By Intuitive Gahzaleh Lowe

Dear Soul Sessioners,

Everything I know comes from within me, including these. They are not written based on the planets as used in normal astrology. I know, and am certain, that the truth lies within me so I am able to access my own my Intuition to write these Horoscopes.

Next Soul Sessions installment May 1

Aries

You won’t really know what hits you at the beginning of the month but it’s like magic and there is a new inspiration that flows through you. This inspiration enables you to become more and creative, it’s as though you’ll find that your talents are far greater than you had ever realized. A conversation on the 13th of the month has you asking some new questions or yourself and also making some new choices around how you would like to spend your money. It feels to me that you are making some life style changes this month and some of them are bigger than you would have once made and this shows you how much courage you do have. The less you think the better off you are dear Aries and you’ll realize this on the17th of the month as you come into some new choices that do not require your thought process. I feel that in your world of work things are changing in a way that you are stepping towards a whole new direction and one choice in particular will set you off onto a whole new journey. It feels to me that you are ready for a whole new adventure and someone shows up at the perfect time to support you into your new adventure. Love isn’t what it seems and you’ll come into a much deeper love around the 21st of the month where some of your greatest realizations show up. I feel that the insights that you come into around this time will support you to slow down and take in the atmosphere, breathe in the fresh air and really enjoy where you are rather than trying to speed things up all the time. You won’t really know which way to go when arrive at a cross roads around the 26th of the month and this being the case it’s better that you don’t make any decisions on this particular day. When you don’t know then just wait it out until the feeling of knowing or certainty moves through you. You cannot rush a decision such as this one and it’s best that you wait until you feel certain, which I don’t feel will take too long. By the end of the month you will have moved through 4 – 5 new doors in your life and you’ll be able to set some new intentions as your life moves into a direction that is new and very different from what you have experienced so far.

Taurus

Very early in the month you’ll step into stillness within yourself dear Taurus, which will be familiar and mostly unfamiliar to you. I feel that this stillness comes from a few new choices you made late last month, which have carried on to this month. The deepest insights come your way around the 6th of the month, which support you to truly appreciate your life and where you are in your life. There are so many things that were once so important to you but now seem to be less and less important and this is because ... ...READ MORE

Well, it's Mothers Day tommorrow and all week my gorgeous boy Max, 7, has been trying his hardest to keep a secret from me. 

Then today, seemingly out of the blue, but quite possibly primed by his Goddess of a second grade teacher Mrs Brown, he says: "Mamma, even if you get up early tomorrow, you need to stay in bed for me, okay?" Adorable, I think. I love him so much.  

Then he says; "Mamma, do you like poached eggs or scrambled?" Awww... "Poached eggs, honey," I answer. "I love poached eggs."

And then, not being one for massive amounts of Self control, he says:... ...READ MORE

By Power Living Yogi Keenan Crisp

How well do you communicate? With colleagues? Your significant other? Family and friends? 

We generally communicate according to our own interpretation of an event/subject, based on deep-seated belief systems and it is rare that two people when conversing are actually speaking from the very same set of beliefs.

It’s a wonder that we can communicate at all.

What we generally do is speak from a predisposition and assume that the other is really on the same page as us.

To embrace a relationship as an opportunity for enlightenment may sound far fetched, but applying at least one of these principles will at the very least help to render your relationships more functional and in essence... spiritual.

Principle 1: Acceptance Of Others As They Are

Too often we judge others and try to change them, making them into who we think they should be. We expect others should... ...READ MORE

By The Gong Guru, Matt Omo

Only two sleeps left until Soul Sessions - Sex, Love and Domestic Bliss (or lack thereof). What exactly does that mean? I'm a guy and I get the sex. (Not as often as I’d like to, admittedly, with all my waking hours focused on business, baby etc)

The love of course, makes sense, if you’re talking about Soul you have to embrace the love. All you need is love, Love, Love, Love. It’s interwoven in the essence of who we are. We are love. And I'll stop before I head off on a Leo Buscaglia rant.

But, what the hell is Domestic Bliss? For a long time those two words didn’t seem to belong in the same sentence. When I thought of domestic, I had nightmarish flashbacks of all these horrific death sentences I had avoided from my past life as a single man.

In that lifetime, castration was perceived as a less painful option than domestication. In many a single man pack, any sign of being domestic would mean an onslaught of... ...READ MORE

By Intuitive Gahzaleh Lowe

Dear Soul Sessioners,

Everything I know comes from within me, including these. They are not written based on the planets as used in normal astrology. I know, and am certain, that the truth lies within me so I am able to access my own my Intuition to write these Horoscopes.

