New Year’s is one of my favorite Holidays. It’s a global “page turn” for everyone and imagination and Transformation is in the air!

After seeing that 57 people attended the last Monday Night Alive workshop, I was inspired to write a letter to Oprah, asking her to check out the Kanes and to help put their approach out into the world.  It felt so good to express my dream to Oprah.

The evening I mailed my letter to Oprah, I went to eat at a healthy fast food restaurant called Chipotle.  I stepped into line behind a man. It turned out that this person is one of the morning anchors for New York City’s main television news station that I love & watch everyday! We spoke a bit & I invited him & his wife to MNA.  It was so amazing to connect with him!  I felt the synchronicity of the moment.

I am ready to share the Kanes on a grand scale. I’m not going to get lost in the crowd when hundreds/thousands of people attend a workshop with Ariel & Shya – I will expand and discover more that is possible.  New people are the lifeblood of our community.  We have to give it away to keep it.  We need to share it to keep it alive.  The more people who come, the more enriched our lives will be.

Wouldn’t it be something if Monday Night Alive has hundreds of people attending?  What if we all send out an intention together on January 1st?  Sometime during the day on January 1st, we could make a wish or say a prayer, that the Kanes become globally well known for their gift of Transformation.  That thousands/millions of people discover what we now experience as a normal in our lives: well-being.

When we say our truth, our word is powerful in the Universe. I believe the Universe aligns with our desires and our truth. Just like magic happens when we sign up for a weekend workshop, the Universe aligns with our commitment of discovering ourselves.

I also believe that when two or more people join together in prayer/thought/desire, a greater blast of energy is sent out into the ethers of creation.  I invite you to join me and take a moment on January 1st to imagine hundreds/thousands of people attending Monday Night Alive… watching Ariel & Shya on national/international TV… watching them having interviews with Oprah and other important media figures… having their own television show… feeling the expansion of your heart knowing you are part of this ever expanding experience.  Have fun with it!  Dream big!!

As John Lennon wrote, “Imagine all the people, living for today….”.

I’m attaching the letter (below) I wrote to Oprah so you can share in my dream.

Set a calendar “alert” as a reminder on January 1st to send out your intention. And send an email so we all feel the power of our global intention!

I’ll send you an email on January 1st, to let you know I imagined…

I hope you will join me…

Love,
Colleen

P.S.  Susan Finch partnered me with writing this email – thanks, Susan!

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My girlfriend Sandy & I came home from Hamburg two days ago, where we attended two absolutely amazing workshops, “The Freedom To Breathe” and “The License To Live” with the Kanes.

Since the start of the first workshop I have felt really empowered, fresh, complete, clear and very calm at the same time – and this feeling lingers on, in all aspects of my live. I get things done and handled without any effort or stress, I just finish what has to be done and move on to the next thing without any complaint or thought that usually came up in my mind that told me I’d like to do something different or better.

And also my relationship with Sandy feels so fresh and close and precious again – it’s like falling in love with her for the first time, again and again, from moment to moment anew! I really love what has happened and is still happening for us two and all the others who took part in the “Hamburg Adventure” with the Kanes.

It is like Ariel & Shya told us from time to time and what they called “Happiness Amnesia”: I keep forgetting how absolutely wonderful the workshops are. That doesn’t mean that I don’t know and realize that they are great, it’s just a huge difference of “knowing” that something is wonderful and of “experiencing” it!

For me it was the first time (besides Costa Rica) that I took part in a “the Freedom to Breathe” workshop – and I was absolutely amazed again what a gentle, easy and effortless way it is to get connected to yourself and your breathing partner – it felt like beeing catapulted very smoothly right into the moment (which sounds a bit like a paradoxon, I know, but it is none, when you actually experience it . I also realized that I had a story in my mind, that the breathing in Costa Rica felt so smooth and easy because there I have already been super-relaxed and effected by the beautiful surrounding – and it would be a whole different experience in Hamburg. It really turned out to be a whole different experience, but only in terms of being a completly new, absolutely amazing experience. I realized that it really doesn’t matter at all “where” you participate in a breathing workshop with Ariel & Shya – it pulls you immediately and effortlessly into your body and into the current moment, no matter if you are in Costa Rica, in Hamburg or in New York.

