INVESTING Time and Love in Our Children Brings Us A Great ROI: Radiance-Oneness-Inspiration

I felt a profound joy since early morning as I knew that today was another miracle. Today was another gift offering itself up for the creation of more magical life moments. Why, you might ask? I knew since I woke up this morning that I would soon be spending precious time with a group of nine children at a Montessori School here in Cincinnati doing yoga, singing and dancing new possibilities of mindfulness, wellbeing and creativity into existence. My heart was preparing me once again for that time of celebrating something brand new with these children of ages 4-9. Seeing them as brilliant co-creators of this yoga class experience, I was thrilled to show up after school was over, prepare the space and greet them with wonder.
When they came through the door, we all placed our yoga mats in a beautiful circle, each mat looking like a flower petal to allow for a feeling of open communication and trust. Some of the children were excited to show me what yoga poses they have been practicing at home this past week. We sang our yoga wake up song and then two of children requested to share a couple of stories they thought would go along with some yoga moves we have been practicing. As I was listening to their creative energy moving through spaces around me, I smiled with delight and thanked everyone for showing up again, fully present in their joyful selves. We sang several more powerful songs accompanied by movements to enhance self-confidence and self-love and then we got ready to explore a new yoga story for the week, a balloon adventure. As I was leading this imaginary journey inside a tree, I witnessed a new awareness of the greater work at hand. I was shown right then and there that when I am investing time and love in the children’s mindfulness, wellbeing and creativity, my true ROI (return on investment) translates as RADIANCE-ONENESS-INSPIRATION.

RADIANCE… We call this class radiant child yoga for a very good reason. All these children who have signed up for my after school yoga classes are so ready and willing to share their radiance with all of us that we don’t take too much time for thinking about it, we simply step into it when we get together. This radiance is like a magical field of energy we all partake of and even parents feel it as they come in at the end of class.
ONENESS… It is evident that we all share a feeling of deep connection to ourselves, to each other and the world around us as we move our bodies along with story elements which have been infused with yogic elements of wisdom, playfulness and balance. My passion to work mostly from a place of the heart has spilled over into a greater sense of compassion and true love.
INSPIRATION…There is absolutely no limit to what these kids can teach me to continue to inspire me to be there for them. I am witnessing their creativity blossom in each breath and the way they can build new ideas using each other’s thoughts and feelings in the moment entrances me. I walk away after one hour and a half of radiant child yoga with great inspiration knowing exactly what yoga story will emerge next and why.
As you can see, there is indeed a call for us as adults to start investing more time and love in the children’s mindfulness, wellbeing and creativity. They are the future leaders of a new conscious world emerging in each moment before our eyes. What tools can we share with them? What new ideas will they give us to facilitate these empowering experiences? It all begins with being there for them, listening and then our ROI (return on investment) will surely translate as RADIANCE-ONENESS-INSPIRATION.

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WELL BEING Stories to Inspire you…

HEARING The MUSIC within the SILENCE…

Enjoying the magic of silence…This is another way to fall in love with your Self, this magnificent Being that is 24/7 at your disposal. I spent this past weekend in silence with a group of friends and thus I gave myself the gift of witnessing new layers of life unfolding from within. I usually like spending as much time as I can in silence each day, but these two silent days in a row allowed for a new opening in my heart space. The practice was to listen more and see what happened when I knew I could not speak out all of my thoughts.

