Hi @everyone. Yes, it’s a holiday but Coach Natasha will facilitate this class if you promise to show up. Please answer “I’m coming!” and I’ll send you the Zoom link even though you’re not a member yet. 😉 P.S. Most classes are locked for non-members.

Before you go to the cemetery today, I have this great practice to share with you! Do this to make the most out of your day, so you will not just be going for the sake of tradition or to save your dead relatives from the shame of having no visitors and the living ones from smelling candles and jasmine flowers/sampaguita by the evening from invisible visitors. Before I continue, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Ralfh as an artist and writer and Gerald as a coach, but I don't really coach here. I'm just here for Alon's and to join some of Karen's sessions. My tip for you is to bring a sheet of paper per relative you'd be visiting, and a black pen. And write to them while in front of their grave or in front of anything you associate with them. I had this idea and calling this midnight, and it makes total sense to do it! I felt called to move people and make them write. In teaching languages (what I used to do) and communication (what I do), we have 2 macroskills for expression: writing and speaking. Unless the thought comes out of your body, it is not expressed. I've noticed that it's not really a local culture to talk to the non-living like the tombstone of our relatives, despite our highly spiritual culture, so there is shame in being misperceived when expressing ourselves to our relatives no longer in the world of the living. That is why we write! To express our intentions to them while there, remembering their goodness, and all the small details that remind us of them, and how with all the changes that occured, they still have a place in our reality. For me, I want my grandmother to know that I still feel her long fingers in my palms whenever she gives me money secretly, for my uncle, the bananas he buy from Pasig, and for my dog, his spot beside the cabinet. After writing, you may leave it on their tombs, or by the altar, or dig the ground beside a tree to burry it. It depends on your faith and belief. It is certain that no matter what it -ism it is, we all shared love with someone in flesh, and we now continue to, but in spirit and thought.

Hello, people! I joined a meditation session with Miss Karen before, and I had a series of thoughts that could possibly be relevant to your personal and spiritual journey. Feel free to read them! Himayin natin at baka may mga madiskubre pa tayo. "On meeting the child, the dream, and the self" 1. Self sabotage and satisfaction. There is so much correlation between your relationship with your guardian/s and your sense of purpose, lalo na if you grew up always driven to satisfy their desires. If you dislike them, there is an emotional pleasure of knowing that whatever they like, you do not follow. This made me ask myself: "how many decisions have been made that are discrete forms of self sabotage due to unresolved guardian-child relationships?" 2. Ethernal loops If you look at your parents as children, you may find yourself in the shoes of your grandparents, and then realize that it is all but a loop. Without the presence of natural and decision-powered change, the loop of guardian-to-child will rotate as it is infinitely. I know that generational differences are wide and affected by multiple external factors, but to think that you are able to see them as children (if you joined today's sesh) with more kindness reveals so much of the cycles you were able to close, and those that you are about to. Isa isa lang naman ha! Maybe it's time to acknowledge the relationship changes you've done? 3. The endpoint When I hear the word endpoint, I envision a journey of reaching a destination. I think it reveals so much depth (and feels) to the statement: "Nakauwi na 'ko." There is a possibility that our state of home and success are tied together, perceiving it like a Pinoy-style commuting, where the "home" is an endpoint of all efforts, of what we wish to achieve as leaders in thought,business, and other personal ventures. Pauwi na ba ang lahat? San na kayo? But what if your home is actually pieces of your dreams that you are able to touch in the present? What if we create a new way of perceiving that does not disregard what it is that we have right now that was just once a wish?