In This Issue

• Retreat into the Art of Vibrant Living: Nov 8-15 •

• 2009 Yoga Teacher Trainings and Intermediate Module •

• Upcoming Events •

• Discovery and Uncommon Sense •

• Five tips for Boosting Your Superhealth and Happiness•

• Raw recipe: Simone's Divine Choco Cheesecake•

• Astrological
Tidbits•



Upcoming Events

• Nov 8-15, 2008 •
Retreat into the Art of Vibrant Living,
Ubud - Bali

• May 10 – June 7, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training
Ubud - Bali

• Oct 18 – Nov 15, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training,
Ubud - Bali

• Nov 18 – Dec 3, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga Intermediate Module,
Ubud - Bali

In love and service, Daniel Aaron Radiantly Alive Ubud, Bali, Indonesia www.RadiantlyAlive.com

Retreat into the Art of Vibrant Living: Nov 8 - 15, 2008

Imagine eight days of Vibrant Living Yoga and organic living food in paradisical Bali – an opportunity to rejuvenate, inspire, and retreat into a week for you. Retreats allow us to step out of our regular lives so we can return to them stronger, clearer, more focused and content.  Join us in November and immerse yourself into the Art of Vibrant Living: Tap into your breath, inner strength, and true potential through daily Vibrant Living yoga classes with Daniel Aaron and friends. Nourish your body, mind and heart with the delicious and nutritious creations of Simone Powers. Enjoy transformational breathing sessions, Art of Vibrant Living workshops, excursions into the magic and culture of Bali. Replenish and rejuvenate yourself and find inspiration in the tropical jungles of Bali. Note: register before October 1st, and receive an early registration discount. Contact us at retreats@radiantlyalive.com or +62 337 823 719 to register, or for more information, visit our site.

2009 Yoga Teacher Trainings and Intermediate Module

Inspired by the momentum from our wildly successful Vibrant Living Yoga teacher trainings and intensives, we’ve not only already confirmed next year’s incredible faculty, but excitedly announce that we’re expanding our program to include new elements in 2009. Join Daniel Aaron, along with Tim Miller, Louise Ellis, Edward Clark, Dave Stringer, Alanna Kaivalya, Simon Borg-Olivier, Wah!, Gabriel Cousens MD, Shanti GoldsCousens, Emil Wendel, and Alastair Prentice, and dive deeply into a spectrum of today's yogic styles, including Jivamukti, Iyengar, Astanga and more. Discover how you share yoga by learning what's come before you. This 2009 we’re offering two ‘level one’ yoga teacher trainings: May 10 - June 7, and Oct 18 - Nov 15. Whether you are interested in teaching, already teaching, or want to further your yoga practice, these uniquely powerful events allows you to dive deeply into extraordinary living, yoga and teaching. Also new in 2009 is the first of our Vibrant Living Yoga Intermediate Modules, Nov 18 – Dec 2, which count towards a 500-hour Yoga Alliance certification. For experienced practicioners, these two weeks offer the opportunity to further develop your experience of yoga with intensive study with Daniel Aaron, Edward Clark, Tim Miller and more. Visit our site for more details, or contact Heather at ytt@radiantlyalive.com.

"Discovery and Uncommon Sense" continued

When I explained to my guest what was causing my body’s response to the cleansing and detox program I’d started (I’ll tell you in a minute), she asked ‘why are you doing that?’ A good question. If there’s a greater level of super health and well being available to me, I’m motivated to experience it. And I take it as my responsibility (ability to respond) to test out something that seems a potential aid to our super health so that I can share my experience with others. First I let you know I have nothing invested in this, other than reporting about something that might be helpful to many of us, which is satisfying in itself. This is a newsletter, after all. You might like to look into it, or try it. Up to you. Regardless of that, what I do hope you receive here, at least consider, is the health principle upon which it rests. Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) is actually not new, though I just discovered it. A relative of it has been used for quite some time in industrial applications such as water purification systems and in health food stores as ‘stabilized oxygen.’ I found out about it just a month ago in Hawaii, and since learned that there are already many, many people reaping benefits. Without going into detail here, suffice it to say that MMS is a powerful aid to our immune system and a strong killer of viruses, bacteria mold, fungus, and other microorganisms that can undermine health. I’ll leave it to you to research and experiment, if you wish: www.miraclemineral.org. Now, less than two weeks into my own trial with it, all I can say is that I can feel it working. The gist of MMS – and many of our best health-aiding tools – is contained in the principle that we are self-healing and naturally healthy beings. By contrast, the paranoid principle that many of us were handed – we are vulnerable to invading pathogens (germs, etc), and our health is dependent on our ability to avoid and defend against them - is untrue. Or only partially true. Even Louis Pasteur, whose germ theory is still the prevailing view in allopathic medicine, said on his deathbed “Claude Bernard was right.” Bernard, Pasteur’s rival, asserted that maintaining a healthy system (terrain) was the key to health. “The microbe is nothing! The terrain is everything.” On some level we all know this is true. Why do some people get sick, while others, exposed to the same germs, don’t? The principle is the same, whether we apply it to the physical, emotional or spiritual world. Why do some people get stressed out, angry or depressed, while others, in the same circumstances do not? Health – on all levels – is an inside game. The fact that our health is ultimately determined from the inside, rather than from external influences, may be daunting at first. The victim in us resists the responsibility. Yet ultimately we can come to see that it’s liberating. And the more we rejoice in the truth that we are ‘at cause’, that we can live, even thrive, regardless of what’s out there – be that germ, noise or politician – the more we inspire everyone around us to super health.