Wow… are we really in touch with how many thoughts can visit us each hour? It was amazing to observe the flow of all feelings and thoughts as if they were clouds in a vast sky, merely passing through…and I didn’t have to do anything about it. I was starting to question my mind in new ways…

One exercise that our small group decided to do this weekend was to experience a walk through a wooded park. However, this was not to be an ordinary walk. We were to open our eyes wide and keep a steady focus witnessing everything around us and hearing the sounds with our skin and body, not the ears. Walking slowly and keeping distance between each other, we entered a magical forest journey. I could truly feel like a child who was content with all that she could discover step by step: my eyes would fall on each rock and leaf, I would appreciate each nuance of color and texture…the glittering drops of water resting on green leaves would cause me to smile and realize the beauty of divine nature within each water drop (for I knew I was the water drop within this splendid ocean and yet the whole ocean’s beauty was reflected within this one drop of my own Self)…

The trees had majestic presence…one huge tree made such an impression on me that I felt it was ready to present me with an open door right there as I was walking towards it admiring its being. As we all came out of the woods, we sat near a tiny pond with turtles and orange fish…Seeing the ripples in the water, we could say that sky and earth had come together in the mirror of that pond. The fish were swimming and dancing in the sky that was being reflected in the fluidity of water. Witnessing these small beautiful moments was enough to allow the mind to rest for a while… The longer the silence enveloped me, the easier it was to accept its embrace and love my own movement through it. I came out of that weekend experience with a couple of new questions:

Do we really need all these words to express the beauty of what shows up in each moment for us?

Couldn’t just seeing it and feeling it be enough sometimes?

I was thrilled to discover that it was enough for me…

No, I did not need so many words at all, and there was a sense of depth showing up in each moment

just because I intended to greet that moment in silence and take it all in…

 

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PLAYTIME & WELL Being Stories with Cezarina

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DANCING in Cosmic HARMONY & BEAUTY

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Blog entry dedicated to JOE WILLIAMS, the visionary teacher evolving Delsarte’s art of life and movement (www.delsarteproject.com) and WILLIAM BRASHEAR, director of yoga teacher training at Cincinnati Yoga School (www.cincyoga.com)

TELL ME… How can you connect so deeply to your body movement that you can feel your inner Being pouring its fluid expression through your every pore?

How do you really know that you are dancing in harmony and beauty merging the energies of body, mind and inner Self?

I spent fifteen plus hours this weekend using my body in exhilarating ways which I haven’t experienced before to such intensity and length of time… Enjoying the whole experience of ‘mystic anatomy’, as Will Brashear calls this module in his yoga teacher training curriculum, I witnessed how the classic yoga postures started my inner energetic movement first, then the flow continued with blissful meditation and awareness, only to take me even further into deconstructing all perception of life so I can experience this Self only as a twirling spinning Art form and Beauty. Will describes this weekend as ‘a holistic experience that leaves you in awe as you experience the divine artistry webbed into the dynamic harmony of mind, body and spirit and as you evolve to a new level of consciousness by seeing with the eyes of a mystic and moving with the form of an artist.’

What happened? I saw us explore Delsarte elements of body expression in a small group setting. It all started with one arm at a time being composed and decomposed several times. As I watched my elbow rise up in the air, curving itself around my head and the forearm being lifted up only to reveal a thing of majestic beauty – the flowering of my hand into the radiance of the Sun, I remembered a dream of Pure Beauty and Presence, a dream I actually had long ago… I was into this same space, with all of my selves and cells there, being aware of my readiness for turning ordinary life events into extraordinary happenings in consciousness.

How could a simple yet conscious arm movement allow me to feel my inner Being pouring its fluid expression through every pore?

And how could it not bring my heart to such ecstasy, same burst of joyful energy as when allowing poetry to find its voice through this life’s expression and presence?

Well, one arm movement was just the beginning, as words will be wasted here trying to express what felt like when my whole body composed and decomposed itself in several parts and then as a whole.  According to Emily Bishop, as she wrote in her book called ‘Americanized Delsarte Culture’ in 1892, “Delsarte observed that when man was swayed by the higher emotions, his movements were not of a thrusting, or an angular, or a jerky order, but they were harmonious being principally in the order of curves and spirals; conclusion – if man in his more exalted moments naturally expresses himself by certain kinds of movements and attitudes, the cultivation of similar physical expressions will tend to establish correspondingly worthy inner states.”  This is only a tiny part of the Law of Correspondence that brought me face to face with my own power of harmony and life this weekend.

