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Rose Heart Healing

Rose Heart Healing

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Launching my new offerings: ROSE HEART HEALING sessions at the Heart Space

On 10-10-22, a full moon day, I launched my Rose Heart Healing sessions, Petal Healing and Rose Bloom, to heal and expand our emotional and spiritual Heart. While, I’ve been practising Intuitive Chakra and Multidimensional Chakra energy healing since 2015 with good results for clients, I’ve nevertheless been called to offer something specifically for healing our emotional and spiritual Heart. Spending some reflective time over the past months, and recently a couple of weeks in nature with plants and flowers, has awakened the subtle yet powerful energy of the ROSE – the flower and rose quartz crystals, within my healing work.

Rose Heart HealingFor ages, the Rose has been a symbol of Beauty and LOVE, both romantic as well as sacred as seen in various spiritual traditions (mystic Christian, Islam, Egyptian, and others). I’ve long been drawn to the rose for its scent, its beauty, its colour, especially the deep pink, and to its sacred symbolism as the flower of divine-heart or soul-heart. My counselling room set up in 2020 at the Heart Space is known as the Gold Rose room and carries a large image of the Rose because it is connected to the Heart Chakra, particularly the Higher Heart vortex vibrating the frequency of Unconditional Love. I wanted to create a space of unconditional loving acceptance for clients walking in to support them in their healing journey.

As a counsellor and energy healer, I’ve seen many clients with energies tight, or blocked at the chest and Heart chakra area, more than in any other place of the physical and emotional/energetic body. This is also the area where we generally experience our soul consciousness and where soul is restricted or repressed, if not healed and free.

It is therefore not surprising that my higher calling is unfolding more clearly to bring in a new healing modality specially for the emotional, energetic and spiritual heart. The Petal Healing and Rose Bloom sessions (see details of each in the following link under my offerings) commence on 11-11-22. I’m open to bookings now. Both sessions draw on the healing energies of the rose quartz (a crystal that emits beautiful loving frequencies) as well as the divine Goddesses of Love and Compassion. You will be served Rose tea or water to open your senses. A Rose Oracle reading complements the Rose Bloom session, while a one card reading is offered for the Petal Healing session.

For those starting their heart healing journey, I recommend taking the Petal Healing session prior to embarking on the Rose Bloom session so as to focus on healing the emotional heart first. The latter session then seeks to connect you with your soul by expanding and blooming your energetic heart. Next year, I wish to create an extended session for Rose Heart Activation (the Sacred Rose Bloom) channeling more sacred Feminine energies and Higher Heart Light activations for clients to have a deeper sense of their sacred self and experience heart-felt divine connection.

The ROSE HEALING PATH aims to lead us from the sufferings of the human heart, to a more open and connected heart space where the soul can feel more free, joyous, expanded and divinely connected to the sacred feminine.

A. Petal Healing – 60 mins (RM198 energy healing with rose quartz crystals)

Petal Healing works on healing wounded hearts to ease emotional hurt and heavy or blocked heart energies. The session will comfort and relax your heart bringing in forgiveness, more self-love and compassion. You will receive a 30 min energy healing session to help heal and nurture your heart slowly back to ease and grace. During the session, you will be held lovingly while receiving the beautiful healing energies of rose quartz crystals. A one card Rose oracle reading will also be offered together with Rose tea.

It may take several sessions to gradually return to a freer and more open heart-felt state. So it is recommended doing more than one session, or combine it with the Rose Bloom or on-going counselling for deeper healing and heart expansion. Learn to say YES to Love and to regaining a Peaceful and Loving state.

B. Rose Bloom – 90 mins (RM288 energy healing with rose quartz & rose oracle card reading)

The Rose Bloom session will both heal and support your heart expansion. Be the holder of your Heart-Light and let your heart and soul bloom. Meet Angels of Heart-Light and receive new love-light codes to increase your heart/soul connection and expression. You will receive 50-60 minutes of energy healing with the guidance of one or more Goddesses of Love and Compassion (Kuan Yin, Aphrodite, Mother Isis, Lady Nada, Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene of the Rose Mystery school). Be guided by channeled messages from these goddesses to bloom your soul-heart.

Enjoy Rose tea/rose water as you receive a Rose card reading that complements the healing session. First timers will receive a rose quartz crystal to work with their on-going heart blooming practice. This session is recommended as a sequel to the Petal Healing (above), or as part of Sarah-Joy’s other counselling and healing sessions.

Heart Healing * Heart Opening – Online course (85mins) by Sarah-Joy Amin

Heart Healing * Heart Opening – Online course (85mins) by Sarah-Joy Amin

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HEART HEALING * HEART OPENING ONLINE COURSE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE ZENVEE WEBSITE FOR A SPECIAL RATE OF RM48 ONLY!

