<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528</id><updated>2011-07-28T19:47:58.664-07:00</updated><category term='kundalini'/><category term='yoga'/><title type='text'>healthandhappinessinc</title><subtitle type='html'>Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa shares his knowledge about &lt;br&gt;
Kundalini Yoga, Meditation, Falconry, and Kundalini Yogic Therapy.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-8228335907880655540</id><published>2010-01-03T23:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T23:23:29.256-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0GY--fG8Mwc/S0GXT74E15I/AAAAAAAAABE/yXZ1J6v9XKw/s1600-h/farmersflyer2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0GY--fG8Mwc/S0GXT74E15I/AAAAAAAAABE/yXZ1J6v9XKw/s320/farmersflyer2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422781795076986770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-8228335907880655540?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/8228335907880655540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=8228335907880655540&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8228335907880655540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8228335907880655540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0GY--fG8Mwc/S0GXT74E15I/AAAAAAAAABE/yXZ1J6v9XKw/s72-c/farmersflyer2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-5381331049185820255</id><published>2008-09-27T06:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T06:25:36.718-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yoga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kundalini'/><title type='text'>Public (outside) Yoga Classes</title><content type='html'>We are glad to hear that you are still enjoying Sadhana&lt;br /&gt;Kaur's classes and we thank you very much for the gifts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW, would you mind posting your comments about doing&lt;br /&gt;Kundalini Yoga there at the Farmers market and sharing your&lt;br /&gt;experiences with everyone?  We think that this would be a&lt;br /&gt;very valuable post for people to get over their fear or&lt;br /&gt;initial negative reaction when we tell them that we teach&lt;br /&gt;the classes right there in the markets. &lt;br /&gt;For the life of me I can not understand why anyone would&lt;br /&gt;find any faults with doing yoga at a Farmers Market outside&lt;br /&gt;in the natural elements.  It is no different than getting&lt;br /&gt;skeletal or massage therapy outside.  The only thing that I&lt;br /&gt;can think of that people might object to is the noise&lt;br /&gt;around them and not being able to concentrate but this fear&lt;br /&gt;or negative reaction I feel will pass as they actually&lt;br /&gt;experience a class in Kundalini Yoga there at the market.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;My initial reaction when I first saw people doing chair&lt;br /&gt;massage in public places was the same.  I always thought to&lt;br /&gt;myself:  "why would I want to get a massage on a chair in&lt;br /&gt;front of so many people?  I would much rather get an hour&lt;br /&gt;massage in private which always seemed much more relaxing&lt;br /&gt;and healing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't until I actually went to massage school and had&lt;br /&gt;to do a certain amount of hours of volunteer public chair&lt;br /&gt;massage and massage therapy on tables outside in parks for&lt;br /&gt;the Walgreen's Red Ribbon Rides which were fund raisers for&lt;br /&gt;aids victims that I really began to appreciate doing&lt;br /&gt;massage therapy in public.  I actually did skeletal therapy&lt;br /&gt;on the bike riders which rode from Orlando to Hollywood&lt;br /&gt;over a three day race and one of those days was at  a park&lt;br /&gt;in Dania right on the intercoastal with beautiful pine&lt;br /&gt;trees under a large tent.   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The racers had a chance to wash up in shower facilities&lt;br /&gt;that were available to them there at the park and camp site&lt;br /&gt;and then they lined up for our group of 20 or so massage&lt;br /&gt;therapists in training from different massage therapy&lt;br /&gt;schools.  The best part of it all was the food.  There were&lt;br /&gt;more than enough delicious vegetarian dishes to choose from&lt;br /&gt;as well as deserts from a very professional catering&lt;br /&gt;company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway this is how we got the idea to go Farmers Markets. &lt;br /&gt;That experience made me realize just how beneficial and&lt;br /&gt;wonderful it was for the massage therapist and client to&lt;br /&gt;enjoy being outdoors on a beautiful day and experiencing&lt;br /&gt;the things that we love most.  Well, Yogis have been doing&lt;br /&gt;Yoga outside in every imaginable place possible for&lt;br /&gt;thousands of years!  Why not at a Farmers Market?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Again my initial reaction was that there was no way that I&lt;br /&gt;was going to be able to relax getting a massage in front of&lt;br /&gt;other people.   Well so much for that theory!  All it takes&lt;br /&gt;is about 3 minutes on a massage table for you to realize&lt;br /&gt;that at that precise moment you really won't know or care&lt;br /&gt;where you are because it feels so good that it takes you&lt;br /&gt;out of your body and mind into a state of total relaxation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, it is the same with Kundalini Yoga.  Within 3 minutes&lt;br /&gt;after starting a class, you realize that your worst fear or&lt;br /&gt;any negative thoughts about doing Yoga outside in a Farmers&lt;br /&gt;Market are absolutely nonsense and the feeling of&lt;br /&gt;relaxation and upliftment are so beyond words that all you&lt;br /&gt;can say is Wahe Guru (Indescribable Ecstasy).  Before you&lt;br /&gt;know it,  all of the sounds of the market start fading away&lt;br /&gt;and you drift into a state of total relaxation and joy&lt;br /&gt;focusing on your breath, a mantra and you could be anywhere&lt;br /&gt;you want to be!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-5381331049185820255?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/5381331049185820255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=5381331049185820255&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5381331049185820255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5381331049185820255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/09/public-outside-yoga-classes.html' title='Public (outside) Yoga Classes'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-5509984556947715198</id><published>2008-06-20T18:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T18:08:45.440-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Health and Happiness Market Coconut Grove Miami</title><content type='html'>Come meet the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Guru of Universal Love&lt;/span&gt;, and other vendors at the new green market.&lt;br /&gt;If is at the Shops of Mayfair in the Grove, Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 - 6:00.&lt;br /&gt;2900 Grand Av, Coconut Grove, Miami has free parking nearby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kundalini yoga as tought by Jogi Bhajan&lt;/span&gt; will be held this Sunday at 12:00 noon.&lt;br /&gt;The open-air plaza, providing fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, juices, and flowers.&lt;br /&gt;Holistic healing kundalini massages and kundalini yoga classes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Miami New Times wrote an article in the June 16 issue.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.miaminewtimes.com/events/health-and-happiness-&lt;br /&gt;market-1037704/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/mayfairsign.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/mayfairmarket.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-5509984556947715198?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/5509984556947715198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=5509984556947715198&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5509984556947715198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5509984556947715198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/06/health-and-happiness-market-coconut.html' title='Health and Happiness Market Coconut Grove Miami'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-8922811765853255566</id><published>2008-03-19T01:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T01:59:34.385-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visualization with Kundalini Yoga</title><content type='html'>Although most movie stars, lottery win­ners and self-made millionaires had childhood fantasies of fame and fortune, ooly a very small percent of all those who dream of such things ever actualize their desires. What is it that makes one person's dreams materialize in the physical world, while nnst of us ooly fantasize withoot hope of fulfillment? It lies in INTENT &amp; RESOLVE. &lt;br /&gt;Visualization without intent, decision and resolve is mere fantasy. To validate a fantasy for actualization, it with "gut level" intention: the firm decision to acquire or attain a desired condition! In Kundalini Yoga this -= involving the Navel chakra, the ring center of the subtle body. Prove it to yourself: Fantasize a cherished desire and flesh in the details (how it will look, smell, sound and even im­agine touching things in the image). 1hen validate it! lbld the image and pull firmly 00 the navel point (allowing navel energy to join the picture) as you firmly decide to actualize it. Do you feel a difference? &lt;br /&gt;The following technique is nnst effec­tive with an open Heart O1akra, and a power_ ful Navel Center (See Transitions to a Heart Centered World for Heart &amp; Navel exercises), and especially in the m:ments following med­itatioo when the positive mind can effect­ively project desires and solutions. &lt;br /&gt;1. First, clearly see and experience where you..l are doing, aware of each cell in the body connections to the envirorment and to the past and future. (Living in the past or future withoot. conections between them or an anchor in the present can cause anxiety. Serenity, cooversely, arises fran awareness of the here and I0סI, relationship to surrounds, connections to goals, and absorbtion in what you are doing. Contact with reality can be made by simply looling at one's hand or by feeling oneself sitting. Verify this by remembering a situation in which you were calm and notice how ­connected you then.) &lt;br /&gt;2. Next, clearly see and experience why you want to be in a destination, a resolved problem, a realized achievement or cherished desire. Feel as you will feel, see &lt;br /&gt;what you will see, hear what you will hear, and touch sanething. Experience satisfaction and serenity fran being where you set out to be. &lt;br /&gt;3. Hold the vision and add resolution by finnly pulling in on the navel p:Jint and beaming a bright golden light from your 3rd Eye between where you are now and where you want to be. Feel the connection between present and future and try to feel them as one, in the same time dimension - the present. &lt;br /&gt;4. Finally, visualize the steps you will take to get where you want to be. Make a visual plan. If the process is a simple one, one set of steps is enough. A canplex project may require several possible plans. As soon as you see the appropriate steps, you will begin to feel calmer. &lt;br /&gt;a. Be sure not to add negative qualifi­cations or doubts that may block manifesta­tion, like "but I don't have enough noney to do that". &lt;br /&gt;b. Establish a posi ti ve image of yourself, with the sense that you deserve the desired condition, and that others (especially spouse or parents) will support this decision, for we can block manifestation by negative prog_ ranming such as feeling unworthy or that others think you are undeserving, or unlucky. &lt;br /&gt;c. The visualization may be as general or specific as feels appropriate. If spec­ific steps must be taken, include them but if you can feel that "it is being taken care of by the Universe", you needn't specify each step. &lt;br /&gt;d. Allow each step or problem to be resol­ved along the way, merge into the light and feel it transform problems into solutions &lt;br /&gt;5. Now, relax and let the Universe go to work. Let go of any concern and feel confident and optimistic and then forget it for now, adapting an attitude of gratitude for a happy result. Relax and allow you positive feelings to attract the result - feel your whole body merge into a golden light and project this energy from. the 3rd Eye and the Heart chakra. Vibrate with the Universe, acknowledging its benevolence and love.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-8922811765853255566?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/8922811765853255566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=8922811765853255566&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8922811765853255566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8922811765853255566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/03/visualization-with-kundalini-yoga.html' title='Visualization with Kundalini Yoga'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-3935613479439244089</id><published>2008-02-15T16:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T16:19:35.039-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Legion Park Miami Kundalini Yoga Class</title><content type='html'>This new green market continues to be a source of people networking and good friends and clients.  Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa's mother has been helping inform organize and schedule yoga treatments.  You can see her seated here in the backround, but you can be sure, she is on top of the action!  Ahhh family, the warm, secure, loving feeling.  It is like a fireplace, or hearth. Come visit us Saturdays at Legion Memorial Park 6447 Ne 7th Ave Miami, FL 33138. You can't miss it, since it is right on the main road, Biscayne Boulevard at 64th.  The traffic here is reminiscent of the interest generated at the Aventura Miami mall kiosk that Guru Jiwan is known for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/legionparkyoga3.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-3935613479439244089?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/yo2.html' title='Legion Park Miami Kundalini Yoga Class'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/3935613479439244089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=3935613479439244089&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/3935613479439244089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/3935613479439244089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/02/legion-park-miami-kundalini-yoga-class.html' title='Legion Park Miami Kundalini Yoga Class'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-7443028190634110129</id><published>2008-01-21T14:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T14:36:44.151-08:00</updated><title type='text'>red tailed hawk or american kestrel?</title><content type='html'>Dear Reader,&lt;br /&gt;in god we dwell andin his name we write these lines to you&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is in response to a blog comment/question asking what is easier to train.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A red tail is easier to train as an apprentice. Red tails are very easy going and become trained very quickly when trained properly by a good falconer.  Redtails are very mild mannered and good tempered birds.  They are opportunists and just hang around on poles or trees until they see something to eat and then just swoop down on it.  Of course they love to soar as well.  They are big birds and are much more difficult to kill by not feeding enough.  Kestrels are so small that they need to be weighed twice a day and the balance of feeding just enough food to them to keep them coming back to you is so critical that too little food will kill them quickly because their metabolism is so different from a big bird like a redtail in the sense that they burn up food really fast.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They really are cute little birds and all the ladies are fond of them because of this.  my wife loved our kestrel.  even after we released it the bird would still wake us up every morning outside our window for about two weeks wanting food before it moved on.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A kestrel though is the best bird to fly after you have had experience with flying a redtail successfully if you want to fly falcons because kestrels are easy to obtain as they are everywhere during the season.&lt;br /&gt;hope this helps.&lt;br /&gt;god bless you&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-7443028190634110129?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/7443028190634110129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=7443028190634110129&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7443028190634110129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7443028190634110129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/01/red-tailed-hawk-or-american-kestrel.html' title='red tailed hawk or american kestrel?'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-1724317238432866582</id><published>2008-01-19T14:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-19T14:47:14.764-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Miami Legion Park Green Market</title><content type='html'>In it's second week, the new market is very successfull, with many vendors and customers.&lt;br /&gt;It is at the front of the park, and along the entrance.  