Title: Lovin' Life

Gender: Female

Age: 54

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Chinese Sign: Wood Goat

Location: Albuquerque, NM and Carlsbad, CA

“Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”  
                                                                                              - Anais Nin

Buddhist practitioner and student since 1994, biologist/clinical laboratory scientist by education, training, and career path, single mom for 20 years to my now 22 year old son, Found/Owner Inner Garden Path (TM) to Health,  Energy Medicine for Healing – Awaken to Your Body's Wisdom.   We offer Reiki, EmoPhys(TM) for Personal Empowerment and Emotional-Physical Health, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Bowen by Bowen Breathworks, Quantum Touch, Shamanic Reiki, Shamanic facilitation (in training),  Flower Essences, homeopathy, herbal assistance (Western and Orienatal Medicine) and natural healing guidance. 

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More on the personal side of me:

If one were to label me, I am an HSS, highly sensitive soul.  FYI–HSSs are not broken…just wired differently.  Work with remaining balanced, staying with the middle way and pacing myself in the hustle and bustle of our technology laden world.

More than 5 years ago, after hearing a calling to a new teacher, I became a student of Unfettered Mind, Ken McLeod (Los Angeles, CA). Pragmatic buddhism.  KM lived in a monastery and studied with Kalu Rinopoche. He laid down his robes to bring Wake Up To Your Life and Unfettered Mind to the West.  I am fortunate and feel extreme gratitude to be on this incredible path.  It has been and continues to be an awakening of incredible magnitude.  When I wander off the path, I have a local Unfettered Mind teacher to help me find my way back. 

Interesting connections… Ken Wilber's root teacher was Kalu Rinpoche.  My local teacher studied with Kalu Rinpoche at one time.  I met her in the 90's when she taught for Rigpa locally and was a student of Sogyal Rinpoche. Sogyal Rinpoche was my first teacher along with some public teachings I attended with H.H. Dalai Lama.  Which all connects back to my friend/ acupuncturist/mentor who is the first person to call my attention to Tibetan Buddhism and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.  The other connection was my son's daycare mom when he was age 1-3 yrs.  After our kids were older we remained friends and in 1994  we were simultaneously reading TBLD by SR unbeknownst to one another.   Shortly after that, she and I  attended a 4 day public teaching with H. H. Dalai Lama at UCLA and received an empowerment that was the beginning of deepening my Buddhist studies and spiritual path.

My spiritual path includes teachers including Thich Nat Hahn,  Chogyam Trungpa, H.H. Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron, Suzuki Roshi and many more. 

Here is a quote I respect:

We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.
 –Ken Wilber, Excerpt B: The Many Ways We Touch - The Calculus of Uncomfort

You may wonder, what else is Christiane doing in life?  Everything and nothing.  Living and dying, in awareness, one moment at a time. 

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