Heart Healing * Heart Opening – Online course (85mins) by Sarah-Joy Amin

This online Course on HEART HEALING * HEART OPENING was inspired by everything I’ve learned from my Chakra Yoga tradition as well as various energy healing and spiritual traditions. With so much imbalance and healing needed on earth and among so many people living in covid-stricken environments and undergoing various lockdowns or movement restrictions, I am hopeful that this online course can assist those feeling disconnected from themselves, others and the planet.

This Heart Healing * Heart Opening course aims to support those of us undergoing emotional heart imbalances, issues such as heart-ache, feeling withdrawn and lonely, unforgiveness, inability to open our hearts to love and relationships, unhealthy or imbalanced relationships, over-giving and other emotional heart imbalances.

When our heart chakra is not in balance, we suffer from various problems, sometimes also physical heart ailments as well as psychological challenges due to either inadequate/deficient heart energy or excessive, too much heart energy.

Both extremes can be a problem. With insufficient heart energy, we may feel disconnected to ourselves and other people, animals and nature; have poor relationships, and cannot fully relate in an open and joyful manner with our friends and loved ones. We may feel withdrawn, anti-social, selfish and self-centred. On the other hand, too much heart energy can make us jealous, demanding, or self-sacrificing and victimised.

As I’m treating this first ever online course as my Offering of Love and Gratitude to all my teachers and spiritual masters who have guided me to this point in life, I am making the video available at a very special reduced rate of RM48 ONLY! To purchase online follow this link https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=195791085361488 or check on https://zenveeart.com/

This video project is done in collaboration with Zenvee, a collective of healing therapy instructors who are passionate about helping society. We are made up of a balanced group of educators who focus on the 5 human senses. Sight, Hearing, Touch, Smell & Taste.

Make it a gift of Love to yourself or anyone else in your family or friends who you feel can benefit from more Heart healing and opening. Love and Namaste, Sarah-Joy

2020 Gentle Chakra Yoga class videos available online

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With the new challenges in 2020 given the covid-19 pandemic and the many lockdowns worldwide as well as the Movement Restriction Order (MCO) in Malaysia since mid March 2020, I began offering a Monday morning online Gentle Yoga and Chakra Yoga classes, first via zoom then shifted to Facebook Live.

While the classes are by donation, I decided to leave the Facebook Live classes on my Chakra Yoga & Energy Healing facebook page so anyone can avail of them. If you’re interested to try one of my classes or want to repeat a class taken earlier can go back to the video. The link to several of my online Gentle Chakra Yoga classes are available on this link https://www.facebook.com/pg/SarahJoyAmin.ChakraYoga/videos/?ref=page_internal

Send me your feedback and do like the video if the class has benefited you in some way. I enjoy learning from your experience. And if you would like to make a donation as an energy exchange do contact me for bank details.

Also if you want to explore a personalised class, consider a private Chakra Yoga session with me. I can support you develop a regular personal practice with proper breathing techniques for improved health and circulation. This can be especially useful if you’re a beginner or healing from any back, shoulder/neck injuries or if you just want a practice that feels comfortable, relaxing and balances your body, mind, emotions and energy! A one hour class at RM120 per session. Information on group sessions to come soon as soon as new arrangements are made for classes in the new normal environment.

You can get more regular updates on my classes and offerings at Chakra Yoga & Energy Healing facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SarahJoyAmin.ChakraYoga/

2020 Health & Wellness New Year Retreat ~ Relax, Recharge and Transform ~ Friday 3 – Sunday 5 January 2020 – Penang Hill, Malaysia

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2020 Health & Wellness New Year Retreat

~~ Relax, Recharge and Transform ~~

Friday 3 – Sunday 5 January 2020 – Penang Hill, Malaysia

 

 

Looking to get away for a few days, but don’t want to go too far? Join us for this three day, two night Health & Wellness Retreat being held at the charming Hickory-on-the Hill, a beautiful and serene villa with panoramic views of Penang. Here you will have space to relax, recharge and transform.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flow into the New Year with this Health and Wellness Retreat … a holistic journey of inner and outer processes, reconnecting to ourselves more fully through conscious movement, mindful breathing, meditation, reflection, healthy eating and connection to nature!

 

 

WHAT WILL YOU RECEIVE?

In our time together you will enjoy:

* yoga and qigong – both gentle and active practices to strengthen the body, make you more relaxed and flexible and remove blockages so energy is flowing freely;

* different breathing exercises (pranayama) that help activate and harmonise your physical and energy system;

* qigong healing – learn and practice self-healing techniques and receive healing;

* guided meditation and relaxation to create a calm and peaceful mind;

* partner work and inner processes like conscious dance to experience deeper release and transformation;

* quiet time surrounded by lush nature to help you relax, recharge and transform body and mind;

* healthy vegetarian/vegan food to nourish the body and dinning with fantastic view of Penang from up the hill!

