I learned so much from these courageous, and inspirational Women aka “Living Beauties”. Thank you, Dena Cali, for inviting me to participate at this Wellness Retreat for the Foundation For Living Beauty.  It reconfirmed that I am certainly on the correct path. The path of helping people heal. This will always be one of my most memorable days as an energy healer.  I am moved to tears as I share with you my gratitude to The Creator for giving me this wonderful gift.

*If you are interested in booking an energy healing session with me, please leave a comment here with your email address, and phone number and I will get back to you as soon as I can.  Keep in mind, all comments must be approved before they are posted on this site, so your information will not be viewed by anyone but myself.

…of How Tantra Has Enriched My Relationship

Call in THIS TUESDAY OCTOBER 20th AT 4PM PST to hear my LIVE interview with Embody Tantra founder, Charu Morgan.  We will discuss how Tantra has enriched my intimate relationship with my sweet Dylan, myself, and everyone I come in contact with.  To read more about this FREE Teleseminar and to sign up to receive the call in number visit Tantric Women In Relationship

If you don’t have time to listen to my interview LIVE, you will be given access for 24 hours after the call to listen to the recording.  Or you can purchase the interview for $20 after the free 24 hour time period.  Go sign up now.  See you all tomorrow at 4pm!

Image Courtesy of ScienceDaily.com

Along with the loads of sugar and chemicals that go into the manufacture of most candy, there are also ingredients that are downright spooky.  I would rather if urine and pig stomach weren’t in my sweets, thank you very much.  Oh yes, the good news!!  There are lots of “clean” candies on the market that are easy to find at most grocery stores.  My dear Chloe over at Girlie Girl Army wrote a powerful and educational entry on what’s ghoulish and what’s great about candy.   You will be armed and ready to make an informed decision when you go shopping for your Halloween treats.  CLICK HERE

Ok, so I was looking for something penis specific to blog about since I promised my Male readers that I’d write something special just for you, but I think this entry is really important to anyone who puts a condom on his body or inside his or her body.  So, my For Men Only Post is still in it’s research stage.

Anywho, when I was in the market for using condoms I’d stay away from the ones with Nonoxynol 9 because they were so irritating.  But not only are they irritating (it’s like putting soap inside your most tender parts), they are DANGEROUS if used outside of a monogamous relationship where couples want to prevent pregnancy.  They should NOT be used as a prophylactic from HIV and other STD’s.  Please watch this video, even though it’s old- it’s still accurate.

Trojan has many products without the spermicide.

The Sensual Vegan sells condoms without spermicide and milk proteins.  I would only use the flavored condoms they sell  for safer oral sex…I don’t think fruity flavored items have any place inside the vagina.  Scented and flavored condoms, lotions, oils, and lubes can wreak havoc on the sensitive and beautiful vaginal environment.

So, I was driving this evening checking out the last bit of the Full Moon and thought I should do a post regarding Women’s Moon cycles.  I dusted off and tweaked a review that I’d written back in ‘07 for **The Girlie Girl Army**, an incredibly successful blog and newsletter founded by one of my dear loves, Chloe Jo Berman.  She’s a blogging genius who has given me LOTS of inspiration and has so kindly invited me to be a guest blogger on her superfab site.  Check out Chloe Jo’s interview with Miss. Alicia Silverstone and while you’re at it, you may as well sign up for Chloe’s newsletter.  Once you do, come back and you will find a *gift in your immediate future.

Enjoy, LADIES.  Men, you’ve been forewarned.  I promise to write something just for you to keep things balanced.  Ok, now git outta heeeah!!!!!

“The Diva Cup” Review

Ok Ladies, I have come across an incredible menstrual product!  So put your queasy aside, cuz I’m about to get real honest!  We are Goddesses and have the honor, power and blessing of BLEEDING giving us the ability to hold and nurture a life in our bodies (AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL!!! Whoo hooo!!) However, the products that we use to keep us feeling “clean and fresh” during our Moon Cycles often fail and leave us feeling sticky icky, leaky and totally uncomfortable   I have the worlds most sensitive “friend”- and conventional pads, and tampons tend to irritate My Precious.  Pads would chafe even though they claim to “breathe”, and tampons don’t discriminate which fluids they absorb and would leave me dry and kind of, ahem, raw.

Well, I found a gift from the heavens!!  It’s called “The Diva Cup” which is used internally, it’s made of medical grade silicone so it gliiiiides in easily, and is FDA approved!  The Diva Cup catches the blood inside the cup, and depending on your flow- you can leave The Cup in for up to 12hrs.  It’s totally NOT messy, if you dump it before it overflows.  If you wait too long, then just like any other product- it can get messy.  I used to pack pads, tampons, panty liners, and sometimes an extra pair of panties on my heavy days…just in case there was an “accident”.  Now, I leave home with my Diva Cup and maybe a liner and I’m good to go.  Visit LunaPads.com and order one today!!  It will change your life.  Here’s a promo code 10% off orders over $35: GGA09 This promo code is a *gift from Girlie Girl Army Goddess, Chloe Jo.  Love you, Woman!!

