Maya Whole Health

What I’m up to.

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After spending more than half a decade covering the children’s market as editor of HUDSON’S Childrenswear Review, (the magazine ceased publication with the Oct/Nov 2011 issue; recent attempts to re-enter the market remain unsuccessful) –I’ve come to appreciate its unique and inspiring nature. The world of children’s apparel and accessories, juvenile products, gifts and best business practices captures the imagination. And it’s like no other.

I keep in touch with treasured childrenswear contacts –and have been introduced to so many more- with Children’s Retail Today. It’s written for anyone with a passion for children’s fashion!

Parents, grandparents … gift-giving aunties, coaches, teachers and friends can learn about new products and where to buy … better yet, they can convince their favorite shops to carry them. Store owners, manufacturers, designers … mompreneurs and inventors can get inspired reading fresh posts about apparel and footwear collections, product launches, nifty services and best practices to take their business to the next level.

I’m delighted that Children’s Retail Today is growing strong. Take a peek – at the site and my Facebook page, if you like (pun intended here!).

I’ve also been developing content for my yoga studio, Maya Whole Health. This is a precious work in progress for me – I’m having so much fun writing the Maya Currents blog. I am so happy and grateful now that I’m part of the Maya community (I’ve been practicing there for a little more than a year). The teachers are beyond the best, and I’m meeting such incredible, loveable people. In June, I’m expanding my role there – and I can’t wait to see what happens (that’s what Bravo says, isn’t it?!)

“It’s a blessing to work at a job I truly enjoy doing, one that uses my creative talents and abilities, working with and for people whom I love and who love me.”

Each morning I say this affirmation softly to myself (thank you, Louise Hay).

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Letting something go.

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The dry air crackles. His voice rubs away like sandpaper. White light begins to pour into the room as if to rescue me, but I’m a goner already.

His beady eyes hold no shine as words blow through his mouth and hit me squarely. I start to feel small, smaller and alone –even though everyone is there; they all hear him.

I smell the burn as bile builds slowly in my mouth. I swallow. I seethe. I see the challenge hanging there.

And I let it drop to the floor.

Written during Creative Flow with Julie Peters, Maya Whole Health, Renton WA –February 2012

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Letter to my brain.

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Brain, my friend,

I’m all around you. Why do you close your eyes?

We’re the ebb and the flow, simpatico

Our lives are intertwined, like the grape and the vine

When Body is in the Gap

you’re the Red Arrow and I’m the White Room.

Come on, hold my hand. You hum, I’ll sing.

~Your loving Heart

Written during Creative Flow with Julie Peters, Maya Whole Health, Renton WA –February 2012

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative profile articles, inspiring blog posts and effective video content. To hire her, contact her here.

Bright core of failure.

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I’m meditating on abundance today, a practice that grows richer with the concept of flow.

The title of this post refers to a poem written by Rumi. Whether you’re flourishing in success or lamenting a failure, it is really all the “same glory,” as his words are translated. “You live in beautiful forms, and you are the energy that breaks form,” Rumi writes. “All light, neither this nor that.”

My yoga teacher Nancy Ayala

What a lovely expression of abundance, of flow. No matter what you face or how you get there, your personal power fills that place where experience lives with its light. It’s the epidemy of abundance, coming from a place of “full” … able to move in and out, back and forth, up and down, no matter what it looks like on the outside.

At the end of each yoga class, my teacher says, “My light sees your light.” I can’t help but feel full then, feel the abundance of life.

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Yoga high.

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April is a time of renewal for me, when I rejoice in the freedom of a recharge.

This April, I’m starting to practice yoga more consistently. After a year of taking no classes, I sign up at the local studio I’ve had my eye on all along. I hesitated before because of the expense; now, after only two classes –well, I’m on a yoga high. I am thrilled and so very grateful for the physical wellbeing, in spite of a little stiffness. Yoga practice gives my body the strength it needs to banish my back and arthritis pain; it opens up my heart and lungs to breathe … I mean, really breathe. Such a simple thing, breathing; it’s amazing how many times a day I hold my breath. Why? The added joy of my new classes is in the meditation of devoting an hour+ to practice as well as a certain sense of community, of collective consciousness.

This April, I’ve planned a plethora of pleasurable programs for my pursuit of practice (too much?) on other levels, too. For those who practice The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron has launched a online version! Check it out. My plans for gardening have stalled –we had a thunder-lightning-hail storm last night- and I’m celebrating 13 years of marriage. I am also looking forward to a writer’s retreat later in the month; yet it is yoga practice that is inspiring me to move ahead. Truly taking steps … one at a time!

THIS APRIL, WHAT WILL GET YOU MOVING FORWARD?

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Sun salutation photo: Flickr, justanotherpumpkin