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2009-09-04T13:48:00.000-07:00

Hi All,
So the rain comes down each afternoon at this time of yr here in Cosa Rica, so up early for the most beautiful part of the day! Walking up the silent beach, to the tree that gives me shade..

I jog shake and stretch, sometimes vulnerable and feeling alone and sometimes wide awake.

There are less and less people here as the rains start and wet/green season starts, a few sturdy surfers keep turning up, and I look at my resistence to get on the board.. and ride the waves (had a lesson)..

I am hopeing to go CA soon to work for a month or two.

ommm x julie

2009-06-03T16:01:00.000-07:00

Hola Amigos,
I am now living and working in Dominical in Costa Rica.

I love that i now practice Yoga on the beach and wave at the leaves that seeem to wave at me from the jungle, it is all so new and exciting. A really big life change.

I gave it all up from here and it was sooo simple, had I tried from my living room in the UK I would never have though it possible. It is.

ommmm julie

2009-03-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hola..
Wow it is hot, life is beautiful, sooo much so still no pictures taken of life here because to busy being it I guess. Will be annoyed with myself however if I don´t do it before I leave Dominical.

I just moved from tent living to a tiny house on sesemy street..

Teaching classes in sofiahs beautiful space by the river and gaining lots of fantastic variations to open the heart as breath into the asana.

May we all florish n thrive n laugh a lot..

om om om julie

2009-01-17T06:39:00.000-08:00

Hello
So Happily getting it all together for Costa Rica.. Hurrah! come join us all for yoga and dance, sun and fun. www.bamboodancer.com.
All about changeing what you think is possible, breaking patterns is v.healthy
om x julie

2009-01-03T10:33:00.000-08:00

Hello,
Yoga is an amazing way to open up those tight shoulders and warm those cold muscles after a day in the cold. I had a laugh at Headlights on holloway rd. Its an fabulous hairdresses on holloway, truely individual and quirky.
om omm julie

2008-12-24T08:02:00.000-08:00

Hi All,
Happy fesivities.. Happy new yr, put your dreams into practice..

om xxjulie

2008-12-07T04:20:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
So mexico turned into Costa Rica I will be a guest teacher at www.bamboodancer.com from feb and hopeing to work with other Holistic folks and folkesses. I take no credit for this happenstance, One friend mentioned costa rica another looked at some sites, the letter was sent and the tide turned. As with all 'adventures' into unknown territory I expect to learn lots and come home with lots more healing vibs and possitive attitude to share.
om om om julie

2008-11-28T07:49:00.000-08:00

Hi All
So cycling round london in the rain.. Hurrah! I just got back from visiting friends in Brighton and cycled in rain there too. My friend makes beautiful jewelry her latest gift to the world is the mojo, cast your thoughts and let them come true.. www.Scarlettjewelry.com
While there I decided it was time for an adventure and plan to go to mexico for 6-10 wks in jan-feb, while I am away I'd like to rent out my studio flat in n5 at a very resonable rent, So anyone who has found this blog who would like to sublet or has a friend who might let me know.

om xx julie

2008-11-20T07:51:00.000-08:00

Hi All
Please do leave questions, comments, feedback on site etc I'd like somethink to interact with. and I promice at some stage to learn a few more computor skills so can add pics vids to give you all more visuals on what I do/be.
I guess as a reader it isn't essential to me to have visuals though I am a 'junkie' for a good movie metaphor in visuals. Resently watched a beautiful Sigor Ros vid where the children FLY of a cliff.
Yoga for me is fundamentally a tool for freedom.. Meditation the key to un- programming yourself and creating more freedom.
om om om julie

2008-10-13T03:12:00.000-07:00

Hello
shoulder all healed, took myself into a gentle yoga practice and got myself some healing touch.
I wanted to share with you a few paragraphs from the book I just finished reading which I highly recommend. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

From a a therapeutic perspective, there is perhaps nothing more intimate than touch, be it physical connection with another human or a furry friend. The physical benifits of nurturing and being nurtured are priceless.
Deep body massage is also great for a number of reasons. Not only does it help relieve tension in your muscles, but it also increases the movement of the fluids in your cellular enviroment. The internal world of yr body is how yr cells obtain nutrition and clear their waste. I enthusiastically support any type of of stimulation that increases their standard of liveing.