Francois Delsarte “has done more than any other man to create a general interest in the subject of the aesthetic cultivation of the body as a means of expression (Anna Morgan, ‘An Hour with Delsarte: A Study of Expression’ -1889) He was a true magician, this I know for I have had a little taste of his work and being-ness… But what is fascinating here is the knowing that his work lives on inside those who resonate with the graceful flow of these expressions and integrate them into yoga teaching and practice, dance, music creation and ultimately into the totality of all life expressions.

I am able to caress my beloved and my cats with the spirit of my hands now, I can relate to all parts of my body with a new sense of inner balance, understanding where mind, body and spirit reside and unveiling deeper connections in the artistic web of life manifestation outside of Self. And as I am sharing the pure creative potential for this art form which inspired Delsarte to be a visionary of his times, I already feel the joy that is being transferred unto you while reading these words.  This joy relates to your own BEING-ness which remembers this dance of inner beauty and harmony. Your BEING-ness doesn’t actually know how to handle being untrue to this inner current of vibrancy and highly intelligent artistic expression.

Do you want to know how it looks like when we are not dancing with our innate harmony? Just take a peek outside of you, see the news, read the paper and you can clearly see the manifestation of disharmony and denial of one’s own truth and being-ness.  Now that you have seen the contrast, go for the true expression of your life as an art form, whatever that might look like for you in this moment.

GO on… BE bold and fearless…

The MAGIC will surely follow you…

Cezarina (www.cezarinatrone.com)

Note: Musician, opera singer, acting and singing teacher, creator of the science of applied aesthetics, catalyst for the birth of modern dance, and an unknown genius and hero, “Francois Delsarte was born on November 11^th, 1811 at Solesme, France and died in Paris, July 20^th, 1871. Like most men of genius, his boyhood years were full of privation and suffering. His father, who was a physician possessed a very proud and imperious nature, which was greatly irritated by his extreme poverty, in consequence of which he treated Delsarte’s mother, who was a woman of rare abilities, with such injustice and cruelty that she was finally compelled to abandon him and flee with her two sons to Paris, where she died before she could make her talents available. Francois’ little brother soon followed his mother dying of starvation and cold in his brother’s arms. Thus we find Delsarte in 1821, a little boy of ten years, in the utmost destitution and entirely alone in the world. One night he was found in the street by a rag-picker, who took pity on him and carried him to his miserable home. During the next two years, while in this man’s employ, he developed his grand passion for music and invented a system of musical notation in order to preserve the airs which delighted him when he listened to the bands of music and itinerant singers he encountered in the streets. At thirteen years of age, Delsarte was discovered in the garden of the Tuilleries by Bambini, an eminent professor of music who found him writing figures in the sand. When questioned as to the significance of the marks, he replied that he was writing down the music which was being played in the garden. Amazed, Bambini inquired whom had taught him the process; he replied, ‘Nobody, sir. I found it out myself.’ ‘Thus, in the dust of Paris were first written the elements of a system destined to regenerate art.’ Bambini took the boy home and instructed him until the pupil became greater than the master. (from ‘An Hour with Delsarte’, by Anna Morgan-1889)

Radio Interview with Santari Green on the Quantum Creativity Radio

June 7th – Music Makers, Steve Howard & Cezarina Trone

Cezarina and Steve share the same love for music. They talk about what music means for them, as we listened to some snippets from their newly released album – Peace from Within. The songs are available by visiting this website and you can also read about their artistic journey through the companion e-book.

Cezarina speaks movingly about the beautiful moments that she has encountered during the fulfillment of her own visions since childhood.

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TEACHER, CAN WE PLAY NOW?

