Cord Cutting..Ready To Release Your Past And RISE?

Aloha Moon Child!

Scorpio season may be one of my favorites as it is a time when you shed your layers and transform into a higher version of your most true self. For years I understood Halloween in the same way that society portrays it; scary, trick or treating, ugly and mean witches (did you know the word witch comes from the word "wicce" meaning "wise" and witches were revered in the highest degree as healers at a time when people widely worshiped Mother Earth and Nature as goddesses- not scary at all!), costumes and skeletons. I never realized it was such a deep, powerful and spiritual time, when the veils between the worlds are thin and the messages that whisper answers, signs and directions to your soul can be heard. 

This season is asking you to journey deep into the darkness as mercury provides a portal that safely carries you into unraveling your old wounds, stories, traumas and stuck emotions.
It is time to RE-CLAIM YOUR POWER, release the past and rise from the ashes into your transformation eagle child.
It is time to bring those BIG dreams you have been praying, wishing and hoping for to life!

Cord cutting and grounding down to mother earth are two powerful tools that I have been using this past week to move through my own transformation. It has been exciting, liberating, a journey of highs and lows, sorrow and magic and a deep knowing that a BIG change is on the horizon. 

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Cord Cutting

Energetic chords are formed between every person you meet, experiences, events, places and objects. Some encounters are easily released and others you can carry with you for days, weeks, months, years or lifetimes. Some connections may even be passed down from your ancestral line. Your energetic body is a sacred space. It is important to keep this clean so that you can be a clear channel for energy to flow freely.
When your energetic system is in balance you create a clear channel for calling in your desires and cultivate a healthy cocoon for birthing your dreams, shifts and transformations.

• Take a look at who and what drains your energy - tune in and listen for what is popping up in your subconscious mind. Think of any past traumatic events, dreams, relationships, words, emotions or experiences that leave a negative, toxic or heavy feeling in your body/mind. (These are likely playing a large role in blocking you from drawing in your dreams.)

• Practice a meditation where you release and cut the cord from this experience, relationship etc. You can imagine cutting with a scissor, pulling the cord out of your body or watching the emotional block float away. Your goal is to meditate on releasing until you feel light and like the energy has been lifted and detached. This can be difficult as fear will set in; a need for holding on and control. Fear can show up in many different ways as letting go requires you to leap into trust and to put your faith into something greater.

• Have a burning ceremony. Write your intentions or what you are releasing on a piece of paper. Meditate on letting go and then send the paper along with your emotional connections into the fire where they can burn and transform.

Letting go is tough but I promise when you let go, you create the space for something even more beautiful to enter into your life. Things have a way of working out a million times more magical when you release and surrender into the natural rhythm of mother nature and her plan.

Here is a MANTRA for calling back your power and cord cutting:

"I call back any lost soul fragments, power or light now. Any vows, soul contracts, hexes, or programs from the past or present, from this life or others that are not in the highest good of all, I relinquish now. Any cords or attachments from this life or others, I release now for the highest good of all. And so it is, and so it is, and so it is. AHO!
~Rebecca Campbell

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EXERCISE QUESTIONS

• What are those old stories, traumas and stuck emotions you are being called to release and transform?

• What messages have you been seeing and hearing; What are they asking you to do and how can you honor them?

• Where are you avoiding, hiding or procrastinating from diving into your journey?

• What could be possible if you were to say YES to your voyage?

• What magic is waiting for you on the other side?

For the love of being a WILD badass,

CHRISTA

The key is having that feeling that sparks your SOUL ☀

First and foremost I hope you are having a kickass friday morning and letting the sun both heal and uplift your vibration.

I have a message for you today that is the core essence of everything I AM and believe in. The frequency of the message that fuels my devotion and that I pray is shared, authentic and relatable. 

This morning I was sitting having coffee with nadia and read the below..These words spark my soul, ignite my inspiration and bring me back to my inner and outer connection. I hope they do the same for YOU...

This spark in my soul is everything I live for. I truly believe we all deserve this feeling of unapologetically going after our dreams, playing BIGGER and living a magical life we both love and have created. I have dedicated my whole life to living in this way, guided by my intuition and have proven, speaking from my own experiences, that if we choose to follow our hearts and cease our dreams, (it may take time and courage) we will find magic does exist and live our BIGGEST dreams. 