om om om julie

2008-09-26T08:19:00.000-07:00

Hi all
I actually went to see a doctor for the 1st time in yrs at wkend.. He proded shoulder neck for 20 seconds, put a crab like hand on head and twisted it beyond where it hurt and refused to xray or scan.. I said I knew had muscle pain!!! [got worse since waveform] That I was there to see if I could find out why? I had muscle pain, for yrs pain free ond any wee muscle pain goes with Arnica rub, this had actually got worse. His responce!!! "thats because you've not taken pain killers" that could go in circles for a long time.
He gave me some medication with side effects to share the shit out of any sane person.. an anti inflamatory and a muscle relaxant and a bucket of pain killers!!! So i got myself litozin [anti inflammatory] and Magnesium [muscle relaxant] I asked the people at fresh and wild.. theyve helped a lot and hope to brace myself for another go at getting an mti scan..
It infuriates me, no way knows whats going on in neck from a prod.. and hand out medication like smarties. Also why is the Pharmaceutical industry dominating the NHS.. I've cost v. little as I look after myself yet would be sooo great if everyone had a choice at healthier ways to heal themselves can get v.expensive to buy nutriceauticals and not in everyones financial bracket..
Julie Ommmm

2008-09-16T08:56:00.000-07:00

Hi all
So it's winter!!! that was quick, pulled my back a bit at waveform amd useing Arnica muscle rub from Welada one the best ranges of natural medicine and skincare I know of and they go back b4 got trendy and still kept prices resonable.
Does anyone else get the feeling that as 'health' and 'green' becomes popular just an excuss to make it costly and therefore only available to certain income brackets, this is sad..
om julie

2008-09-10T09:51:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
I know what makes a blog work.. pictures!!! TV culture demands instant stimulation.. maybe. Part the reason no pics is not worked out how to put them on yet and partly due to fact have no TV and no camera. I am a great yoga teacher though, steeped in the stuff I read, my personal practice and all the lessons from great teachers like Clive Sheriden and Sarah Powers. I am between the last 2 festivals of the yr, this is the 1st time I can say I'm glad it's over! despite the fact some great highs the weather has really made the going tough. Well done to all the Bestival crowd who were great in wind rain and mud.
om om om julie

2008-08-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hi all
So as the air gets heavier.. and moods too could I recommend a little menthal burned on charcoal to clear the air and your heads
The heat actually help you go deeper into yr yoga practice as the muscles are warmer and more willing to lengthen and open
om om om
julie

2008-08-25T09:27:00.000-07:00

hi all
Wishing great health to all, had a change from yoga this weekend, did a sweat lodge and Chi Gong.. fairly isomorfic with yoga and for those who feel you have to be flexible to do yoga a great option.... sweeting and useing the ritual of sweat lodge prayers to give intentions to life and drop old concepts were familier to me when remember yoga has it's roots in transformationom om om julie

2008-08-08T07:59:00.000-07:00

hello all
Back in london after a fun Big Chill.. Come home with a bite on the eyelid which has swollen, a common responce for me, guess allergic. Treating it with Apis a homeopathic treatment and propolis a natural anti-biotic, soooo much healthier than anti- hystamin and anti- biotics, so that my top tip for these little summer stingers..
love n light julie

2008-07-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

hello
Womad seems to have become a bit of a nostalga trip this yr!? though on sunday nt saw the most amazing drumming from I think a Japanese group of gorgeous goddesses, was amazing. I was under my lovely simple green tarp with wonderful shade giving energizing thai massage, talking to friends old n new and remembering being reminded of how gorgeous people are.
om x julie

2008-07-21T09:42:00.000-07:00

hi all,
From reality tunnel to reality tunnel with each diff festival.. A very healthy thing to do according to Tim Leary [and via Robert-Anton-Wilson] gives more fluidity to life less dogma etc. Just back Larmer Tree festy, comfort in a field, personally I like the volume turned up a bit.. though fun was had and treatments given and received, as a therapist I feel it's important to receive so remember how it feels and remotivate when yr tired.
om x julie

