Updated on May 21, 2018
March Newsletter
Hello Beloveds,
Happy March to you and first day of Spring! (At least it was the day I wrote this) 🙂
Spring is one of my favorite times of year. Everything starts to come back to life and bloom with vibrancy, much like how I feel after a long, dead winter. I naturally have more energy and feel extra outgoing in my work, social life, and desire to move and create. Yay for all that!
Last month I spoke a lot about my energetic sensitivity, and this month I’ve noticed a sense of Flow starting to seep in around that. The sensitivity is still there, but a deeper awareness has come through, allowing for more movement and grace. In my experience I don’t feel we ever “get rid of or fully release” our wounds, more it seems like we just learn how to surrender to them.
Surrender then opens the wound for the pain to come out and love to come in. Love is light, and light is consciousness, which breeds integration through the full being. We may go through this process again and again on any particular wounding, depending upon it’s depth – ie: how many lives we’ve incarnated with this wound intact, if it’s a part of a long line of ancestral lineage, if it happens to be karmic in nature, etc.
Really this information isn’t even required to know with the exception that it provides access to compassion and grace. Knowing that a carried wound has been with us for a long time and that it’s inherent in our familial lines, helps us to soften to ourselves in the healing of them. This is what Past Life Regression sessions are good for, to help us know more of ourselves in our totality, offering broader awareness and a deeper knowing of Self. If this is making lightbulbs go off and you’re interested in a regression, click here.
Speaking of karmic, ancestral wounding. I have recently been working on a wound carried through my lineage that I was able to heal on a level deeper then I ever have before, in regards to my relationship with food.
My partner and I just successfully completed Whole 30. A program where you only eat whole foods for 30 days. No grains, dairy or sugar. Let me repeat myself, NO Grains, Dairy, or SUGAR. This achievement still bewilders me! That I was actually able to only eat whole foods for an extended time WITHOUT CHEATING.
Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a sweet tooth and it’s rare for me to ever go more then a week without somethinnnnggg sweet. And you know what’s even crazier? It wasn’t that big of a deal. Yeah sure, there were 2 birthday parties where I really could have ate a piece of cake. I was jones’n for wine on a few occasions, and we did have to get creative in the kitchen, but it wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be.
This is HUGE on so many levels. First, karmically, I’ve been told that I spent a lifetime as a victim of the holocaust in a concentration camp where I was starving and without food for weeks. I know, I know, this may sound really “woo-woo” but it resonated and I’ve seen visions of this. Therefore any sort of “restriction” of food in this life, may trigger the wounds of that time.
Second, I shared a post the other day about how this is connected to my family, here’s a snippet in case you missed it:
“Food has always been hard for me ever since I was a kid. Growing up in a family of over-eaters that used food for everything – pain, pleasure, reward, and boredom – I quickly took on this behavior and never knew how to eat from my body. Eating was always mind-directed, never from an intuitive sense. When to eat, what to eat, and how much was all based on strategy and manipulation.”
As a child I took on the eating behaviors of my family instead of eating from a connection to my own body. Click here to read full post. This disconnection between my mind and body created a lot of other issues, including developing anorexia in my 20’s after my father and good friend died. Losing them was not the reason why I developed an eating disorder – although you’d think it was – no, they were just the trigger to a wound already in place. A deep wound of unworthiness, self-loathe, and disgust. Deep breath after that, whooo.
Taking on the Whole 30 challenge required stepping out of this deep seated, ancient wound that held things in place that comforted me, yet were killing me. You know, how we want to be strong, abundant, and in our power, but are scared to fully do so? How playing small and not using our voice is comforting because it’s familiar? Yeah, stuff like that. Often we want to move on from these wounds, to lose all the weight and get our “bodies” back, before we’ve done any of the real inner work to heal the trauma that’s holding the weight in the first place.
I was able to accomplish Whole 30 at this point on my journey because I was emotionally ready, not because I was physically capable or set my mind straight with the program. This is often the misconception. “If I can just get my butt to the gym X times a week, eat nothing but carrots and celery, and force myself through the will of my mind, I’ll get there.”
Believe me, I tried that way many times and as a result have had many failed attempts at eating programs in the past. All because I refused (or was unaware) that I was cutting corners around the trauma, just trying to get to the finish line where my ego felt safe.
But it doesn’t work that way. There are no shortcuts to healing. The only way out is through. We heal through the journey, not once we reach the destination.
I chalk this Whole 30 victory up to preparation (all the inner healing work I’ve done) meets good timing. I was finally ready to address this layer.
And all of this could shift again as I continue to heal myself and go into deeper layers of my unconscious. Nothing is final or ever complete, that’s why Flooooowwwing, makes this ride much more enjoyable.