This week we had many &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;yogic skeletal therapy&lt;/span&gt; clients, almost back to back. High exposure and local neighbors out for a stroll drove most of the foot traffic.  Next week should be better, but this week had about 20 vendors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is held Saturdays, 9 to 3 at City of Miami: Legion Memorial Park 6447 Ne 7th Ave&lt;br /&gt;Miami, FL 33138.  You will see the white canapies, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;along US1, Federal Highway, or Biscayne Boulevard&lt;/span&gt; at 64th.  All three phrases describe the road, but is easy to find. (&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6447+NE+7th+Ave,+Miami,+FL+33138,+USA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=map&amp;ct=title"&gt;Map to Legion Memorial Park&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/legionparkgreenmarket.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-1724317238432866582?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/1724317238432866582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=1724317238432866582&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/1724317238432866582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/1724317238432866582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/01/miami-legion-park-green-market.html' title='Miami Legion Park Green Market'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-2076416931478012290</id><published>2008-01-04T05:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-05T11:30:45.388-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Red Tailed Hawk Corespondence</title><content type='html'>From: Therese Catanach&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Actually, the gyr/pere/merlin is the opposite of inbreeding.  Inbreeding is the mating of closely related organisms like siblings or child to parent etc.  This is rather out-crossing- breeding an organism to something more distantly related than by random chance (such as outside of the species).  Sorry for the textbook start, but this is sort of related to what I research :).  Now on to your questions.  Let me warn you now I have a tendency to drone on and on about some things- falconry and natural selection/speciation are both pet topics of mine so a combination of the 2 is really exciting.  Hopefully I don't bore you and actually answer the questions before getting sidetracked.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I do not feel that loosing these birds is an issue- in the US by law hybrids mus be imprinted or sterilized.  If its been surgically sterilized there there is obviously no chance of reproduction so that's one solution.  Imprinting however is a little more tricky.  In theory birds that are truly imprinted will not court or mate with other birds, instead they recognize humans as being the same as them and therefore court whomever imprinted them.  This is not in reality always the case.  I have heard of imprinted birds (and also birds that are imprinted but also raised around other birds or variations of that theme) court and mate with birds.  So this has the potential for spreading hybrid genes.  I do not thing that this is a big problem though based on the limited numbers of hybrids being flow (and lost) compared to the breeding population of the falcons in question.  So lets say one bird (we'll say a gyr x peregrine) pairs up with a peregrine and successfully raises 4 young that (so they're 3/4 peregrine and 1/4 gyr).  Of those 4, odds are only 1 will survive to sexual maturity and lets say it mates with a peregrine and it too raises 4 young (which are 7/8 pere and 1/8 gyr).  By this point I believe you have diluted the gyr enough that there are very few gyr characteristics (if any) in the young.  Hybrids occur naturally- off hand I can think of a few different instances of pere x prairie hybrids, along with a Swanson's x gray hawk, and also a Swanson's x red tailed hawk.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Next, I don't really think they would make the gene pool weaker.  Natural selection would be in place for hybrids just like any other bird so if it can't cut it in the wild feeding itself and staying away from predators it would get killed and be removed from the gene pool.  And actually the point of hybrids is that they have the best characters from the species in question.  So while I do not thing the wild peregrine needs to be improved in any way (believe me if given the chance I'd be flying a passage pere right now) I don't believe a hybrid is really an inferior bird.  For example, when restoring the peregrine falcon the P-fund used various subspecies of pere for their breeding stock.  Part of the rational I have heard for this is that by doing so they put a variety of genes in the population and then let natural selection work out which of those genes were the best for the niche available.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As far as telemetry I have a Marshall Micro.  They run about 250 bucks.  My receiver is a modified HAM radio (I'm a HAM radio operator also, so I can have and use those) so that too was a couple hundred bucks.  For a nice receiver you'll spend 500 or so bucks easy.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Hope this helps, I could go on and on about this, so if you want another round of torture let me know and I can go into species concepts and the fact that according to some abunch of the falcons should be a single species.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;therese  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/redtaillookingback.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/redtaillookingleft.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dear Theresa&lt;br /&gt;In God we dwell and in His Name we write these lines to you.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;we saw your post in the hunting hawks email group and are always looking for falconers that never tire of talking about falconry!&lt;br /&gt;You had mentioned that you had a gyr/peregrine/Merlin&lt;br /&gt;what is your opinion on all of this inbreeding of falcons?  our first sponsor back in 1987 is very much against it as he feels that when these birds are lost and end up in the wild that they are messing up the natural gene pool of wild falcons as they will ultimately mate with  wild falcon and make the gene pool weaker which offsets the natural balance of life, kind of like gmos, (genetically modified organisms) which we try to avoid as much as possible.  what is your opinion of this?&lt;br /&gt;we look forward to hearing from you.  Also it was interesting to hear that you have made so much of your equipment except bells and telemetry.  what kind of telemetry did you purchase?  we have heard the least expensive is the r10 unit receiver for under $300.00 on ebay.&lt;br /&gt;god bless you&lt;br /&gt;Peace To All, Life To All, Love To All&lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam&lt;br /&gt;Humbly Yours,&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh &amp; Sadhana Kaur Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-2076416931478012290?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/2076416931478012290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=2076416931478012290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2076416931478012290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2076416931478012290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2008/01/redtailed-hawk-corespondence.html' title='Red Tailed Hawk Corespondence'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-1295778330812672219</id><published>2007-12-15T10:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-30T02:58:25.910-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wilton Manors Green Market Massage</title><content type='html'>A new event on Saturdays, Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa will be there weekly, untill further notice.&lt;br /&gt;Kundalini treatments are so relaxing, everyone can be helped by them.&lt;br /&gt;Teach Kundalini in Fort Lauderdale?&lt;br /&gt;Of course.&lt;br /&gt;Visit out site or call, we would love to share and work with you.&lt;br /&gt;studio 954 237 4186&lt;br /&gt;cell 954 756 4509&lt;br /&gt;http://healthandhappinessinc.com&lt;br /&gt;It is just starting so there were only 8 vendors, but it was an interesting mix of local people.&lt;br /&gt;A metaphyical shop owner, and a produce man had a steady stream of people pulling up, once the word got out about his extreme low prices.&lt;br /&gt;I bought some fruit from him and honestly felt guilty about not paying enough. &lt;br /&gt;The natural Richardson Historic Park &amp; Preserve setting with super tall royal palms is excellent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com/wiltondrivemarket2.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-1295778330812672219?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/1295778330812672219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=1295778330812672219&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/1295778330812672219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/1295778330812672219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/12/wilton-manors-green-market-massage_15.html' title='Wilton Manors Green Market Massage'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-6312206269018099118</id><published>2007-11-22T06:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T06:06:26.507-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini Foot Massage</title><content type='html'>In 1983 I asked my spiritual teacher Yogi Bhajan just what he thought would be my best contribution to mankind as I had worked in many family businesses that 3HO, the Happy Healthy Holy Organization that he had started to promote the teachings of the kundalini yoga life style that he had taught us, (all of his students since 1968) and he told me that I should do massage as I was a healer.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;He mentioned that I had been massaging his feet since 1971 and that he had always enjoyed this and that I had healing hands so this is what I concentrated my energies on since then.  Ever since my first kundalini yoga class in Rochester, New York where I grew up with my first Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Maha Atma Singh, who is one of the greatest kundalini yoga student teachers having studied directly under the Master, I experienced both kundalini yoga and massage and it was then and there that I knew what it was that I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  Teach Yoga and Massage.  These two experiences were the most profound impacts on my life other than music which I had been introduced to by my parents at the age of 12 starting with the piano.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Although I never really practised Massage Therapy professionally until 1983 I continued to study and pracitise under any and all conditions and mostly on other ashram members while we worked in the first natural foods vegetarian restaurant on the east coast, The Golden Temple Conscious Cookery in Washington D.C. in 1971 where we used to put in 15 hour days constantly on our feet, cooking, serving, cleaning all day and night for years. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; While practicing kundalini yoga living in an ashram community was the main focus and purpose of our being there, our livelihood was our restaurant which paid our room and board and although our yoga practise sustained us through some very heavy working conditions, massage was also a necessity to maintain focus, a positive and serviceful attitude and above all it just plain felt good and made the whole experience a whole lot easier on our physical, mental and spiritual bodies!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since I had the &lt;b&gt;blessing of massage Yogi Bhajan's feet&lt;/b&gt; which I just started doing out of love for him because I had seen others doing it and thought to myself, "well if they can do it, I can do it!"  It was such a wonderful experience since Yogi Bhajan was always counselling his students even while getting his feet massaged!  Just to be in his presence and aura was such an amazing experience as one after another of his students would come up to him for his guidance in between his lectures and classes where ever he would go all over the world.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since I had moved to the 3HO Foundation's East Coast Regional Center in Washington D.C. from Rochester, New York for my kundalini yoga teacher training where I was supposed to only be for only 40 days before being sent to Brussels, Belgium, (I ended up being there for at least 4  months before leaving for Belgium where I was being sent to help open up another Golden Temple Consious Cookery and 3HO kundalini Yoga Ashram in 1972).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yogi Bhajan used to travel to 3 cities a week at the height of his carreer and used to sleep only 2 hours a day, a schedule which he kept for 25 years.  He felt that because he was master of kundalini yoga that he could overcome the stress of traveling but we all knew that it would catch up with him sooner or later although he really didn't care because he always said that he was just a postman who had come to deliver so many letters and then he would quit.  He also used to say that he was a garbage cleaner &lt;br /&gt; because he used to have to clean the garbage from everyone's subcounsious and conscious mind and that it was his karma to come to the west and teach us neurotic westerners because in his past life, he was a Hindu Brahman who refused to teach one student who came to him seeking knowledge.  He used to say that when he first came to this country that everyone that he met smelled so bad from their diets of meat and what ever else junk food that he could not stand within 9 feet of anyone.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Foot Massage however became one of my specialties as I enjoyed massaging his feet so much because I could just sit in his presence and bathe in his magnetic aura which was so powerfull that once you entered within 9 feet of it you simply could not leave.  At least this was my experience and I would do whatever I could just to stay at his feet massaging them as long as he would allow me to do so.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Many times he would just ask me to simply place my hands on certain areas of his head or shoulders or feet as he told me that I had healing energy and that this was all I needed to do to help him although I am sure that the foot massage that I would give him didn't hurt either.  I remember for many years that I would sit there and give him as much healing energy as I could and would use as much pressure in an attempt to break up any crystals or calcification along the 72,000 nerve endings in his feet while he was either on the phone doing business or counselling students and he never even acknowledged my presence.  It was like I wasn't even there because he would never even react to all the pressure that I would use.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The only reason that I could come up with that he did not react to all of the pressure that I was using was because so many of his students would also take every opportunity to massage his feet so it seemed that wherever he went teaching, lecturing, doing business that there was always someone there massaging his feet.  It had become like an institution that there should always be someone there massaging his feet in between his lectures and classes during breaks.  Someone would always be there with a towel and a bowl of water with lemon juice and flowers to bathe his feet in and there was never a shortage of foot cream or oil to massage him with.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It was not until a few years before his passing that one day while I was massaging his feet after so many years of never even hearing a peep out of him regarding any pain that he might be feeling in the nerve endings or reflexology points  from the &lt;b&gt;yogic application of foot massage using around 25 pounds of pressure&lt;/b&gt;; (try telling this to a western reflexologist and they will literally drop the phone as you speak of how much pressure we use in yogic foot massage) that he finally gave me a look like he was going to kick me if i didn't lighten up on the pressure that I was  using.  I finally realized that all of the travelling that he had been doing was starting to catch up with him.  he still didn't care though.  he just wanted to reach as many students in his lifetime as he could to releive their suffering.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;He always used to say that his greatest strength was his compassion and that his greatest weakness was also his compassion.  His ability to uplift any human being that he came in contact with was amazing.  It didn't matter who they were, how much money they had, or what their social status was, he would always tell us that it was our job to be like a forklift and lift up people everywhere we went.  He literally would take us from the mud and raised each one of us like his own son or daughter to prepare us to become the teachers and healers of the aquarian age.............&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/goldguru.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;god bless you&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-6312206269018099118?