This week I have been guided to invite all who would like to journal along with me as I work with the Archangel guidance in preparation for the new moon. There are seven messages that I will post here, each one will be posted daily on facebook. After meditation, these seven messages were channeled as the perfect ones for this time. They were intuitively selected by me without mental intervention, just pure divine guidance. ( I am doing the work too!).  The tool that I am using are the Archangel Oracle Cards by D.Virtue. I am allowing divine guidance for further insights to be shared through each message.

What do YOU have to do?  Read and copy in your journal the message for each day and allow yourself to spend the day pondering what the message is about for you. Do it day by day, one day at a time.  Write down your thoughts. During this particular week, carry your journal with you, let it be your companion, your friend. Allow your own insights to flow and teach you about where you find yourself internally now. During this week, make sure that you treat yourself as your own best friend, you can share your mind, your secrets, your excitement, your fears knowing that you are deeply supported, loved and not judged during this process. Express yourself fully.  This is transformational work, be honest as you journal, keep it to yourself this week, it is all between you and Source. It is a sacred time of revelations for you.  Many blessings to come, and so it is. Amen.

FIRST DAY:

Archangel Raziel~ ” I am helping your spiritual sight to awaken fully so you can clearly see Heavenly love” At times our two eyes limit us, for we begin to believe that that which we see through them is what is. We may feel so blessed to see beauty and yet so alone at times in what we see as “our reality”. The inivitation to ponder on here is… what is your reality? Where is the illusion? What am I seeing with my physical eyes that limit my spiritual vision? Can I give myself permission to go within and dream? to speak with the Divine and see it through my own inner sight? If that were possible what would I see? How do God and the angels appear to me? What do they look like, feel like? ………answer each question sincerely, take your time. The imagination is one of the most powerful tools of the mind, this week I give myself full permission to use it for a higher loving good.

DAY TWO:

Archangel Azrael~ “Your loved ones in Heaven are doing fine. Let go of worries, and feel their loving blessings.” Take time to connect with your deceased loved ones, family members, friends and the spirit of the angels of love and light.  Feel their loving presence, their guidance and know that they are only a veil away. Is there anything that they would like you to know? how are they helping you? what can you do to honor their life and their presence? How can your experience of life improve through this awareness?

DAY THREE

Archangel Jophiel~ “Get rid of clutter,clear the energy around you, and use feng shui”  Welcoming new energy within requires that the space within us be ready and clean to receive it. The outside is a reflection of the inside. Where is the clutter? What are you resisting to address? What lingers? This is the perfect time to tackle the things that need your attention and finally put them in their perfect space. It is also time to clear relationships. What needs to be shared? What relationships may need to change? See everything with new eyes. Take accountability and release all blame.  Being clear will bring you deep loving peace within. Enjoy it.

DAY FOUR

Archangel Sandalphon~ “Be very gentle with yourself at this time. Surround yourself with gentle people, situations, and environments.” This is a time where judgement towards yourself or others is not allowed. Take a break with judgement. Replace it, just for today, with JOY. Give yourself permission to do so. Only you can. Make a list of  moments that bring you deep joy.

DAY FIVE

Archangel Chamuel~ “I am helping you with your spiritual soulmate relationship”  Today is a day for romance. Whether you are in a relationship, or single, romance excludes noone!  Take the time for a bubble bath, a candlelit dinner, a walk in nature, write a love letter. Ask the angels of love to make their presence known, to accompany you, and ensure to tell someone that you truly love them and mean it (pets and plants included).

DAY SIX

Archangel Michael ~ “Be clear about what you desire, and focus upon it with unwavering faith”  The day has come for you to make your wish list! What do you intend for your life at this time? how would you care to be of service to the planet? what would you like to enjoy as part of your life experience? Give your imagination permission to guide you and let the list be as long as you dream it to be.

DAY SEVEN

Archangel Raziel~ “Take back you power. Use your God-given power and intention to manifest blessings in your life”  Make another list… what are your talents? what do you like to do when it comes to being of service to others? Every being is gifted with a talent that  allows them to be of service to others. There are no exceptions, everyone has this gift. Have you found yours? What do you think it might be? Usually others will hint at it…. listen to the voice of spirit as it speaks through others telling you how helpful or “good” you might be at something…. meditate on this and like a small seed, water it, tender to it, and  let it grow into a beautiful tree of life!