Blessings Beloveds!
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Lisa <3
Upcoming & Reoccurring Events
Deep Stretch + Chakra Balancing Meditation: Sunday Evenings 6-730pm @ Karma Tribe Yoga. Suggested Donation $5-10
Class Update: Guided Meditation ~ Wednesday Evenings 730-800pm (previously 730-815pm, changed to better accommodate participants) @ Karma Tribe Yoga.Suggested Donation $5-10. The weekly theme is posted on my Facebook Business Page and IG accounts.
Intro to the Chakras: April 7th from 1-5pm @ KC Yoga Kula. $60. Sign-up here.
Chakra Yoga Intensive: April 14th from 12-9pm @ Karma Tribe Yoga. Sign-up here.
Guatemala Magic ~ Women’s Yoga & Healing Retreat: January 5 – 12, 2019. HEAD’S UP! Join my list to be the first to know (and receive a massive savings for VIPS on this retreat) click here. For retreat details, visit this link.
Heartland Yoga Fest: On June 23rd of the Heartland Yoga Fest I will have a small booth with my healing table set up. Stop by for Chakra Readings and Express Energy Sessions! For tix, click here.
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To stay up to date on my events, check out my Events page on my website: lisalola.net/events
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Contact me for questions or concerns.
Updated on May 21, 2018
February Newsletter
Hello Beloveds,
Happy February to you. I’ve been procrastinating writing this as I’ve felt perplexed in how to even begin sharing my progression from last month’s newsletter about the Guatemala retreat I co-led and having so many tummy and sleep troubles (if you didn’t catch it, check out the repost on my website here). As I said at the end of my January’s newsletter, I was told I may have had food poisoning while on retreat, all to find out a week after I sent it out that I didn’t!
I’ve done a lot of feeling into what was going on and was confirmed by what Spirit told me, I was energy sick. My combination of being extremely energetically sensitive and my empathic senses were detoxing. The energy on Lake Atitlan provided a strong mirror of what needed to be released – and so often we get sick in order to let go of what is no longer highest and best. Another way of describing energy sick is I was going through a healing process of working through old energetic patterns and they were getting bunked up in my system as they were trying to leave (manifesting physically as stomach issues) and my mind was holding onto them (manifesting psychically as the past).
I also came across a term I had never heard of before upon doing my Enneagram test, (personality type indicators, check out more here) Somatization. I have been type’d as a 1 with a 2 wing, and if you know anything about Enneagram or 2’s, they are givers by nature and often can take on the diseases of those they support. Hello being an Energy Healer! However I’m a primary 1 so it’s not quite the same for me as I know I have to take care of Self first before I can take care of another (primary 2’s aren’t organized to do this, always denying self and putting others before them). But having 2 as my wing brought some things into awareness.
This word Somatization. It means, “the tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms and to seek medical help for them. Somatic means any mental disorder which manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but which cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder.”
Essentially what I took this to mean is I pick up the energetic stress of environments and those around me so much that they are created and manifest as physical symptoms or dis-ease in my body. WOW! This explains soooooooo much! LIGHTBULBS are going off! It makes sense why I contracted an Ameba, Parasites, Asbestos and other toxic diseases – always caught in energetic form through Quantum Biofeedback, thank Goddess (check out this link here for more info and my QB DR) because I’m pretty much an open vessel for anything to come in and have a seat at the table! (I’m working on shifting this as I type!)
Because of my sensitivity, it’s like I naturally don’t have any boundaries or energetic guards on duty monitoring what’s trying to come in, so anything – of any vibration high or low – get’s to invade my system. If you are the type of person who feels like they are always holding the energetic weight of a room or space for those around you, and you’re sensitive like me to people, places, things, foods, drinks, and also possibly fabrics, scents, and lighting – you most likely are – including all the sh#t that person/space is carrying as well.
It doesn’t mean there isn’t any hope and or that nothing can be done, it just requires the awareness that you’re sensitive and then taking the precautionary steps to clear and shield yourself habitually, as I am still learning to do.
By becoming aware of your energetic sensitivity, along with how you hold your own energy and take in – or not – the energy of another is extremely important to know. You could be carrying dis-ease’s that aren’t even yours. You may not be able to sleep because of high electromagnetic frequencies close to your bed. There are a whole SLEW of variables that could be contributing to your discomfort. And they all start as energy.
Low vibrational frequencies of self-hate, shame, guilt, un-healed trauma, etc. cause wear and tear to the body, even if we do eat right, sleep enough, exercise and meditate. At the very beginning of you when your Spirit was born, and at the end of you when your body dies, you are energy. You start and finish as energy, So let’s begin looking at the energetic root of our issues in order to liberate ourselves and stand in the powerful Being’s that we innately are.