 

 

 

CONTENT/TRADITIONS

Yoga is an ancient system of inner and outer practices for more balance in all aspects of life. It is a well tested tradition that provides an inner technology using postures, movement, breath, meditation and energy control to recalibrate your physical, mental, emotional and energy bodies for greater health, well being and ultimately for spiritual liberation.

 

 

 

Qigong is an ancient Chinese qi (vital energy) practice method, a way of cultivating and experiencing energy to enhance health, healing as well as developing spiritual awareness and insight. Through the practice of qigong you will learn how to harness the power of qi from the universe, remove blockages from body and mind and techniques for self-healing.

 

 

Dance Your Life into Being. Through conscious movement you will let go of the past, release what is not supporting you and welcome the new. Create your future by setting intentions and expand into who you really are. You will be guided through a flow of music where your focus stays within. When you move your body the energy shifts inside, bringing ease and liveliness into your dance and being.

 

 

VENUE

 

Hickory-on-the-Hill once again is our venue for the retreat. The villa sits on half an acre of secluded woodland and manicured lawns. The surroundings are lush and green. The environment is nurturing, peaceful and pleasing to all the senses with a wonderfully high vibration and life force to recharge your whole being.

Address: Jalan Bukit Bendera, Lower Tunnel Road, Lower Tunnel State, 11500 Ayer Itam, Penang. Website: https://www.hickoryonthehill.com.

 

RETREAT FEE

* EARLY BIRD: RM799 – Register and pay a 50% deposit by 25th October 2019. Full payment by 1 December 2019.

* NORMAL RATE: RM900 – Register and pay by 1 December 2019.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

* Retreat fee includes all meals and materials. A 50% deposit is required to register. Full payment by 1 December 2019.
* All meals are vegetarian with vegan option. If you have any other dietary requirements, please let us know and we will try and accommodate you.
* Please bring your own yoga mat and any other support you require for the period of the retreat, eg. yoga blocks, meditation cushion and a shawl for chilly mornings and evenings.

 

ROOM CHARGES


Room charges are separate from the Retreat Fee and depending on type of accommodation you choose the room rates vary:

* Double sharing (queen bed): From RM260-330 per room per night
* Triple sharing (one single and one double bed): RM320-350 per room per night
* Single room: RM185 per night
* Super single (2 pax – one single bed with another pull out bed) RM220 per room per night
* Quad (4 in two adjoining rooms) : RM460 per night

Once you have registered, please inform us of your room preference as room assignments will be done by the organisers. Also please inform the organiser, if you choose a double or triple sharing room and have a preferred roommate. If not, the organiser is happy to match you with the most suitable roommate(s).

CANCELLATION POLICY

• Cancellations by 2nd December 2019 receive a refund of 50% of the retreat fee.
• Cancellations by 20th December 2019 receive a refund of 25% of the retreat fee.
• No refunds given from 21st December 2019 onwards.

* In the event that the retreat is cancelled for unforeseen reasons or a lack of participation, your deposit or payment will be returned in full.

TRANSPORT UP THE HILL

Jeep service up the hill to Hickory Bungalow will be organised for those wanting a jeep ride up and back down the hill. The cost of the whole jeep is RM200 both ways and will be an additional cost. Four to five persons can fit into the jeep depending on the amount of luggage so you can share out the cost of the jeep among yourselves. You will need to inform the organiser ahead of time if you wish to hire the jeep service so we can group people together at the same time. We will arrange for participants to meet at the Botanical Gardens Friday afternoon (time to be determined). The same will be arranged for the group at the end of the retreat to return on Sunday late afternoon or early evening.

If you prefer to take the funicular train up to Hickory Bungalow, you will need to get off at the Lower Tunnel Station and follow the sign for a 5 minute walk. Note that the trains can be busy during the weekends and potentially on a Friday afternoon Give yourself ample time to get the train up. It is advisable that you start your journey from the foot hill at least 2-3 hours before our meeting time at 3pm. All ticket purchases require proof of identification.

For further questions please contact me: Sarah-Joy at 016-488 9328 or write to me via fb or email at sarahjoyamin@gmail.com. Or contact Suzanne and Ken Morgan at 013-383 0908.

FACILITATORS’ PROFILE


Suzanne and Ken Morgan are originally from UK and have been living happily in Penang for over 8 years. They were obviously destined to be together and met in India while doing a 6 month Yoga Teacher Training in 1998/99 in the Swami Gitananda lineage. In fact, before meeting, they already shared a great interest in health and alternative medicine, studying several systems between them.

After teaching yoga for a few years and both having curious minds, they decided to explore Chinese Medicine, completing a Bsc. (Hons) Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture) at Salford University, UK from 2003-6. They set up an acupuncture clinic which they ran before deciding to move to Malaysia. They both had an interest in Qigong, studying Wild Goose Qigong with Bingkun Hu from 2005-8 on his yearly visits to the UK, although Ken had been studying qigong since the 1970s.

