tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10055334890841705262024-02-07T04:10:23.080-08:00Diary of a Yogic MummyThis is a blog of my daily diary as a yogic mum trying to balance my yoga and meditation practise, a certain sense of selfless service, gratitude for life and its joys amidst the mayhem of bringing up two young kids! Enjoy!Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-29374914372090183832020-04-06T05:08:00.000-07:002020-04-06T05:09:20.654-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: indigo; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(75, 0, 130); font-size: 14px;">And Spring offers us her beauty - Et le Printemps arrive et nous tend la main</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: violet; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(238, 130, 238); font-size: 14px;"><em>Et nous reprenons le control des histoires que nous souhaitons raconter et les vies que nous souhaitons mener</em></span></span></div>
<span style="color: indigo; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">J'ai de la chance de vivre où je vis surtout en ce moment. Les montagnes ont été mon chez moi depuis plus de 21 ans & je suis toujours reconnaissante pour leur ancrage, la confiance que ce cadre m'offre, la beauté. Chaque matin je cours avec mon chien - cela fait partie de ma routine et maintenant c'est juste primordial pour mon corps et ma santé mentale! La rivière coule juste à côté de ma maison et m'offre l'éternelle image de changement constant, de fluidité, d'espoir! Elle coule aussi tout le longue de là où je cours avec les arbres et les montagnes comme voisins silencieux et magiques. Rocker et moi nous l'adorons. il ne connait rien de ce "virus", rien du confinement, tous les jours il est content de nous voir, de sortir, d'être à nos côtés, de suivre chaque son, odeur, pleinement de le moment présent.<br />Je ne sais plus quoi croire ref le Covid19 car il y a tellement de théories qui tournent autour des ses origines, des cures, combien de temps cela va durer ou pas, est-ce que tu peux vraiment l'attraper ou est-ce que c'est juste une ruse pour nous garder chez nous, nous contrôler davantage pendant qu'ils essaient de sauver les gens et de remettre en place cette crise mondiale. Mise à part les discussions politiques les chamans nous ont dit que cette situation allait arriver en 2020. Tout allait s'arrêter pour que l'être humain se remet en place car la nature ne pouvait plus supporter notre façon de vivre sur elle sans respect avec nos plaisirs et nos conforts moderns et éphémères. Nous ne pouvons plus vivre dans cette situation d'intensité au niveau du travail, de notre non-connexion avec la planète du coup nous voilà - obligés de rester chez nous comme des ados malpolis !<br /><br />Voici mon deuxième mois de mars où je suis confiné et ma troisième année de suite où ma "normalité" s'est arrêtée nette! Ces changement brusques de vie m'ont appris à ne pas planifier pour l'avenir mais de vivre pleinement le présent. Je ne peux plus voir loin car je reconnais que je ne contrôle pas tout voir rien et que mieux vaut vivre en reliance avec l'univers. Quand les choses changent rapidement, d'un coup, je reconnais que je suis équipée, je m'adapte. Je suis aussi quelqu'un de solitaire qui plonge facilement dans ses livres, ses écritures, sa musique tout comme Saraswati - déesse que je célèbre depuis des années je suis indépendante et passionnée de la vie et c'est ça qu'on devrait célébrer actuellement, la vie. Les moments que nous pouvons passer dehors, ou avec les personnes qu'on aime. Les moments que nous pouvons passer en méditation, en silence, dans le moment présent. Arrêter de passer trop de temps sur les réseaux sociaux, ne regardez pas les infos à la télé, profitez de ce temps pour rendre le corps et le mental en bonne santé. Aimez les gens qui vous aime et laissez-les vous t'aimer.... tu n'es pas seul, nous sommes tous là ensemble.....<br />Love in all ways…..Namaste</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: indigo; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br />I am not sure who and what to believe at the moment regarding Covid19 as there are so many theories and "experts" claiming to know where it comes from, how to cure it, how long or short our confinement will be, can you really catch it or is that just a ruse to keep i-us in, under control whilst they work out how to cure people and how to clean up the mess that someone out there has clearly started. But at the same time the Shamans all predicted this in 2020 we would all come to an abrupt stop because the world cannot do this anymore - be lived on, ignored, abused. We cannot go on living in a turmoil of work, of superficial pleasures, of non connection. So we are grounded like naughty school kids, grounded and forced to pause, to spend time at home and mull it all over.<br /><br />This is the second March in a row I have been "confined" as last year I had a terrible accident I nearly didn't make it and had to recover - it took months to get back to normal and I realise now it helps me today as I am not someone who lives in control, I hate planning actually, I do a lot each day but it for each day there is no long term plan. So when things stop suddenly as they have done frequently in my recent life, I realign and reorganise quite flexibly. I also recognise that I am a solitary girl, just like Saraswati I can easily loose myself in my own world of passions, books, writing, music and social distancing and "isolation" is actually my norm. So right now the only difference in my present day is that I get to spend each day with my beloved family and in a space I love. I get outside everyday, I lean on the universe and I dive deep within daily in meditation and yoga practice. I don't watch social media, youtube and only the occasional bit of TV and my advice for you would be just that - switch of the social media hours, stop watching the TV news let it go. Go inside, relish the time out you have, get healthy, get fit, love the people around you or let them love you from afar but know that you are not alone, we are ALL in this together and this can be the start of a new way of living .... alone and collectively.<br /><br />Namaste</span></span></span></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-29965579416918026902020-04-06T05:07:00.000-07:002020-04-06T05:07:02.353-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Let's lift the cosmic vibration & unite our community!</b></div>
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It has never been more important to be aware, to live connected to the world we live in (and by that I mean with nature not in smart cities) and to lift up our energy levels.</div>
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These past few weeks have been a revelation to me. Just before this crisis all hit and the "virus" took it's hold I felt irritable, intensely occupied, angry, upset even. There was an atmosphere that since the beginning of the year had been increasing it's electromagnetic hold on me and I believe on many around me. Then all of a sudden this "virus" hit us and the world as we knew it ceased to be and we were forced into confinement. Like many I got a bit sick - bad headaches, sore throat, cold or flu symptoms and like many I thought I had this "virus" and that I better protect others around me and not catch it again but increasingly, as time has gone by I was not buying it. So I went within, meditated and as I have done for the past 20 years tuned into my intuition and to nature's message. I have researched what is a virus - and btw you cannot catch a virus - the roll out of new and "improved" technologies, the arrival of rather amazing LED lighting (check out the "deals" being done between Chinese companies and many world world modern nations) and the effect of 5G on our health. Low and behold the test smart city was ..... drum roll Wuhan! Also low and behold every pandemic we have lived through has been after a shift in "frequencies". The electromagnetic frequencies you live in have an effect on your health, on your immune system. If your immune system is weak, if you have "underlying health issues" as they are keen to emphasise you will be touched more profoundly by any change in these frequencies. Apparently Covid 19 is simply a virus the body itself creates to removes toxins from your own body - it cannot be caught from anyone else and it is a totally natural function of the body! But if you are sick and weak anyway and on top of that there are external forces influencing your body you may not have the ressources to fight back. Again I am no doctor but this makes sense!</div>
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Now for the past few years I have tried to shift the way I live, to be inline with nature's messages and it's vibration which is 432 mHz btw.... However our modern vibration is at least 440 mHz and god knows what this 5G has increased the electromagnetic vibrations too. Trees, the earth and human's when they meditate all share the 432 mHz frequency .... (check out <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=102088791371151&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDftK95gIq2UGRdp6KcHnIhy5OTwdf1VtixUHxYZXSGvS1Uvl7i7jiM5mFqnadAc4hLACG-TqL3UTzm%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/laviesecretedesarbresofficiel/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAOs0yPSFvzXfJ8OVc547pKhHZB1V7rhKXh1EIw2ZUbfZLvzE0CPzC6x68rFMRAkmTz_TF4pjm3xD8s40IJzDZyR1V8FPxxcwfFG_vk4sgGvu0KwXtdisb8sy-V7eUXOeXrhZyfeGGd3cfEnH5tYorimvisY6qsQWg9LgeJfzoKdyIKVyu7qRa8fcW5QUVZMkamCT8xGyeymslMxA&__xts__%5B1%5D=68.ARCgNHOBLTxe2hl9HPyO3vy_IV2kVZG2OdiaUSZB_yUwYmkNWwYLlF7bN-_jJy61rkgc4nHfgYSGivnVSi044JjYXksy-r4863CUaInARuew5-FhILmFKI87BMtLjf8EMX44-AjzLW_3AMVIAEKD5oty9D2mAwjo-QHhyBkHnOV3_EjLxXi8ZJlojIxvQvvp2wQGwOSlZodYZj7INQ&__tn__=K-R&eid=ARDftK95gIq2UGRdp6KcHnIhy5OTwdf1VtixUHxYZXSGvS1Uvl7i7jiM5mFqnadAc4hLACG-TqL3UTzm&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">La Vie secrète des arbres</a>) therefore I guess the message from all of this is, there has never been a better time to be aware, to have a greater spiritual relationship to yourself, to your life and to the world and the people around you. You can lift your own vibration by waking up, getting healthy in mind and body, connecting more deeply within and without! Yesterday <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=170335236397911&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARAEVvKWPxrs0uCB3qK5ZaMTPaTV3urVcdA-mav2ZwwyGm2ZWvryA705NRvtjcLKcIDeMJFjLu7s04Bh%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/ShamanDurek/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAOs0yPSFvzXfJ8OVc547pKhHZB1V7rhKXh1EIw2ZUbfZLvzE0CPzC6x68rFMRAkmTz_TF4pjm3xD8s40IJzDZyR1V8FPxxcwfFG_vk4sgGvu0KwXtdisb8sy-V7eUXOeXrhZyfeGGd3cfEnH5tYorimvisY6qsQWg9LgeJfzoKdyIKVyu7qRa8fcW5QUVZMkamCT8xGyeymslMxA&__xts__%5B1%5D=68.ARCgNHOBLTxe2hl9HPyO3vy_IV2kVZG2OdiaUSZB_yUwYmkNWwYLlF7bN-_jJy61rkgc4nHfgYSGivnVSi044JjYXksy-r4863CUaInARuew5-FhILmFKI87BMtLjf8EMX44-AjzLW_3AMVIAEKD5oty9D2mAwjo-QHhyBkHnOV3_EjLxXi8ZJlojIxvQvvp2wQGwOSlZodYZj7INQ&__tn__=K-R&eid=ARAEVvKWPxrs0uCB3qK5ZaMTPaTV3urVcdA-mav2ZwwyGm2ZWvryA705NRvtjcLKcIDeMJFjLu7s04Bh&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Shaman Durek</a> said in a live conference there has never been a better time to lift your vibration but we cannot do it alone, we have to do this collectively. So whilst we are all in the same boat here, let's do this. Dive within, reconnect to what is real, and feel the collective electromagnetic vibration of the earth and the human beings, the souls, on this planet. That is way stronger than any political or economic campaign! Check out some of <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1676881282606697&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCA346ogDZlqKPCfeK_5pPXfcXfkwSkjAHoKOcVDn6BV-m40jO1ZTHuhAozNNHZcVlFA-tvOC6ll1xT%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/WeAreJoshuaColeman/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAOs0yPSFvzXfJ8OVc547pKhHZB1V7rhKXh1EIw2ZUbfZLvzE0CPzC6x68rFMRAkmTz_TF4pjm3xD8s40IJzDZyR1V8FPxxcwfFG_vk4sgGvu0KwXtdisb8sy-V7eUXOeXrhZyfeGGd3cfEnH5tYorimvisY6qsQWg9LgeJfzoKdyIKVyu7qRa8fcW5QUVZMkamCT8xGyeymslMxA&__xts__%5B1%5D=68.ARCgNHOBLTxe2hl9HPyO3vy_IV2kVZG2OdiaUSZB_yUwYmkNWwYLlF7bN-_jJy61rkgc4nHfgYSGivnVSi044JjYXksy-r4863CUaInARuew5-FhILmFKI87BMtLjf8EMX44-AjzLW_3AMVIAEKD5oty9D2mAwjo-QHhyBkHnOV3_EjLxXi8ZJlojIxvQvvp2wQGwOSlZodYZj7INQ&__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCA346ogDZlqKPCfeK_5pPXfcXfkwSkjAHoKOcVDn6BV-m40jO1ZTHuhAozNNHZcVlFA-tvOC6ll1xT&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">We Are Joshua Coleman</a>'s page too it as some great stuff to mull over</div>
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I leave you with this quote from Rudolph Steiner who wrote over a hundred years ago. He stated in 1917 that being human was extremely hard and would only be possible going forward if we increase our spiritual connection otherwise we will not cope with the shifts in electromagnetic frequencies </div>
