My story of 2014. Considering submitting as an article so I would love your feedback I feel really grateful in this moment. Buzzed with gratitude. Grateful for 2014 which can be summed up in one word: Transformational! Not only did I surrender my old way of being, I also resigned as a research chemist at 3M and committed my time to building a whole new business offering craniosacral therapy, leading circles and teaching yoga. On March 21, I turned 27 which is the year Saturn Returns for me and often implies life changing events. On my birthday I celebrated World Water Day with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and hundreds of my sisters from across the globe at Montezuma Well in Arizona. We prayed for the water. We prayed for peace on earth. My big take away from my trip was that I am not alone. There are others like me with the same vision- creating peace within ourselves, with others, and the earth. This experience reaffirmed and clarified my vision for myself and the sharing of my gifts. In the summer I was infected by Spirochaete by a tick bite, the organism responsible for symptoms of Lyme Disease. Its fair to say that this was where I hit rock bottom. Broke, no health insurance, and a serious infection! I knew that when nothing is certain anything is possible. I began to shift my thinking. Redefine who I was and what I wanted. I began to see a an amazing herbalist, Rachel Nudd and I started to BELIEVE I could heal. I would heal. It would require much discipline on my part. A strict Paleo diet. No dairy. No sweets. None. Every once in a while fruit served warm. My favorite dessert became heated blueberries with cinnamon and cardomom. My chai tea latte became Reishi mushroom tea with ginger and cinnamon. I was progressing slowly but surely. I began my Kundalini Yoga teacher training in the fall. This was something that had a really strong pull for me in the last year or so. We were given an instructor manual with all sorts of sets of poses, mantra and meditations each with a unique and vital purpose. This was exactly the tool I needed. I went through phases with different combinations of postures and meditations doing whatever I felt would work best for me and what I need to heal. I didnt know if it would work or not, but I had nothing to lose. When I read descriptions of the benefits I would immediately know if the set was right for me. I needed a miracle. Words such as can cure almost any digestive problem and my most recent favorite can clear and rejuvenate the entire system spoke to me. I built my practice up to 2-3 hours a day. Doing anything and everything that I felt could help. And it did. In conjunction with herbs and diet, my yoga helped me come into an embodied healing state. Based on the Teasol test, the Spirochaete is leaving my body and I am 98% symptom free of Lyme Disease. I continue to eat healthy and practice yoga so that I can be symptom free by March and maybe have sweets once in awhile I know that from working through this multidimensional healing I can better serve others in their healing process (I’ve already had a client come to me with Lyme!). The big take away from the process of healing Lyme for me is that it forced me to discover something I would not otherwise and that is Bliss. Not the instant bliss from getting a chai tea latte from Claddaugh Coffee which I maintain is the best in the Twin Cities, but Bliss that is Present with us in every moment if we choose to embody it. Life happens for us not to us. Lyme Disease taught me how to embody my internal Bliss instead of seeking it outside of me, and why I was gifted the name Sada Anand, which translates to Always Spiritually Blissful. I am so grateful for all the experiences of 2014!
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:45:24 +0000
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