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/6312206269018099118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=6312206269018099118&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/6312206269018099118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/6312206269018099118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/11/kundalini-foot-massage.html' title='Kundalini Foot Massage'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-2274950552493424602</id><published>2007-11-07T12:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T12:34:11.033-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Long Chant</title><content type='html'>The long chant is the ashtang mantra with 8 vibrations.  It creates the soil in which one germinates the biij (pronounced beige like siege or seed mantra of sat nam, truth is god's name.&lt;br /&gt;The long chant is one of the most powerful mantras that yogi bhajan has  ever taught us and it creates tremendous peace of mind when you resonate the sound vibrations and pronounce each one of these 8 vibrations correctly:  Ek (one) Ong (creator) Kar (creation) Sat (truth) Nam (name) Siri (great) WhaHe (infinite, wow, beyond words to describe) Guru (wisdom)&lt;br /&gt;The timing of the mantra is exact as in every aspect of kundalini yoga as taught by yogi ji.  You take a deep breath and then chant a short  but powerful Ek and then with half of the breath that you have left you chant Ong and Kar with the other half.  Then take another deep breath and chant a short but powerful Sat and then a long Nam and at the end a very short Siri (r is rolled like a Spanish r) and then take another breath and  chant a short Wha and then a longer Heeeeeeeeeee  and then a fairly short Guruuuuu.  Try it with a CD for the  7 minutes that are recorded and you will enjoy it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/mayfairgood2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;peace to all, life to all, love to all&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-2274950552493424602?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/2274950552493424602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=2274950552493424602&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2274950552493424602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2274950552493424602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/11/long-chant.html' title='Long Chant'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-8861047302458427635</id><published>2007-10-27T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-27T09:17:36.803-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cymatic Therapy</title><content type='html'>Dear ones,&lt;br /&gt;in god we dwell and in his name we write these lines to you.&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;Here are some attached  pictures of cymatic therapy in Barranquilla, Columbia, which is where my wife Sadhana Kaur was born and raised.   We also offer cymatic therapy, skeletal yogic massage therapy, kundalini yoga and meditation here  in our studio in hollywood, florida and at the Farmers Markets and have also attached some pictures of them for your reference as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/cymatickids1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We just wanted to share these pictues with you as they bring tears to our eyes knowing that these poor little children of God who have nothing are receiving our beloved cymatic therapy sessions which we believe to be the future of medicine as well as what we hold most dear to us:  yoga and meditation.  It was a joy for us to see these pictures and also a joy to share them with you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/cymatickids2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For more information about cymatic therapy there are two websites that you can go to that sell these instruments.  If you are interested please contact us and we will share them with you or you can go online and look for anything having to do with cymatics.  We recommend that you look for any information about cymatics that has to do with Dr. Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D.,Ph.D.,D.O. who is the original creator of the cymatic instrument who studied under the late Dr. Hans Jenny from Switzerland.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Peace to All, Life to All, Love to All&lt;br /&gt;God bless you&lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam&lt;br /&gt;Humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh &amp; sadhana kaur khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-8861047302458427635?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/cy2.html' title='Cymatic Therapy'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/8861047302458427635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=8861047302458427635&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8861047302458427635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8861047302458427635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/10/cymatic-therapy.html' title='Cymatic Therapy'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-5620703056094323863</id><published>2007-10-12T19:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T19:03:12.465-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Move to the right location</title><content type='html'>Now that you are healing yourself with the yoga and raising your vibration and projection, it is important to surround yourself with good vibes.  The time will come when it is right to leave that location and we pray that it will be soon. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When we had an ashram in Wash. D.C. we lived there for quite a while as we grew and finally it became apparent that we had to leave because of the rats, crime, pollution, etc, but it all happened gradually as our collective consciousness grew, changed and became higher.  Our standards of living increased as our consciousness increased.  Higher Consciousness is something that not only includes spirituality and being aware of your spirit and relating to it and feeding your soul which is hungry but also living in Higher Consciousness requires the correct environment in which to allow the changes in consciousness to develop.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Monetary values change as consciousness changes.  Prosperity Consciousness is Higher Consciousness  because it is an expansion of the projection of the individual mind unto infinity and that is the reason why Yogi Bhajan taught us for the first ten years about meditation and yoga to help us heal ourselves, physically and mentally and then he started teaching us prosperity consciousness because it becomes more obviously important for one to become prosperous materially as one progresses spiritually.  Yogi Bhajan was such a master that he was able to teach us the importance of this.  If you look at any other spiritual discipline, you may or may not find this.  As spritually aware people who are also conscious of our physical health we must balance all aspects of life.  that is what yoga means to find the balance in all things.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We meet many people here in south florida and from all over the world who have completely missed this point.  It is not enough to be conscious of your physical health and eat healthy like the raw food vegan people. Every aspect of the self must be balanced to be healthy, happy and holy.  This is why the technology of kundalini yogs is so powerfull because it balances all of the ten spiritual bodies.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We all have blocks or weaknesses in specific spiritual bodies which hold us back from experiencing our true spiritual self and  destiny but we have the technology to overcome these weaknesses.  All it takes is recognizing our weaknesses and then putting in the effort to become stronger.  There are so many simple techniques that Yogi Bhajan has taught us that will help us in any situation that we find ourselves.  It is just a question of applying those techniques.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Problem is that as human beings we are basically lazy and wait until the pressure that is coming down on is so great that we have to move, change, or do something to get out of that pain or suffering.  That is why when we are suffering and in pain we pray.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We are all here on this planet to help each other.  We all have specific strengths. gifts, destinies, paths and weakenesses within our ten spiritual bodies which are all different.   When we sometimes think about the gifts that we have been given through Yogi Bhajan and the consciousness that we have developed through his teachings, we think that why can't everyone just get it?  It is so simple!  But there are so many conscious, sub conscious and unconscious blocks that are in the way that keep us from experiencing the joy, ecstacy, happiness, prosperity that as human beings deserve and which are our birth rights.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sadhana becomes the most powerfull and healing act in our lives as we progress on this spiritual journey.  Not doing Sadhana is creating distance to our destiny.  It is the change, the catalyst, the fuel that keeps us going higher and higher but at the same time keeps us grounded and humble because the higher we get spiritually the more humble we become as we get closer to infinity, the source, origin and the ultimate goal of our lives.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Just as there are many rivers that lead to the ocean there are many paths that lead to infinity and union with that infinity and  kundalini yoga defines these  paths like a road map that gives you alternate routes.  Do you want to take the slow and scenic route  or do you want to take the most direct route that takes you there safely and quickly?  This route is kundalini yoga!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-5620703056094323863?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/5620703056094323863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=5620703056094323863&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5620703056094323863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5620703056094323863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/10/move-to-right-location.html' title='Move to the right location'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-71198837391227474</id><published>2007-10-01T02:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T02:14:48.487-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Benti Chaupai</title><content type='html'>In God we dwell and in His Name we write these lines to you.  &lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;You will not believe this one.  Benti Chaupai is so powerful that it will smite your enemies ( your neighbors) into the ground&lt;br /&gt;Don't let the movie effects of the horses, the midi computerized sounds and the drums throw you.  This is very powerful stuff.  just focus on the sound current of the words be recited and nothing else.  The rest is just for show to try to make it interesting and appealing to a wider audience that may not listen to it or relate to it if it is not in a format like this.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We could send you clips of western Sikhs like ourselves reciting these baanis but very few if any of us have had the experience and dedication and devotion to recite  correctly in the proper naad by studying gurmukhi, the language of the Sikh gurus derived from Sanskrit.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This is however one of our specialties and that is why we made that raga sadhana cd.  although it has sangeet kaur who is a western Sikh and student of the Siri Singh Sahib and who produced this CD at the request of  Yogi Bhajan, it was recorded and composed and also sung with the accompaniment of Sikh ragis, (musicians and singers) much like cantors in the Jewish religion, from India who have studied the science of gurbani kirtan which is the science of naad yoga and the science of raga combined all into one very powerful experience.&lt;br /&gt;Peace To All, Life To All, Love To All&lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam &lt;br /&gt;Humbly Yours,&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh &amp; Sadhana Kaur Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-71198837391227474?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/71198837391227474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=71198837391227474&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/71198837391227474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/71198837391227474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/10/benti-chaupyi.html' title='Benti Chaupai'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-5314959733233002103</id><published>2007-09-14T08:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T08:53:06.114-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Castellano TV Yoga Narration</title><content type='html'>dear ones,&lt;br /&gt;In God we dwell and in His Name we write these lines to you.  &lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We wanted to let you know  that we will be on Channel 22 aka Mega TV's Health Show this coming Sunday at 6:00p.m. for 8 minutes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sadhana Kaur&lt;/span&gt;, my lovely wife will be narrating in Castellano, (Spanish to us Gringos)  a class  that she has taught in &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kundalini Yoga&lt;/span&gt; as taught by Yogi Bhajan to our two children, Amrit kaur (11 years old)  and our son, Guru Prakash Singh ( 6 years old) (four minutes in duration).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sadhana kaur will also narrate in Castellano  as I demonstrate and perform &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Skeletal Kundalini Yoga Therapy&lt;/span&gt; also as taught to me  by &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Yogi Bhajan&lt;/span&gt;, on our daughter also 4 minutes in duration.  The background for this video recording was Fair Child Tropical Garden with 81 acres of beautiful Natural habitat for wildlife and a classroom without walls for students interested in studying plant biology.  Please see the attached file to this email.   The website for Fair &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Child Tropical Garden&lt;/span&gt; is: www.fairchildgarden.org &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We hope that you enjoy this presentation as we hope to do more God willing and will pass on this information to those that you care about .  Mega TV has  a million and a half Hispanic speaking viewers in the south Florida area alone so we are very happy to be promoting these two wonderful healing technologies to as many people as possible in hopes of spreading the message of health and happiness by our beloved spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan aka Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa  Yogi Ji.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peace To All, Life To All, Love To All&lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam &lt;br /&gt;Humbly Yours,&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh &amp; Sadhana Kaur Khalsa&lt;br /&gt;Health And Happiness Org / Guru Arjan Dev Ashram&lt;br /&gt;Certified Therapy Sessions &amp; Classes / Practitioner &amp; Teacher Training&lt;br /&gt;Cymatics &amp; Bio Energetic Medicine as taught by Dr. Sir Peter Guy Manners&lt;br /&gt;Skeletal Therapy/Kundalini Yoga/Tantric Numerology/Ayurved, &lt;br /&gt;as taught by Yogi Bhajan,Ph.D.  MA33543&lt;br /&gt;Gatka, The Sikh Martial Art From India as taught by Ustad Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa&lt;br /&gt;East/West Kirtan Performances &amp; Recordings&lt;br /&gt;www.healthandhappinessinc.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-5314959733233002103?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/5314959733233002103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=5314959733233002103&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5314959733233002103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5314959733233002103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/09/castellano-tv-yoga-narration.html' title='Castellano TV Yoga Narration'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-2150930129842691777</id><published>2007-09-07T17:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T17:32:48.241-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sadhana Kaur Khalsa Kundalini Yoga Television Broadcast</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/megatvlogo.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you this Sunday for yoga class at Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  We made a video for the Spanish Broadcasting System and Mega TV Network at Fairchild Tropical Garden.  Their show is on Mega TV, channel 22 on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. Check it out this Sunday if you are near a TV as we will be on next Sunday at 6:00 p.m. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/spanishbroadcastinglogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-2150930129842691777?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/2150930129842691777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=2150930129842691777&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2150930129842691777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2150930129842691777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/09/sadhana-kaur-khalsa-kundalini-yoga.html' title='Sadhana Kaur Khalsa Kundalini Yoga Television Broadcast'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-5524823531534310402</id><published>2007-08-25T15:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T15:26:31.282-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fort Lauderdale Yoga Class</title><content type='html'>Come Sunday for yoga class. (12th avenue at Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)&lt;br /&gt;It doesn't matter if it takes a week, a month or whatever, just come.  