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Happy New Year and Russian Tradition of Gift Giving
Written by Yuliya Cohen   
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

First a Russian Joke: - a Santa Claus and a Grandfather Frost (Ded MOROZ) a Russian counterpart Of Santa, bump into each other on streets of a city, “How is it going” asks Ded Moroz. “Not so good”, responds Santa, “having a hard time finding chimneys to get in”. “Yes, Russian generally do not build chimneys” nods Ded Moroz with sympathy. “How do you get in?” asks Santa, perplexed. “Oh, through the window” explains Ded Moroz. "Why not through the door then?” shrugs Santa. “Then it would not be a surprise!” Exclaims Russian Santa.

It is true that most of the houses in Russia, including those in villages do no have conventional fireplaces. Oh, and there are not reindeers, of course. Ded Moroz gets around in a carriage driven by three horses that offer enough power and speed to get him to where he needs to go—the Russian Santa has no need for eight reindeers  As a reflection of the pagan origins of this holiday, Grandpa Clause’s carriage is sometimes depicted pulled by wild animals.

And one more thing - the meeting in the funny story could only have happened in a place like Ukraine, where Catholics may celebrate Christmas in December. Christmas in Russia is most widely celebrated on January 7, according to the Russian Orthodox calendar. The Secular Russian New Year trumps Christmas in importance with the New Year tree and gift giving on January 1, when children unwrap their presents brought in through a window by Russian Santa - Ded Moroz

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Touched by the Hand of the Master
Written by Yuliya Cohen   
Thursday, December 01, 2016

hand caresses face

A true master does not shout his greatness from the hilltops or through flashy adds nor does he demand recognition. The depth of his mastery is revealed powerfully during ordinary moments and simple gestures.

This took place last spring at ISTA 1 in Guatemala. I was seated next to the workshop facilitator Bruce Lyons during a lunchtime break when he noticed a speck of food that landed on my chin. He reached out with his hand to wipe it off my face. What happened next was one of those illuminating and transformative moments, that shift your consciousness and light up your psyche when you are least expecting it. In his simple touch there was so much reverence, kindness and tenderness- it took my breath away and melted my heart into openness. Bruce’s touch was an outpouring of universal consciousness as pure love, and that speck of food on my face became the most precious thing that existed in that moment.

I was being very still trying to memorise this touch, as every cell of my body was drinking in the vibrational energy of the teaching pouring into me from his direct transmission. I wanted to take it all in, to take it into the very core of my being, and into my heart. I asked myself - Can I bring this level of sacredness with which Bruce wiped the crumb off my face to everything and everyone in my life - my loved ones, my clients, my friends and strangers i meet? Can I be that way with myself, when I touch my own body, my own heart? Can I access it whenever i have to wipe off all the fallen crumbs that drop down on me throughout my life journey?

That day at a lunch table, as I was receiving from Bruce an expansive heart-opening experiences that allowed for a new window to pop open in my being, I knew i was in the presence of a true master. Months later It still feels like a huge gift — a powerful dose of new awareness received through our connectedness to contemplate and grow. This is the nature of awakening, as I experience it, not transcendent through detachment, but en-heartened awareness through embodied presence. Now when I say I AM LOVE I know what it actually feels like, because the memory imprint of being touched so deeply at the lunch table during the temple training lives on in my temple body.

 

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Healing Room Stories. Shaking in trauma release: The Missed Landing
Written by Yuliya Cohen   
Sunday, October 09, 2016

Trembling and shaking are considered to be a natural therapeutic form of trauma release mechanism. There are many trauma release exercises (TRE) that encourage and activated shaking and tremors.  The story teaches us the importance of approaching these mechanisms with care and awareness.

We were sitting on the couch in my healing room.  I was holding her in my arms as she was connecting to an emotional knot held tightly in her belly.  We knew it had to be some intense past trauma.  That is why I held her. Her body started shaking, and the shaking was growing more violent.  I kept holding her.  A long time ago, even before my career as a healer,  I was trained in catharsis based counseling, so I was totally ok with people shaking, and crying, or even screaming and shouting.  But here something was not right.  After a few moments of confusion, I knew what it was - she was completely gone, energetically I mean.  Her shaking body in my arms felt empty, almost like a hollow tube. It was a very strange feeling. Her body was here, without her.

- Hey, "I said softly”,  “Something must have happened. I feel as if you are not here, not in your body right now.  Where are you? Where did you go?”

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Healing the Energy Cords - The Ties that Bind
Written by Yuliya Cohen   
Saturday, December 10, 2011

As the holiday season appraoches, would you like to know how to remain energetically connected in a healthy way to your spouse, your family members, or in any other relationship?

In this one day workshop, on Saturday December 17, from 10am-5 pm.

Yuliya will teach:

· Principles of formation and healing of "energy cords".  You will learn to see, draw and analyze the energy cords to specific people in your life with whom you  have formed relationships.

· How to recognize the "need" that forms the energetic basis of any relationship and renders us vulnerable to energy loss.

· How to restructure energy cords in a way that stops energetic drain, by releasing the dysfunctional parts of the energetic connection.  For More Information and to sign for the workshop go to http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Freedom-From-Trauma/

A True Story of A broken Mother/Son connection

I want to share with you a true story that demonstrates how important it is to be aware of what energy cords are, how they are formed and work so that you can develop your own Energy Intelligence.

Kate is a woman who recently came to me for a treatment. Her lower chakras were shut down which blocked energy in her lower body.  Her complaint -- being chronically tired and a host of immune problems.  Add a comment

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