Enlivening and Deepening Resources
This is a collection of resources which I hope will enrich and deepen your life. They include my guided meditations and blogs, and transformational websites, books, movies and spiritual teachers who I love and value greatly.
Elizabeth Blue and Lucia Maya
Luminous Blue Blog
This blog brings readers along on my journey with my daughter Elizabeth Blue during her year of living with cancer, and dying in an incredible state of grace. It offers current insights and revelations, and combines my writing with Elizabeth’s poetry and memoir. Read Luminous Blue Blog here
My Writing on Grief
I was invited to write a chapter in a beautiful book on the loss of a child. Each chapter details the story of the relationship we had/have with our child, and how we, as parents, have found ways to survive and thrive in the face of the immense grief of losing a beloved child. You can purchase Loss Survive Thrive in Kindle or hardcover here. My chapter is titled “Losing Elizabeth and Gaining in Love”.
Healing Meditations
Lucia Maya reading “Grist for the Mill” Meditation written by Ram Dass and Stephen Levine
This meditation was recorded during a Oneness Blessing Circle on May 23, 2012.
Movies and videos with beauty and depth:
Talk by Dr Benjamin Asher, an amazing healer/physician in NYC. He talks about moving from fear-based medicine into the field of love, where we experience true healing.
This is the core of my own healing practice as well – I see energy healing/Reiki as a way of bringing Divine unconditional love through me, to my client. And the conversation/teaching always circles back to finding ways to be grateful, and loving what is, rather than what we think it “should be” or what we prefer…
Michael
As It Is in Heaven
Get Low
Ted Videos – talks on everything, including these two:
Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Brene Brown – The Power of Vulnerability
Some films recommended to work with shadow aspects:
Black Swan
Breaking the Waves
Whale Rider
Courage – to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart…
Books and authors wh0 have greatly influenced my work and my life:
The Path Is Everywhere – Matt Licata
Messages in Water – Masaru Emoto
Loving What Is – Byron Katie
The Gift – Hafiz
The Essential Rumi – Coleman Barks translation
Joy’s Way – Brugh Joy
Journey of the Heart – John Welwood, excellent book on relationships
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Coaching with Spirit – Belf
Traveling Mercies – Some Thoughts on Faith – Anne Lamott
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom – Christiane Northrup
Reference Guide for Essential Oils – Connie and Alan Higley, based on Young Living oils, very thorough, organized by both attributes of the oils, and by symptoms
Graceful Passages – collection of pieces on dying and transitions
Reiki Books
Reiki Manuals, which I give and/or recommend to my Reiki students:
Finding Your Inner Gift, Inner Gifts Uncovered, Claiming Your Inner Gifts – Marnie Vincolisi,
Reiki The Healing Touch, First and Second Degree Manual – William Lee Rand
This Is Reiki, Transformations of Body, Mind and Soul – Frank Arjava Petter
Music to Live and Work by:
Zelie Duvauchelle – Hu! and E Ho Mai
Krishna Das
Anugama – Shamanic Dream and Shamanic Dream 2
Deva Premal and Miten
Jai Uttal
Colleagues/teachers/guides:
Zelie Duvauchelle
Maria Elena Cairo
Ann Marie Chiasson, MD
Kathleen Bowman
Byron Katie – The Work
Ashanna Solaris – my Reiki master
William Rand – my Karuna Reiki ® master
Useful websites:
Sounds True – for CD’s, books and DVD’s on all topics of health, meditation, spiritual and personal growth…
Consumer’s Advocates Essential Oils Research – Guide to Safety, Quality, Consumer Education and Sustainable Sourcing. Benefits, risks and science behind essential oils effectiveness for you, your children, pets and clients.
Recommended Products Your Body will Love
(only sites I personally buy from):
Young Living Essential Oils Site – fabulous blends. I use these on myself daily and all my clients. Use my member number to create your own account: 553228
Nature’s Oils – where I buy many of my single essential oils, great quality and prices
Mountain Rose Herbs – for high quality, low cost bulk organic herbs
Grateful Body – highest quality personal care products, I believe in using skin care products that you could eat, since our skin absorbs everything we put on it!
Favorite Divination Tools:
The Voyager Deck – James Wanless
Viking Rune stones with The Book of Runes – Ralph Blum
Kuan Yin Oracle – Alana Fairchild
Art and Photography to feed the soul:
Emma Whitney Photography wonderful Maui photographer, did some of the current photos of me on this site
Jade Beall – photographer, “mesmerizing, unique and medicinal photographic art pieces”, Bodies of Mothers – A Beautiful Bodies Project (book)
Paul Heuessenstam – Mandala paintings and spiritual art