We need to establish the energy there with a powerful vibration of kundalini yoga.  It will help everyone including us.  When you chant, chant from the navel.  Really project the vibrations out there.  Don't worry about anyone hearing you.  WHO CARES?  Let them hear you.  They need our healing energy.  We want them to hear you.  It is very important that our presence there as kundalini yoga teachers be known.  We Wish that we could put up a big long tall yogi balloon, do fireworks, sky lights, the whole thing.  The more people feel, see, hear and know of our presence there the better!&lt;br /&gt;keep up&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/lasolasmarket5.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-5524823531534310402?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com' title='Fort Lauderdale Yoga Class'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/5524823531534310402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=5524823531534310402&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5524823531534310402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/5524823531534310402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/08/fort-lauderdale-yoga-class.html' title='Fort Lauderdale Yoga Class'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-539000610975367904</id><published>2007-07-28T11:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-28T11:39:32.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Las Olas Market Kundalini Massage and Yoga Classes, now every Sunday</title><content type='html'>The twice monthly farmers market, is now &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;every Sunday&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Instead of using a parking lot like in the picture below, &lt;br /&gt;they mangers will &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;close down 12 Avenue at Las Olas Boulevard&lt;/span&gt;, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A varied assortment of health related vendors make up the successful gathering. It is nice to see friendships and cooperation building among the regular booth operators.&lt;br /&gt;The picturesque street is perfect for stroll, and casual browsing, at the high end shops, or the market where produce, soaps, fresh breads, and esoteric health products, are making it a winner.&lt;br /&gt;The vendors see the facial expression on the massage clients when they get up off the table, and think maybe they will try a jogic massage treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tought by the master of Kundalini yoga (Jogi Bhajan) skeletal therapy, is practiced at the&lt;br /&gt;convienent market evey sunday.  This ancient therapy, is thousands of years old, and is not just mechanical movements, but requires a lot of energy, and intuitive skill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/newlasolasmarket3.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-539000610975367904?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/539000610975367904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=539000610975367904&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/539000610975367904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/539000610975367904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/07/las-olas-market-kundalini-massage-and.html' title='Las Olas Market Kundalini Massage and Yoga Classes, now every Sunday'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-4167029913536315432</id><published>2007-07-23T19:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T20:00:36.576-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Baba Siri Chand</title><content type='html'>Dear Reader:&lt;br /&gt;In God we dwell and in His Name we write these lines to you.  &lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The best thing to do if someone is bothering you is to chant the mantra:  &lt;br /&gt;Baba Siri Chand a lakh, Baba Siri Chand a rakh  &lt;br /&gt;this mantra invokes the blessing of Baba Siri Chand 10,000 fold&lt;br /&gt;Baba Siri Chand was the son of Guru Nanak and is known as one of the most powerful yogis that ever lived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/babasirichand.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It is said that you only need to focus your energy on who you are sending this mantra to and recite it only once because Baba Siri Chand was such a powerful yogi that only once is necessary and he gets insulted if you chant it more than once because it is not necessary.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have a friend in new mexico that is a chiropractor who works with  a lawyer because he is always getting clients that are in car accidents and need his treatment but their insurance companies are always trying to prove that his clients are not hurt and do not need treatment so he chants this mantra in court all the time with much success against these snakes who try to prove that his clients are not hurt or in pain and will have serious health problems in the future if their injuries are not treated.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yogi bhajan once told us a story about how this mantra worked for him.  He once went to meet a well known Yoga Master in India who he had wanted to meet for some time.  When he went to his house and started taking off his shoes the master said no, do not take off your shoes, just come in as we have been waiting for you to come for so long and are honored by your presence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then when Yogi Bhajan went to sit down he saw a beautiful chair that was higher than any other chair and knew that to be the master's chair so Yogi Bhajan went to sit in a lower chair since he regarded himself as a student wanting to learn from the master.  The master said no you must sit on my chair and pointed to the beautifully adorned chair for him to sit down. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now this was highly irregular and most strange to Yogi Bhajan, but he did as he was told and the Master sat in a smaller and lower chair.  No sooner had Yogi Bhajan sat down when he began to feel heat coming from the chair which became more and more unbearable.  Yogi Bhajan knew immediately that the master was using his yogic powers to do this to test him so Yogi Bhajan chanted the above mantra silently. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No sooner had Yogi Bhajan finished chanting the mantra only once, the Master started yelling and screaming, jumped up and ran out of the room!  Chanting this mantra sends the energy back to the person who is trying to bother you in any way whether it is psychic or not.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Baba Siri Chand lived in the forests and lived to be 400 years old and never aged beyond 18.  He started his own sect of followers called Udasi.  We know that for a fact that Baba Siri Chand lived this long because there was a dialogue recorded between him and the fourth guru, known as the guru of healing miracles, Guru Ram Das. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The fourth Guru had a very long beard and used to disguise himself as a beggar at night so that he could wash the feet of the poor and no one recognized him. Guru Ram Das was an orphan who used to sell boiled wheat berries on the streets of India. Once when Baba Siri Chand went to meet Guru Ram Das, he asked him, why do you have such a long beard?  Guru Ram Das answered him, "just to dust your feet Baba Ji".  Then Guru Ram Das began dusting Baba Siri Chand's feet with his beard.  Baba Siri Chand then said to Guru Ram Das , "Now I know why you are the fourth guru."  "Your humility is beyond this earth." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;You are now beginning a new chapter in your life with all of the kundalini yoga that you are doing and you are starting to become more sensitive to your environments and the people in them which is normal.  Soon it may be unbearable for you to stay there if the energy continues the way it is now.  so you may need to make a decision at that point about what is most important to you.  moving  or doing something to clean up your neighborhood to create the peace of mind that is necessary to you for your own well being.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When I first starting doing kundalini yoga and I realized how much better I started feeling and how I began strengthening my will and became more conscious and aware of my thoughts, actions, words etc. I began to realize that i wanted to experience more of this lifestyle so i moved to live with another student of kundalini yoga so that we could practise yoga together for a while.  Finally we both moved into a 3ho kundalini yoga ashram that we all helped start so that we could all get together in the morning and do sadhana.  This was in Rochester New York in 1970 and I was 16.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;One of the students helped to purchase this beautiful large house which we all helped to fix up and called it Guru Ram Das Ashram.&lt;br /&gt;It was really beautiful.  We all had jobs and helped pay the mortgage by paying rent and we were in heaven.  Then one day the director of the east coast regional ashram in Washington D.C. came to visit us and told us that they needed someone to go to Belgium and help a new 3ho kundalini yoga teacher there start an ashram and vegetarian natural foods restaurant.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since my father was from France and I speak French, I volunteered.  I was first sent to Ahimsa Ashram in Washington D.C. where i lived for 4 months preparing myself by working in the Golden Temple Conscious Cookery which later became an international chain of vegetarian natural food restaurants.  I lived in Belgium helping this yoga student teacher there for 6 months and then was sent to our ashram in Amsterdam Holland where I  also lived for 6 months working in their Golden Temple Conscious Cookery Restaurant.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;While there I had the opportunity to visit our London England Ashram and work at that Golden Temple Restaurant for a month or so.  I finally returned to the states and then ended up in our Ashram in Ottawa, Canada which also had a Golden Temple Restaurant where i worked for  6 months or so before moving back to Washington D.C. to the ashram there which has now moved to Herndon Virginia and has grown to a very large and beautiful ashram with a few hundred western yogis/yoga teachers, sikhs and it is also a multicultural ashram as there are many sikhs from India that attend that gurudwara service on Sundays.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;From there I moved to our International center in New Mexico which is the mother ashram of 3ho and lived there for 5 years and then Yogi bhajan sent me to England where i lived for 5 years and then moved to live with another student of Yogi bhajan who was also a sikh from India, in Vancouver BC Canada for a few months before moving back to Espanola for another 5 years where I met my wife and then we moved here with the intention of living here in the winter and in new mexico in the summer.  We hope to return to new mexico for summer solstice and with god's grace purchase  a summer home there.  You are welcome to come if you like.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Peace To All, Life To All, Love To All&lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam &lt;br /&gt;Humbly Yours,&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh &amp; Sadhana Kaur Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-4167029913536315432?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/4167029913536315432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=4167029913536315432&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/4167029913536315432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/4167029913536315432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/07/baba-siri-chand.html' title='Baba Siri Chand'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-6065322263385093537</id><published>2007-06-29T16:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-30T20:19:33.036-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yoga is a Forklift</title><content type='html'>Well, let us take a fact. You want to become attractive. Then you can attract devils and you can attract demons and you can attract angels and you can attract good people. You're out in the market for attraction. I want you to be out in the market for uplifting, elevating -- not attracting. &lt;br /&gt;What they call that thing that goes in and lifts everything? (Answer: Forklift.) Huh? Forklift! Teacher of Kundalini Yoga is a forklift. It uplifts its spirit and put's it in the rollers so it can keep quiet. That's what you have to do. And I also will say, there's no rule. Just sit down and honestly just chant "Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo" and just if you know little alphabets, it'll come through. Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/weliftpeopleup.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-6065322263385093537?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/6065322263385093537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=6065322263385093537&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/6065322263385093537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/6065322263385093537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/06/yoga-is-forklift.html' title='Yoga is a Forklift'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-7548600406511626387</id><published>2007-06-01T18:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-01T18:21:23.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Car Mantra</title><content type='html'>The mantra to recite before you get in your car and drive is:&lt;br /&gt;ad gur ay nama he&lt;br /&gt;jugad gur ay nama he&lt;br /&gt;sat gur ay nama he&lt;br /&gt;siri guru dev eh nama he&lt;br /&gt;wahe guru ji ka khalsa&lt;br /&gt;wahe guru ji ki fatahe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it means:&lt;br /&gt; I praise the creator who was in the beginning&lt;br /&gt;I praise the creator who was throughout the ages&lt;br /&gt;I praise the true creator&lt;br /&gt;I praise the great divine creator&lt;br /&gt;the pure ones belong to god&lt;br /&gt;victory belongs to god&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;First you get in the car, adjust mirrors,seat and whatever else&lt;br /&gt;then recite the mantra&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then put the keys in the ignition and turn it on.&lt;br /&gt;This will give you nine feet of space all around your vehicle to protect you.&lt;br /&gt;it also gives you time.&lt;br /&gt;So time and space is the blessing of this mantra&lt;br /&gt;share it with anyone that you care about as it takes only about 30 seconds to recite and is free insurance that could save your life.&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-7548600406511626387?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/7548600406511626387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=7548600406511626387&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7548600406511626387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7548600406511626387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/06/car-mantra.html' title='Car Mantra'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-4255553005617917935</id><published>2007-05-22T12:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T12:21:28.984-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Tremendous Technology of Kundalini Yoga</title><content type='html'>When you have &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;studied under the master of kundalini yoga&lt;/span&gt; anything else that you read is just boring.  It is all just an attempt to understand kundalini but because they have not experienced it yet they write in left brain terms with so much intellect and there is no spiritual experience in their words.  As you continue with kundalini yoga you will have many of these funny story experiences. It is just the nature of kundalini but all of these experiences will teach you something and the message is always an opportunity to learn more about yourself and how others will interact with you as your consciousness begins to change and your awareness starts to rise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kirlean photos&lt;/span&gt; are nice to do but we wouldn't place a whole lot of emphasis on them.  They are fun and cool to do but, just channel your energy into keeping up with kundalini yoga on a daily basis and you will see a very positive and dramatic change in that photo in a year.  These kinds of things like kirlean photos are really just cheap gimmicks and sell well but in reality they don't do anything .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you have a strong sadhana and you practise kundalini yoga every day you will know that your aura is radiant because you will feel, see, experience this from your interactions in your personal relationships and interactions with people and your success in business relationships.  It will affect your environment as well and these things are all karma.  Karma is your immediate environment, relationships, all that is around you, what is happening to you right now, your external relationships.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  Soul is your inner peace, your inner relationship.  