Sunday, December 30, 2012

Intent and focus for 2013


Below is an email I send to my students who are attending my START THE YEAR OF WELL early morning 5 day Yoga Intensive.  I decided to post it here on my blog so others can use the process as well. 

A review of your year 2012

Firstly take a few pieces of paper and create some stream of consciousness writing around 2012, if you stop and come across a mind blank, then just write...." I have a mind black etc..." until you move through the mind blank or road block, this may happen a few times, keep going until you have moved through at last 10 of these mind blacks.... this style of writing is often known as "mind dumping" or "a give away" 

you will notice this becoming a summary of what happened and what was important to you in 2012.  After you have started this as a free writing exercise, then try to focus on specific life areas: especially on the Big 7 areas, and write a little more detail around how you feel about each in 2012.  
  1. Relationship
  2. Business
  3. Body
  4. Mind
  5. Spirit
  6. Social (Friends & Family)
  7. Finances and Possessions
This process of self reflection helps to notice the changes in your life and it also creates clarity of what needs to change in the coming year of 2013. 

If you want to have some more inspiration and guidance for the Review part, start with asking and answering some questions like:
What have you learned this year?
What were your biggest successes?
Have you hit your goals for the year?
What was the biggest surprise?
What do you want to follow along with in the coming year?
What do you want to end?

Follow up with questions that lead you to summarize and lead you to understanding on a broader level:
Are your loved ones happy?
About what are you happy?
For what are you grateful today?
Are you happy today? 

After your review it’s time to keep this momentum of the insights from 2012, and channel these emotions into your plan for the year ahead 2013, take the Big 7 areas (as above) and write some intent and goals around each one, this can be as detailed and specific as you want, mind mapped, drawn with pictures, use colour, what ever works to get you into that creative flow, be curious, you can use these questions to self below to assist you. 

What are the areas you want to expand on in your life?
What specifically do you want to achieve in 2013?
What dream to you want to fulfil in 2013?
With whom do you want to (re-)connect? (that might be self connection as well!) 
How can you make you life more simple? 
Where do you want to travel?
How can you achieve these?

You can also use the SMART criteria to help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria

Once you have completed this, take the top, one intent or goal from the Big 7 areas that really resonates with you, the one that feels like there is a strong positive charge around. You can check and investigate this by sitting quietly with each of these areas, bring the feeling space of that specific area into your breath and awareness, see if you can see or feel where it sits in your body? what area? and ask the question to your inner natural self *"does this feel true to me that my focus and intent will be here ......... for the intensive?"
your body will know...  :) trust it. 

This then will become your major intent and focus that will be bought into your consciousness through our *"START THE YEAR OFF WELL" 5 day early morning intensive. What we are doing is discovering through self enquiry, then unravelling the knot in the "string" that opens the allowing to the rest of the unravelling to take place through other aspects of self, we will move this through the body from the inside out, and activate and re-calibrate from a cellular level! 

* you can use this in any aspect that you do as a focus for a few days to a week, in your regular yoga practice, still time or meditation 

You can document this process any way you like during the week, photos,  drawing, journalling, writing, vision boarding, conversation with a like mind, mind mapping (how to mind map explanation http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/ ) 

And remember that if you act on your passion it IS very capable of sustaining and supporting you, it will indeed plug you in! ♥

If your focus is around diet/health/wellbeing then this 7 day juice fast ran by the juicing guru Jason Vale is running Jan 7 - 13th It's free, and includes, shopping list, daily videos and advice sent directly to your inbox, all you have to do is sign up via the link below, the only cost is either downloading the 7lbs in 7 days ebook, or the iPhone/iBook app which is around $7, for the daily juice recipes. I'll be doing it, so moral support will be there for you, on my raw food page 

Please take a few minutes to watch this video, the message is for everyone. The pure dedication, intent and believe in this mans own healing and the beauty of one person believe in another is ore inspiring and heart opening. 
As a yogi I feel deep respect and gratitude for how yoga above all else was part of this mans incredible transformation.

Happy New year, blessings and love! 

