The Places you'll go! on a Saturday morning

oooh I love Dr Seuss, don't you?  Remember these words of encouragement?


"Congratulations!

Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

You’ll look up and down streets. 

Look’em over with care. 

About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.” 

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down a not-so-good street!

And you may not find any you’ll want to go down. 

In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town. It’s opener there in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do 

to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. 

Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!"

You can find the full version of Dr. Seuss' "oh!  The Places You'll go!"  here.

It's a heart-warming, tear jerking read, especially if you've lived a little...

Speaking of lived a little...

Beautiful blog posts I've been inspired by on this windy, trashy Saturday am by the sea...

Love and a Peach and a Blackberry Crisp

For mummies and mommies and yoginis everywhere, from Sunshine +Roses

~*~ blissful sigh at these purely lovely bloggers and their thoughts! ~*~ hope you enjoy, too.

Where are you "off to" this weekend?

Yogaccino on Becoming A Health Coach, and news!

Dear friends, 
Remember when I told you, so excitedly, "Heads up!  We're moving from Feng Shui to Full Health!" ?  Well, I'd like to introduce you to Yogaccino- fellow blogger & student at IIN, who's written a great post on her reasons for choosing the curriculum and her lifestyle changes.  I highly recommend you stop by her blog!  Her passion for health and love of nature is beautifully clear- and v. entertaining!  


Congratulations on coming out of Wheel pose so elegantly, and for sharing yourself so openly, Yogaccino!  I wish you luck and I look forward to holding virtual hands with you on our journey to graduation!

Yogaccino: Becoming A Health Coach: "When making the decision to radically change my work situation (blow up my career) this spring, one promise I made to myself is that..."

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http://www.samanthahoney.com

Are You curious as to how Health Coaching can help you enjoy a more energetic and lighter life?  Then please email me for a complimentary first taster session!


I look forward to connecting with you via skype from the comfort of your own home, or in the ~NEWS!~ delicious Healing Room now finished- see pic right.

Proud of my British Fruit Loop

Happy Sunday, beautifuls!  We are getting ready for a traditional British lunch at the home of Lady Elegant & Mr Pour-the-Wine, Would You Dear?  Husby is so excited he already has his best shirt on, even though he must finish 2 handy-jobs before we stroll to the home of our hosts.  My husband loves Lady Elegant's trifle and has not tasted it in 2 years as both parties travel so much.

I posted the picture above because I'm incredibly proud of Husby at this time.  He's truly become a Fruit Loop in a world of Cheerios.  For a month or more now; for breakfast and for snacks, he's choosing fresh fruit and natural yoghurt + raw nuts.  Cutting down on sugar, shunning processed foods in favour of our favourite lunch- bean sprouts dressed in sesame and soy and more green veg than you can fit in a bowl.  Committed to supplements and knowledgeable about the benefits they are offering him.  Together I am loving so much the time we spend exercising together and his passion for fresh, natural, local and organic! 

Just this week we got a result back from the hospital that shows a 21% improvement for him- 12 months ago, it was below par by 4%; now, he's better than the average by a huge margin of 11%!! 

We are so excited and I am very proud.  Alot of his lifestyle improvements have followed my own, inspired by  my studies at IIN and I can't recommend the school highly enough to people committed to a career in health.

Husby is still salivating over Lady Elegant's trifle... not long now...

Her own husband is diabetic and well with it; I'm sure our lovely hostess has some healthy eating tips herself up her sleeves.  Stay tuned!

Welcome, July! with the Superhero Walk

I'll never forget my first experience of the Superhero Walk as a awe-inspired witness and participant at one of Tony Robbin's Unleash the Power Within weekends in Sydney.  I'm going to share this great technique with you in a moment, because it is an AMAZING way to start your day... so what better way for YOU to start your July!


Isn't it amazing how when one GREAT thing happens to you, life spirals upwards?  Yesterday; life was charmed.  After a cuppa with an inspiring friend, I got a great phone call, a wolf-whistle walking down the street, half-price on fresh summer raspberries at the co-op, and arrived back home to a fragrant kitchen filled with the smell of a loving lunch made for me.  

