Embracing our femininity!
As women in the working world, it’s difficult to leave our heads at the end of the day and get back in tune with our bodies! Trust me, I know. Sometimes, I’m at work and spend the whole day fixing problems, answering the phone, sending faxes, writing emails, fixing problems, fixing problems and you get the picture. In fact, my only little zen moments happen when I get to take a bathroom break.
At the end of the day, how do you get back to your femininity? Good question!I believe that it’s up to us to take femininity into our own hands and get back in touch with our bodies. In Yoga, Kundalini energy flows upward through the spine and connects the mind and the body. Physical exercise, yoga, taking a bath..putting on lotion..all this reminds you that you have a body and helps your mental chatter to quiet down so that you can be more “present”. French women are good at doing this. They have “winding down” rituals that are inherent in the culture. French women take baths, they douse perfume on their bodies, take lingering walks, get massages, facials and eat slowly. They don’t have media sticking “stick thin” images down their throats like we Americans do so they don’t have a built in distaste for their own bodies like we do.
And after my experience living in Paris and travelling throughout Europe, one thing was very obvious to me. Nowhere NOWHERE else did I see men more in love with their women than in Paris. The confidence and authenticity just oozes out of French women’s pores. We can get that too! Next time you drive past a billboard with some skinny perfect woman staring you down..or pass by a cover of COSMO that headlines “ten tips for staying thin”..remember that all this stuff is made up to tell YOU that you’re not good enough on your own and need THIS OR THAT lipstick or pair of jeans in order to be “enough”.
Well, trust me- French women know that they are “enough” as is. They don’t NEED chanel #5..it only stuff only ADDS to the mystique. To really find love, you have to love yourself. To love yourself, all you have to do is get clear on the secret in life.
You got the #1 top selling product on the market! The 1 asset that everyone else does NOT have. YOU.
My song FOUNTAIN WORLD
Music and Lyrics by Tamara Lelie
Sang by Ashley Jay (demo version)
© Tamara Lelie 2006
Registered with BMI
*PREMIERED AT TIME OUT RETREAT FOR TEEN GIRLS on March 7th, 2009 (sang by Caitlin Crosby)
9 minute video of Time Out For Teens! :)
Time Out For Teen Girls is a vision Kristin Kreuk and I came up with almost a year ago and the manifested result was even more amazing than I could have ever expected. Kristin’s company GIRLS BY DESIGN (along w/partner Kendra Voth) and TIMEOUT RETREAT partnered up ..and with generous donations from Warner Springs Ranch, Marius Kalamala, and tons of hep from volunteers— we were able to take 25 teen girls away from the city at no cost to them or their parents :)
For more info on the retreat and pictures, click on www.timeoutretreat.com
Book recommendations, links and other things i love to share!
CLEAR YOUR CLUTTER WITH FENG SHUI, a book by Karen Kingston that is a MUST READ if you want to clear out the past to manifest more awesomeness in your life!
www.cateandmaggie.com (where i buy my purses)—Catherine Winfield is an awesome designer and will custom design anything for you…at a generously low price!
www.taginecuisine.com (my fave restaurant cause my friend Ben is the chef there and he puts a lot of love in the food..also VERY romantic ambiance)
My news
I’m becoming certified to be a Kundalini Yoga instructor!! Why Kundalini? Because I’m fascinated by it. According to an article posted on www.yoga.iloveindia.com, “
Kundalini energy flows in the interior of spine, along an energy channel called shushumna. The Kundalini energy is thought to be the most powerful of all supernatural energies.
After achieving mastery of self by relaxing body tension, silencing mental talk, and releasing energy blocks, an individual is ready to have access to their own intuition AND to join with a partner having the same energy level. Together they form a ‘whole’.”
OKAY NEED I SAY MORE?
