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If we all look back at our creation story, some pretty amazing coincidences had to happen in order for our mothers and fathers to come together to create us.\n\nMy mother was born of George Teigen. My father was born of Silvester Ziebarth.  George was adopted by Silvester's sister, so my parents are related (my mother is Silvester's great niece) through adoption.  The reason I explain this is because I feel the information that my parents grew up together in the same community is important.  More importantly, however, my family (even though there was no blood relation), did not accept my parents' relationship.  They looked upon it as sinful. \n\nWhen my mother was 17 and my father was 19 they developed a romantic relationship after knowing each other for most of their lives. My mother claims that they were very much in love, but the families' disapproval put tension on the relationship. 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If we all look back at our creation story, some pretty amazing coincidences had to happen in order for our mothers and fathers to come together to create us.\n\nMy mother was born of George Teigen. My father was born of Silvester Ziebarth.  George was adopted by Silvester's sister, so my parents are related (my mother is Silvester's great niece) through adoption.  The reason I explain this is because I feel the information that my parents grew up together in the same community is important.  More importantly, however, my family (even though there was no blood relation), did not accept my parents' relationship.  They looked upon it as sinful. \n\nWhen my mother was 17 and my father was 19 they developed a romantic relationship after knowing each other for most of their lives. My mother claims that they were very much in love, but the families' disapproval put tension on the relationship. 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In my soul, I know that I could feel this, even as a fetus. \n\nI am not the only one that has experienced some sort of rejection before birth in my life story.  If we open our minds to the idea that we had at least sub-conscious understanding before our mothers gave birth to us, we may be able to truly dig into the origination of a plague that affects our world.  This plague is related to rejection, loneliness, and abandonment.  And because of these emotions felt by so many of us individually, we all feel we are divided and separated from each other, and therefore from God. Lack of trust is an epidemic. Thus,  the genesis-creation of Sharli, but also creation of humanity as a whole, holds the theme of separation and sets the stage for our storyline that we are now living out in repetitive patterns. \n\nResearch has now proven that the fetus has a memory. Medical researches, using sound and vibration stimulation with sonography, have shown that the unborn displays short-term memory at least two months before they are born.\n\nWhen a mother learns that she is pregnant her initial emotions usually are either those of joy and love or of fear and disdain if the child is not expected.  Alice Rose, in her book Bonds of Fire,  recommends: \"If either parent has any thought of abortion but you decide to keep the baby, accept that he has been traumatized, and get neo-natal therapy for him as soon after birth as possible. Otherwise he will be imprinted with lifelong emotional pain.\"\n\nIn his book, \"Deep Feeling, Deep-Healing,\" Andy Bernay-Roman, during a therapy session with his own daughter discovered this phenomena: \n\n\"\"I'm getting a horrible feeling. I've felt it before, and it scares me. It's taking me way down.\"\n\n\"Go with it, honey. We'll keep you safe. 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The concept of Yin/Yang creates a wholeness that is at the true essence of our soul/spirit/human experience.  \n\nThe interesting truth surrounding Yin/Yang, is that nothing is ever black and white in its essence.  Take, for example, night and day.  There is always a transition between the two.  There is never a definite line when it suddenly becomes night or it suddenly becomes day.  There is dusk and dawn. This is the same concept with seasons in that there is never a moment in time when it is all of a sudden winter.  Life gives us a transition period. In this transition period, things can seem painful or even can bring the essence of death into our experience.  Ego will use fear to dislodge us from the understanding of the true harmony and balance that are at work. \nIn all things, there is an element of yin in yang and yang in yin. The symbol of Yin/Yang itself represents this concept in that there is a piece of white illustrated by a dot in the yang and a piece of black illustrated by a dot in the yin. Transformation and transition between the two can easily occur because they are part of one another and cannot be independent of one another or else they simply would not exist. The beauty of this concept lies in the idea that there is a constant balancing energy between the two. The dynamic energy at work is constantly working with these energies to create harmony.  This happens everywhere in nature and weather, but also in our lives.  \nThe suffering that we experience in our lives has everything to do with not finding peace and harmony with the forces that are working to create balance in our lives.  Our egos like to perceive and define situations and experiences as either bad or good, right or wrong and negates the understanding that there are balancing forces at work at all times.  In order to experience the pure joy and bliss in our lives, we must know what sadness is.  In order to know what feeling our best and at optimal health, we must understand and experience physical pain or illness. While experiencing some of the traumas in our lives, we can negate the rapid spiraling into depression and long-term struggle by understanding that it is simply a balancing force in action. 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Harmony is the only truth in our existence, as it is the very foundation beneath us and the very air we breath.  It is at the essence of our Life Force. \nA result of ignoring this simple concept of Yin/Yang in our own experiences is physical disease, mental disease and emotional traumas, which will all repeat as if in a pattern.  