1. How can you consciously choose to live from your feminine side more? (aka trusting how powerful it is to connect and follow your intuition over "suffering hard work and forced action)

2. What is your "gremlin" that tells you "your too small, you'll never make it"..how can you use this to teach you over hinder you?

3. How can you choose TRUST over FEAR?

For the love of being a WILD badass,

Christa
908.447.9408
hello@christarusso.com

BIRTHING YOUR PASSION PROJECT

THIS PROJECT IS ALL ABOUT LEARNING TO LIVE IN YOUR SOUL SPARK

In this program you will learn to trust and embrace the power in energy, the feminine, Mother Earth and your intuition, through creating a passion project.

Our planet is lop sided right now. For a long time there has been a strong focus on the masculine, praising unhappiness, hard work without passion, starving the soul and living from our fears. I have felt and maybe you have as well, that there is a major shift taking place to restore what is broken. 

This project is a stand against an epidemic within society that needs desperately to be healed and brought back into balance. It is a journey in choosing to create a life you love.

What is it not? It is not pushy, reckless or asking you to move any further than you are ready for. It will simply lead you to your intuition, creating your dreams and maybe even some magic. ;)

High vibrations,
Christa 

1 year as an entrepreneur ~ What YOU can create!✌

“I’M TALKING TO THAT PART OF YOU Today, I’m talking to that part of you who yearns for more. The part of you who knows exactly what you want beyond all else. To that part of you who effortlessly believes that anything is possible, and that it’s possible in an instant. I’m talking to that part of you who longs to break right on through that self-imposed ceiling your mind has created out of fear, lack, should, and could. To smash and shatter it into a billion little pieces. I’m talking to that part of you who longs, who dreams, who dances, who wishes. To the part of you that cheers, that laughs, that leaps, that bounds. To that part of you who truly wants the best for others because it deeply knows that there is more than enough to go round. I’m talking to that part of you who knows what you want and the exact next step to take to get it. To that part of you who knows you’re not broken and isn’t the slightest bit interested in perpetuating the story that says it’s so. To that part of you who knows the way and longs to guide the rest of you back home. Today, that’s the part of you I’m talking to. And I’m asking it to step forward and lead the way.” ― Rebecca Campbell

On May 4th, 2018 I lost my job. For years, I dreamt of running my own business, making a difference in this world, raising the collective vibration, teaching, speaking and stepping into my highest potential, owning my power, expressing my authentic voice, claiming my worth, getting rid of debt while stepping into my prosperity boots and being unapologetically ME! On May 4th, my dreams had finally arrived and the journey began.

The day I lost my job I was in shock, terrified and felt like I was suspended, hanging in mid-air with no clear path in site. I was also jumping for joy, throwing a dance party and got right to work on my dreams that I had been cultivating for years. See the thing is when you leap (or are pushed in my case) you have two choices; you can sink or you can grow wings and learn to fly.....YOU WILL CHOOSE TO FLY and so you will. It's a choice and once that choice is made, you will amaze yourself with all the power and creations that have been living dormant within your shakti, and how much magic you are truly capable of creating. 

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” — C. JoyBell C.

This first year as an entrepreneur has been the most magical and exciting ride of my life! Yes, it has also been terrifying at times, but that is the line (when terrified and excited meet) where magic is created. Looking back, in just one year (LARGELY in thanks to working with my amazing business coach! She saw the greatness in me, asked me to step up, provided the space for me to step into the highest version of myself, made me believe it was possible, cleared the self limitations and itty bitty shitty committee that I had created in my mind and taught me how to fly.) I am in awe of what I have created, the amount of dreams I have fulfilled and the powerful impact I have made through my work and visions.

I speak about magic and dreams, bc they are not fu fu or unrealistic, but instead bc I have lived them, I have seen my BIGGEST dreams come to life, the dreams I thought were impossible, that I was not worthy of, too small for and would never happen, like magic, through a journey of both ups and downs...THEY DID! and it is all because no matter what the day...I always showed up and said YES to my adventure. There are key fundamental principles, tools and basic foundations for creating these shifts and they are available to everyone!

I became an entrepreneur and in just 1 year, created ....

• The Moon Sister Rising Festival 

• An empowering community (birth out of the magical energy of the fest) Moon Sister Rising 

• Joined forces with the most amazing business partner and soul sister, Kate Strakosch, in creating all of this magic 

• An Empowerment Coaching business, where I have had the honor of coaching amazing women into stepping into their Biggest dreams, finding clarity, growing wings and rising into the highest version of themselves!