This is the type of work I do as an energy healer. I have been working on my energy and developing my knowledge of the Chakra System (our energy anatomy) through my own experience so that I may help my clients with their own. This work is powerful and transformational. It has literally saved my life (along with my own healer’s and support systems) and I am ever so grateful to be put on this planet at this time to do, be, live and BREATHE my purpose.
And so it is – AHO beloveds! If you are interested in learning about your energy anatomy and how it’s all connected Mind, Body, Emotions and Spirit – you can schedule a private session or join me for 2 upcoming Chakra Classes – information below!
Blessings,
Lisa
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Upcoming & Reoccurring Events
Deep Stretch + Chakra Balancing Meditation: Sunday Evenings 6-730pm @ Karma Tribe Yoga. Suggested Donation $5-10
New: Guided Meditation ~ Wednesday Evenings 730-815pm @ Karma Tribe Yoga.Suggested Donation $5-10. The weekly theme is posted on my Facebook Business Page and IG accounts.
Chakra Basics: March 3rd from 2-4pm @ KC Yoga Kula. $25. For tickets, click here.
Intro to the Chakras: April 7th from 1-5pm @ KC Yoga Kula. $60. For tickets, click here.
Chakra Yoga Weekend Workshop: April 13 – 15th @ Karma Tribe Yoga. Stay tuned for more details.
Guatemala Magic ~ Yoga & Healing Retreat: January 5 – 12, 2019. Stay tuned for more details, email me to be put on the interested list!
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To stay up to date on my events, check out my Events page on my website: lisalola.net/events
To stay energetically inspired follow me on my Facebook Business Page and IG accounts.
Contact me for questions or concerns.
Lisa <3
Updated on January 28, 2018
January Newsletter
Hola Amigos!
I am just returning from my trip to Guatemala where I co-led a healing and yoga retreat with Lauren Leduc of Karma Tribe Yoga. She’s a master yoga teacher and I got to practice my skills leading energy healing workshops abroad. Here’s a photo of our group above!
The retreat was amazing. Villa Sumaya, the retreat center where we stayed was out-of-this-world spectacular. The views were breathtaking. Located back in some jungly-tree’d forest right on Lake Atitlan, surrounded by 29 volcanoes. Talk about hello Mother Earth! She was so alive all around us, it was hard not to feel her pulse.
The center’s employees and managers were soooo organized too, making it a breeze for Lauren and I to lead. Literally all of our needs were taken care of, so we could focus on our work and holding space for our participants. Lauren has led yoga retreats all over the globe and said this place was the most well run one yet – score!
Everyday started with 630am yoga, meditation, then breakfast and usually some kind of excursion or free time for massage or energy work. Then lunch and energy healing workshops in the afternoon, free time, dinner, and free time before bed.
I was once again reminded how much I love my work. One of my most favorite things in the world is witnessing another’s transformation, there is truly nothing like it. To see someone open up, express themselves, and claim who they are is one of the most empowering experiences to witness. To watch the participants on the retreat move through limiting beliefs, emotional wounds, and family burdens was remarkable. I walked away having learned so much myself and deeply thankful for the opportunity.
Speaking of learning myself, that was one thing I wasn’t expecting to experience so much of on this retreat. I was focused on leading, holding space for others, listening, and providing a compassionate container. Little did I know Guatemala had other plans in store for me.
Physically speaking, I kinda got my butt kicked. I had some pretty terrible stomach issues while there. My digestion system has been my achillies heel since I was a child, a constant teacher for me that didn’t let me off the hook this time – retreat leader or not – and I couldn’t figure out what was going on with it or what I needed to make it better. Upon returning home and seeing my holistic Dr. it appears that I may have had food poisoning, which explains so much!
So much of my experience was related to the healing of my 3rd Chakra, the Solar Plexus. This Chakra holds the stomach, liver connected to the large intestine (hello digestion), as well as our control center, the house for our ego and soul, and our self identity and belonging. I felt all of this challenged on this trip. It fascinates me to see what we experience emotionally is directly tied to us physically. I felt really out of my element there – I’ve haven’t been out of the country in a long time, I’ve never been to Guatemala, I hadn’t led an international retreat before and all the unknown things that come up with that, so I felt VULNERABLE and my body knew it!
I’m also very energetically sensitive – meaning I can feel the energy of people, places, and things deeply – and the energy on Lake Atitlan moved VERY fast. A worker told me Karma moves very fast there, and boy do I believe it. The place is an energy vortex, which are powerful and transformational energy centers where the intersection of natural electromagnetic earth energy lies. Which makes a lot of sense given the large presence of Mother Earth on Lake Atitlan.