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"As microcosms we are actually part of, and subject to, the same laws that cosmic beings are, just as the breath we draw is subject to our own human nature.... If our hearts are sensitive to the secrets of cosmic existence and not merely blocks of wood, the words we have been placed into the universe will no longer be an abstract statement. We will be fully alive to this fact. Knowledge and a feeling will spring up within us, the fruits of which will be born in our will impulses, and our whole being will live in unison with the great life, divine cosmic existence." —Rudolf Steiner </div>
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Here's to joining our community and shifting our vibration together! Here's to honouring Mother Earth and sharing in her joy at the respite she is receiving. Here is to listening to one another just that bit more....</div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-25582296101888380312018-12-13T09:01:00.000-08:002018-12-20T01:53:31.335-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">It has been a while since I posted here. It has been an intense couple of years and as I reach the end of 2018 I feel I have emptied myself out completely and phoenix-like from the ashes I rise again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Children are growing up fast! My 15 year old Mélodie is off at boarding school and fast becoming a beautiful young lady…. Each mother I think goes through this passage of time - the letting go, allowing just enough freedom. Every time one of these moments comes I feel like Meryl Streep in Mama Mia saying goodbye “school bag in hand she goes off in the early morning"… and then all of sudden she is off, on her own, needs you less, has her friends, instagram account, life! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MY 10 year old Clémentine no different. Full of life, full of hopes and ideas. Both of my children have had to face the terrible reality of death, of suicide at the hands of my partner. They have lived so close to trauma and seen their Mum suffer, struggle, loose it. I think that was the worst for them. Mum who has always been there for them, strong, resilient, always a solution. And suddenly I could make no plans, didn’t have the solutions and would cry at the drop of a hat. It has been tough, a massive learning curve for us all. Clémentine could see me struggling to cope but really trying to - she turned to me this October and said "Mum, what has happened is part of the past, you need to move forwards into the future now". Wise beyond her years!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Wow, without my practice I am honestly not sure where I would be! It has been very hard I spent the first few weeks after Stephane’s death crying through most of my practice and lying down with my knees into my chest. But I did unroll the mat, I did try and breathe – even that was hard – and I did it every day. Knowing how to stand in my light and stay there, be rooted. To practice being me faced with the most massive challenges life can throw at you. Asking myself - How much do you share of yourself with your students, where are the barriers and limits…. I decided to share a lot. I received so much back. My yoga practice, my yoga teaching, have taught me to lean into the universe and allow it's beautiful energy and strength to wash over me. To trust that everything is in it's place! That the simplest of sights and nature's beauty is often just enough to keep you going on the down days...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Again where to start!! The last few years I have experienced almost everything you can I believe as a woman. From the despair you face when you realise that to really and truly be you, you are going to have break up a family and leave a husband of many years. When you start dating and meeting all sorts of pretty nice guys but not really the one, some totally strange guys too, thinking it is actually better alone and then finding someone and thinking this could really work and then … the finality of him taking his own life, you ask yourself some massive questions as a woman!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And so where do you go from there? How DO you move forwards and grow whilst protecting and holding onto yourself. I don’t have all the answers, really, except that I am feeling good now, strong, calm and happy in the beautiful, simple freedom to be me that my life is offering. I am happy to live in the energy that is right now. It feels good coming home to myself, holding onto the present and diving deeply into it.... I am enough, I am unique, I intend to continue living like a colourful unicorn for life is amazing and needs a little more glitter here and there!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Life has a beautiful way of surprising you as it twists and turns, meanders and flows. As it guides you up and down, in all directions and through all emotions. All it is trying to get you to do is sit in your presence, listen and feel. And when you do magic happens....</div>
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Life feels very good, full of excitement, fresh starts and beautiful meandering pathways full of love.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Have an amazing end to your 2018 and make 2019 very very special....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a young girl I was
always<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a bit “too big” in all senses of
the word – too tall, too large, too much. I always felt a bit different, I
spoke loudly, I was always loud, always “too much”. I never felt like I looked
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I went o my ballet class just
like the other girls and just like them dreamt of being a ballet dancer on the
big stage, graceful and full of light elegance. In my head I was that beautiful
ballet dancer, the reality was very different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ballet dancer in the skin of a “big fat cow”! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a young girl I read a book
called “Clumsy Clara”…. An extremely clumsy young girl. One day she finds
fairies in her garden as she is about to step on their homes the fairies cry
out for her to stop. With their help she learns how to walk on tip toes, pay
attention to her surroundings and walk with grace, lightness and ease in
between their homes. I never felt I reached that second step I just always had
the impression I was stomping all over everything. And Grace? Ooffff very
little in my body and gestures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Considering my size (or at
least the size I felt), my clumsiness and my huge booming voice I spent many
long years with the Clumsy Clara image as my “friend” – or as a girls called me
at school – “you BIG FAT COW”!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the same time as being
under the impression of being the skin of someone else, I felt quite sincerely
that I was not the “model child” everyone wanted me to be but that I didn’t and
that I wasn’t living the life I was supposed to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There were so many socially
acceptable rules, ways of being, pretending, doing the right thing, especially
when in “polite company”. I often found myself confronted by major difficulties
and constantly the feeling that I was acting and hiding my deeper, true
feelings, my identity. The feeling that I was swallowing who I was and not to
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A little bit like in the film
Brave – and yes despite the hair colour I am exactly like her, wanting to live
freely, riding on my horse through the forest! My mother always used to say I
should be polite, quiet, respectful, clean, never show your true feelings and
desires, always hide what you really think, bury your passions and sacrifice
for …. Well there was always a reason to sacrifice…. Essentially hide who you
really are to “fit in” socially, at work etc… to fit into the “norms”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">People used to tell me often
that I was TOO MUCH! Too intense, too much energy, too loud, too strong, too much,
too much, too much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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herself away and dived into activities more suited to her “too muchness” –
horse riding, hockey…. And over eating! Because over eating became a true
source of comfort. Hiding when and how I was eating, hiding behind my kilos,
making people laugh through my jokes, making them think that all was ok. My
loud voice, my jokes, my larger than lifeness all helped push away the opposite
sex and helped me hide behind a mask – after all isn’t that what I was supposed
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ENOUGH!!!</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then at 16 I decided that I
had to change my body. That it was time to loose some weight and take control
of things. I started to loose weight with the help of my Mother and the Doctor.
I thought that I would feel happier, better in myself if I lost the kilos.
Diets, weight loss, regaining the weight, loosing it again… where was I in all
of this? I spiraled into years of ups and downs weight wise and self estime
wise and still the happiness was far from present. I was a yoyo in a diet
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the midst of all of this, instead of finding happiness it just got worse! I had
no clue who I was and how to feel “right”! I equated weight loss and the ideal
body with Happiness. Happy = slim right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sex, alcohol – I understood nothing except that all “that” helped obliterate
further the unhappiness felt inside. I let myself be abused by situations, people,
alcohol to the point of black out. I starved myself, drowned my sorrows, ate
too much, ate & vomited my way through evenings, was guilt-ridden, starved
myself again, practiced excessive sports activities. A cycle of destruction. I
spent chunks of my life aware if the harm I was doing to myself but incapable
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I did everything like a man –
worked hard and fast, treated men pretty much the same as they often seemed to
treat women. I cut myself off from my body. I was incapable of letting go,
letting softness in, incapable of following my feelings, letting to soft voice
of my womanhood speak to me. The natural pulsations of any woman’s body were
pushed aside as being “dirty” and I should be a “good girl” – an echo from my
Mother and Grandmother – and yet I would have sex with an element of alienation
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Devoured by anorexia and
bulimia, lost in my identity as a woman – what the hell was that? – I pushed
forwards in my carrier with the gusto of a block and the ambition of Magaret
Thatcher, social life of Brigitte Jones with her urban family and alcohol
filled evenings and weekends. Bloated and motivated by an inner energy that not
even I understood I pushed forwards…. To where I had no idea! I felt shame and
guilt for nearly everything I was doing desperate to be the GOOD GIRL on the
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Despite my body and my
“external” identity that disobeyed me at every turn I had always been attracted
to religion, by churches and abbeys, by God. The notion of universal energy,
this strength from somewhere else, somewhere/something bigger than us drew me
in. A refuge certainly but I felt at home within those sacred walls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At 14 years old I was visited
by the spirit – or angels – During a prayer meeting. People from my church
group placed their hand son me and an incredible shaft of energy and light
filled by body – I was flooded with this sensation of strength, another type of
“force” or light that I had never fet before. I started to speak in a different
language one that doesn’t exist – speaking in tongues they call it in the bible
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>everyone around me was nodding like
they understood every word! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wanted everyone to know
about this but I quickly understood that this was not really the kind of
information to share – not even with my own family who were quick to mock and
then to say please don’t talk about this Charlotte “you will be judged or
looked at like a freek” – wasn’t I already one?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Everyone did indeed treat me
as a little mad when I started talking about God and the Holy Spirit … so I
just stopped talking about it. I never stopped believing but it just became
another thing that I kept hidden away. Everything was kept deep down inside.
