I know YOU ARE beautiful, brilliant, adorable, sexy, powerful, radiant, transformative, talented, and magnificent. You walk a path no one else could. You were born to live your fairytale.
And you are a highly functioning woman who places a high value on your energy and health, so you can experience and contribute all of your gifts, and live your most beautiful life. You want to cultivate a magnetic presence, feel powerfully feminine and own your beauty.
Taking Exquisite care of yourself is part of the Mystique that draws everything you love to you.
How Irresistable are YOU willing to be?
Join me in my first ever teleclass and find out! I will be sharing my 3 Sacred Beauty Rituals. They are truly transformational!
Hundreds of Beauties are gathering for this exciting event where inspiration will flow like a waterfall over your body, mind, spirit and heart.
Complimentary 3 Sacred Beauty Rituals call
Tuesday May 31 at 2- 3pm EST
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The Queen of the liver-loving dandelion herb is abundant right now and you don’t want to miss out on her precious medicine and magic.
My husband is Italian (I am half Italian) and he grew up picking dandelion for salads.
When I was pregnant his mom fed me dandelion salad everyday during Spring.
She said dandelion would strengthen my blood and make my milk flow. I grew to love these precious yellow earth star sunshine blossoms for their bitter flavour and nourishment.
Here is a video I made to inspire your dandelion dream creations.
As you will see my husband and I have different ideas about how to harvest and clean dandelion, so you can decide for yourself how you want to go about it.
Also, I love to weave together the practical with poetry to nourish you with something special you don’t see everyday so I am having so much fun creating whimsical endings to my videos lately…please watch ’til the end and let me know how you like this extra touch.
I hope you’ve been enjoying the videos I’ve been posting for you…see below.
But first, what a thrill to attend my highschool reunion this weekend and catch up with people who fill my memories with laughter and love from nearly 30 years ago…
It was deja vu recalling walking those halls and sitting in those classrooms…I used to dream of falling in love, having a family and living an adventerous artist’s life…Ta Da!
My sweetheart chaperoned; he took photos and talked with everyone; a dream date. He even made plans for our family to travel to Italy with a girlfriend’s husband- I’m in!
I was surprised at how beautiful everyone looked- no one had aged one bit! It made me so happy to see that everyone was doing so well.
Nearly all of us are mothers now…everyone is married for 20 years, which is an amazingly low rate of divorce amoungst everyone I caught up with. How wonderful!
What a love fest! I won’t let another 2o years pass before seeing everyone again.
Everyone asked if I was still ‘spritual and into health’! When I tried to tell them about my passion for raw, I found myself waxing poetic rather than explaining practicalities.
Inspired, I came home and made an impromtu video while my husband parked the car. It’s a bit of whimsy dedicated to my friends and everyone who wants to live their Dream!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9trPVl-irw
(If you are reading this in an email and the link to the video doesn’t appear, please click on the blue title of this post and view the video on the blog)
In-Joy!
…she wanted beauty, she wanted a magical life, so she made a list of everyone she loved and blew them kisses and wishes, and ate Okra under a willow tree…
I feel a little out of touch…But I am thinking of you!
I’ve been very deep into this new Detox program I am creating for you and it seems to be taking on a life all its own! I am experiencing it on so many levels.
When I am writing a book or creating a program I naturally become filled with excitement and extra energy to ‘make it happen’. And its hard to pull myself away from work, because it’s my calling and I enjoy it so much.
But we all know that over-work is actually less productive than it seems. Especially for a woman.
As I am on this writing sabatical, I have been drawing in delicious ways of restoring my energy.
Taking daily walks in Nature barefoot is one way I love to balance that masculine energy of working.
Another way I slip back into my feminine side and sink into my body is to dance. I put on the music and just let the music move me.
I often close my eyes so I can really feel myself connect to my body.
I created a video inviting you to join me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Uv-EVMdOU
My children were passing through at different points and talking to me and I think its cute and funny when unexpected things like that happen sometimes.
Then, in the middle of it I realised it wasn’t my favorite and so I started over. Then I reeeeeally got into it. Hauntingly beautiful music is by my sister songstress Layah Jane.
I am not great at editing yet, so its definately ‘not perfect’. It’s another tribute to being perfectly imperfect lol. I LOVE this newfound freedom!
I will continue to grow my technical savvy, and in the meantime I’m not going to let little glitches here and there stop me from sharing my message with you.
This dance is about getting free; getting out of our head and into our body, our Sprit, our dance.
It doesn’t have to look a certain way. It isn’t a performance. It’s just moving to the music and allowing energy to move through.
I invite you to break out of your cacoon and feel your beautiful butterfly body open up into motion; listen to and sense the music and let the energy move through you.
Drink in the pleasure of moving your body through space.
Getting out of your head and into your body is fun and healing and amazingly important for women…
Sink into your hips, open your heart, close your eyes, feel the music- sense your body- sensuality means sensing- this is very important for a woman especially if you feel disconnected from the neck down and overworked like a machine …
Please don’t worry what moves you are doing or what you look like. Just let all that go, and allow the energy to move through you.
YOU are beautiful. Put on your favorite music and let yourself be FREE! Do this just for you. You are so special!
She decided to FREE herself,
DANCE into the wind,
CREATE a new language.
And birds fluttered around her,
writing YES in the sky.
Monique Duval
As you know from my previous post, I have had a breakthrough!
In the spirit of keeping that shift open and alive, I woke up, hit the remote, turned on the light and spontaneously created this next video for you.
This is so FUN to experiment freely and just go where my inspiration leads…I feel like Alice in Wonderland!
And it doesn’t hurt that my husband woke me up with a kiss at 5am to wish me a Happy Anniversary…’Our Anniversary isn’t until August’ I said. ‘But today is the day I proposed to you…’ Ahhhhhhh he’s a Dream!
This actually happened yesterday, but I had to mention it here because below I am going to talk about an old boyfriend and I have to protect and cherish my husband’s honour 🙂
Ok, here is one of my morning rituals.
I actually learned this from someone I dated when I was 20; he was a 3rd degree balckbelt back then (now he’s a 7th Dan- yes, we are still friends after all this time) and he used to do this.
We were both vegetarian and into ‘health foods’, in fact it was he who got me into Martial Arts, and we would FAST together every weekend; from Friday night until Monday morning we would only drink juices.
It was great! We would go to the beach or a film festival or work out, and we would tease and torture each other fantasizing about what we were going to eat when we broke our fast LOL
In the cold winter mornings, having a thermos of steaming tea right there beside the bed seemed so decadent. Rafael used to fly around the world for Karate championships and Backgammon tournaments, and he would always bring me back special teas. My favorite was from South America called Yerba Louisa, or Lemon Verbena, which is Lemongrass. Mmmmmm, I can still smell it.
Now I use fresh Lemongrass from the market to make my teas and smoothies.
So we have Rafael to thank for this great tip!
It’s about the importance of HYDRATION first thing in the morning when you wake up, even before getting out of bed.
What’s the rush? Relax Dove, sip on your Fire Water or aromatic Herbal Tea you made at bedtime still hot or cool from the insulation of the thermos, and dream into your beautiful day about to unfold…
(I hope this link shows up in the emails as apparently the last one didn’t- if that happens again, just click on the title of the post in the email and watch this video on the blog)
In-Joy
This is Fire Water made from Water Kefir Grains that I soaked in Maple Water from our tapped trees