Blessings ! and much joy, love and peace during these Holy Days upon the  New Moon of September!

In love and light,

Ariel

During Ramadan it is a tradition to butcher sheep and offer the sheep to people that are hungry and also to those held in esteem. The intention is one of gratitude, love, and honoring God’s  mercy. (In the scriptures, not only the islamic ones, when Abraham was willing to give up his son Isaac, instead of sacrificing the son, God sacrificed a sheep).  I can not say for certain that this is where the butchering of the sheep during Ramadan arises from, but since it is meant in such high honor, I am simply assuming that there must be some relationship. Thus far, those that I have asked simply refer to it as “it is tradition during this time of year”. My assumption is simply my own interpretation.

I have always had a hard time with this tradition, I personally do not agree with killing animals as a tradition, and even less with ordering an animal to be killed as a gift for another. To me that falls into the category of “lost in translation” if you know what I mean. I believe in random acts of kindness on a continuous basis, and helping others regularly as well as living in a state of continous communion with the divine. Honoring God by honoring life. If you eat meat, eat what you need, the basic, what is necessary, be humble and give heartfelt thanks to the animal that gave its life for you. Be aware of what is. I also do believe that intention overrides action, and when intentions are pure, and our actions are not of the highest consciousness, our lessons will be gentle and guide us lovingly to a higher consciousness.

I had been advised that a friend was intending to send a lamb to welcome me. I immediately sent him word that I was disturbed by that and that if he truly wanted to welcome me to instead spare the life of a lamb.  Fair trade? Well, apparently he did not understand my message or how much I meant it. On Monday morning a man was sent to our house with a 7 kg bag of fresh lamb meat that included  body parts chopped up and the head. At the moment of realization of what that bag truly was, tears began to flow, I could not make a distinction between a person and the animal, it was just a life. I screamed when I saw its head and eyes and I cried throughout the day and night. I was offended, hurt and angry. I felt truly miserable.  I could not believe the insensitivity of the man that sent it, and I personally told him that evening that I did not appreciate it, that I was hurt and disturbed. He apologized many times, he said it had been a misunderstanding, that I was not supposed to receive the whole lamb, but his apology did not make me feel any better. I could just come up with “it is what it is”. That was my only reply.

The words must have flowed from spirit for the true meaning of  ’it is what it is” carries no judgement, and a lack of judgement was far from my state of consciousness. Yet, “it is what is” means that I can not change it, yet I can seek to understand it or simply let it be. The intention was good, was meant to honor me, the action, in my book, less than honoring, on the contrary, primitive. Whether the lamb was intentionally sent to me or not, it came. I got it.

I can not fathom the idea of greed that accompanies giving a small family that can afford food an excess of 15 pounds of meat, a whole animal.  It is an act of greediness to me, but that thought puts me right back into judgement. I can let it be and  donate the meat to others that may be well served, and turn this sadness into lightness within me. I can choose to be empowered and put a smile on a hungry man’s face or simmer with anger and continue to be appalled. If I am to bring light to the earth, the answer is simple, my chosen alignment is clear. For my own inner peace, I need to make empowering choices that will balance the hurt within. I can not change what is, but I can change what I do with it. I feel gratitude in my heart for this and compassion for all of us humans.

And with that said I simply recall Ghandi’s words ” Be the change that you want to see in this world”  Today I wish for peace with all of life and with all my fellow humans. I choose Peace.  I am Peace. And so it is.  Blessings!

My first visit to Alabama was this year, and to be honest I was not sure that we would feel “at home” in Auburn. I did not know what to truly expect, yet in retrospect I had honestly made some “not so good” assumptions. In my mind, Alabama would be “too foreign for foreigners”, does that make sense? It would be difficult to feel at home or find a sense of belonging, a sense of freedom of thought and expression. Such I had heard from some others, so I wondered, somewhat concerned, about what awaited us.