“Movement is the song of the body. Yes the body has its own song from which the movement of dancing arises spontaneously.” Vanda Scaravelli 

Renée McCready
Holistic Health Practitioner | Yoga Teacher
Educator | Shiatsu Therapist | Raw foodie



Saturday, December 29, 2012

MUST WATCH video and Blessings for 2013 to you

Please take a few minutes to watch this video, the message is for everyone. The pure dedication, intent and believe in this mans own healing and the beauty of one person believe in another is ore inspiring and heart opening. 
As a yogi I feel deep respect and gratitude for how yoga above all else was part of this mans incredible transformation.

Blessings and love for 2013 may it bring all your dreams to manifest.

Renée x 

    
                                 

Monday, December 17, 2012

Master class 1 day workshop with Chris Dwyer and Renée McCready





1 day workshop in Power Vinyasa 
and Ki Flow Yoga with a detox raw food twist! 

Sunday 17th March 10.30am - 5 pm 
at YOGA TREE Elsternwick 


Starting when you arrive with a Fresh Organic Juice to activate your cells before a 3 hour POWER FLOW  Master class with teacher Chris Dwyer 
Chris enjoys working on the finer points of postures.  The theme for the first half of the day is to "Discover your hidden strength in your Vinyasa practice".  Not so much a strength building class, but a class to refine the postures we most often use. 
Working with postures to activate particular muscle groups to make it more active and gain a deeper understanding.  

Deepen your detox day with a green smoothie during your break  before

 3 hour KI FLOW Healing & Yoga workshop with Teacher Renee McCready

Renee's workshop focus will be around "Starting the year well" starting the afternoon with a guided meditation to wake up your inner vision, set some intention in your timeline for 2013, then flow through into KI FLOW'S unique therapeutic yoga processes, alignments and postures, with a focus into igniting the fire within, then finishing with some partnered shiatsu to recalibrate everything. 

Then as you leave you will take away a slice of one of Renee's delicious raw vegan plant based living cheesecakes! 

 Limited spots available! 

You can opt to choose both of either as half day workshop -  will be priced accordingly  

$150 for both workshops, including juice and take-home cheesecake.  If you can only make one of the workshops, then it is just $80 per session, including the juice or raw vegan cheesecake (depending on which session you choose).


  For more information contact Renée on 0416873 599 or Chris on 0412534 561

facebook event page here 



Tuesday, December 11, 2012

WHATS up and coming at KI FLOW HEALING STUDIO?



We have so much happening in January and then into Term 1 in February 

at KI FLOW Healing Studio to help assist you start 2013 off with positive intention and align you with your inner most connection!



What's available for you?


Firstly;

 from Monday 7th till Friday 11th we have a
 " START THE YEAR OF WELL"
5 day KI FLOW Yoga INTENSIVE


6.30-8am and an Investment of $125

We will start the morning with a half hour of guided meditation, to clear limiting beliefs and set intentions for 2013, we will then do 1 hour of KI FLOW Yoga's unique therapeutic techniques to align the body, mind and emotions, through physical alignment, postures and breath, using Oriental and Meridian based theory. For the purpose this Intensive it will be around the element of Fire, the heart, forward movement, direction,  change, and clearing our timelines, to allow our dreams to make manifest. 

 Limited spots available! Contact Renée on 0416 873599 
(refer a friend and  recieve a 15% discount)


A ONE day workshop in POWER FLOW and KI FLOW YOGA with Teachers Chris Dwyer and Renee McCready

(Date in February, cost and more info - TBA)


 Starting when you arrive with a green smoothie to activate your cells before a 3 hour POWER FLOW workshop with teacher Chris Dwyer 


 Chris enjoys working on the finer points of postures.  
Chris theme for the first half of the day is to "Discover your hidden strength in your Vinyasa practice"
Not so much a strength building class, but a class to refine the postures we most often use. 
Working with postures to activate particular muscle groups to make it more active and gain a deeper understanding.  

Then after lunch 

 3 hour KI FLOW Healing & Yoga workshop with Teacher Renee McCready

Renee's workshop focus will be around "Starting the year of well" starting the afternoon with a guided meditation to wake up your inner vision, set some intention in your timeline for 2013, the flow through into KI FLOW'S unique therapeutic yoga processes, alignments and postures, with a focus into igniting the fire within, then finishing with some partnered shiatsu to recalibrate everything. 

Then as you leave you will take away a slice of one of Renee's delicious raw vegan plant based living cheesecakes! 

 Limited spots available! 