• A retreat to Nicaragua, an epic adventure that powerfully changed 8 women's lives 

• A 6 month Unleash your Wild WithinOnline Journey 

• An inspirational speaker at multiple events 

• A 6 month corporate coaching program 

YOU are capable of achieving far greater than your wildest dreams can imagine.
YOU are limitless potential.
I never imagined all of this coming to life in just 1 year, stop putting your dreams on the back burner and KNOW you can create them!

Meditating with the fourth chakra - anahata - ::video::

seeking self-validation from others & why that shit had to go!

"When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away." Shakti Gawain

 One morning Tim called me and asked what I was up to- My response “I am meditating – I did a really powerful Kundalini meditation that moved a lot of energy around, so much that it freaked out toby (our dog) and I had to stop. Now I am journaling and writing my affirmations” – His response and the tone seemed to be judgmental and disappointed. I immediately noticed that this was my perception of what had just happened and not his actual response. I closed my eyes and played out his response in my head only this time I pictured two different scenarios; In one , the judgmental vibe of “you’re not good enough, you’re lazy and what you believe in is silly and not real work”  & In the second I envisioned him saying “amazing babe, sounds like a really productive morning and powerful work” – the tone was adoring and impressed – the main difference between both scenarios – In one version he is validating my morning and in the other he is negatively judging it. I noticed how internally my vibration was immediately lowered, feeling drained, uninspired and a bit depressed in the first scenario and how the second brought me to a sunny beach and got my creative juices flowing. My vibration had been lifted by his validation. WTF! J Seeking outside validation has been a demon of mine for as long as I can remember and that shit had to go!

Meditation mantra: Silently recite to yourself “Dear self-judgment and need for outside validation, thank you for all you have done for me throughout my life, but I am ready to release you. I appreciate the lessons you have taught me and the purpose you have served, but I am now ready to release you. Inhale “let”, exhale “go”/ inhale “let”, exhale “go”/ inhale “let”, exhale “go”.

Is this speaking to you? Have you ever got a new outfit and went out thinking that you looked great (or maybe the other way around) and then either your partner or a group of friends made a comment on how you looked. Did their opinion completely over-ride your own? I know for me in the past, others opinions have not only overwritten my own, but they have left me questioning what my own thoughts even were. Or how about a new relationship? This was a huge one for me growing up. Are you afraid to be yourself and validating your own self-worth based on whether or not another person is interested in you, I know I have many times! This also applies to our bosses at work, our family members or sharing our creative talents and putting them out there for the world to see.

 So why do we look outside ourselves for validation and self-worth? In truth, the majority of the time our perception of what someone else is thinking is WRONG! We have no idea what someone else is really thinking. Aside from the fact that we cannot read their minds, their opinion is a reflection of them and the story that is going on in their own lives. It does not have anything to do with you or with me. It can be altered on whether or not they woke up in a good mood, had coffee yet, felt good about their own outfit and appearance, got a promotion or fired that day. There are a million factors that will play into someone else’s response. A general rule of thumb; if they are happy and at peace with their own lives, their outlook on others will be uplifting as well. If someone is in a rough place, there is a good chance that they will share that negativity through their opinions, reactions and all things geared towards you (even if those responses have nothing to do with you!). This is not to say that the opinions of those that know you best and constructive criticism are worthless, it just means listen to others, reflect when you need to, but put your own personal beliefs at the top of the pedestal. So while your imagination gets to work on creating an entire played out scenario of the experience, the truth is that it is just a made up scene in the movie of our minds. So why not create a kick ass movie where you are the star? I’ll tell you why, because shining is scary as hell. We fear our own greatness because it creates vulnerability – it puts us on the chopping block- naked in the middle of time square, mid-day for everyone to see. Nothing great that has ever been created came out of a place of comfortability. Sometimes we need to allow ourselves to get vulnerable to make real shifts in our lives, break down the barriers and climb the mountain of our dreams.

So the next time you are wondering if you should post that photo, are anxiously waiting by the phone to see a reaction from your message, or decide to share your beautiful and fucking amazing gifts with the world – stop, take a pause and ask yourself – How do I feel? Do I like this? Will this harm anyone or lift them up and positively change their lives? If you feel good about it – then don’t hesitate!

