You are part of nature, and just like everything else in nature, you are influenced by the seasonal energy.
What is happening in nature is happening within you. Tuning into these seasonal influences helps you to adapt and guide your energy in a balanced, potent, and clear direction toward your resolve to evolve. Within each of nature’s cycles are powerful teachings. I guide you, with focused intentions and practices, to clarify intentions and manifest desires. The four focal points of the year, Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Autumn Equinox, offer illuminated stages of an inner spiritual journey. As we consciously link our awareness to nature's cycles, our understanding of our own cycles begins to deepen and evolve.
SPRING Season: PADMA MUDRA
Mudra for Flowering the Heart
MUDRA is a Sanskrit word which means a hand (hasta) posture, seal or gesture. It is a link between individual lifeforce and universal cosmic energy. The position of the hand influences energy (Prana) flow of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body. It acts like a subtle “plug” into the energy flow “sockets” and reflexes to the brain, the master command center. Use mudras to plug in and light up your consciousness.
PADMA (LOTUS) MUDRA: Gesture of Opening the Heart
From Sanskrit, Padma translates as lotus. Imagine a lily pond in nature. There are spotted lily pads scattered over this water. Under the lily pad, a lotus flower has its roots deep down in the muddy murky waters. At morning sunlight, the stem and bud of a flower will rise up through the muddy water toward the sunlight. It blooms with light untouched by the mud and murk. Beauty reveals itself. And at night, the lotus flower will return back to its cocoon bud and go back into the water.
The path of the lotus symbolizes a journey from darkness to light, and ultimately to enlightenment. The muddy waters can symbolically represent our ego, our habits, our stories, challenges, our shadow, and even our inertia coming out of winter into spring. Our yoga practices help to purify the “waters of our consciousness”. The lotus flower of the heart (anahata chakra) moves into a fully bloomed flower representing our fully awakened self. Pure and beautiful. Meditation upon the lotus flower of the heart is key.
Core quality: Love, Compassion, Loving Kindness
The mudra is useful for:
Opens heart to love and compassion
Mindfulness and mental strength
Listening to the voice of the heart
Relieves stress and fatigue
Balances emotions
Activates the Hyridaya akasha
Supports positive transformation
Affirmation: I rise to each experience with ease, love and grace.
The Mudra Practice:
Sit in a comfortable posture with an upright spine. Join your palms, keeping the pinkies and thumbs connected. Open the three middle fingers to form a cup at your palms. Place your hands at your heart center. Visualize a lotus flower at your heart chakra. Imagine the roots deep down into your being and the sun above pouring into the crown of the head into your body into your heart. Imagine all the petals of the lotus heart blooming. Tune into the subtle energy of the body. Invite love and compassion into the cup of the lotus heart.
2024
Seasonal Specialties
International Yoga Retreat
Sacred Journey to Peru
September 21 - 30, 2024
Experience Magical Equinox Energies
in Peru and Machu Picchu!
Take deep into the Peruvian local culture and experience the influence of the ancient and intelligent Incas Civilization. We will experience the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu and Cusco during this specially curated tour.
Highlights
Despacho fire ceremony with a local Shaman
Walking tour of Moray Ruins
Visit Maras Salt Mines
Incan weaving demonstration in the village of Chinchero
Exploration of local markets
Private farm tour with traditional Peruvian meal
Hike through the ancient Incan ruins of Pisac
Train ride to Aguas Calientes
Sunrise visit to Macchu Picchu
Hike up Huayna Picchu (optional)
Feed alpacas, llamas at a local farm
Explore the historical sites of Cusco
Visit the Incan site of Sacsayhuaman
Daily yoga, meditation and reiki with Michele
Customized energy medicine session with Michele
Price as low as $3695, depending on room selections and early bird registration.
