Ron Nikel C-MMT

Wise words from my spirit sister Natalie Kellar on the somatic experience of anger. In my work over the last 2 years with myself and now with my clients, there is an invitation to alchemize anger. It is time for us to work with anger in a skillful manner, to release its grip on us. Why? As you may have heard... "the body keeps the score" - unfelt, unexpressed emotions get stored in the tissues, sometimes resulting in autoimmune diseases, cancer, inflammatory diseases.... got any of those?

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'This starving makes it fat."

How do we starve our anger?

We don't allow it to live.

We don't allow the fire in our belly to rise up and become voice and tone.

We don't allow our hands to make a clenched fist or to rise up in protest to injustice.

We don't allow an impulse to make a boundary, to come out of us and say, "No! No way, I won't go there. Not again, not this time."

When we don't allow that, we know that anger gets suppressed, it gets shamed and hidden.

Then the anger gets somatized and becomes things like cramps, passive-aggressive communication, or confusion in our relationships when we don't speak our minds.

That doesn't mean you should always say everything you have to say but you have to negotiate with that and know your anger.

AHO

- Natalie Kellar

"You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey." Just saying, change your thoughts, change you story.

Caught in a cycle of negative thoughts, lots of fear, anxiety, feeling cut off and alone? Tara's talk this week is a good one to tune into.

From Head to Heart - Tara Brach Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD - Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher

Sometimes our most obvious destructive behaviors conceal something else that is even more difficult for us to acknowledge. We may be willing to acknowledge our anger, but unwilling to look at the fear and vulnerability beneath it.

Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon’s Mouth”

Shiva Shambho Retreats and Energy Body Wellness is excited to announce that we are co-creating with Tierra Encantada, a week long retreat. March 30th - April 5th 2024 in Nosara, Costa Rica. We will be spending a magical week together practicing and learning, expanding, integrating, settling and connecting. Presence is a state of being, expansive, connected, still, free, easeful, full of compassion, tapped in and turned on, and full of joy. The facilitators and teachers will be leading us in daily practices with :

Meditation: Daily mindfulness meditation and movement meditation practices.
Breath: A deep dive into sacred breath-work to deepen your connection to presence and well-being.
Movement: Develop more presence through body awareness with yoga and ecstatic dance.
Sound: Tap more fully into your energy body through sacred sound practices.
Natures Medicine: Through healthy eating and through a sacred plant medicine ceremony

Follow the link for more details and registration.

https://www.shivashambhoretreats.com/pathways-to-presence-retreat

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Pathways to Presence Retreat | Shiva Shambho Offering wellness retreats in Nosara Costa Rica. Meditation, Mindfulness, Sound Healing, Breathwork, Yoga, Movement and Plant Medicine Ceremonies.

There are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon."

— Marlena De Blasi

January 21st - Heart and Spirit Sacred Medicine Ceremony More Information and Register at the link in profile

Weekly mindfulness meditation class on Thursday’s from 7-8a at the Bodhi Tree. Join us regardless of your level of experience.

Come and set the vibrational tone for the coming New Year for a sunset sound journey at Norte tomorrow | 5:30 pm. Hope to see you there!

Join Jane and Ron at the Bodhi Tree each thursday morning 7-8a for Bodhi Meditation.

Jane and Nikel are trained meditation teachers, trained by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. We will start each class with grounding arrival meditation a short topic talk followed by a guided meditation. No experience required.

Saturdays at 8:30-9:30am the Weekly Mindfulness Meditation group returns to Nalu Studio.

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation. Lets be in the present moment together.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ron Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!


Shiva Shambho Retreats

Shiva Shambho Retreats is pleased to share our next daylong Heart and Spirit Daylong Plant Medicine - November 12. We are hosting it at the beautiful Tierra Encantada in Nosara. For more information and to register follow the link

https://www.shivashambhoretreats.com/tierra-encantada-november-12-2022

Can’t wait to watch this.

Kuya Sessions: Samadhi - The Visual Odyssey Subscribe: & Bloom The age of sonic medicine continues to unfold in the shape of Poranguí and Liquid Bloom’s landmark curative music coll...

Cancelled due to sickness - will be back November 19th.

November 5th at 8:30-9:30am the Weekly Mindfulness Meditation group returns to Nalu Studio.

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation. Lets be in the present moment together.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ronald Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!



Shiva Shambho Retreats

Friends,

Shiva Shambho Retreats is excited to share with you that we have been invited to share our offerings of sound and sacred ceremony at Revive. If you are needing a week long retreat to revive yourself. I encourage you to check out what our dear friend Susan has put together to Revive you.

Revive - January 15-22nd 2023 - Tierra Encantada Costa Rica

Start 2023 by doing what makes your soul happy! Come join us to learn how you can do hard things and thrive. Discover the freedom within to release stuck patterns and develop a heart of radical acceptance. We will journey together and revive our collective soul callings to reclaim lives of purpose & peace. REVIVE from fear to freedom!

Follow the link for more information.

https://www.puravidacollective.com/

Friends,

Are you finding yourself living in chronic stress and exhaustion? A retreat may be what you need. A dear friend of mine Corinne Coppola is offering a retreat - “Healing The Heart” retreat in March 2023. She is bringing together some amazing teachers and spaceholders (Energy Body Wellness Center, Paul Jarreau, Ashley Ludman) to support you during this week of self care. For more information go to her site.

Healing the Heart Retreat Relax—Recover—Rejuvenate Take your life from chaos to calm with an all-inclusive retreat in the serene surroundings of the breathtakingly-beautiful Casas Kismet in Nosara, Costa Rica, one of the five health-filled Blue Zones in the world. Slow down, discover new ways of relating to yourself and ...

Awakening the Heart and Spirit Plant Medicine Ceremony

"When we work with our allies, the plants, we partner with the Divine intelligence of Mother Earth. We are willing to surrender to a process of healing and expanded conscious awareness to re-awaken to the truth of our Divine Beauty and Wholeness." - Ron Nikel

Interested in working with Spirit or Heart plant medicine? We had an amazing ceremony last weekend and still have some have spaces available for Saturday September 17th here in Playa Guiones. For more information and to register or get more information, go to the event page below

Casa Verano Eterno September Ceremonies | Shiva Shambho "When we work with our allies, the plants, we partner with the Divine intelligence of Mother Earth.  We are willing to surrender to a process of healing and expanded conscious awareness to re-awaken to the truth of our Divine Beauty and Wholeness." - Ron Nikel

Join Paul from the Energy Body Wellness Center with Kristia this sunday at Norte for a Full Moon Cacao and Sound, Journey to the Heart Ceremony. Two lovely humans working together to remind us of our connection to our heart centers.

Chakra tuning is about to start withPaul at Norte. We are so excited to be back in the space with his magic.

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation. Lets be in the present moment together.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ronald Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock Meditation Center . Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!


Shiva Shambho Retreats

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation. Lets be in the present moment together.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock Meditation Center . Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!


Shiva Shambho Retreats

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation. Lets be in the present moment together.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ronald Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock Meditation Center . Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!


Shiva Shambho Retreats

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ronald Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock. Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ronald Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock. Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required. See you there!

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ronald Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock. Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required.

Meditation improves your mood, rewires your brain, increases brain neuroplasticity, improves concentration and self regulation.

Weekly meditation group at Nalu Studio (Saturday mornings 8:30-9:30a) taught by Jane Fryer and Ron Nikel who are trained by Tara Brach from IMCW and Jack Kornfield from Spirit Rock. Each week we are guided in meditation practices.

No meditation experience is required.