Light Body Yoga

Singing and Dancing for your Soul

by Shannon Port

Singing and dancing are the greatest tools we have for experiencing the uninhibited life flow of our Souls within our physical beings. It has been taught by many ancient and mystical traditions of healing and spirituality from all over the world that we can sing and dance our way to happiness and health and even spiritual evolvement.

In our western culture we tend to assign singing and dancing to professionals. In doing so we give up so much of our power. We turn singing and dancing into a competition rather than honoring it as an innate need to heal and celebrate life through the expression of body and voice. Somewhere in our history, someone who was not very enlightened said that you have to sing and dance in a certain way in order for it to be appropriate or acceptable. At that time we literally became cut off from one of the greatest sources of healing power within the human experience.

We each have our own voice and our own rhythm and this is indeed the most unique expression of our Soul.

Most people however, do not even know their own voice or their own rhythm because they haven't allowed either to be set free since childhood.

It is surprising how many people haven't danced in years! It is surprising how many people are too embarrassed to sing happy birthday for fear of their voice standing out.

There is a secret, waiting to be discovered by the masses; and that is the joy and healing that comes with song and dance.

Singing and dancing are gifts of the Feminine energy that lives in each one of us.

Life is a flow. It is truly a river that leads to the Great Ocean.

Let there be movement and celebration of body and voice in order to set free the great love and devotion of your Heart.

Sing alone and even better yet sing with friends. Dance alone always AND dance in groups and communities of playful, loving and joyful people.

If you have nowhere to sing and dance then invite the people you love to your home once a month and surprise them with music and song.

If you need to remember how to sing and dance just watch a child at play. Children naturally connect to the great joy within and express freely their uniqueness.

Now is the time for humanity to remember not only the joy but the power of singing and dancing. Inner joy and expression heals the body and heals the soul.

Let us be healed on this planet and learn to love and celebrate one another. Let us know our own Selves and share our Selves with each other in celebration.

So be it!

Authentic Power

When acting from a place of real power there is no need to rush things or hurry or scamper about dizzily. Real power is still. Real power is present to itself; it does not apologize and explain itself unnecessarily.

Real power does not feel obligated to do anything. Real power acts from wisdom, discernment and compassion. Real power does not talk nervously and explain itself endlessly.

Real power listens more than it speaks. Real power listens because real power knows that only in receiving can one give; only in listening can one gain insight into anything and offer anything of true value.

Real power does not sell itself for useless things or for the approval of others. Real power does not act insecure or less than. Real power comes from a very deep well of wisdom and love. Only through the marriage 
of wisdom and love can there be real and lasting power. There are many people who have love and no wisdom. The heart can cause just as much pain as the head when there is an absence of wisdom.

All power comes from within. There is only one way to access it and that is through self-acceptance. The only power of any worth in the world comes from self-acceptance.

When one learns to accept oneself authentically, the door to self-knowledge and real power begins to open. The road to self-acceptance comes through deep reflection and sincere longing to know the truth about oneself.

Real power does not run away from anything; it walks away if there is no need to experience something. Real power never hides. It always shows itself in the appropriate form.

The only way to have real power is to "know thyself."

Real power does not stuff itself or distract itself in order to not feel pain. Real power honors pain and listens to it with love and wisdom and compassion.

Real power is not afraid of pain. Pain is just as valid as love and just as natural. Pain asks for attention in order to show what is not working and what needs attention. To numb the pain is to deny the message. To deny the message is to prolong the growth.

From the source of real power within oneself, comes the ability to know and express oneself truthfully to the world.

This is the path of evolution and growth. This is the path of the soul.

New Paradigms for Self-Healing

by Shannon Port

In the tradition in which I study we talk a lot about self-healing and the regeneration of the soul. I am only now beginning to understand by a glimpse of my own healing process how profound the journey of self-healing is; it goes beyond what can be felt and seen by the five senses and into the realm of the unseen; for it is often the unseen forces which rule your life and cause you to act unconsciously choosing over and over again those things which cause you pain and suffering.

