Blooming Lotus

I usually try to practice Ahimsa or non-harming.✌️ When a swarm of Japanese Beetles almost wipes out my grapes, cherries and peaches overnight, I’m gonna pull out some weapons.
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The standard treatments for Japanese Beetles also kill bees. 🐝 That’s no bueno. I filled a spray bottle with 4 T. of liquid dish detergent, water and (t.?) peppermint essential oil. I’m super hesitant to recommend the peppermint oil as it can easily burn your skin and eyes. You could try this without the essential oil. If you are going to use the peppermint, wear gloves and glasses and be super mindful of wind direction. If your gloves get some overspray be careful not to touch your face or eyes. 👀 You could also try Neem oil if you have some.
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Anyhoo, it worked!!! 🙌 I sprayed pretty heavily 2 mornings in a row. This morning was just a little touch up.
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Next up, figuring out how to harvest a few peaches before the squirrels 🐿 eat them all.
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Full confession: I’m really struggling with anxiety right now. I know I’m not alone in this during a time when we’re all so raw. 💔
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Self-prescribing Green Medicine. 🌳
Nature is the balm for my soul. If that’s true for you get ya some. Recharge. Remember this is a marathon. Figure out what your cycle of run, walk, rehydrate, nourish needs to look like. Take care of yourself in ways you know your being appreciates and then get back to work.

I’m usually a champion sleeper but that hasn’t been the case the past couple of months. My son turned me on to sleep stories in the Calm app. I’ve been listening to one called Blue Gold and I’m pretty sure it was recorded just for me {+ you}. You walk through the lavender fields of Provence, wander into a shed and then...distill lavender essential oil. It’s a great sleep story but I kept pulling myself back to note names and places. 🤪

Some of you know I have a dream of leading a yoga retreat where we also participate in a distillation. 🌱🌹

The past couple of nights I’ve been staying up too late researching retreat locations. 💜 Not good for my sleep patterns but has been a salve for longing to travel.

Italy for Begamot? France for Lavender? India for Cardamom? Egypt for Neroli? Morocco for Cedarwood? Australia for Eucalyptus? Oh the places we’ll go! Sweet dreams. 😴

Monday night yoga at 5:30 is ON, y’all. Weird times. As we adapt to the new normal we’re recognizing how important our interconnection, our daily practices, our conscious cultivation of community really is. 🧘‍♂️😳🌊❤️
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I’m trying to recognize the silver lining as getting to practice with some of our OMies that have moved! And maybe some friends from afar. 💕
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Signup through events page on the Sage website. https://www.experiencesage.com/events Looking forward to seeing your faces in the Brady Bunch squares of Zoom. 😂

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I stop and give thanks at this altar every single time I leave
Seriously grateful for work that I love with some of the kindest and most interesting people in KC. I literally give out a little squeee when I look at my schedule.

All.the.time. 🙏✨🙏✨

The deep rest of winter can yield dreams & reveal seeds to be planted. 💫 Post-holidays I’m trying to find the rhythm of the year and put my thoughts into action. You might be feeling overwhelmed balancing the need to slow down and the need to check s**t off your todo list, too?

I thought it could be a sweet win-win to download the Monday Magic Method from our sweet Abbi Miller Holistic . We get our s**t together and keep working toward our highest potential. Abbi and Sam get some Biz Babe cushioning to meet this bundle of light and savor a babymoon. ✨

*If you wanna get even more clarity around an idea I can say her Biz Babes workbooks with Woke & Wired are super duper helpful.*

https://abbimiller.com/downloads/

If we’ve crossed paths in the last year or two you might know of my obsession with the lymphatic system. 💦✨❤️I’m so excited to team up with Wendy Zoog from KALOS Experience offering this event at The Space KC to share self care tools to give your lymph some love.

Deets and tix here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/glow-up-tickets-80197566079?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

Resonate with you? We’re looking for a stellar massage therapist to join the team at Sage. I genuinely love where I work, the people I work with and our amazing community. DM me for deets if you think you might be a good fit! 💆‍♀️❤️

H Y D R O T H E R A P Y

This practice of utilizing water for optimum health and rejuvenation has been used by many cultures for thousands of years. The cycle of HOT, COLD, RELAX helps promote circulation, tone the Vagus nerve and release endorphins.

🔥 10-15 minutes First use a sauna, steam room, hot shower or bath to raise body temperature and increase blood flow. Improved circulation helps heal injured tissues. This warmth brings a sense of calm.

❄️ 15-60 seconds Cold plunge or shower! Increases metabolic rate and stimulates immune system. “Exhilarating!” per Katherine Hepburn.

✌️10-15 minutes Do nothing! Relax and allow the cardiovascular system to regulate itself.

Repeat if possible.

At home this can be practiced by hot shower finished with cold shower for a minute then meditation. ✨

@ Scandinave Spa Whistler

I just had the privilege of nerding out all weekend with my beloved teacher and friend . She continually encourages us to question everything we’ve been taught-even from her. ain’t sexy but it provides the best compost for our evolution. No matter what you do for a living I hope you can stay curious, Ponyboy.
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Also, KC you’re lucky to have so many teachers spending so much time thinking about how to raise the collective consciousness. ✨

THIS! Here's to vibrant aging.

Aging is the result of accumulation of cellular waste, toxins, & fluids in our skin-body. Qi (vital energy) is needed in order to move blood, lymph, & fluids.


If Qi is weak, lymph, blood, & fluids become stagnant. Therefore our cells aren’t able to receive what they need in order to function in a healthy way or, at the very least, in an optimal way. Remember, aging happens on a cellular level.


This stagnated flow leads to accumulation of toxins, cellular waste, & fluids. In the face, you can see this accumulation/puffiness around the eyes, the outsides of the nose, in front of the ears, and around the jawline & the neck. Also in the texture and look of the skin. This is STAGNANT AGING.


But what happens if you prevent that accumulation, or, at the very least, reduce it? Can that be done? If so, how?


The answer is Yes, and that would be the road to VIBRANT AGING. I’m only speaking of terms of skin in here, to keep it simple, but it does apply to our whole body as well.


This is what Wholistic Esthetics is all about. We work with high-vibe skin products that support Qi, and that don’t add to the accumulation. We also work with advanced face massage techniques & tools (like Gua Sha and Kansa & such) to help transform the traffic jams (tension & scar tissue are 2 examples) that prevent or stagnate the flow of Qi, blood, lymph, & fluids.


In addition, these techniques also help clear out years of accumulation in the skin that is the long-term result of these traffic jams to flow. It’s not at all uncommon to see a client look 10-15 years younger after a single session; most definitely after a few sessions. Not to mention how they feel 😌


And, most importantly, we work with supporting a healthier view of aging, a wellness approach to aging, to connect the dots, to show how it’s all connected.


There’s no magic pill. There’s no fountain of youth. No cutting edge ingredient or superfood that’s going to do it. It’s simply good self care.


That’s the simple and not-so simple side of it. There are many mental & emotional hurdles to good self care; or as a colleague puts it - tending to one’s needs. I think a good first step is journaling about these challenges (learning to listen to our own body), talking them over with a supportive friend, praying/meditating about them (supportive connection is also very important for flow), & finding a wellness practitioner (or 2 or 3) with whom you resonate in order to help you with your goals ♥️