If you want to start your life spiralling upwards right now, grab a moment now to do the Superhero Walk.  Stand up, shake your body.  Now imagine tied around your shoulders a magical superhero cape- YOURS.  This cape turns you into the best version of unstoppable, uninvincible you.  Take a moment now to feel the weight of it... get a sense of the fabric, the colour, the sound of it swishing about your back; the magic it fills you with.  Feel the inspiration, ideas, charm, and power!  Now, walk with your cape.  Only... you won't be walking.  You'll be striding, strutting, gliding, parading.  Really sink the feeling of power and purpose deep inside, as you become the persona of your own Superhero.


TRY it now.  You'll be amazed how this one great thing... sends your life spiralling upwards.  Also, it's a brand new moon- start your new habit of feeling great everyday, today!


Happy July!  May it be an amazing month of personal power, health and happiness for you!

Flower medicine from Italy

"Because our skin is not simply a boundary, but acts truly as a filter of outside influences both physical and subtle, the healing properties of plants are selectively absorbed through the skin membrane to impart their magic to our very core..." -Dr Michael Tierra

Whilst in Italy I was lucky enough

to collect some beautiful herbs and flowers with which to make tinctures, essences and add to massage oil.

 Jasmine, Lavender, & Rose Otto

Lemon blossom from trees grown in terracotta pots on the sunny terrace overlooking Lake Maggiore... as they have for the past 40 years, each season bearing lemons to dress the local seafood dishes, and make the delicious house "Limoncello", renowned as the best in the region

 lemon blossom opens the heart and gives energy & zest...

The abundant herb garden offered me Rosemary, Marjoram, Basil, Lemon Thyme, all under the smiling benevolence of Pere.  His generosity in letting me take pictures and handfuls back to the UK with me reminds me there is more than enough for us all.

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Plucked under the Piedmont sun a few days before mid-summer, these beautiful samplings of Italian La Dolce Vita will become sacred medicines and provide a beautiful massage, given as a talisman for protection and good luck, or as a herb pillow during long winter months.  


Their sunny climate energy is healing to my dear clients who will require it wherever I bring them in the world.

Count these blessings!

Hi beautifuls!  As I'm still piecing together our week in Italy and it's gorgeous meal-lessons, I wanted to remind you of a great way to improve your everyday.  It's the act of Gratitude.  Do you know, it's been so thoroughly proven that an attitude of  GRATITUDE increases general well-being that the exercise of a Gratitude journal is part of course curriculum taught by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar at Harvard University?  Yup, Harvard, that's right!  But how often do we forget to count our blessings, and instead dwell upon the one or two bug-bears we carry along with us?  Let me help you become a happier person this minute by sharing 3 things I'm so blessed by, that I know you share, too!  Join me to count to 3, according to studies, it's all you need daily to start feeling more optimistic on a regular basis...

1.  Eyesight.  Wow.  It's a miracle.  How lucky are we to see and share this beautiful world with the miracle of sight??

the sublime Tagliatelle au Ragu- a dish tradizionale of Bologna

2.  A comfortable space to write to you... with the amazing invention of electricity for lighting, heat and power, a lovely computer and the incredible tool that is the WWW

3.  The power of DESIRE.  What are you hungry for right now?  Water?  Connection?  Understanding?  A big hug?  Sunshine on your body?  


"The door to the future is made of our Visions & Expectations.  Desire is the key we hold which unlocks it."

Sunkissed in Italy

"Bring your Peace to the Puzzle"-  Debbie Ford

Wherever you are this afternoon, I am with you...
be it
somewhere you love, and must move on from
a place you don't like, and are committed to making better
a space breath-defyingly beautiful, so beautiful you pinch yourself with how lucky you are;


We have all been here, and will be again.
love and blessings on your journey, and thank you for your love and blessings on mine!

Samantha
xxx

gorgeous pictures of italian lakes and cities to come soon... these have been heavenly, sun-kissed days....

A week in Italy? Fresh, healthy, happy, fresh- or fat?

Hi dear friends!  as lovers of the good life and all things bella, I invite you to WATCH this space.  I'm about to embark on a week long indulgence trip in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy- the foodie capital of the world to Italians; and fluent deliciousness to the rest of us- Parma ham, parmesan cheese, balsalmic vinegar, tagliatelle au ragu, the orignal lasagne... 