Buried in the same box as “no sex please we are British, my desires, my visions
of being a ballet dancer, my hope that one day I would live the life I wanted
to live. It stayed buried for a long time and got covered in the layers of
self-abuse that ensued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Following a break up with my
long term boyfriend in my late twenties various major questions started to
raise their heads. 3 weeks of total self destructions – parties, no food, lots
of wine, my urban family in full swing and work to the max – I started to feel
that I should take control again of my life. Ow the hell was I living, why?!
Who was I in the midst of all of this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My ex husband Christian, was
not a chance meeting. He arrived in my life at the right moment to put me on
the next path and place me firmly in the direction of self discovery …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met him on the ski slopes of Val d’Isère.
My ski instructor who became my husband and father to my 2 children. He helped
me, supported me, encouraged me in all my courses, retreats, teacher trainings,
paths to self discovery. He was at my side for many years – still is really –
and despite the fact that we are now divorced I still have a lot of love for
him as a person – but we grew apart as I became the person I was supposed to be
he became less of the man I needed to be with. We were not making each other
shine and be happy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had become immunised to my
body, detached,. Bizzarly I was also the slimmest I had been in a very very
long time. And yet I wasn’t happy. Far from it! My husband no longer touched my
body, I flt oddly alienated from my body, my life, my couple, my inner voice
was crawling up to the surface to say that I wasn’t living the life I should
be. I realized that I super sad and very lonely. On the outside everything
looked amazing – I lived 6 months in the mountains, 6 months in the Ardèche, I
had a ski instructor for a husband, two beautiful girls and was living as a
yoga teacher – everything looked golden so why was I crying inside!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mountains Lisa died after many years of fighting cancer. I was with her almost
up to the end a sacred time. This opened up some inner doors. Deep searching
and inner revelations. I was also finishing my teacher training with Shiva Rea
and was on a path of Bhakti Yoga which lead to a lot of tears!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This time in my life was a
real revelation and for some reason a real sexual revelation – I realised that
for way too many years the box that had been buried deep in the inner realms of
my being needed shaking up! I had to change the way I was living as a person,
as a woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Birdy sang this song a while
ago and it expressing how I was feeling in my marriage. Every story has an
ending and despite the fact that Christian had given me s o much confidence in
many ways in myself and helped e along the way (and me him I hope) he was
standing infront of my light! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was ready to shine but he
was standing there infront of me not deliberately but her was there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ON A MORNING NO DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">AND
SHE QUITE LIKED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">DO YOU THINK THAT WE ARE BORN FREE OR THAT WE BECOME FREE? </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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answer is both but I had spent so many years thinking that you had to be a
certain way, do a certain thing that I no longer had any idea who I was and how
on earth I could find my freedom!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So why am I explaining all of this to you – my body battles, my life,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because the body keeps
everything stored, like a usb key. It reflects everything that you think, do,
feel, bury deep within, live out loud….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was always associating my
body with my identity. My hatred for my body translated into all realms of my
life I hid who I was and buried all my passions, desires and inner thoughts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until my body and my identity
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A BATTLEGROUND OF SELF DENIAL</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I tried to give a good
impression to be everything everyone wanted me to be – a good girl, wife,
mother, business woman…I was (am) very good at it! But the more you bury, the
more you deny yourself the more you need to scream out loud!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
weaknesses could actually be our strengths !!!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SO ONE DAY SHE JUST DID IT!</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I took an enormous step in 2012 – the start of the Aquarian <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Age according to Rebecca Campbell in her book
Rise Sister Rise “- an age for and held by women!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Never
do things again because “society tells us we should”, because our parents or
partners tell us we should<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No
more pretending – you only have one life Charlotte!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After a lot of self reflection I decided I should walk in my own
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">MY BIG VOICE</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> = my voice can be heard when I sing, teach, talk<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">MY INTENSE WAY OF THINKING & LIVING</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> = My
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I encourage you to take some
time and think of all those moments in your life where people have told you to
do or be something you did not want to. Where you have buried your essential
being. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Think about what your Dharma
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What is your inner voice
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All those times you have been
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then take a deep breath,
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Now-a-days if you do not have an instagram account with at least 500 followers or way more, facebook, snap chat etc…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you are apparently a nobody in the world of yoga and well being. It seems that the number of followers you have, the likes per day, the presence you have on social media gives you your status and credentials as a teacher of this ancient art and discipline way more than years of experience and study. As we trawl through the beautiful images on the perfect hand stand, splits or back bend in an idyllic spot miles away our eyes are pleased with the image, we may even think or aspire to the « one day I hope to be able to do that and why not in that kind of location ». But does this desire, these images, constitute & create a good teacher and yoga practitioner ? Lovely images yes – the body is inspired, the ego attracted by the challenge but is the heart filled with joy, is the mind eased and connected ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">We all come to yoga for many reasons and often even if we started out for very physical reasons as indeed I did we quickly feel the subtle shift of something deeper, wider and more special, internal happening. As a practionner we can aspire to these flexible acts of dexterity – whether we get there or not is another matter. As one wise yoga teacher once said its not the ability to touch ones toes that counts but the journey on the way down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">As a teacher should we able to do <u>all </u>these postures and should we post them on instagram ? I always thought the yoga path was related to healthy well being, inner strength and harmony, calmness of mind, connected and balanced living. Yes, my body has progressed over the years and come to achieve many postures although these super bendy challenges & some technical balances remain a little allusive. As I now teach and have done for years and as the « market » has progressed, boosted and nourished by instagram, it seems the bar has been raised so that it is expected of the teacher that they can do ALL the postures AND they can perform & post them at will & on social media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">I remember a teacher friend of mine, Alessandra Pecorella,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>once saying about Yoga in London. It was a few years ago and the market has moved on even further but she said at the time « If you don’t turn up with live music and fire eating jugglers now people are not interested ! » Years of devoted practice, study of the sacred texts, of sanskrit, deep meditational practice seems some how not to count if you can’t « perform » as a bendy toy and attract 1000 simply from a photo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Shiva Rea – a very experienced and highly accomplished teacher & friend of mine - once told me she turned up to teach a class in London and the students were actually standing around the edges of the room with faces that sent a « so impress me ! » expression & message. She said she so wanted to shout out in true Africain style accent « I will not teach you until you can show me some respect ! I will NOT teach you» because the word teacher or guru should at the very least encourage that respect, conjure up some form of humilty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a « so show me attitude » but a keen and humble interest to learn and gain experience from one who knows. Information from the person teaching, what they and are passionate & knowledgeable about <u>and</u> wish to share with you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shiva did not shout out at them but swallowed a humble pill and went in and teach an honest and beautiful class. She won the students over through the yoga practice and her flowing message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">I also remember once in India I was asked by a lovely « nodding-head couple » (if you have travelled to India you will know what I mean) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what I did for a job and I said I was a yoga teacher. They simply heard the word teacher and said whilst nodding « ooooo teacher, very good. Teacher is very good ». It seems in India the word teacher commands a respect and certainly not a « well go on then prove it attitude ». They are simple ready to sit and listen to what you have to share with them regardless of a photo clad instagram account.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">So why am I saying all of this ? Well I suppose because I feel a little sad that the yoga trend and market has moved more towards the images and the « product » we are selling rather than remain on its beautiful origins of simple practices to encourage the body and mind to feel connected inside. I feel sad that the message of yoga is dilluted into the gymnastic world of beautiful bendy toys and that we are being carried along on the wave of advertising the body beautiful. As I vere towards my fifties I suppose I also find it hard to « compete » on this level of yoga external prowess. But mostly I feel sad I suppose that no matter what I do I too look at these pictures and want to be those people. I am being sucked into the world of marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">BUT and there is a big but…. At the end of the day and every day I still roll out <u>my </u>mat for me, not to achieve the hardest postures in the world but to create some space in my day, my body, my mind. I roll out my mat with a attitude of devotion and prayer and with a desire to root down and create strength, rise up and create joyful energy. And pretty much every day I go and teach super happy to have a job I adore and share my experience of yoga with students who are often simply just happy to have an hour to themselves and leave feeling a little happier, more grounded & sereen whether I turn up with fire eating jugglers or not ! I turn up and so do they. We move, we breath, we practise, we lay still together and we as individuals guided by a common inner need – whether our legs are behind our heads or just vaguely in contact with our hands – to connect and feel a part of a bigger beautiful picture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">So am I yoga teacher ? I have used yoga along the years to heal my mental issues and addictions, to heal and nourrish my body as the years have passed. I have a reasonable number of followers on social media, I can do the splits (it took me 40 years), just about get my legs behind my head and do my free standing hand stand on some days …. But mostly I enjoy the simplicity of the yoga message, the yoga practice and sharing that live, face to face with students I can look in the eye, smile at, hug at the end of the class, breath and be with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><i>A journalist asked me recently so « how
has yoga changed your life ? »<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><i>OMG I mean where do you start ?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">From spotty overweight teenager to busy
career girls in London riddles with anorexic & binge drinking tendancies to
yoga teacher mum of two organiser of festivals & yoga classes on and
offline living in France. </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Yep on the face of it everything has changed !<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>And yet….</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ok so lets start with the Ayurvedic
principles of Doshas & Prakritis – well why not ! Fundamentally we are
hot-wired to be the person and character that we are. We have a blue print we
cannot change – we are born with it. A unique pattern of Vata (air), Pitta
(fire) and Kapha (earth). It is like an ayurvedic DNA which is called our
Prakriti. This not only forms many of our physical characteristics but also
many many of our personality traits. Any parent with two or more children will
tell you that despite the fact they they « brought their children up the
same » they are both incredibly different. The whole nature versus nurture
debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>So why say all of this in response the
initial question ?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Because fundamentally I haven’t changed. I am
the energetic whirlwind I always was full of life and fire and very little
earth (although I do have a strong homing instinct and have to have a
« chez moi » in place to function and be all the many and varied
people I am or seem to be now a days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>However there is a definite BY & AY –
Before Yoga & After Yoga.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">A little like the BC & AC - Before
Children & After Chlidren – because yes, lets face it this is a definite
life factor for those « in the know »…. Similarly in yoga there is a
before and after. Yoga is not a step or spinning class. You don’t usually go
there to get fit there is usually a deeper rooted reason why you end up on a
yoga mat in a studio with a teacher talking in « yoga speak » - you
know the soft voice that guides you into the realms of « this is a totally
fffing impossible pose but she is making it sound and look so easy I am going
to give it a go for the greater good of my body and soul….. »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Chatting recently to a friend who knows all
about internal battles and who like me has fought weight gain and loss over the
years with good, bad & indifferent results, she said that she believed we
were born with tendancies to get fat, be large, put weight on by just looking
at a bar of chocolate. I am not so sure this a physical tendancy. Yes we are
born with our body types and character – as per the Parkriti debate - but does
that mean we are also born with tendancies to be and do things to ? If my
mother had not fed me solids at the age of 5 weeks, if I hadn’t been made to
finish my plate of food, if the girls at school hadn’t called me a fat cow &
a loud-mouth would I have later on confort ate, been over weight ? Life
throws all sorts of events at us and we can choose how we deal with them. Mine
BY was a definite move towards over-eating then starving myself, partying so
hard, smoking & drinking then destroying myself with guilt and self-loathing.