Self-healing means to look at oneself with total compassion and to see where you have chosen to move towards pain and darkness and then to send love to those fragments of yourself and choose again, replacing the old paradigm with a new paradigm. In the process of self-healing you learn to accept your shortcomings as a human being and appreciate your perfection as a soul. The goal of the journey is to awaken and manifest the power of your soul within your human psyche and body. This is ultimately the opening of your glorious and heavenly heart center. This is GRACE in its most realized form.

Self-healing is not required. At different checkpoints in your life you may be given the opportunity to heal at which point it is left up to your free will to choose it or pass on it. The more times you pass on healing, the deeper your denial becomes and the more pain and suffering you take on to be healed at a later time. The day you choose to heal is the day  you choose to consciously evolve. This is the day you begin to wake up and "Know thyself."

Self-healing means to come into the totality of your being; to claim all the lost fragments of self and bring them into ONE SELF. In doing this work you shine the light on every aspect of your being and hide nothing. You become a transparent being of light. There is nothing left to fear and no part of yourself that remains hidden.

The choice to heal can come only from love; a deep courageous and profound love that desires to receive the gift of Wisdom.

Wisdom shines her light on anyone who earnestly seeks to know the truth. The pain of denial by far outweighs the labor of love that it takes to journey into self-healing.

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"Oh My Beloved.."

I had the most amazing experience seeing Snatam Kaur in her Celebrate Peace concert this month in Philadelphia.

If you have the chance to see her in concert in 2008 please don't miss the opportunity.

She is unifying people all over the world with her divine voice. She teaches the power of chanting and music to take us beyond our differences and into our oneness with each other and the Divine. The experience is heart-opening.

Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight

Brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor shares an inspiring and personal story about her first hand experience  discovering the right hemisphere of her brain through a stroke.

from: TED: Ideas Worth Sharing

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Breathe. Believe. Receive.

by Shannon Port

Close your eyes and take a deep breath in through your heart center and as you do so focus on what it is you want right now. Believe in it and feel it, and then exhale your breath slowly and RECEIVE what you desire from deep within your own being.

Start working with the practice of receiving and Mother Shakti will begin to reveal Her secrets to you. The art of manifesting is the art of receiving. One can only know this through personal experience.

The world will open up and show you a different kind of power that lives deep within your own being when you start to listen and receive the cosmic intelligence that lives in each moment.

There have been those who say that it is impossible to be in the moment and I assure you that they have never had the experience of being there themselves. It takes a deep desire to
be there and a willingness to listen. In our action-oriented world we have given little importance to the art of listening and receiving. The truth is that our world has become so noisy that few people know how to listen anymore. The noise is creating all kinds of problems for us. When we cease to listen to our bodies, we become ill. When we let our minds become overloaded and overstimulated with noise we become drained of energy and depressed.

Rejuvenation and healing begins with listening. All right-action arises out of receptivity. This is the age of the arising of the feminine. Those who have the ears and the heart and mind to hear will discover these secrets through their own creative experience. They will discover that receptivity and listening will open the door to a new world; a world where your intuition and creative self join forces to manifest all that your soul desires.

To be present in the moment is to have the power to access the creative intelligence of the Universe to bring in whatever the moment calls for. That very intelligence lives within us. We are creative beings and our most expansive state of consciousness comes from being completely immerged in the present moment. Many great athletes, artists and musicians will attest to this whole-heartedly. Often times musicians and athletes report not having to think about what they are doing or worry about their next note or next play because it simply arises out of the moment that they are in.


This is the beginning of a series of writings I am working on about receptivity and the feminine teachings.

Breathe. Believe. Receive.

by Shannon Port

Close your eyes and take a deep breath in through your heart center and as you do so focus on what you want right now. Believe in it and feel it, and then exhale your breath slowly and RECEIVE what you desire from deep within the well of your own being.