So I want to invite you all to give yourself the gift and to join us for the next two workshops in Hamburg in Spring (no matter if you live in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the UK, France, the USA, Canada or even Hong Kong!); starting with a brilliant “Freedom To Breathe” workshop on the 29th of March 2012, followed by the “Secret Of Wonderful Relationships” workshop from the 30th of March till the 1st of April.

If you think about coming to either of the workshops or both of them, make sure to register now, because as you all know, the workshops already start when you register – and who wouldn’t want to have the “Freedom To Breathe” or the “Secret Of Wonderful Realationships” right now for the next 5 months in advance?

Love,
Benedict

My husband Rainer and I attended  the workshops “The Freedom to Breathe” and, over the weekend  ”The License to Live”, as well as the “Tuesday Night Alive” here here in Hamburg.

It was so beautiful, sweet, soft, light and easy. I’m in awe of how beautiful and easy Transformation is. Life felt pretty good before the workshops. Things were going well; our businesses had been growing and I could find nothing to complain about. However, since the workshops I have felt like being in a room that someone cleaned the windows. The trees are greener, the flowers are brighter… Life feels so sweet and soft to me, I had no idea that’s possible. It shows up everywhere. Prior to the workshops, things that have been edgy between Rainer and I became softer and we became more loving towards each other. Not only that I am more efficient at work, it’s as if my clients turned to be easier and sweeter  to be with even with a tight schedule and a pressing deadline. I just took care of things when they came without stressing myself out. It makes everything so rich and sweet!

One of the things that I discovered from the workshops, how sometimes things felt edgy between Rainer and I was that I wasn’t really listening to him. I wanted to be the one leading, so I’m in charge. I said how we do things and what he had to say was not so important, and  it’s not only with Rainer, it’s with my sister, my friends, clients… I want to be “the good kid”, the one with the better story, the better…anything! Along the way over the workshops I gave up wanting to be different, to be over with something, to get rid of or hide things and  behaviors I didn’t approve of myself. All of a sudden life was softer, easier and fun to see all the ways the things I didn’t like about myself showed up! I really love the way Ariel and Shya talk about the third principle in the current Article of the month. “Anything you allow to be allows you to be”.

It’s really amazing how much I sometimes forgot or took for granted what a difference Transformation makes in my life, how much my sense of well being deepens and my ability to be in the moment strengthens after the workshops. Things just got smoother and brighter! Just as Benedict mentioned in his recent email that it’s just a huge difference of “knowing” that something is wonderful and of “experiencing” it! I’m really happy and thankful to Ariel and Shya, who made the long trip so we could have them here in Europe to! It was a treat to be with you!

I also want to invite you to share Transformation with your friends. It was such a gift to be with everybody in the courses and saw the difference Transformation makes to everybody who was there. You just never know who will say yes. I met my neighbor Monday night on the street and spontaneously invited her for the Tuesday Night Alive. She couldn’t make it but said she would love to come for the next call. She came on Wednesday to ask how it was and see if I have the date for the next call she can attend. I was so surprised. I mentioned the workshops to her before, but only in a way that we’re chatting about what we’re up to. In my idea of who she is, she wasn’t “the type” to come to a workshop. You never know!

So looking forward to see many of you in Costa Rica or hear you on the next international call.

Love to you all from beautiful, rainy morning,

xoxo

Stefanie

I wanted to share with you all some exciting news about an adventure I’m about to embark on. I’m about to leave for a trip to Bangladesh where I will be working with an NGO (non-governmental organization) called Room to Read.

Room to Read is an international organization whose mission it is to “transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education”. It was founded by an ex-Microsoft employee named John Wood who was trekking in Nepal and visited a school only to find that the ‘library’ had fewer than 20 books which were mainly backpacker cast-offs (e.g. Tolstoy) and completely inaccessible to the children there. He vowed to come back to the school with books and thus his journey began. He wrote a book called “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” and it is an amazing book. Room to Read is now in 10 countries around the world and still growing.