Early Bird Special: $300 of by May 21, 2024
Included: 9 nights accommodation, most meals, private guide and driver, extensive cultural excursions, permits and entrance fees, donation to local school, taxes, daily yoga, meditation and energy clearing sessions. Not Included: airfare, travel insurance, some lunches and dinners
Summer Solstice Celebrations
Therapy Ball Roll Down
Friday, June 21
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Cloudbreak Sausalito
Join Michele Klink at Metta Yoga for invoking your Summer season. This special Spring Equinox class will include journaling, intention setting, full body roll down and Reiki savasana to manifest your heart’s desires as you enter your Summer season.
Energy Medicine Session
with Michele Klink
ENERGY MEDICINE
can be defined as any energetic or informational interaction with a biological system to bring back homeostasis in the individual. The energy field includes all the ways that the body communicates, and this body intelligence has the ability to restore balance. The key is to discover to tools to help redirect the energy communications toward the optimal outcome desired.
Michele supports the health and wellness needs of individuals using her advanced skills, perspectives and intuition. Michele is trained in multiple energy disciplines including:
Chakra Clearing and Balancing
Vibrational Healing
Therapeutic Touch
Energy Transmissions
Reiki
Hypnotherapy
Psycho-Spiritual Counseling
Yoga Therapeutics
Flower Essence Remedies
Herbal and Holistic Health Guidance
Energy Medicine sessions, can be combined with Flower Essence or Holistic Health consultations, where Michele offers energy clearing, balancing and filling through a tapestry of customized modalities specific for you.
Energy Medicine Session (60 minutes)
includes a customized energy clearing/balancing/filling meet your personal needs and intentions. Plus, a customized remedy bottle of Flower Essences (see below) is created and infused with specific healing intentions.
Contact Michele to inquire what an hour session would look like for you.
Flower Essences with Michele Klink
Do you feel overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, low energy or melancholy?
Learn about a powerful tool to manage the energy of emotions!
Stress-Less, Joyful ADULTS
Grounded, Focused TEENS
Confident, Calm CHILDREN
Relaxed, Happy PETS
Flower essences are herbal preparations that work to peel away negative emotional residues of the past and help cultivate a flow of positive emotional states toward peaceful, contented living. They are made only from the flower of the plant in a way to embody its higher vibrational healing and are used to address profound issues of emotional well-being, soul development, and mind-body health.
As catalysts to facilitate change, they work at a deep level to alleviate suffering, remove subtle layers of trauma and stress, and strengthen the ability to process emotional energy.
Plants are sacred gifts from nature. We live among thousands of different species, each carrying a unique blueprint. These beautiful plants are full of colors, textures and medicinal properties that are highly intelligent and available for us to come into greater harmony with ourselves and the world around us.
Bringing Flower Essences into your wellness routine is a profound way to feel more connected to nature and your soul. It is a subtle yet powerful experience to shift your energy through the support of nature's magic.
For a small fee, customize your own personal Flower Essences Remedy Bottle to add to your energy management tool kit. Remedy Bottles are water-infused drops (herbal tincture-like) and the water-drops are taken throughout the day over a short period of time.
200-Hour Metta Yoga Teacher Training with
Michele Klink
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for January 2025
Join Metta Yoga for Yoga Alliance Registered 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training led by Lead Teacher Michele Klink along with guest Metta Yoga faculty, Carla Herzenberg and Bex Urban. In this training, you will explore the many layers of asana, pranayama, philosophy, anatomy, and teaching methodologies.
You will deepen your practice, and uncover truths about yourself. If desiring to teach, you will learn to confidently, safely, and authentically teach an aligned, intelligent and creative Yoga class. If you don’t desire to teach, this is an incredible opportunity for personal growth, jump into a transformation zone and meet new lasting friendships.
You will complete this Yoga Teacher Training feeling confident and ready to teach, if desired, equipped with a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher certification recognized by Yoga Alliance.
Woodpecker
Keep hammering away at your current project.
Success is at hand!
-Woodpecker
Woodpecker symbolism suggests it is time to pay attention to opportunities knocking at the door of your heart. Changes are happening so awaken and seize the moment. Seek the threads of synchronicities occurring along the way. Understand that the door is wide open and that success is yours for the asking.
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