If you have some lovin’ and you have some honey
Let’s go do!
Let’s go groove!

If you have some
If you have some
Listen, listen

If you

If you

Walk, walk

You’ll find

One hand, two hands

Eyes

In Yes

If you have some lovin’ and if you have some holdin’

It’s time to break it free

If you have some

If you have some

Share, share

Trust that
If you

If you
Do, do

The rest is here.


Inspiring 15 Day Special!
Buy 1 Get 1 Free or DONATE
For the First 20 people/purchases!

A New Year calls for a continuous evolving in our being and thinking and this special has just that way in mind...and heart.   For 15 days, January 4st-19th, you can buy one of any single session or wellness package for massage, bodywork, meditation and/or yoga services and get ONE of the SAME VALUE for FREE!  The FREE comes with a note.  You have a Choice.  With your free session or package, you can choose to keep it for you and your family OR have it donated. 

If you choose to donate the extra session or package, I will keep track of who you are and the amount of the session/package.  At the end of the 15 days, I will choose either various places of need to send gift certificates to or pick a place in the community that has been of great service and the people will be treated to a day of massage, meditation, and yoga.  If this becomes a community offering, a special thank you will be shared for all those who made this giving possible.
   
Be blessed or bless others into vital wellness,
take part in this New Year's Treat!

Make Yourself ONE, Be One Of The 20!
One special per purchase, per person.
Purchase must be made by January 19, 2010.
Cash, check, and credit/debit card accepted (through Paypal)
Free Session or Package will expire July 19th, 2010.
If you make a purchase through Paypal, please email Jennifer at jennifer@theessencestudio.com for your free session/package after payment is complete.
IF YOU DONATE THE EXTRA SESSION OR PACKAGE and would like to to recommend special people or places who/that have shown great service in the greater Phoenix, AZ community for this gift, please send an email to jennifer@theessencestudio.com. 
Thank you!

For more info on services and pricing, click these links:
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NEW Exciting Course!
WED 264:  Acupressure & Shiatsu II
at Phoenix Community College
Saturdays, 9-3:15pm, Feb 27th-Apr 17th 2010
with Jennifer Coomes BA LMT RYT
AZ Residents: $167
26.6 CEUs for LMTs awarded!
Prerequisites:  Director approval needed for any student who has not taken
WED 262 Acupressure & Shiatsu I, please email dianne.geddis@pcmail.maricopa.edu
for approval prior to enrollment.  Class enrollment available to health professionals, massage therapists and students, and anyone wanting to take the class
for personal health development.
For more info and enrollment, click here.



"Decompression"
orginal art by Brian Howlett
used with permission
http://www.brianhowlettfinearts.com/

To This Earth, We Speak...
Awakening Essence Essay

Connect to heaven
Stand on the earth
Embrace your being
Align in the magnificence of your love
Expand your hands
Touch
Humble
Passion
Alive...

Some weeks ago, I was getting pictures in my mind, relationships actually, of what it feels like to walk upon the earth in these times. It wasn’t just my personal walk of feeling the ground beneath me, the nature, the realness of the feelings of every day life, but something deeper to the connection of our “earth walk.” I felt something heavenly about it, bigger than me per say, maybe it was because I had these thoughts while attending a sermon on a Sunday morning. Yet, the pictures stayed with me until much later and I was very excited and mesmerized at the newness of the conceptions. Being a teacher of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I am often looking at life in the relationships of yin and yang, natural law, and elements such as fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. So when I received these pictures in my mind, it was as if I suddenly began to understand the Earth and our times in a whole new way. It went something like this.