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">So AY ? Was it a magic wand when I
turned up on my yoga mat and wrapped myself into pretzel-like shapes ? Did
my life and my character and everything radically change about me all of a
sudden ? No of course not. But it set the wheels in motion – it took time
but to brought me back to where my Prakriti wanted me & needed me to be. It
helped me learn to appreciate and love all the aspects of my natural character.
Well nearly all !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Years of ashrams, early mornings, hours of
yoga practice, meditation, plunging into parts of my brain and my body I didn’t
know and sometimes didn’t want to know. </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>All of this « yoga » showed me
my path and taught me to BE more. Simply BE. Not TRY to be.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I live my yoga daily, I love my yoga
daily…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gave up my job as a sales
director in IT, I moved to France, I became a yoga teacher……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Yes radically on so many levels – not over
night and not magic wand like but yes. And also no it hasn’t. I am the person I
am character body and all. I have changed directions, I have changed them
again. But yoga has taught that life is not a permanent painting, that we have
the power to change some things – attitudes, geographics, jobs – but that we
can also not change or do not need to change others just life with them and
except them more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-28793330678057312282016-05-17T01:30:00.000-07:002016-05-17T01:35:34.843-07:00Smile You Are in a Yoga Class<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Smile You Are in a Yoga Class<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I first came to France and went to
church I was sooooo disappointed. It was so grey and serious. I was used to the
Evagalistic churches of my youth, the gospel churches of Birmingham full of
singing, raised hands and joyful expressions ! Maybe a little extreme on
the fun side of religion but never the less my experience. My Dad used to refer
to them as the « Happy Clappers » and mocked me endlessly for my
Church outings but to me this was what religion and spirituality was
about ! Sadly I have never found that joy in the catholic churches I have
frequented – maybe I need to try again – but I am struck by a new phenomena <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yoga Classes can be the same kind of place !<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have been teaching yoga for a number of
years now and have been practising for even more and very often – like almost
every time – I see a raft of serious faces around me. It reminds me of the Catholic
Church. It is as if once you go through that yoga studio door and sit or roll
out your mat the yoga concentrated face has to appear and all the fun is
gone ! Why can’t the fun stay ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I first went to a Gospel Church in
Birmingham the priest said at the beginning of the service please leave the
aisles free for those who wish to dance. I was 13 years old and I thought YES I
have landed in my kind of church ! Very few people stayed seated during
the service. There were electric guitares, fabulous voices, raised hands and
the incredible ingredient of JOY ! For me this is what it should be like
to go to church – a veritable celebration of life. A joyful expression of
gratitude. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now my first ever yoga class may well have
been tough and very sweaty as I was not at all good at it physically but even
then I laughed. In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all honesty I find it
very difficult to stay serious in any environment but I am of the opinion – and
it is just mine of course – that a yoga class should be an expression of joy, a
celebration of life, what your body and mind can do, want to do. Yoga is of
course a discipline and a daily expression of harmony between breath, movement,
the splendid force of the earth and the beauty of the skies but discipline
doesn’t have to align with dull and sad. A discpline like going to church or
going to yoga class CAN and should be a joy, a beautiful gift you are offering
yourself. The very fact that you have found yourself in a yoga class probably
means that you are looking for something that is missing in your daily life.
You might just be seeking some physical release but there is a high chance that
you are looking to release some emotional shit too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you frown and tighten your jaw line what
happens to your face and your body. What messages are you sending to your
external and as such your internal being ? Try it. Frown, tighten you
face, be super serious for a moment and do a simple yoga pose like Tadasana
(standing straight) and lift your arms to the sky. Observe your body. Then
relax your face, smile, inhale and do the same thing lift your arms above your
head. I can guarantee it is NOT the same experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>In the Yoga Sutras we are offered the
expression of Sthira Sukham Asanam – a posture should be stable, confortable
and joyful ! It is written there in black and white !</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I still do not go to Catholic Mass – maybe I
should – but every day I recreate my own church of joy on my yoga mat. A huge
smile on my face and my body, mind and breath become an expression of the joy
of living during my yoga session. The whole experience becomes way more like a
Gospel Church on a simple external level but also on a visceral, vibrational
level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I invite you the next time you go to your
yoga class or roll out your mat at home before you even start your session take
a breath and SMILE for this is an incredible opportunity to enjoy the simple
fact that you are alive and have a right to smile your way joyfully through
your yoga practice !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Written by Charlotte Saint Jean a Yoga
Teacher in France, based in the Savoie mountains and the ski resort of Val
d’Isère, mama to two great daughters (</span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.yogicamummy.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.yogicmummy.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">), founder of the french online yoga web site
</span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.yogachezmoi.com/"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.yogachezmoi.com</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> and creator of the Yoga Festival in Val
d’Isère (</span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.yoga-festival-valdisere.com/"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.yoga-festival-valdisere.com</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Find Charlotte here……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-48481728524756637802016-01-12T13:33:00.000-08:002016-01-12T13:33:07.698-08:00Rayonnez de l’Intérieur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For many years like many many people I made my New Year's Resolutions. Eat less, sleep more, work harder whatever. But if my 45 years have taught me anything - 45 years, two children and a divorce - its that you cannot plan everything. Resolutions tend to lead to feeling of guilt when things don't happen as you have planned. </div>
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So this year after a very busy festive period but a quieter start to the New Year I have decided to lay intentions in place as opposed to resolutions. Intentions that I wish and hope to flood my life with, my daily actions, small maybe but continual intentions.</div>
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So as 2016 opens its big doors I gaze wide eyed and child like and the surprising unfolding of all its beauty and challenge.</div>
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Joy - Peace - Love</div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-37304755635133518692015-11-18T10:22:00.003-08:002015-11-18T10:22:37.913-08:00Peace & Love - where did we go wrong post the 60's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I grew up with parents who had thrived in the sixties. My Mother desperately wanted to join the ranks of those at Woodstock not in a incense burning flower power way but in a folk singing, fighting for what you believe in, lets make society fare kind of vibe. She played Carol Carpenter, Joan Baez, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan. The first album I knew pretty much all the words to was Hair! Yes ladies and gentlemen at 3 years old I could recite most of the words from Masturbation! My parents firmly believed in equality, working hard for your money, being generous when and where you can, sharing, giving out love and compassion, being part of a community. Amazing values to have as your rock and foundation. They still have these values. I still share them.</div>
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Is this why I have taken the yoga path? No I don't think so. My parents are also firm believers in what you see if what you get. They are not religious, they are not believers, they do not go to church or worship God. I do and always have bizarrely. They never understood this, they actually made fun of me (it creates a thick skin for later in life) and always worried I would end up in a sect or as a nun! Even recently when I told them I had met someone special and told Mum his name is Jésus she chuckled and said oooh let me tell your Father! She promptly went down and told my Father "I had found Jesus" - he did not reply at first so my Mum repeated that I had found Jesus and he simply said "Bloody barking mad!" I am still a Christian but I am increasingly disheartened by how people are using religion. Not just the Muslims (and please understand this is not a generalisation of the Muslim faith and followers) but Christians and Jews too. I don't understand why we should point fingers and differentiate ourselves from each other. We are all human beings, we are all equal, water has no colour, neither do tears….. a smile and a cry of pain are the same in any language and culture. </div>
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My yoga path began at first for my physical journey - to rid myself of self-lothing and get myself on a path of love and self-acceptance. But it quickly became a spiritual journey one that only goes to encourage and develop more love, more compassion, more acceptance. After the recent events in Paris - and elsewhere - I posted this on facebook.</div>
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Years ago I went to a play with my Mother in Stratford Upon Avon. It was during the Falklands war and Margaret Thatcher was in power. An Argentine and an English woman were on the stage each one recounting their story of their sons at war with one another. Each Mother shared the same anguish, pain, sadness at the violence their sons were facing as they thought of each<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">other, Mothers crying the same tears, one in Argentina, one in Britain. Several right-wing journalists walked out during this scene - they were so sure that their cause, the British cause, for fighting was the right one. The two women stopped as the journalists walked out along the wooden seated areas in the Swan Theatre then continued their scene recounting their stories either side of the world - they were the same.</span></div>
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I am a mother of two dual nationality children, I have a Venezuelan boyfriend, I have chosen to live in this beautiful country and call France my home, I embrace all cultures, beliefs, colours….</div>
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I grieve the deaths of Friday and the deaths of many other people on many other days in many countries. I will not change my portrait photo to blue, red and white despite the fact that these are the same colours for my country of origin and that of France because my tears have no colour and my sadness knows no flag of origin. </div>
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I pray for peace, I pray for love, I pray for union…</div>
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Like my parents before me I believe in love, I believe in compassion, I believe also in fighting for freedom, for the education and equal rights for women & men and beautiful free passage of my daughters future, I believe we should nurture our planet, our souls, our friends and family. I believe our hearts should beat with a little more love and that we should share that love wherever we can. All you need is love as John Lennon said….. some of the messages from Woodstock and that whole era should be put into place now…. why are we still fighting, why are we still trying yellow ribbons around trees, leaving flowers and candles where blood was shed, sending our citizens to war! why?????</div>
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I pray that my children and my childrens' children will see a better future one of openess, compassion and peace. One that embraces the peaceful and beautiful messages of each religion, one that leaves beautiful music behind and the spiral a little wider.</div>
