Unlocking Confidence & Character: The Power of Okinawan Karate for Kids
Unlocking Confidence & Character: The Power of Okinawan Karate for Kids
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Author: Sensei Steve Miller
June, 2025
One of the most powerful and important changes we see in our young students is a boost, or even first emergence in self-confidence. Confidence is essential for children because it helps them take healthy risks, recover from setbacks, and become more independent. Confident kids are more likely to engage in school, build strong friendships, and handle challenges...
Author: Glenda Prus
May, 2025
Author: Rachel Tice
March, 2025
Rib flare is a condition in which the lower ribs protrude outward or extend towards the outside of the body. This often causes a visible gap or bulge around the ribcage. Rib flare can occur when the muscles around the ribs, such as the diaphragm or abdominal muscles, are weak or imbalanced. It is commonly seen during breathing or postural changes, especially when one takes a deep breath or stands with improper posture. While rib flare might seem harmless, it can lead to several issues...
Author: Carol Gallentine
February, 2025
There is a story in Greek mythology stating that originally humans were created with four (4) arms, four (four) legs, a head with two (2) faces, and both sexual parts, a hermaphrodite. This being was complete onto itself. They were very powerful beings, and being such, Zeus, the king of all gods, (in Greek mythology) became fearful of their power. If Zeus was the king of all gods, what did he have to fear, is a question that came to my mind, but this is just a myth? So he split the hermaphrodites apart, creating a separate man and woman, leaving them to look for their other half. So thus it begins!
So let’s try to break this down...
Author: Glenda Prus
January, 2025
This month is the final article from The Four Agreements.. Always Do Your Best.
We always should do our best. No more and no less. However, we also need to keep in mind that our best changes from day to day. Your best will change with how you feel physically as well as mentally. On days that you feel refreshed and healthy, your best will be different than if you are tired and ill. It will also be different according to your mood: if you are happy as opposed to sad for example. Regardless of the situation still do your best.
Author: Glenda Prus
November, 2024
The main problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth even if they are not. Sometimes we make assumptions about what others are thinking or doing. Of course, because that is not enough for us, we then take whatever we think they are thinking or doing personally.
Now let’s just consider this a little closer...
Author: Mary Skupinski
September, 2024
As I sit here on this beautiful late summer Sunday, I’m reminded of my second favorite place on the planet…the Lily Dale Assembly in Cassadaga, NY.
Author: Glenda Prus
August, 2024
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-Melody Beattie
Have you felt in the winter months you tend to feel cold and your skin is dry? You crave foods that are sweet and fat, and as winter ends you would like to lose some weight? During the summer you tend to be hot and more cranky and irritable? You have a craving of foods that are cold and light? Have you felt in the fall that your thoughts are swirling in your head and you feel ungrounded, like something is missing? The human body is aligned with the laws of the Sun, the Moon and the Earth. Whatever happens...
Author: Glenda Prus, RN, Reiki Master
February, 2024
This is the second in a series of articles about the work of Don Miguel Ruiz.
The First of the four Agreements was Be Impeccable with Your Word. The second of the Four Agreements is Don’t Take Things Personally.
This Agreement is a real show-stopper. We have a difficult time putting this agreement to work in our lives. Oh, we say we can do it. But just let...
Author: Carol Gallentine, LMT
January, 2024
Sound is all around us, it permeates every aspect of our lives, from our alarm clocks in the morning to the whispering of the leaves in the branches of the trees. How much of the sound you hear on a daily basis is tuned out by your inner senses?
Sound has been around forever. Shamans, Medicine men/women, and healers use sound as a way of connecting us to our Spirits, our inner landscape, the Universe, and beyond. Sound travels on waves of vibration, creating various frequencies, that can...
Author: Mary Skupinski, RN, Reiki Master
November, 2023
November is upon us and so is my favorite holiday. I’ve always been particularly fond of Thanksgiving and those feelings have just increased as I’ve become older. It seems appropriate to write a piece about gratitude.
As I was thinking about the word gratitude, it struck me that it is a perfect length for the feeling it represents. For gratitude is much more than a sentiment...
Author: Darylanne Pearson
October, 2023
Science has proven that the entirety of the universe is made up of tiny particles with electrical charges: protons, neutrons, and electrons. These particles move, revolve around each other, push, and pull, and everything in the cosmos is made up of them. So, it is easy to see that...
Author: Marilyn Romero
August, 2023
Once upon a time, there was a woman who thought she knew how everything worked. She knew what she should do, but more importantly she knew what everyone else should do as well. She was very devout in her religion and that fact validated her righteousness in her mind. Even so, she prayed every day to know the face of God. (After all, once she accomplished this, she could be even clearer about what everyone else needed to do.)
Author: Emily Lawrie
July, 2023
Grief is the trickiest of emotions, the stickiest of feelings, and something no one enjoys talking about. It’s something that can’t truly be felt by anyone else, because grief feels so different to every one of us. And in my experience every grief process feels slightly different too. The place it’s coming from, the person you lost, the experience you went through. The energy of each situation places us somewhere...
