Flash Mob Caroling and Divine Love

Lovers of the Unity and Love!
Welcome to our December Update. Below you'll find juicy details on:
• December’s Flash Mob Christmas Caroling
• Vanessa Stone in Tucson (Not to be Missed!)
• Our Community Service Thanks N Giving Events Debrief

Upcoming Event | Flash Mob Christmas Caroling
When: Dec 23, 6pm -Quick rehearsal begins at 5:45 pm.
Where: Downtown Tucson on 4th Avenue. We will meet at Time Market (444 East University Blvd) at 5:45pm (check the site for more specific details). We will run our 4 songs a few times through and promptly walk to 4th Ave at 6pm. Be on time. Get ready for some fun, merriment and cheer...we had a blast last year and so did our unsuspecting public audiences!
Our Repertoire: Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry X-Mas, Deck the Halls and Hallelujah.
All are welcome! If you can talk-you can sing! Wear a red accessory and bring jingle bells!
PLEASE RSVP by contacting me, Gabriela, with a comment to this blog post or by email.

Upcoming Event | Vanessa Stone in Tucson
I am honored and grateful to introduce you to one of my dear teachers and greatest life inspirations, Vanessa Stone. An opportunity to sit with Vanessa is not to be missed. It is a life changing, potent homecoming to your deepest heart. Please see the website for all the details on this priceless opportunity! And a big shout out of gratitude to the Bhakti peeps at Yoga Oasis, for offering the space and welcoming Vanessa to the Tucson Kula.

• Sitting | Jan 7, 7:45 pm | YogaOasis Central 2631 North Campbell Ave, Tucson
  
• Sitting | Jan 8, 7:45 pm | YogaOasis Downtown 245 East Congress St, Ste 101, Tucson
• Afternoon Immersion Retreat | Jan 9, 12-4 pm-6761 N Cascade Springs. Place, Tucson

Past Event | Debrief
Our Thanks-N-Giving Community Service Events were a heart warming, powerful experience. Offering a hand, positive energy and loving presence at Casa Maria Soup Kitchen was a gift to all those who gave and received! My thanks to everyone who came out, volunteered time and made generous donations of clothing and household items. It was an extremely sobering reality to see how many homeless and impoverished people there are in our pueblo. The devoted employees and volunteers at Casa Maria are there 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year feeding and caring for our city’s people. I love that there is no paperwork or red tape required to volunteer time, or to show up, get fed, and receive support. Casa Maria is simply about feeding and loving humanity, one mouth and one heart at a time. If you are local, please consider volunteering once a week, or once a month. And wherever you live, consider who is in need around you. Love globally, serve locally! May all beings everywhere be fed, nourished and loved!

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Thank you so much! It is an honor to serve with you.!!

Lokah Samastha Sukino Bhavantu.
May All Beings be happy and Free.

In Beauty, Gabriela

How to Live Art in Every way-Everyday! III

Week 3 of the Art Everyday Month Challenge has just ended. I am both elated and humbled by the process of creating art everyday and living life as art. Have a look at the nuggets of the week in review.

Day 15:The Art of Cooking
Emphasizing fun, and functional cuisine, I whipped up an Asian inspired satay. Fresh, organic, locally grown veggies, met coconut oil, tamari and seasonings. Firm tofu chunks sizzled, plump shitake mushrooms simmered and the aroma of fresh ginger and spices filled the air. Served over a bed of buckwheat soba noodles, this dish was YUMMY! A full sensory experience for the whole family and prepared with so much love.

Day 16: The Art of Step by Step
Gone are the days when I would skip meals, working day and night on a creative project till it was done. Now, I am satisfied to savor and celebrate each step along the path of creation, even if it means leaving something unfinished. Take for instance, a Holiday card idea I jumped into creating. Step 1 (last week), I painted two large pieces of paper, one blue, one green).
Step 2 (last night), I cut out circles and land masses, Step 3 (today) I put them together to make Earths on postcards. Step 4 and beyond, I will respond to whatever else wants to be born of these little Earth cards. Creating over the course of many days, and allowing each step to guide me to the next, engages me in a the mystery of the art process. Sometimes I will have 3 or 4 artsy projects like this going at once. Often, I have no idea where I am headed or when and how they will complete. I simply show up and let the art move through me, just like an improvised dance or song.

