COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

What does it mean to be balanced? What can one do to find balance? And, how can it be sustained? Recently, I have been contemplating these questions because so much can appear to be in or out of balance in the world. If you look with your two eyes, it can seem from day to day that a great many things are not as they should be. The rich can continue to get rich, and the poor can continue in their path the same. No matter how much one might pray for it to be different, for all of us to be free and vital, our eyes show us people who are unhappy, struggling to make ends meet and unhealthy in their body-mind and spirit. Maybe you can relate? We've also seen the rich become poor, bank accounts or life energy depleted. The rich sports athlete does not take care of their income/ energy flow/ body, and at the end of their career, they have none of their once acquired gains to show for their time. Or, the come-up scenario where the poor, who through hard work or Divine intervention reconnect

You never know what is ahead. Five years ago, we never could have dreamed we'd have come to this juncture. Ten years ago... shoot, a day ago sometimes now, things change very quickly.  I never did believe my parents, till now, when they said that as I got older the boredom that I would often feel, stuck in a situation, would not be but a "blip in the sand." I do believe that "blip" was really the word my father used. And, it's true. The time that has past, though some moments have not felt small, in relationship to the whole that is our lives and collective lives, is just that: a blip.  Thank goodness for blips when we are unhappy!!  This year I have seen a lot of things change. We have all changed. As we reflect, halfway through the year, this blip has thrown me into a letting go of what does not serve. It has afforded me a chance to be more still and discern what is best for me, to listen to my heart in order to make clearer decisions.  Used to be, I was m

  How do you remember? What do you remember?  This past Sunday, before Memorial Day, I e-hosted in the Elevation Church chat on Youtube. This is my service. I volunteer, enjoying the experience of “walking people to their seats” online, welcoming them with the appropriate links/ information to support their experience, and prayer.  This Sunday while volunteering, someone placed a prayer request in the chat. It was for their elderly friend who has Dementia, who is struggling to remember. It was the woman’s birthday. I thought about this for a while. How much we take our ability to remember for granted. How, in some cases, we go out of our way to try to forget.  Today, Memorial Day, I offered a Memorial Meditation through Revolution Yoga. We used the Kirtan Kriya in which you chant Sa Ta Na Ma in a loud voice, then in a whisper and then silently to yourself and Infinity, while moving your fingers into various mudras. This is a meditation that has been scientifically studied and offered

This blog is for you if you have ever tried to do something so someone else would love you, like you, approve of you, affirm you... This blog is for you if you realized or are realizing that it does not work. I'm with you.  If you are still reading, we are both standing right now. Not to shame ourselves, but to set things right, to set ourselves free.  We are standing on our own two feet right now. And in order for us to be doing so, our muscles and bones and mind have to be working in accord. No one else can do that for us.  So, fellow person who feels like someone else's happiness is more important, I'd like to ask you: Is that person helping you to stand, literally? If not, I want to inquire of us here, then, how could they be more important to the function of our lives? How can their internal guidance system, that is designed for them, be more important than our own? It's not!    What we think, do, and feel comes from us, individually.  No one else knows what you ne

  Revisiting some old blogs recently to celebrate my time as a blogger, I have been able to see so much of my history and growth. I've been able to see all the times that I put myself out there. Love is like that. We just keep offering ourselves to It.  In February 2016, I wrote a blog:  Intuitive Coaching for a Bread Crumb . I invite you to read it. Then, I was offering intuitive coaching for free for the month of February. I was thinking, how can I help someone put together the breadcrumbs, so they can have a whole piece of toast, a whole experience of their life. I remember thinking, just put yourself out there. You can show up and carry some of the load for someone in need, be some of their glue, stand in the gap; you can listen.  People were already calling on me to do this. And I was willing and wanting to help. In most causes not for free but on this given February, I was willing to offer. I was going all out.  But thinking back to it now, having five years maturation, at th

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that we all have had the experience of offering our services to someone who was not receptive, someone who we assumed, after the fact, was just the wrong client, the wrong recipient. We have all at one time or another offered thousands of dollars in energy or time to people who would not catch the ball. But rather, they stood and watched with their arms by their sides as the ball was thrown to them. They are those who let the ball bounce right off their body while they complained that the ball was never being thrown at all. Think back to a time when you offered something free in which the invitation was unaccepted, or when you, yourself, did not pick up what was freely given to you by another, something you knew could have been potentially helpful to you. What was holding them back? What was holding you back? We probably have more than one long list of reasons why we did not or do not respond or show up. I am too busy. I am not ready. I am af

I am not the only one who knows about grief.  In 2021, we all do-- whether we admit it or not.  We know that it feels like our heart is sore right in our chest as it beats.  We know we want to hide and eat and scream and [fill in the blank with your thing ] till it stops.  Grief is like that.  We can not run from our grief.   The things we do to pacify ourselves don't really take it away.  Grief is a process that we must go through no matter the challenge it presents. We will go now to bear our cross, or we will go later kicking and screaming. Why, it is from within this space that new pathways are made, new ideas are birthed, new structures, atoms are split...evolution takes place.  And, it hurts. I can not lie to you. We will hurt.  But nothing is purified, transformed, even transmuted, without pressure.  And while we feel our grief, we must do just that.  Even if we have a friend to hold our hands, we will feel our grief with them there, but all alone. It will be nice to have a