Next Soul Sessions installment May 1

Aries

This is most certainly the month for you to be Creative dear Aries and it’s the month where you are able to meet a part of yourself that has been yearning to come out and play. I feel that this is the creative part of you that you have put on hold for some time because you have been so busy being so serious. It’s an Aries thing to be so serious because then this way you can work all of life out, but of course this isn’t true and you are coming to see this more and more now. I feel that early in the month you’ll feel to place your feet on the ground and connect to the part of you that is more alive than words can express. It’s this part of you that will be guiding the way for the month of April and you won’t have much of a say. Truth be told you don’t wan to have much of a say and this is because you don’t want your head to guide the way anymore. You have seen what your head is capable of and what it can do and it no longer interests you. Around the 15th of the month you’ll meet with an offer that will support your creativity to really come alive on levels that will have you asking yourself where you have been all your life. I must say that my feeling tells me that April is one of the most powerful months for you yet. I feel this because you have manifested so many situations to support you to come out of your head and live in your heart. Everything in your life is now screaming for you to follow love and nothing else but love. And when it comes to being creative you have it in you unlike so many, and you must use this creativity, you cannot afford to have it suppressed anymore. Somewhere towards the end of the month you’ll find yourself releasing a huge emotion that will support you to dive deeper and deeper into the here and now with ease.

Taurus

So it seems you are ready for the changes that you have created in your life and I feel that it’s around the 4th of the month where you’ll see that these changes are happening. It feels to me that you have chosen to no longer be afraid of the changes and this is where you are able to embrace what is going on for you at the moment dear Taurus. You have been working hard to move through some old emotions and it’s around the 10th of the month where you’ll notice that... ...READ MORE

By Me, Soul Sessions founder Eloise King

Within one week from now, I will have some HOT OFF THE PRESS news to share with you about Sex, Love and Domestic Bliss (or lack thereof)... it's the title of our next live session in Sydney, April 10, and a good one for singles, new couples, those more settled into their domestic union, and swingers alike... ie every human being interested in exploring what makes us tick when it comes to the love and relationships in our lives.

We have booked out the VERY swanky water front Sergeants Mess in Chowder Bay (Mosman) and the super hot Prinnie Stevens from The Voice will be performing Tainted Love. Do you remember her sexy TV battle with Mahalia Barnes from last year? Yeow!!! I still get goosebumps... every... single... time I watch it. You can watch it again here: 

There are a LIMITED number of the 300 tickets remaining and if there is any part of you that is thinking to come along, I strongly suggest you book your $1 seat now, because there ain't going to be any left for long. By the time my next email pops into your inbox, you will understand why I am sharing this message with you in this way today.

More info and tickets here: http://soulsessions.org/free/upcoming.php#post156

Don't miss the opportunity to be part of what promises to be the raciest event the bourgeois shores of Mosman has ever seen, and the most spectacular Soul Sessions live event to date.

I can't wait to see you there!

By Health Coach Leila Lutz, Momentum For Life

In my last Soul Sessions post we looked at your poo and you. Now, its time to move on to wee. Sounding a bit like kindergarten? Well sometimes the most simple things are the most telling and profound. 

I know you're dying to know about fat and cellulite, cortisol and circadian rhythms (and we WILL get onto that) but if you really do want to get healthy, then you must understand the nature of your own body's wisdoms - they will help you get to know yourself a whole lot better. 

And in order to get to know this body of yours, you need to...... ...READ MORE

By Kim Forrester, Spiritual Commentator

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~ Albert Camus
 

Happy New Year. Happy Birthday. Happy Holidays. Happy Travels. Happy Anniversary. As a word, happiness is an integral part of our daily language. As a concept, it has spawned a multi-billion dollar industry and has kept therapists, researchers and statisticians employed for over 100 years.

But for all the attention given to it by modern joy-hunters and motivational money-spinners, true happiness remains largely unattainable and entirely misunderstood by the wider population. So, what is happiness and, more importantly, how do we capture this elusive emotion? In answer to those questions, it is perhaps best to start by reiterating what deep, lasting, sustainable happiness is NOT.... ...READ MORE

By Me, Soul Sessions founder Eloise King

I was very proud this week to announce officially what is quite possibly the world's worst kept secret. Haha...

This week Soul Sessions became the only place on earth (for just a wee while longer) where you can get one of the limited number of FREE Pre-Summit tickets to  the Wellness Business Owners World Summit (WBOWS) 2013.

Many hundreds of people have already signed up for what is the world's largest online event for people working in wellness... and if you run a wellness business owner, or are thinking to start one soon, you can sign up for FREE Pre-Summit tickets too >>> HERE <<<.

