no frills yoga from tibet

Tibetan Yoga  is fast and kinda fun. It’s a complete yoga system which promotes union between mind, body and spirit. The Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises reported to be more than 2,500 years old. The rites are said to be a form of Tibetan Yoga similar to the more well-known yoga series that originated in India, but the five rites emphasize "a continuous sequence of movement", whereas the Indian forms focus on "static positions".  And you can do it in 10 minutes!

If you continue this practice for at least two weeks (once a day) I promise you, you will feel a difference for the better.  Check out Tibetan Yoga for diagrams.

First Rite: clockwise spinning: inhale and exhale deeply as you spin.
Second Rite: inhale deeply while lifting the head and legs; exhale while lowering the head and legs.
Third Rite: inhale as the spine arches back; exhale as the spine returns to an erect position.
Fourth Rite: inhale while rising up; hold the breath while in the top position and tense the muscles; exhale while returning to the starting position.
Fifth Rite: inhale while raising the body; exhale while lowering the body.

Breathe.  Then enjoy your day.  ;) 

flower of life

The "Flower of Life" can be found all over the world.. in religious artifacts as well as home decor.. It is the secret of the universe. It contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the "great void", and the patterns of creation that continue to this day.

After the creation of the Seed of Life the same vortex's motion was continued, creating the next structure known as the egg of life.
this structure forms the basis for music, as the distances between the spheres is identical to the distances between the tones and the half tones in music. It also is identical to the cellular structure of the third embryonic division (one cell divides into two cells, then to four cells then to eight).  This same structure creates the human body and all of the energy systems including the ones used to create a Merkaba.

The Flower of Life is created by drawing 13 circles. By doing this, one can discover the most important and sacred pattern in the universe, the source of all that exists; this is called the Fruit of Life. It contains 13 informational systems. Each one explaining another aspect of reality these systems are able to give us access to everything ranging from the human body to the galaxies. With this, it's possible to create any molecular structure and any living cellular structure that exists in the universe. In short every living creature.

Drunvalo Melchizedek wrote extensively on the Flower of Life in his two volumes entitled The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life.  I have read both and been crazily inspired.  I am not the first nor the last artist to be inspired though, as Drunvalo tells us that this Flower of Life can be found as the basis of many great works of art and architecture; on temples walls in Egypt, in Leonardo da Vinci's sketch books.  I even found the design on a random fence as I was strolling down some street in Macau.  huh.

I have many, many paintings on the Flower of Life.. two of my favourites  hang across from each other in my bedroom.  I never get tired of staring into the maze of circles.  Drunvalo says that the double circle around the outside is our current consciousness, so I took that part out and let it open, with the brushstrokes fading off as I believe we are moving to the next level of consciousness... or so I hope.

Watch Drunvalo talk about the Flower of Life... so.. so interesting!