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 Transformation Community,

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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… Read the rest of this entry »

Ariel & Shya talk about their book, Being Here, and the power of the stories it contains to amuse, entertain and enlighten.

DOWNLOAD the Video Mini-Session to your computer (m4v file format, 30.8 MB)

Dear friends,

As many of you know, I will leave the army in Germany end of June and had been looking for a new job after the army. And now I got it. I just signed my new work contract. Yeah!!! I start working on July 1st as a logistic consultant for a quite big company in Hamburg and most of my new clients will be in Hamburg, as well. So I also have the chance to stay here in Hamburg. It was so easy to get this job. I had two interviews in the last few weeks and everything was so nice and so in a flow. I had the interviews with the regional director; we both liked each other from the first moment we met and I guess it is really the right company to work for. I especially felt this after the 2nd interview, which I had two weeks after our workshop in Hamburg with Ariel & Shya that was really brilliant.  I’m so happy about that and thank you all and especially Ariel and Shya so much for the support you gave me. It is really wonderful to be part of this community. Read the rest of this entry »

Lately, I found it challenging to stay in the moment. There is a lot of chatter going on in my mind and my breath is shallow.  On one of this “lost in thoughts days”, it was while walking to my work place, I came up with a game (out of the blue) that I started to play immediately!

Greetings to the Transformational Family,

I am writing about a Transformation I have had in the last week. So much of what Ariel and Shya say is brilliant and profound. You hear it and it makes such sense. Then it drops back into your mind, only to be reawakened with a giant WOW – now it really makes sense – bang – Transformation.

I had such a revelation. I had a private session with Ariel and Shya last week. I had intended to talk about my work as it is in the forefront of my mind and I am looking forward to attending the workshop this weekend, Transformational Time and Project Management with Ariel and Shya in New York.

As usual, Ariel and Shya demonstrated their great perception and ability to listen and very soon our conversation took a turn away from work and to my relationship with my wife. My relationship with my wife Nancy has been wonderful and Transformational, but as it turned out we had a disagreement the night before my conversation with Ariel and Shya. I had minimized its overall significance and essentially dismissed my wife’s feelings as being a mechanical reaction to me. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Friends,

10 days  ago, I thought it would be a nice idea to send my mother some flowers at Mother’s Day, May 9th.  So I went in the Internet to my online flower shop and checked Mother’s Days flower bouquets. They were beautiful, but nothing really touched my heart. So I checked the other offers, and suddenly a stunning bouquet of a dozen large red roses popped up. A beautiful heart shaped tin box with filled chocolate was attached.  It looked just gorgeous! Then my little voice in my head started: “No, this is something for lovers, not for moms.” And then I saw, they are only available tll April 30th. Ok, enough resonable reasons to forget about it. I looked for something else, and one minute later I jumped back to the roses.  They looked so incredible precious and beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »

Dearest friends,

This last workshop was an incredible gift! So many things have been happening for me since.

Yesterday (it feels like so many days) I saw how I had a choice to go into a drama or not. My daughter Ayla told me she had gotten a Latin exam back and she had a 5 (very bad grade). A little later I noticed I was feeling very dramatic, with all the body sensations that go with it, but I actually saw that I could just carry on, finish work, go to my acting class, and deal with Ayla when I got home. So that’s what I did, leaving out the drama and I felt great, even with Ayla’s bad grade. Then at acting class the theme was sensuality and I got to act this out with a partner that would have been the last on my list of preferences and again I dropped the idea of not having the best partner in an instance and instead took care of him. My idea of him was that he is stiff and insecure, but how he showed up was brilliant! We had a wonderful time creating a dance on our office chairs, rolling around the room elegantly and this boy was actually a lovely man.

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Hello all you awesome people!

Back in October I auditioned for a group called The Story Pirates.  They hired me and I’ve been acting in many of their school shows and have started to teach with them all over New York.  But about one month ago, an amazing thing happened.

Every Saturday, at the Drama Book Shop in New York City, the Story Pirates do a show in the black box theater downstairs.  I was rehearsing for one of the school shows and one a break, mentioned to the Artistic Director, Lee, that my parents were coming to town and I was going to bring them to the main stage show.  Lee asked, “Do you want to be in the show?”  I was kind of in shock.  They told all us newbies at training that it might be a long while before we where asked to do a Main Stage Show.  But Lee said, “I think it’d be really cool for your parents to see what you do.”  So I, very excitedly, said yes!

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