by Patty Kikos | May 15, 2012 | Inspiration |
We are very fortunate to live in a time and place where few of us are limited by what we can do, study or even ‘be’. Gone are the days when your role was very much defined for you by the standards of the society you were part of. Our life experiences help shape our...
by Patty Kikos | May 14, 2012 | Boundaries, Communication |
One of my 1:1 balance clients has been seeing me in relation to a few issues that she is clearing in her life. One of them is the fact that she is a sensitive softly spoken person who is learning to find her voice among the more forthright and opinionated family...
by Patty Kikos | Mar 7, 2012 | Balance |
Is our sensitivity really our strength? Have you noticed how much we avoid being uncomfortable in life? It seems that many of us work very hard to create a life where we are surrounded by people we love and for the most part tend to cocoon ourselves in the bubble of...
by Patty Kikos | Feb 14, 2012 | Heal |
In life, the shadow side of our personality often gets sidelined for the part of us that is more ‘acceptable’ to society. If we don’t acknowledge our shadow, it rears its head with the people and the situations that we manifest in our lives. If we are polarized, we...
by Patty Kikos | Feb 14, 2012 | Balance |
For most of us women that live in a western world we have been told that we have equal rights to men. Women can be doctors, lawyers, and company directors; in fact we even had a female Prime Minister, but is a 50 / 50 split always equal? One of my 1:1 balance...
by Patty Kikos | Dec 20, 2011 | Yoga |
Have you been thinking of your new years resolution for 2012? I wonder why we place so much emphasis on them? Since starting a serious yoga practice several years ago, I’ve stopped putting so much importance on new years resolutions. A sadhana is like a new years...
by Patty Kikos | Dec 17, 2011 | Balance |
I’ve noticed how busy many of our lives already are so it astounds me that we become even busier in the lead up to Christmas and New Year. It’s a toss up between rest vs party. Many of us scramble to make time to catch up with people before the New Year and...
by Patty Kikos | Dec 14, 2011 | Balance |
If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family – Ram Dass So your family stresses you? Christmas, Hanukah or Summertime periods usually mean spending time with the family we grew up with. The same individuals that taught us about boundaries,...
by Patty Kikos | Nov 17, 2011 | Yoga |
Prana as a general term refers to the life force that flows through all things. Of the five primary pranas in the body, two pranas – the prana and apana– are regarded as the most important. Where does parana live? Above the navel – it accumulates at the base of the...
by Patty Kikos | Oct 31, 2011 | Transformation |
‘The Flow of Eternal Power’ is one of my favorite Kundalini Yoga books, and author Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa says ‘The Aquarian Age isn’t just something that we started singing about in the sixties, it’s an actual measurable time period that...