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Hari Om Tat Sat</div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-237904673776157152015-09-01T14:21:00.002-07:002015-11-18T10:02:44.621-08:00Body Confident<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Body Confident - not an easy task! </h2>
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I used to associate being happy with having the perfect slim body but like many I did not fit into that mould. I was a large baby, child & teenager with a large mouth to boot! Being happy and confident with my body has not been an easy
path. In fact it has been a veritable journey that really only started to find
its “confident” conclusion very recently. As I have mentioned before in my blog
text <b><a href="http://www.yogicmummy.blogspot.fr/2014/10/from-ballet-dancer-in-my-dreams-to.html">from ballet dancer (in my dreams) to Yogini</a></b> my path to find my femininity
has not been an easy one. It has been long, littered with pit falls, unhappy
times and no confidence at all in my body.<br />
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As a rather large child and then teenager I battled with a
body I hated. It was fat, did not look at all like I wanted or like my friends,
my hair was frizzy, I had spots from the age of 10, sticky out teeth and later
a brace, I felt clumsy & all together not me! As I reached my late teens
and early twenties I went through phases of starving myself, binge eating,
consoling myself in bottles of wine, feeling guilty so over exercising,
depriving myself of all and everything, then going for it big time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the time I remained happy and outwardly
sure of myself whilst inwardly I was crying huge tears and self-hatred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My biggest fear was the Summer when bikinis
and bathing costumes came out. OMG how would I cope with that. I was so
self-conscious it was painful to bring myself to go into the sea or pool in a
swimsuit and a bikini seemed like an impossibility ! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember sitting with a friend watching women walk past
and we both said almost in syncronised form “well they can’t have any issues in
their life as they are slim” as if the thinness of your body constituted the level
of happiness in your life. However I remained this outwardly very assured
person extremely happy with herself. No-one knew how desperately un
self-assured I was! <o:p></o:p></div>
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As was going through a particularly bad patch personally –
this time choosing to not eat and drink lakes of wine each night a friend
introduced me to yoga. I have talked about how I found yoga before – the
biggest gift yoga has given me though over the years in a inner confidence in
myself that I would never have had. The body, breath & mind control, the
physical postures & the mental release of meditation have along the years
built a stepping stone path towards an inner and as such an outer confidence. I
have learnt acceptance, I have learnt to love what I hated and bizarrely &
amazingly I have lost weight & built up tone because I am happier and
confident about who I am and how I live. Yes I look after what I eat but not
excessively. I love food, I love my glasses of red wine, I love dark chocolate
& a beautiful tarte au citron or croissant. I don’t believe in depriving
myself if it makes me unhappy & I do believe that my state of mind has a
huge effect on my body.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This Summer I have spent a lot of time on beaches &
lakes and in yes bikinis! At the end of the Summer I spent a couple of days on
l’Ile de Ré in France and for the first time in my life practiced yoga in a
bikini on the beach and allowed a friend to photograph me doing this! I felt
strong, confident and sure of myself & my own capabilities. I felt free of
anxieties that have haunted me throughout my childhood & early adult life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do I still have physical faults! Crikey of course! I large
vein that crawls up my leg, boobs that have seen slightly better days, skin
that is starting to show the inevitably signs of age. Does this bother me? No –
the vein is due to my two beautiful girls – my best achievement ever! – my
breasts too & my skin shows life’s path, a map of all the experiences I
have been through in my 45 years on this planet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The body confidence workshop is a means of sharing this
inner confidence I have nurtured over the past few years through this
incredible practice we call yoga! </div>
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<b>Behind every picture is a story - so this one of me bikini clad in a yoga pose on a beach is a mark of achievement not for the exterior - although I am proud of my strong and healthy body - but for the strength within that this yoga journey has provided me with! </b>The postures, the breath, the energy of the
group & hopefully from me all constitute and your positive intention seed
all go towards this shared experience of confidence & pride in who you are
because <b>YOU ARE AMAZING!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Etre heureuse & avoir confiance dans mon corps n’a pas
été un chemin facile pour moi – en fait il a plutôt été un<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>véritable voyage qui n’a trouvé son
confiance que depuis peu!<br />
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Comme j’ai mentionné avant dans mon blog<b><a href="http://www.yogicmummy.blogspot.fr/2014/10/from-ballet-dancer-in-my-dreams-to.html"> from balletdancer (in my dreams) to Yogini</a></b> mon chemin vers mon corps de femme était
très difficile. Il a été long, parsemé de trous, des périodes très malheureuses
sans confiance de tout dans mon corps.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Comme enfant ensuite adolescente un peu “large” j’ai
bataillé avec un corps que je detestait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Il était gros, ne me ressemblait pas, je ne ressemblait pas à mes amis,
mes cheveux frissés, mes dents sortaient devant puis étaient contenues par<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>un appareil dentaire très vilain, j’avais
des boutons, je me sentais maladroite et mal à l’aise! Vers la fin de mon
adolescence et meme plus tard j’ai passé des phases de privation de nourriture
puis de manger trop, de me consoler dans les bouteilles de vin puis coupable de
trop d’exercise, deprivation puis surcharge! Et tout le temps je donnais
l’impression d’être bien extérieurement pendant que les larmes énormes
coulaient à l’intérieur. Ma plus grosse peur c’était l’été quand il fallait se
mettre en maillot. OMG comment j’allais faire. Maillot une pièce me remplissait
avec un froid pas possible et un bikini juste hors de question! J’étais
tellement consciente de mon corps je mettais mes bras toujours autour de moi –
allais dans l’eau c’était un véritable cauchemare! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Je me rappelle bien avec une copine on regardait les femmes
passaient devant nous et en harmonie on disait “ ells n’ont pas de soucis de
leurs vies car ells sont minces!” comme si on associe le Bonheur avec les forms
de notre corps! Par contre malgré ses convictions et peurs de mon corps je
donnais toujours l’impression d’être sure de moi, heureuse, the life & soul
de chaque fête.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personne savait comment
j’étais malheureuse à la maison derrière mes portes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Je traversais une période pas de tout sympa dans ma vie perso
– cette fois ci j’ai choisi de ne pas manger par contre boire des litres de vin
rouge m’allais bien – et une copine m’a amené à mon premier cours de yoga. J’ai
déjà parlé de ces premiers pas de yoga mais le cadeau le plus énorme que le
yoga m’a accordé c’est la confiance intérieure que j’ai pu cultivar au fil des
ans. Le control de corps, de soufflé, de mental, les postures physiques &
le relâchement mental des méditations vers une confiance intérieure
extraordinaire. J’ai appris comment accepter mes fautes, j’ai appris à m’aimer,
à aimer ce que je détestait et bizarrement j’ai perdu du poids, mon corps à
répondu de façon inattendu à mes efforts mentaux. Oui ok je fais du sport, je
regarde ce que je mange mais pas excessivement. J’adore mon vin rouge, mon
chocolat noir, une bonne Tarte au citron et des croissants le matin avec un bon
café.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Je ne crois pas que me depriver de
ce que j’aime me rend à la fin heureuse. Et je crois profondément que mon état
mental a un effet énorme sur mon corps. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cet été j’ai passé beaucoup du temps sur les plages et les
lacs et oui en bikini! A la fin de cet été sur les plages de l’ile de ré j’ai
fait pour la première fois une séance de yoga en bikini et en plus j’ai laissé
un ami me prendre en photo lors de cette séance. Je me sentais forte, libre de
mes angoisses d’avant, sure de mes capacités. Est-ce que j’ai toujours de défauts! Mais évidemment. Un
énorme veine qui grimpe ma jambe, les seins qui ont vus les journées
meilleures, la peau qui commence à montrer les signes de vieillesse. Est-ce que
cela me dérange? Non! Veines et seins sont grace à mes deux filles que j’adore
– my best achievement to date! – et la peau est une carte de toutes mes
experiences de mes 45 ans sur cette planète.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Cet atelier de Body Confident est une façon de partager cette
confiance intérieure que j’ai cultivé des fondations de unhappiness et non
confiance. <b>Derrière chaque photo est une histoire alors celle de moi ici en bikini chien tête en haut sur une plage est la marque que j'ai battu mais démons pas pour l'extérieur même si je suis fière de mon corps fort et en bonne santé mais pour toute la force intérieur que mon voyage de yoga m'a fourni</b>. La “confidence” j’ai actuellement est grace entièrement à cette
belle pratique qu’on appellee le yoga. Les postures, la respiration, l’énergie
du groupe et espérant de moi aussi, plus votre intention de positivité nous
amène vers une séance de confiance en soi et de partage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Je donne des ateliers sur ce thème de Body Confidence de temps en temps sur Paris et aux festivals de yoga. Restez en contacte via ce blog ou écrivez-moi et je vous rajoute à mon mailing : info@yoga-with-altitude.net<br />
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Venez, prenez soins de votre intérieur, take
pride dans vous parce que YOU ARE AMAZING!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-9960686382813508142015-05-18T07:26:00.000-07:002015-05-18T07:49:18.811-07:00Yoga For Peace on the DDay Beaches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">D-Day Landings & Yoga
Vibes</span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I have just returned from an amazing weekend
in Normandy where I had the honour to be a part of the Normandy Beach Yoga
festival celebrating peace and union in a part of the world the has been witness,
sufferer and survivor of the second world war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I was struck by the beauty of the beaches,
the space and massive horizon and how each and every day the sandy beaches are
wiped clean of all traces of human activity. The conflict and blood-shed of all
those years ago disappeared into the sea with the never ending tides…. But the
memories still live on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The town of Courseulles where the beautiful
Juno beach sits is in many ways a monument now to this war time period of our
history. The Juno Beach Centre – a brilliant Canadian funded and created musuem
– a fabulous place to go and experience all that the war did, meant and should
lead to now – is nestled along the sea front just next to Courseulles. </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Both the
town and the centre are looking forward to a future of wellness, peace and harmony
for all. There is a definite desire to move on, not to forget but to move
forwards with an attitude of positivity. The past events in this part of the
world have for many years dominated their lives and even their tourist
industry. Is it not time to use the lessons from the past and move into a
differet phase ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I would say a resounding yes but it is not
always a message well received by local residents and town councils. Their
modern vision seems to focus on the business side (as ever) of things – Macdonalds
has just this year opened in Courseulles to big local applause ! – and the
desire to still live from the past continuing to blast out the pomp and
ceremony of the military. But the town of Courseulles has also just added to
their title bien-être (wellbeing)…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Caroline decided two years ago to launch the
initiative of the Normandy Beach Yoga – a gathering of yogis on the D Day
Beaches who practice, breath and believe in a peaceful future as one. A moment
of union, no conflict, harmony where there is no difference in religion, size,
nationality, language. Where we greet each other as Mac or Alice or Rachid or
Pascale without any other thought as to our beliefs and political tendances.