Whilst in Penang, they were introduced to Zhineng Qigong and after two years of regular practice went in March 2019 to China and completed a 3 month Daohearts Teacher Training in the first, second and advanced levels of Zhineng Qigong. Suzanne and Ken are both passionate about health and wellness and are always happy to share their many years of knowledge with you.

Sarah-Joy Amin is a Transformation Teacher, Chakra Yoga instructor, Inner Dance facilitator and energy worker. Based in Penang, Sarah-Joy has been on the spiritual path for over 20 years, starting with Buddhism in the 1980s, then expanding into yogic practices and a Oneness approach to spirituality from 2010 onwards.

In 2013, Sarah-Joy sought out yoga and did her teacher training in the Chakra Yoga Tradition at the Pyramid Yoga school in Thailand (see http://www.pyramidyoga.com/aboutus/). She was introduced to yoga during her adolescent years and resumed her yoga practice in Jan 2010 after almost two decades of spinal injuries. In Dec. 2013, she also completed the 108 hour Yoga for Healers course deepening the healing aspect of her yoga practice. Her main teacher, David Goulet, studied under Swami Gitananda, in the same ashram as Ken and Suzanne Morgan!

Sarah-Joy offers private and group yoga classes, and is committed to yoga for she has seen how the practice has helped her through critical periods coping with physical injuries as well as healing deep emotional stresses. More recently, Sarah-Joy has embarked on further studies involving Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Krisztina Mezosi has been dancing various free form dance movement practices —5Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Soul Motion, DanceMandala, contact dance— throughout Europe and Asia for many years. Her emphasis is on how we can free our bodies to help free our minds and get in touch with expressing our inner spirit, through the language of dance. “When I dance my body becomes alive and I travel through different landscapes and emotions to unearth who I really am. I can start from where I am. I don’t need to change anything, to be someone else, to pretend. In the flow of dance I am just me.” K.M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy, Penang – Transformational Therapy with Sarah-Joy

Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy, Penang – Transformational Therapy with Sarah-Joy

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Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy, Penang

Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy, Penang – Transformational Therapy with Sarah-Joy

Transformational Therapy with Sarah-Joy

I am delighted to now offer holistic counselling and psychotherapy services as part of a professional training programme with the Australia-based Metavision Institute Intern Clinic. This will complement the current transformative coaching and energy healing services I’ve been offering for the past five years. This article covers why and how holistic counselling and psychotherapy can help you, the nature of my service, the arrangements and offer for participating in the Metavision Intern Clinic, as well as a brief background about the school of psychotherapy I’m coming from.

Why consider holistic counselling & psychotherapy?

Everyone needs support at some point or another in their lives. Support can come in many ways through family, friends and the community. Sometimes, however, more informed, trained and objective support through holistic counselling, free from prejudices and judgements, can take you much further in healing, resolving or transforming a personal problem, family or relationship conflict or dilemma.

Furthermore, deep rooted patterns within your unconscious, often unknown to you, can also cause repeated mental and emotional stress. Or, you may seem to be attracting similar unwanted life situations and don’t know why. Here psychotherapy can help you become aware of the root causes of your problems and gain more clarity in addressing them.

Holistic counselling and therapy is an approach which helps clients heal by taking the entire human being and their experiences into consideration during assessment and treatment. It treats a person’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs in an integrated way!

How can holistic counselling and psychotherapy help you?

Holistic therapy can help you with:

  • personal, family or work stresses;

  • relationship conflict with a family member, employer, colleague or friend;

  • a health or life challenge that may be creating mental and emotional anxiety, uncertainty and drains you of energy;

  • recurrent dreams, nightmares, childhood memories that may be disturbing and troubling and you would like to understand and resolve it;

  • a crossroad in life related to your job, marriage, work partnerships, moving or shifting residence or country, etc. – when you need to make a major decision that will have a long-term impact; and also

  • any spiritual experiences that may be confusing or even elating but you feel you need more clarity and guidance.

Through holistic counselling you will feel heard, acknowledged and supported.

Relevant guidance and tools will be offered to you where appropriate.

Through psychotherapy you will learn to develop increased personal awareness and better understand repressed thoughts, emotions, and experiences that may be negatively affecting your life. Understanding more about the unconscious parts of yourself is part of your journey to recovery.

Through the therapeutic process, you may discover appropriate solutions for yourself and learn to hear and trust your own intuitive guidance.

What can you expect from a therapy session with me?

Using the techniques of Holistic Counselling and Process Oriented Psychology (see below for description) I aim to support people from all walks of life regardless of race, religion, class, age, gender or sexual preference. All my sessions are totally respectful, caring of your needs, private and confidential. I abide by the Code of Ethics set out by the Psychotherapy and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA) as well as the Malaysian Association of Psychotherapy (MPA).

My mission is to ensure that ALL clients are supported on a healing pathway that is personally uplifting and empowering to them! My motto is TRANSFORMING LIVES into Wellness, Freedom and Joy!