Karma is nothing but a mirror of your internal relationship with your soul, your peace of mind and inner happiness. Happiness is not something that should influence you from the outside.  It comes from within you.  It is a constant &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ability to be happy with every situation that comes from God because everything comes from God and everything goes to God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of these things are fixable with kundalini yoga.  With the tremendous technology of kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, we can fix any of these problems.  Just keep up with your practise.  The more you do and the longer you do it, the better you are going to start feeling about yourself and your environment and the more that your relationships are going to improve and your life is going to change for the better.  You have the best teachers available to you, use us and we will help you with these problems in anyway  that we can with kundalini yoga. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;god bless you&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;peace to all, life to all,love to all&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-4255553005617917935?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com' title='The Tremendous Technology of Kundalini Yoga'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/4255553005617917935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=4255553005617917935&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/4255553005617917935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/4255553005617917935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/05/tremendous-technology-of-kundalini-yoga.html' title='The Tremendous Technology of Kundalini Yoga'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-8021594316691506672</id><published>2007-05-12T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-12T16:50:26.543-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini Skeletal Massage Treatment at Mayfair Coconut Grove Miami Florida</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lRgq1gNrh6w"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lRgq1gNrh6w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just take us1 south all the way straight through downtown Miami, through Brickell past the Miami sea aquarium and Key Biscayne and then your next left is Miami Ave at the light and get in the left lane &lt;br /&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;Make a left there and go past the planetarium and go all the way to the park on your left hand side.  when you get to the park on the left start looking for Mary Street on your right.&lt;br /&gt;make a right on Mary Street and then make your first left on Grand Ave and you will pass by the Promenade Shoppes of Mayfair where we will be set up towards the back near the fountain.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you keep going past the promenade shoppes and make your first right and then again your next first right you will pass right by us and the fountain as you pass the fountain make a right into the underground parking lot and park down there somewhere near the steps and elevator which will bring you right up in front of where we will be set up with our tent. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Keep your parking ticket and you can take it to the security desk of the mall and they will stamp it for you so that you do not have to pay for parking as it costs six dollars for the day.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you get lost call us on either of our cell phones:  Guru jiwan singh:  954-756-4509 or Sadhana Kaur:  954-756-4509 &lt;br /&gt;See you there.&lt;br /&gt;God bless you&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-8021594316691506672?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/8021594316691506672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=8021594316691506672&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8021594316691506672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8021594316691506672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/05/kundalini-skeletal-massage-therapy-at.html' title='Kundalini Skeletal Massage Treatment at Mayfair Coconut Grove Miami Florida'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-3076564088622963352</id><published>2007-05-02T16:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T16:50:34.820-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"The only Farmer's Market with Yoga."</title><content type='html'>The new Coconut Grove Market promotional flyer, features Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa.&lt;br /&gt;The caption says "get a massage".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/farmersflyer2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, on the promenade, at Mayfair.&lt;br /&gt;That is located in Coconut Grove, Miami.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/mapofgrove.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh &amp; 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Sun., 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. &lt;br /&gt;1201 Los Olas, 2nd Sun. &amp; 1101 Los Olas 4th Sun., 9:00a.m. - 4:00p.m.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-3076564088622963352?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/3076564088622963352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=3076564088622963352&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/3076564088622963352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/3076564088622963352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/05/only-farmers-market-with-yoga.html' title='&quot;The only Farmer&apos;s Market with Yoga.&quot;'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-2838440679059877271</id><published>2007-04-27T10:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T08:20:16.257-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini and Sex?</title><content type='html'>I watched a youtube.com video about kundalini sexual massage in the abdomen area. The woman sounds and projects like a man.  She really needs to balance her own energy which is way too masculine.  Her energy is not spiritual, she dresses very scantily and sexy which is not what raising the kundalini is all about.  People who relate kundalini with sexual energy and &lt;b&gt;emphasize sexual energy with kundalini&lt;/b&gt; are really lost souls.  Just another excuse to talk about and promote sex to the western world to make money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although we mentioned that kundalini yoga does not have anything to do with sexual energy, what we mean to say is that unfortunately people try to prostitute the raising of the kundalini with a sexual connection which is false.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="navy" size="3"&gt;The kundalini energy is sexual energy which is rising above the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh chakras up into the crown chakra which is the experience of ecstacy beyond words to describe.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You cannot describe God and raising the kundalini is the purpose of any spiritual discipline or religion regardless of whether anyone agrees with this or not.  Once you raise your kundalini up into the higher centers of consciousness there is nothing else to do but keep up, and help everyone else around you to do the same and have the same experience.  It is like going to a good restaurant or a good movie, you just want to share this wonderful experience with others.  It is in this sharing that you experience even more spritual growth.  Not by pushing your religion or way of life on others but inspiring them to have the experience of kundalini which is the highest experience that a human being can relate to.  We become totally and holistically aware and awake, intuitive and blessed.&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-2838440679059877271?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/2838440679059877271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=2838440679059877271&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2838440679059877271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2838440679059877271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/04/kundalini-and-sex_27.html' title='Kundalini and Sex?'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-2446613373461707413</id><published>2007-04-15T12:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T04:29:32.174-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cymatic Therapy at Expo</title><content type='html'>Consider attending the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;New Life Expo&lt;/span&gt; today at the war memorial, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  There are lots of interesting things going on there.  It certainly is not just about yoga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa during a cymatic therapy treatment.&lt;br /&gt;It rebalance the harmonic frequency of the cells of that structure and thus promote the healing of the area without harmfull drugs or surgery&lt;br /&gt;The sound vibration emitter is being used on this woman's neck area.&lt;br /&gt;Notice the digital console unit in the backround.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/cymaticneck.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cymatics &amp; Bio Energetic Medicine as taught by Dr. Sir Peter Guy Manners&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh is the only Certified Doctor of Cymatic Bio Energetic Medicine in Florida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/newlifeexpo.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Start of StatCounter Code --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://c24.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=2448067&amp;amp;java=0&amp;amp;security=9677404f&amp;amp;invisible=0" alt="website stats" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- End of StatCounter Code --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-2446613373461707413?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com/cy2.html' title='Cymatic Therapy at Expo'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/2446613373461707413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=2446613373461707413&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2446613373461707413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/2446613373461707413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/04/cymatic-therapy-at-expo.html' title='Cymatic Therapy at Expo'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-8140367763744760845</id><published>2007-04-10T20:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T20:02:12.607-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spiritual Name</title><content type='html'>Yogi Bhajan's student Nirinjan Kaur who he had taught the science of giving spiritual names before he passed .  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you are interested in a spiritual name you can email Nirinjan Kaur and she will send you one if you like.  She requires information and some kind of a donation but it is well worth it because you will then have a spiritual name which will help you relate to your spiritual destiny.  Perhaps it is in your destiny to become the spiritual son of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;You will not be alone as there are many of us who have done just this.  We were picked up out of the mud by Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi Ji and were given &lt;b&gt;another chance to be human beings&lt;/b&gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="navy" size="3"&gt;It is a commitment because you will have to change your name legally eventually and use this name always but let us explain more about it so that you can understand why this is so important for you and for anyone. First of all we need to understand what is in a name. What happens when someone calls your name? You must answer to that name. Your name is your destiny because when you answer to your name it implies what you have to live up to.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In order not to create distance to your destiny we have a spiritual name so that when someone calls us by that name we answer to it and by doing so must live up to it which helps us to realize, live up to and create our reality and identity.  &lt;b&gt;Identity theft&lt;/b&gt; has become a number one crime these days, but how many people are interested in stealing the identity of someone with a name like guru jiwan singh khalsa?  The weight of this name is too heavy for identity thieves.  The karma is too great. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once I had a massage therapy business that I started in Santa Fe New Mexico that I sold to someone because my spiritual teacher was sending me to England to heal and teach and be a missionary.  The person that  I sold the business to never paid me what he owed me and he left the country as well to go to China to study acupuncture.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  Someone else stepped in, picked up my business identity and took it over without my knowledge until I returned to Santa Fe, almost 6 years later.  When I found out that this person who was apparently well known in Santa Fe for teaching yoga and doing massage therapy, had taken over my business I personally called him and asked him how  a person who taught yoga and did massage therapy, who was known to be a man of consciousness and awareness with students who followed him could do such a thing as steal my business?  He point blank stated that my equipment and my business belonged to him and that I had no claim to it and could not legally prove it.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since I had just returned from my missionary work in England, and Vancouver, B.C. I was in a very spiritual state of mind and I thought to myself, Okay, He has taken a stand and let us see what God does to this guy.  I decided not to do a thing and to leave it to God.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Five years later, you may or may not believe me when I tell you what happened to not only this guy but his girlfriend as well.  By now we had moved to Florida and I just wanted to call a yoga organization in Santa Fe that this guy had helped to start to find out how it was going.  When I asked the person who answered the phone how so and so was doing, they told me that he and his girlfriend had died of carbon monoxide poisoning while in his car on vacation a year ago and when I enquired further of the business that he had stolen from me she had no knowledge of it even existing!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This may sound like a rather harsh punishment for this person's actions but it is the honest to God truth.  Spiritual Identity works.  It gives you a face and it gives you grace.  We have the choice to either listen to our spiritual teacher or face the hand of almighty God and mother nature, time and space, which spanks hard.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you are ready to accept the consequences of a spiritual name and are ready to live up to your spiritual destiny you can email Nirinjan Kaur and ask her for a spiritual name.  Go to the 3ho.org website and find it out.  (form link below)&lt;br /&gt;Peace to all, life to all, love to all&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.3ho.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/3ho.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spiritual Name Request&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A spiritual name reinforces and accelerates your progress on your path to your highest destiny. Spiritual Names are given by Nirinjan Kaur, Chief of Staff, who was personally trained by Yogi Bhajan in his method of determining spiritual names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To request a spiritual name, please fill in a form and mail to the address shown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.3ho.org/pdf/SpiritualNameEnglish.pdf"&gt;spiritual name request form pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.3ho.org/pdf/SpiritualNameEnglish.pdf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/spritualnameformthumbnail.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-8140367763744760845?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/8140367763744760845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=8140367763744760845&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8140367763744760845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/8140367763744760845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/04/spiritual-name.html' title='Spiritual Name'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-326007997079810031</id><published>2007-03-28T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-29T10:34:36.590-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rubber Yoga Mats</title><content type='html'>Harmony Jade Yoga Mats are made from &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;pure rubber&lt;/span&gt; which is a renewable natural source and safe for the environment.  They are easy to clean, will not slip on hard surfaces and are available in many different colors and thicknesses and will last forever as long as they are not left out in the sun!  The mats that you buy in the stores are made from PVC which is a chemical which is not safe for the environment and bad for your health.  We have been practising and teaching 3HO Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, PhD,  the master of Kundalini &amp; White Tantric Yoga since 1970 and highly endorse these wonderful mats.