Author: Danielle Barski
May, 2023
PEMF stands for Pulsed Electromagnetic Field. This therapy applies magnetic energy to the body in frequencies similar to those found in nature ranging from 0-30hz. It was originally developed and used by NASA & Soviet cosmonauts to maintain the health of astronauts in orbit, by reversing the effects of being removed from earth's magnetic field. This therapy has been accepted and used in Europe, particularly in Germany, for decades– thanks to the Soviet space program. PEMF therapy didn't become popularized
Author: Rhonda Carrier
April, 2023
However, out of all the schooling and training I have taken over the years, The Healthy Breast Yoga Teacher Training (March 2012) is by far one of the most important contributions I can offer my students. This certification expresses for me both professional passion and personal pride. I was encouraged and inspired by Kendra Holliday. She not only encouraged me to take it, but inspired me to complete it. For those of you who did not know Kendra, she was the owner of EE.
Author: Carol Gallentine
March, 2023
We recently experienced an ice storm that caused our electricity and landline phone to stop working. The house was silent and at night shrouded in darkness. We live on a dirt road, deep in the country, and dark is really dark. I found myself singing, “Hello darkness, my old friend, I have come to talk to you again”, every night.
Author: Rachel Tice
February, 2023
Massage Therapy is not only relaxing, but it is extremely therapeutic! Some of the benefits of Massage Therapy include increased range of motion (joint and muscle flexibility), decreased stress levels, reduced pain, reduced muscle soreness, increased productivity, increased athletic ability, improved muscle tone, and much more! Many people receive massages on a monthly basis or once every few months, but is that the best for their musculoskeletal needs? Here we are going to give a brief overview of how often one should get a massage.
Author: L. Gordon
November, 2022
It is my belief that building better individuals, which builds better families, which builds better organizations, which builds a better society, which builds a better world, is our collective calling while on Earth.
The changes needed to accomplish this starts with you but change can be a little scary for most. So what is holding you back from being the best person you can be?
Could it be shadow beliefs?
Author: Bridgid Mote
October, 2022
To most individuals, the higher dimensional energies are in the realm of invisibility. Those with gifts of clairvoyance are able to perceive the beauty of these realms. One such realm is the world of crystalline energies.
The physical beauty of crystals and gemstones is easily perceived and much sought after by those who appreciate their natural gifts of beauty and light.
There is also a more subtle interaction that occurs when choosing crystals.
Like ourselves, the crystals are made of various minerals and elements which give...
Author: Marilyn Romero
Septemeber, 2022
Peace and Blessings to each of you as we enter this autumn season. Autumn is traditionally a time of harvest and abundance. In our modern society, it is often a time of reorganizing our lives and a change of focus. Summer vacations are behind us, and many of us...
Author: Glenda Prus
August, 2022
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
When asked if we are as good as our word how many of us would exclaim, “Well of course I am!”
Yes, we give lip service to keeping our word but if we give a closer look we might...
Author: Sandy Davidson
July, 2022
Sometimes in my readings for clients, I am asked “What are my gifts?” or “When will my gifts appear to me?” The truth is we all have gifts. No matter whether you are a natural psychic medium or not. Little Jimmy has it and your friends have it too. They just do not know it or like a skeptic - choose to refute it.
Author: Glenda Prus
May, 2022
And so it is that we move from season to season, from being a child to an adult to a senior citizen. Each phase has a new beginning and an ending. Each phase requires that we acknowledge who we are and who we are going to be.
Author: Marilyn Acton-Dowell
April, 2022
Transformation is about becoming “brand new.” Transformation is about generating a new experience, results, and vision that are not based or justified on some historical precedent. It is about wondering, and to extravagantly imagine what is possible.
Author: Emily Lawrie
March, 2022
For me- winter is beautiful, but it is also a time of stagnation both physically and spiritually. So when the temperature starts to rise and the sky opens up for the sun sometime around March, it feels as if life is also opening. It feels as if there is suddenly new life and new possibilities all...
Author: Laura Garberick
February, 2022
“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” - Maya Angelou
Every day when I wake up, I go outside and lift my head to the sun. I close my eyes and see the red underside of my eyelids. I feel warmth. I take a deep breath and release all of my thoughts. Listening to the sounds of my yard and letting...
Author: Marilyn Romero
January, 2022
Peace and Blessings to each of you as we embark on another year together! So what shall we create together? And make no mistake, we will create this year together. Every word, every thought, every action sends energy into the field, and out-of-the-field experience is born. What will be your...
Author: Carol Gallentine
November, 2021
At times, in our lives, we find we are challenged with circumstances from our past, that create our current lives. Ideas that were shared with us as children, experiences that happened to us along our life’s pathways. From the time of our conception...
Author: Mary Skupinski
October, 2021
I’m not sure about you, but for me, Autumn has always brought about many feelings. As the wind changes and cooler temperatures settle in, the earth prepares us for quieter times of reflection. For me, these feelings come to a peak around...
Author: Bridgid Mote
September, 2021
The term “sacred geometry” is often used to refer to proportions, shapes, and patterns that reoccur regularly in Nature. The Ancients observed these repetitions of numerical relationships and assigned Divine...
Author: Leslie M. Wireman
August, 2021
Mindfulness is the practice of being fully present in any given moment, not having the thoughts of what occurred before, or what may be next in your awareness, just “being” in this present moment. Often in today’s busy world, we find ourselves occupied with worry of what we have to do, what is going to happen next, what...
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