WELL, what did I find? I found in Auburn, (and now it is my second time here!) some of the most welcoming, kind, polite and generous people I have met. I finally truly understand the meaning of  Southern Hospitality, it exists and it is right here! How beautiful it would be if we were all a bit kinder and welcoming to strangers like they are here in Auburn. I have had the pleasure now to meet several Auburn University alumni (some that actually live in Orlando!) and they too, are so very kind…now I get it!

Once you “go kind” you are truly not blind as to how the blessings of your kindness expand in love and pure light.  So true! So I leave you with this thought, and the beautiful inspiration that I have found in Auburn~ it does not take very much to respect each other, to be kind, to be polite, to lend a helping hand, and yet what a difference we can make upon this world when we do so. Thank you Alabama for openning my eyes to the disservice of making assumptions, and allowing me to experience more joyfully our South. God Bless America. Blessings Always! Ariel

Basically they needed help with the launching of a new product in one of the biggest Expos in the region… Cityscape/Citybuild, and I was lucky enough to help. In the office I met wonderful people and my closest colleague happened to be a beautiful Spanish lady fluent in Italian, Spanish and English. What a treat! Together we wrote press releases, shopped for the event, and managed to learn quite a bit about each other’s life!

For those of you that have met me in the last few years, my background is actually in corporate hospitality and public relations. My university degree is in business with minors in psychology and tourism. Wow! For many years of my life I worked in the field! It was only twelve years ago that I completely changed my path and decided to go back to what I knew as a little girl… wellness. I was blessed to grow up in a household where wellness was the theme. As a spa owner my mom was a true maverick. She introduced yoga over 40 years ago in the island of Puerto Rico, where she was a foreigner, and to a society that was mostly conservative Catholic at that time. We were Catholic as well but not conservative and it was my mom’s intention to teach yoga as a path of health, wellness and deeper understanding of life. And with many obstacles to surpass, she moved forward and succeeded. Her work won great accolades within the community and her spa became “The Spa” in San Juan, at that time. 

Well, going back to my time here, it was very  interesting for me to find myself once again doing the work that I did so many years ago! For the first time in all the months that I have spent over the last few years visiting the Middle East, I got a chance to meet so many Arab locals. What in the past was a dream of mine, to interface with the locals, perhaps meet a Sheikh some day, became a reality!  I met several Sheikhs and I am actually in a local newspaper photo where the Sheikh is greeting our company’s managing Director.  Amazing! I got a chance to meet face to face and shake hands with some. It was a gift to meet some of  the rulers (of any country!).  

At the Expo, our stand was very impressive. The Managing Director of the company, a gentleman from Saudi Arabia, educated in the United States, made sure that our green product was introduced effectively. Our advertising campaign was very strong, and the media response was overwhelming.  People heard our name everywhere and at the Expo, we were very, very visible and very successful. We laboured as a team day in and day out for four days non stop. I was just helping so my part was much easier than for the rest, who worked endlessly into the night to ensure that all was ready for the avalanche that awaited us the next day!

During the four days, most of our visitors were local men and women dressed in their traditional long gowns with headdresses.  The women in black, the men in white. When you live here you coincide with locals everywhere, of course, but interactions are very limited. They are always gracious but you do not usually make friends in the street with locals. They are reserved and cordial and they simply let you be. The ladies are not very approachable, they tend to travel with other ladies or with their spouses. Many are fully covered exposing only their eyes.  I had always been curious and wondered what their personalities would be like “behind the veil” “How are they different from me?” would be a question that repeated itself in my mind almost daily when I encountered them.  I was blessed at the Expo to have the opportunity to inform so many gentlemen that came by, about our product, and to do the same, as well as to establish giggling momentary friendships with the ladies! I found the Arab locals to be very curious, repectful and many with a fun sense of humor, their personalities charming and playful. 

