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The Blessing of this Life
This life journey never fails to surprise me. What wonder we can live in when we stay open to the flow of guidance. Awakening is a process. It can take a lifetime for some, a moment for others and a work in progress for most. Over the last few weeks we have been travelling from PA to VA, NY to NJ to end up spending 10 days in Boulder, Colorado. We were blessed to share a concert at The Yoga Journal Conference with Saul David Raye and Kia Miller as well as accompanying Kia in her yoga classes.
We had planned to be in Boulder a whole week leading up to a concert and workshop we were teaching. Once there we began to think to ourselves , “why are we here for a whole week for just this one workshop and concert, we have so much to do! How can we afford to just chill in Boulder for a whole week???”
The mountains speak and we surrendered the controlled ideas and relaxed into the land and the knowing that there is a Divine plan at work which we most of the time have no idea what it is until it shows up! A few days in with our dear friend and producer in Boulder, her father begun to make his transition after spending a year in Hospice. We ended up chanting and praying at his bedside for two days whilst he found the courage to let go of this earthly coat and go back on his Soul Journey. Along with his daughter, a powerful kundalini yoga teacher with a heart of gold, it seemed we were there as ushers for him and a comfort to our friend who needed to be held during this time. It was a magical time, as magical as a birth, when the body chooses their last exhale.
It showed me so much about our attachments to life and to people. Yet, as my husband would say, all we are really attached to is this breath. It showed the utter divine plan that is always in order and if we trust, the guidance and the grace is present. We were clear that we became a big part of this father and daughter’s life, playing guitar, chanting at his bedside….Wahe Guru……Mother….. Akah would hold sacred rhythms with the rattle and sing native songs, holding a vibration of peace and love whilst children uttered words of forgiveness over the phone so that he could feel like he was complete and release his Earth coat. What a gift. One of the elements that taught me so much was to see how his daughter handled everything that she was faced with. With so much grace and courage, allowing her emotions to flow. We experienced the full spectrum of life within a week. Tears, laughter, grief, sadness, joy and so much more that I have no words for right now. Only the experience is left imprinted in my heart.
Akah looked at me the next morning and simply said ” Aykanna grew up”. It was a mesmorizing and blessed experience which has left with a renewed and deepened appreciation for this breath, this life, our friendships and the call to keep sharing our gifts. Keep sharing yours, it always makes a difference even when it goes quietly unnoticed.
IN Divine Love,
Sat Nam,
Sukhdev

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Wanderlust Festival Experience
It’s late Sunday night, Lake Tahoe, Wanderlust Festival just ended. Some 5000 people rolled through this 2nd year festival and experienced yoga, music and nature set in a backdrop of a gorgeous mountain resort in Tahoe. Some of the greatest teachers from the US were present delivering this ancient technology each with their own twist on it. Music from Kirtan to Michael Franti to the Wailers was blaring from noon to midnight. Up on top of the mountain, it was pool party time with Dj’s and all sorts of fun happenings. There was something here for everyone.
What touched me the most were the tears I would see roll down people’s faces in yoga classes as hearts were breathed open, stress relieved and maybe a new light had made itself through the cracks of someone’s controlled existence.
My experience? As Aykanna, Akah and I set a strong intention before we came.
An intention to fully show up, be engaged, present and ready to share this healing music as a tool to uplift consciousness. We also proclaimed that whatever we had to give was enough. We were enough amongst the super stardom status that is being created in this new wave of yoga and music business that cannot be escaped as I once heard someone say “wherever they are a lot of people, there is big business”. It can be easy for any of us, doing what we love or not, to get into the mode of just DOING, going through the motions. I experienced the power of intention in a new way, when one truly lives from intention, life responds accordingly. The whole Omniverse cooperates and is at one’s service.
YOU GET WHAT YOU PROJECT.
We had a successful festival, met incredible people, shared Aykanna’s vision and now its time to go rest and nestle in the hot springs for a day and night!
We were blessed once again to play with our family Kia Miller’s and Tommy Rosen’s yoga classes. On the mountain top we laughed, we chanted, we cried, we gave thanks and we shared all that we had to give. It’s good to be alive. Fully.
With love, In service,
Sat Nam,
Sukhdev
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Check out our Ojai Retreat with Kia Miller and Tommy Rosen
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Honoring the Divine Feminine. MOTHER ~ New album is out.
Posted on August 6, 2011 with 1 note
Source: aykanna.bandcamp.com
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3 Days Ago We Launched Aykanna’s Kickstarter Campaign and….

…..fully stepped into being responsible for the gift the Creator gave us to give.
Its been a life long journey for Pauline Sukhdev and Akahdahmah to discover their true gift within. Through the trials and victories experienced on the path of life we have learned that when you develop and offer your talents with love to uplift others you will also be healed, blessed and experience miracles at the same time.
To be what we came to Earth to Be for us is a journey of liberation from the world created by the profit driven corporate information complex. This journey of liberation moves us beyond what we know about ourselves. When we become conscious of our responsibility to Be our purpose, we bring value to our life as family members thriving on Earth together.
To experience all the provisions your Truth provides requires the knowledge of your Sacred Self.
To walk this path requires commitment to discovering and refining the gifts and talents within to share with the world.
We are deep in the final production phases of our 2nd CD. This CD is an offering to our Mother Earth, Mothers on Earth and the Divine Feminine Principle in us all. Being an available channel for this CD to manifest was a test of releasing the need to have our preferences fulfilled so the passion of the creative process could express fully through every vessel required to bring this type of art work to life.
As we were opening ourselves to let go and truly trust in our purpose by sending out this kickstarter video to you, in that moment at the studio a blue jay brought a acorn to our door window, looked at us in the eyes and flew away.
At that very moment we where finishing the final edits on our kick starter campaign and realized it was time to let go of any fear and doubt and Be our Truth in the world.
Give thanks to all of you who offer what you can to support a Creative process that is a benefit to humanity.
May you all be blessed and experience miracles.
One Love
Akahdahmah

