy mornings, slower than slow movement through the day, and a seemingly permanent fogginess in and around the head. Like the Pupa Stage in the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly, this is a necessary and natural phase. Inside the chrysalis, a liquid breaks down the old caterpillar into imaginal cells that can form into any kind of cell. From this liquid, eventually, a beautiful butterfly will come into being. During this sacred watery phase in our own evolution, old patterns, old routines, and old wounds along with who we thought we were and where we thought we were going dissolve into goo. Out of this, our creative and soul-inspired imagination -- the human version of imaginal cells -- begins to form the next iteration of life. Goo time is a period of wait, of just being, of long silences where life feels shapeless and the future obscure. For many of us this deep dive into the waters of the Great Unknown brings about discomfort and fear. But when we figure out how to honor the goo, we can surrender into list-lessness, agenda-less moments of "I don't know" and "I'm not sure," where an ocean of infinite possibilities for what comes next awaits us. May your "goo time" nourish your deepest dreams into being, Shira Oz-Sinai P.S. Check out January's events and announcements below. THIS FRIDAY Get a Natural Booster for Your Body and Life Friday, January 14, 2022 9:30am - 10:30am EST Live only, via Zoom Register for free @ https://bit.ly/3riym4a Feeling run down? Join me for self-care techniques that boost immunity, strengthen the lymph system, and aid in preventing and recovering from colds and flu. Counter the post-holiday slump, threat of Omicron, and seasonal flu with these natural remedies. These Self-Care Friday sessions are hosted by the Maryland Capital Women's Business Center and the Maryland Small Business Development Center. Though they are designed for small business owners and their employees, the content is applicable to all and the sessions open to all. Next session: Friday, February 11, 2022, 9:30am EST Seva Stress Release: Acupressure Practice* Monday, January 24, 2022 1:00pm - 1:35pm EST Live only, via Zoom Register for free @ https://bit.ly/3I483W9 A 35 minute practice of the Seva Acupressure for Stress Relief sequence. A refresher, chance to practice with others, and most importantly--access deep healing and well being. * Prerequisite: Completion of Seva Acupressure for Stress Relief with Shira or other Soul Lightening Acupressure instructor. Next session: Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 3pm EST Support for your goo time is here. Individual in-person sessions in Downtown Silver Spring and Dupont Circle as well as online continue regularly. Reply to this email to schedule or book a free Strategy Session to learn more about:
Dear one,
December. A time of celebrating an end to darkness and a return of light. A time of bidding farewell to fall and welcome to winter. Of saying goodbye to the year that has passed and hello to the new year at the threshold. What is it in your life that is coming to a close? What is it in your life that is waiting to begin? In me, an enormous shift is underway. So many "old ways" are finding their ending. So many "new ways" are seeking to come into expression. All of it is gently enveloped by the Great Mystery of Life. I find myself quietly surrendering. No longer wishing to fight what is. Humbled by the power of life itself and the pulsating life-force within me. A fierce determination guides me to continue shining my light bright. I'm curious as to where it will all lead and who I will become. Below are this month's announcements of closings and openings, as dictated by the changing inner tide. LAST CLASS iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation for Cultivating Calm Please join me in an honorable closure to the Thursday Yoga Nidra series for Cultivating Calm, which started in March 2020 in response to Covid. This is the last Yoga Nidra of 2021 and the last class of this series. Live via Zoom and recording available for 21 days Thursday, December 16, 8:00 - 9:00pm ET Register @ shiraozsinai.com/yoga-nidra. Self-Care Friday: Restoring from Holiday-Time Fatigue Practice key self-care techniques for experiencing less fatigue, a better night’s sleep, and overall more energy for the holiday and winter season. Live only via Zoom. Free to attend. Friday, December 17, 9:30 - 10:30am ET Register @ https://bit.ly/3py2RSF. 5TH ANNUAL Winter Solstice: Meditative Card Night In the period between the winter solstice and spring, nature offers us an opportunity to safely spend time with the unknown. To dream. To be still. To ponder, what is it all about? What's my place in this world? What's my purpose? How do I bring my light out? Make room for these deep inquiries with an illuminating and fun online solstice gathering. Set an intention for the season, take in the healing powers of the water element, and playfully draw on oracle cards to reveal the inner guidance for what will bring you peace this season. Live only via Zoom Tuesday, December 21, 6:00 -8:00pm Register @ shiraozsinai.com/meditative-card-night. Winter Solstice & New Year: Individual Sessions Looking for an individual reflection space to contemplate the winter season, the closing of 2021, and the new year? Enjoy a unique one-on-one full-sensory experience with an online meditative session for welcoming your winter and 2022 intentions, receiving nature's healing, and picking oracle cards to reveal the wisdom that awaits you now. 75 min sessions Only available between December 20 and January 10 Email me for details and to schedule NEW In-Person Sessions in Silver Spring Adding to ongoing online individual sessions, as well as in-person in Dupont, I'm now offering in-person sessions in Downtown Silver Spring at 8720 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910. These sessions provide support and are a safe space for you to uncover your unique light. To tone your nervous system towards calm. To shed layers of experience in body, mind, and heart that are holding you back. And to gently illumine family dynamics that carry within them the secret to more life, more