I went to my first Costa Rican Adventure in January 2009 with the Kanes. What a week! It was emotional, cathartic and overall just a great week of my life that I will not soon forget. I must admit, I have an “automatic no” which comes from the “don’t tell me what to do” part of my brain. So, when Costa Rica was first suggested as an option I made the excuse that it was too much money to spend and it was too long of a trip to take, blah blah blah. In the back of my mind I knew I was going to sign up anyway. My beautiful and talented girlfriend Grasie took the initiative and put a Costa Rica 2009 form in my hand and I just filled it out without “thinking” too much about it. It actually felt REALLY GOOD to take the plunge. I had a few moments of “what am I getting myself into?” along the way before the big trip, but those feelings vanished once the wheels were in motion. (more…)

Dear Transformers from all over the world,

Not only did the Costa Rica workshop with Ariel and Shya rock and inspired me to keep going for my life with excellence but also just after a few days of coming back, still glowing, I am now celebrating that as of today I am an American citizen.

And you know what?  I could have not done it alone.

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Hi Friends-

Ariel and Shya often call Transformation the “slack-jawed approach to enlightenment” (where you simply see a mechanical behavior, let your jaw hang and say “huh.”) I had such a great slack-jawed moment the other day and I just have to share it with you all. I had been in a fight with my brother off and on for the last two weeks. It was around the subject of money and not paying bills on time, which historically we have both been very tense and defensive about. We had had a phone call about a particular money situation where I thought I had been very direct and straight forward, but I realized afterwards (with the help of the Kanes and my boyfriend Andy) that I had been condescending and unkind, and was really holding onto being right about my point of view. I apologized to my brother, and things got better between us, but it was still a little shaky and I think there was really a part of me that was not ready to let go of being right.
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Hello to you all!

I got a lovely e-mail from my brother after we had been fighting for quite a few months and I’m so happy about it!

The story went like this:

We work together and in recent months we really fought a lot.  I didn’t see my part in it, I just thought that he was so negative and every meeting we had I wished it would be postponed.

But then while I was walking in a beautiful spring meadow, I realized how much I resented him and the situation and how much I fought with him. The next Day we had a meeting and in the first minute, my resentful pattern was still operating, but I saw it and could let go of it.  We had a smooth meeting and got lots of things done. I was very happy and relieved and a day later we had a really lovely talk about business and personal things. It was really wonderful and even better because after the talk he sent me a lovely email!

I’m still so astonished how much transformation affects my surroundings simply by the way I behave.

Thank you Ariel & Shya & all of you for spreading this gift to the world and me.

I wish you a Wonderful Week and Lots of Love,
Corinne Gabriel
Switzerland