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Birthday Thoughts

Namaskaram,

Hello and Birthday blessings to all you March babies. This is my favorite month of the year as it is when I celebrate my own birthday. Monday the 31^st is my day when I came into this world. Some people do not like to celebrate their birthdays or they keep it secretly hidden. Well, I am totally the opposite. If there is a day to celebrate, I want to go all out and have fun.

In my family birthdays have always been richly celebrated with a family dinner, friends, a yummy cake, and a ritual of making the birthday person feel uniquely special. My mom always had a way of surprising us with simple heartfelt things on our birthdays. Sometimes I used to even play hooky and just hang with my mom.

This year my greatest birthday wish is going to be fulfilled. My mother, sister and niece (Bella) are arriving in Florida on the 1^st of April. This makes up for them only coming once this year to Florida. Nothing could make me happier than to have them here. We have always been extremely close, so I could use a good dose of the comfort of family. When I tell my clients and friends how long they will be staying , I get a funny look and remarks like “wow, that is a long time” or “are they staying with you the whole time?” Yes, I proudly respond. They can stay as long as they want. I guess not everybody can tolerate their family for this length of time.

Those of you celebrating a birthday…….Do something extra special for yourself. I believe you should pamper yourself on this day.

Usually I take my birthday off. This is a rule. It is a day you deserve to be off and doing whatever your heart desire’s.

One of the things I am doing this year is going to go skydiving and get a nose ring. I have wanted to sky dive for many years. I have many dreams where I am flying so I figure I need to check it our in real life. The nose ring….well, I love the way it looks. I'm not in to extreme body piercing but like the uniqueness on a nose ring. I have thought about it for a few years but now feel compelled to go for it. Why not…we only live once.

I have a birthday wish, just one that I am asking from me to you. I would love it if you could send me a picture of yourself. Let this picture be different and interesting or crazy…well, not overly crazy. It could be you in your favorite yoga pose or doing something else you love. Along with the picture, include one of your favorite quotes. It would be neat to see some face to the names we hear from. We will post these on the site and everyone can check them out. I find it so interesting and inspiring to read quotes. If you prefer to give us something other than a quote… do that! Inspire me with what moves you to laughter and pure bliss and abundant creativity.

“Let go of the thought that “I am this body,” “I live in this particular time and place,” or “I am I.” Dive into the awareness of being everything all the time. -Anonymous

The Alien Biker

It is official. Today I had my first bike ride in Florida and I now own a bike. I have not had a bike in many, many years. It was an early birthday gift and one that I am totally excited about. What a different perspective to be on a bike, instead of in my car. I biked to Harlan’s office and home. When I strolled in to the office in my nifty white helmet and sun glasses, Sandra (Harlan's assistant) couldn’t hold back her laughter. I did resemble an alien.

Being on my bike felt so different. It was the same kind of feeling as doing your first inversion in a yoga class and feeling foreign sensations in your body. I took some side streets and breezed alongside the cars. I loved the wind blowing my hair and calm feeling I had as I looked at everything on the way like it was the first time I had ever seen it. Everything made me smile. I was on my own planet ride and loving it.

Yoga is in everything we do. As I was smelling the fragrant air, feeling the warm lighted rays of the sun on my skin and pedaling with ease and grace, I had my AHHHH moment. I am in my yoga zone.

There are thousands of people who do not practice traditional yoga asanas and may no nothing about yoga or ever try it, but they could have had the same yoga high you do but be attaining it through a different activity. When we find an activity, a desire to be and act creatively or the spontaneity to try something new, we become absorbed by the present moment. We enter a zone. There is yoga everywhere and in everything. Connect to the liberation and freedom that arises when you dare to tread to a new zone.

May you all be blessed with the knowingness to trust your inner guide and the courage to express your authenticity.

Jai ma,

Om Shanti

Sara

Could Restoraflow Be The Yoga of The Future

Last week Sara showed me two full Restoraflow practices. Wow!

You see, as a Baby Boomer, I am your target market. My body is starting to tell me slow down. For the first time in my life I am feeling aches and pains and I know yoga can be the answer.

In the past, Sara has led me through traditional restorative practices. Want to know my thoughts? I'd never do these day after day. But in Restoraflow, I'm healing my body issues at the same time that I'm getting my body moving.

Just a few openings still remain for Sara's retreat in Costa Rica. If you are serious about making a career out of yoga, having clients who are passionate about working with you is where you want to go.

Sara and I worked out the details of the marketing plans we'll be sharing with you in Costa Rica. It will put your marketing on auto-pilot. We can't think of anything we've left out. (Sorry. You'll have to deposit the checks from grateful clients all by yourself!)

You can find out the details here...

