Yesterday was a MASSIVE Super Moon, here are some tips! Below are five tips from Feng Shui Your Life for using the energy of the full moon (two days before and two days after) in the most fortuitous way: 

1. Refrain from arguing and getting angry. 

The full moon is the time to stay calm, let things go, breathe deeply through difficult moments and forgive others for their mistakes. Seriously, if you can’t let something go and need to communicate it (which I recommend), try to postpone sharing your upset until at least two days after the full moon. Whatever happens at this time is multiplied. It’s like having emotional fertilizer. Keep the energy moving in a happy, uplifting direction at home, work, in the car and in your every day interactions.

2. Think positive thoughts. 

We all know we should think positively as much as possible but during the full moon, you’ll have a wind at your back. Your positive thoughts will be energized and multiplied. Even if you spend five minutes when you wake up and go to sleep thinking about the positive things in your life, you’ll be doing yourself a big favor. 

For example, you could write a gratitude list or a thank you note to the Universe for all you have. You could look in the mirror and say nice things to yourself. You could take a walk and notice all the beauty around you. Imagine that your positive thoughts are sprinkled with full moon glitter that makes them grow exponentially.

3. Envision your dreams manifesting. 

The full moon is a perfect time to do your manifestation techniques. Spend time imagining your goals and writing them down on paper. It’s also a great time to make a vision or “manifestation board.” To do this, place pictures and words of your goals on a cork or poster board and place it where you can see it every day. Spending time focusing on your dreams during the full moon gives it extra juice!

4. Meditate by yourself or in a group. 

Since the full moon pours down so much energy, meditating during this time creates calm, mindfulness and stillness. You can do it by yourself in a sacred space in your home. 

You can also connect with other like-minded friends to meditate in a group. There are many spiritual centers, yoga studios and online groups that come together for a full moon meditation. It’s very powerful to meditate in a group.

5. Send blessings to people in need. 

Since you have the full moon power behind you, send healing energy, forgiveness, pink light and loving-kindness to friends, family, colleagues, and strangers. In addition, send peaceful energy to the places in the world experiencing strife, hardship, poverty and war. It has huge benefits for them and as a bonus, you create loads of good karma. 

One of my favorite meditations to flush out negative energy and send blessings to others is called the inner smile! The full moon is a great time to be of service and do acts of kindness.

Some really interesting thoughts from this week just gone...I'm sitting here now at home on a Friday as I write this, as I am getting ready to go into the 7th weekend of our yoga teacher training course, this as most of you know is the second year that we are running this course so I am super excited that we have had the great opportunity to be able to run a second one!

The first teacher training course that I ran was in Clapham last year at Synchronicity Studio just off of Landor Rd, this was amazing and we have some fantastic students who decided to take the plunge and join my training course, and what a privilege this was, we now have Elisabeth Baylis one of the students from the first course teaching each and every Thursday evening in Clapham, she is also looking to start some early morning classes at our Clapham studio, we would really love some feed back from you as to what times and mornings you would prefer!. Ciara, another of our students from our first generation MahalaYoga Teacher Trainers has also started to take that step away from "assisting" in the classes to "teaching" the classes,  last Wednesday was her debut, and what a fantastic debut it was, I would like to say a massive "well done" Ciara you have broken the ice, I was there the whole way to give her loads of support in the process, not that she really needed it!.

Pictured above from our 2013 yoga teacher training program in Clapham, here you can see our wizard Leo Sharma as he deconstructs the Asanas, you can see Thea (laying down) Elisabeth, Ciara and Marina..

 So that takes us back to this years yoga teacher training course that I am currently running, with this course I have not only taken the decision that we will be an Independent yoga teacher training school (this decision was made for the first teacher training course, we are not affiliated with any governing boards of yoga, I am also running this course from my home, so the group is very small, we have 4 students on this course, so as you can imagine they are getting extra special attention!.

To run the teacher training course from my home was a very hard decision to make as once again I couldn't see any other course doing this, and once again all of the other courses and it seems most teachers were now registered with some sort of governing board, but once again I stuck to what I felt was right for me and I took the plunge of taking the teacher training course to my home, and making the learning and the training very small but very focused and very relaxed, this course is very much student led and they are learning in a very relaxed environment so I am finding that the students seem to be picking everything up really quickly, everything they are learning they seem to be remembering a lot easier, and they are also all starting to come along to the classes for that all very important practical experience, where they are learning hands on how to teach a yoga class, with the full assistance and guidance from myself and other teacher trainers past and present, this couldn't be working out any better than I could have imagined!!

This week we have seen Jenny and Daniella assisting in our Monday evening classes, with a fantastic response!. Tara once again one of our current teacher trainers taking part of our Wednesday evening class, and Ciara one of our first gen MahalaYoga Teacher Trainers taking part of our Wednesday evening class, once again with a fantastic response!. Elisabeth Baylis teaching her usual Thursday evening class, she will be teaching this Saturday too in Brixton, once again with amazing feed back!.

Pictured above Elisabeth Baliss with her beloved Boo on the beach at her home town...Happy Days!

I am going to continue my yoga teacher training program in this way as I can see right in front of my eyes some very happy, relaxed, confident yoga teachers emerging that I would love to go along to as a student as their passion and desire for learning, teaching and guiding others continues to inspire me! A massive thank you and well done!!.

Mahala x