By Cezarina Trone

It was almost two years ago that I became fascinated with the idea of integrating more wellness, well being, self-expression and creativity in my everyday life. I was teaching K-1 in an international school in West Africa at the time and finishing up my life coaching certification program online, not knowing that as soon as I placed my intention for wellbeing into the hands of the Universe, the answer was already coming my way. Someone somewhere on a conference line said the words Wellness Inventory one day and that phrase instantly got my full attention. Oh, the rush of joy one feels when the answer appears out of thin air! I can still remember entering my four month long wellness exploration while being trained to use this holistic wellness wheel and its twelve dimensions of life balance. I agreed to become my own wellness experiment, eager to see how I could integrate all my other wellbeing practices into this new framework (my yoga and meditation practices and my ever growing desire for mindful living).

When I first connected with this color wheel, it was as if the picture of my life became a moving colorful canvas and all twelve parts of it became alive with a new sense of wonder and possibility. I could see new potential happening in each dimension of the wheel for myself and then I would feel a shift in all my daily roles of teaching K-1, reflecting and finding new meaning daily, doing yoga with kid and adults, creating resources for coaching, talking to people, listening more and so forth. I was becoming intimately connected to new ideas and visions of well being and that immediately translated in the classroom in the way my teacher presence would show up. I was being aware that I was enhancing my teaching style and liberating the learning process happening among all of us because I was spinning the wellness wheel in new creative ways. I could see that I had more patience with the children, I felt drawn to taking weekly art classes to nurture my own sense of play which was in need of a boost. I could now understand why the kids used to stop me in the middle of a sentence and ask, ‘Teacher, can we play now?’ I could see the wheel had come alive within every aspect of my life and could measure this in the way I was reintegrating my awareness of it, enjoying my direct experience of being well no matter what kind of drama showed up at school each day.

Having felt and celebrated this wellness wheel as a holographic change process in my daily life for two years now, it is my turn now to invite you to stare at it for a while after you finish reading this article. BE with it as if you are looking at twelve new windows into your life. See, feel and hear what it has to say to you. Take notes if you wish, or drop me a line. I delight in hearing all the new insights that are awaiting to flood your awareness. Whatever you want to do with this wheel, do it as a gesture of self-love knowing that the well being of anyone around you depends on your own intimate experience of finding the balance that is just right for you in this moment.

BE Well, PLAY more, Reintegrate and Clarify your vision for High Level Wellness!

 

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Spreading Your Light: How You Affect Others Daily

Everything we do or say has the potential to affect the whole…

IMAGINE how powerful that is.

Taken from DAILY OM

(http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2011/28068.html)

As the pace and fullness of modern life serve to isolate us from one another, the contact we do share becomes vastly more significant. We unconsciously absorb each other’s energy, adopting the temperament of those with whom we share close quarters, and find ourselves changed after the briefest encounters. Everything we do or say has the potential to affect not only the individuals we live, work, and play with but also those we’ve just met. Though we may never know the impact we have had or the scope of our influence, accepting and understanding that our attitudes and choices will affect others can help us remember to conduct ourselves with grace at all times. When we seek always to be friendly, helpful, and responsive, we effortlessly create an atmosphere around ourselves that is both uplifting and inspiring.

Most people rarely give thought to the effect they have had or will have on others. When we take a few moments to contemplate how our individual modes of being affect the people we spend time with each day, we come one step closer to seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. By asking ourselves whether those we encounter walk away feeling appreciated, respected, and liked, we can heighten our awareness of the effect we ultimately have. Something as simple as a smile given freely can temporarily brighten a person’s entire world. Our value-driven conduct may inspire others to consider whether their own lives are reflective of their values. A word of advice can help others see life in an entirely new fashion. And small gestures of kindness can even prove to those embittered by the world that goodness still exists. By simply being ourselves, we influence other’s lives in both subtle and life-altering ways.

To ensure that the effect we have is positive, we must strive to stay true to ourselves while realizing that it is the demeanor we project and not the quality of our wondrous inner landscapes that people see. Thus, as we interact with others, how we behave can be as important as who we are. If we project our passion for life, our warmth, and our tolerance in our facial features, voice, and choice of words, every person who enters our circle of influence will leave our presence feeling at peace with themselves and with us. You never know whose life you are affecting, big or small. Try to remember this as you go out into the world each day.