"Organic" Beauty Products Found to Contain a Petro By-Product

Hi there, it's Sara again.

Gasoline being used to make "all natural" face cream?

I have some breaking news to share with you, today. It may sound a little grim, at first. Don't worry, I offer a solution at the end of this email that you don't want to miss. So make sure you read the whole thing.

On March 14th, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) released a study showing that many "organic" and "natural" beauty care products contain 1,4-Dioxane. The manufacturers don't even list this carcinogenic contaminant on the labels.

Independent researchers only discovered it when a reputable third-party lab performed its own tests on behalf of the OCA.

I'll share with you some of the brand names to watch out for in just a minute. First, I'd like to say...The Word "Organic" is Becoming a Very Loose Term These Days

Why would "natural" beauty care products use these cancer-causing ingredients?

Simple answer: Most beauty-care products include harsh ingredients that damage your skin. By using Ethylene Oxide (a petro-chemical) they can remove the abrasiveness -- leaving behind the deadly 1,4-Dioxane as a by product.

1,4-Dioxane doesn't just cause cancer. According to the California Environmental Protection Agency it can seriously damage your kidneys, lungs and nervous system.

It's hardly what you'd expect to find in organic and natural beauty products. Some of the brand names you may recognize, including: JASON Pure Natural & Organic, Giovanni Organic Cosmetics, Kiss My Face, Nature's Gate Organics. I'll give you a link to the full report at the end of this email.

Just Imagine What NON-Organic Cosmetics Contain...

We are seeing the same situation in the beauty "care" industry as we've seen with food products. If you're at all health-conscious, you realize that the only way to ensure a good meal these days is to make it from scratch.

So why aren't people using the same approach for beauty care products?

Are we Brainwashed to Think Beauty Only Comes From a Bottle?

Why has cleansers, shampoos and moisturizers been made so complicated, that the only way we think we can get our daily dose is out of a bottle?

Most beauty care products -- even the ones using 100% organic ingredients -- are not necessarily natural for your skin.

Alcohol, for example, is often used -- this is a drying agent, plain and simple. Why is it there? It's used to preserve the ingredients from spoilage. Otherwise, how could you have these "natural" ingredients sitting in moisture.

Refined oils, emulsifiers and harsh cleansing agents are other common ingredients. They all damage your skin and hair in the name of "beauty."

Sure, they provide some short-term results. Yet who hasn't experienced those dry winter months where you are constantly whipping out the moisturizer to keep the skin on your hands from cracking?

Vice versa, if you're the oily type, you know what it's like to be constantly fighting blemishes and acne. Ironically, the same cream you use to get rid of it is actually congesting your pores and making it worse. Your skin is also meant to detoxify. But it can't do so if you are plastering yourself with grease.

In order to stop natural ingredients from spoiling, they must be refined, made into artificial counterparts or mixed with preservatives. That's just how it is.

That's how you get ketchup to last for months, without going bad.

You see, it's already bad.

As With Food So With Beauty Care

Same goes for beauty care products. Anything natural wouldn't do well being left in a warm bathroom for a month.

Which brings up the question... if you're not into feeding your mouth processed food, why are you feeding your skin processed food? Your skin absorbs whatever you apply. All that goop people put on their skin gets fed directly into their bloodstream, nervous system, joint tissue, vital organs... their brains.

That's why it's so important to learn how to make your own beauty care formulas. It's not that hard. You don't need all those ingredients you can't pronounce from the fine print on the labels.

You can actually make all your own beauty care products, in minutes, mixing together fresh base oils, essential oils, spices, herbs and other food products. Fresh, is the key world here.

How to Experience Beauty Naturally and Effortlessly

In a few days I'm going to send you the link to a new website by a natural health doctor in California. She specializes in homemade natural care products. She has Ayurvedic recipes dating back 3,000 years, from ancient India storehouse of Ayurvedic wisdom.

The site's not quite ready, so I can't give you the link right now. When it does go up, however, I'll let you know.

You'll immediately be able to go over and read an article by this Ayurvedic expert explaining the little known link between health and beauty. Then, you can opt-in, for free, to receive an Anti-Aging Report that reveals Ayurvedic methods to naturally avoid premature aging.

What's more...

You'll be instantly "enrolled" (again at no charge) in a TWO-week ecourse on how to discover your own natural state of beauty from an Ayurvedic standpoint. It'll include audiovisual presentations and two live teleseminars with the doctor.

All coming to you very soon. So stay tuned for future emails about Ayurvedic beauty secrets.

All the best,

Sara

P.S. You can read the full report from the OCA on toxic chemicals being used at natural beauty products by clicking the link below. It includes a list of brands found to be using 1,4-Dioxane...

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