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Hi there! Just checking in here to spread the word Seren is back from her holidays raring to share more holistic loveliness with you all xx

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Holistic Wonderland

Hi all,

Hope you Bikram blog readers have been keeping well & sweating it out in style? My other blog where I am now focusing my writing is going from strength to strength. The future is definitely looking exciting now I'm found my true path in life. I am grateful to my Bikram experience and this blog that helped me step forward, sideways, inside out and back to front to discover where & what I should be doing.

This week at Seren we've had an amazing interview with an organic skin care guru Haley from Peachy Clean boutique as well as the usual Soul to Soul musings of the universe. If you'd like to step out of this realm & check out something a bit different head over to Seren Holistic Lifestyles. We are on Word Press now Blogger fans but you can still comment & follow as you do here.

Many thanks & love to you all, have a wonderful weekend xx

Pole Dancing spotlight

First guest post on Seren Holistic Lifestyles. Fitness focus on Pole Dancing...

Keep checking in for daily posts Monday to Friday. If you enjoy what you read don't forget to "Like" us on Facebook for extra posts and giveaways coming soon.

Thanks again for your support xx


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Backyard Chooks - Seren

A lovely post of feathered friends - chickens :-)

http://serenholisticlifestyles.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/backyard-chooks/

New Seren post for Monday!

Happy Monday everyone. New post on Seren:

http://serenholisticlifestyles.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/full-moon-cleansing/

Don't forget to 'like' us on Facebook, your support is greatly appreciated to spread the knowledge of holistic lifestyles. Also keep checking into Seren's FB page as there will be some exciting 'likers' only giveaways coming later on... xx

Inspirational Friday

New post at Seren Holistic Lifestyles..nearly the weekend, shine your lights xx

http://serenholisticlifestyles.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/inspirational-quote-day-4/

Crystal Healing - Amethyst

First in a series of posts related to Crystal healing...

http://serenholisticlifestyles.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/crystal-healing-amethyst/

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New post at Seren

Todays new post by Seren, all about electrolytes - might be of interest to Bikram yogis.


http://serenholisticlifestyles.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/natural-electrolyte-drink/

A fresh new start...

Good morning or evening depending on your time zone. Hope you are all keeping well?

I am very excited to be sharing with you the hot news that I have officially launched my new venture!! Starting today. It has been in the planning stages for quite a while but now is the time to get it off the ground and see how it grows. My life has done a full 180 in the past eight months, all for the best. I've never been happier and healthier. Hence I'd like to share what I've gathered and put into practice with you all. In a small hope that something you may read will help you or at least point you in a direction that is healthful.

If you have enjoyed reading my posts here, swing by my new site. Don't forget to 'Like' us on Facebook too. Your supported is received with gratitude & much love.

So here we go.....

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Travelling Yogini...

Happy New Year Sweaty Adventurers! Hope life is treating you well and you have your smiling happy faces on? Thought I'd drop by & say hi. The above is from my festive trip to SE Asia, us yogini's are such losers busting out yoga poses left, right & centre. Even more so as I finally have got my head on my knee after nearly 3 years. Slowly, slowly does it. 

A year into my teaching adventure and I'm finally 'getting it.' I heard the other day you don't ever fully get it but I'm happy with what I've got now. It was wonderful the day the dialogue was spilling out my mouth whilst my mind was totally focused on something else. (A student's alignment of course!! ;-)) "Oh this is what they mean when you get out of your own head." Love ah ha moments, there are so many. I have forged my own style which is forever evolving by bringing a little 'me' in - same song different voice type of thing. I've definitely mellowed out since I first started teaching. It's not about do or die. Nurture & respect yourself & your body, mind & soul will reward you ten fold.

In more exciting news I am very honoured to be part of a shiny new adventure or venture more like. It's staying wrapped up for now but it's not far off launching. So if you enjoyed reading my ramblings on here you might like to join me in the new place. It's more aligned with what I've been working on over the past eight months. I'm bursting to share but you'll just have to wait a little while longer. 

Until then, stay safe, happy & shine your light - you are brighter than you may think x 

Awesome!

Enough said...