 I was so blessed to get to spend one on one time with one of the Arab ladies for almost 3 days (she also helped at the office while I was there!). We talked about yoga, meditation, Reiki and we both shared that spending time together felt as if we had known each for a long time. We  look forward to spending time together ahead.   At the Expo, I worked with many amazing  people from different nationalities: Brazil, Syria, Germany, Sudan, Lebanon and more…and, I met several ladies that were fully covered. In the past I was almost a bit intimidated, aside from curious, about the veiled women of the Middle East. Yet, as we shared time together I realized that there was little difference at the human level between us. It was truly beautiful. We laughed together, we asked each other questions, we learned together. Upon leaving one veiled lady said ” I truly enjoyed spending time with you” and little did she know that a dream for me had come true in these interactions when I replied ” it was wonderful meeting you, thank you so very much for stopping by”.  I deeply meant every word. I realized that behind the veil there were many mirrors of me, and I was blessed with a deeper understanding of cultural diversity.

It is rather unfortunate that the international media relates to us the stories that foster and create a sense of deeper separation, alienation, anger and hatred, and fail to bring attention and awareness to the real news…. yes, the real facts…. that, in truth, we are all (all races, and cultures) brothers and sisters created by the same Source. How are we going to help each other grow in love, acceptance, gratitude and understanding? That is the question. Would you like to know the answer?   ….. Meditate.  With love and blessings! Ariel

I would like to invite you to visit our new little studio in Windermere… Ariel’s Yoga and More…at The Pond.  The intention for the space is one of joy,  spiritual camaraderie, kindness, shared laughter and love.  It is a little home for the heart to relax and connect with joy through the classes and services that we are offering. We are constantly evolving and new facilitators are joining, so visit the website often as you are likely to find exactly what you are seeking at “the right time”. That is how the universe works….

One of the activities that I am very excited about is our “Grand Bazaar”. Amongst  my deep passions in this life are art and beauty. I delight in the vibration of unique creativity expressed. At the bazaars, the intention is to feature different  artists with their crafts and offer beautiful creations that are unique and “vibrationally high”. Things that will bring color, lightness, beauty to your home, your friend or to you! Our first bazaar will be February 6th from 2-4 p.m.  Stop by and share a cup of tea or cocoa with us, we have plenty at Ariel’s and have some homemade cookies too. Regardless of whether you find something that you may want to buy or not , sharing the space will be special…

Remember that this month of February we extend 9:30 a.m. classes to include Saturdays. Qigong classes begin the 15th at 7 p.m.  and yoga for teens and for youth (ages 9-12) also start the first week of February…. much is happening at Ariel’s. Yoga, Reiki sessions, Reiki classes, Accupunture, meditation is all on going now or starting in February….

Call me or e-mail me if you would like more information…407-301-6878 or arielalbani@hotmail.com

I hope to see you at the bazaar on the 6th or sooner in class!

Much love and bright light!

Ariel

Thai-land means the “Land of Freedom” , most of the population is Buddhist and they call themselves the “land of smiles”.  I agree. People were so kind, friendly and helpful in Thailand that it was a truly moving experience just to be there sharing in their land. The beaches in Phuket were magnificent, the sites, views, nature, fruits …. an enlivening experience for all the senses, including the 6th!

In Thailand, I had the opportunity to play with monkeys, pet elephants, kiss a gigant iguana, hold a cobra snake, pet a 4 month old tiger, and delight in the company of so many dogs that simply roam the streets and beaches peacefully. They live in the temples (there are aprox. 30,000 temples in Thailand) and are very loved by the people. They are not aggressive, the city takes care of them (rabies vaccines) and everyone seems to live in harmony and peace with nature and its gifts. For those of you that do not feel as connected to the animal kingdom as I do, Thailand offers a myriad of other experiences that are truly delightful.

The Buddhist temples are magnificent, the food fresh and delicious, the shopping inexpensive and the spa experiences one of a kind! Massages are available everywhere! And for a small amount, as you are walking the streets, you can stop and have your feet  pampered for a whole hour, beyond words. You find a massage facility literally in ever street. Nightclubs abound and lady boys are common in their culture. Thailand allows freedom of opinion and behavior, perhaps more than we are accustomed to in the West. 

We were there for the kings birthday celebration (oficially on December 5th) and the city buzzes with festivities. The king is very, very loved by the Thai people and everywhere you see something that represents their love, whether a picture, a trinket or a statue.

