Just Having Fun

By Wendy Friedlander

So there’s this boy. And you like him. A lot.

“Oh that Johnny! He is hot! I really like him. We have so much fun together.”

You decide to let things progress and you and Johnny sleep together.

You and Johnny are having so much fun that before you know it, your fun times are getting serious in your mind and you start fantasizing about doing more with Johnny than hanky-panky.

Trouble is, you aren’t sure Johnny is thinking the same thing.

You ask your girlfriends what they think. You go through his behavior and look for hints that he is getting as serious about you as you are with him.

But then, as time goes on and the only thing Johnny seems to be around for is fun, you start to realize that maybe he’s still just having fun.

And you, you’re committed.

“That Johnny is a player.” You tell yourself. You cry to your friends about it. You wonder when you will ever meet a guy who wants to get serious.

“Why does this keep happening?” You wonder as you go through all the other Johnnies who have slipped away.

You try to take an objective look at yourself. You wonder why you keep falling in love while every guy just wants to have fun.

You are not alone. This happens to women all the time.

It’s a pattern. An unhealthy pattern that puts your most vital organ in harms way, your heart.

Energetically speaking, a woman’s reproductive center, her uterus and cervix, is connected to her pericardium, which is a sac that contains her heart.

And what is your heart? It’s your center of love.



When a woman has sex, she has an energetic exchange that leaves a mark on her heart.

Quite literally, a woman falls in love through sex.

Men, lacking the same reproductive organs, do not.

Men can have all the sex they want and it in no way creates the same feelings of love that affect woman.

So, as a woman, it is your responsibility to protect your heart.

Does that mean avoiding sex?

Not necessarily.

It means understanding the risks of having fun. Every time you have sex, you are opening your heart, an opening that does not happen automatically for your partner.

It means that if you want to be in a serious relationship know he loves you before you take that step.

When a man loves you. You know it. A man in love is dedicated. He comes after you.

So, instead of having fun and seeing where it goes, wait for him to come to you and then have some fun.

Sat Kriya

Sat Kriya is a fundamental Kundalini Yoga meditation that re-channels sexual energy around your body. In other words, it’s a meditation that makes it a little easier to postpone having fun when that loud voice in your head says “Come on! It’s been too long! Just one time! He’s not going to wait for you! Go for it!”

1. Kneel on the ground and then sit on your heels (this is known as rock pose)
2. Raise arms above head and interlace fingers
3. Extend the index fingers to point straight up and touch fingertips. Try your best to keep your palms touching, your elbows straight and inline with your ears.
4. While remaining in this position chant “Sat Nam” repeatedly for 3 minutes, working up to 11 min.
5. Rest on your back for at least a minute

Note: Pull in on your navel with “Sat” and then release with “Nam.” Pull in so tight you get a bonus stomach workout without doing any sit-ups!

Recommended music:
Track #4 on Bhakti Naam by Dr. Joseph Michael Levry (http://www.rootlight.com/music-bhakti-naam.htm)

About the author: Wendy is a single mom, cancer survivor and yogi. She traveled the world to find health and is grateful to share the tools and knowledge she gained on the way. Learn more athttp://wendyfriedlander.c

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About the Author:
Wendy is a single mom, cancer survivor and yogi. She traveled the world to find health and is grateful to share the tools and knowledge she gained on the way. Learn more athttp://wendyfriedlander.com

You can reach Wendy at wendy@lovethroughwisdom.com; her website is notesofgratitude.me

Be in Harmony, Be Healed

By Marivir R. Montebon
New York City

The world will get better if we start from within, from our hearts. - Dulce Sanchez

There is something about Dulce that will draw you towards her. In my case, it was her calmnness untypical of a New Yorker, when we first met at the Naam Yoga Center on the Upper West Side of the city. Well, she is a regular visitor of New York on a mission of sorts. Dulce Sanchez hails from Mexico, teaching English and running an events and party organizing business. But the main fulfillment in her life is when she straddles between home and New York to help people heal themselves through a wholistic therapy called Harmonyum, aside from being with her grandchildren.

From the word harmony which means 'a pleasing combination of elements in a whole', Harmonyum is quite clear by its own name, and a welcome treat, an accord, to oneself.



It is a healing modality developed by Dr. Joseph Michael Levry known as bio-metaphysical medicine that is non-invasive, gentle, and energetic. Dulce, a Harmonyum therapist, is among the hundreds of students of Dr. Levry, using this soothing continuous touch on the entire length of the spine to heal physical, emotional, and mental ailments.

Before deciding to take on this mission as a wholistic healer, Dulce has had her share of excruciating pain from a failed marriage. She and her husband decided to divorce after being together for 8 months. After 12 years, they remarried. But the problem on infidelity has set in, hence they divorced again. She is now on her own, and rightfully happy, seven years after the second divorce.

How Dulce regained her composure and balance through the help of Naam Yoga and Harmonyum is an incredible journey of love, light, and healing.

Excerpts:



1. Tell me how you became an advocate and now a missionary for Naam Yoga and Harmonyum.

I was deeply depressed when I found out that my husband was womanizing. We were divorced for 12 years, but decided to remarry. We were together for nine years, and then I found out he had another affair. I felt devastated. Divorcing him the second time was scary, because I was getting old and did not know what to do.