I will be holding workshops & teaching the staff there project management skills. This is so they can  learn to be more effective in running their own projects to build libraries and schools and many other  initiatives. This whole venture is part of a program at my work that partners organizations in need with corporate volunteers who are interested in giving back. It was competitive and I had to write 6 essays and do a telephone conference interview with 4 officers. And I was accepted!

I’m very excited about my mission there and what I’m going to present. I’m sure it will have a real impact and I definitely see the effect of transformation while preparing for this project. In fact, one of the pain points the head of the Bangladesh office expressed to me was that “the victim cycle attitude is prominent”. Well, what better antidote to that than transformation!

I’m intent on delivering not just a presentation but a way of ’seeing’;  seeing/thinking outside the box;  finding solutions not readily apparent;  and for them to learn to take responsibility for the direction of projects. I’ve also found internet software that I have set up beforehand as a model that I will demonstrate that they can possibly use for their own projects. In fact, my goal there is to do such a good job that John Wood himself takes notice and goes “Wow, what’s going on in Bangladesh! Something’s moving over there!”

How cool would that be?

: )

Madhu

P.S.

You can check out Room to Read’s website here: http://www.roomtoread.org

For John Wood’s, “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World”, here is the link to this deeply moving book: http://www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com/

P.P.S.
After Bangladesh, I’m headed to India for a while, then I’ll be back state-side 1st week of October. See many of you when I get back!

I’m getting ready to take my son to his second day of Kindergarten. Yesterday morning as we walked, hand in hand, into his new school, he looked up and said:
“I can’t believe it! This is going to be huge!”
So true, Laken.

Today I noticed how much I’ve been holding on to the past, and how that has truly inhibited my ability to enjoy my life. And just now I felt, for what seemed like the first time, a relaxation around judging myself for holding on to the past. Because I’ve resisted my old habit of doing so. I didn’t like that I ruminated about events I can’t change.

But just now I felt a new energy around it. The Instant I saw it, I felt transformed. Lighter.
Thanks Ariel & Shya – and to all of you.
And have a beautiful day!

Alex

Yesterday I traveled back to Switzerland from my singing holidays in Greece. While checking in for my flight, I had a feeling that having FUN is such a great gift that I got from Ariel & Shya! Thanks you so much!

While I was waiting on line, I had a little fight with a lady next to me. Of course we didn’t talk, we just quarreled with looks and moans. It began with her trying  to cut the line. I was on alert and decided not to let her, but she made her way through the mass and stood right behind me.  While she stood on line she bumped into me quite a few times. Every time I moved up she moved with me and just a bit too close, so she ended up touching me a little. I was so annoyed by her!

Suddenly Ariel & Shya were in my mind and I heard them talking about fun. I realized that I had NO fun at all in that moment! As I was looking for fun I created a game. I counted the bumps and each time she bumped into me I would get points! I made big and small steps to see if she would get me. I even pretended to move up and bump there she was! It was so much fun. I was surprised how fast I went through the line and before I knew it, I was checking in for the flight. I think she didn’t even realize what had happened. She was probably just in her thoughts and the “fight” was just a thought of  mine.

Thank you Ariel, Shya and everyone for reminding me how precious every moment is! It is so good to have the Kanes’ Seminars, the PEC, the radio shows, and global self-express so I can keep in touch with Transformation and all of you!

Transformation is so precious! Let’s give it away and share as much as we can!

Love and lots of fun to you all,

Corinne

This last Intimacy course was just incredible in SO many ways. I play clarinet and my quartet (piano, cello, flute &  clarinet) was recently hired for one of our first official gigs! We are very excited and have had a lot of fun preparing the material. When I practiced my clarinet on Saturday night during the workshop, it was one of the most productive, fun and creative practices I’ve had. Until then, I hadn’t realized that in addition to playing the notes on the page, I was also talking to myself about how I was playing, the “bad habits” I’ve developed and that my tone was not as good as it used to be.  Well, once I saw that (which was actually pretty exciting), I listened.  I started to listen to how I actually sounded when I played and when I noticed that the sound was weak or frail, I made an adjustment to get the sound I wanted and it instantaneously was not only more rich and full, but felt easier to play!