Bikram Yoga Victoria Park

Official Launch poster

It's official Bikram Yoga Victoria Park, Perth is OPEN TODAY!!! First class is at 12pm TODAY, followed by 4pm & 6:15pm. Get down there if you can. Easy to find it's right next door to Officeworks & Red Rooster on Shepperton Road, see map.


The studio is beautiful. This is only a 'soft' opening which means there won't be all the notice boards, pictures on walls & full retail on offer this week. Don't worry plenty of coconut water, drinks, towels and mats available. Fully functioning big, spacious showers and changing rooms too. Loads of parking round the back - 80 spots. Please respect the neighbouring businesses and park out back/side not in front of the actual studio. Thank you!


The heating system is state of the art. The best yet, no cold/hot spots, no vents to hang under ;-) All round consistent heat & air through out. We practiced there yesterday and it's all in fine working order. Best class heat/humidity wise I've taken in ages, very safe. I have to say the carpet is very non slip too, so no excuses for sneaking those feet onto you towel in Triangle! Amazing fancy new head set too, (no over the ears, under the bun malarky!) it's very Beyonce! Everyone will be able to hear the instructions clearly & crisply. 


The grand opening weekend is August 5/6 th. There will be door prizes, food and drinks after the 9:30am classes both days. 


Please come along and support this lovely new studio, it's a great addition to the East Perth community. See you all there Friday night!

Do what you love

Photo Credit: https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethSPeru

Can I say more? Writing comes naturally to me, this has been verified, the inner ME is screaming at me to get back on the blog horse! I love writing....I'm back...watch this space :-)

Credit Links: http://www.insightmagazine.com.au/
http://www.deltawaves.com.au/home.html 

Update on the final post

Apologies all round if I alarmed some people yesterday. Mainly those who actually know me! I AM FINE & NOT ON MY WAY TO THE MENTAL WARD! My creative energies were on overload and I may have come across as an insane nut case but it's all good. I am in a fine & dandy happy place. Again things can be blown out of proportions easier in words. Venting!

Wednesday/Thursday was the Solstice so all sorts of manic emotions and energies were flying around top speed. The Solstice's main energy is balancing but for someone who is unbalanced it can send them in a spin. It effected me greater than ever because I was receiving my personal Soul Mentoring from Elizabeth Peru. It was explained (after my blog rant) I could be feeling between dimensions. Boy was I!!!! Tanty dummy spits galore. One bad comment & I ran for the hills throwing my toys out the pram as I went.

I still stand by my decision to stop writing in here. I found out a lot yesterday about myself that I knew deep down but didn't realize how much it impacted and how important certain elements are in my life plan. My mentoring report is very personal & resonated a lot to me but I won't share the nitty gritty here obviously! But here's a sprinkle.

Creativity is my life, I am a change maker & shaker, for me things will never stay the same for long. I am told I love the public arena and shine in it...oh that's why my soul is drawn to bearing itself to the world in here? My strong points are "I am very good at seeing the potential in others and help them be aware of ways to achieve their goals." (That is why I am a teacher, ego & Soul got a little mixed up yesterday!!!) However with my crippling self doubt I have difficulties applying this to my own life. All makes sense to me. Yesterday I doubted myself so much as a writer & a teacher I was making crazy decisions without listening to my Self, MY inner voice, it was my strong mind running free, shouting so loud I literally could not hear ME.

Knowing this year is the year to change this is why blogging has come to an end for now. I'll leave the door open. I won't delete this as somewhere out there someone might find a useful nugget in here. I've worked hard to get my blog out there & it's interesting to see all the parts of the world I'm reaching out to so it would be a shame to hit the button & end it's life. 

I was mad yesterday, upset by someone I don't even know, someone who didn't even have a profile or a name. Well done my friend you stole my peace but I'm snatching it right back off you with both hands. I didn't want to leave on a sour note so I will continue to write, privately for now, maybe I'll get that book started I've been planning? Or you never know I may pop back up under a different guise....