I chanced upon a Hatha Yoga Center in 2006 and then later I found out about Naam Yoga. Life became so different after that. I was healed, happy, and grateful.

2. What was it with Naam and Harmonyum that convinced you this was your path to healing?

Harmonyum promotes self-healing energy. I studied Harmonyum under Dr. Levry for seven treatments or sessions. Each session lasts for 45 minutes.

We gently touch the nape of the client down to the spine. Harmonyum is known to reharmonize a person's entire presence in the process of strengthening and balancing the autonomous nervous system.

It doesn't even matter what faith you have, whether you have or have not any faith. The energy inside you naturally heals.

3. What is the most profound experience you had in Harmonyum?

I was shocked and was crying so hard in amazement when I learned that my client, a young woman afflicted with terminal breast cancer, was healed after the 4th treatment. That was in 2009.

She was a non-believer, a young mother and had a great career. Her breast cancer was eating her up, and her doctors have decided to stop all her medication because it would no longer be of help to her. The pain she experienced each night was unbelievable and agonized her husband as well who could not sleep because of her anguish.

On the second treatment, she noticed she had lost a little bit of the pain. On the third session, it was totally gone. As well as on the 4th treatment.

She decided to have herself checked by her doctors why the pain was gone. At that time, I fly in to New York for my continuous studies with Dr. Levry.

When I returned to Mexico, I immediately called her to find out how she was. She was elated. Her biopsy results, she had taken two exams, showed she had negative signs of cancer.

I was crying with joy and gratitude. That experience changed me.

4. Do you believe Harmonyum can absolutely change the world, heal people?

Yes. Compulsion, which brings about vices like gambling, can be healed through Harmonyum. Our job as naamists is to serve. And the more we are able to reach out to the community, the better. Believe that the world is going to get better if we start from within, from the heart.



(Dulce Sanchez could be reached at dul000@gmail.com   For more details on Harmonyum, visit www.rootlight.com)

NAAM YOGA: The Complete Approach to Wellness

By Marivir R. Montebon

For young businesswoman Kristina Castaneda, her newly opened Naam Yoga Upper West Side Center is the last stop to business.

This is it, she says, as we talked and seated in lotus position on the shiny wooden floor of the yoga center on the bustling 72nd Street of Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Since she finished a college degree on Interior Design and worked in a Mexican restaurant thereafter, she had been running her own food chain of five Mexican restaurants, including Cafe Ronda and Cafe Frida, and very recently the Rigoletto Pizza.

The Naam Yoga UWS opened a month after Rigoletto Pizza, a thing which definitely made Kristina's hands full, other than the fact she has to be mother to two boys Cemil, 10, and Omer, 8, and wife to businessman Bulent.

How do you do that, I asked. She laughed and said, I don't know. I just tell myself relax, when in the thick of things.

The Naam Yoga is headquartered in Santa Monica in California, a spiritual and physical wellness center which operates 24/7 a week. The founder, Dr. Joseph Michael Levry, from Africa, has been widely respected for his Naam Yoga Therapies, the center of which is the Harmonyum Healing System (see separate story soon). Naam Yoga centers are also established in Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and England.

Naam Yoga is flexible, as it can be combined with any modality of yoga techniques and meditation, focusing mainly on love, peace, and light as the way to self-healing.

Excerpts of our interview:

OSM!: Who introduced you to Naam Yoga and why did you embrace it?

Kristina: My friend of 20 years, Prima Vera Salva, who is also one of the yoga teachers of the center. Naam Yoga is life changing. Since I learned about it more than two years ago, it has changed my views in life. It changed how I think, speak, or act. It is amazing.

OSM!: What makes Naam different from the rest of the Yoga centers?

Kristina: Our founder, Dr. Levry, from Africa, has combined the influences of the East and West in the Naam Yoga. He integrated the philosophies of yoga which find its roots in Tibet with the western influence of Kabbalah.

Naam, by the way, means the word. We make sure that our modalities work on the sounds, a combination of singing, chanting, music, and action to create positive energy within us.

Our logo is the sun, because as you know, the sun is always up there, burning for us, giving light to all of us. This is also the reason why we are open seven days a week.

OSM!: What classes are being offered in the Naam Yoga UWS?

Kristina: We have Naam Yoga I and II, Vinyasa, Morning Meditation, Capoeira for Kids, Yoga for Kids, Yin Yoga, Tools for Self Healing, Power Naam, Shakti Naam, Jivamukti, Alignment, Restorative Yoga, Inner Look Book Club, and Ashtanga Yoga.

We also have free classes for the community, the Banis Meditation.

Right now, we are still filling up each class, and accepting teachers as well. But I am glad that the response to our Center has been overwhelming.

OSM!: Why did you say that the Naam Yoga Center would be the last stop to your business ventures?

Kristina: I find fulfillment in this business. This is actually my community offering. I am still with the restaurant business, which makes me so busy. But the Naam Yoga is my ultimate business. It is for me, and the complete healing for everyone, on the physical, mental, and spiritual. That is all we need.

(For more information on the Naam Yoga UWS, please log on to www.naamyogauws.com. Enroll for only $30/month within February 2013)