Just people all doing the same thing – surviving, living !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Life is an incredibly precious gift and
should be cherished – those souls who threw themselves bravely, naively into
battle paid the ultimate price. We should not forgot them but we should also
not dwell on the past and let the samskaras of such a hard and bitter era
colour the future unless of course its full of positive harmonious future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">As I lead a meditation on Juno Beach on 9th
May and encouraged all to root into the sands and send energetic strands of
peace into the earth I felt the peace and positive energy of their bodies,
minds and souls. The waves and wind were our friends, the early morning sun
beat down onto us and a strange thing happened. We started our meditation a
small group and by the end of the meditation when we opened our eyes we had
tripled in number. Literally. It was such a beautiful moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">We all chose a stone to take with us to write
our seed intention of peace on it so that the sands and soil of Juno and its
blood-ridden path may start to grow different strands of energy. </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Those of joy,
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I close with this beautiful statement I once
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-19959426319801924722015-03-17T14:43:00.003-07:002015-03-18T02:03:45.100-07:00Seeing yourself on TV -its a strange thing especially in HD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Seeing yourself on TV -its a strange thing especially in HD</b><br />
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You know when you have come a long way when a TV programme calls you and asks you to go on and talk about your past. What did you do, why did you stop, how are you now…<br />
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Its a strange thing to go over your past and look at photos of yourself as you were before and then as you are now. Its been pretty therapeutic actually turning a amazing chapter in my life with Christian and now moving on….<br />
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And a radio station too wished to talk about my life and how I have gone over various challenges asking where I come from, what my key dates are, what do I feel is the meaning of life ...<br />
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And its tied in with Springtime and a massive flu illness as if my body is getting rid of past issues not in a bad way but in a good tying up loose ends and leaving as they say in Mutant Message the spiral a little bigger and music behind me (well I hope so anyway).<br />
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So I am embracing all life's challenges and the Springtime glory and am going for it!!!!<br />
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here is <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjrpNyGPHcs">a clip from the TV show Toute Une Histoire when I am telling the presenter what happened to my body</a></b>…. and here is another one when<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsHKEFQrPD0">the psychologist rips me to shreds</a></b><br />
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namaste</div>
Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-7041181834902947332015-01-28T08:05:00.000-08:002015-01-28T08:05:01.379-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Its the New Year…. and its almost February…</b><br />
<b>Have I caught up after the festive season have I hell!!!</b><br />
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It has just been so busy but such fun to start the year with so many things going on.<br />
In brief..<br />
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Yoga Classes - à fond!<br />
The girls…. working hard at school although Clémentine's dictée leaves something to be desired and Mélodie was doing so well at guitar and skiing but has now fractured her wrist grrrr<br />
Trips to Paris - one VERY hectic one<br />
Two Yoga Festivals - yep check under way<br />
Skiing season underway and yes the legs have had a good few outings now<br />
Running - back on track and a half marathon and trail race planned for later this year<br />
My Yoga Practice - trying to fit it in…<br />
Princesse the car starting to fight her cornet with the massive male cats around<br />
Yoga Retreats organised for 2015 - yes 6 of them<br />
Yoga Retreats for me booked - zero (need to sort that one!)<br />
Desnowing the drive - check<br />
Taxi driver skills getting very good<br />
Addiction to Netflix series yep on it! (Luther, Orange is the New Black, Modern Family & Broadchurch under wraps!)<br />
Holiday to Canada, South of France x2 & ….. yes!<br />
Sleep lacking<br />
New man found …. check :)<br />
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oooff 2015 has started in fine form!<br />
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-78844057841836281742014-12-14T14:49:00.002-08:002014-12-14T14:49:25.133-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Christmas to you all !!!!!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Yes
we have reached the season of frantic energy, present buying and plans for the
Christmas and New Year period ! I totally love this time of year and just
adore getting the house ready for the festivities – the lights, the excitement
in my children’s eyes, choosing gifts for the family, planning & preparing
food. Just love it…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And
traditionally I have also put out a Christmas letter – last year I was a little
amiss in this as not only was I totally overwhelmed with work, moving and the
Winter season kicking in with gusto I was going through a period of my life
wrapped in change and I needed the dust to settle before I could write and
share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">So
as most of you know I am sure Christian and I have seperated and to coin a
Gweneth Paltrow phrase we have « enjoyed a conscious uncoupling ».
Very super star as a phrase but actually not far from the truth. We spend years
finding out about each other, coupling as it were soi t is only natural that it
takes time to uncouple. We are still great friends and continue to see each
other a lot as the children grow around us so we have managed to transition as
best as is possible……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">We
have sold our place in the Ardèche, I have now moved again into a new home just
in the valley near to Séez and Bourg St Maurice and Christian stays in the flat
until we manage to sel lit and the children have adapted really well to their
routine with Dad and the one with Mum….. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Mélodie
has moved to « big school » as has Clémentine really – both have
changed schools this year. Mélodie is not in collège and with the help of her
Mum gets up at 6.30am every morning (oh yes !!!!) to head off for an
intense day that starts at 8am (Brits you do not know how good you have it with
the lie ins you get compared to us !). Clémentine heads off at 8.15 to her
new Primary school – a quaint affair where I aslo teach the children yoga once
a week – I have become very creative with the postures and we have worked on
light and dark, happiness and sadness, what colour are our inhalations and
exhalations oh yes and some Ninja Yoga ! Mélodie is in a music option at
school and loves it with guitar and singing lessons – we have been enjoying
London Grammar from the choir group (so hip this french school of hers) and
Clémentine is learning to read (call us of an evening and you will hear us
chanting pu, pui, pak, bo, bu, ba….). Both girls have been loving their horse
riding this year too and now of course we have the ski season so the skis are
out and the girls are soon going to back skiing around.</span></div>
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continue along my yoga path of adventures and 2015 is looking like an amazing
year with 6 yoga holidays planned, the online web site doing really well, the
Val d’Isère Yoga festival in its third year, Bliss Bordeaux looking like its
happening again, I write a couple of blogs, am an amabassador for a couple of
clothing brands – Wellicious, Yoga Searcher and Lole and I am even starting to
teach in the Rhumatology department of a major Hospital in Paris. Ooooof….</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Still
loving my sport and have taken up cycling this Summer which is adddictive, love
my running especially now my house is in the valley and I can run by the river
for miles. Skiing of course and did I mention my new home….. ????!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loving my new space – the cat and the girls do to. So this Christmas will find
us snuggled infront of the fire sourrounded by our incredible mountain
landscape looking forward to a beautiful end to this very eventful year of
change and uprooting as well as regrouping and getting back on track….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-581166938108618922014-10-13T05:54:00.002-07:002014-10-13T06:01:47.301-07:00From Ballet Dancer (in my dreams) to yogini in many little steps<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elena Brower once said to me the best teachers especially yoga teachers are those who have at one or many points in their life struggled. I wondered if that might be true so I started to check out some people - friends, leaders, other teachers….. The surface level might not show the struggle but dig a little deeper and eye shall find!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many people look at me now and comment on how radiant I look, presume that it has always been so, check out the Facebook page and see the different places I head to and the incredible luck of a lifestyle I have and leap to their own conclusions. That's fine I don't mind. But life has not always been like that and ups and downs, struggles and battles I have had and still work on daily…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I was little I always dreamt about being a dancer, ballet maybe, but light on my feet, beautiful watch moving gracefully around a stage or just a garden. I remember being a clown in ballet class because I wasn't really like the other girls - about three times bigger, wider, taller than the other girls of my age. So I made them laugh. I also remember my Mum making me a tutu for a watering can fairy performance on May Day at Ragley Hall in the UK and honestly the tutu was simply massive compared to the other girls. I felt clumsy and enormous even at the age of 5. And yet only months later the tutu was already too small.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wasn't what they might call now obese but I was large. I used to look at my thighs and think they looked like huge whole chickens. At 10 a girl at school called me a fat cow and I would love to say I had the confidence that I do now to come back with a clever quip but no, I internalised it all for years. Things did not improve as I got into my teens. Luckily the 80's fashion was leggings and big shirts - my shirts were massive! I couldn't fit into jeans and went crawling up to a size 16-18 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My body did not resemble me at all. Inside the ballet dancer swept gracefully full of feminine charm but outside I was clumsy and just made people laugh. At the age of 16 in a huge sized bathing costume that was cutting into my thighs on holiday in northern Africa with the family I decided I had to change. So with my Mum I went on a controlled diet and yes started to loose weight. It took time but the weight came off …. my Granny gave me some money when I got down to a reasonable weight to "go and buy some jeans" and I remember how pleased I was when I came out with my pépé jeans bag. My first pair in years having been restricted to M&S boys jeans for a while and then well leggings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found it a struggle to cope with the attention from the boys around me but that became less of an issue then the yo yo dieting that then took hold of me. I left home and had no parental influence and I took control - badly. A terribly relationship for a number of years just made matters worse - I did not know who to be, how to be, how to stop putting weight on, loosing it. With an addictive personality binge drinking then massive guilt trips were the norm and so was the eating disorder in my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fasting for days living on an apple or two then binge eating often with drink too then vomiting it all up became a regular routine. At my skinniest I was around 7 stone 10 but it never lasted long. I moved to London and things continued along the same lines although I managed to stabilise things a little by joining a gym and a running club where I could at least throw myself into sport to shake of the kilos. Although that in itself became addictive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was in a massively masculine industry sales and IT at a time when the no pan no gain attitude was rife …. things were not improving. I just kept shutting the doors that needed opening. Partying and working hard to hide the pain, burying my femininity in drinking with the lads, flashy cars etc…. A London lifestyle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My boyfriend left me for a friend and after a healthy dose of partying I decided things had to change. I started to practice yoga….. <b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 11pt;">It was the mid 1990s </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">amidst a haze of
career, ambition and living/working/partying hard and yoga found me. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Blocked in a masculine world
fighting to be an equal and never achieving my very high goals. I found myself
in an Ashtanga session one Sunday afternoon in a crowed chic gym surrounded by
people in the know I left dripping wet, exhausted and intrigued. </span></span><br />
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had begun. After years of body issues, dieting, body-loathing, addictions, over
exercises, guilt-tripping I slowly began practicing the odd Sun Salutation. A little breathing and meditation here, a
change in attitude there…. to appreciate
the subtle changes that started to happen in my life. I met my ski instructor husband which lead to a move to Val d'Isère, I settled into to life in a ski resort, started teaching, started living and moving differently. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My skin looked better, my
tummy bloated and cramped less, I started to let go of what I thought I should
be and started to be who I wanted to be. Facing demons, allowing changes to
happen, being afraid but doing it anyway – what had made me be this person….