So, what is WBOWS and why have I co-created it? To answer the WHAT question, you can watch the video above (under 5 minutes). To answer the WHY question, read on...... ...READ MORE

By Alina Berdichevsky of Alina B Coaching

Tantra. 
What conjures up inside of you when you are met by this word?

Loin-clothed yogis in twisty and pompous positions amidst patchoulied candlelight? Or famous freaks like Sting getting mystical in their trailer post Kabalah class on some sold-out tour?

Having been given the opportunity to get a glimpse of this practice over the past 5 years through the guidance of some amazing mentors, my similar assumptions are now blasted away and I can safely say that Tantra could be the salvation for everyday couples - suburban mums and dads in a coitus perma-rutus.

Whether you are a Buddhist, Vegan, Champagne-tarian or Paleo, what unites us all is that each human has a sexual energy. Like our digestive or respiratory systems, it.... ...READ MORE

By Alistair Horscroft, The Mind Academy 

In short there are two relationships that we 'need to master' in life:

1) Our relationship with our self 
2) Our relationship with others

Virginia Satir, one of the original models of excellence that Bandler and Grinder modelled at the start of NLP was a world renowned family therapist who observed that there where 5 'stress responses' that people default to in 'stressful' situations and they directly impact on the quality of their relationships with self and other.

As you make your way through the 5 types, honestly evaluate which one you might be when stress occurs. You will also most likely notice the stress responder type in your significant other, family, friends and work colleagues.

The 5 Stress Responses:

1. The Placater

The Placater is first of all concerned about how they will be perceived. Their center of attention is on themselves and particularly on how others see them. Their response to stress is largely to avoid it or to subjugate themselves to a more dominant energy. When confronted with 'uncomfortable truths or realities' they will generally try to avoid talking about them, often go to extraordinary lengths to avoid any such confrontation and 'placate' the other in any way possible to get back to the status Quo. The placater feels nothing without the agreement, support and energy of another.

The Body Language of a Placater is: Subjugated, often with palms up in defense.

The Underlying Need For a Placater is: To Feel Worthy

2. The Blamer

The Blamer, blames. When stressed they disagree, they try to assert their rightness and often resort to high emotion, raised voice or shouting and can even go as far as bullying. In reality when things are not going right or their way they feel... ...READ MORE

By The Gong Guru, Matt Omo

Pope Benedict XVI resigns and a photo surfaces of lightning striking the center of the dome on St. Peter’s Basilica (below right) on the same day. Perhaps God is trying to say something. Could it be an angry jab of distain from the heavens? Or perhaps someone just got the latest verision of Photoshop?

Whether it was a real image or not, the retrirement of the Pope, head of a 2000+ year old religion,  with a congregation of more than one billion people, is big news. Why is it such big news? Because the Catholic Church is not one for radical change. It has been almost 600 years since a Pope has retired and the Catholic Church still strongly adhears to it's orthodox views on marriage, birth control and abortion (to name a few).

The churches strong conservative views are held in high regard as aging men continue to take hold of papal office, with as much vitality as a worm left in the sun to dry. 

This strong grip on 2000+ year old doctrines and traditions is something that goes against the very nature of life itself. Why? Because the only constant in life is… CHANGE!

An acorn doesn't become an oak tree by holding tightly to it's hard shell. The ocean doesn't gain it's vast power from... ...READ MORE

By Power Living Yogi Keenan Crisp
 

Namaste! I have what many would say is a yogic view of life. All of the yogis that I’ve met would agree that there is just One Absolute Truth. But Truth, and what that means, is an issue that many great philosophers have wrestled with over time. 

Mystic Seema Dewan said, "The truth never changes. It always remains the same. Truth is brave, it knows no fear. Truth is simple, it seeks no complications. Truth is direct, it feels no pain." Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180CE) said, "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"  

So, what then IS truth? Truth is spoken about often, but labelled with many different and often conflicting words and phrases. For example, is it true that...  ...READ MORE

By Hedley Galt

I have a secret. Well... ah... I did have a secret, a really big one, until a few days ago when Eloise let the cat out of the bag as she posted details of the next live Soul Sessions event here.

Uh huh, yep... almost two years ago I took myself off to a 12 step meeting for Sex and Love Addiction (SLAA)...  and now, I am taking to the very public Soul Sessions stage, April 10, to tell my story.  ‘Oh my god am I really doing this?’ Apparently so. 

You see, just over a year ago I realised... ...READ MORE

By Intuitive Gahzaleh Lowe

Dear Soul Sessioners,

Everything I know comes from within me, including these. They are not written based on the planets as used in normal astrology. I know, and am certain, that the truth lies within me so I am able to access my own my Intuition to write these Horoscopes.