Our minds are powerful. Our imaginations are a gift. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” ― Mahatma Gandhi    Use your imagination to create the movie of your life in a positive way, create the story you want to live. Create it without fear. You can choose to spend your life worrying about what others may or may not be thinking of you, or you can choose to live your life fearlessly and fully. I promise you that if you choose to press forward bravely, with self-love, compassion and faith you will create a life far beyond your wildest dreams! All you need to do is step aside and get out of your own way.

So please, Love Yo’ Self! Because the truth is you are pretty fucking amazing! You are talented, we all have gifts from God, the Universe, whatever your personal belief system is, we have all been placed on this earth for a special purpose and have a piece of this divine higher power within us. We were meant to shine! We are meant to stand out and rise up! Please don’t deny us of your GREATNESS!

Action Plan:

Every time you catch yourself worrying about what someone else might think or are afraid to share your creative self and raw soul – “The REAL YOU”-….pause, breathe, close your eyes and locate this feeling within your body, listen to the chatter running through your mind about it and then release it. There is a major source of energy out there that we have the power to tap into, which will allow us to create synchronicities, coincidences and bring our desires to life. These negative vibrations of fear of what others will think of us will lower our frequency and cut us off from that source power. Our job is to call upon this energy with a clear and receptive vibration. We need to make sure we are open to receiving and not blocking this frequency through toxic layers of negativity, fear, anxiety, or a belief in lack. Once you have done the work and cleaned up your side of the street, you can tap into this source energy and step into your own divine power.  

Although it does not matter what I think, I love you, you are fucking magical and I BELIEVE IN YOU!

~be barefoot. be wild. be free.

Xx

Barefoot yogi

Yoga Is My Sanctuary For Growth: - How to Take Your Practice From a Physical Experience to a Spiritual High

Yoga has always been my sanctuary. It is my portal for wisdom and my catalyst for growth. I have always been able to find that connection between mind, body and soul, but in physical terms, between breath and body. I always relate yoga + meditation in comparison to peeling an onion. We have layers upon layers of life, toxins, fears, scars, emotions (anger, sadness, anxiety, stress, overwhelm, lack of confidence, the list goes on and on) that build up on a daily basis and separate us further from love, our hearts and our truth. Our boss pisses us off and doesn’t appreciate us, our partner is not treating us the way we long for, our family is stressing us out, we are overwhelmed and anxious. And then there are those layers that have been there for years. The ones that keep getting deeper and deeper, maybe even from child hood. They hold us back every day without us even noticing. The wounds that were never healed. Yoga is my therapy, the place I go to heal these wounds and peel off those layers.

Ever have a memory from being a child that you can’t understand why you still remember? I was in Staten island, maybe around 13 years old, my cousin had taken me to her friend’s house and he was a hottie! I was from N.J. and considered “un-cool” bc of it (no matter how much dark brown liner and badge lipstick I wore to fit in). So as I’m flirting away he mutters, “you’re from NJ, shouldn’t you go milk a cow or something” Today I would LOVE to own a cow! Back then however, I was mortified. I started to laugh with him bc I had zero self-worth. At the time I had no idea how heavily this experience would affect my life. But as experiences like this one began to pile up, that lack of self-worth and confidence followed me all the way to my post college jobs and that memory stayed scarred on my brain for many years to follow. Sure, I could chalk it up as a silly experience and forget it, or I could use my practice to explore my subconscious mind, grow, release old limiting beliefs and fears and become a stronger woman capable of achieving my greatest dreams because I was no longer being held back by old silly wounds.

As I mentioned yesterday, I had been going through a bit of a rut in the latter portion of Dec. and the beginning of January, not leaving the house much or practicing yoga. To be honest, my personal practice started to slack the more I started teaching yoga. I stepped into the studio last night ready for a great practice and to deliciously dive deep into my body. As I began to flow, I couldn’t feel anything. I mean I felt my tight muscles, the stiffness of my joints and my physical breath, but I could not find that connection where my breath started to change my body. As the practiced continued, I felt something shift. My mind had slowed down …below is how the experience continued….

1.       Slow down – Patience is your friend! – just like in meditation our monkey minds are racing, without even realizing we are moving fast. I found myself inhaling my arms up and then beginning to fold forward before I was done inhaling and ready to exhale (remember each pose is specifically linked to either an inhale or exhale). It is like when you are so hungry and begin eating fast, diving for another bite of that pizza before you even swallowed your last one, inhaling food as opposed to tasting it, you want to taste your practice and fully experience each pose. Yoga and your breath are the same scenario, they should be approached with mindfulness. Slow down enough to stay with your breath. Experience your full inhale before you move into the next pose that is associated with an exhale. This doesn’t mean you need to have a slow practice. You can have a powerful practice with a lot of flow, or quicker breaths, just make sure your breath and the pose are always linked – make this top priority over everything else (including what the pose looks like).

