Welcome to June! Summer is finally arriving and in our household we couldn't be more thrilled. Much like the energy of new beginnings in January when we all start new healthy regiments, the beginning of summer also has a way of sparking our need to become healthier.
I find it so interesting how each season creates a different energy, and the energy arriving for summer is fun and relaxing. We somehow feel much more free to be silly and spontaneous in all aspects of our lives. It is almost as if the energy of summer has let us out of our self-built walls. We naturally want to be outside in some capacity, whether we're hiking, bike riding, surfing, or gardening. Wearing less clothing, we see our winter-white skin and maybe an extra pound or two, and we feel motivated to get our bodies moving.
If you have children in your household, there will need to be preparations for the change of schedule and how their days will be filled. For those without children, you may just be wondering what you can wear to work that won't make you sweat too much! Whatever your individual situation, we do have one thing very much in common and that is spending more time outdoors and in physical activity. In the garden summer allows us to start seeing rewards from our springtime planting, and we look forward to our first tomato off the vine. While you are in your garden, why not have a seat and take time to meditate or journal—it is the perfect place to work on your inner health.
To help jump-start your own healthy living habits, I have suggestions from a selection of our online courses to help you get started.
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra. This 14-week course teaches you how to obtain self-transformation by changing the distorted energy patterns that are at the root of aging, infirmity, and disease. more info
14 Day Yoga Detox by Sadie Nardini. This is a 14-day online course that will give you a new lesson each day for two weeks. It is designed to boost your energy and metabolism by doing yoga smarter and in less time. You will also receive a new recipe each day along with daily inspiration. You will become stronger, get healthier, and cleanse from the inside out. more info
Heal Yourself with Ayurveda by Lissa Coffey. This eight-week course teaches you to provide healing to your body through the ancient principals of Ayurveda. This is India's 5,000-year-old "science of life," which teaches us to live a life of balance. You will be given strategies and information about diet, exercise, and lifestyles for each "dosha" or mind/body type. more info
8-Week Whole Body Makeover! by Jannine Murray. In this eight-week online course you will receive meal plans, mind-set tools, 12 workout videos, meditations, and inspiration. Learn to pull away all the masks of shame, guilt, failure, and bad habits. more info
Remember, when you live a healthy lifestyle it helps not only yourself but everybody else too. Every action or non-action we take affects the whole. Creating a healthy lifestyle is a wonderful way to treat your body and participate in putting good things out into the world. Until July...
When the great Sufi mystic and poet Jalal-ud-Din Rumi died at sunset in Konya, southern Turkey, on December 17, 1273, he had composed over 3,500 odes, 2,000 quatrains, and a vast spiritual epic called the Mathnawai. Now with A Year of Rumi from acclaimed Rumi scholar Andrew Harvey, you will receive a hand-selected poem from this incredible visionary's life work every day for the next year (365 poems total.) Rumi is, not only the world's greatest mystical poet, but also an essential guide to the new planetary spiritual renaissance that is slowly emerging from the ruins of our civilization. He speaks to us from the depths of our own sacred identity, and what he says has the electric eloquence of our innermost truth. No other poet or philosopher has Rumi's almost frightening intimacy of address, and has conveyed the terror, rapture and wonder of awakening to Divine Love with such fearless and gorgeous courage, such humility and such unflinching clarity.
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