Start working with the practice of receiving and Mother Shakti will begin to reveal Her secrets to you. The art of manifesting is the art of receiving. One can only truly discover this through his or her own personal experience.

The world will open up and show you a different kind of power that lives deep within you when you start to listen and receive the cosmic intelligence that lives in each moment.

There have been those who say that it is impossible to be in the moment and I assure you that they have never had the profound, perception-altering experience of being there themselves. It takes an unwavering desire to
be there and a willingness to listen. In our action-oriented world we have given little importance to the art of listening and the feminine act of receiving. The truth is that our world has become so noisy that few people know how to listen anymore. The noise is creating all kinds of problems for us. When we cease to listen to our bodies, we become ill. When we let our minds become overloaded and overstimulated with noise we become drained of energy and depressed. As a result we fail to participate creatively in the world around us and this leads to a world that is out of balance.

Rejuvenation and healing begins with listening. All right-action arises out of receptivity. This is the age of the arising of the Feminine. Those who have the ears and the heart and mind to hear will discover these secrets through their own creative experience. They will discover that receptivity and listening will open the door to a new world; a world where your intuition and creative self join forces to manifest all that your soul desires.

To be present in the moment is to have the power to access the creative intelligence of the Universe to bring in whatever the moment calls for. That very intelligence lives within us. We are creative beings and our most expansive state of consciousness comes from being completely immerged in the present moment. Many great athletes, artists and musicians will attest to this whole-heartedly. Often times musicians and athletes report not having to think about what they are doing or worry about their next note or their next play because it simply arises out of the moment that they are in.



This is the beginning of a series of writings on receptivity and the Feminine Teachings by Shannon Port.

Shannon can be contacted by e-mail at: shannon@iamlight.com

The True Entrepreneur

by Shannon Port

The feminine quality of receptivity has been largely misunderstood and overlooked in our culture today. We tend to praise things like competitiveness, assertiveness, physical strength, wealth, aggression, material success, and all things aimed outward; all things that seek to establish power, wealth and status or the illusion there of.

The only problem with all things aimed outward is that they are the source of neither wisdom nor happiness. They often create a momentary illusion of happiness and then turn quickly to a  downward spiraling of depression and or self-destructive behavior. When one seeks only to acquire things on the outside, those very things become the source of their inner poverty. In order to keep up the illusion of happiness, you have to keep on going and keep on acquiring more and more; whether it be fame, wealth or power.  The true entrepreneur seeks the wealth that comes from the opening and receiving of the wisdom that comes from within; the wisdom that comes from the feminine qualities of listening and receptivity. These are the qualities that produce the creativity of your soul which will bring you true happiness and true success.

In our world today we have a growing crisis of depression. How often do you find people who have found material success and status and at the very same time suffer from deep anxiety and depression. This is so common that we tend to believe it is normal; to have both success and depression at the same time.

There has become such a compulsion to act and a resistance to listen to what is coming from within. It is almost as if hearing what is coming from within will cause more pain; or perceived pain. The voice from within may contradict the need to keep on going and keep on acquiring and that would be counter to our most praised beliefs of bigger, better, faster, richer, more successful. It has become easier to dull the voice from within with self-destructive patterns of behavior than to listen and hear the whisperings of your soul. The truth has gotten lost in the game and been replaced with pills and illusions of happiness.

The beauty of the physical world is that we are meant to enjoy all the fruits of our talents and success. The material world is rich with opportunities to advance the evolution of our consciousness when we learn to balance doing and acquiring with sincere listening and receptivity. To be receptive is to listen to what is coming from deep within yourself as well as to listen to what is coming from those around you; your loved ones, your friends, your community and your world.

One of my teachers often reminds us, "sex, money and power all end with your last breath."

The only thing that goes with you when you leave this earth is the consciousness you create in your lifetime.

That is your true legacy and the real measure of lasting wealth and happiness.

*quote by Joseph Michael Levry

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Freedom

First, speak the truth.

Then, you can seek the truth.

And only then will you be the truth.

Indeed, the truth

will set you free.