Soul Expression

During a recent rant session (unfortunately for my spirit guides, these are like massive WTF rants that I direct at them when I can't figure out my path and get uber frustrated. This happens more than I'd like to admit) my beautiful teachers is spirit said to me, "There is a natural rhythm to life, a flow that already exists. You can co-operate with that flow or try to meld the energy of that flow to your liking." I think we all know what it's like when we try to 'meld the energy to our liking'. That's where we get the whole swimming upstream experience. One reason we do this is because we are mostly more connected with our heads than our hearts, where that natural flow makes sense. It doesn't make sense to our heads. In order to sync with that flow we have to trust, which the brain says is LUDICROUS. Trusting is for dummies, says the brain. It is how people end up having the net pulled right out from under them. No good! Also, flow means we ha

I overdid it this week. Pushed too hard. Tired of my prolonged lethargy (it takes me a while to come out of my winter hibernation) and subsequent lack of muscle tone and cardio prowess, I decided to get my rump in gear and get active. I've embraced a vigorous daily yoga practice and made a commitment to walk or hike every day. This being my first week, and feeling pretty excited about getting in better shape, I didn't really moderate my activity. Every day I taught my yoga classes, then also did my own practice, then made sure I got a solid hike in. Mind you, this is going straight from the sloth state. Now, nearing the end of the week, my body is like, "wtf?" Yesterday I was on my mat (trying to squeeze in my own practice before going to teach a class) and ten minutes into class I realized I made a terrible mistake. Between teaching and taking classes all week my body was tired and not up for this. Crap. 65 more minutes. I examined my options here. I could push

Whew! Rough couple of days! I've been down in the dark and scary but I've resurfaced and found a tremendous amount of wisdom in the experience. I had forgotten how to see the  full  range of my human experience as a contribution to the greatest good and this imbalance was wrecking me. Before you get to the video below (sticking with this video format for a while) please know that I am NOT suicidal! The video is raw, I share the things I felt during a recent struggle and I share feelings of wanting to be done with the earth plane. I was in no way actually considering suicide nor do I have those tendencies. I let myself feel the depths of my sadness and I didn't hold back in sharing that. Just wanted to make it clear that I'm okay and never intended to act on those feelings! No worries :) I've learned that it can be not just counter productive but utterly detrimental to my path to overvalue certain aspects of the human experience (where I want to be, who I t

Hi friends! I've been struggling a lot lately with the destruction of our planet. How to help? How to deal with my anguish over this? How not to hate people for destroying the earth out of greed? I was working on this blog post today and having trouble getting my thoughts into words. The guides suggested I do a video instead. To be honest, this totally freaked me out! I'm not so comfortable with the video medium but decided to give it a shot. Here goes :) In Love, Heather Click here to view video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8dw3vTZU9E&t=2s

Hi friends! Each week I contribute to an online group where I post a message channeled by my teachers in spirit and I wanted to share this one with you. I've had a lot of conversations lately with people who seem to be completely frustrated and bogged down with this business of being human. What we are forgetting is that we are being human during a time of great shift and change. It's not easy, but it's beautiful. I hope their message offers some clarity, or at least some reassurance, during the heavy times along your path.                          〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜 "We see each of you and we see what beautiful souls you are and what beautiful work you are doing. We are talking about the work of being human. We see you evolving and growing and shedding your skin to continually step into fuller radiance. And yet, we also see you discouraged and distraught. We see you accepting beliefs that you aren’t doing enough, that you aren’t good enough, that yo

Breath is life. It sustains us, it nourishes us, and it is the thread of life running through all of us—connecting us. Our breath can also be our greatest tool for transformation. As a yoga instructor I'm constantly emphasizing focus on the breath. At times I feel like a broken record, repeating instructions to “connect with the breath” and “move with the breath”. And yet it is not something I can stop talking about because it is so incredibly essential to our practice, and beyond that, essential to our navigation of everyday life challenges. However, despite knowing this,  I wasn’t truly practicing it in my own life. I paid attention to my breath periodically and intermittently, either during mediation, or occasionally when I needed to focus. It wasn’t until I bumped up against some major discomfort and anxiety that I began to really practice breathing as a tool for transformation. I’m not even talking about specific breath exercises here; I’m talking about simply brea

We have a new administration coming in this week, and a controversial one at that. This morning I sat down with my teachers in spirit to receive guidance on the "bigger picture" of this. Here is their message:  If Hillary Clinton had become president the current levels of discord and corruption would have continued in your country unchallenged. She represents the status quo in politics and had she won people would not have been roused to action. Donald Trump has brought to clear light the current injustices and issues of inequality that need to be healed and he is so controversial that he roused people from their complacency. There is no question that things need to change in your country and in order for those changes to occur, the people need to act. Something, or someone, needed to wake people from their slumber and initiate this action. This new administration won't so much determine the direction the issues go in as how the people respond to this ad