You can opt to choose both of either as half day workshop -  will be priced accordingly    

Contact Renée on 0416 873599 or Chris on 0412 534561 to secure your place. 


TERM 1 starts early at KI FLOW HEALING Studio

Our Regular on-going classes commense the week of Tueday 22nd January starting of with Tuesday 9.30am and 7pm class, then Thursday 24th with our regular on-going 6pm class 

BUT we ALSO have NEW classes Commencing;



KI FLOW early morning Meditation class commences Monday 28th January 

Have u ever experienced my channelled guided meditation yet?
 In January I will be starting a regular weekly early morning class on Mondays at 6.30-7.30am "start the week of well" you are SO worth it! $15 
Secure your spot now!
 Start the year with some focus into individual intent for 2013! 

Call or txt Renée on 0416863599 
You can read about Renee's Meditation here 

AND 

KI FLOW regular on-going weekly Saturday 9.30-11am KIL FLOW yoga class commences on Saturday February 2nd

Call or txt Renée on 0416863599 to book 
You can read about Renee's unique style of YOGA here 

 And the rest of TERM 1? 


UP and coming WORKSHOPS include: 
  • RAW PLANT BASED LIVING FOOD's workshops in ELWOOD and at Autumn Retreat in Thornbury with Renee (date & info TBA) 
  • RAW FOOD Fermentation Workshop in ELWOOD (date & info TBA) 
  • 3 hour KI FLOW SUMMER YOGA and HEALING workshop focusing on heart based coherence, KI FLOW yoga, meditation and Shiatsu
  • 'AWAKEN TO SEE' one day Workshop by Mariana Ibrahim $120pp 2nd March - more info here


ELWOOD STUDIO 




ELWOOD STUDIO


THE POWER OF A GREEN SMOOTHIE 

ELWOOD STUDIO 

ELWOOD STUDIO 

ELWOOD STUDIO 

WHAT IS 2013 about for you? 

ELWOOD STUDIO entrence 
ELWOOD STUDIO 

Renee 



Saturday, November 10, 2012

NEW ELWOOD STUDIO OPENING SPECIAL



As I'm moving my yoga and healing practice back to Elwood after a year in Gardenvale, I'm offering a deal for all to come try out KI FLOW Yoga and Meditation in my new spacious, light filled studio.

Ki FLOW yoga & meditation classes for mind, body & spirit.

KI FLOW is a unique style of somatic therapeutic yoga with an oriental flavour, open to anyone, no matter what experience.

KI FLOW mediation is guided intuitively breath heart, & body centred based. 

Come try out a KI FLOW yoga class for $15 ( Normally $25)
Come try out a KI FLOW Meditation class for $10 (normally $15)

You can check the event on Yoga Australia HERE 

OFFER available until January 31st 2013

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 



Thursday, September 13, 2012

Ki FLOW Yoga classes Term 4



Ki FLOW class times as of Term 4 2012

Mon
Tue
Thurs
Sat
9.30am



KI FLOW 
Yoga 
90mins
KI FLOW 
Yoga
90mins
6pm
  





KI FLOW 
Yoga 
90mins
7pm

KI FLOW 
Yoga 
90mins


Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Renée's raw vegan pesto spagetti recipe

The other night I went to a friends for dinner, I made a salad out of whatever I had on hand, and it was delicious. It had a a real pesto flavour that I didn't actually intend, which got me to thinking about the many raw vegan pesto pasta recipes, Ive read and tried, so I revisited the flavours I had put into the salad and came up with this raw pesto spaghetti. 

This recipe serves 1-2 depending on how hungry you are.

3 zucchini's spiralized to make noodles or "spagetti"
1 cup thinly sliced fresh basil
1/3 cup hemp seeds
1/3 cup pine nuts
1/3 cup raw cashew "parmesan" (recipe below)
olives and capers sliced, as many as you like
olive oil to taste
1 garlic clove crushed
sea salt and cracked pepper to taste
1/4 red onion sliced and diced thinly
small handful of baby spinach sliced
juice from half a lemon
zest from half a lemon 

With the hands massage the olive oil, salt, crushed garlic, and lemon juice into the zuchinni spagetti, then add all other ingredients, and mix again with your hands, allow all the flavours to infuse before serving. 