If you’re looking for a holistic, caring and intuitive approach to therapy then contact me for further information or to book a session.

How much is a session?

My rates for Transformative Coaching and general consultation is usually RM150 per hour. For the counselling and pscyhotherapy services as part of Metavision’s Intern clinic, I am offering a 30% discount or a package rate for several sessions. Students and those from lower income groups could be considered for a further reduction.

How to contact me? What days and times am I available during the week?

You can email, me at sarahjoyamin@gmail.com, send me an fb message via https://www.facebook.com/TransformingLivesPenang/ or whatsapp message or phonecall at 016-488 9328. I generally reply quite promptly but for longer emails or messages please allow a day or two latest especially over the weekend period.

I offer my services at The Space, 39-01 Lebuh Lembah Permai, Permai 32, Tanjung Bungah, Penang, Tel 012 447 0072 on Mondays 2-5pm and Fridays 1-4pm, or at my personal consultation space also in Tanjong Bungah on Monday, Tuesday and Friday mornings or Monday and Thursday evenings, as well as alternative Saturday afternoons, with the exception of public holidays. For specific times, this will be arranged by appointment.

What institutional basis supports the counselling and psychotherapy sessions?

My services are part of the Metavision Institute Intern Clinic. Metavision is an institute based in Bowral, Australia, offering graduate and post graduate professional training courses in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy. Its methods are “rooted in conscious and spiritual awareness; while their teachings are geared towards mental wellbeing.” Furthermore, its focus “extends from healing despair to unleashing the power of human potential.”

For more information about Metavision Institute, do check their website: https://metavision.com.au/courses/holistic-counselling-and-psychotherapy-course/

“Transformative change for the body, soul and spirit, where inner change generates outer change.” Metavision Institute, Australia

How reliable is the service provided by the Metavision Intern Clinic?

Metavision is accredited by the Psychotherapy and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA). It runs an Intern Clinic for professional students in the two year Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Professional Training Programme, and includes serving clients such as yourself. This Clinic is overseen by Metavision’s professionally qualified staff and supervisors. Metavision also provides all clients who participate in the Intern Clinic with a counselling contract and feedback mechanism to contact the Institute should they have any questions and feedback about the therapy offered. Metavision has professional indemnity insurance coverage for all professional students in its programme.

What tradition of Psychotherapy is being offered?

The psychotherapy approach used here is called Process Oriented Psychology, also known as Process Work. This is a holistic psychotherapeutic approach which works on both the conscious and unconscious minds. Through working with the unconscious parts of you, deeper aspects not always obvious are revealed and brought into your awareness.

What is Process Oriented Psychology?

Process oriented psychology was developed in 1970s by Dr. Arnold Mindell, a physicist and psychologist. ”It is a trans-disciplinary approach that integrates principles from Jungian psychology, physics, and information theory”. It also draws from the wisdom and teachings of Buddhism, Taoism, and various indigenous traditions that recognise we all have underlying psychological patterns. These patterns influence our mental, emotional and physical states, and thereby our actions and personal and relationship experiences.

According to its founder, Dr. Mindell “Process oriented psychology uses awareness to track psychological and physical processes that illuminate and possibly resolve inner, relationship, team, and world issues.” [http://www.aamindell.net/process-work ]

If you are interested to learn more about Process Work and the Process Work Institute, see the following website: https://www.processwork.edu/

Today, process oriented psychology is a widely practiced and respected therapeutic approach. The International Association of Process Oriented Psychology (IAPOP) acts as the supervising body for training, accreditation, and certification worldwide. For details, do check https://www.goodtherapy.org/…/t…/process-oriented-psychology.

LIVING IN A NEW EARTH – WAKE UP… THE TIME IS NOW!

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LIVING IN A NEW EARTH

WAKE UP… THE TIME IS NOW!

I’m so excited to embark on a new project with my dear friend and soul sister, artist and soul activist, Jennifer Mourin, called LIVING IN A NEW EARTH! While the project is still in it’s infancy and still taking shape as a fetus morphs every day in its mother’s womb, so too is this project. Yet as I write up sections of the project content today I’m feeling a calling to share the early draft pieces. Inner guidance is telling me that it is not just the final product that will be of support and inspiration to people, but even the early etchings and ideas will be positive and helpful to those who will read and hear these words in the NOW! Hence my first contribution 

 

“WAKING UP”:

(Note the above image is a painting by Jennifer Mourin called THE RAPTURE, Mother Earth series)

The TIME IS NOW to Wake Up. Make a Change!

Wake up! The time is NOW! If you have been going through life pretty much the same and often with one challenge 
after another, whether personal or in the collective then it’s time for change. Many people live life with all kinds of 
dissatisfaction yet stay in the same situation, complaining or putting up with the situation. This is an old energy 
matrix. 