One of the “bad habits” I was judging myself for was my cheeks ballooning out when I played.  In the training & experience I’ve had, this is not good; it usually indicates that the muscles in your mouth/cheeks are not as strong as they should be and usually produces an unpleasant sound.  After noticing I was doing that, and noticed my inclination to feel frustrated with myself but just push through it anyway to get it over with, I started doing my long tones differently.  Long tones are when you hold one note, then press one key that takes that note to a higher register on the instrument and allows you to practice breath control, changing in dynamics from soft to loud and soft again, getting a nice sound&  sustaining a note. I just listened, not only to my sound but how I felt in my body when playing.  I then found myself not pushing the volume or intensity beyond the point of maintaining good form and a nice sound. I experienced how it felt to actually move more breath through the instrument to make a louder sound and how it felt in my mouth, cheeks and fingers to make the sound. All while maintaining good form and strong cheeks! It was awesome.

After that, practicing the music was so much easier than it had ever been. I wasn’t beating myself up in the split seconds between notes for missing notes or not playing a rhythm correctly.  I also wasn’t thinking about other things I should be doing instead or after I was done playing.  I was really enjoying the music I was making and it was so much fun.

Thanks to Ariel & Shya and to all of you for being there and creating the magic we all experienced. Thanks also to everyone, whether you were there or not, for extending yourselves to those around you and letting them know about the opportunities that exist in the workshops we do.  It was such a gift to have new people there.

Sending you all lots of love and enjoyment of the magic you create and experience in your lives.

: )
Val

This week on 7/13:   Knowing Yourself vs. Discovering Yourself

We all “know” who we are: our likes/dislikes, our stories and backgrounds, how we are around certain types of people, etc. With Instantaneous Transformation, there is a possibility that you are actually none of those things you tell yourself! Join Ariel and Shya in Being Here and discover the being inside you anew every day.

Interested in discovering your brilliance in all aspects of life? Click here to listen to or download fun, inspiring archived episodes

Do you enjoy listening to Being Here radio shows? What is your favorite show and why? Let us know by posting a comment below or if you like what you just read – go ahead  share with your friends & family!

My wife Karen is an employee for my computer’s manufacturer. When I told her of my realization she suggested I bring the laptop in and have it looked at. She reminded me I paid for the extended warranty, so money was not an issue. But I resisted. I didn’t want my laptop taken away. Forget that it wasn’t working properly, how could I live without it? After seeing these thoughts I made my appointment and brought the computer in.

The staff person performed tests on it that revealed the hard drive was fine. Perhaps there was a software problem. After trying a variety of “fixes” it was clear none of them worked. Finally the expert said he didn’t believe the tests. He thought the hard drive was dying, it’s just that it was dying so gradually that the test didn’t reveal it. He was right and an hour later I had a new hard drive, restored all my programs and data from my back-up drive, and my old computer was back. Fast, fun and easy.

And it dawned on me. This is how my life looked before transformation. Years of not paying attention, not listening, resisting, regretting the past or fearing the future, all of these had corrupted MY hard drive. Bringing myself to seminars, remembering the three principles of instantaneous transformation and being gentle to myself all help me bring my self back to being me. Fast, fun and easy.

Eric Ruben
www.rubenlaw.org

This week on 6/29:   Discovering Personal Responsibility

If you are not willing to honestly look and simply become aware of your part in how your life shows up, then you will perpetually be a victim. Tune in and discover how repetitive unwanted patterns that seem to appear like magic can disappear just like magic when you assume responsibility for the quality of your life.

Interested in discovering your brilliance in all aspects of life? Click here to listen to or download fun, inspiring archived episodes

Do you enjoy listening to Being Here radio shows? What is your favorite show and why? Let us know by posting a comment below or if you like what you just read – go ahead  share with your friends & family!