Five Tips for Boosting Your Superhealth and Happiness:

It’s long been known that the happiest and most effective people get to be the way they are by little improvements every day. They add up. And, importantly, when we add in small, manageable steps into our life, not only can we sustain them, they encourage us to incorporate more. Alternatively, if we go for radical changes, most often they are quickly abandoned and we plummet backwards. Some of the following are aimed more at mind, some more at body, some at emotions. And as all the systems are connected, all work holistically. Have fun. Tip 1: Once per week try something new. You might apply this as trying a new supplement or health boosting food each week. Or you might expand it to a new behavior or thought. At least once each week make a conscious choice to do something differently than you normally would. Not only does this lead to new discoveries, it rewires our brain’s neurological connections, which means we’re more flexible, open, aware, creative, alive. Tip 2: At the end of your shower turn the water to completely cold and let it run over you for a couple minutes. The shock of this is a great awakener to our immune system. It startles chi (energy, life force) into moving in new and more powerful ways. Tip 3: Along those lines: embracing discomfort is a great aid to both our ability to deal productively with stress and with actually creating a more satisfying life. The breakthroughs of Martin Seligman in positive psychology indicate how learning and developing skills, and then finding applications for those skills in our lives (ideally in ways that are beneficial to others as well) increases our happiness far more than simply enjoying a sensual pleasure like eating ice cream or having an orgasm. There’s nothing wrong with these, and, in fact, they become even more pleasurable as we derive more of our overall happiness from deeper sources – icing on the raw cake you might say. So once a week for a minimum of 20 minutes, or once a day for 5 minutes, put some effort into developing a skill that you’d like to increase in yourself. It might be reading, or some physical or mental training. Learning usually contains some element of discomfort. Remember that you’re doing it because you want to do it as opposed to the enforced learning model that many of us grew up with and resisted. To hone this process even further, I highly recommend going to www.Authentichappiness.com and taking the questionnaire to learn your signature strengths. In 20 minutes you can find out what your best and favorite virtues are. Then, the more you find ways to use them in your life, the greater your satisfaction. Five minutes a day, or 20 minutes a week is little time to spend, yet applied consistently over time it’ll add up to mastery. Tip 4: Question a limiting or painful thought. If you find yourself thinking that something should be different than it is or that you should be different than how you are – and you’re likely to recognize this by feeling contracted, tense or generally less than happy in some way – ask yourself if it’s true. For example, is it true that – as the thought sometimes goes in my own head – ‘drivers in Bali should follow tenets like obeying right of way, using turn signals, using headlights at night’? Is it true? What’s the truth of what’s actually happening? They’re not doing those things. Just asking this question – is it true – is in itself powerful for loosening the hold our thoughts can have on us and the painful results. If you want to take it a step further, do the full process of inquiry with Byron Katie’s ‘the work,’ consisting of 4 questions and a turn-around. Byron Katie was just on Oprah’s ‘Soulseries’ TV show and her info can be found at www.thework.com. Tip 5: Laugh at nothing. I’m lucky. My 16-month-old daughter, Zaida, makes this exceedingly easy. Yet we can all do this. Once per day just laugh – even when nothing is funny. For added benefit, continue for some minutes. And repeat. If it’s embarrassing, if you think people will look at you like you’re crazy (and here we might want to consider who’s really crazy in our crazy world), do it in the shower, or when you’re driving. The physiological benefits of this are tremendous and well documented. You might want to check out Madan Kataria at laugteryoga.org.

Astrological Tidbits: "Nothing endures but change" -Heraclitus

This September 22, as we here below the equator sally forth into spring, and those above the equator ease into autumn, we all move into times demanding each of us (individually), and all of us together (collectively), to both change and keep stability. Being able to live with paradox may be a gateway to enlightenment…and it’s certainly an entry into more peaceful and productive living; we live in a world filled with paradox after all. Perhaps the most ubiquitous is this very basic law, which is especially illuminated now as Uranus and Saturn slide into opposing alignment, a direct view of each other they will hold until most of the way through 2010. Both Uranus and Saturn have been separately featured in our newsletters this year in their current relationships with Jupiter. Now these two appear to come into a conundrum – I say ‘appear’ because it is our job as conscious agents to decode the illusion of the opposition, to remember that the essence of paradox is that despite what seems obviously contradictory, both are true. And it may be Jupiter – encouraging us to grow, expand, relax and party – that comes to our aid in the all-important task of keeping enough stability (Saturn) so as not to freak out, while still breaking out of our ruts (Uranus). Saturn is structure, discipline, the status quo. In the body it’s the skeleton. In the world it has to do with government, law, norms. Though seldom glamorous, Saturn is essential. Without it we collapse. With too much of it, however, stagnation sets in. Uranus, with the next furthest orbit beyond Saturn, is a creative, disruptive response to the shadow side of our stable friend. Uranus is the voice of progress, change, innovation. It asks if we can be more free and alive, if we can progress as a culture to greater independence. The answer? Yes to both questions, despite the tendency for a first glance to suggest the fallacy of ‘either or.’ How do we as individuals, in our own lives, find both stability and change? And how do we do it as a collective? Like with most important projects, we’ll do it with trial and success. We’ll swing the pendulum too far one way and then bring it back to find balance. We remind ourselves of the big picture, the views of people beyond ourselves, expanding our perspective. While Saturn and Uranus sit opposed in the sky, Jupiter acts as mediator (for the astro geeks Jupiter is sextile Uranus and trine Saturn), suggesting that the resolution might come most easily through fortune, through luck. Simply by holding the awareness that Saturn and Uranus have their place, their importance, and that by working together, change and stability produce great results, we may be surprised by the joyful and fun harmony that results. Remember, the movement of the planets indicates an energy that is affecting all of us. Far more powerful is how that particular (and other) symbolism is operating through our individual charts. In your own birth chart the opposition of Saturn and Uranus illuminates two different houses – learning what’s represented by these houses will give you further clues (you can find some information on this at astro.com).

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