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/harmonyyogamats.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The colors that we have are:  orange, navy blue, red, green, sky blue, and purple/violet. ($58) Yoga Jade does not sell direct to individuals, we are a retail dealer. &lt;a href="mailto:scmkyt@comcast.net"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;email&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; us your questions, or orders. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/li2.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/rubberyogamats.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since most yoga postures are performed on the floor and many of them are done laying face down with deep breathing through your nose, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;often your face is only a few inches away from your mat.&lt;/span&gt;  PVC mats are hazardous to your health because of the fact that you are inhaling toxic fumes from the mats.  Also if you are conscious of what you put into your aura which is your electromagnetic field that surrounds your body for up to 9 feet, you want to be careful what you put into your aura because in 3ho kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, we call it the 7th spiritual body.  Any negativity, stress, disease, sickness or injury comes from a weak aura.  when you master the 7th spiritual body your aura will be 9 feet all around your body and then nothing can penetrate it.  In the Practise of 3HO Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan we teach individual kriyas, (sets of exercises and or meditation) which are scientifically designed to strengthen one or more of the 10 spiritual bodies.  We also can help you to understand the correlation of how these bodies affect the bottom line of your health, wealth, prosperity, business and personal relationships with Tantric Numerology which is 89 % accurate by diagnosis using only your birthday.  Once we do your numbers we can tell you your strengths and weaknesses and once we understand this we can offer you a choice of either a set of exercises, meditation, or developing a relationship with one of the 10 sikh gurus who each had mastered one of the ten spiritual bodies and taught through the example of their lives.    Purchase a jade harmony yoga mat from us today and experience the joy of life through mastering any weaknesses using your strengths with 3ho kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.&lt;br /&gt;May the infinite healing hand of the divine creator touch you, bless you and always be with you. &lt;br /&gt;Peace to All, Life to All, Love to All &lt;br /&gt;Sat Nam&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh &amp; Sadhana Kaur Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-326007997079810031?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/li2.html' title='Rubber Yoga Mats'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/326007997079810031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=326007997079810031&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/326007997079810031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/326007997079810031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/03/rubber-yoga-mats.html' title='Rubber Yoga Mats'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-3648090342440702741</id><published>2007-03-23T05:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T05:26:04.035-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini ( कुण्डलिनी) Therapy</title><content type='html'>Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa has introduced Kundalini massage and Kundalini Yoga (Sadhana Kaur Khalsa) to many people.&lt;br /&gt;And classes leading to certification in these areas.&lt;br /&gt;Here is a recent email example of how &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;new friends&lt;/span&gt; respond to this ancient therapy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To: scmkyt@comcast.net &lt;br /&gt;Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:34 AM&lt;br /&gt;Subject: Greetings from Germany&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Sir,&lt;br /&gt;we visited you on sunday-market on Las Olas.  We promissed, to send you the fotos we made while you were "working" with your wife. Now we are back in Germany and can show you the 2 pictures. Hoping, that you will like the fotos, we say once more "thank you".&lt;br /&gt;May be that we will come back next year to Ft. Lauderdale. We hope to meet you again.&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely, wishing you and your wife always great success&lt;br /&gt;Ingrid and Jo Schumacher&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;P.S We are living in Bayreuth in the southern part of Germany (Bavaria)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/germanmarkettherapy.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-3648090342440702741?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com' title='Kundalini ( कुण्डलिनी) Therapy'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/3648090342440702741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=3648090342440702741&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/3648090342440702741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/3648090342440702741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/03/kundalini-therapy.html' title='Kundalini ( कुण्डलिनी) Therapy'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-7656041068831431689</id><published>2007-03-04T16:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-04T16:48:53.285-08:00</updated><title type='text'>White Tantric Yoga</title><content type='html'>A &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;meditation&lt;/span&gt; that we have recorded on cassette ourselves in Espanola, New Mexico in 1993, which is also at the bottom of our links section of our kundalini yoga website which we would like everyone to follow it and learn it and experience the joy of life as taught by the fifth guru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji who wrote this shabd, (sound current meditation), which I learned from my second Gurbani (word of the Guru) teacher, Bhai Jiwan Singh ji who could light up a dark room with his kirtan, (divine singing) and inspired by my spiritual teacher who taught me everything I know, Yogi Bhajan aka, The Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi Ji.&lt;br /&gt;As far as the Kundalini yoga post goes, we have our own style of  teaching within 3HO Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan which is not as technical as most other forms of yoga.  The style of teaching that we use is more cozy and heart centered and not so much about head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kundalini Yoga&lt;/span&gt; as taught by Yogi Bhajan is something that is experienced and felt by the practitioner as a rising spirit, like  a warm relaxing and cozy fire in a kiva fireplace in an adobe brick home in New Mexico. There is a  wood used  for burning in fire places in New Mexico because of its aromatic scent which travels all throughout the neighborhood and Espanola Valley which is the home of our International Yoga Organization and mother ashram, Hacienda De Guru Ram Das. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/whitetantricmeditation2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;rising of the Kundalini&lt;/span&gt; is not something that can be  analyzed or explained in technical terms and understood through intellect.  It is something that simply is experienced and enjoyed as the spirit rises and warms the spine.  The rising of the Kundalini is a natural process that happens when the body has become detoxified enough, the nerves and glands have become strong enough by practising the kundalini yoga life style to channel the energy, and the mind has become calm and relaxed  enough through meditation.  It is warm and cozy like being at home with your family and enjoying each others presence.  What ever you can imagine of being the most beautiful, sacred and wonderful experience which at that precise moment happens is indescribable.  You can try to describe it, but it is like trying to describe God!  There is no book that you can read, there is no spiritual teacher that can raise this energy for you.  You must learn the technology, which is the Guru.  Gu means darkness and Ru means light.  The Guru is the technology that takes you from darkness to light and it can be learned and practiced and experienced by anyone now.  "There is no liberation without labor and there is no Freedom which is free." -Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini and White Tantric Yoga. &lt;br /&gt;Sat nam&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-7656041068831431689?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/7656041068831431689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=7656041068831431689&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7656041068831431689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7656041068831431689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/03/white-tantric-yoga.html' title='White Tantric Yoga'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-7525363264133372993</id><published>2007-02-18T07:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-18T08:12:13.310-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini Massage at Coconut Grove Art Festival</title><content type='html'>Intermittent rain this weekend, but the foot and car traffic was still there.&lt;br /&gt;This is one of the bigger shows, since it is the winter "season".&lt;br /&gt;It is Along South Bayshore Drive in Downtown Coconut Grove&lt;br /&gt;Miami, FL 33133&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/coconutgroveartfest.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Featuring more than 330 internationally renowned artists exhibiting in 12 categories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/grovebuildings.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kundalini Yogic Bodywork Techniques&lt;/b&gt;  will be available from Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa, at this festival.&lt;br /&gt;It is a form of &lt;b&gt;Yoga Therapy&lt;/b&gt; which works on stimulating and balancing the accupressure points located along the meridians or lines of energy in the body,( also used in acupuncture), adjusts the bones and completely de-stresses the entire body in one treatment.  Yogic Skeletal Therapy can be applied over clothing on a massage table, or chair if necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eleven Treatments totally rebuilds the body.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-7525363264133372993?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/sm2.html' title='Kundalini Massage at Coconut Grove Art Festival'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/7525363264133372993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=7525363264133372993&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7525363264133372993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/7525363264133372993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/02/kundalini-massage-at-coconut-grove-art.html' title='Kundalini Massage at Coconut Grove Art Festival'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-117090162970655246</id><published>2007-02-07T18:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T18:41:00.203-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sport and working hawks and falcons</title><content type='html'>Here are some photos of our favorite hawks.  These are not mine, of course, but those of Meri Patni, the Raj Dulari.  Back in her ancestral home in Kashmir, her family was famous throughout northern India for their trained hawks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/merifalconry.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meri Piari Patni was asked for a cup of tea, but she said that she was busy in the backyard.&lt;br /&gt;Ah, the patience of a husband.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/femaleredtailhawk.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A female hawk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/harrishawk.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A harris hawk&lt;br /&gt;The Harris's Hawk is now widely used in European towns to scare pigeons and starlings. &lt;br /&gt;There have been recent (as of 2005) reports of escaped Harris Hawks breeding in the wild in England.&lt;br /&gt;Many airports use falconers to scare these birds away from the land around runways and reduce the risk of birdstrikes on planes. Animal welfare issues aside, it is an interesting endevor. Falconers employed in these situations and in airports generally train their birds not to kill, but rather to drive and scare the birds away. John James Audubon gave this bird its English name in honor of his ornithological companion, financial supporter, and friend Edward Harris.&lt;br /&gt;They are catagorised as "least concern" and do not qualify as threatened, nor near threatened.&lt;br /&gt;This method of driving away birds is proven very effective at Rotterdam Airport and others.&lt;br /&gt;Geese and gulls cause the most serious bird strike incidents.  Other approaches try to scare away the birds using frightening devices, for example sounds, lights, pyrotechnics, radio-controlled airplanes, decoy animals/corpses, lasers, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gyrfalcon.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A gyrfalcon patrols New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.&lt;br /&gt;Whether hawks are kept primarily for sport, subsistence hunting, or airport work, they are special creatures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-117090162970655246?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/117090162970655246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=117090162970655246&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/117090162970655246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/117090162970655246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/02/sport-and-working-hawks-and-falcons.html' title='Sport and working hawks and falcons'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-117011048864943921</id><published>2007-01-29T14:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T04:43:05.800-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini Yoga Classes in Fort Lauderdale</title><content type='html'>Chanting, breathing, meditation and postures all work together in a class to awaken the energy at the base of the spine and draw it upward. &lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/kundalinispine.jpg"&gt;However, this is a style where a trained teacher is highly recommended.In the classical literature of the Kashmir Shaivism Kundalini is described in three direct manifestations. Firstly, as the universal energy or para-kundalini. Secondly, as the energizing function of the body-mind complex or prana-kundalini. The third aspect is as consciousness or shakti-knudalini, which simultaneously subsumes and intermediates between these two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Outdoor Las Olas Boulevard Farmers Market is one of the beautiful locations for kudalini yoga classes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/farmersmarket.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/lasolasstreet2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;b&gt;Sadhana Kaur &amp; Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa&lt;/b&gt;, D.C.B.E.M., L.M.T., are now offering Classes in Kundalini Yoga &amp; Individual Sessions in Skeletal Therapy as taught by Yogi Bhajan &amp; Gatka Sikh Martial Art from India as taught by Ustad Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa  as well as Certified Teacher &amp; Practitioner Training, (only at 3901 S Ocean Dr, Hlwd), otherwise at the following locations:&lt;br /&gt;Coconut Grove Farmers Market at the Shoppes of Mayfair on Grand Ave. &amp; Mary St.:  Every Saturday from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. &lt;br /&gt;1201 Los Olas Farmers Market, Ft. Ldle.,  2nd Sunday every month &amp; 1101 Los Olas, 4th Sunday every month:  9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. &lt;br /&gt;3901 S Ocean Dr, Hlndl/Hlwd, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Skeletal CyMassage Therapy:  12:00p.m.-6:00 p.m. Yoga:  6:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Yoga &amp; Gatka Classes&lt;br /&gt;Cost:  $60.00 per hr., (divided among students in class),  payable at beginning of class. &lt;br /&gt;Bring:  A friend or Partner!,   Yoga Mat, (available through us), oversized beach towel, wear loose fitting comfortable clothing,(preferably white cotton)  an organic, vegetarian snack to share at the end of class.&lt;br /&gt;you will need a  yoga mat for these classes.  the best mats are the ones made out of pure rubber.  You can buy one at walmart, k mart, sports authority for half of the price that ours sell for but they are all made out of pvc which is a very toxic material which you do not want in your aura or lungs. Next class bring an oversized beach towel to put over your mat and bring drinking water. The mats cost $58.00, but the investment is well worth it as this will be the only investment that you will need to make for kundalini yoga except for a sheep skin which we can also get for you but that is not necessary right away.  Also make sure that the beach towel is clean as you will be doing a lot of exercises face down with the breath of fire. When you do kundalini yoga at home make sure that you put a clean white sheet on the floor beneath your mat as well so that you will not be breathing in dust with your pranayama or breathing exercises.  