Hello Beautiful People!

I’ve been feeling great lately. Life had been darn good. Work is great, my marriage is awesome and I’ve felt healthier than I’ve ever felt. And last night it got better!

Last night at Monday Night Alive I signed up for The Freedom to Breathe & Art of Being A Healer workshop, and maybe for the first time ever, I signed up just because I wanted to be there. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always wanted to be there, but this time something was different.  Before there was always this tiny voice inside of me saying things like, “Man, I could really use this course” or “Maybe this will set me right” always something like that. But last night I signed up just because I wanted to be there, with Ariel & Shya and my wife and mother in law and everyone else who is coming. I signed up not because anything was wrong with me and I needed to get better, I signed up because I looked at what I wanted, and what I wanted was to be at that course.  And when I got home my skin felt electric! I was jazzed! Revved up and ready to go, but not like in a, “Ok, now I’m going to get better” way in a “Life is amazing! So much is possible!” way. (more…)

Hurray for Corinne and my friend Manuela!

We had lunch together last Friday. Corinne and I invited Manuela to follow her heart and join us in the Creativity and Intuition Workshop in Cambridge. She said yes and I was so inspired!

For me, the Creativity and Intuition course is effective BIG TIME in advance:  I found my new car this weekend perfectly smoothly and effortlessly. Decisions I would previously have pondered for days, were not really “decisions”: every action required was just taken one after the other. On Monday, my friends that know about cars came support me to make choices. We met with the car seller and it was a lovely encounter! How the car seller supported me during the test drive was just perfect. I was amazed at all the supports the universe kept providing us and how effortlessly everything went!

Transformation sooooooooooo rocks!

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Hi Guys,

I have just spent 2 amazing days in London with my work mates who are based up in Scotland and who came down to London for our “team cultural away days”. The trip was paid by our 2 bosses who said it was a reward for the great work we’ve been doing. We stayed at the famous 5 star hotel “The Ritz” and had amazing lunch there, then our company hired a professional choreographer only for us and we learned to dance to Rihanna’s “I’m the only girl in the world” song. In the evening we went to a comedy store and watched stand up comedy. The following day we hired a studio and a private drum instructor who showed us how to drum to samba tunes and we finished our trip by having “traditional afternoon tea” which is very british at the famous Savoy hotel in London. Here’s some videos of our trip and our team from the dancing and the drum sessions:
Dancing at Pineapple Studios
Samba Drumming Session

The reason I’m sharing this is not to show off but just to say that I would have never found this amazing company and job if I wouldn’t have learned from Ariel & Shya Kane, how to be “in the moment” and be a “yes” to life. I still remember that before Costa Rica 2010, I was not happy with the job I was in and thought “this wasn’t it” and a future job will be better! In Costa Rica I learned to be in the moment and to be a “yes” to life and that whereever I am and whatever I do is important. When I landed in NY on my way back to London from the Costa Rica trip in 2010, I had a text from a recruitment agency that was offering me a job for a gift voucher company. My first thought was “no” I don’t really want to work for a gift voucher company, it didn’t fit my agenda and didn’t “sound” good in my ears! However having learned to be in the moment in Costa Rica, I said yes and just showed up to the interview! The moment I met my Manager and I had the interview with her, I knew that this was an inspirational lady with an amazing job to offer and I wanted to work with her! It wasn’t about gift vouchers ie the product, it was all about this person (my manager) and what I could learn from her as she was so inspirational and she’s also into personal development and really cares about us employees and our personal development. I never had such an amazing feeling before where I just knew that this is the right job for me, it was as if my intuition said YES YES YES!!!
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Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

I want to share with everyone some really cool Transformation that has happened in my life. I was taking a very relaxing bath this evening, and as the water drained from the tub I sat there, looking at my body in the candle-light. (A bath by candle-light is AWESOME!) I suddenly saw that I’ve been treating my body and myself with much more kindness than I have in a long while. Up until about a month ago, I was an occasional smoker and was getting drunk with friends every 1-2 weeks. I turned 27 on December 6th, and around that time, I saw that with the way I was drinking, my life was much more likely to be determined by automatic behaviors, and I was also losing out on a lot of the magic of the Present Moment. What is so cool about this shift is that it was really effortless. I didn’t make resolutions or rules for myself, things just Transformed. I’ve found that in social situations, I feel a much deeper connection to the people I interact with, because I’m actually present to share myself with them. My relationship with my girlfriend Ali has also transformed in that I find we navigate upsets together faster and with more skill. This morning, for the first time in a long while, I woke up on New Years Day with a clear head and went on to have a wonderful day at home with my beautiful girlfriend. I am so thankful to the Kaness and the brilliant community of people who opened me up to the great possibilities for my life. Happy New Years and I’ll see you all very soon in Costa Rica!

Shea

Hi everybody!

Hi Everyone,

I am proud to share with you an article I had the privilege to write for New York Resident magazine:

“Tranquility in Midtown Manhattan”

Ariel & Shya advertise in this magazine and asked me to write an article in the June issue!  I wrote it the weekend of the last course, Transformational Time and Project Management. When I sat down and saw all the things I wanted to say, it was so easy – and really fun – to write (much easier than I had thought it would be).

The article is about my experience of taking Ariel & Shya’s workshops and the wonderful results I’ve experienced (and continue to experience) in my life.

Thanks to Ariel & Shya and everyone for your support in making this happen. Enjoy!!

Love,
Val

Dear friends everywhere in the world,

Just a quick eye/mind opener I had today that I really had to giggle about: I work as a music teacher in a high school and my room is up in the roof, so that out of the skylight I can mainly see the sky and clouds and raindrops. But from the bathroom that is one floor lower I can look down to the gorgeous park that is in front of our school.

Today was very hot, sunny weather and a few students were scattered, sitting around the shady trees, some talking to each other, others sitting alone. While I dried my hands I spotted a young couple that was sitting with their legs spread out very close together in a position where their faces were very close to each other, their arms hanging loosely around their elbows. It was very moving, intimate and beautiful to see them there, looking so at peace with each other. A moment later the thought was racing through my mind, “I should sit with somebody like that,” and then came all the reasons why I didn’t have such an intimate relationship with somebody… (more…)

Hi Friends!

Dear Friends!

I just came back from a funeral that I attended with my husband Stephan (thanks for being there for me!).  This was the funeral of a former client of mine whose name is Christine and I want to tell you about her:

Christine was sitting in a wheelchair since she was 5 years old, because of amyotaxia (a kind of spasticity, that goes in “waves” through the body so that you can’t really control your movements) and could only walk with the help of other people.  If she wanted to move by herself, she used to crawl on her bottom.  I had been Christine’s physical therapist for several years, before she moved out of her home in Hamburg 5 years ago into her own apartment in the city (she got a job at the zoological institute), where we found a new therapist for her. (more…)

Mac offers tips on dealing with aging parents.