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Welcome!

Dear Friends, Fall continues to shower us with blessings of vivid colors, crisp air and changes that encourage us to stretch and grow! This is a wonderful time of year during which we start preparing for the upcoming holidays and tend to spend more time with family and friends. In this issue of Joyful Evolution’s newsletter we offer some points on how you can learn to stretch yourself physically and emotionally so you can realize your true personal power and handle daily stressors more easily.

Upcoming Events

First we want to share with you information about an upcoming seminar with Will Linville, our Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class, and Donna’s ongoing Gentle Yoga Class, Our events, CD, Donna’s new book, and our new location at the Center for Holistic Wellness are collaborative inspirations with gifted individuals.

Join our very powerful Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class in which you will learn how to understand, apply and integrate the Life Changing Principles of Deepak Chopra's Best Selling Masterpiece, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success to Your Life!


What is Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class?
It is a daily resource available for individuals who wish to realize more of their potential. Apply the Life Changing Principles of Deepak Chopra’s Best Selling Masterpiece, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Understand true personal power and integrate it into your life through daily support.

What Makes Us Different?
Our program offers extensive live contact for guidance as the participants apply the knowledge to their lives. After the inspirational and motivational presentation at the beginning of each week there is a resource to tap into as life happens and participants find themselves defaulting to their same old patterns.

The other significant difference is the price… this extensive program is being offered at the introductory rate of only $99 monthly!

What Should You Expect?

Who Should Participate?
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Success tele-class is a resource for individuals who wish to realize more of their potential. It is well known that shortly after motivational speakers or books have inspired people to change, life happens and they find themselves defaulting to their same old patterns.


Why Should YOU or Someone You Know Join?

Our program is designed to make the changes sustainable by providing high impact, high frequency and daily ongoing support as you apply the knowledge to your life. The three essential components of sustainable change (high impact, high frequency, and ongoing support) are rolled into one powerful program!

Date: Enroll now because each week includes lectures on one of the Laws and Q & A discussion times so you can jump on the call when it is convenient for you to do so throughout the week.
Convenient Lunch & Learn Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 12 pm – 1 pm
Convenient Evening Time: Tuesdays, Wednesdays 8.00pm-9.00pm
Location: it is a telebridge call so call in from wherever you like!
Cost: $99 per month …start and stop whenever you desire
Call www.sevenspirituallawsofsuccess.com to register. The call in number and PIN will be sent to you after registering for the class.


Discover and Integrate your True Potential Will Linville and Joyful Evolution

  • Recognize destructive patterns that sabotage your happiness
  • Understand the when you exhibit signs of stress you are most likely giving your power away
  • Learn to maintain true personal power despite circumstances in your life

This workshop will examine the simple truth that exists for all of us…all the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, etc. They have affected your physical, mental and spiritual health.

For those of you who know Will Linville (williamlinville.com) and have experienced him we need say no more. If you have not had the opportunity, Will is an intuitive healer, a medical intuitive and soul guide. He integrates you with your authentic self, clearing blockages that are keeping you from expressing all that you intend to be.

Also, you receive, through Will, messages from unseen guides and Masters that accompany you throughout your life. The energy blockages that affect your health; physical, emotional and spiritual bodies can be released so you can heal.

Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have a happy and rich life. Join us for a powerful workshop that will help you seize the rudder of your own destiny and create a rich life!!!

Date: Saturday, December 10th
Time: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm
Cost: $69 per person
RSVP: Click Here or call 908.451.8877
Location: Center for Holistic Wellness (www.centerforholisticwellness.com) at 3108 Route 10, West in Denville, NJ


Gentle Yoga with Donna Visco

Join Donna for a beginner level, very gentle yoga class based on Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga that will enhance flexibility and help release stress. This class is perfect for all body types and physical conditions. If you have ever though about taking yoga and felt intimidated, this is the class for you!!!

Dates: Mondays and Friday mornings
Time: 9.30 am – 10.30 am
Cost: $10 per class
RSVP: Donna 908.688.7974
Location: Center for Holistic Wellness (www.centerforholisticwellness.com) at 3108 Route 10, West in Denville, NJ
**bring a yoga mat, one large towel and one washcloth to cover your eyes

 

The Beauty of Breath Awareness
an experience shared by Donna Visco

The act of breathing is so natural we often take it for granted; I know for sure that I did for many years. Over the last three years of my life I have come to really appreciate the act of breathing in a way that has made a difference in how I approach every day of my life.