2.       Inhale Expand, Exhale Move In - Use your inhale to add space into your body and your exhale to sit into that new space, further expanding it and loosening your body. Take my hamstring for example, last night it hurt like a bitch. I used my mind to find one tiny place that felt really tight and was keeping the other areas of my leg from opening up into the full pose. Finding this spot was more of an intuitive guess on my part, so don’t think about it too hard, just go with the spot that pops into your head- (this is building a relationship with your inner guide and intuition). I focused on that area intently and sent my inhale there, using my mind to picture it lengthening and creating more space in my body. I then sent a powerful exhale to move deeper into that new space, as if my inhale had stretched a rubber band (my hamstring) and then a tiny person came and sat in the middle of my leg, expanding it slightly further on my exhale. I repeated this with patience until something clicked and my leg released a bit.

Life Connection- Take your boss, he/she hurts like a bitch. You need to breathe space into the situation just like you would into your hamstring. I had a boss that really stressed me out. If I was 3 minutes late, she would give me the death stare and a snotty passive - aggressive comment, one of the many examples of how she irked me. I found these situations piling up into layers of toxic stress.  Just like I would with my hamstring, I used my inhale to create space in these tight and stressful situations. I would close my eyes and feel my inhale creating distance from me and the situation, allowing myself the space to breathe easily again and feel at peace. As I exhaled, I would fill that space up with emotions of love and gratitude for her. I repeated this for as many rounds as it took until my emotions calmed and I was no longer angry at her, but most importantly until I was no longer subconsciously beating myself up for how I was a failure, unworthy, unappreciated and never enough.

3.        Use Your Exhale like a breath of fire – I remember there was this guy Dylan that broke my heart years ago. He was one of the many soul mates that walked into my life. I read an article once that explained the difference between your soul mate and your life partner. Your soul mates are intense relationships, full of passion. They can be romantic or platonic, but they are placed in your life to teach you a lesson that you are ready to learn. They normally do not stay in your life for very long and as quickly as they magically appear out of the blue, they generally leave quickly as well. This relationship had turned into an internal scar, a layer of the onion that I could not release. I took a hot yoga class in Princeton one day and as yoga tends to generally stir up our deep emotions, I found him popping into my head. It was about half way into this intense class and we were going into a twisted lunge with the room at a temperature of around 98 degrees. As I began to twist, I imagined my exhale as a breath of fire, similar to a dragon’s breath. I saw this relationship as a hard rock and used my exhale to burn and turn this rock (the pain) into a melting lava that I could release. With each inhale I pictured adding space and oxygen to the flame and with each exhale I twisted deeper, spitting a raging fire and burning the wounds from the relationship away. At the end of the class I felt light and liberated. Yoga had truly began healing and releasing my wounds.

4.       Close your Eyes and find your portal – There is a headspace meditation that talks about finding an anchor in your meditation, whether it be where your body roots to the ground or where your belly rises and falls. I like to focus on my heart and picture this little man sitting there, a spiritual monk waiting for me to cross over and dive into a deeper realm, where he is waiting to share with me the wisdom of a higher source. Whenever you find your monkey mind chattering away and drifting off, you are supposed to use this anchor to return to your breath and detach from your thoughts. In yoga, I think it is easy to get distracted, to look at what our neighbor is doing, to wonder what we look like and to feel like everyone in the room is watching. I like to close my eyes and use my practice as a time to go somewhere else. I think that when I first got into yoga, it was at a time in my life when I was so miserable, I used yoga as an escape from the “real world”, so it was easy for me to dive into this portal. Try to pick an anchor that carries you into a more meditative state, close your eyes to block out the room and focus on connecting with the community of people through their energy. Allow your practice to become a moving meditation.

I hope these tips have made sense and will help you to dive deeper into your spiritual practice and build a relationship with a higher source. Please let me know if you have any questions and how these tips have worked for you in your own practice!

Xx

Christa

A Tip for Advancing your Meditation Practice

How to use visualization in your meditations ::video::

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~be barefoot. be wild. be free