Our idea in charging for these classes is to charge $60.00 per hour.  If we have two people then the cost is half of that amount.  For  three people it would be $20.00 and for four or more people it will cost $15.00 each and this is what we want to strive for every time we teach, to have at least 4 people in a class unless someone specifically wants an individual class.  Ideally a class should be at least an hour and a half  to an hour and three quarters which is what we find works best for a complete physical workout, relaxation and meditation.  This is the technology of kundalini yoga.  First we start with the postures and breathing exercises and after each exercise but no always there is a relaxation period to allow for the energy that you create to circulate throughout the body and for the healing effects of that exercise to take place.  By the time you finish that Kriya (set of exercises &amp; meditation ) that you have been practising as each Kriya has a different and pronounced body/mind/spirit effect, you will automatically be ready to meditate as you have raised the kundalini energy,(consciousness and awareness) up the spine so that you are by this time in a meditative state of mind.  In Tantric Numerology we call this the Neutral or Yogic mind , the 4th spiritual body. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once you get inspired to start practising kundalini yoga at home which could take a few months depending on how many classes you attend per week, you will start seeing some very positive differences in your life.  Relationships,both business and personal start improving as your intuition starts becoming more pronounced and your awareness and consciousness starts to rise.  The increased happiness, joy and peace of mind create an amazing difference in the way you feel and how you interact with people.  You will be come more outgoing as you will want to share your rising spirit with others. .  One of the side benefits and reasons for practising kundalini yoga is that you will start to store prana, the life force at your navel point.  This is like going to the bank at the beginning of the week and drawing out money that you will need for the rest of the week.  Practising kundalini yoga creates prana at the navel so that it will be stored there until you need it. Once your  energy gets low  the pranic body kicks in and starts pumping energy into your veins.  Whenever a patient goes to the doctor and complains of low energy , the doctor mistakenly will always diagnose the patient with weak adrenal glands, which is total misdiagnosis.  The adrenal glands may be affected but it is not the root cause.  The doctor will then advise the patient to do diaphragmatic breathing which is what strengthens the pranic body.  The root cause of low energy  is the pranic body or what we call in Tantric Numerology, the 8th spiritual body.  If the pranic body, (diaphragm, solar plexus area) is weak, your energy is low.  Practising Kundalini Yoga develops prana, life force in your body which gives you the energy to be positive, healthy, happy, outgoing and teaches you to conserve energy so that you do not waste it on useless pursuits&lt;br /&gt;.  Yogis have used animal skins for thousands of years to do yoga and meditate on because they neutralize the pull of the earth's gravity when you meditate.  Not only do you liberate the soul of the animal by meditating on its skin but you also can achieve much higher states of meditation as there is nothing to hold your soul down as it travels during meditation.  There are so many other positive benefits of sheep skin.  Ideally you want to use your sheepskin only for meditation and yoga but they are also great to sleep on and sit on while you drive your car, fly in a plane, or just relax in your easy chair.  They are used in hospitals for bedridden patients to prevent bed sores.  Sheep skins allow the skin to breathe as there is a space between you and the skin created by the wool which allows an air flow which keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer and when you drive long distances there is nothing like a sheepskin to keep you comfortable to allow proper circulation.  Kundalini yoga is a spiritual journey or path which starts with your first class.  Once you get started, the only limitations that you will experience will come from your past and practising Kundalini yoga helps you to relate to the present so that you can take advantage of all of the wonderful opportunities that have always been there and that are always coming your way but that we were never conscious or aware of because of the limitations of our past which we all tend to hold on to. Kundalini Yoga is the Yoga of Awareness and Consciousness and we look forward to sharing all that we have learned with you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/kundalinihealing.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa will be doing Kundalini Yogic Bodywork at the market also.&lt;br /&gt;For the yoga classes you need to bring:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An exercise mat,(which you can purchase from us:) &lt;br /&gt;Two sheets, (preferably white cotton), one to be put over your mat, and one to cover yourself during the relaxation and meditation sequence of the class. &lt;br /&gt;Wear loose comfortable clothing, (also preferably white cotton), &lt;br /&gt;Drinking water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/lasolaslogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las Olas also sponsors the Wine &amp; Food Festival, Art Festival,  Home &amp; Garden Show, and a Marathon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-117011048864943921?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/yo2.html' title='Kundalini Yoga Classes in Fort Lauderdale'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/117011048864943921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=117011048864943921&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/117011048864943921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/117011048864943921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/01/kundalini-yoga-classes-in-fort.html' title='Kundalini Yoga Classes in Fort Lauderdale'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116940016698815317</id><published>2007-01-21T09:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-23T13:54:04.860-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Expo of Heart - Broward Convention Center</title><content type='html'>In recent years, people are taking responsibility for their own health and well being.  The health and wellness industries are integrating; creating acceptance of more alternative health and healing modalities.  The broward show today was interesing as always.&lt;br /&gt;I received a "skin carotenoid score" laser scan.  (was at the top of the range)&lt;br /&gt;Many other new products and vendors were there. &lt;br /&gt;It shows the effects of your diet for the last 4 months. You put your hand in front of this laser device for 90 seconds, and they give you the printout. The scan was $10 and entrance to the expo was $20.  Parking is extra, but I cheat and park 3 blocks west, and take a nice walk. If you enter on foot, you must show a drivers licence to security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/laserscanner.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/skincarotinoid.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Expo of Heart provides a venue to showcase new cutting-edge products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/healthexpo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/healthexpo2.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116940016698815317?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116940016698815317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116940016698815317&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116940016698815317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116940016698815317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/01/expo-of-heart-broward-convention.html' title='Expo of Heart - Broward Convention Center'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116854970045580611</id><published>2007-01-11T13:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T03:57:39.183-08:00</updated><title type='text'>tantric numerology</title><content type='html'>Numerology is not an answer to all questions. It is a useful tool for understanding ones strengths and weaknesses, and for working on the weaknesses and utilizing the strengths more effectively.&lt;br /&gt;For more information about &lt;b&gt;tantric numerology&lt;/b&gt; you can go to: www.a-healing.com and look for the book: Numerology by Dr.Guru Chander Singh Khalsa and Tantric Numerology by him as well. You can also find the book entitled; Akara Numerology by Hari Nam Kaur Khalsa from the same website. You may also find some written material from Akal Singh Khalsa who teaches Tantric Numerology. If you are interested in being trained as a certified SCMKYT practitioner it will be necessary to first complete our level one training in becoming a certified kundalini yoga teacher.&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to email us directly at: scmkyt@comcast.net we will email you our brochure with the course outlines and details.&lt;br /&gt;thank you again for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you. &lt;br /&gt;peace to all, life to all, love to all&lt;br /&gt;god bless you&lt;br /&gt;sat nam&lt;br /&gt;humbly yours&lt;br /&gt;guru jiwan singh khalsa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gurumeditating.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa about to teach a Class in Kundalini Yoga.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116854970045580611?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/tn2.html' title='tantric numerology'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116854970045580611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116854970045580611&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116854970045580611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116854970045580611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/01/tantric-numerology.html' title='tantric numerology'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116829701386331647</id><published>2007-01-08T14:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T14:56:53.906-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kestrals</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Kestrel&lt;/b&gt; is the name used to describe several different types of the falcon genus, Falco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/kestral2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American Kestrels (along with the Red-tailed Hawk) are one of two raptors almost universally used by new (apprentice) falconers in the United States. The American Kestrel is generally considered to be a harder bird to care for due to its small size, quick metabolism, and fragile nature (in comparison with the much larger Red-tail and other raptors used in falconry) and requires extensive weight management, often within a couple tenths of a gram. The pictures that follow are the inititation of training and observation. At this stage it is jumping 2 meters. It is a bird born in captivity and created for this falconer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/kestral1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/kestral3.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116829701386331647?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116829701386331647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116829701386331647&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116829701386331647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116829701386331647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2007/01/kestrals.html' title='Kestrals'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116691442412125380</id><published>2006-12-23T14:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T14:59:29.150-08:00</updated><title type='text'>albino redtail hawk</title><content type='html'>Complete albinism in birds, when the feathers, skin and eyes are all without pigment, is very rare to find. In such cases, the eyes are usually red or pink and the legs, feet and bill are white or very pale. It is extremely difficult for such birds to survive in the wild because they tend to stand out as prey, lacking any natural camouflage. Even an albino red-tailed hawk would be much more visible at night and subject to predation by great horned owls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://healthandhappinessinc.com/whiteredtail.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116691442412125380?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116691442412125380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116691442412125380&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116691442412125380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116691442412125380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2006/12/albino-redtail-hawk.html' title='albino redtail hawk'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116397222683882321</id><published>2006-11-19T13:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T15:00:59.516-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is falconry?</title><content type='html'>Falconry is the sport (some would say of hunting game with a raptor ”a bird of prey. At its core, falconry is acclimating a bird of prey to hunt within the presence and sometimes with the assistance of one or more human beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Falconry has been practiced for at least 2,000 years. Originating in Asia, falconry was initially just a means of getting an extra bit of meat for dinner. Later, in Europe and the Middle East, falconry became associated with royalty. Hunting with falcons eventually fell out of favor with the invention of firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Here in the United States, modern falconry is practiced by people of all walks of life though there are fewer than 4,000 licensed falconers in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact information:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What should I do if I find an injured or baby raptor? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call a local zoo or your state wildlife agency for assistance. They will help you to get care for the bird's or other wildlife. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Never try to pick up an injured bird of prey as it will almost certainly defend itself and hurt you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are raptors dangerous?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the wild, raptors are shy,and  fear people, and will avoid them at all costs unless humans intrude upon their nesting territory or attempt to help a wounded bird. You are not likely to ever get close to a wild bird of prey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Raptors used in falconry are acclimated to having people closer to them and working with at least one personâ€”the falconer that has invested a large amount of time training, hunting, and caring for the bird. Sometimes falconry birds are fine around other people and strangers, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Unlike wild raptors, people can potentially get very close to a trained raptor before the bird's fight-or-flight instinct is triggered. If this instinct kicks in when a person is within striking distance, a raptor may try to defend itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Worried? Dont be! If you give a falconry bird a respectful distance and dont try to touch it, you wont have any problems at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does your bird like you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Birds of prey do not really develop an attachment to falconers, certainly nothing like a dog or cat might. Raptors tend to just tolerate falconers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Falconry birds do often associate falconers with three things: (1) Someone who brings food, (2) someone who helps in hunting in order to get food, and (3) someone how helps to get caught food under control. The way to a raptors heart is through its stomach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where can I get more information about falconry? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Contact your states wildlife agency, check out the North American Falconers Association (www.n-a-f-a.org), or contact a local falconer with the information provided below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I become a falconer? &lt;br /&gt;In order to become a falconer, you will need to do the following things:&lt;br /&gt;Be over 14 years old.&lt;br /&gt;Contact your states wildlife division and get in touch with the person in charge of falconry-related activities.&lt;br /&gt;Have them send you an information packet, a copy of the state and federal falconry laws, and contact information for any nearby falconers.&lt;br /&gt;Contact nearby falconers and find someone to take you in as his or her apprentice for at least two years.&lt;br /&gt;Read, study, and cram for a falconry test. You need over 80% to get a falconry license.&lt;br /&gt;Buy and/or make your falconry equipment and construct a housing facility. All items must then pass a state inspection.&lt;br /&gt;Get a hunting permit and any other permits your state requires.&lt;br /&gt;Contact your state wildlifes falconry director to make sure you have all the permits and written authorizations needed prior to trapping a bird. (Each state has different rules on what is required and what is not.)