To me it felt like churning, spiraling energy moving very fast in the atmosphere, and therefore, inside of me. At night it was so intense that it felt like my third eye and crown couldn’t shut down, and as a result, I didn’t get much sleep. But the odd part was that I wasn’t tired during the day. I was awake, alert, focused and on my game. My body was a little lethargic, but I still moved pretty well throughout the day. Fascinating. Makes you question the whole, “must need 8 hours of sleep every night” jargon, huh?
It was somewhat embarrassing, being a leader and having so many issues with my body assimilating to the land. The experience reminded me that often the best leaders lead through vulnerability, and that we often have to break down the old to rebuild new.
I also saw the power in showing others it’s okay to be human and show emotion. This retreat taught me a large dose of humility and breakdown of my ego, which always wants to get it right and look good. We can get so caught up in thinking we need to be perfect to be leaders in our lives, and in thinking that our leaders need to be perfect, that we all miss a lot of opportunity for growth through imperfection and “mistakes.” Like I’ve said before and I truly believe, our imperfection, flaws, vulnerability, and so called mistakes are a GOLDMINE of information to heal, grow and expand inside ourselves. So let’s begin using them as such!
From this whole trip, really I have my body to thank, for releasing all those emotions I was feeling that manifested as digestion issues/food poisoning. It’s interesting to see what our body will attract – in this case food poisoning – in order to let go of what we no longer need – in this case, fear, control, belonging. And it will also support us in excellerating our growth – manifesting in the form of sleepless nights for me. It really is all how we look at it!
From this perspective, we really are always getting what we need, no matter how hard, painful, or frustrating something is, Spirit is constantly working to support us in bringing up what is incomplete to be made whole again.
I hope you know how whole, perfect and complete you are as you read this, even with all your flaws and imperfections.
Blessings beloveds!
Lisa
Updated on January 23, 2018
Sleepless Messages from the Divine
Have you ever gone long stints of time without sleep? Where you keep thinking, “tonight’s the night I’m going to rest” and you end up laying awake again, too wired – no matter how tired you are?
You may be doing everything right. Removing coffee from your diet completely, herbal sleepy time tea at night, no electronics for X plus hours before bed. The list goes on and on and on. Still no sleep.
I’ve been going through this off and on for many months now, and I’m finally getting to the place of seeing that this in itself, is a Spiritual awakening.
What I mean by that is, that my body/mind/Spirit is going through some kind of energetic releasing and upgrading process, probably traveling through dimensions of universes and sub space in order to get me aligned to where I need to be as dictated by my Higher Self. And that I asked for this process all along. You know when we set intentions and ask for Spiritual awakening? To grow in mind, body, and Spirit? That not sleeping may be a part of that journey.
As I write this I am coming off of 12 days in which I’ve only slept 4 full nights. 8 of those days I was leading a healing retreat in Guatemala and was getting anywhere from 1 hour – around 4. Talk about a fast pace of Spiritual ascension!
The first night I couldn’t sleep on retreat I kept teetering back and forth from “oh my gosh, how am I going to lead retreat tomorrow when I haven’t slept at all?” to “well, not sleeping is where I am, so this must be where I’m suppose to be, and I know that the Divine has my back no matter what, so I guess I’m not meant to have a full night’s rest for tomorrow’s activities.”
I saw that my energetic state was a direct result of how I chose to respond in my mind. If I chose suffering, the “oh my gosh, this is terrible, how am I going to be able to perform X? Where am I going to find the energy to do Y?” That took me down a rabbit hole of low vibrational energy and I was caught in pushing, suffering and turmoil all day. On the other hand, if I chose to be curious and see how the Divine was working through me by providing this experience of not sleeping, my Spirit stayed high and I gently moved through the day full of ease, flow, and Grace.
There’s something interesting about leaning into the energetics of it. If I’m not able to sleep well, and knowing that all is in perfect, Divine order, then having a full nights rest and being fully energized tomorrow must not be the energy that will completely support me. I must need to be a little tired in body, mentally off in mind, and emotionally more sensitive.
Have you noticed after not sleeping for a night, or 2 or 3, you start to break down, perhaps into emotional release, that you were unable to get too when fully rested? That normally on full sleep, you may not be able to relax and move more slowly through the day, so Spirit’s way of answering your call to linger more, to take things more easy during the day is by withholding rest so you feel tired enough TOO slow down?
These are messages I’ve been hearing Spirit say to me through not sleeping. I hope this may help you make more sense of sleepless nights. Message me lisa@lisalola.net with your sleepless night experiences and what messages from the Divine you’ve been getting. Let’s be in the inquiry together <3
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