Yoga? Surely not. But my practice continued, developed, flourished until I
found myself on a hospital bed with trainee doctors saying its Crohn’s disease,
the appendix, we need to operate…. Stop something radical had to happen. </span></span><br />
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good parts of life were filtering slowly in but persisting down a career path
with no soul was not helping. The tummy specialist said to me that things had to change as he took the growths out of my intestines. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I quit…. Quite simple quit a hugely well paid
job and left for an ashram and dived deeply into fear and challenge. I started to eat better, practice more, be happier, enjoy where I lived, what I was doing. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bit by bit I found out who I was, I liked who I was, I started to even like my body and stop dieting in faddish stints. In 2004 I discovered Shiva Rea and the Prana Flow tribe and boy was that a revelation. Suddenly it was ok to feel feminine to be in touch with your body, your sexual desires, the spontaneous energy of tantra…. Two pregnancies helped with the battle of body image although I found it tough to distinguish fat from being pregnant! but the main message?</span><span style="font-size: 15px;">…</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">..</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My friend Lisa Hall died in November 2012 and I still miss her daily. She taught me to always believe there was a way, always keep your nails nice and ALWAYS Charlotte wear a nice bra and pants that match not for anyone else but you! Her death was a springboard for me to look at myself and my life. Sadly possibly for my ex husband it meant that our couple stopped being that and we separated but we are the absolute best of friends and he is one of the most amazing people I know - although he doesn't think or know it.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I had my second daughter I had a terrible birth at the end with pre-eclamcia and then a haemorrhage. I was rushed for surgery and en route had an incredibly beautiful vision of angles just like the cover of One Hundred Thousand Angels by Bliss - it was so peaceful but I knew it was not my time. It couldn't be. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I left hospital with a huge tummy and a tiny baby but we were alive and both of us fighters. We are both fit and well today…. but a third of my hair fell out whilst breast feeding and the post birth trauma frightened my hair into coming back grey so after a period of "natural" highlights I went back to being blond. Hence the shift in hair which so much more resembles me now. Life chucks stuff at you sometimes you duck sometimes it hits you in the face. You just have to decide which was you are going to turn, move, come back to or from.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do I still look in the mirror every morning to check out the "fat" stakes - yes, but I care less! Life is for living and to the full. Its a beautiful roller coaster of ups and downs, love, death, life, joy and pain often in equal measure.</span></span></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-41239906897763436212014-09-26T06:44:00.001-07:002014-09-26T06:44:24.295-07:00A Single Yogic Mum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have become a statistic </h2>
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Separated, two children and essentially a working single mum of two - more than common these days (sadly some would say)…. I have an amazing relationship with my ex and the girls father better probably than when we were married but the reality is I have become something I never really wanted to be.<br />
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Yes I have always been strong minded, independent, dynamic but that does not necessarily equate to wanting to be alone bringing up my children. But weekdays and half the holidays that's exactly what I am. Juggling work, me time and the kids into a jammed day is rewarding but tiring and when you don't have someone to snuggle up next to on the sofa at night for a huge hug then it can get lonely at times….<br />
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But better alone than "map accompagné" as they say in French which mean badly accompanied. Yes, I am better, stronger, happier most importantly but I did have visions of growing old with my partner with all that shared past and experience you don't need to explain. My parents are still together and are mostly happy I would say and so would they. They like I had visions of the long term but not to be.<br />
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This is not a blog insert to grumble its actually quite an empowering one to say that we can do it. We can be happy, single, a mum, do all the things around the house and garden - I can get up a ladder like the rest of them and store my Winter supply of wood single handedly but it would be soooo nice to have someone say well done darling I have poured you a nice glass of wine, a bath… etc….<br />
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Just sometimes…<br />
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My girls are being just super and I think even they are loving the new happy mood that adorns our house and their papa's but I think that they both would also like to see they Mummy fulfilled as a woman. What message are we sending to our children if we are not in couples? I don't think that my girls remember seeing me happy and in love and wrapped in the arms of the man i love. Despite my feminist ten dances I still have a desire to nuture the fairy tales maybe not that happiness in linked to a man sweeping you off you feet but at least that happiness can be found in a couple, it can be shared, fulfilling, loving, harmonious<br />
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now there's something to strive for!<br />
Namaste</div>
Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-39534541713700630772014-07-29T03:50:00.000-07:002014-07-29T03:50:06.043-07:00Plus Zen La Vie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have started to write a bi-monthly article in Esprit Yoga magazine…<br />
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For all you French speakers out there here is the latest version or buy the magazine (if you are in France) or via their web site and enjoy...<br />
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-21130563589954101942014-07-29T03:46:00.001-07:002014-07-29T03:46:42.230-07:00Its the Summer & boy has this yogic mummy been busy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So yes we have arrived in July and I realise I haven't written a thing since May.<br />
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However I have been totally busy!<br />
It has been the most hectic two months ever with a massive move from my Gites in the Ardeche as they sold on 5th May back up to Savoie, workshops in Paris, school holidays and beach time fun and buying a new house plus renovating it (not totally finished).<br />
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A massive whirlwind of events BUT<br />
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Incredibly all is sorting itself out now and I have to thank my children for being sooooo good about the whole moving thing and my beautiful ex husband and friend for life Christian for helping so much with the renovations. It has all been quite a journey but I have practiced, prayed, meditated and thanked along the way and I am so pleased to say that my body and mind have coped better than even I could have expected.<br />
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My new home is gorgeous and so homely and safe. The girls feel happy here and so do i<br />
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Gratitude …...</div>
Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-44198966228378722342014-05-14T08:56:00.001-07:002014-05-14T08:56:47.688-07:00Is it May already????<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OMG<br />
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Time has just flown and been massively (and i mean massively) full on. So much going on and so many big things happening. The daily routine (do I even have one?) has just simply been there and been managed but life decisions and big life events and professional happenings have been flooding in my daily life…<br />
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Thoroughly enjoyable but full on!!!!!<br />
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The Val d'Isère Yoga festival…. the first two BLISS yoga festivals in Brides les Bains and Bordeaux…. selling my beautiful and beloved home and business in the Ardeche …. buying a new home … finishing a Winter season…. music auditions for Mélodie for collège and new school forms and hurdles to negotiate… and the school holidays with a family visit to Savoie to boot<br />
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bored - I simply don't have the time!!!!!!<br />
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Its been a roller coaster ride of a few months but life is good and full of happy challenges<br />
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I have thanks to my yoga practice kept my feet and my head firmly on the ground and after the madness of three days in Paris life has at least a couple of weeks rest (well sort of) as I stay at least in Savoie, get my new bikes and start my cycling fun and games (be gentle girlfriends)….<br />
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I breath a huge sigh of relief and actual marvel at my ability to juggle and manage all that life has so far thrown at me…<br />
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bring it on I say bring it on!!!!!</div>
Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-37722404097194949512014-03-27T14:11:00.003-07:002014-03-27T14:11:54.664-07:00End of one Relationship can be the beginning of a new one - even with the same person<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #898f9c; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This is not my article but it is sooooo what I have been going through recently and I couldn't agree more</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #898f9c; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">To all those that are in the midst of transition, guess that means everyone. Received this essay from a my friend </span></span></span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=720050987&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/niki.parker.56" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Niki Parker</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">. About love, separation, divorce and uncoupling in a conscience, intelligent and loving way. Best thing I have read in awhile.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dr. Habib Sadeghi & Dr. Sherry Sami </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">on Conscious Uncoupling</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Divorce is a traumatic and difficult decision for all parties involved—and there’s a</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">rguably no salve besides time to take that pain away. However, when the whole concept of marriage and divorce is reexamined, there’s actually something far more powerful—and positive—at play.<br /><br />The media likes to throw around the statistic that 50% of all marriages end in divorce. It turns out that’s accurate: Many people are concerned about the divorce rate and see it as an important problem that needs to be fixed. But what if divorce itself isn’t the problem? What if it’s just a symptom of something deeper that needs our attention? The high divorce rate might actually be a calling to learn a new way of being in relationships.<br /><br />Until Death Do Us Part<br /><br />During the upper Paleolithic period of human history (roughly 50,000BC to 10,000BC) the average human life expectancy at birth was 33.[i] By 1900, U.S. life expectancy was only 46 for men, and 48 for women. Today, it’s 76 and 81 respectively.[ii] During the 52,000 years between our Paleolithic ancestors and the dawn of the 20th Century, life expectancy rose just 15 years. In the last 114 years, it’s increased by 43 years for men, and 48 years for women.<br /><br />What does this have to do with divorce rates? For the vast majority of history, humans lived relatively short lives—and accordingly, they weren’t in relationships with the same person for 25 to 50 years. Modern society adheres to the concept that marriage should be lifelong; but when we’re living three lifetimes compared to early humans, perhaps we need to redefine the construct. Social research suggests that because we’re living so long, most people will have two or three significant long-term relationships in their lifetime.<br /><br />To put in plainly, as divorce rates indicate, human beings haven’t been able to fully adapt to our skyrocketing life expectancy. Our biology and psychology aren’t set up to be with one person for four, five, or six decades. This is not to suggest that there aren’t couples who happily make these milestones—we all hope that we’re one of them. Everyone enters into a marriage with the good intention to go all the way, but this sort of longevity is the exception, rather than the rule. It’s important to remember too, that just because someone is still married doesn’t mean they’re happy or that the relationship is fulfilling. To that end, living happily ever after for the length of a 21st century lifetime should not be the yardstick by which we define a successful intimate relationship: This is an important consideration as we reform the concept of divorce.<br /><br />End of the Honeymoon<br /><br />Nearly everyone comes into a new marriage idealizing their partner. Everything is perfect in their minds because they’ve misidentified what marriage is really about. As far as they’re concerned, they’ve found the love of their life, the person who understands them completely. Yes, there will be hiccups in the process, but by and large, there’s no more learning left to do. They’ll both be the same people 10 or 20 years from now as they are today. When we idealize our partners, things initially go very well as we project positive qualities onto them. This is called the honeymoon phase.<br /><br />Sooner or later, the honeymoon ends and reality sets in. This is usually when we stop projecting positive things onto our partners and begin to project our negative issue onto them instead. Unfortunately, this creates a boomerang effect as these negative issues always come right back to us, triggering our unconscious and long-buried negative internal objects, which are our deepest hurts, betrayals, and traumas. This back-and-forth process of projection and aggravation can escalate to the point where it impacts our psychic structure with even more trauma.<br /><br />Because we believed so strongly in the “until death do us part” concept, we see the demise of our marriage as a failure, bringing with it shame, guilt, or regret. Since most of us don’t want to face what we see as a personal failure, we retreat into resentment and anger, and resort to attacking each other instead. We’ve put on our armor and we’re ready to do battle. What we don’t realize is that while a full body shield may offer a level of self-protection, it’s also a form of self-imprisonment that locks us inside a life that repeats the same mistakes over and over again.<br /><br />Intimacy & Insects<br /><br />To understand what life is really like living with an external shield, we have to examine the experts: Insects. Beetles, grasshoppers, and all other insects have an exoskeleton. The structure that protects and supports their body is on the outside. Not only are they stuck in a rigid, unchanging form that provides no flexibility, they are also at the mercy of their environment. If they find themselves under the heel of a shoe, it’s all over. That’s not the only downside: Exoskeletons can calcify, leading to buildup and more rigidity.<br /><br />By contrast, vertebrates like dogs, horses, and humans have an endoskeleton. Our support structure is on the inside of our bodies, giving us exceptional flexibility and mobility to adapt and change under a wide range of circumstances. The price for this gift is vulnerability: Our soft outside is completely exposed to hurt and harm every day.