Falling in Love with Magnolia Trees…

 

Only a few days into April and the fragrance of springtime energy has intoxicated my senses. I walk on the moist earth each morning, I smell the freshness of life in the air, and I feel dizzy with a buzz of joy in my ear.

 

Oh, my Beloved, manifested in this thing called ‘life’

I AM ever grateful for every moment you give me

that I feel alive within your Being-ness everywhere…

 

Yes, I must confess that I am falling in love with the magnolia trees over and over…Heavy with white and pink petals, their branches are sweeping me off my feet. I walked by in the dusk light, and I couldn’t help myself but pick up the petal offerings flooding the streets with a new sense of beautiful rebirth. One by one, each petal was being caressed by these hands and promised an honorable place in the ritual of sacred communion with All that Is. I could already see them floating in the bath water surrounded by candles being part of yet another purification rite of Oneness and Expansion of Joy with Source.

 

 

Everything I am given, I offer back to you… I know

the Web needs as many cosmic threads as it can get

to weave us back into the Center, to make sense of

this mystery called ‘mind’ and to transcend many dreams

stored up in the great big  library of humanity…So everything I am given,

I offer back to you and thus find more of my Self in You as you decide

to bounce your light back at me from every corner of your mouth

in each being that I see.  I never cease looking for you, my love.

The Art of DOING the Being of Our True Nature

EACH Day presents us with at least one new opportunity of breaking loose of the self imposed limits within our human nature (mind stuff  getting in the way, confusion, chaos, overwhelm due to pressures from the outside world, forgetfulness of our innate brilliance and power as co-creators of new joyful realities with Source here on earth).

I just got back from a ten day journey to the East Coast and was reminded once again of the power of life’s daily simplicity that always fascinated me since growing up in Romania in a small village surrounded by hills, forests and streams of water.  Seeing and feeling the contrast of what I did not wish to see in my life day after day (the hustle and bustle, the fatigue and forgetfulness of our true nature showing up on many faces in the streets or in the subways, the lack of joy, the lingering sense of chasing happiness somewhere out there, etc), I was being reminded over and over of the importance of this one message that I am choosing to shout out to myself and you and everyone else out there who is ready for it: The TIME has come to DO the Being of our true nature instead of DOING the same outward-inward life movement day in and day out.  No longer are we served by mimicking what shows up in the outer world when we know that we know that it is our inner Self who is in charge of the creation of this outer reality in each breath we take.

So then, what are you waiting for?

Isn’t it TIME to BREAK through, BE Fearless and FLY through the opening in the rock that you alone can carve out for yourself?

EACH Moment we are indeed being presented with a brand new chance to START over, to simply BE with our creative inner flow of energy, with our Presence and let THAT which is unshakable and grounded wisdom guide each step from within.  Each day a new opportunity to BE one with our own Power shows up and knocks on our door…but beware that, at the same time,  many other opportunities come along only to make you ignore THIS ONE CHANCE to STAY AWAKE and BE FREE forever…

The CHOICE is always there…

WHAT are you going to do?

HOW strong is your love for the ONE Source of Magic inside of you?

When that moment of saying ‘enough is enough’ comes, EMBRACE it fully.

It will surely show you the way.

EACH Day presents us with at least one new opportunity of breaking loose of the self imposed limits within our human nature…

WHAT IS THAT NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TODAY?

Rumi once wrote, “There is a strange commotion above my head; birds are circling all around, particles are moving on their own. Is the One I love everywhere?”(from the DIVAN)

I sit here and smile at the paradox before me…

ALL this Abundance of Being awaits us to enter in through whatever portal we might find, and yet, some of us are looking  around and wonder when this crazy day to day chase will end. That is why I say, ‘DO the Being of your true Nature today…Sit with your Self and Create some miracles! it is TIME!’

Love & Light,

Cezarina