An 1800 calorie a day diet and 45 minutes exercse may be hard to maintain, as I'm committed to enjoying the luxury of fresh quality foods of the region. So, I've decided:  Calories out the window.  Taste and freshness paramount!  You can follow my meals and dishes right here- we start today 15.06.11, at 118lb.

Here's what we'll be looking at!

Daily dishes

Approximate calorie count

Food & Mood

Exercise/Activity

Any changes at week's end:  next Thurs

If days are delayed, please checkout my facebook page, where I hope to share with you some great pics.

Is creating a beautiful life and body part of your daily daily focus?  Then I can help you.  Check in here- my Integrative Nutrition blog, every Wednesday, to read Weight-loss whispers!  Once a week I'll be making this themed blog post, bringing you new insight to the types of eating and behaviours that slim, fit and healthy people do on the quiet!

To book your free initial consultation and help uncover what your unique best health strategies are, just click to get in touch!

Face Your Fear of overeating or weight-loss!  Hints and tips on my IIN blog- Click here to view now :))

Keep going!

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not;the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

Selling your home with Feng Shui

Having difficulty selling your home?  Here's a remedy from the black hat and compass schools of feng shui- and a little bit of activation with the Law of Attraction-  which I have helped clients implement with great success!


"To sell your home with feng shui, get a photo of it in an advertisement, and paste it to a red piece of paper or cardboard.  Write "sold" or place a sold sticker over it, and be sure to feel confident and happy as you do so.  You can even plan how you're going to celebrate the sale! 

Place the picture in the South of the home.  In this area should also be a mirror, ideally round, with a gold frame.  Green leafy plants and lighting candles (best number: nine) here also activates the powerful fire element to encourage change.  Next, in the North West, place pictures of your angels, deity, or spiritual beliefs, any crystals you have, a bamboo or metal windchime, and pretty flowering plants. 

Activating the South and the North west simultaneously helps the home pass into wonderful new hands in a very blessed way.


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The story behind "Angels By The Sea"

Hi beautifuls!

Celebrating the Christening of "Angels By The Sea"

As you may be aware, there are lots of lovely things happening with me.  Over the past year I've become newly qualified as a Body Massage therapist and have been so beautifully gifted to find my intuitive skills...which got quite scary and invasive when I was in the thick of Feng Shui consultations, a vegan existence, lots of meditation and little need for contact with anything or anyone not involved in the esoteric arts... returning to me in a very healthy and loving way. 

Throughout my transition from swinging back the other direction- undergoing surgical procedures and relying on modern medicine; working in the aviation industry and then as a flight attendant in that very black-and-white world- through it all, the Angels and crystals have been my touchstone (forgive the pun!) and true healers. With their very gentle yet firm guidance, and infinite patience, I found myself with:


1.   My beautiful new qualifications, as well as lots of others along the way, including NLP, Life Coaching, Hypnotherapy, Crystology and Personal training;
2.  The most wonderful healing and treatment room, a space of infinite positivity and peace;
3.  An awakened passion to assist others full-time towards health and wellness, healing and extraordinary happiness.

That's where we're at today!
I have called my new practise "Angels By The Sea" and I offer Holistic nutrition; Health Coaching; Life Coaching; Crystal therapy; Cooking for Health; Weight Loss strategies and Massage Therapy by appointment. Also intutive Angel and Tarot readings upon request.


 Professionally certified & fully insured (as always) I'm a member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy, Federation of Holistic Therapists and International Coach Federation. Rest assured you can relax here!

Please get in contact and/or stay tuned as my beautifully faithful friends and fellow healers, for news and special offers.

PS have you checked out my new blog at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition?  Their amazing program is simply the most exciting journey I have ever undertaken!  Everyday is the most wonderful adventure and I am so proud to be a part of it.  For delicious holistic recipes, nutrition news and and therapy tips, please do enjoy reading it here, and check in often.

With love and Blessings,
Samantha.

Leaving you with two great quotes- an old favourite...

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-  Mark Twain

And a new favourite:

"begin anywhere."- unknown (oh, that sage!)

~*~

Loneli-mess

"Ahh... clutter. How I love you.  You fill my days with tension What if someone calls for tea? and shame  How can I exist in such a tip?"