love, and more abundance. Online sessions are open to all. In-person sessions are currently for those vaccinated only. 60 and 90 min sessions available Email me for details and to schedule Celebrating Latrice D. Rogers We are all on a path of evolution to bravely shine the light that we are into the world. One such bright light is Latrice D. Rogers. I've had the privilege of accompanying Latrice on her journey and the great honor of writing the foreword to her debut narrative nonfiction. Each chapter is its own story based on life lessons. Readers are invited to make connections with these lessons, to reflect within the pages of the book, and to share their connections and stories with others. It's a real self-care gift for all! Learn more and purchase @ latricedrogers.com. May your light shine brightly through every ending and beginning, Shira Oz-Sinai P.S. Looking for a holiday gift to give yourself or a loved one? The Seva Stress Release Webinar includes an hour long video instruction and other digital tools for learning and practicing acupressure for stress relief, improved sleep, less anxiety, tension relief, and overall increased well being. Give the gift of lifelong stress relief @ https://bit.ly/3mnZw71. Dear one,
I'm writing to you from my new home in Silver Spring, MD. To my right, out the balcony door, I see a tall tree with leaves in different shades of brown, yellow, and green. I travel down the trunk in my mind's eye, down into the roots, and feel the supple and abundant earth that holds us both. Something in me relaxes. Just as I settle into this new place, I feel my body begin to settle in for winter. My movements are slowing down, especially in the mornings and evenings. More rest is wanted, and sleep is somehow sweeter and deeper. Suddenly, getting cozy and warm are a priority. Tension is present too. A moving box or two waiting to be unpacked. Surfaces cluttered with collections of miscellaneous items. Wandering thoughts about what it means to be here, who I am in this space, and what it will all look like eventually. It feels messy, uncomfortable, exciting, and very much new. So it is that we begin to make the steady transition from autumn into winter, from the season of letting go and receiving inspiration to the season of nourishing dreams. How is this transition for you? What are you noticing in your home, your body, your heart? Where is the tension for you? What needs tending now? Feel free to click reply and share the good, the bad, the ugly, and the pretty. We're all in this cycle of life, together. November announcements:
May you find magic and comfort in the cycle of life, Shira Oz-Sinai Dear one,
Our nervous system fascinates me. What an incredible built-in device we all have for helping us survive the myriad experiences we encounter in life. For years, I thought that I was stuck with the seemingly janky device I was given. But a plethora of science from the last couple of decades shows that with awareness and a personalized set of self-care tools, we can enhance the performance of our own nervous system. This means we can help ourselves move from merely surviving to thriving. For example: a busy mind, accelerated breathing, and increased heart rate are a signal for some of us that our sympathetic nervous system has been activated. Our body is flooded with energy preparing us to flee a stressful scene or fight it somehow. Equipped with this information, we can talk ourselves down from panic quicker and apply the self-care techniques we've earmarked that help us stay in the moment, tend to what's actually happening behind the scenes, and relocate calm, connection, and safety. The specific set of tools each of us will use may vary according to our personal makeup and preferences. But when we learn to recognize the tell-tale signs of our own nervous system, we all give ourselves a chance to shift the automated vicious cycles into new pathways for engaging with life. May we all know thriving, Shira Oz-Sinai P.S. In need of self-care techniques for a busy mind and anxiety? Join October's free Self-Care Friday Webinar on October 8, 9:30am. Email me for Zoom link. P.P.S. Curious about your own nervous system and which self-care tools might support you into thriving? Schedule a free Self-Care Strategy Session. Dear one, It's September. If you need a tool to help you center and transition with greater ease, below's a 9-min meditation on remembering your okayness (recorded at the info session for the next Women's Meditation Circle, which begins on Saturday, the 11th). May you find the okayness within,
Shira Oz-Sinai P.S. Wondering how to stay connected, calm, and centered during your workday? That's the theme for September's Self-Care Friday free webinar on Sep 10, 9:30am, hosted by Maryland's Women's Business Center. P.P.S. Looking for more self-care tools? Thursday's Yoga Nidra Meditation on grounded transitions is now available @ shiraozsinai.com/store. One of the many lessons the pandemic has taught me is the value of regularly scheduled time to feel into what is ok. Beneath the veils of what feels not ok, what is uncertain, falling apart, changing, alarming, and mystifying, there is a core essence in all of us that is somehow always ok. True friendship develops when we visit our okayness often, as it would with a person. We get to know it intimately, to connect with it, to let it into our hearts, where it nourishes and empowers us deeply. Try this exercise: Bring to mind a precious, heartfelt moment, like the hand of a loved one in yours, a gorgeous sunset, or a sweet gesture from your pet. Feel how something in you softens and how, for a brief instant, the rest of the world, thoughts, worries, etc' drop away. Breathe with it. This is a touch of okayness. There is more.  (A precious moment that comes up for me: sunset at Herzeliya, Israel.) In the upcoming True Friendship: Women's Meditation Circle we unveil our okayness and visit with it often. We practice timeless techniques for encountering it daily amidst everything that is happening in our lives and the world. We share in this inquiry with other like-hearted women and support each other to live and love authentically, rooted in wholeness.