LunaPads Teeny Pantyliner for light days or use with The Diva Cup.  They come in lots of fun colors, are made of super soft cotton, and are machine washable and reusable.  I use these or the full sized LunaPads when I don’t feel like using internal protection. Makes me happy to have discovered a way to avoid contributing to landfills and Ocean pollution every single month. I was guilty of flushing my tampons instead of wrapping and discarding them in the garbage.  That was before a good friend looked at me like I had horns growing out of my afro and showed me the light. Every Woman could use up to 17,000 tampons in her lifetime- so go figure how expensive and wasteful that is. According to the LunaPads site 14 billion pads, tampons, and applicators make it into landfills EVERY year.  Most tampons are chlorine bleached, contain dioxins, and are made with rayon- when used internally has a dangerously high level of absorbency and doesn’t biodegrade very well.

If you must use tampons.  I am a fan of Natracare because this company truly cares about Women’s health and the environment.  Natracare tampons use 100% certified organic cotton, are 100% biodegradable, and are free of harmful pesticides.  They come with or without applicators and are widely distributed so you can easily find them at most health food stores (like Whole Foods) and at VitaCost.com (for 40% less than in the stores)  Even though these tampons are natural and wonderful- please remember the wrap and toss.  Clogged plumbing is expensive to fix and Ocean creatures don’t want our tampons in their living room.

These lights are also called “Energy Centers” or “Chakras”  This video shows the 7 major (and most popular) Chakras, but we have them all over our bodies, hands, wrists, feet.  They correspond with certain colors (note the colors in the video)  I love the music in this video.  Hmm, I think I’ll start doing posts on each of the 7 main Chakras.

Chakra Booster Temporary Tattoos for Chakra Balancing by Vicki Howie ChakraBoosters.com

I’m wearing this Chakra Booster Tattoo on my belly right now!!

Kyanite crystals help balance the Chakras

Breathe through all emotion, anger, confusion, uncertainty…the answers will come. Peace will come. Trust in your body and it’s intelligence. There is wisdom in the breath….

The Neti Pot has been used for centuries in India to irrigate the sinuses of debris.  Daily use  can significantly reduce colds and allergies.  With people sneezing, hacking, and snot rocketting amongst us- we must protect ourselves!!  Here’s how…

$16.95 at HealthAndYoga.com

Stainless steel netipot, attractive, functional, and extremely durable.

SinuCleanse Nasal Wash System $14.99 available at CVS

The Neti Wash Eco Neti Pot ™ Great for travel, non breakable, biodegradable, $13.95

Himalayan Institute Neti Pot™ Salt $1.94 at VitaCost.com

Lobelia Inflata (also known as Indian Tobacco, Pukeweed, Asthma Weed, Gagroot, Lobelia, Bladderpod, and Vomitroot) is a wonderful herb with many beneficial uses and applications.  Our Indigenous American brothers and sisters would smoke Indian Tobacco with a pipe to assist with anything from lung disorders to childbirth.

$9.36 at iHerb.com

I used Indian Tobacco (and went Nicotine Anonymous meetings) to support me while  quitting cigarettes years ago.  Whether you’ve been addicted for one year or 20 years, one ciggy a day or 40, the withdrawal symptoms are no joke.  Lungs struggle to get hardened mucus out, headaches, MAJOR anxiety, dizziness, tightness in the chest, feelings of extreme stress and nervousness are all common symptoms.  Awful, right?  Yes indeedy, but don’t let any of that scare you away from taking on the challenge of quitting.

Naturally sweetened, vegan lollipops for the oral fix

$11.62 at VitaCost.com

Check out all of the things that Lobelia Inflata is reputed to help the human body with.  It is a respiratory stimulant, anti-asthmatic, spasmolytic, expectorant, diaphoretic, nervine, emetic, relaxant.  Did all of that just sound like the wah wah wah of  Charlie Brown’s teacher speaking?  Allow me to break it down!

-A respiratory stimulator, relaxant and anti-asthmatic are self explanatory.

-A spasmolytic (aka an anti-spasmodic) is used to relieve or prevent spasms and spasms usually cause pain, right?  So a spasmolytic can help relieve pain.

-An expectorant is an herb or pharmaceutical drug (which can be derived from an herb) that helps the lungs to break up icky hard mucus and allows the body to expel the mucus via the cough and hack.

-A diaphoretic is an herb that induces perspiration.  This can be useful when one has a fever and needs to sweat it out, or when there is a need to detoxify using every exit possible.

-A nervine soothes nervous excitement.  (Hmm, sounds like Indian Tobacco might be able to help with anxiety.)

-An emetic is something that induces vomiting.  I’ve never heard of anyone needing to induce vomiting as a result of smoking cessation, but this information could be useful for the herbal medicine kit.

So, now that you know some of the ways Indian Tobacco works with our bodies- can you see how how it might work wonders with nicotine withdrawal?  Worked for me!!

*Do your homework, use common sense, intuition and speak to an herbalist about your curiosities regarding the safety of any herb, especially if you are pregnant or nursing.

Everything has got some juice!!  Kirilian Photography can pick up on the energy field of pretty much anything, even a coin.  This is how aura photos are taken.

The image at the very end of the video is of a “Dorje” aka “Vajra” made from foil.

image from dorjemall.com