Life does not need to be painful, mundane, up and down or, at best, OK. Life in the New Earth is meant to be Amazing.
... fulfilling, meaningful, mysterious, joyful and abundant. If you haven’t felt any of these emotions in a long time then
something deep needs to change. 

Review your work or career; take stock your your relationships, personal and other; assess your daily routines and 
check if these bring you joy or just more of the same; are your belief systems and religious ideas expanding or 
constricting you and your Mind? Is the way you look at Life and Reality bringing you more positive emotions or just 
creating more doubts, worries and constant fears?

All these can change, and you have the power to Make the Change! Start with the first step!

* Take time to pause and assess how your life is going? At whatever age or situation you are in life, change is possible. 
Choose the path towards greater peace, ease and happiness.

* Wake up early each morning. Take time to be in sunlight or at least to gaze out of your window for a few minutes 
and breathe. The sun not only brings heat, solar light and new energy but new light codes that will help rewire your brain 
and nourishes your physical and etheric bodies.

* Do something different each day. Find a new path to walk or drive on. Take a new course. Listen to a different kind 
of music or youtube speaker. 

* Make a decision to change what is painful in your life. Once a DECISION is Made, the next steps are easier. Take the 
first step and the Universe will support all your steps forward!

 

 

 

CHAKRA YOGA HEALING RETREAT JUNE 2018

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CHAKRA YOGA HEALING RETREAT JUNE 2018

Reflections post Retreat – June 2018

Writing this on my first day back to home ground in Penang after spending almost a month in Koh Phangan at PYRAMID YOGA CENTRE, my former yoga teacher training school, for a 3 week intensive Healing Retreat. While I went as an apprentise to learn, support and to observe the various healing processes, I also immersed myself in the programme, allowing myself to heal, at the time from a bout of bad sinusitus and an ear infection which kept me half deaf for more than half the retreat.

 

 

The 3 weeks intensive programme put me through a fairly thorough internal cleansing process from a 2 day papaya fast, a day of salt flush, followed by a 3 day Master Cleanse diet and finally another 3 days of Juice fast. And, how could I forget the coffee anema and the sweat lodge that came at the end of it all clearing whatever remaining toxins still in the liver as well as in the pores of the skin! While these internal cleanses would have been rather impossible for me to have managed on my own, yet in a supported healing environment, I was so grateful that it was all done with relative ease and even with some fun and jokes! 🙂

I have come to learn how important intermittent internal cleansing and fasting is to the human body, especially to heal. So much of our energy is taken up with digesting and physical activity, that there is not much left for the body to focus on healing and regeneration. Our oxygen first goes towards physical and demanding activities, including digestion if we are constantly eating 3 or more meals a day, such that there is little left that can be diverted towards nourishing our white blood cells which is essential for the body’s healing.

If one looks at the animal kingdom, animals instinctively know how and when to fast. When they are ill, they don’t eat but rather hybernate in a corner and rest. When they recover they regain activity and only then look for food. Yet, human beings are the only mammals who need to be told to when and how to move, how to breathe and how and when to rest. Yoga is a natural way to help us restore our body rhythms and teaches us how to listen to when we need to eat, move, rest, and rejuvenate.

In this article I have yet to mention the fantastic healthy vegan foods that were prepared daily after our week of fasts. The food itself requires a separate article and mention, but it would be an incomplete sharing to not at least shed light on the careful and loving preparation of delicious healthy food that we received at the retreat as well.

There is a lot one can share and say about the Chakra Yoga Healing Retreat at Pyramid Yoga and how every part of the programme contributed towards one’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing and growth. I am highlighting aspects that stood out for me so am in no way offering a comprehensive review.

Given the breadth of the retreat I would say the programme would have been a challenge for those who have not done chakra yoga before or who came with some ailments and dis-ease. Yet, it was designed to progressively help participants learn the basics of yoga from the breath, gentle yoga movements – that stimulate and massage internal organs, move lymphatic fluids around the body and which enhance various chakra centres to ensure the endocrine and nervous systems are activated – to more deeper pranayama, concentration, and sound techniques.

Of significance, the programme put participants through the EKADASI – an 11 days mental emotional cleanse through a breath work technique, followed by a lot of reflective time. While it was the second time for me to undergo Ekadasi and thus less mental-emotional issues came up, for the other participants there were significant purges that helped people become aware of and release old traumas, negative thought and emotional patterns that held them in states of pain, dis-ease, unhappiness, anger, resentment, and the range of stuck emotions.

Any healing programme that aims to heal a person, must necessarily address the whole human, and not just the physical body. This feature made the healing retreat more complete and profound when it included the next phase of reprogramming our mental and emotional patterns, such as creating more space for forgiveness, letting go, acceptance, freedom, trust, love and gratitude among other equally positive emotions! The retreat offered several thought provoking documentaries on the placebo effect, the neuroplasticity of the brain, how thoughts control our body and life, and much much more showing participants how we can regain control over our life and health.