Curious? Register for the FREE 30-min info session on Saturday, August 28, at 10am EST via Zoom. Includes a short meditation and Q&A. More @ shiraozsinai.com/womens-circle. May okayness feel like the best of friends -- always here for you, Shira Oz-Sinai P.S. Monthly Yoga Nidra resumes on Thursday, August 26 at 8pm EST via Zoom (or later via recording) with a meditation on endings and beginnings. More @ shiraozsinai.com/yoga-nidra. P.P.S. Save the date for a Late Summer Party: Tuesday, August 31, 7pm EST via Zoom via Zoom. Details soon! There's an easily accessible and helpful acupressure point for joint pain, anger, and flexibility in all areas of life. It's called Gall Bladder 34.
Acupressure points are located all over the body and act like windows to the entire energy system. By applying very gentle pressure with just the fingertips on the surface of the skin at these point locations, the whole energy system is invited to recalibrate and balance. Gall Bladder 34 is a good point for: -- JOINT PAIN… It releases stiffness and tightness in the joints and muscles all over the body. -- ANGER… It dissolves old frustrations and anger that inhibits growth. -- FLEXIBILITY... It cultivates healthy flexibility in the body, mind, heart, and spirit. Also great for coming out of the slowness of winter and into the action of spring. This point is called Yang Mound Spring. By applying gentle pressure to Gall Bladder 34, it’s as if we’ve stepped under or onto a spring of fresh water that simultaneously washes away the old as it rejuvenates us. With this renewed sense of vitality, we can move our body with greater ease, make decisions with agility, and take action with confidence. Check out this video for instructions on how to locate acupressure point GB34 as well as a simple meditation to increase the potency and effectiveness of the point. If you’re new to acupressure and want to learn more, book a FREE 15-min Discovery Call with Shira to find out more about GB34 and other acupressure points that could support you now. Click here for other self-care themed events, online classes and workshops. There's an easily accessible and very helpful acupressure point for chest pain, anxiety, and heartache or heartbreak. It's called Pericardium, or Heart Protector, 7 (PC / HP 7).
Acupressure points are located all over the body and act like windows to the entire energy system. By applying very gentle pressure with just the fingertips on the surface of the skin at these point locations, the whole energy system is invited to recalibrate and balance. Pericardium 7 is a good point for… -- CHEST PAIN (or tightness and tension in the chest as well as the lateral costal region) -- ANXIETY (and also insomnia) -- HEARTACHE/BREAK (especially the kind caused by emotional upset or a breakup) This point is called Great Mound. By applying gentle pressure to Pericardium 7, it’s as if we’ve climbed up to a great mound from which we can survey our life and know that we are ok, even if what we see is not all ok. Also, this point connects us to the ancestral wisdom encoded in our DNA. This is the wisdom of all of those who have come before us, who lived and loved and know all about having relationships on this planet. By holding this point, we invite this wisdom to support us from within. Check out this video for instructions on how to locate acupressure point Pericardium 7. The video also contains a simple meditation, or visualization, to increase the potency and effectiveness of the point. If you’re new to all of this and want to learn more, book a FREE 15-min Discovery Call with Shira to find out more about PC7 and other acupressure points that could support you now @ https://bit.ly/39Bjjur. |
SHIRA OZ-SINAIShira Oz-Sinai provides guidance and instruction to individuals pursuing a deeper level of physical, mental and emotional health. An expert in the tools of acupressure and trauma integration, she offers on-demand one-on-one appointments and group events in a safe, relaxing virtual environment with the focus on living life with greater ease and a deeply loving friendship with self. Archives
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