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.

Today was awesome!  I went for a jog this morning by myself and in the past if there wasn’t someone else there I was running with, I wouldn’t let myself be as good as I was.  I would quit on myself by slowing down to walk when I didn’t need to, or not running as far as I do when running with a friend.  But I didn’t let that happen today.  Not that I was hard on myself and thinking, “I have to run like this today,” but I was just running and enjoying it.  And the leaves!  Oh man, have the leaves always been like this in Brooklyn every fall?  If so I’ve never noticed it before.  It was so beautiful!  And later today I was leaving work, (which was super great) and I was walking in the rain and I loved it!  I truly love the rain, I always have, but I can’t remember the last time I really let myself enjoy being in it.  I was listening to music and Van Morrison’s “Wild Nights” came on and it was like I heard the chorus for the first time ever.  Van Morrison sings, “And everything looks so complete, when your walking out on the street.  And the wind catches your feet and sends you flying.”  That sums up what I’ve been feeling all day long and I accredit that to signing up for the weekend.

If you haven’t signed up for The Freedom to Breathe & Art of Being A Healer and you’ve been thinking about it and you can make it, don’t wait, go online now to www.transformationmadeeasy.com and sign up tonight. If you know folks who’ve been thinking about signing lets support them in making it. And if you know people that you think would have a lot of fun at this course, invite them. I reached out to an old friend this morning about coming and I it felt so good just to invite him!

Get in on this good feeling. This is an exciting time in all our lives simply because we’re alive. Let’s embrace this season of giving and give the gift of Transformation to as many folks as we can! It’s too fun to keep it to ourselves.

Lots of Love,

Andy

PS: Hope to see lots of you folks at Joe’s yoga class Friday night!!!

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!

Thank you Ariel and Shya for sharing it again and again. Thank you lovely team, for being a great community.

I love you all,

Annina

P.S.: I couldn’t resist attaching a photo of my new car (by Jürg Gerber) !

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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!!!

It’s now more than a year that I’m working for my company (I’m saying “my company” as it feels like it’s our company since we’re so involved and part of it) and I still love working for it! If I would have listened to my voice back then, I would have never found this amazing job and I’m very grateful that Transformation exists and to be part of such a wonderful community.

I am now saving up for my first and second payment for Costa Rica before registering in August and would encourage you to come too! Menna and I are also in the progress of creating a UK Meet up group and organising a book talk for the UK to inspire more people from the UK to come to the Creativity & Intution workshop in July in Cambridge and to increase our UK community. It’s so much fun to share Transformation in the UK and it’s amazing how receptive people are when you share transformation with them. My mind always thinks I should only share transformation with certain people, however that’s so not true, it’s about sharing it with everyone and then the people who relate to what you say, will ask you more questions, show interest and these are the ones you want to continue to talk to and about moving on from the others that aren’t interested. (It’s like dating – lol)

So if you in your heart feel you would like to come to Cambridge this summer, we would love to have you join us! Here’s the link to find out more about the workshop and to register: http://www.transformationmadeeasy.com/cambridge/ Should you need help with accomodation, let us know and we can help you organise your trip. Should you come a few days before the workshop like some people do, we are planning on getting together to watch a musical in London the days before. Once I have more details, I will let you all know again.

Lots of love from London
Dani
xxx

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!

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

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…

While I was in the midst of all this I still was looking at the couple. Suddenly my eyes readjusted to the faraway situation differently and I just had to laugh out loud: there was actually just one person sitting there very relaxed holding a book and looking down on it. And the coat she sat on had just looked like a second person. I couldn’t stop chuckling about how my eyes/mind hand made all of this up given the opportunity and I had nearly fallen into a drama sequence over it. The young woman I was looking at was sitting there very much at peace and I just loved looking at her.

It’s so wonderful to have Instantaneous Transformation. It’s all around me, the beautiful life, nature, great human beings to look at, chat with! Let’s share it! I feel blessed being a part of this all and the community! Thank you Ariel and Shya and all my friends out there!

I’m going to be in NY for the Creativity & Intuition course end of July and would love to see all of you! So please come along if you can! Life is so precious!

Love,
Ursula
St. Gallen, Switzerland

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.

In all the years I worked with her, I never saw her in a bad mood, nor did she ever quarrel about her destiny or feel sorry about her life.  Her parents helped her wherever it was needed, but most of the time, she wanted to do her things by herself.  She was very disciplined, organized and courageous – sometimes she just asked strangers to push her in her wheelchair, when she got tired or overestimated herself a little bit. She rarely thought of herself as number one or about how she was doing; she thought more about how she could make other people happy and give them joy, along with her brilliant smile.

After she moved, we still had contact for quite a while and then only once in a while.  Around half a year ago, I met her mother by accident and she told me that Christine was in intensive care in the hospital with a serious case of pneumonia and I promised to visit her within the next days.

On the day we had arranged the visit, they placed Christine into an artificial coma, and her mother asked me to stay home and said she would keep me updated on Christine’s state of health.  I counted on that, much to my regret, because after that I got so busy in my life (among other things, with feeling sorry for myself, fighting with life and thinking about how I was doing), that I missed taking action myself and asking how Christine was doing.

A few weeks ago it came back to my mind and I resolved to call the family, which I again procrastinated on, because there were always “more important things” to do.

Last week Christine died at the age of 27 and I think today during the funeral, for the first time I really understood what it means to live in the moment, to take life as it is and live it directly with pleasure, joy and awe – Christine knew all of that and lived it.  I’m sooo endlessly thankful to know her and for the great time we had together.

And today I deeply admire her parents for how much gratefulness they had for all the people who had been with Christine during her lifetime.

I want to say to Christine “ Hey – show them up there who you are, like you showed me!” and somehow I have the feeling that after her long illness, not only did Christine finally find her peace, so did I!! THANK YOU, Christine – you will forever have a special place in my heart!!!

And thanks to you all, my friends, that you are there for me and that I can share with you what I learned today.

I wish all of you and your families a wonderful advent season and if there is somebody you are thinking of, or you haven’t seen/spoken to in a while – just call them!

With love deep from my heart,

Yours, Maiken

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