I remember the first time I was really aware of my breath in a way that it consciously made a difference. It was about 3 years ago when I was taking a yoga class and I was in the head to knee pose called Janu Sirsasana intending that my head touch my knee while reaching for my left foot. I’d been taking this yoga course for a while and progressively had moved closer and closer to my toes, so much so that I could actually grab my foot. The ability to touch and then hold the bottom my foot took a couple of months to accomplish. On this particular day something different happened. I was looking at my knee, deep in this forward bend, holding my left foot, and I could hear the instructor softly and encouragingly saying, “breathe into the pose, allow your breath to take you more deeply, more gently into the pose, stretch yourself just a little further”. In that moment, my nose touched my knee, and I remember a welling up inside me, and thinking to myself, “My nose is touching my knee… for the first time in my adult life I am having face to knee contact!” As the tears welled up in my 51 year old eyes, I thought… “Wow! If I can do this, what else could I possibly do?” This accomplishment was a first for me, and all I had to do is simply BREATHE into it.

Around that time in my life I had begun to meditate regularly as well, which also calls for breath awareness. In learning to focus on my breath and the flow of it into and out of my body, I started to realize how different I felt as my breath slowed down. I became more relaxed, and a more settled peaceful feeling came over me, all by simply slowing down my breath! I found this interesting and I loved these wonderful side effects. Many times this relaxed peaceful feeling would carry into daily activities.

I’ve come to rely on breath awareness to assist me in moments of stress and challenges. “Just Breathe.” I say to myself and I recall that special time on the yoga mat and I hear my instructor’s voice softly saying, “Just breathe into the pose”, softly, gently…. just breathe into the pose” and I think … “Yes, Donna, just breathe into it… that’s it…just breathe.” And I find myself immediately feeling more peaceful, more clear in my thoughts and I am able to approach the physical or emotional challenge from a much calmer state of mind. I also find when I am more focused without mental friction I am more open to receive; solutions come more easily and very often I even see the blessing in what originally felt like frustration or irritation.

Today, I am fortunate to teach others how to create more balance and harmony in their lives and I’d love to share with you one of my favorite breathing exercises called Ujjayi Breathing, also known as ‘sounding or ocean sounding breath’. If you follow the simple steps below so you can begin to experience the healthy benefits of breath awareness. Ujjayi breath is known to clear and calm the mind, balance the heart rate, increase mindfulness and reduce internal heat caused by frustration or irritation.

Here are the simple steps:

1. Sit comfortably with your spine erect, or lie down on your back. Begin by taking a long, slow, and deeper than normal inhalation through your nostrils.

2. On the exhalation, slightly constrict your throat muscles so as you breathe out it sounds as if you are snoring. The outflow of your breath is through your nose with your mouth closed. The result is that you should sound like “Darth Vader”.

To get the hang of this practice is to first exhale the “haaah” sound with your mouth open...imagine you are fogging up a mirror in front of your mouth. Now make a similar sound with your mouth closed, directing the outflow of air through your nasal passages. This should result in the desired breathy snoring sound. Once you have mastered it on the outflow, imagine you are fogging up a mirror in the back of your throat as you inhale gently constricting your throat.

It is very simple really and the beautiful thing is that whether or not you don’t have to practice yoga or meditation to reap the healthy benefits. Just relax and breathe easily and notice the changes your awareness on your own breath brings into your life. While you practice this simple exercise take a moment to look around you and enjoy your surroundings, acknowledging how much you are a part of what is happening around you.

When you start to become more aware of the simple things you may find that in that moment you realize what a gift life is, and you can more fully enjoy the present moment of what life presents to you.

So the next time you find yourself in a state of confusion, anxiety, frustration or irritation whether in the office, on the road or at your local super market, etc. give yourself the gift of Ujjayi breathing! Happy Breathing!

For more information on how to understand and tap into your true personal power we encourage you to participate in our Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class click www.sevenspiritulawsofsuccess.com for more info.



This Month's Soul Food Recommendation

We are honored to support the I am a Miracle (www.iamamiracle.com) Book Team! This month’ s soul food resource is a true, from the heart, book of miracles that will motivate and entice you to read every story. A must for every home, office, and wherever hope is needed.

I Am a Miracle features many well-known authors, such as, Mark Victor Hansen, Mary Manin Morrissey, Larry Wilson, Dr. Todd Michael, and Dr. Michael Beckwith plus many more! Also included is a fabulous musical CD with 16 original songs, sung by renown inspirational musicians, including Karen Drucker, Rickie Byars-Beckwith, Charley Thweatt, Daniel Nahmod, and Lynn Rose. Guaranteed to lift your spirits and feed your soul!

The I Am a Miracle book team originated during a Miracle Mastery conference in Portland, Oregon, January 2005. Participants were invited to co-create a project in which they would demonstrate the miracle of their individual expression. Several of us answered the call and chose to create a book of short stories, music, and art, which would provide the opportunity for numerous miracle-worker contributions. Thus, I Am a Miracle.

With Gratitude:
To the participants of our live classes, tele-classes and seminars, your energy and your desire is a significant part of our driving force. Thank you for supporting us and for being the fire that heats our hearts and souls so we can stay on purpose in sharing life transforming information clearly and openly as we continue on our journey together.


Namaste,

Donna and Jennifer