&lt;br /&gt;Build a trap and go trap yourself a bird!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Over the next two years (or more), youll be an apprentice under another falconer, who will help guide you through the trapping, training, hunting, and care of your raptor. After two years, if youre over 18, you can upgrade from an apprentice falconer to a general falconer. After 5 years of flying raptors as a general falconer you can upgrade to a master falconer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What kinds of birds can I fly? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; During your first two years as an apprentice, you can fly a red-tailed hawk or an American kestrel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com/younghawk.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A red-tailed hawk is a large and sturdy raptor capable of taking all kinds of game in all kinds of environments, but is particularly suited for ground quarry like squirrels and rabbits. The bird of choice for new falconers is almost always the easy-going, steadfast red-tailed hawk.&lt;br /&gt;The robin-sized kestrel is the smallest North American falcon and is used by falconers to primarily hunt insects and small non-game birds (sparrows and starlings). Kestrels are very challenging first birds and generally avoided as first birds unless circumstances absolutely prohibit the use of a red-tail or the falconer sponsoring the apprentice has a wealth of experience with kestrels..&lt;br /&gt; After your apprenticeship is over, you can fly a much large variety of hawks and falcons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is falconry expensive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be incredibly expensive or not too expensive. If you trap your bird, make most of your own equipment, don't have to drive to hunting grounds, and can catch enough game so that you donâ€™t need to buy food for your bird, you could potentially spend less than $500 getting started. On average, most falconers will probably spend $1,000 or more per year on each bird, all things considered (like gas and wear and tear on vehicles getting to and from hunting grounds). However, falconryâ€™s real expense is time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much time does falconry take up? &lt;br /&gt;Taking up falconry is like taking on a second part-time job that requires about 10-20 (or more) hours of work each week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Falconers need to take each bird out hunting usually at least twice a week during the hunting season for at least a few hours each trip though some high-energy birds need to be flown five or more days each week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; There is more to having a raptor than just hunting. Daily care, food preparation, weight management, and cleaning the mews (housing facility) are critical to having a healthy raptor. You have to do this all year round not just the hunting season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you hunt with your bird? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Absolutely! Falconry is defined as hunting with a bird of prey. In fact, in order to possess a raptor for falconry purposes, you are required by law to hunt with it. Hunting helps to keep the bird in shape both physically and mentally, and it is exactly what theyd be doing in the wild. The only difference between a falconry bird and a wild bird's hunting styles is that the falconry bird has learned to accept the presence of a human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Falconry birds almost universally catch less game than their wild counterparts. That's because a falconry bird can only hunt when the falconer takes it hunting. A wild raptor is effectively hunting from dawn to dusk unless it's an owl!&lt;br /&gt;Contrary to popular belief, raptors do not bring their kills back to the falconer. They generally just hunker down to eat it. Some birds will even try to hide in brush or fly off with their food because they have absolutely no intention of sharing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It kills other animals?&lt;br /&gt;Yes. Raptors are meat-eaters and cannot survive by eating anything else. In order to stay healthy, a raptor needs the whole animal, fur, bones, and all!&lt;br /&gt;A raptor used in falconry is doing exactly what it would do in the wild,  just doing it in the presence of a human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com/fal1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com/fal2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.healthandhappinessinc.com/fal3.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116397222683882321?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116397222683882321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116397222683882321&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116397222683882321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116397222683882321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-is-falconry.html' title='What is falconry?'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116380805270324962</id><published>2006-11-17T16:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T15:03:29.623-08:00</updated><title type='text'>3 Videos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3296234346253893859&amp;pr=goog-sl"&gt;Priceless - Being a Sikh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A fun Spoof  video on the popular television advertisement for the Mastercard (credit card). This was created by Sat Bir Singh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtKGULYEkLg"&gt;Falco Peregrinus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falconer and the "fastest animal in the world".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfl78_e5GHY"&gt;S.ornatus Caçando Iguana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A falcon and iguana video.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116380805270324962?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116380805270324962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116380805270324962&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116380805270324962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116380805270324962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2006/11/3-videos.html' title='3 Videos'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116378655570002667</id><published>2006-11-17T10:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T15:06:54.556-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Skeletal Yoga Massage Therapy Outdoor Events</title><content type='html'>WE ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR SKELETAL YOGA MASSAGE THERAPY, 3HO KUNDALINI YOGA CLASSES &amp; GATKA DEMONSTRATIONS AT: &lt;br /&gt;The Streets of Mayfair in Coconut Grove from 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. every Saturday (cell)  305-766-0694 (wknds. only) &lt;br /&gt;1101 Los Olas in Fort Lauderdale every second Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (cell)   &lt;br /&gt;1201 Los Olas every 4th Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EXCEPT FOR CHRISTMAS)    &lt;br /&gt;River Front in Los Olas every First and Third Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36436528-116378655570002667?l=healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/feeds/116378655570002667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36436528&amp;postID=116378655570002667&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116378655570002667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36436528/posts/default/116378655570002667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://healthandhappinessinc.blogspot.com/2006/11/skeletal-yoga-massage-therapy-outdoor.html' title='Skeletal Yoga Massage Therapy Outdoor Events'/><author><name>Steve Durante</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://healthandhappinessinc.com/gjsk.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36436528.post-116378643985915998</id><published>2006-11-17T10:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T16:05:58.856-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kundalini Yoga Therapy</title><content type='html'>Our Gift to you this Holiday Season from:  Health And Happiness Org. / Guru Arjan Dev Ashram &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Skeletal CyMa)))ssage Kundalini Yoga Therapy, (SCMKYT)&lt;br /&gt;"SKELETAL THERAPY is thousands of years old and has saved the lives of thousands of people. ONE TREATMENT completely destresses the body, balances the meridians and adjusts the bones and ELEVEN TREATMENTS completely rebuild the body."- Yogi Bhajan&lt;br /&gt;Skeletal Therapy is a full body yogic massage modality that comes from the technology of 3HO Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, our spritual teacher.  There are 8 different areas of the body that we work on which take 10-11 minutes each.  The full body treatment of Skeletal Therapy takes 90 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CYMA(((SSAGE is a form of CYMATICS AND BIO ENERGETIC MEDICINE as taught by Dr. Sir Peter Guy Manners, PH.D., M.D., D.O., for which we use a digital computer to rebalance the harmonic frequencies of the cells of any structure of the body which will improve any condition by relaxing the structure, thus releasing the stress which will allow the body to heal itself.  Pure Sound, no side effects, safe, soothing, relaxing, scientific and used by medical doctors around the world. "Tomorrow's medicine for today's people.  No drugs, no side effects, no contra indications, a scientific application of a natural form of healing.  For far too long man has applied and administered harmful and destructive methods of treatment to his system and body.  Cymatic Therapy works hand in hand with the natural process of the body, renewing and revitalizing the natural healthy bodies.  A method of transplant, not of an organ, but of the energy and life force that holds and keeps that organ or structure in health and vitality."-Dr. Manners&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT TO EXPECT DURING A TREATMENT: FREE CONSULTATION. We will first do your TANTRIC NUMEROLOGY from your birthday to help us  determine your strengths and weaknesses which will help us to understand better how to serve you.  We will then ask you specific questions regarding any pain or physical/mental complaint that you have, previous treatments, medications, previous diagnosis from a doctor,then offer our diagnosis and recommended CYMATICS &amp; BIO ENERGETIC MEDICINE Commutation (treatment) which usually takes about 30 minutes.  Then we will offer you 5 minutes of a hand held vibrational massage unit and then start with Manual Medicine.  Please bring loose comfortable (preferably white) cotton clothing if you prefer to be treated over your clothing, drinking water &amp; a healthy snack.  MASSAGE THERAPY, will be then offered to the designated area, (usually we start with the back) and then we will begin SKELETAL THERAPY.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"MASSAGE THERAPY is the oldest and largest system of Natural Therapy.  Its value has been recognized from the earliest days of history to the present time not only by drugless therapists but the medical professional as well.  Massage Therapy is a scientific treatment by certain passive systematic manipulations upon the human body, with the main object being promoting and maintaining a balanced circulation.  The effect of Massage Therapy is manifold.  While it is apparent that one effect is to relax the muscles, Massage Therapy also sets the blood in circulation, throws off toxins which have accumulated, stimulates nerve activity, increases lung activity, quiets and soothes the nervous system, breaks up deposits in the joints, etc. it is not the blood flow alone which is aided by massage therapy.  The lymphatic circulation is also stimulated to greater activity.  In many chronic pathological conditions tissue activity is greatly interfered with and results in accumulations of toxins (poisons or waste matter) in the system since the cells, being deprived of their proper amount of oxygen, are unable to perform their excretory functions perfectly.  Cellular interchange is aided by properly applied Massage Therapy.  The work of the tissues is greatly promoted and proper nutrition to the tissues is secured." -Dr. Hari Jot Singh Khalsa,Ph.D. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  YOUR FIRST  13 SCMKYT FBT should be close together, for example: ONE,  TWO or THREE per week if at all possible, but it depends mainly on the seriousness of your condition.  After your initial 13 SCMKYT they can be received ONCE A MONTH OR SO FOR MAINTENANCE.  &lt;br /&gt;The FULL BODY (FB) SCMKYT TREATMENT takes 2 hours and costs $360.00.  &lt;br /&gt;PAY FOR FIVE AND WE WILL GIVE YOU SIX.  PAY FOR TEN WE WILL GIVE YOU TWELVE which brings the price down to $300.00 per treatment.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;WE ALSO OFFER SCMKYT for half hour treatments at $90.00 / One Hour Treatments at $180.00 and 90 minute Treatments for $270.00 for which we will also offer you savings by giving you 6 Treatments for the price of  5 or 13 Treatments for the price of  11 treatments.  &lt;br /&gt;As our gift to you this holiday season,  call us from now until January 1, 2007 to book any appt(s). AND YOU PAY ONLY: &lt;br /&gt; $83.00 for a half hour treatment / $165.00 for an Hour Treatment &amp; $248.00 for  a 90 minute treatment! &lt;br /&gt;$415.00 for five half hour treatments, get six and save $125.00!  $913.00 for eleven, get thirteen, and save $257.00!&lt;br /&gt;$824.00 for five one hour treatments, get six and save $255.00!  $1,815.00 for eleven, get thirteen and save  $345.00!     &lt;br /&gt;$1,240.00 for five one and one half hour treatments, get six and save $380.00!  $2,728.00 for eleven, get thirteen and save $782.00!&lt;br /&gt;This Holiday Season, give a gift certificate from Health And Happiness Org. for a pkg. of  SCMKYT treatments, 3HO Kundalini Yoga and or IGF Gatka Classes, today!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We also recommend a regular practise of 3HO (Healthy Happy Holy Org.) KUNDALINI YOGA AS TAUGHT BY YOGI BHAJAN, and or &lt;br /&gt;IGF (International Gatka Federation) Gatka, The Sikh Martial Art From India, AS TAUGHT BY USTAD NANAK DEV SINGH KHALSA, which we can teach you by attending our group or individual classes which are offered at the following times.&lt;br /&gt;3HO Kundalini Yoga &amp; IGF Gatka, (The Sikh Martial Art from India) Classes: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6:00p.m. to 7:00 or 7:48p.m.  60 Minute &amp; 108 Minute Classes are offered.   We can also be available at other times for group or individual classes with 24 - 48 hrs. notice.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Kundalini Yoga is an art and science to put the 5 tattwas, 3 gunas, 10 bodies and the 7 chakras together and in balance so that the aura, the light, becomes a shield and your presence, personality and identity works for you. Kundalini Yoga is the art and science to uncoil the locked Knowledge of happiness.  Kundalini Yoga is the art and the science to stimulate the body into an energy where the intuitiveness can go and catch up with the frequency of the infinite and restore the infinite acknowledgement of trust, again, again, again."-Yogi Bhajan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Gatka brings to a human being those facilities of fulfillment, success, and excellence.  Gatka is a martial art;  it is a science.  "Gat" sometimes spelled "Gut" means grace, liberation, respect in your power, your good will.  "Ka" means, that of , or one who belongs.  Therefore Gatka means, one whose freedom, sovereignty and liberty belongs to grace.  it is an art of self-defense which makes a person graceful.  It is not only a defense art, but a totality of the definition of human fulfillment, human essence, and human grace.  it is a martial art that makes a person fearless, makes a person revengeless, makes a person able to concentrate.  Every movement is scientifically originated, organized and projected.  This is a discipline in which there is nothing but success.  However, it does need practise.  It needs dedication, it needs devotion, and it needs time.  But those who spend time to keep up in this art and science will understand the art  of life, the art of success, the art of excellence, the art of grace.  That is what Gatka means."-Yogi Bhajan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;60 min. class: $15.00 per person (  4 or more students per class) / $20.00 per person ( 3 students per class) / $30.00 per person ( 2 students per class) / $60.00 per individual.  108 min. (recommended) :  $18.00 per person ( 6 students or more per class) /$22.00 per person ( 5 students per class) / $27.00 per person (4 students per class) / $36.00 per person (with 3 students per class) /$54.00 per person (with 2 students per class) /$108.00 per individual student. &lt;br /&gt;Our Gift to you:  20% off any class(es) booked from now until January 1, 2007!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AYURVEDIC HERBS, GANO CAFE, XOCAI CHOCOLATE &amp; GNLD NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS will also be recommended for specific conditions to aid in the healing process which are also available through us. "Ayurveda, meaning "Science of Life," is a sophisticated science of balanced living.  This system works to prevent disease and promote longevity by strengthening and bringing balance to the constitutional elements known  as the TATTVAS, and spiritual energy centers known as CHAKRAS.  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