We experienced so much wonder in Thailand that it is hard to put in words all that transpired! I can just say that it was truly an amazing journey to be in the energy of this beautiful country. I have so many photos to share! So if you are interested in looking at some of them, just send me a quick e-mail at ariel.wellness@yahoo.com and I will forward them for your enjoyment! (tell me what you would like to see…views? animals? temples? so that I do not burden you with much).

Well, dear friends, this marks the end of the overseas blogging. I shall return back to Orlando this week. Thank you for the beautiful comments and e-mails! I will continue to blog from home, but the blogs will certainly be different in nature. We will be discussing metaphysical principles of life and having discussions on the philosophy of spiritual and material lifestyles as one. Classes will begin in January! The schedule will be posted soon. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, may you have a very beautiful  and joyful holiday season, and  may the year 2010 grant you the opportunity to live in alignment with purpose in the highest degree of love and light always.

Blessings!

ma’ assalama,

Ariel

Blessings always!

Ariel

Upon our arrival the first day, when we heard the loud buzzling of the car engines on the racetrack, an instant adrenaline rush flowed through our brain, heart and veins. It is inevitable to feel very excited even if racing or cars is not your thing. When I first saw them, they appeared to me as beautiful toys and to think that a driver was actually sitting inside was hard to fathom.  The speed was unbelievable!

Ferrari did not take the top positions but they raced very nicely and their cars magnificent…these vehicles are  truly a work of art! The highly skilled drivers  of the Formula1 race are very inspiring. I had never seen anything like this “live”. I wasn’t well versed on the racing and the teams, their history and the expectations for results this year, but I am certainly more interested now and would like to see it again in the future. It was a great experience!

The evening closed with an Aerosmith  concert, the air was very festive, the moon so full and beautiful, the acoustics phenomenal and for the first time in my life I stood within 5ft. from Steve Tyler….as he sang “Dream On” I simply felt “on track” …. I dream of a world were we are all citizens of it together and for this one night again, I live within this dream….may it one day be our global reality. As for the Formula 1 being truly all that it is made out to be…. I have to say that it was way beyond expectations…the answer? A definite YES.

Blessings!

We headed home and in Abu Dhabi we took Johanna to the Emirates Palace, a magnificent hotel where the film festival was held all week.  The atmosphere was buzzing and the views from every angle indoors and outdoors, breathtaking! If you are interested in learning more, you can google all these resorts and take a peak…;-)

We travelled again to Dubai the next day to marvel in its design, architecture and culture. The Burj Dubai is almost ready to open and it is the largest building in the world! The water feature that surrounds it has a number of fountains that light up as the music begins every 20 minutes. The music changes every time, allowing Arabic, African, Italian, European…different world rythms ….to be featured while your eyes delight in the rythm of the water that ”dances” to the rythm of the tunes. Can you visualize that? The  colored lights emerging from the water  illuminate the building and the sky at the same time…. it is a sight to be seen…what the human mind is capable of envisioning and creating is finely sampled in the United Arab Emirates.

We had the pleasure of spending time in the old souks, walking the streets, visiting vendors and enjoying so much each other’s company.  We reminisced, we laughed, we shared, we spent lots of quality time.

We enjoyed the tents, the shisha and even the company of a Miami friend, Alex,  who is living here!

On our last day together we attempted to visit a historical place in Abu Dhabi where you can see camels and learn how Abu Dhabi used to be years ago. The Heritage Village ended up being closed yet we were able to see and say hello to a beautiful camel that was there.  Since the visit was short, we had just enough time to take a dip in the refreshing waters of the gulf. So, we reminisced, we laughed and we shared some more…what a treat!

I spend most of my time alone in joyful comtemplation so to have a friend and sister to laugh and share joy with was such a blessing! Our host was an angel, our trip was delightful and being able to share together, a true blessing!

So that is the latest! Coming up…. the final race for Formula 1 is here in Abu Dhabi on November 1st, and the track that has been built for it … well, there is nothing like it.  My team?….it has to be Ferrari.

Blessings!

Ariel