The Willingness to be Intimate

Yoga of Love and Forgiveness is an opportunity to experience your natural intimacy. You don’t need another person to be intimate. You, yourself, are amazingly colorful and interesting and worth your attention.

A person’s bodies are naturally intimate- physical, emotional, mental, and soul - and maybe some subtle bodies we are less aware of, too - are interconnected in a gorgeous, loving way. As we open to this flow, a romance can unfold. This inner-romance generates self-trust, self-enjoyment, wellness, and a special electricity - energy for you to use!

Your physical body loves to serve you. Like any intimate friend, it also loves to be listened to, particularly through the vehicles of touch and movement.

YLF is a method of listening to yourself, while also working out. Love and Forgiveness are spiritual qualities that each person possesses that can clear blocks, and help to release memories, judgments, or emotions that you may be gripping onto, often unconsciously.

These things may have been fed into the body over time and can function like pollution, clogging our energy and movement channels. We have aches, pains, coughs, tiredness, and we don’t know why. We try pill after pill, and as Dr. Abramson writes in Overdosed America, we see that "reclaiming personal responsibility (is) the best antidote to a fundamentally flawed (medical) system."

Willingness to embrace your intimacy is a first step to reclaiming personal responsibility for our health. As we begin the Yoga of Love and Forgiveness journey, we start with willingness to see what’s stored inside the tissues, willingness to love and let go, and willingness to live from a new paradigm- which we give to our self.

Replenish your Powerful Self with Yoga of Love & Forgiveness™

A Miracle

YOGA of Love and Forgiveness means UNION of love and forgiveness with the physical body. Miracles can occur by doing this. Here is a miracle for you...

Awhile ago, I prepared to receive radiation treatment for a condition of swollen lymph nodes known as Hodgkin’s Disease - a disease from which some people die. My doctors readied me by saying, “You will soon be on a liquid diet because your salivary glands will be rendered inoperative by the radiation treatment we are going to give you. Your liquid diet will last for about 4 weeks.”

A liquid diet? All I could think was, “the dude will not abide!”

I turned to forgiveness. For God’s sake let’s forgive everything and everyone we’ve ever judged we can SO WE CAN EAT!

In order to guarantee they hit their marks in my nodes, the techs made a plaster of paris mask for my face and buckled me down onto a gurney to keep me immobile while I was inside the big machine receiving the radiation. Can anyone say “claustrophobia?”

Each morning for about a month I would report to the hospital, slip into my sexy hospital gown and use the “shpilkes” (nervous trembling) I felt while being strapped in, as a cue to begin forgiving.

As I forgave the many judgments I had made over the years, the claustrophobia was replaced by a warm balmy feeling throughout my body. I began to relate to the trips to the radiation clinic as an invitation to this all encompassing, sweet state.

I forgave my mother for judging me as a bad kid. I forgave myself for judging my mom as a bad mother. I forgave myself for having a bad temper. I forgave my dad for having a bad temper. I forgave myself for judging the Jews as pushy people with bad tempers. I forgave myself for judging bad tempers as a bad thing. Our lymph system is a kind of sewage system, and apparently mine had gotten backed-up with judgments.

Soon, I noticed more and more ease inside. Sweetness filled my thoughts. More warmth filled my heart. Buoyancy bubbled through my body. This was the real me, the true Karen, and I began to focus more and more on that.

Week one passed and I was eating our favorite burgers from “The Charcoaler”. Week two ended with a caprese on focaccia. Week three passed with succulent roast chicken, and after the final week, week 4, we celebrated with champagne and crunchy chicken tacos. No liquid diet!

This and other graceful things he observed seeded my Oncologist’s new integrative medicine practice. He thanked me. As for me, I was learning that forgiveness is indeed the Key to the Kingdom -as in the title of John-Roger’s book. The kingdom of my replenished, powerful self and celebrating this in gastronomic delight!

XO
Karen

Seven Steps to Embodying Forgiveness

I often get asked about how the process of Forgiveness works in my Yoga of Love & Forgiveness classes. Here are 7 simple steps to replenish your powerful Self!

1. Ask for a blessing of Light to fill, surround and protect you.

2. Identify your positive intention for yourself. This is a positive quality that you want to be experiencing more of in life, such as: Self-acceptance, Self- Trust, Loving, Forgiveness, Healthy Success, etc.

3. Ask the area that is tight, “Is there anything we are holding onto here that no longer serves us?” That “no longer serves us” part means it’s an old pattern that could be blocking your greater success or what you want more of – like more joy, more self-acceptance, more of a toned, flexible body, or more wealth and riches -whatever.

4. Unconditionally allow your body to communicate its truth to you. Whatever it says or doesn’t say to you is just fine. You are there to accept and receive, just like a loving friend. Trust the body. In its area, it is VERY wise.


5. When you begin getting information, it may surprise you what is there to be released. Stuff from yesterday, 5 minutes ago, or your childhood. Just let it be. It takes STRENGTH not to be reactive and shut back down. Just stay open and observe. If your body area says something like, “I have to hold on tight because that’s how we keep it together in life,” you say, “I forgive myself for judging I have to hold on tight to keep it together.”


6. Your body may play an image back to you of something that happened that you locked-down on. Besides forgiving what ever happened, you forgive yourself for judging yourself and for judging the others involved.. For example, I forgive my sister for beating up on me. I forgive myself for judging my sister as a bad person and a bully. I forgive myself for judging myself as a weakling.


7. Ask that it all be lifted up into the Light and cleared out of your body, and put in your new pattern. Ask that your Intention for ---______ be placed in that area instead. Breathe it in. SMILE! You did good!