There is a rising concept in our emerging culture that the feminine way is being reborn, or a new understanding of feminine is coming into life. You can see it in the media with its messages of “Save the Earth,” “End Global Warming,” and “Preserve the Environment,” and in the consciousness of the meanings of 2012. Alot of this has come from messages about the age of destruction and stress from humanity’s ignorance of the basic needs of our planet and people and our gross use of resources, or misuse of resources. Yet, there has also been advancements in our culture and world way beyond what any of us could imagine or keep up with, whether it's in technology, communication, medicine, or business. By new ways, I mean that we live in times of fast pace technology innovation and global everything, and that there is quite a possibility that our children will learn how to use a computer before they learn how to talk. We live in a time when our ability to be connected has bypassed the stamp and letter for the connection that comes through virtual reality. This is not such a bad thing really, love will travel, but now, faster. Yet, something deeper is speaking, and it’s really not so new, maybe just forgotten.

So how do we understand the rising intelligence to innovate when it has at times led us to forget our innate intelligence (thus consequences) to care for the foundations, health, and values in our lives and the environment as a whole? What I believe and feel is happening is a call for balance, a way to balance innovative intelligence with innate intelligence, thus catalyzing creativity. Out of this, we begin to genuinely listen and tune into the call of guidance helping us to unlearn old or foreseeable destructive ways so that we reconnect with natural and practical ways of balance enabling sustainability on Earth. Our stubbornness, resistances, or frustrations are only a phase until we understand more clearly inside what has already been given. We have been given innateness, and we drive innovation. The marriage comes when innateness creates innovation. This comes more by understanding that the balance of honoring both makes sense, and the more that we care, the more we begin to see the marriage of innovation and innateness as a beautiful and fruitful relationship in our present times. This is the sweetness of a natural and conscious evolution. We begin to create more stability and sustainablity by a creative outlook that is resourceful with stronger foundations that are not just short term solutions, but longer and evolving solutions that embrace the needs of our smaller worlds, greater humanity, and earth with true wealth and prosperity.

The Earth is speaking. Hmmmm? Yes. The Earth is speaking, and this could quite possibly be the best time. It’s her time. In Traditional Chinese Medicine and native cultures, earth is considered yin, feminine, and the great mother. The sky and heavens are considered yang, masculine, and the great father. The planet Earth is composed of yin (inner, deeper, feminine, receptive) and yang (outer, superficial, masculine, expressive) qualities, and yet her core and center is yin and feminine. When assessing in traditional chinese medicine for imbalance of health and energy within a human being, the yang expression of symptoms is a guide to the inner yin root cause. It is often this expression of symptoms that helps us wake up and ask questions to find the source of the inner problem or dis-ease, which has often been manifesting much longer than the outer expression reveals. The yang expression is often doing the talking, but the yin receptive root is often asking you to listen.

What our world has seen much of in the advancement of innovative intelligence without the match of innate intelligence is the over abundance of masculine energy. In and of itself, masculine energy is a gift because it drives action. When masculine energy is out of balance, it creates over-ambition, stress, aggressiveness, toxins, excessiveness, buildup, tightness, and heat. Think of the energizer bunny on an addiction of caffeine. Think Type A personalities, heart disease, cancer, pollution, over-population, and cement where it was green. In our planet, it means we're hitting on the earth too much, our own and the planet. We move her, we uproot her, we poison her, we build on her, and we keep asking her for more without appreciation of her natural qualities, until suddenly they are no longer there for you to see, especially when you would like to see them. What you see is the expression of the yang symptoms of neglect and abuse signaling that we haven't listened to the inner yin and feminine messages. It is masculine speaking and masculine revealed. It is a mirror, which is showing that it is time for balance, receptivity, reflection, listening, cleansing, and re-vitalizing. It is imbalance that can be corrected if we start listening, tuning in, and letting the Earth speak her true and natural voice, instead of one veiled by toxicity.

The truth is, this is beginning to happen already with the help of teachers and media enlightening us on ways of consciousness, organic, local farming, better nutrition, meditation, yoga, and better and natural health. Yet to truly latch the lasting root of inner wisdom, the key to this is to understand the true essence and balance of feminine and masculine energy which helps us continue to reveal and master our innate intelligence. In the real times of our world today filled with challenges and needs, our life practice is needing a specialty in the awakening and growth of feminine energy to ground, root, and relax the mind more. Many might think this is the call for the comeback of Feminism. Yet, often there was much masculine energy in the feminist movement, and this is not just a woman's movement but a wholeness movement. So, what this could be is a re-evolution of Feminism for the importance of understanding more about ourselves and our world.

