Dear ones;

This week I was selected as a “Driver of the Month” at work, recognized for a job I had been co-creating for several weeks. I believe this wouldn’t have been possible before hanging out with Ariel & Shya and being encouraged to really go for excellence whether or not I agreed with the directions I got from “management.” So thanks!  This feels great!

This is how the story appeared to all 700+ members of my division, my picture included:

DRIVER OF THE MONTH: FRANNIE RUTHERFORD

Frannie was given the task to migrate our previous email and online sponsorship inventory reports from static word documents sent once per week to dynamic, real-time reports visible across the business unit.  Frannie worked with an IT intern to spec out and refine a new real-time inventory system.  The new reports, created in QuickBase, provide transparency into not only inventory availability for all digital programs, but performance metrics for all our email newsletters.  These new services aid the sales team in quickly and easily finding, sorting and exporting client performance results.  Overall, Frannie’s work is a great example of an important project flawlessly executed.

CONGRATULATIONS, FRANNIE

Hi all,

I just had the privilege to participate in the Freedom to Breathe/ Art of Being a Healer. It was truly magical and I feel great.  I feel so alive and centered.  Cool story, I am in the airport waiting to board a plane.  When I got here, I wanted to work on a strategic presentation that I will be presenting on January 5th and 6th. I knew that I could channel this energy into completing a project that is really important to me. I felt so clearheaded that I knew the words and ideas should come to me.

I spent maybe 35 minutes and I have the basis of my presentation complete.  For one part of this presentation, I thought I didn’t have anything to say.  But when I looked at the questions my CEO posed, answers and ideas flowed!

Plus, I had a magical morning with my husband!  Life is good.

So cool!  I love transformation!  I encourage everyone to sign up for the next workshop.  This community is amazing and Ariel and Shya have created something so special that we need to seize the opportunity and take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself!

All my love,

Corinne

Join us in the heart of the beautiful city of Cambridge, England for an incredible life-transforming weekend. The seminar will be held at The University Centre, overlooking the river, situated next to acres of green fields, close to the Botanical Gardens and only a few minutes walk from King’s College and many other historic colleges and sites. If you stay in the city for the whole weekend, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to see the sites and even partake of an evening of picnicking and punting to enjoy Cambridge at its best in the balmy July weather.

Creativity and Intuition

Increasingly individuals are discovering the power and importance intuitive hunches play in their ability to be creative, successful and satisfied in their lives. In a light and fun way, this workshop will allow you to hone this intuitive skill-set into a fine instrument that can be used to thoroughly enhance your day-to-day experience of living. It will include a series of experiments and exercises designed to allow you to discover and trust your own natural abilities to access and utilize your intuition and creativity.

Dates: Friday-Sunday, July 15th – 17th, 2011
Time: Friday: 7.30pm–10pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am–6pm
Location: The University Centre
Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RU
Fee: £399; a deposit of £125 reserves your space

Give yourself the best gift for the summer! You could register online, find map and travel information, and download a PDF to share with your friends here.

For more detailed information about other payment methods and for location, please contact Menna de sa Barreto: +44 (0)1223 502829 or uk@ask-inc.com.  In the US conctact the Kanes directly.

This week on 6/8: Relaxing Into Your Life

When you are agenda driven and your “I’ve got to get somewhere and get there fast” mind steps in, it can yank you from the flow of your life into the rapids of unwanted turbulence. And yet – relaxing into yourself and the natural rhythm of your day can allow simple little choices to have a profound impact on the quality of your life. Tune in as Ariel and Shya demonstrate how relaxation in a powerful tool for harnessing the flow of the river of life rather than fighting against it’s current. Callers welcome!

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It has been the most incredible day for me.

This is more than twice as much work as I’ve ever gotten done in a day. I’ve finally started to construct some of the sculpture ideas I’ve been wanting to make moves on. I also finished a large painting, cleaned the studio, and did about 7 smaller works on paper using real birds feathers, and some old photographs. nice stuff.

We three were very harmonious, and I could tell that they both were very inspired to take this energy home to their own art work.

There is a feeling in the studio right now that anything is possible. And with my new team, there is a dynamic we have that is big and bold. I like that.