Here's is my Raw vegan cashew 'Parmeson" recipe form my ebook "AWAKENING TO RAW" 


This dairy free living parmesan cheese substitute is so savory & satisfying.
Use it on pasta, lasagna, casseroles and salads.


1 cup raw cashew nuts 1⁄3 cup nutritional yeast 1 teaspoon salt
1 clove garlic


Instructions:

Combine ingredients in a food processor fitted with a
metal “S” blade. Pulse on and off until the mixture is finely
ground and even.
Transfer to a tightly lidded container and store in refrigerator for a few months. 











Thursday, August 9, 2012

ACTIVATE your creative and cellular intelligence workshop





Artelier & Ki FLOW Healing
present
                 
ACTIVATE!
your cellular & creative intelligence

"when your body is clean, your mind is clear
 to create the life you love to live"

1 day workshop with specialists 
Susan Ryan & Renee McCready
                                         
WOULD YOU LIKE MORE ENERGY, VITALITY, STAMINA & CLARITY ?

Cellular Intelligence through RAW plant based nutrition

ENERGISES you naturally! 
VITALISES your cells!
CLARIFIES your mind!


WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE INSPIRED ACTION?

Creative Intelligence

CLARIFIES your purpose!
INSPIRES action!
FULFILLS your desires!

Susan Ryan Creative Intelligence Specialist & Leadership Coach 
Learn the 5 Step Creative Process, a unique art and new science based experience which will awaken your Creative Intelligence and give you the tools to change your current reality.

Renée McCready Holistic Health Practitioner & live plant based food expert
Experience a delicious raw plant based catered lunch leading into an afternoon of guilt free, sugar free, dairy free raw chocolate indulgence including raw chocolate, rich chocolate chai torte & double chocolate ice-cream!  Learn the secret to activating new levels of energy and vitality. 

When: Saturday 13 October, 2012 
  10-5pm

Where: ACTIVATE Studio Space
  1A Blenheim Street
  Balaclava
   Melbourne 3183

Cost:  $340 

For more information:





Friday, August 3, 2012

AWAKENING TO RAW ebook available NOW!

I'm very excited to be releasing my debut ebook AWAKENING TO RAW!

If you are just waking up to the possibility of raw plant based foods and nutrition, and your'e  looking for simple yet truly vibrant, delicious and nutritious recipes, then this is the ebook for you! 

AWAKENING TO RAW has over 50 raw plant based recipes.
 Including macadamia ricotta, date butter, almond milk, my home un-cooked meal ideas like raw taco's, raw lasagna, raw mac n' cheese and rawcous. Also many guilt free, dairy, soy and gluten free desserts and sweets, including chocolate chai torte, bleedin' raspberry chocolate ganache tart, black forest cheesecake, superfood truffles and scrumptious raw chocolate.

ONLY $25.00 AUD 

You can BUY NOW on-line securely by pressing the button to the right of the screen and pay either through PAYPAL or a debit or creditcard. 
Then just send me an email at kiflow@bigpond.com with your name in the subject line and I will email you the link to the ebook download as soon as the payment has cleared through PAYPAL .


Once downloaded the ebook (sent in both high res and low res versions) can be saved directly to your ibooks on your iphone or ipad, so you can obtain the ebook from more then one of your technology sources.  
As it's a PDF it can also be saved onto whatever application takes PDF's on smartphones and PC's.

 I'm so happy to be sharing with you what I've been discovering in my journey of raw un-cooking.


Activate your cellular intelligence within your body. Feel more alert, alive and vital. Be energized and connected with raw plant based living foods.


Blessings and love Renée 



Open in ibooks on your iphone or ipad 
   

Open the PDF on your computer or laptop, select options that best suit your viewing 





Save in ibooks 




Bright vibrant photos with fresh raw ingredients to inspire you! 

Within the Table of Contents, you can click on a recipe and it will take you directly to your recipe of choice, without having to scroll through the entire ebook


....."Love the book Congratulations!! 
Well done and written. I've decided to make the chocolate mousse for dessert and Renee's rainbow salad for dinner. Cant wait to get a spiraliser what a great tool!
  So inspiring and easy to have the recipe book on the phone so when shopping you don't have to remember anything it's all there. Well done I look forward to a new me using your book"....

Judy - Melbourne Australia 



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