“PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO EAT ARE ALWAYS THE BEST PEOPLE”

Twice a week Karina Hayes walks into the Product/81 office carrying an assortment of bags overflowing with fresh veggies and ingredients. As Director of Quality of Life here at Product/81, Karina focuses on keeping our energies positive through a variety of wellness approaches from massage therapy to ensuring the space beams of life with fresh flowers and natural light. As if this wasn’t enough, she cooks a killer vegetable Curry to boot.  Inspired by her travels (fun fact: she spent the 90s touring the world with her band), Karina prepares dishes that are both healthy and melt-your-mouth good. Cooking has become a form of expression for Karina – and one that each of us at Product/81 is ever so grateful for.

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Product 81: Culture and Wellness as an Artform

Wellness & Karina Hayes

By Natology

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama

We are a reflection of our world and that world is changing. Throughout the last few decades, we’ve started to see the effects of what does and doesn’t work. There has been a steady decrease in health that’s taken a toll on us as individuals, as a species, and as a planet. The stress that we place on ourselves is a reflection of the stress we place on the earth; we are all mirrors and it now seems like we’re starting to behave as such. In business we find some of the heaviest stress, but some companies have started to turn to alternative solutions. Product/81 Creative Lab recently adopted a new approach to enhancing our agency culture and quality of life. We realize that productivity cannot happen from stress but from nurture, and so we introduced an energy worker to the team. Yes, that’s right an energy worker. Whether a massage, aroma treatment, chi balancing, or a simple conversation, taking a moment to be honored and to balance brings immeasurable results.

For more on this article go to http://culturedesigners.com/2013/09/04/wellness-karina-hayes/

Thank you Product/81 for being such a forward thinking agency and great client and thank you Kronos Nyne from Jitcloucclq Inc  for designing my blogsite and giving me freedom!

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Katog Tingzin Ling Miami is Honored to welcome Tulku Rigsang

You have probably read here and there that Katog Tingzin Ling Miami will be hosting Tulku Rigsang on the weekend of the September, 7 and 8.

You will notice on my blog site under  tab "Katog Tingzin Ling" that I coordinate Rinpoche's activities, along with our wonderful practitioners.  His ongoing calendar of events can be seen at www.katogcholing.com

Tulku Rigsang was brought to the United States to teach as part of Katog Cholings said activities. He is coming to Miami next week to teach on The Six Perfections.

May all benefit and please check out our local Miami site at www.katogtingzinling.com for our Calendar of events and special practice days.

Keep the date September 7 and 8

SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND!

Office Wellness

I am so excited to announce the expansion of Karina Hayes Wellness and Faith and Science Apothecary.  For the past 12 months I have been creating a new wellness program and working in the creative world of advertising, the heady world of law and in smaller business covering a variety of services. Its a serious endeavour to step into peoples lives authentically and bring the knowledge one has accumulated over time. I have had to learn to adapt to the many wonderful kinds of human beings, all with one thing in common, to feel good and increase productivity in the work place.

We are after all human and I as much as anybody else have my off days.   This can be daunting when working in the area of wellness I can beat myself up like the next person wondering if I really have the right to be doing this, can I really make a difference.   However on these days when my humanity causes doubt,  I have found that by stepping up to the task something magical happens almost always on a 9 out of 10 times basis.

When we work for the benefit of others, the pure intention of that somehow cancels out the bad day.  If we get out of the way and open ourselves up to really be present for what is going on around us,  and to give our expertise with truth and in the present, this is where the real miracles happen.

It is about hearing a person. Listening is one thing,  but it is hearing the wishes of another that travels to the heart to ruminate and digest what is heard, not just waiting for the person to finish so we can say what we want to say and do what we will do regardless.    Hearing opens up a world between you and another, listening to their body and where it needs to be attended and what the subconscious really wants.

For instance recently I was working for a production company that had a big job coming up.   The stress and anticipation of the day at hand was looming large in the room together with the buzz and hum of phones ringing, shouting across the room.  Clients screaming "I want it now".   It was hard to hear the requests of my clients storming in this malestrom of energy and tension.