Day 17: The Art of Seva
This practice is an offering of selfless service for the sake of love itself. Today, Kenya and I went to Casa Maria Soup kitchen and volunteered preparing food. Over 500 people, including 200 families are served there daily. I loved talking with other volunteers and being part of the stealth team of super focused, loving people with one intention: Feed the hungry. I am so delighted to have the One Love Alliance community service events there before and after Thanksgiving! If you are local join us! All the details are here. The dignity, kindness and raw life experience I witnessed looking into the eyes of those we served was deeply touching. Was I in service? Or was I the one being served? Both...that is what completes the circle and makes Seva a true art.

Day 18: The Art of Pretending
Master artist, Talia is my primary model and guide in the Art of Pretending. We built an elaborate two room Veterinarian's office (made of blankets and chairs). We brought out ALL of her stuffed animals and pretended we were pet doctors, carefully treating, loving and boarding each of the animals with their specific ailments and special needs. With animals still at rest, the scene changed and we went outside. Talia spread out a sleeping bag, and placed our entire chopstick collection in a circle ("pretending" fire wood). An orange book cover placed over the chopsticks became the fire. We taped white pompoms on the end of chopsticks and voila, we were camping and toasting marshmallows over the campfire. This heightened my awareness of the role of imagination in the art of manifesting and creating reality itself.

Day 19: The Art of Space Tuning
This is a fusion of feng shui basics and power cleaning. The key to making this an artistic project, is the love of creating sacred, beautiful spaces, along with the joy of letting go of all clutter and stuff that no longer serves you. Today, I did just that. I filled up 6 bags of donations for our One Love Alliance service events, scrubbed, cleaned, cleared, rearranged, swept and uplifted the vibes in my home sanctuary. A fine tuned space, infused with love, is an intimate expression of our creativity and our inner life.

Day 20: The Art of Forgiveness
You know the power of this one. True forgiveness is an art. On both sides, it requires truly dropping the fight, the mood, the grudge, the inner contraction. In our family, this art is often accompanied by the Art of Repair: Re-establishing connection, emotional safety and loving trust. Long live these golden words, shared with earnest intention, "I love you, I am sorry." So simple, and so profound. This art is always more beautiful when practiced with genuine eye contact, affectionate touch, deep breath and a relaxed nervous system. Today, this art process colored my day brighter and led to another favorite, the Art of Beginning Again. Sometimes, my patience is thin, my tongue is sharp, my tone is biting and my gaze and touch are harsh. I am so thankful that I can stop, pause, apologize, flood my cells with breath and love, and begin again.

Day 21: The Art of Completion
Today, I made the final touches on a series of 18 "Peace" cards that I began last week. After so many steps of painting, tracing, cutting, pasting, writing, coloring, outlining and mounting, they are finished. I am grateful. The simple act of seeing a creative project through to completion (however big or small), builds trust in our ability to fruit. These cards are ripe and full of love!

How has your week been, fellow life artists? Please comment and tell me what you have discovered about living your lives as art, everyday, and everywhere. All love, G

Free Hugs-International Day of Peace

Simple Equations:

• Inner Peace+ Authentic Love= Full Heart.

• Full Heart+Embracing Humanity = Free Hugs.

This year, on International Day of Peace, a few members of the One Love Alliance decided to show up at our local Farmer's Market and give "Free Hugs". The inspiration was simple. When we feel inner peace, we are able to be peace. In being peace, we can be love and in being love, the most natural expression, from this luminous, full place is to share the wealth.

This was a truly joyous improvisational experience. I was most touched by how willing most people were to embrace, smile, laugh, connect and radiate love right back. No one is really a stranger. We are all fellow travelers on this Earth walk. From where I walk, love is Queen. On this bright morning, a wave of lighthearted peace rippled through the farmer's market, and the world felt like a friendly, loving place, where all things are possible.

We have it on video to share with you!

First I'd like to send a shout out of deep gratitude to:

• Kenya, my beloved, brilliant life partner, the eye behind the camera. From idea inception, through execution, and project completion, he is always a co-creative ally by my side.
• My songbird, bhakti sister, Bronwin. Her devotional humble, sweet heart is golden.
• Heidi and her pal who saw our post on Facebook and came to give and get Free Hugs.
• All the willing huggers who joined our exchange of peace and love in motion.
• Mc Yogi, whose stellar, uplifting song, "Give Love" is the soundtrack to our video. He unifies masses in a spirit of devotion & love. He is a true transmitter of peace power.

Please share your comments!
Let us know what our video sparked in you!
And, of course, forward it on, generously. Post it, share it! Spiral this love around the world!

Ready...here it is! One Love Alliance Free Hugs!