The busy-ness we create in our lives is the root cause of our suffering because we do not slow down enough to see the root causes of our problems.  Know, however, that the pattern of the Universe is one of harmony and balance.  Understanding this will break you out of your struggle patterns and will release you to the peace that you seek and will help you understand your purpose. \nIf the Universal Law is one that is constantly balancing and harmonizing, why would this also not be the case in your own physical, mental, and spiritual body and experience? 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      "body": "As a yoga studio owner, I have taught thousands of yoga classes now, as a instructor of private classes, group classes, workshops, and trainings. One of the issues that I see in the majority of my students is wrist weakness and/or pain.  Most of these complaints come from the overuse of the wrists at a keyboard, serving jobs and heavy tray-carrying, a previous fall, or (even worse) repeat patterning in their yoga practice. \n\nThe wrist problem often arises in our Vinyasa style class, which is my favorite style to teach.  I have found that it is a great way for new students to understand some of the most basic, but also most important elements, of a practice.  Vinyasa Yoga encourages breath with movement, and the breath, in my opinion, is one of the most important elements in a yoga practice. However, the foundation of Vinyasa Yoga includes our Sun Salutation sequence.  This sequence includes plank, chaturanga dandasana (four limbed staff), cobra (or upward dog), and downward dog.  All of these poses can cause major pain or injury in the wrists if they are not mindfully practiced. I am also a huge fan of props, so I will explain some ways to integrate props into your practice to avoid repetitive patterns that cause injuries in the wrists. When reading this, please remember that your experience may be completely different than others'. This is why I will give you several tips  and solutions to ease wrist pain in your yoga practice, but it is up to you to decide what works best for you.  You can discover this by....you guessed it...practicing and trying these solutions!\n\nIt's important to discuss the primary reasons that yoga can cause or perpetuate wrist pain.  There are two main elements in all poses that take precedence in our practice:  Foundation and Alignment.  In our asana practice, our awareness begins with our foundation. This carries into our wrists in many of the poses when our hands are our foundation.  People tend to misplace their foundation into certain areas of their hands when they are in poses like plank and downward dog.  They place the majority of the weight on the heals of the hands, right near the wrist crease.  This puts undo pressure on the small wrist joint and, over time, will cause pain.  Be sure that you are distributing the weight of your body into the \"balls\" of the fingers and the knuckles, as well.  I've even found it helpful to try \"gripping\" the floor with the fingertips. Mindfulness of where you are placing the weight in your hands is key.\n\nYou may also find that a thinly folded blanket can be helpful if placed underneath the heals of the hands.  This tends to assist in the grounding of the forward parts of the hands and the knuckles, displacing the weight away from the wrists. However, while in plank pose, you might try \"clicking back though your heals.\" This will increase the angle of your wrists and keep the weight from being placed directly above your wrist joints.  \n\nAlso, keep in mind that your yoga mat is an important prop in your practice, as well.  If you have a mat that causes you to slip, you will bear down and tense up more in the wrists to prevent your hands from sliding in poses like downward dog. It is well worth the extra money to purchase a mat that really does allow you to ground into your hands without being sticky.  I recommend the Manduka eKO mat line.  After trying several different brands of mat, the eKO mat is, by far, the best for creating a non-slip and non-stick foundation for your hands and feet. \n\nChaturanga Dandasana can be one of the main reasons that wrist problems originate or get worse for yogis.  While moving through the vinyasa sequence of a sun salutation, we tend to rush through their decent from plank into cobra or upward dog. When done incorrectly, we either push our weight back too far when coming down to the floor or come too far down (to hover) altogether. Another pattern is that practitioners will lower down faster through their head and chest, causing mis-alignment in the wrists and elbows.  \n\nTo solve these issues, we can easily practice Chaturanga by following one of two options.  First, shift your weight slightly forward and then lower down (SLOWLY!) all the way to the floor with the elbows hugging into the ribcage. This would be directly followed by cobra pose.   Or, we can lower down half-way, so that the elbows come to 90 degrees, again, hugging tightly into the sides of the torso.  From here, you move slowly into Upward Dog, with the chest forward and lifted.\n\nAdditionally, I have also found it incredibly helpful to practice Chaturanga with a block under my sternum at its lowest setting.  It gives me a very good measurement of how far to come down to bring my elbows at 90 degrees...and no more!  Remember, when practicing this transition, you can always modify by lowering the knees to the floor. And one more tip...try to remember to pause in the actual pose itself--four-limbed staff. All to often, people tend to \"dip\" through the movement, which is what causes the issues in the wrist to worsen. \n\nAll-in-all, it is worth your time and effort to try these different suggestions.  The distraction of sore wrists can take you away from the Bliss of your practice, which is why we come to our mat in the first place!  Being mindful and finding solutions for your wrist problems so that you can continue with your practice is you showing compassion to yourself!  And that is where the healing aspect of yoga begins.  \n\nIn Love and Light,\nSharli",
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