The Adventures of Ruby...... The scent of faeries - they do exist!

"Ruby could walk for hours in the bush, find a mossy log and just sit there listening to the sounds of birds, insects and the wind talking to the eucalyptus trees. She could smell the soft nectar of the flowers,  the warm sunshine happy on her shoulder mmmm how lucky she felt .  She imagined or did not imagine that faeries and other strange little creatures lived in the crevices and dark cool spots she came across while exploring.  Cool air would all of a sudden lick at her ankles and little blue stars would sparkle before her eyes. So quickly the stars would come and go, but come and go they did, many times. It was the faeries.  She could hear them whispering and somehow knew that she needed permission from them to enter their sanctuaries. Ruby would move on as she did not know the rules when it came to such things.   All she knew is that for some reason they were letting her know they do exist by showing themselves as blue sparkle stars.   Funny, isn't it strange that the mermarlins showed themselves to Ruby all of the time. But no the faeries were much more secretive and would not let her see their forms. When she left the cool spots the air grew thick and warm again and the blue stars disappeared. That’s how she knew it was true. They did exist!"

This is a paragraph from the book I am writing based on my childhood.

I have been recalling many things from when I was a little girl.  I think it has something to do with my mother being in her twighlight time.    We have this special connection.   I remember something then she brings it up on the phone just as I recall in a dream or early morning meditation.  Pop there it is clear as the time I was experiencing it the first time around.

I believe childhood to be a magical time.   It is an amazing era of technology, yes kids are brighter in a  cerebral mental way, however it is nature that is the best teacher, when it comes to the imagination and the good feeling our body gets when in the great outdoors.

Today I am working on a scent for children, reminiscent of my childhood.   Roots, firs, flowers and magic. Scents that linger in my mind from the days in the Aussie bush with Ruby...my alter ego.




It feels good to work with the inner child!

Everything falls apart...everything comes together.

Just when we think we have something right.... something comes along to smash it to pieces. The most dangerous roundabout we like to get on is Why? why? why?  It's funny we all have our little places we like to get stuck.... our stories we think are real... our moments we try to hold on to like they belong to us, our unrequited dreams we whine over instead of adapting to what's next or what is.

The cup half full, the cup half empty..or is it really the cup that is.   Today I am taking a look at my cup.  I see it half full, there are a few floaters... coffee grinds, a little dust that floated in.   It's not perfect, however it is my cup and when it runneth over it feels great, when it gets a little empty its usually me imagining it is.  Right now I'll just take a sip and spit out the dust.  Life is beautiful with its potholes and potbellies.

Today my contentment is in watching my son sleep in during summer, fresh fragrant incense fills the room with healing and purifying the air.  Crazy drill sounds permeate from above ... I am drinking chai coffee with fresh vanilla bean and spices and running off to a job job.     It is the simple things to remember when we are doing something that may not be our favorite thing to be doing.   I am grateful to know the difference and just be thankful.

My satisfaction lay in knowing that there is a way to sit within the expanse of all of the chaos, the highs and lows equal in their false sense of thinking we have arrived.   It is so much about the journey ...its highs and its lows and how we choose to deal with it.


"Hundreds of stupid flies gather
On a piece of rotten meat,
Enjoying, they think, a delicious feast.
This image fits with the song
Of the myriads of foolish living beings
Who seek happiness in superficial pleasures;
In countless ways they try,
Yet I have never seen them satisfied."


The 7th Dalai Lama  

Todays remedy for dissatisfaction is to try something you are afraid of and see what happens.

While you are on the journey notice how you are breathing, the thoughts that are coming up, the fear and anxiety around the thoughts....right there stop and breath, bring your awareness to the centre of your chest.   Keep breathing until the feeling disappears.... notice that the fear is not real, the thoughts are imagined.   Then take the leap ...do it..make the call, try a new step, take a flying leap into the unknown and be surprised.   Nothing bad can happen ..only good.  It's the liberation of freeing yourself that will be the reward whether you attain the goal or not.

Have a beautiful day and try a little absolute of rose and sandalwood oil to accompany your journey.

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Flowers are the answer to a lot of things!

Ok Im feeling a little under the weather today... I took four drops of Yarrow Environmental Solution. Bio dynamic, organic.   Yarrow, echinacea flower essence, pink yarrow, golden yarrow.   Millefleurs and sea salt.  Every day is an adventure into the garden of life.  


I think I will dream up a healthy flower cocktail for a dinner party that's coming up. You know you can cancel out toxins with flower remedies!    Never settle for the ordinary!

Happy Thursday and may all greatest aspirations be realized!

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When Life is Coming at You in All Directions - It's trying to tell you somthing!!

Its a fast world with so much going on for each of us every day.   There is no perfect and there is no need to chase perfect as it can only be found within.    When things go right we are happy and when things go wrong we are sad because we feel there might be something wrong with us or that people will judge us thus.   Guilt and the pursuit of happiness on an external level only lead to a lonely place.