Ariel & Shya, love you both and thanks very much,

Gio

Humor, passion, fun…what does this all have  to do with the projects on your to do list?  A whole lot more than we all thought.  Here are a few things we discovered:

1. If you stop expressing your passion for the things you love, your whole life gets smaller. AND all of the things you’re doing become mundane.  Life becomes about your laundry, rather than the colors and fabrics that inspired you about that clothing in the first place.

   Example: Ed is passionate about mountain biking. Mountain bikes can be expensive, it can be dangerous, time is precious…but by “unreasonably” going for his passion, he becomes more productive, effective & satisfied.

2. When you invest in yourself, the people around you get to share in your brilliance, and so do you!

   Example: Sandy got passionate about her business plan for the new shop she’s going to open in Germany.  Not only was she able to outline every detail of this idea that had only been a fantasy for the last 8 years, she was able to connect with people in the process and share this passion. This engaged their excitement and passions, as well.  She was able to explore the possibilities for her life, community and future.

3. Discovering your passion allows you to connect with a purpose in life that is bigger than yourself.  It pulls you out of your daily complaints, worries, fears and takes your attention off of yourself.  The shift from self-conscious to self-aware can happen in an instant.

   Example:  For Joe, working on cars is not only his profession, but a life-long passion.  Lenore, Joe’s wife, shared about how wonderful it is when he comes home after a long night of working in his garage.  She experiences his passion for how intimate he is with every detail of his work and what a thrill that connection is.  That transfers to how he interacts with her and, needless to say, she loves it.Passion is passion and it always creates intimacy if you share it.

DISCLAIMER: This is just a brief, spontaneous list of some of the things we are thrilled to have discovered.  But, like reading the menu in a restaurant, eating the dish is a whole other experience. Sooo….

We invite you to join us for the next workshop:

Intimacy
Dates: Friday – Sunday, June 10th, 11th & 12th, 2011
Time: Friday, 7pm-10pm, Saturday & Sunday: 9:45am-6pm
Fee: $425
Location: 630 Second Avenue at 35th Street, NYC
Register

Looking forward to meeting you,
Val, Ed, Sandy, Lenore, Stefanie, Joe & Karen

“It’s the greatest gift to learn how to take my attention off of myself and take care of others.”

- Andy Schneeflock, Actor/Acting & Creative Writing Teacher

“The License To Live with Ariel and Shya Kane was brilliant! I find that I am no longer lost in my thoughts of fear, worry and complaint. My days have been busier than ever and I am engaged and interested in all that comes my way. How can it be that my students are brilliant before we even finish the lesson? I notice that I’m not fighting with them in my thoughts. Because I am being gentle with myself I am able to be gentle with them. They get to shine and be brilliant and so do I. It feels easy and lovely. The Kanes are master teachers of the art of listening. If one truly listens then there is magic to be experienced everywhere.”

- Susan Finch, Voice and Speech Coach

“The weekend workshop with The Kanes, License to Live, was pure magic. The level of participation and aliveness in my life has become a joyous natural flow. I am, for the first time , experiencing what the Kanes describe as ‘living your life directly’. A foggy haze has been lifted and I am experiencing clarity, creativity, self trust and well being.”

- Ellen Jackson, Artist

I had an interesting experience today that I thought you might appreciate. Completely by accident I have started cleaning houses for people to make a little extra money. I am enjoying it because it is flexible, and I make much more money than I ever have before! I started with one person and the word spread and now I have 5 clients.

I clean for a law office once a week and the secretary is the one who pays me. Today she called me sounding quite frantic. She said, “Can you clean my house this afternoon, my mom is sick, my boys are coming over tomorrow, I haven’t cleaned in at least a month, I haven’t put away any of my laundry and my dishes are overflowing. I feel so completely overwhelmed!” So I agreed to go over and put her laundry away, etc. When I went in, it wasn’t such a cluttered house, but it was a bit overwhelming because there was a pile of clean laundry 3 ft high on the floor and the rugs needed badly to be vacuumed. But because it wasn’t my mess, and I was getting paid to do it, I just set to it. I would have thought it would take me 5 hours to do everything. But I just kept doing one thing after another and within 2 hours the house looked much better. I realized that Jennifer had probably been worrying about it for hours or even days, and it only took 2 hours! It made me realize how energy zapping my own procrastination is. So many things that I could just do, and then forget about, linger on for days.