Yesterday I uncovered the meaning of clutter, for generally organised, hygienic, and otherwise nice-quality people like us (that's you. and me.  people like you, and me).

It's not mess.  It's loneli-mess.

Often our home is empty- maybe we live alone- maybe we're travelling lots- or we could have a full house but "absent family".  When we create mess around us, it's because we need to be reminded that there's lots of stuff going on.  The subconscious message is:  we're needed,we're important!  On some level..to clear the clutter...permanently... to get things sorted, once and for all... is just too lonely to even think of.  "what then, what then?"  the ego whispers.

What then?

Love by the Sea... on Santa Monica pier

I hope you enjoy this pretty ode to romance tonight...




This weekend, may a cherished wish come true for you!


"In short, when you change yourself, you change the people and events around you.  By embodying your wish as if it has already occurred, you reprogram not only yourself but also the Universe."


Laura Day, The Circle

A Yin Yang life: Being vs. Doing

Hello from beautiful Fintry, Scotland...

Bloom where you're planted
- and enjoy your journey today!

"There seem to be two realities operating (for people): a transcendent reality and a conventional reality. Some of us concentrate more on the conventional and get tunnel vision: What do I need to do to reach my career goals? To take care of my family? We get wrapped up in the material realm as though that's all there is.  Others of us who are transcendentally inclined, who focus on inner work and higher spiritual aspirations, subtle realms and all of that, fundamentally want to escape from the demands of the everyday world. As I point out in the third gateway (chapter), 'Energize Your Body,' some of us want to travel out of our bodies before we've even gotten into them.



"We were born into physical bodies, into the material realm, and given challenges, for a reason: not to escape physical life, this reality, but to experience it fully and to learn the lessons it offers. For those of us who ask, ‘Shall I leave everything to God, or shall I take personal responsibility for my life and choices?’ the answer is, 'both.' As a Sufi sage once said, ‘Trust in God but tie your camel.’ In other words, keep your head in the clouds but your feet on the ground."


Except from an article about Dan's book: “Everyday Enlightement”

our lovely pictures from this week

Love on the week-end

"Being in love is so good for you. Often when people are newly in love, things that have been bothering them for a long time get better. Something wonderful is calling the majority of their attention, so they're holding themselves in a better vibrational place, so the stuff they've been wanting all along can now zoom in." -Abraham-Hicks


This weekend, in love with.... (L to R) 
summers coming... the wild dog roses have arrived (smelling so divine!)
Bluebell glens and wild Manx garlic
Coconut-scented gorse and heady, sunshine-y days,
Magnificent sunsets on our doorstep
delicious home cooked vegetarian meals... baking, making, creating.  Yum.

I hope you fall in love this weekend, too!

Sweet change

darlings-
I have never felt so good.
I feel lighter, and fresher.
I can't wait to wake up in the morning and make preparations for a new day


I have lost a kilo, somewhere, from years of being the same (healthy) weight for me- and it feels good to be a little bit slimmer, a little bit more toned, with a hundred times more energy.


Last night I went for a walky-run, very late.  
(we have had blissful weather this past week on the Isle of Man- warm days with fresh breezes but not blow-your-socks-off-the-line as per your average IOM wind) 
At the end, I sat on the wall looking into Port Erin Bay.  
(A few pretty sailboats have docked up here of late for the sunshine, their little lights atop mast and cabin lights on below made me feel mellow.  They were looking at our beautiful promenade, string of lights switched on.  People last night had their windows open, sitting reading, or in the company of their lovely large tv, or in chat with their loved one and/or at laptop)
Sitting on this wall, listening to the waves lick the shore, rhythmically, it was a moment of true blessedness.  Complete luxury.


And an amazing thing I noticed- have checked and re-checked, yup, it's really true- is that... I have completely lost my sweet tooth.  Everything tastes sweet to me- in a true energy type of way, like the way I first began to read the energies that governed a room in feng shui.  quick example: I have onions and peppers in the oven now, roasting- I knew they are not done yet, for I recognised they've not released their inherent sweetness.  And my favourite 'sweet' of all, splenda- is just- a mouth violation.


Does this mean anything to you?  To me this is a major health shift- like, plates- platelets? :) shifting.


