Looks like this is exactly what I needed today – and for several days to come I imagine.

Thank you Andrea. This is truly a BEAUTIFUL and POWERFUL affirmation meditation.

PS: What a lovely voice you have.

wow lis lots of amazing growth happening there! i am feeling some of that too – inspiration overload. i keep reminding myself to relax into it all and let it all happen in its own time.

“Thank you Andrea for fostering this place of spaciousness, examination and reflection. I look forward to this weekly checking in. Helps me to feel I am staying on my path!”

thank you so much for this. that was what i hoped for when i started this, so it makes me really happy to read this.

I don’t know if it is the stormy, heavy weather or the energy of summer bursting forth but I have a million things swirling around in my head and the challenge is to slow down and focus upon one thing at a time. I am taking a lot of information/ideas in: Flying Lessons, FSS, 21.5.800 challenge and I need to remember to balance it all with releasing energy. I too love having my yoga practice to help me integrate and funnel all that energy; letting off excess steam so I can focus my attention. I am committing to my writing; trying to get my work into new venues (I have one guest spot tentatively lined up for the Fall) and return to projects and practices I had set forth for myself at the beginning of the year. I also am focusing upon photography and working with developing/playing around with new tools. These are the “seedlings” I am nurturing; I am not going to hurry their growth!

I know teaching is my calling and i am giving myself this summer to brainstorm some new workshops, tweaking previously offered courses (new this past year) and researching new venues for teaching. I have been at the same place for 10 years and I am very stuck there. It is time for me to move on and I’ve been grappling with the feeling of wanting to leave, but unable to make a move. I have to start making new connections and seek out new opportunities. Yes, Connection is one of my words for the year!

Thank you Andrea for fostering this place of spaciousness, examination and reflection. I look forward to this weekly checking in. Helps me to feel I am staying on my path!

My check-in: I asked for clarity several weeks ago, and I finally have it. I know for sure now that what I want to focus on is my writing and creating my art. With the writing – I want to finish that romance novel and see where that leads me. And with the art, I want to get back to creating pieces for sale, and work on creating tutorials, and online classes for both sculpting with clay and needle felting. I would love to do a couple how-to books on sculpting various dog breeds in polymer clay and with needle felting. I had a how-to clay book published some years ago, and I realized recently how much I loved doing the projects for it, and the other how-to projects I did for other books and magazines. I also enjoyed teaching classes. The art licensing and clay illustrations are both areas I’m still interested in, but the things mentioned above are where my heart truly is right now. :-)

hi heather thank you so much! i love your art, the happy looking walls are so sweet :) i’m glad you are here.