This past few weeks have been amazing, frightening, joyful, blissful, sad and awakening.   There is always more to learn, more to love, more to let go of and more to give and importantly more to receive.
I could make a list including a few things - my mother now is in a nursing home so when i go to call her she is no longer where I always found her for her loving advice.   (She has handled this like the angel she is and it has revealed in me a more vulnerable side).   My apartment was flooded through an accidental fire above,  then out of the blue .... literally, by the sea and sky out back of my apartment building  - I fell in love, purely and without hesitation because ...well it just feels right.  The way we met was magic, deep and beyond. I feel this person makes me a better person and I hope vice versa.  Other things are also going on... such as normal life and personal stuff so its been a wild ride to this point.   This I see as purification and the gifts that come after. Angels have been coming from everywhere to support and throw verbal flowers my way.

Whether its been chaos or bliss there is a contentment I am feeling throughout all of it.   I know this is because of my constant practice and working with my heart/mind - alternating study (wisdom) and practice of meditation and other Buddhist practices as taught by Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche. The aim is to understand the true nature of my own mind in order to benefit others.   I have been awakened to this and worked for many years and of course, I still make mistakes like most of us. It's going to be a long road and the journey is the best part.

My work is informed by my experience which I only wish to be as meaningful in my life as any other thing I do.   I am a creative and understand both creatives and the ones that facilitate them to be so.

This week I am working with those in the corporate and creative worlds and will be offering special prices on my treatments.

Whether your looking to do something for a group, at work or alone check out my wellness work on the Menu Page and give me a call to set something up.

April has been a special month for me and I want to share my great energy and work by offering some special pricing and party discounts.

I am adding fresh herbs to all of my body treatments including parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme and other special ingredients for detoxification.

Have a gorgeous day!

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UNION

Its been a little while since I have written on my blog.  I admit I have felt a little guilty and we all know guilt is a no win fight with oneself.   This being said I will forgive myself for being slack.   Priorities change however consistency is crucial, so I will take a good deep look into the reason for my writers block.

As far as my work and inspired output of same, I feel better than ever.   There has been an merging quality of all aspects of my life.   This was not out of the aforementioned guilt but with one simple absorption in the understanding of the word experience.    I am experiencing the life I wish to live... not conceptualizing and grasping at it.   The proverbial brass ring, or is it a gold or platinum ring these days?

Today I would like to share the word Union.

If we can see the union of all things there is no longer any separation of things.  Perhaps in the beginning we must be aware of differences but once we know them it is easy to accept them and find a way to bring a union to any opposite polar in the realm of our experience.

I have been experimenting with this in my Spa products.

This past week I found a way to bring union to some interesting oil blends by extracting alive scents from flowers as absolutes dispersed into raw blends.   What is so amazing is the subtleness of the aromas.    What came to me is that all unions are different not only with people but in nature too.   The pungent strength of the flowers was tamed by the very same nature from whence they came (the garden) into the more subtle nature of another living substance (found in the garden also).

Isn't it wonderful how different we all are?.   A gregarious person can fall for a very introverted person if they can allow the other to be who they are and vice versa.

So for me my work always reminds me of something about myself and others.

Have a beautiful day.

This weeks exotic blend is raw oil of gardenia, blended with coconut oil and other oils with a hint of Ylang Ylang.  Ylang Ylang is an aphrodisiac used on the marital bed in Thailand and other Asian countries.

**UNION
 noun

1.

the act of uniting two or more things.

2.

the state of being united.

3.

something formed by uniting two or more things;combination.

4.

a number of persons, states, etc., joined or associated together for some 
common purpose: student union; creditunion.

A simple reminder - Breath & Trust

I want to remind myself and all of you out there about a little thing called trust.    I think trust and the breath go hand in hand.  

Every time I get afraid, think too far ahead, worry about how the bills will get paid, the old brain kicks in. It takes over like a run away train, jumping off the rails and falling again to move ahead anyway.   Life has its secret combination.   I believe that to be tcb as Elvis used to say "Takin Care of Business" or the taking care of the relative as my teacher Khentrul Rinpoche speaks of.   Then there is the heart/mind. The all knowing conscious other reality.   When I stop and stand back to watch my breath when I think too much I notice I am not breathing, just short little shallow breaths to get through.  My brain has become a monster, creating stress, tension lack of clarity and above all panic.    

This is when we need to stop, slow down and breath, tongue behind teeth, mouth slightly open with long deep breaths.   Rest and drop the shoulders, align to a straight spine and just become conscious of your breath.    I am not going into any mantra recitation here.   Lets just keep it simple.  

Think about the challenge at hand and relax.   Action is important, however trust is imperative. Take refuge in your all self knowing knowledge that all will be as it should be.  There is the relative and the absolute.  Finding a way to utilize both is the way to go.

While I am at my computer I make sure I am comfortable, have plants and ground the wires with large stones.   Light a small candle and use some unobtrusive essential oils to calm.   Get up and stretch, go for a walk and if you pray ...remember to take refuge.   Just sit and feel your own self knowing true nature.   Once you return to a sense of calm then go back to what you we were doing.

If you are interested in meditation please join us Mondays at Katog Tingzin Ling www.katogtingzinling.com

Breath and welcome every challenge with trust and the hard work that must accompany.

Have a gorgeous day and stay tuned for my Valentine's day specials <3

Karina