David Goutlet, yogi of 46 years, ran the programme with a support team of other trained Chakra Yoga teachers making it possible to offer one on one assistance and support almost daily to each participant. This included help in proper breathing, relevant asana exercises for each person’s healing needs and condition, to counseling sessions, sound healing sessions and weekly massages.

Participants learnt over the 3 weeks how to empower themselves through appropriate asana movements, proper breath practices, changing thoughts and belief systems, and through a range of other yogic techniques to rebuild their lives. These included Raja Yoga practices of visualisation concentration techniques on chakra mandalas to reset and activate each chakra centre, savitri breathing with retentions at different points and variations of the Three Part Breaths from fast to slow depending on the purpose.

Having done my teacher training and chakra yoga healers course in 2013 and teaching and offering chakra healing for almost 5 years now, I came back reflecting on how the BREATH and various pranayama techniques continue to be so powerful in restoring a person, not just her/his health, but his/her life and sense of Being! … Throughout the healing retreat, daily breath work several times a day and even in between formal group sessions were done and recommended especially before long periods of shavasana and restoration periods.

Slowing down the body and the mind for significant periods was an essential part of the healing. I personally would have liked more quiet time as one participant in particular had excessive throat chakra issues creating rather discordant energies in the group. So my main recommendation would be to have more periods of silence that go with the healing and reflective process. However, this is always possible by taking meditative walks around the jungle environment of the Pyramid Yoga Centre. As it was often the case, the group would be led in mindful walking around the centre grounds or within the practice space and one time even at the beach 🙂

One more aspect stood out for me in this healing retreat: unlike many other healing or detox retreats, the emphasis on the role of SOUND, and how immersing in the right kind of sound frequencies can be healing to both the human body, and one’s energy field. Within the Chakra Yoga tradition, the entire programme is premised upon the fact that the human body and person is essentially made up of energy and that energy is in a constant state of vibration. Illness or dis-ease is when one’s vibratory fields and frequencies are off balance or in dissonance. Healing and health therefore requires restoring one’s vibratory field, starting with one’s chakras, in order to reset and realign one’s frequencies to that of perfect health and vitality. Regular sound sessions is therefore a strong feature of the chakra yoga healing retreat together with good breathing practices.

Being an avid proponent of sound healing I hold a deep appreciation for the role of sound. The sound bed sessions that David and his assistant, Marcelle Visser offered, as well as the other sound sessions using natural instruments and mantras, were all so beautifully woven into the 3 week programme. I was delighted to have been able to offer a few sound healing sessions together with Marcelle at the stunning Sound Dome at Pyramid Yoga Centre…

But the most important sound we were taught every morning to listen to and appreciate was the sound of the jungle, nature sounds and the internal cosmic sounds of the A-U-M.

Sitting writing this I still hear the rustles of the jungle, the crickets and cicadas and the breath of Mother Earth herself blowing through our pores, entering our nostrils into our lungs, and feeding our very blood, organs and glands. I AM forever grateful for this opportunity and healing path with an honourable teacher and dear friend.

Love and Namaste! Thank you David and your team at Pyramid Yoga!

Transformative Coaching – 2018 special package towards personal empowerment

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Transformative Coaching 2018

I am offering a New Year special for my Transformative Coaching programme called TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY in January only for RM1,288! Normal price for four sessions is RM1,388. Book in January for this special but start any time. Choose to transform now as you enter the New Year, 2018!

Transformative Coaching

TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY is a four session Coaching Programme, each approximately two-hours, using a variety of EMPOWERMENT coaching techniques, positive affirmations, channeled guidance, yoga and breath work, including several energy healing sessions to support emotional release, heart centering, chakra balancing and a personal visioning programme to start you off in your new life. The sessions can be spaced out over 3-4 months or whatever timeframe that suits you but no more than 6 months. I will meet with you every few weeks or at least once a month for our sessions. In between sessions you will have homework to practice self-healing and self-empowerment techniques which we will review in each following session.

Underlying these sessions is the aspect of personal responsibility for healing, growth and empowerment. MAKE A COMMITMENT TO YOURSELF TODAY to be the person you truly want to be….

TRANSFORMATION is such an amazing process! Most people will not be able to truly understand transformation until they are either going through the process themselves or have reached a significant milestone in their growth and, upon looking back, CAN notice how far they have come! The process leading up to transformation can seem scary or overwhelming, especially if one is submerge in constant problems and states of mental confusion.

A TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY dares you to choose differently for a greater reward often unimaginable!Great JOY, WELLNESS and FREEDOM is available to everyone, if only you decide to take that courageous step forward.

INVEST IN YOUR OWN TRANSFORMATION AND HAPPINESS today!

Namaste with love and joy! Sarah-Joy
Check more check out this link http://www.transformwithsarahjoy.life/energy-healing/

2018 CHAKRA YOGA & OTHER OFFERINGS

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chakra yoga classes with Sarah-Joy

As the New Year 2018 approaches, I am happy to continue three group chakra yoga and other yoga classes for the first half of the year. The details are as follows below. Each class caters to a different audience, so if you’re not sure which class to join please contact me.

