LOI KRATONG - FESTIVAL OF LOTUS LIGHTS

The beauty and magic of my third Loi Kratong Festival in Thailand was celebrated this year in Tao Garden Retreat Center near Chiang Mai – an enchanted evening of friendship, music, song and dance. A beloved of an ancient king of Thailand, a lovely queen, united the Hindu and Buddhist traditions by creating the lotus float out of bamboo, banana leaves, flowers, candles and incense.

After our dinner and performances of women dancing with lighted candles, we walked on to the bridge at the dining hall and down the stairs to float our lighted lotus offerings, releasing everything from the past year. Then we lit hot air balloons carrying our wishes for the new year into the sky - as the cotton balloon gathered air from the fire it glowed golden, warm and pulsed with energy, five of us or so holding each one until it was ready to float to the sky with our wishes. A beautiful sight as it rose into the evening star heavens.

I was so happy this evening to welcome Elspeth, SNM Naturopathy grad of 20 years ago, who has been practicing and teaching in Perth, Australia. She brought me there several times a few years ago to share iridology, elemental dance, menopause and natural medicine teachings and is a radiant living example of the teachings She is joining the chi nei tsang training.

Wonderful to begin a new year of blessings in November while everyone is celebrating Thanksgiving in America. My heart was full as I felt the presence of the Boulder and Iceland schools and all the clients, students and graduates in my life with gratitude, strength and love, wishing us continued self-healing, personal evolution and respect and honor for the teachings that uplift our lives. We are truly blessed to walk this path.  We gave thanks for the opportunity to work with such beautiful souls seeking light and truth over thirty years and sent an offering of heart felt love for all we share and gift to all the lives we touch and it flew into the heavens - a beautiful potent moment.

I talked with Elspeth this evening and received her deep appreciation of her journey with self-healing and the teachings over 20 years.  She has reached a place of abundance with both practice and teaching and her children have nearly completed their schooling. Elsept is filled with enthusiasm for a new chapter beginning in her life. Well done, beautiful Elspeth. I will post pictures of her soon. She is a wondrous testimonial to the truth of the teachings. Love to all  Farida