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Good Vibrations: The Sound of Silence, your Sacred Voice & the Stars
I hope this month’s musings will resonate with you (pun intended)! The last couple of months I’ve been able to enjoy several sound baths. Like many of you, I have experienced the healing power of mantra , chanting, kirtan, and sound baths. Did you know that symphony conductors live 8 years longer than most people because they’re constantly in a sound bath?! During one of our journeys with my shaman sisters, we were to exploring sound healing. Even though we use drumming

Karen Pierce
Jun 1, 20239 min read


Pluto Return Revisited
March was most likely the most difficult month of 2023 because we experienced 32 different transits (important star alignments) including a Venus-Jupiter conjunction (a lot of love especially self-love), Pluto moving into Aquarius (shifting control back to the people), very high frequency Spring Equinox on a New Moon, gamma rays from the Sun, lots of class X solar flares, and a spiking Schumann Resonance (SR). Plus, Earth began entering a new photon belt for the next 2,000

Karen Pierce
May 1, 202317 min read


Copyright, Cultural Appropriation & Spirituality
This month’s musings came about because of the use of the word Namaste. Namaste is a Hindi word commonly said at the end of yoga class. Unfortunately, it’s also made its way onto T-shirts, mugs, mats, socks, and even catchphrases like Namaslay and Namaste Bitches. The first part of namaste comes from "namaha," a Sanskrit verb that originally meant "to bend." According to Madhav Deshpande, a professor emeritus of Sanskrit, says, "bending is a sign of submission to authority

Karen Pierce
Apr 1, 202311 min read


Earthing, Grounding & Forest Bathing
At a recent neighborhood party, I was talking with a gentleman in his 90’s. He was telling me about how he and his children (around my...

Karen Pierce
Mar 1, 20239 min read


Is Karma Really a Bitch?
Did you really plan to reincarnate during a pandemic? According to Rob Schwartz of Your Souls Plan, “there were three times as many souls who wanted to incarnate in this time period as available bodies. Yes, that’s right, you made a one-in-three cut to be here now.” I recently had a yoga student ask me about karma. She wanted my perspective on a conversation she had with someone that viewed karma in a negative context. She was upset because this person suggested that her r

Karen Pierce
Feb 1, 20237 min read


New Year, New You, Full Moon Blessings
Photo: Despacho Ceremony with me and beloved Q’ero elder don Sebastian (you can read more about him in The Andean Codex by JE Williams) Back in 2021, I said the theme for 2024 would be Revolution and 2023 The Reckoning which is the preparation for the Revolution. December is a time for endings, culminations, and celebrations. January is about new beginnings and January 1st begins the illumination phase of the moon. The full Wolf moon reaches its peak on January 6th . Hmm

Karen Pierce
Jan 1, 20238 min read


Enlightenment is Bullshit!
The teacher of teachers, yogi Krishnamacharyi said his best friend Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, or just UG, is “the greatest living Yogi I have ever met.” Unimpressed by religious models that believed some people were enlightened, and others weren’t, UG (which he said stands for “Ugly Guy”) questioned the state of enlightenment and once said, “You don’t have a chance in hell of enlightenment…and isn’t that a relief!” The suffering is in the searching. He said the search f

Karen Pierce
Dec 1, 202217 min read


Emotional Anatomy: Your Issues are in your Tissues
Have you ever wondered how much impact your mind, thoughts, and words have on your health? When you get a pain in the neck, is it really your cervical spine, your neck muscles, or stuck emotions? Sayings such as being broken-hearted…break a leg…makes my blood boil…tear your hair out… lump in my throat…get off my back… and my favorite from Groucho Marx, “whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.” These are not just common sayings; they have metaphysical meanings

Karen Pierce
Nov 1, 202210 min read


The Healers: Goddesses, Witches & Mary Magdalene
Did the word woman derive from womb -en? Why do the Jewish, Christian & Muslim bibles say a-MEN rather than a-WOMAN? Is MENstruation...

Karen Pierce
Oct 1, 202216 min read


The Chakra Chorus & Rainbow Connection
The time has come for us to raise our vibrational forces! We have so much collective trauma to work out and now is a unique opportunity....

Karen Pierce
Sep 1, 202215 min read


The Medicine Wheel: A Tool for Living
Sacred geometry assigns symbolic meaning to certain shapes. The universe works in circles and spirals and nature is filled with examples...

Karen Pierce
Aug 1, 202213 min read


The Science of Sound: Your Brain, Mantra & Mudra
Decades ago, I went to my first kirtan at a yoga conference in NYC. I felt awkward chanting these unfamiliar sounds as the gentleman...

Karen Pierce
Jul 1, 202212 min read


Tap into your Intuition: Meet the “Clair”s
Greetings lightworkers, we’re here at an epic time, so thank you for showing up! Do you remember back in June 2021 , I shared an Incan legend of a great Angel who looked into the future and saw that humanity would face some challenging times at the beginning of the 21st century? The Angel asked, “Who would like to volunteer?” And you jumped up and said, “Me!” Can you believe we actually agreed to be here on this planet and take part in this cosmic shi(f)t? These are some v

Karen Pierce
Jun 1, 202216 min read


The Sacred Snake: Epigenetics, Trauma & Ancestral DNA (Part 2)
In part one , I offered several ways to consciously change the genes in your body. I also shared that the coding in our DNA is 99% the...

Karen Pierce
May 1, 202213 min read


The Sacred Snake: Epigenetics & DNA (Part 1)
Last month, I mentioned Dr. Dawson Church , a brilliant researcher in Consciousness science, and Dr. Bruce Lipton , a leader in bridging...

Karen Pierce
Apr 1, 202212 min read


Magic, Miracles & Manifesting: Dreaming the World into Being
Last month we began our Pluto Return as a nation. As I mentioned, Pluto is a planet of transformation and is giving us the opportunity...

Karen Pierce
Mar 1, 202212 min read


Pluto’s Return 2022-2024: The Future of America
When people did not have telescopes, the farthest planet visible was Saturn (Uranus for those with sharp eyes). That was the end of the universe. Until Pluto was discovered… Jupiter’s influence on 2020 The Roman version of the Greek God Zeus, Jupiter is the divine lawgiver; he rules responsibility and expansion, especially through helping of humanity. The Great Conjunction of Light between Jupiter & Saturn that occurred on the Solstice December 2020 was the doorway to the

Karen Pierce
Feb 1, 202214 min read


Dirty Little Secret: Trafficking & Testing
Warning: You may be triggered. I have been putting off this topic for nearly 2 years because in the words of Jack Nicholson, “the truth! You can’t handle the truth!” Many of our problems arise from our insistence upon avoidance or denial of the more difficult realities of life. But with all the RE-veals regarding these things, it now seems like the time to confront those uncomfortable things. The most recent being the announcement that the 2022 Olympics are being boycot

Karen Pierce
Jan 1, 202216 min read


The Cosmic Dance: Shiva the Destroyer
Image from storytimeyoga.com (Sorry this one is a bit long but it’s a wrap up of 2021 and the preview of the next couple of years; I...

Karen Pierce
Dec 1, 202112 min read


Let's Talk: Trauma & Brain Health during a Pandemic
Samhain Blessings! The Fall welcomes the harvest and ushers in the “dark time of the year”. Yesterday we celebrated Halloween and the...

Karen Pierce
Nov 1, 202112 min read
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