Also, lately, I have been taking reiki classes, and I would like to become a yoga instructor. This experience made me realize that I can be a healer in many other kinds of situations. Making my client’s house a place she would like to be in made me feel good and like I was making her life just a little bit easier.

Kirsten

A couple of weeks ago, I was in the Key Food grocery store by my house and as I was leaving, I noticed on the bulletin board a dazzling ad that caught my eye. It was for a housecleaning service. It said, “I will make your place sparkle!” with a very nice font.  Below is the ad for you to take a look at.

The funny thing is that for quite some time now, I’ve been thinking about getting my place cleaned by someone. I’ve been resisting cleaning my place myself and I just thought it would be easier to pay someone to do it. But I resisted even doing that with thoughts of “Why should I pay someone else? it’s my place. It’s not that big. I should be able to do it myself,” etc. Anyway, the one thing I couldn’t resist was this ad. It was like it was meant for me! So I called the lady Nancy and she came over and she cleaned like a demon. She did a great job and she was very professional.

The great thing was that I even got into the act and went into the spare bedroom which I avoid going into because it has so much clutter and I didn’t want to see it. But that day, I went in there and put labels on my folders, and did a massive cleanup: shredding old documents and statements, setting up a spare TV and DVD player, getting my college diploma framed(!), etc. The work continues. I am now cleaning up my closet and re-organizing. I also gave away old books and electronic equipment. (I’m sure someone in my apartment complex is grateful!)

I also have a video game system (Playstation 2 with lots of accessories) that has outlived its usefulness. I simply looked and saw that I’m done with it. So I’ve put it up for sale and it will give me back a lot of space.

I also came across a lot of old journals and took a peek. And that’s all I could bear to do! I had pages and pages in book after book of working on myself. It was unbelievable! I’ve thrown it all out! Some of it was vitriol directed against my dad and I couldn’t even believe that it was me who wrote all that.
My relationship with my dad has never been better and I truly enjoy spending time with both my parents. Our relationship has gotten so much sweeter.

Thank you Ariel & Shya for blazing the path and for teaching us that life recognizes our hearts’ true desires and supports us even when we least expect it. And thanks to everyone in the community with whom it is such an awesome privilege to know and to share my life with.

Love,
Madhu

I want to share some exciting news with you.

After working over 13 years mostly as an actor, I got a new job in Europe’s biggest and most beautiful Spa and Treatment Center near Cologne. The name is Mediterana. For the opening of a new Indian section at the end of August they are building a new team called ‘The Buddha team’ that I am part of. I will be responsible for reception desk, looking after guests, special happenings in the saunas and meditation.

I am also still working on stage; I am playing a very nice part in Pippi Longstocking in a beautiful outside area in the countryside. I auditioned a lot this year for theater jobs and got the most brilliant feedback ever since.

When the possibility of working in the spa showed up, I first hesitated to go to the interview because for working there you usually need in advance a certificate in life-saving, which includes among others 82 feet of diving.  My brain told me that I would never be able to do that: staying under water to swim that distance.  Then I saw that I told myself a lot of stories before that were not true – for example that I can’t ride a horse (something I did almost every morning in Costa Rica this year).  Not to mention that I have to be on stage with Pippi’s horse “Little Old Man” this summer.

So I decided to not listen to that garbage, went to the interview and the most amazing thing happened: When I was there, they told me about the new Buddha-Team that they are going to create, and that they want me to work on that one.  As opposed to the other teams, the Buddha team is not working at the swimming pools and I don’t need the life-saving certificate to get started.  If necessary I can get trained for the certificate during work and I am looking forward to swim 82 feet under water one day.

After I came back from the interview (which, by the way, went very well and lasted more than an hour), I got a phone call and a theater in Kassel (155 miles away from Cologne) offered me two very interesting parts in a play and a musical show for four months.
The next day I got the offer to play a tour around the Christmas Season.

But I decided to go for the new experience in the Wellness Center. I am very excited, because the people there were so much a YES to me and I am having a new possibility in earning money and starting something new and totally different.  I am sure, that this will support me in life and also my acting carreer that I am not giving up.

Thanks everybody and especially Ariel and Shya for for showing me that there are always so many more possibilities than I think.

I am looking forward to seeing a lot of you at the Art of Relating Workshop in September in Hamburg. When you know that this is something you want to do and are not signed up yet – do it! Come! Give yourself the gift!

Love,
Arne