Final Post

I am saddened to be writing this but I've decided to put my writing on hold for a while. I'm signing off and shutting down this blog. I set it up to start with as a totally subjective journal of my own personal thoughts. Recently I have been feeling the strain to write from the heart, often posting rash thoughts without thinking it through. My posts have been more ego driven & about letting of steam, something that should be done in private not for the world to read. It's not the happy outlet it once was for me. I might be having a big dummy spit over this but hey all things must come to an end at some point. I think writing in here has run it's course for the time being. 

I know by putting myself out there on the www I'm opening myself up to criticism, not everyone will like what they read, I may not like what I am reading in the comments. Ego at it's best. I have received some feedback that has made me aware I am not in a good place right now.

I am truly sorry that the event in a recent post happened. (I am so ashamed of it now I have removed said post.) It involved me letting my ego take over when I was teaching. Life is a learning curve. I have drawn greatly from this and now realize how wrong I was in my actions. Even wronger to publish my out of orderness to the world. I'm grateful no long term damage has been done and the person involved is totally clueless to what I did. They were not ready to face their fears & it was NOT MY PLACE to decide they needed a push. I should do my job, just teach the class by the book. Ego is a tough rock to crack, to fully understand the difference between ego & true loving intentions is frigging hard at times. 

A quote from my Guru Rajashree Choudhury has brought this home to me:

“This is how I always look into it - I teach from the heart. I want people to really experience that because then you are very much true to yourself, because then you can never can betray your heart…The heart and mind have a connection together to make a conscious choice; then you are not blaming anybody.

I do give a very tough class physically. I like people to work with their body more… I don’t challenge people’s ego and fear. Ego and fear they should find inside themselves and recognize that - I call this finding your strength and finding your weakness . I don’t want to bring this to people before they find it for themselves. A person can change when they want to change; a person can find these things when they know they have them – if it is their problem.

Yoga helps you go to the core of sensitivity, open up the consciousness, and waking up that (thought process) ... really to me means self realization.”

Hence I am stepping away from this blog to get myself sorted out mentally, physically & spiritually. It's time to step out of the public arena. Maybe this whole blog was here to boost my ego, 'look at me, read about all the great things I do (or not), make me feel awesome about myself by showering me wonderful comments, fuel my ego, make me feel important.' I'm obviously lacking something in the 'real world' if I'm looking for attention from perfect strangers! Time to get offline & start getting real...

Thank you to those who have followed & read posts. I wish you all health & happiness. 

Namaste.

I want to be a part of it...

....New York, New York!!! 

NYC is on my bucket list for sure. I've not yet ventured to the East coast of the States and there are so many reasons to and so many friends to visit. *Waves at Johanna & Ilana* It's just so far away...

Tomorrow is the Summer Solstice. To mark the occasion there is a MASSIVE yoga event happening in Times Square. Bikram's wife Rajashree is teaching a Bikram class at 12:30pm. Sounds like the heat in NYC tomorrow will be sticky so perfect conditions for some out door Bikraming. I can't say how much I'd love to take this class. It'll be awesome, and it's free. Well jell I tell you. If you are in NYC do not miss this. Raj is an amazing teacher and to practice out doors with hundreds, possibly thousands of people would be mind blowing.

Congratulations Teachers!

Can you believe another BYTT has just come to an end? Well it did on Saturday. 400+ new teachers received their certificates - licenses to kill!! My dear friend Bahar graduated along side the three Bikram Yoga Perth students - Mia, Jason & Helen. 

Big extra congrats to Jason who won the DIALOGUE PRIZE!!!! How exciting. This is a very prestigious award that goes to the person who has the best dialogue out of all the trainees. His mentors Jen & Adam will be most proud I'm sure. I'm stoked the prize is not only coming home to Australia but to Perth!!! We rock don't we us Perth teachers tee hee heee?!! It's a well deserved prize for working hard, doing your homework & generally being a nice all round person to boot. It's great publicity for WA Bikram Yoga too - hopefully some senior teachers might feel a pull to our coasts to see what a buzz Bikram is having here. 

These four new teachers will be coming home to Perth very soon. I am very looking forward to taking your classes. I love a good dialogue class I do!

All the best to everyone in the Spring 12 class, your journey is only just starting, go fourth, teach & most importantly have fun!!