I’m also offering PRIVATE YOGA & Healing sessions. Energy exchange for a private yoga session is RM120 per hour or RM180 for 1.5 hours. Each class caters to your personalised needs. Where needed, I also offer a combination of yoga and energy healing for RM220 for a 1.5 hour session. Other energy healing sessions are mentioned in more detail in the link here

ENERGY HEALING

 

** CHAKRA YOGA Classes – Monday, 10-11.30am

Trial classes on 8 and 15 January 2018 at RM30 per class at The Space, Elaine Yoga studio, Tanjong Bungah.

CHAKRA YOGA includes the practice of Hatha yoga, pranayama (breath practices), raja yoga (concentration meditation and visualisation practices) as well as yoga nidra and meditation. It is a complete practice for self awakening physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Chakra Yoga focuses on a combination of inner and outer practices in order to help you to develop your whole self by working with both the physical and energetic bodies, through your chakra system.

Classes are suitable for those who have attended at least the Chakra Yoga Level 1 course and regular serious yoga practitioners interested to go deeper into their practice. Those who attended level 2 will have a chance to deepen your practices of Pancha Sahita and Swadiyaya (self-reflection and understanding) and other techniques.

Chakra Yoga classes are based on the teachings of my own teacher David Goulet, a yogi of over 45 years practice. David studied directly under Swami Gitananda, a doctor and yogi. David founded the Pyramid Yoga school in Thailand and the Philippines offering Yoga Teacher Trainings on Chakra Yoga. For more information on Chakra Yoga check out the following website link: https://www.chakrayoga.com/

Full season of 10 classes begins on Monday 19 February 2018. The 10 class card is valid for 3 months up to 15 May 2018 (depending on your start date). Fee: RM300 for 10 classes.

** GENTLE YOGA CLASSES begin on Wednesday 3 January from 10-11.30am at The Space, Elaine Yoga studio, Tanjong Bungah.

Every Wednesday morning come practice with a group of lovely women. Be ready to nurture yourself with soft music, gentle movements, stretches and slow strength building exercises, lots of deep breathing, and relaxation. Gentle yoga classes works to harmonise your body, mind and emotions so that you feel more balanced and restored after each class. Suitable for those without yoga background as well as those with minor back, shoulder and neck injuries. Classes may be different each week in order to ensure a more balanced and whole practice over the 3 month period.

Book space and purchase your 10 class card valid for 3 months for RM280 only! Single class rate at RM33.

I look forward to work with you to support you in your healing and nurturing journey back to greater health and well-being. Namaste!

** CHAKRA YOGA classes every Thursday night – 7.00-8.30pm at Lifeworks Holistic Centre

Energy exchange of RM300 for 10 classes over 3 months or RM35 per class.

This class combines elements of the Monday Chakra Yoga class but focuses more on dynamic asanas and some elements of flow (Vinyasa). This is a smaller group due to the limited space so more individualised attention is provided.

OTHER HEALING OFFERINGS INCLUDE:

* INNER DANCE (private and group sessions)
** TRANSFORMATIVE COACHING with Energy Healing
*** MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CHAKRA ENERGY HEALING
**** PERIODIC MEDITATIONS

For my information about Sarah-Joy and her work check out her website:www.transformwithsarahjoy.com

Contact me for further information or to make bookings: hp 016-488 9328

12-12 2017 Meditation at 12 noon – Awakening to 5D Reality

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12-12 MEDITATION on Tuesday, 12 December at 12pm
Energy Exchange: ONLY RM50
Venue: Berjaya Court, Pulau Tikus
Register and make payment by: Friday 8 December 2017.
Contact me at 016-488 9328

Bring a yoga mat, cushion or shawl and anything else to make yourself comfortable. Also welcome some fruits, nuts, flowers or anything else you like to share with the group after the session as a little gathering of loving nurture and generosity as we enter the Christmas period.May this window of yet another important energetic portal or gateway help you to shift even further into your personal unfolding. The energies of the 10-10, 11-11 gateways have pushed you into more deep releasing in order to embrace a new and even raw aspect of Self, newer, fresher and freer in many ways.

If you’re still holding on to past energetic patterns that need letting go off and you’re needing a supportive space to prepare for 2018, do join me on 12-12 at 12pm. Come a little earlier to settle into your space.

I have on purpose decided to hold this 12-12 Meditation in my “empty” apartment while it awaits a new owner as a symbolic move to be in your own zero point – EMPTY SPACE – of CREATION while going even deeper to make anew!

Those interested to join please indicate and let me know soon so I can plan accordingly. Many thanks and looking forward to mutually creating a new inner and outer space for ourselves collectively as we invite the New Year!

Love and Joy! Sarah-Joy