Re-Claim Your Power

This week, be willing to re-claim your power. You can do it; step into it.

From Author, Angel Intuitive & Yoga Instructor, Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
Empowering YOU for a happier,soul-filled life

About Cheryl Yale Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale Bruedigam, publisher of Aloha Body Mind and Soul, author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality.

Bruedigam is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She has lived on the Island of Oahu. 

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Believe in Your Beauty

Believe in the beauty you can be. Believe in yourself and all that makes you unique. Believe in all that you have to offer the world and others. Treat yourself as the beauty you are for it shines from your heart. You are a blessing to the world and each day that you breathe, let it be in beauty. Breathe in beauty; breathe out beauty. In this way, you are always in beauty.

You are beautiful! Believe!

From Author, Angel Intuitive & Yoga Instructor, Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
Empowering YOU for a happier,soul-filled life

About Cheryl Yale Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale Bruedigam, publisher of Aloha Body Mind and Soul, author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality.

Bruedigam is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She has lived on the Island of Oahu. 

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Waiting on Dreams

So it happens that very often we wish and wait and pray and hope for the things we want in life. We give birth to our secret dreams as we set them off to sail on the ocean of manifestation. Sometimes we feel they are lost at sea and will never return to us in full form. We feel as though we have cast our dreams out into the void but our dreams are heard and if we are true in heart with good intentions, they sometimes come back in full abundance in some form of what we desired.

It can take years, decades, before we see the fruits of our dreams manifested and when they finally arrive, even with all the waiting, working and preparing that we have done, we are caught unaware at the moment of arrival as the dreams we sought wash over us in a wave of plenty.

Keep heart when waiting on dreams; they will return to the faithful and when they come, be grateful and glad in heart.

From Author, Angel Intuitive & Yoga Instructor, Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
Empowering YOU for a happier,soul-filled life

About Cheryl Yale Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale Bruedigam, publisher of Aloha Body Mind and Soul, author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality.

Bruedigam is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She has lived on the Island of Oahu. 

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Haleakala: A Holy House of the Sun

Sacred Sites, Sacred Travel

by Cheryl Bruedigam

Searching for Paradise?  You will have to travel a good distance to get to it but it is well worth the time.  Where?  To the top of Haleakala Crater.  Located on the east side of the island of Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands, Haleakala Crater rises 10,023 feet above sea level below and was aptly named the House of the Sun by early Hawaiians though it could just as easily be called Holy Akala because it is indeed a most sacred and magical site, highly important the Hawaiian religious beliefs.

The crater is approximately seven miles across, two miles wide and twenty-six hundred feet deep.  It is an amazing sight and feeling to stand on the very top, looking both down to the depths below and out to the horizon beyond surrounded by nothing but pristine Pacific ocean for as far as the eye can see.  One does truly feel that one has reached the ends of the earth (or perhaps the beginning of Earth).

My trip began with a morning at the beach followed by a drive up to Haleakala.  An unsuspecting tourist, after my morning at the beach, I was clad only in a bikini and a towel for a wrap.  As our rental car made the climb to the summit, the temperature began to drop lower and lower.  Though down below we knew that on that August day, it was a lovely, if not overly warm in-the-nineties day on the beach.  Not so on the road to Haleakala.  Higher we climbed. And definitely not so at the top.  So traveler be warned, if you plan to venture up, throw something long sleeve or long legged at least in the car, though I can assure you it is the only time in Hawaii that you will need it, or just brave the cold in your skivvies.

Our arrival at the top was greeted by a lone but very friendly, park ranger.  He quickly gave us our guidelines and as many know, at 9,740 feet, the Haleakala Visitor Center is the best place to watch the Haleakala sunrise.  We however arrived in early afternoon but were not short-changed. It felt like we were standing in heaven, standing right among the sky and the beautiful white puffy clouds, so close you try to touch them.  It was awe-inspiring and has always remained the very top vacation spot on my list.  Little can compare to the view and experience of standing high atop Haleakala Crater; feeling both special and isolated, yet completely connected to all that is.

Whether you stay in Hana, Lahina, Kahana or anywhere else on the island, with a visit to Haleakala, your visit to Maui will become even more magical and will be an experience that will remain with you always.

 Namaste and Aloha!

From Author, Angel Intuitive & Yoga Instructor, Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
Empowering YOU for a happier,soul-filled life

About Cheryl Yale Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale Bruedigam, publisher of Aloha Body Mind and Soul, author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality.

Bruedigam is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She has lived on the Island of Oahu. 

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How Prayer Pose in Mountain Can Help

No matter what ails you, whether it is stress, anxiety, upset, fear, physical challenges, or any other number of things, taking a moment to stand with prayer pose in mountain pose will balance, heal and uplift you.

Mountain pose in itself is strengthening, yet calming, but the addition of prayer pose (hands in the prayer position whether at the chest, behind the back or over the head) will bring in instant unity with the Spirit and the Source within. All negativity and unbalance will fade away and you will be able to shift into alignment with All that Is.

To get into mountain pose:

Pose of the Mountain - Tadasana

In the standing position stand as straight and tall as possible, eyes straight ahead, body tall and stretched, shoulders back.  Feet a couple inches apart.  Imagine a light string pulling your head and neck as high and straight as possible.  Upper torso is straight, legs straight. 

Now add prayer pose:

Hands in prayer position in front of the chest, over the head or behind the back. Relax into the pose. Breath in and exhale.  Repeat ten times, straightening further with each complete breath. The hands in prayer position will give you a strong focal point and you will be able to feel yourself drawing in the fresh,, clean, balanced energy.

The beauty of this combination is that it is so powerful yet so easy to do most anywhere, any time. It may also be done seated at a desk or wherever but is more powerful when performed in the standing position.

You will feel calmed, strengthened, renewed, balanced and aligned. Repeat when necessary, whenever and wherever.

Namaste and Aloha!

From Author, Angel Intuitive & Yoga Instructor, Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
Empowering YOU for a happier,soul-filled life

About Cheryl Yale Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale Bruedigam, publisher of Aloha Body Mind and Soul, author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality.

Bruedigam is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She has lived on the Island of Oahu. 

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Shop the Aloha Body Mind Soul line at Designs by Cheryl B.

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Let the Day Begin

Whether or not you are at the beach, nothing beats starting your day off with a morning yoga routine. Even if you do not have time for a full practice, just a few quick poses can really get you going; get the blood circulating after the night's sleep, move the air deeply into the lungs and wake up the body.

Try a morning sun salutation for a quick morning wake-up and if you can get out with the sunrise, even better!


Namaste and Aloha!

From Author, Angel Intuitive & Yoga Instructor, Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
Empowering YOU for a happier,soul-filled life

About Cheryl Yale Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale Bruedigam, publisher of Aloha Body Mind and Soul, author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality.

Bruedigam is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She has lived on the Island of Oahu. 

Order her books or find them on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and ITunes.

Shop the Aloha Body Mind Soul line at Designs by Cheryl B.

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