Next Soul Sessions installment April 1

Aries

Welcome to the month of March dear Aries, I have a feeling that this is the month where you'll be stepping deeper and deeper into yourself. As the month begins you'll find yourself recognising where you want to be more true to yourself and this will create some new changes in your world. Around the 3rd of the month you'll be prompted to make some new choices, which will support you to become more aware of the unexpressed emotional charges that are sitting deep in your body. On the 7th of the month a feeling to move forward on a project will show up and remind you that you do need to be more present with yourself. I feel that it's around this time that you'll recognise a deeper truth about where you are headed and this means it's time for an even bigger change. Someone in your life will present you with an idea that will have you spending more of your time doing what you love rather than what you think the world wants from you. It will be so important for you to make sure you are feeling free on the 18th of the month as you'll be able to step into some new possibilities that will support you financially in more ways than I can describe. I feel that you'll want to resist the changes that take place right in the middle of the month and this is simply because you don't understand them. I ask of you to be patient at this time and allow life to unfold as it needs to before you go off throwing judgments and demands on life as though it owes you something. Around the 27th of the month you'll come into a massive clearing and this is when you'll see that the patience has really been worth your time and the work you are doing to awaken has been more than worth your time, energy and money.

There is so much simplicity for you this month dear Taurus and you'll even find yourself dropping the drama time and time again. Oh finally you'll see that... ...READ MORE

By Kim Forrester, Spiritual Commentator

The name isn’t important.

It was something like “Inter-Galactic Cosmic Activation” or “Atlantian Transformational Stella Healing”. Whatever it was called, it was promising immediate universal intelligence, or instantaneous healing and enlightenment … or something equally as miraculous and enticing … to the visitors of a recent spirituality and wellbeing expo.

I was hosting a stand opposite them, trying desperately to rise above my (unfortunate) human-ness by consciously and repeatedly choosing not to judge. I will not judge. I CAN NOT judge. No judgement. Damn it.

To be fair, the Cosmic Activators themselves were perfectly... ...READ MORE

By Alina Berdichevsky of Alina B Coaching

We all have someone who, at this moment, triggers us. You know, that very person whose mere reference can send a chill through our bones. 

Too often, it's someone who's extremely close - a family member, colleague, or one time treasured friend, with whom we're stuck in an exhausting and unproductive standoff. 

But what if I told you that, at last, the energy between you could be transformed - without a word, a fight or a drawn out email? What if, through mere access to your own love, the core of your relationship could be reborn as new?  

Deep down, the pain means that the relationship needs healing more than anything else, but you've run out of strategies that may help... until now. 

So, I know the idea that you can change a relationship by yourself alone seems somewhat absurd, but I also know it works thanks to years of... ...READ MORE

By The Gong Guru, Matt Omo

I did an unexpected combat roll from bed into my wife's shoes at the bottom of the closet this morning. Although I was awake, my leg wasn’t. It was numb and tingling, due to my wife’s thigh being cinched over my hip like a tourniquet for the entire night.

Unfortunately, we weren't experimenting with page 23 of the Kama Sutra... but rather I was squished into the remaining six inches of the bed to make room for my 13-month-old daughter and I’d sacrificed the blood in my leg for a couple hours of sleep. 

As I pried my wife’s high-heels from my forehead and began massaging my leg, I thought... what if ...READ MORE

By Hedley Galt

In the past week I’ve become aware of four marriages that are ‘in trouble’. Not because of anyone having an affair, but because one person is questioning the status quo while the other person is desperately wanting to hold onto it. In all of these scenarios, the couples have been together for between ten and fifteen years, have children and are struggling with the decision: Do we stay together or do we split?

I get that this can be a tricky situation. Intimate relationships can be challenging at the best of times, but when one person starts asking the deep questions – Where the hell did the last forty years go? What am I doing with my life? Why aren’t I happy? What’s going to make me happy? - naturally this is going to cause a little friction in the kitchen... to say the least.

In many cases it takes a situation or event to trigger one persons quest to explore... ...READ MORE

By Leila Lutz

If you really do want to get healthy, I mean really healthy, then this fortnightly Monday blog post of mine is for you. Right here, I am going to walk Soul Sessioners through body wisdoms that will help you get to know yourself a whole lot better through the natural signs, expressions and rhythms of your body that you may not even be aware even exist right now.   

And if you do want to get healthy, I mean really healthy, you must be willing to stop suppressing all your natural expressions with the clever little medical inventions that keep you from ovulating, sneezing, coughing and even feeling... and be willing to get acquainted with your body, your fat, your cellulite, your mucus, your acne, your PMS, and even your poo... yes, your poo.  

So many people get... ...READ MORE