My intentions and best plans for what I would be sharing that day flew proverbially, out of the window.
I myself stopped and decided to do my own practice for better guidance and figuring out what I would do that day.     I took the megaphone and very loudly with quiet demeanor announced that there would be a meditation session in 10 minutes.    (The megaphone was sitting on a large table in readiness for the production shoot in 4 days from then).

Long story short, most of the office including the client came to the meditation session. By the end of the session, hearts had calmed, minds in readiness to work together in unity rather than chaos, the result was a healing of client, advertising company and production company.   It really was an amazing day!

I continued the day by working with each individual in a more unstructured way but the result was more calm solid structure for them. People realized they were concerned about time constraints yet wasting serious time arguing.   I believe the 30 minute meditation ended up saving about one day of production time that may have been wasted arguing.  We shared tools to bring the questions most in front of them to be addressed one by one.  Productions can be overwhelming, and everyone gets spread way too thin, literally and exhaustion sets in .

I am posting this blog today to say thank you to my clients.  They know who they are and looking forward to working with more progressive companies that wish to bring value to their employees.
I have set my intention to work on a full time basis bringing wellness to the corporate infrastructure.  Smart people who meditate and look after their bodies and minds can make a real difference to the community at large.

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I feel it a privilege and honor to work in this field.   Its been a long journey with many years of study and practice.   I feel we truly do live in a time where Faith and Science have come together to validate one another, rather than be opposed.

Please check out the Dalai Lama on meditation and Anton Zeilinger on quantum physics!      

                                                                                      

"Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

Accepting change

We all know that change is inevitable.  We welcome some changes and some we push away, usually afraid to make the actual change until it unfolds.

I remember Robert Evans an famous 70's film producer who changed the face of the film world said something quite profound on a relative level.  He said that "preparation meets opportunity".

I think this sentiment can be applied to anything, be it work, love, family and life in general.

We can't anticipate change.   The universe is changing at a rate we can't even begin to understand quite yet.   We can however prepare ourselves for changes that come by using meditation in our daily lives.  Meditation can be taken into our daily lives to support us even while we do ordinary mundane things or while we are actively engaged in the work place.

Today my blog is not going to focus on my own words but to share a website with you.  www.katogcholing.com.   Here I introduce my teacher of ten years, Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche.   Everything I do leads back to my core beliefs and path.   From having right livelihood and trying to be a good example to my son and supporting community at a level where it can be accepted and by showing up to support  Rinpoche's activities.   Not much in the grand scheme of things but at the very least an attempt to share something special.

Khentrul Ripoche offers himself tirelessly for the benefit of others.   His website is www.katogcholing.com
Here in Miami we host a practice group at www.katogtingzinling.com where you can check our calendar for what is coming up.

I am forever grateful and indebted to offer myself to benefit others to the best of my capacity.   It is until the very heart of understanding our own true nature  we embrace change at every moment and prepare our minds to the best of ability by taking up that which is of benefit and putting down that which causes harm.

Even on a daily level we can do something nice for another.   Perhaps we can create more generosity by preparing a small token of our love.

There maybe someone you know who has not been given anything for the longest time.   We can pick a flower, make some cookies or just offer a nice neck rub.  Have the most beautiful day and may all find true contentment and happiness!

Shed some skin go and glow!

What is it about those clear days?  The days when the sun is the brightest, the sky is the bluest, or the clarity one feels after a sadness leaves, something lifts off us to reveal more of who we really are.  A rebirth of sorts, a new you or the old you underneath the pinning and trappings of what you thought you should be?

Summer is here so shed some skin on the outside to match your clear beauty on the inside.

This skin remedy of the day is suitable for both body and face.

Two cups crushed adzuki beans (blend dry beans until fine and grainy)
Add a favorite essential oil (today I chose a deep forest Juniper - rich, viscous and soft to the skin)
1/4 cup Organic virgin coconut oil.
5 drops calendular oil
squeeze of lemon juice

Scrub body and face before showering... after shower...turn to completely cold.   Refresh and close pores... this also builds a healthy immune system, winter, spring, summer and fall.

Go and glow!

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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