<br /><br />Life is a spiritual exercise in evolving from an exoskeleton for support and survival to an endoskeleton. Think about it. When we get our emotional support and wellbeing from outside ourselves, everything someone says or does can set us off and ruin our day. Since we can’t control or predict what another person does, our moods are at the mercy of our environment. We can’t adapt to the situation if our intimate partner doesn’t behave the way we think they should. Everything is then perceived as a personal attack and attempt to upset us. Up goes our armor and it’s all-out war.<br /><br />With an internal support structure, we can stand strong because our stability doesn’t depend on anything outside ourselves. We can be vulnerable and pay attention to what’s happening around us, knowing that whatever comes, we have the flexibility to adapt to the situation. There’s a reason we call cowards spineless: It takes great courage to drop your armor, expose your soft inside, and come to terms with the reality of what’s happening around you. It’s a powerful thing to then realize that you can survive it. When we examine our intimate relationships from this perspective, we realize that they aren’t for finding static, lifelong bliss like we see in the movies. They’re for helping us evolve a psycho-spiritual spine, a divine endoskeleton made from conscious self-awareness so that we can evolve into a better life without recreating the same problems for ourselves again and again. When we learn to find our emotional and spiritual support from inside ourselves, nothing that changes our environment or relationships can unsettle us.<br /><br />There’s a scientific theory by Russian esotericist, Peter Ouspensky, that the creation of insects was a failed attempt by nature to evolve a higher form of consciousness. There was a time millions of years ago when insects were enormous—a dragonfly’s wings were three feet across. So why didn’t they end up being the dominant species on earth? Because they lacked flexibility, which is what evolution is all about, and couldn’t adapt to changing conditions like humans can. The lives of people who imprison themselves in an exoskeleton of anger usually don’t evolve the way they’d like them to, either. Being trapped inside negative energy like anger and resentment keeps people from moving forward in life because they can only focus on the past. Even worse, over time, these powerful emotions often turn into disease in the body.<br /><br />Conscious Uncoupling<br /><br />To change the concept of divorce, we need to release the belief structures we have around marriage that create rigidity in our thought process. The belief structure is the all-or-nothing idea that when we marry, it’s for life. The truth is, the only thing any of us have is today. Beyond that, there are no guarantees. The idea of being married to one person for life is too much pressure for anyone. In fact, it would be interesting to see how much easier couples might commit to each other by thinking of their relationship in terms of daily renewal instead of a lifetime investment. This is probably the reason why so many people say their long-term relationships changed overnight, once they got married. The people didn’t change, but the expectation did.<br /><br />If we can recognize that our partners in our intimate relationships are our teachers, helping us evolve our internal, spiritual support structure, we can avoid the drama of divorce and experience what we call a conscious uncoupling. A conscious uncoupling is the ability to understand that every irritation and argument was a signal to look inside ourselves and identify a negative internal object that needed healing. Because present events always trigger pain from a past event, it’s never the current situation that needs the real fixing. It’s just the echo of an older emotional injury. If we can remain conscious of this during our uncoupling, we will understand it’s how we relate to ourselves internally as we go through an experience that’s the real issue, not what’s actually happening.<br /><br />From this perspective, there are no bad guys, just two people, each playing teacher and student respectively. When we understand that both are actually partners in each other’s spiritual progress, animosity dissolves much quicker and a new paradigm for conscious uncoupling emerges, replacing the traditional, contentious divorce. It’s only under these circumstances that loving co-parenting can happen. It’s conscious uncoupling that prevents families from being broken by divorce and creates expanded families that continue to function in a healthy way outside of traditional marriage.<br /><br />Wholeness in Separation<br /><br />It seems ironic to say that a marriage coming apart is the cause of something else coming together, but it’s true. Conscious uncoupling brings wholeness to the spirits of both people who choose to recognize each other as their teacher. If they do, the gift they receive from their time together will neutralize their negative internal object that was the real cause of their pain in the relationship. If we can allow ourselves this gift, our exoskeleton of protection and imprisonment will fall away and offer us the opportunity to begin constructing an endoskeleton, an internal cathedral, with spiritual trace minerals like self-love, self-acceptance, and self-forgiveness. This process allows us to begin projecting something different into the world because we’ve regained a missing part of our heart. This addition to our psychic infrastructure creates a wholeness that supports our own growth and ability to co-parent consciously.<br /><br />Coming Together<br /><br />The misunderstandings involved in divorce also have much to do with the lack of intercourse between our own internal masculine and feminine energies. Choosing to hide within an endoskeleton and remain in attack mode requires a great imbalance of masculine energy. Feminine energy is the source of peacemaking, nurturing, and healing. Cultivating your feminine energy during this time is beneficial to the success of conscious uncoupling. When our masculine and feminine energies reach equilibrium once more, we can emerge from our old relationship and consciously call in someone who reflects our new world, not the old one.<br /><br />Naturally, divorce is much easier if both parties choose to have a conscious uncoupling. However, your experience and personal growth isn’t conditional on whether or not your spouse chooses to participate. You can still receive the lessons he or she has to give you, resist being baited into dramatic arguments, and stand firm in your internal, spiritual support system. By choosing to handle your uncoupling in a conscious way, regardless of what’s happening with your spouse, you’ll see that although it looks like everything is coming apart; it’s actually all coming back together.</span></div>
Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-55619827676426984672014-02-22T12:30:00.000-08:002014-02-22T12:30:17.913-08:00February and its intense<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OMG<br />
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how can I fit more into a day<br />
with huge difficulty and how to deal with everything life is throwing at me?<br />
With difficulty …<br />
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I have been juggling my kids, an incredible busy work time in resort and the run up to the Yoga festival in Val d'Isère which is proving a huge task with a mass of teachers turning up in a few days and hopefully a mass of students too.<br />
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And its been tricky juggling everything with the kids, trying to be a good Mum, a good daughter, a good everything and the news that I have a cracked meniscus coupled with needing a new car an life throwing its max of challenges at me its been hard to think of me.<br />
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So what have I tried to do?<br />
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take baths<br />
practice<br />
be….. not easy!<br />
but I have tried and hopefully I am doing what I need to<br />
not easy but…<br />
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life isn't easy and its a true test of our yogic skills if we can stay calm, centred and on the whole, ok! whilst life is throwing shit at you!<br />
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much love to you all<br />
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-20720216648551701862014-01-18T01:52:00.000-08:002014-01-18T01:52:16.652-08:00Its the year of the horse…..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>2014 and galloping</b></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It has been a while since I penned a yogic
mummy text but I have not been static. Life has moved into a pace I can only call
frantic and the days are getting longer and nights shorter – ie I am eating
into the night time hours to catch up on things I just have not been able to
cram into the spaces of time I have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Life has changed rather radically as I moved
out familiar surroundings and into a new home, as I started to share my
children’s time with my husband and we both got used to being apart after 14
years together, as the Winter season has kicked in a pace with new students,
rooms, time schedules and as all sorts of new projects get under way……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But despite all the change, late nights,
tiring days there a few amazing and beautiful things that are surfacing and
that make me realise a) I have made totally the right decision to act on the
deepest truths within me and b) that I am extremely lucky to have the life I
have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My relationship with my ex is possibly the
best it has ever been on a beautiful friendship level that only comes from two
people who have shared so much together and still car deeply as people for each
other. My children have I have to say flourished over the past few months and
seem hapier and more sorted now than ever before. I have some incredible
friends – i love you all – who have sent me little gifts or messages that just
make me smile deeply inside. And I have a new home that I deeply love – it is a
space I have created for me and my girls and I feel whole and happy there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our root chakra sources are so important
regardless of who we are or what we are experiencing. Our home and our families
happiness is such a vital source of our deepest purest energy and the ability
to show, give and accept love from and for those around us is so important to
our spiritual well being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over Christmas I was with my family in the UK.
My sister in law’s Dad died over the Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve period
and I wis that pain on nobody but strange as it sounds I was so pleased that I
was there in the thick of things and the heart of my loved ones able to help
for once and be a part of the pain – I am so pften far away and emails, phone
calls and skype just can’t beat rounding the children up and running around in
the park for two hours together. It makes me think of those far from their
loved ones when disaster – as it so often has of late – strikes. Being close to
ou loved ones, feeling their pain and their joy is such a massive part of our
make up. We need these connections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Life is not static and change does happen – it
doesn’ t need to be bad, or big or dramitic. But it does need love and just a
little space to be able to happen fluidly. And so 2014 opens its arms to us
all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A friend of mine tells me its the year of the
horse. So lets climb aboard and ride along the crest of this fabulous wave and gallop with joy into the horizon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Love live life !!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-828429996120188232013-11-06T09:33:00.002-08:002013-11-06T09:33:44.598-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>How to tackle the guilt of being away?</b><br />
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So October has been a huge month of travel and work terminating in several days in London and Paris concluding the shows for 2013 with London. Intense to say the least.<br />
<br />
Returning to the Ardeche for a very full on 48 hours of sorting the garden, packing and moving back to Savoie for the girls return to school on Monday. Monday am school - new classes for both girls, canteen tickets bought and sorted, back the flat to sort the god knows how many bags, boxes etc... speedy descent to Bourg to collect their bus passes and do some shopping - the cat was starving (and shell shocked)!<br />
<br />
So we are now at Wednesday and I am finally getting back on track with the computer jobs, back into the routine of school and homework here and yes its snowing already!<br />
<br />
Before I head back to the Ardeche in a van to collect more stuff to cram int the garage etc.... I am getting up to date on my sites...<br />
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yes<br />
absent Mummy or not?<br />
Difficult not to feel guilty when you are away for a period of time even with regular phone calls and emails you are not physically present. So how do we as working Mums cope with this and do Dad's feel the same when they go away.<br />
Chatting to a girl friend of mine yesterday we both came to the conclusion that as long as you talk, tell the truth, send a lot of love your childrens' way then you can't do much more. They have after all only one Mummy who is always there even if not always physically. Is it a bad thing to show the example of a Mummy who works hard, enjoys her work and even shares her work and the fruits of it with her children?<br />
I would say its a good thing<br />
Not all would agree<br />
<br />
So I apologised to my girls for not being around much in October and said that I hoped I was doing an OK job at being a mother if not quite conventional<br />
Mélodie replied "your'e doing more than OK Mum your'e doing just great"<br />
I love both of my girls so much and it seems like the made stories via telephone and the frequent reminders to do things, clean teeth, help tidy the house, do homework worked<br />
<br />
as did the huge hug I gave them both when I came home with a pair of jeggings for Clementine and a shirt for Mélodie courtesy of Primark Oxford Street<br />
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guilt is difficult to deal with but at the end of the day we can only do our best with lots of love....<br />
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Charlotte Saint Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677736409891552828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005533489084170526.post-33590568178758004572013-10-17T08:00:00.000-07:002013-10-17T08:00:28.434-07:00Home....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been just manic the past two weeks with so many trains, métros, cars, different beds, chit chatting, promoting, liaising, teaching, working, not too much playing but lots of smiles, hugs and did I mention the travelling?<br />
<br />
How many times did I empty the battery of my iPhone and how many different places did I connect from.....<br />
And no I am home<br />
<br />
at least for a few days before I head to London for yet more days of yoga and meetings....<br />
October is such an intense month and I sometimes forget just how beautiful it is in the Ardeche at this time. Today the sun shone bright and strong, I mowed the lawn and listened to the birds and practiced yoga in the beautiful October heat with the leaves turning colour almost as I practiced and the chestnuts fell all around me.<br />
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And my girls?<br />
Well they enjoyed a Mummy and shopping day yesterday and I enjoyed seeing them smiling, laughing and playing.<br />
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Home .....</div>
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