In a mood in which he was feeling the “delight, the evanescence and love within which we are all enfolded”, my dear friend, Hiroshi “YOTA” Tanaka, wrote the score for a CD album, NATURE SONG.  It is the third offering in a trilogy titled MARVELAND, in which Yota-san musically and emotionally,  maps a legendary world of wonder [another word for miracle] in a transcendent observation of the human drama of endlessly repeating histories.

In NATURE SONG, Tanaka is remembering a carefree time in his life when he ran in the fields, swam in the rivers and the sea, when Mother Nature was less challenged, and when, perhaps, human society was  more inclusive and caring of each other and better cared for the heavenly body from which it derives its sustenance.

Yota’s music evokes memories of an ancient place and time from which our species has continuously played out its transitory existence.  Moving between joy and sorrow as we evolve, our individual lives ebbing and flowing and then returning to their source–as naturally as do the rivers–before  finally dissolving into the One Ocean.

The quality of our  journey and the quality of our Natural world depend upon the quality of our thoughts and deeds.  Song titles like “Gentle Mind”, “Mountain Glow”, “Bird Song” and “Mind Flower” carry the spirit of Yota’s gentleness and childlike wonder of Nature at her finest and free-est.

As I am uplifted by the hopefulness and joy of the title track, “Nature Song”, and feel the genuine childlike wonder carried within it, I know that I don’t want to come to the end of my life in a condition of nostalgia, longing for a better, earlier time.  

In this period, NOW, 2011 the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, there is still time to choose to change the patterns of carelessness for our earthly Mother and each other, and to invite the natural expansion of our consciousness to reach higher levels where we are the true “enjoyers”, unaffected by the dualities.  This can be achieved when our tune is harmonized with Nature’s own song; not another version of  “Play it again, Sam”.   What do you think/feel?

WE are the current stewards of our Wonderland, our Universe, our One Song.  Can you hear our hearts calling out to be restored to the natural rhythms of Life? It may be but one choice away.

“Nature Song” written and conducted by Yota Tanaka is performed by his ensemble, the Milky Way Orchestra (above).     A SPECIAL TREAT:  YOUTUBE video of performance with pan pipes  EIKEN Trio (below)

Solo performance by Hidenori Iwata on panpipes

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HEALING  OURSELVES, HEALING OTHERS

We are undergoing rapid change in our Universe and in all human affairs.  This is particularly evident in the manner in which ancient secrets for health of body/mind and spirit are being shared today.  Once the province of a few Chinese masters with only one or two students, today millions around the world are able to learn and practice Qigong (pronounced: Chee-Kung) . Centering us spiritually for this life on Earth, its principles are in total alignment with leading edge Science.

QIGONG– “energy cultivation”–gathering and directing Source energy for inner harmony, strength and healing, has been practiced in China for thousands of years. Tai-chi and acupuncture are but two of its “children”.

WISDOM HEALING QIGONG—The Integration of New Science and Ancient Tradition–AUTHENTIC, ACCESSIBLE, ABSOLUTELY RELEVANT TO MODERN LIFE In the 1980’s Dr. Ming Pang, a physician trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, and numerous ancient qigong practices combined his knowledge and experience to create an integrated progression of self-healing practices known as Zhineng (Wisdom Healing) Qigong.

CLINICALLY DOCUMENTED PROOF OF EFFECTIVENESS–Grandmaster Ming Pang was aware of the long successful history of qigong in China, yet there had not been sufficient scientific studies of the efficacy of qigong upon health.  So, he opened a medicine-less hospital requiring students (they were not called “patients”) to undergo Western-based physical examinations before entering a nearly month-long program of teaching, practice, rest.   To complete the study, students were tested after that period.  Hundreds of thousands of students have gone through this program. The results are remarkable:   a 95% effective rate was realized, including 37% curing rate! Dis-eases ranged from “incurable” cancer, to diabetes, high blood pressure, allergies, etc.

The Level 1 practice, “LiftChiUp/PourChiDown” performed daily has been known to bring about conditions that not only keep the body/mind healthy, supporting a long life, but has been known to cure dis-ease already present at the time a person begins to practice!

SHERRY REMEZ as HEALER MENTOR TEACHER

I have over 25 years of experience consciously working with Chi (Qi, Ki, Praña, Life Force) for healing and life enhancement and spiritual awakening. My background in the healing arts includes: transpersonal healing, polarity therapy, “Hands of Light”, Hawaiian Huna, and the receiving and the sharing of spiritual and temporal guidance.  I am excited to be able to introduce Wisdom Healing Qigong practices on Maui.  I have derived great personal benefit from them, including more emotional stability, deeper centering and greater mental clarity.   I am leading classes in the Level 1 practice:  LiftChiUp/PourChi/Down Method

“My delight is to inspire people. My personal philosophy includes viewing all aspects life in terms of  the intelligent Energy always present within and around us.  I emphasize self-empowerment as the end of dependency upon  something or someone outside ourselves in order to feel o.k.   In addition to hands-on healing, I share methods for grounding and centering the body/mind in order to restore its natural energy flow for health, balance and greater effectiveness in our lives. I encourage your awareness of the infinite possibilities available to you when you are open to them. You ARE  the gift  of healing to the world.       ALL IS WELL: Enjoy Life to the Fullest,  ONE with ALL: Harmonized with Nature/ Harmonized with Qi. ” sherry@miraclesandgrace.com

InDepth  INFORMATION about WHQ:  select WisdomHealing QiGong tab (above) in  menu

In  proud affiliation with The ChiCenter,

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Master Mingtong Gu, Teacher and Healer

student of Grandmaster Dr. Ming Pang.

As the longest day of the year comes to an end, an opportunity for a new way of being begins . . .

This is a crossroad moment for us, should we choose to take it this way.  The Summer Solstice graces us by providing a portal of opportunity through which we can walk with unusual grace and ease, moving with the flow of Nature’s own rhythm.  No wonder it has been celebrated for countless centuries.

The key to opening wide this portal of potential– this Portal of Possibility–is a deep feeling of gratitude for all the bounty in our life.  (not a bad idea any day!)  This feeling is nothing short of a communion.  It is a quantum communication with the Infinite Universal Field which seems only too willing to provide our heart’s desires when beckoned forth through this medium.  This is my experience, anyway.

Watching the sun setting on this day, I cannot help but be filled with awe at the natural beauty that surrounds me here on this beautiful Island of Maui.    As I photograph, an owl glides silently by.  She is a symbol to me of death and rebirth—another portal, underlining the importance to consider what might be hampering me and needs to be let go of right now, in order to have more space to enjoy what comes next.

To my visitors and companions moving through this passageway, I bid you a very good journey.