2008-07-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

hi all,
so glast came and went with v.little mud and fun was had as well as lots Thai Massage given and greatfully received. I feel festivals can really give the opportunity to see other ways of liveing and being, the prezzy I got myself this yr was a ring made from a spoon and coins [the guy whose stall it was made lots fab pendents etc] They really were/are beautiful.. his site from the card I got is www.hairygrowler.co.uk. There was lots amazing creative stuff like that in the greenfields

om om om julie

2008-06-22T07:53:00.000-07:00

hi all
You can go a bit deeper in your yoga postures [asana] now the sun is shining and the muscles are warm, it feels so good and will give you more confidance for summer.

om om x julie

2008-06-20T02:34:00.000-07:00

hi all
reading cosmic trigger this morn.. with my green tea.. wah what a mind of info we just don't get in the mainstream press... Ha talkes about Buckminster Fullers G.E.N.I.. Basically it was a world energy network that would help/have helped with the energy/Pollution issues we are all dealing with at the moment with high bills and/or fear our future..
om om om x julie

2008-06-17T06:54:00.000-07:00

hi all,
So back from Download festival.. It really does rock, and KISS are true showmen, I am more and more of the opinion ecstacy/joy are the best things in the world for health.
I came back with a chesty cold however due to flip flops! and lots swings in temperature, Goldenseal and Ecinacia are fantastic for shifting colds without pharmaceuticals..
Rock before you roll
om om om julie

2008-06-10T08:02:00.000-07:00

hi all
so the sun is shining and everybody is smiling especially at stokefest on sunday.. I will be giving Thai massage at download festival this weekend, relieveing a lot of tired backs that are not used to tents... A top tip if you tend to get lower back issues whether it's in a tent or at home is 'give yourself a hug' when you wake up, bring your knees into your chest wrap your arms around them and draw your knee's as close to your chest as available in your body, do this for a few mins. This stretches the lower back muscles and the nerves that can lead to back pain..

om om om
xxx julie

2008-05-31T07:02:00.000-07:00

I am not at sunrise festival no-one is!? the council decided for us that it wasn't safe.. or thats my guess, a few friends who were already in the mud tell me it was pretty bad in there and the organisers were unprepared for the down pour.
I still put forward the idea however that freedom of choice would be great even if the choice is to wollow in mud.. ! I'm not saying ignore dangers, I am happy to be given all the info and make an informed decition.. I mean wah! what might happen to the uk's fabulous festies if even legal 'parties' can be closed, the bus I was on had people on there who had travelled down from scotland.. Bless.
Not that I am putting forward a ban on anything, however I can't help noticing there is a sence that the 'dangerous' things that are banned are the fun things.. no-one bans cars and they kill more kids that almost anything else or is that ANYTHING else.. I may have been saved from a wet weekend in summerset, I rather wish I hadn't been
om om om

2008-05-27T09:03:00.000-07:00

Hi all
Reading a great book called Quantum Phychology by Robert Anton Wilson, Is any one out there a fellow fan?
For me all the therapies I offer in some way increase awareness to empower the person to see patterns etc and therefore have more space around there responces, however I have quite a while ago dropped a lot of 'new age' thinking.
The term from Wilson I love in this book is Premature Cognative commitment.. In simple terms! watch for when you make a stand before you got all the info. explore, play. He also has the Knack of talking about Conciousness and awareness, with humour and grounding.

2008-05-21T06:44:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
Hope this finds you warm n well and enjoying the sunshine..
get ready for seeing me at festivals, Thai massage is great in a field

om om om julie

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2008-05-17T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
hope this first massage finds you all well and happy..

This space is designed to allow feedback, testimonials, books that inspire, axperiences of all kind and advise if required

Apart from the odd e-mail contact over the yrs when travelling I have been a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to the wonders of the web.. so give me feedback to help me make this a fun way for us all to grow, share and keep in contact
om om om julie