I will explain how this relates to feng shui and what's the cause later- unless, dear and clever friends- you do see the link and know where this is going, already.

let it shine!

from Pinterest ... with love

The Mountain

"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.



The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.


"Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air
are heading home again.

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things."

--Mary Oliver, "The Wild Geese"



isn't The Mountain video truly beautiful?

On Houses

another peaceful sunset.  I am blessed beyond measure.

"Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast.

You shall not fold your wings that you may pass

through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike

not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe.

Your house shall not hold your secret

nor shelter your longing.

For that which is boundless in you

abides in the mansion of the sky,

whose door is the morning mist, and

whose windows are the songs and silences of the night."

Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet

the longer version includes such interesting questons!

"And what is it you guard with fastened doors?



Have you peace,


the quiet urge that reveals your power?


Have you remembrances,


the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?


Have you beauty,


that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?"

when you fasten your doors, what do you lock in?  what do you lock out? 

Tomorrow, a charming Saturday.  Charming, pleasant and easy to be around, Saturdays, aren't they?

A personal promise:

To ask for what I need

To give what I have :)

Enjoy your Saturday!

I hope you can throw open all your windows and doors.

A new day; happy Springtime; and I'll be stopping by more often...

Does anyone else feel as though the passing of this weekends Supermoon brings a diferent feel to everyday life?

Spring is in the air, and with it, the promise of a summer ahead- as an expat, don't our minds happily jumble together all the best warm memories we've ever known?  Spring/summer means holidays, the sound of waves crashing onto the beach,  the smell of barbeque and coconut in the air...summer concerts, fragrant fruits and night-time flowers... crickets humming noisily, bike rides in the warm air, flippy dresses and lovely, languished picnics...


Predicting Spring/Summer 2011 by the elements....

Earth
walks through green hillside meadows picking blueberries... eating gelato among ancient stone ruins... a burning hot day turns to cool clear night surrounded by sand dunes... pretty sparkling crystal goblets and flatware on a stone table... a champagne reception between marble columns...

Fire
bonfires on the beach... a sunset exploding in red and orange... the prickle of sunkissed skin under a warm shower...  legs entwined with your loved one, sleeping without sheets; a hot wind that whips your face after the air-conditioning... pretty ladies in floral prints and parakeet colours... an evening of shooting stars and catching fireflies

Wood
bare floors under your feet... a billiantly crisp nectarine... gentle whispering of palm trees overhead, a hammock rocking slowly... rattan, driftwood and woven wicker baskets... a shady picnic table

Water
running under the sprinkler... a grey sky opens into a downpour... swimming under a waterfall.. a babbling burrn... a rainbow hovers in the sky and leaves sparkle with diamond-drops after spring showers...

Metal
cool white rooms, whirring fans... the smell of fresh paint and polished wooden floors and furniture... rides in the car with the roof down... long dangly earrings, bare arms full of bracelets, ferry trips, flying kites, on board the bateau with radio up loud and husby stringing his guitar...


You deserve an apology.  I haven't been much of a blogger in 2011 so far.
I have to go to New York now.
But when I come back, I'm going to have alot more time for you.

xxxx

2011's Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Happy Chinese New Year!  To find out what the Year of the Rabbit holds in store for you, you can visit the dedicated Dragon Gate feng shui and  new year predictions.  And if you are a Rooster, especially!- please look after your feng shui, making sure your bed head is pointed towards an auspicious direction.

Feng Shui Flying Stars

For all of us, I would recommend at the very least, some tumbled Sodalite crystals in the North to take advantage of the very good luck that can be enhanced for Career, and this year only you can place a five-rod metal windchime in the South East which will enhance communication and bring prosperity.  Beware of doing renovations in the East; the three Buddhas placed here will offer protection and bring peace.

Let's meet

If you are in Doha, please come to my workshop at the Sharq Village Six Senses Spa on "Wellness" Monday 21st Februay.  Our focus is building beauty and balance around your personal Chinese elemental balance.  You can visit the Six Senses website here; here are their twitter updates

Gong Xi Fai Cai...  May the year of the peaceful, home-loving Rabbit smile upon you, bringing you good friends, and prosperous, elegant times!

love and blessings, Samantha