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Addiction and Feeling the Pain Body

Addiction and Feeling the Pain Body

Addiction comes in so many forms. Anything from substance abuse, money, success, jealousy, excess, obsessiveness to being needed. This article discusses understanding what the pain body is and how to begin releasing it with gentle guidance using sound therapy, kundalini yoga & meditation.

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Finding Forgiveness Until There is No One To Forgive

Finding Forgiveness Until There is No One To Forgive

If you can’t forgive yet, then don’t. Look to find it. And let forgiveness show you what to do.
Recently I received correspondence from a person I hadn’t intimately spoken to in a few years that I felt I was very close to.  They offered endearing words that somehow tied a bow back onto a broken branch of the heart from a once unified tree between us. The last discussion hadn’t ended bad but it definitely had friction, word throws, differences and core punches.

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Your Audacity To Be Original

Your Audacity To Be Original

I think of myself as original as I do you. Originality is my inherent birth right as it is yours. My overarching resolution is to always rest in my origin, to be my inherent nature. I desire this for you. Originality is a voice, not an echo.

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That’s A Wrap: The Dignity to Fail, Fall & Get Back Up

That’s A Wrap: The Dignity to Fail, Fall & Get Back Up

Our english dictionary defines failure as “to be unsuccessful at accomplishing a purpose.” The etymology of fail comes from the latin “fallure” which is related to the word “deceive” or “fall”. Failing is Falling. No big deal, and great actually! We must also know when the time is right to get back up. Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

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Svaha: In Stillness We Meet

Svaha: In Stillness We Meet

Svaha, literally translated as “purely spoken”, “letting it go into the fire/of the deity of fire itself,” denotes an ending to any phase or cycle. Commit to my 21 day interactive workbook of assignments, a list of daily recipes in stillness to gain nothing at all but the identity of the indweller of Divinity (kind of a big deal!).

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From Jewish Pool Attendant to The Sacred Arts. In Celebration of 20 years

From Jewish Pool Attendant to The Sacred Arts. In Celebration of 20 years

This was the beginning of what I feel like is me coming home. Now, this year, 2018, I am that. All of the above. I am at home and at peace in the teachings and the invaluable experiences of my colorful, well-established, ever-changing and well-traveled life. I am also celebrating exactly 20 years of teaching yoga and the healing arts FULL TIME!

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Welcome to Swan Talks

Welcome to Swan Talks

Welcome to the developing art of my new website, swanmichelle.com and my new blog, Swan Talks. All for your best, most liberated interest, I will be writing, sharing, revealing, singing, recording, and videoing various tonics of inspiration for you to practice. The goal of this website is to act as though we are free, utilizing and experiencing the tools by putting them into action. Our determination to envision and practice daily manifests destiny.

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