To this cause, a truer understanding and integration of feminine energy will help awaken the creative rooted solutions for natural flow while decreasing the habits and consequences of destructive mindsets, impulsive behaviors, addictions, and reactive pain-need cycles. It is the feminine energy that truly helps us to tune into our innate center, wisdom, and natural alignment to reveal the deeper, most helpful, wise, and healthy answers. It is the quiet and receptive balancer revealing what is genuine. Masculine energy, however, helps us create the actions of commitment to these deeper answers to drive a balance of innate and innovative intelligence, thus conscious evolution and sustainability. First, we must listen, see, and strengthen our feminine energy so that what is core, genuine, and honest is revealed. This is essence. In this way, we can understand more clearly what we need to clean, remove, or let go of so that we plant seeds in a healthy pot of soil that we can harvest knowing that the gifts of our labor is giving us the most nutritious fruit and food for sustainability.

As we make the conscious choice to tune into the inward feminine energy speaking from the earth center inside of us as well as earth that we live on, there's also a good chance that spirit and spiritualism will be renewed as well. Revitalization in its fullest essence, I'd like to say. Think energizer bunny dancing with jive and rhythm. Think wholeness, vitality, exuberant energy, passion, deep sense of worth and purpose, lightness, vital consciousness (shen), creativity, trust, inner wisdom, genuine love, true compassion, authentic playfulness, respectful collaboration, healthy communication, and fruitful productivity, choices, and harvest. Our Earth walk becomes both inner and outer, root with root, center with center, human with Earth.

When we touch the earth, we know her better because we know ourselves better. Out of this symbiotic relationship, we learn true health, wisdom, and generational consciousness. Separateness becomes union through listening, honoring, respecting, and integration. Man, woman, child, earth meets earth, and deep values and worth blossom. Balance (homeostasis) becomes a more practical choice as a revealed vital expression. When we listen to the deeper messages inside and create actions from those choices and then see the fruitfulness of its expression, it's as if a piece (peace) of heaven is forming. You can look up, look around, and look in, and you can find its expression, whether it's feminine, masculine, or whole. Its also helpful to know that it's not just in one place, but when we give ourselves the time for the feminine source, all else becomes brighter, all else that is manifested is more genuine, all actions have a greater possibility. It is time to listen and let the Earth speak, because she will give the divine answers to the intelligence, flow, and vital call of our times.

Thank you to the ideas and wisdom of many of my teachers that helped to contribute to the essence of these writings. Love...
Namaste,
Jennifer 

 

Tips to Embracing a Supportive Network
supporting Health, Vitality, and Prosperity:

• The universe is abundant with support, affirm that it's there for you and let it guide you toward the perfect fit for vibrant health, vitality, and prosperity in your life!
• Surround yourself with like minds who speak the same language and support you with positive energy.  They will offer great celebration to your success and help guide you when you need extra perspective
• Know that health, vitality, and prosperity already resides within you.  It's simply a practice to see it, breathe it, and live it everyday of your life
• Loosen and release negative energies and thought patterns the might be obstacles or blockages to your vitality and prosperity.  You may not even be aware of them, so a great practice to start might be to say "I release negative energy, obstacles, etc. to health, vitality, and prosperity in my life."  Continue until you begin to feel change.  If you feel yourself lifting into "good space," you're headed in the right direction.
• Release the outcome, think big, it just might get better than you imagined!
• To commit, do one thing everyday that supports your healthy life and prosperity practice.  It could be daily meditation, exercise, affirmations, laughing, walking in nature, making and eating healthy foods, hugging friends, saying "I love you."  Doing something everyday builds commitment, creates change, builds your inner practice, and it just might change a piece of the world at the same time.  Just imagine if many people were doing it!
• Practice gratitude, appreciate t he beauty of life in and around you.  Breathe it in. Breathe it out.  Share!