Soul Message from Elizabeth Peru

I've not introduced you properly to 'soul mentor' Elizabeth Peru in full. I will, soon. After my last post I have been left feeling bad and in a fix. It's done, I realise my bad and I must move on. Elizabeth posts daily 'Soul Messages' on her Facebook page. Here is todays:

"SOUL MESSAGE NEXT 24 HOURS: PUTTING LOVE INTO OLD HURTS - Opening the HEART & letting unconditional love flow out & through YOU. You may feel like hugging people, yourself, teddy's & trees. Go on, it's good for you & have a CRY too if you need! You may also feel that no one understands your true loving intentions. Use these feelings to take you to a place of surrender to the past. You are what you choose to be NOW. If you want love, you must FIRST love YOU. It's a HEALING DAY xx" Elizabeth Peru Copyright © Deltawaves 2012 (Please SHARE in full with credit given, thanks)"

 How very true to how I'm feeling today. I have true loving intentions! (Sorry Mark I wrote you an essay length comment reply before reading this, it's in the planets today that I'm feeling defensive & emotional!) As for crying well we all know I'm having a blockage there. More on that in another post! 

Please check out Elizabeth's webpage and 'like' her FB if you'd like to learn more.

Confessions of a busy person

Okay I know I keep banging on how busy I am. Why doesn't she just stop I here you say. I'm sitting here writing aren't I? A little time out for myself. It is revolting outside. High speed winds, rain and a chilling 19 degrees C. I'm teaching a back to back double this arvo. Might be busy as it's definitely not beach weather.

I'm feeling well rested this weekend. I had a lovely chilled day off yesterday which involved a trip to the North Perth studio for a change of scenery and a good ass whopping from Joe. I needed it, my practice has suffered a lot of late, three a week is too little for me. With the crazy planetary activity going on I have literally had the weight of the world on my shoulders. I grind and scowl through Half Moon, by Eagle the pain in my shoulder blades is horrific. Good pain though, after all Eagle does 'open up' the shoulders. Yesterday was hard. I needed the corrections I was given so bad I was very grateful. 

It was nice to share my practice with my fellow TT buddy Kana too. Her mad giggling fit in Camel was awesome, set me off. I don't recommend laughing whilst upside down, it's kind of hard to breathe but at least it relaxed my face! Good fun, followed by a quick sushi lunch before we all headed off for our own afternoon activities.

As usual due to my insane schedule my house work has suffered. This week I shall share what a state my bathroom is in. Back in the days of OCD Kat this was scrubbed within an inch of it's life every week without fail. Living on a farm dust and sand get everywhere very quickly so it is hard to keep o top of it. Now it's more like two weeks, gross I know. It's just not right the room where you get yourself clean be allowed to get dirty? Here is it.... I have cleaned it since these photos it's shiny and the grout on the tiles had at least 20 minutes of personal attention! 

Mess

Dirt, dust, hair on the floor

Grimy sink

The Man's clothes pile

The final picture is the bane of my life. The Man does not put his clothes away, never has, probably never will. His father is the same. When we upgraded the bed to Super King Size there is no longer enough room down his side of the bed to keep this pile. It did get put away but there is just not enough storage space for all his crap. He's a hoarder, he has so many clothes, 100's of t shirt he can never possibly wear, one for each day of the year. But he will not throw anything out. I've tried, I've snook a lot of stuff out to the charity bins but that is soon replaced. All the clothes he wears and washes weekly live in this pile. It's just easier to access apparently. 

Anyway the pile moved to the foot of the bed to the point I could not get in my drawers and I had to climb over it to get out the room. Not good. So I bulldozered it to the lounge and onto the day bed. Here it is and here it has stayed. Clothes come off the line or the drier and onto here. I will not and have not the time to re house this mess into drawers that are full anyway. 

Lucky we do not have people over as it's a disgrace. They wouldn't have any where to sit anyway!! I can not be arsed with it, not my mess, I have more respect for my clothes than to treat them like this. I can lay on my sofa with my back to it all!!

There we go people. The life of a busy person who yes, needs a cleaner!