My Close Call with Wildfire

Last weekend I came face to face with fire… Wildfire!

I experienced first hand how quick and unpredictable this natural element can be.
The Valley Wildfire started burning during last Saturday’s new moon, a few miles from where I was attending a Tantra Festival near Middleton, CA. In the first 24 hours it had burned over 30,000 acres due to high winds, consuming the retreat center I was at along with most of the town of Middleton. Fire fighters are still working on completely containing it, and last I checked it had burned over 73,000 acres, 550 homes and structures, and left 5 dead.

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What to do when your world gets rocked

If you've been experiencing more challenge than usual in the last few weeks, you are not alone.

Right now arguments, conflicts, unexpected shifts in plans, uncertainty about a job or money, and transitions around family or home seem to be on high boil.

blogs, conflict, happinessKamali MinterOctober 1, 2015communication, cycles, sexuality, nature, classesComment

How To Turn Overwhelm Into Abundance

It’s been very busy in my world the last few months! Spring arrived in the form of increased projects and activity. The last few weeks I've juggled editing projects, with teaching The Awaken Weekend, private coaching, voice-over auditions, and this weekend I'll be heading to the Lighting In a Bottle festival to teach a workshop.

I enjoy being able to do so many things, each of them is a part of the way I share myself and my gifts. And it all requires energy, focus, and time to do well. There are a few specific things I now practice during busy clips like this that help what once felt like overwhelm, feel more like abundance, because of shifts I make in mindset and body.

If your plate has been full too, and it has you a little overwhelmed. I wanted to share how I've been transforming overwhelm into abundance with a few small shifts:

What Makes You Feel Loved?

Some people dig Valentine's Day, others dread it. But I’m down with any day that has us turn our attention toward love. Love is an on-going investigation in my world.

And one of the things I've learned about it over the years is that we all have different ways we feel and recognize love.

Some of us love to be touched, some love gifts, some love kind words or selfless acts of service. If you are aware of the things that make you feel loved, it is a huge gift to share that information with the people who want to love you.

blogs, communication, love, relationshipsKamali MinterFebruary 13, 2015Spcace For Lovelove, relationships, valentine's day, communicationComment

Making The Most of Your Holidays

I’ve been in hermit mode! This time of year does that to me….

It’s like all the activity from the year has caught up with me, and my body is asking me to take a break!

With all of the buzz happening from the holidays, to outrage over injustice, my desire to go within has been strong. I’ve been taking time to really BE with everything that’s happened in my inner and outer worlds this year. I’ve been listening to what is ready to be let go, and what wants to be born next.

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Who is Holding Your Happiness Hostage?

Happiness has to be one of those desires right up there with winning the lottery, and world peace! I mean who doesn't want to be happy? That is if you aren't afraid of all those 'happy haters' out there. (you know who you are)

It's way easier to be cynical, pissed off, frustrated, and depressed than it is to be happy. Not that it feels good to live in any of those states of being… but it doesn't require much work to get there or stay there.

Happiness on the other hand is much more elusive than those other emotions. Why is it so much harder to be happy? Does happiness stay locked away somewhere until something comes along and sets it free?

Who, or what is holding your happiness hostage?

conflict, relationships, blogs, communication, happinessKamali MinterOctober 22, 2014happy, happiness, emotions, meditation, relatioshipsComment

Happy Fall

Monday brings the fall equinox in the northern hemisphere, a moment when we have almost equal day and night. But when you spend most of your day between four walls staring at a computer, it's easy to miss these kinds of wonders of nature(sad face). SO I'll be spending some time this weekend enjoying the last days of summer outside! In Taoism, the energy of fall is about letting go. You know… letting things 'fall' away! It's a time when the expansive energy of summer begins to wind its way back inward, moving towards the stillness that arrives with winter.

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Happy Labor Day Weekend: Are you hungry for more?

It's Labor Day weekend and I have BBQ on the brain even though I'm a vegetarian... but I wanted to talk about a different kind of hunger.

Do you ever find yourself just hungry for 'more'? Your life is good all things considered. You know there is plenty to be grateful for… but some part of you just wants more. Maybe it's more time, more love, more money… Or maybe all that would all be nice, but there's an even deeper yearning for 'more' that you can't quite name.

blogs, meditations, relationships, love, tantraKamali MinterAugust 30, 2014holidays, hunger, tantra, satisfaction, love, desireComment

Where Is The Love?

If love is what we are made of, why do we spend so much time feeling fearful, guilty, shameful, and sad?.....

The headlines this week were enough to stir any of those emotions for sure. From the sad news about Robin Williams suicide. To the protests & riots in Ferguson, MO over the shooting of Michael Brown, another unarmed Black teenager killed by law enforcement. There is so much happening in our own lives, and the world around us that looks like the absence of love instead of love.

blogs, conflict, love, communication, relationshipsKamali MinterAugust 18, 2014Comment

Turned Down For What?

Who or what has you turned down?

I know it might be a strange question, but this DJ Snake/Lil' John song inspired it. Check it out below to see for yourself if you haven't already! If you've been feeling a little drained, uninspired, frustrated, or numb…. there's a good chance that you've turned down the dial on an important part of your self expression. And while that part may need to get expressed in a number of ways, I'll bet in its purest form its tied to your sexuality...

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Giving & Receiving - Two Sides of the Same Coin

If you’ve ever felt depleted from giving too much, or repeatedly find yourself asking the question 'when will it be my turn to get what I want?' Then, keep reading...

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Love is a Field

There is a well-known Rumi quote - "Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field, I'll meet you there"... I believe this field is love.

Its a very Tantric sentiment actually. When we can put down our judgements about ourselves, other people, and the world. And begin to accept what we are feeling in the moment as part of one big movement of energy... We step into a field I call Love.

workshops, tantra, relationships, love, blogsKamali MinterJuly 25, 2014love, belonging, relatioships, tantra, feelingsComment

Bouncing Back From Betrayal

One of the hardest things we can experience in relationship is betrayal... It's a risk we take when we place our trust in someone or something. If that trust gets broken, we are left feeling betrayed.

How you respond to a betrayal can either leave you feeling like a victim, or feeling victorious.

blogs, conflict, communication, loveKamali MinterJuly 21, 2014betrayal, relatioships, forgiveness, communication, feelingsComment

There's No Place Like Home

Happy almost Full moon!And it's going to be a Supermoon on top of that.
The first full moon of the summer will be big and bright….

I had another bright moment earlier this week when I finally signed a lease for a new home! Me and my sister have been on the hunt for a home for the last month or so. Apartment hunting in LA is a part-time job! I'm thrilled that part is done, and I can finally unpack the suitcase I have been living out of for almost a year.

Yes you read that right, I haven't had my own home for almost 12 months now. After my engagement ended a year and a half ago, the home we were creating together, along with many of the things I recognized as home, came to an end. So I did what made sense for me at the time and honored my desire to travel.

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Free To Be Dynamic

I hope you enjoyed your Independence this weekend! As we were celebrating the birth of the USA, I was filming a birth portrait for a dear friend. Witnessing a birth unfold was inspiring for many reasons. It allowed me to see what it looks like to ride your edge... that moment where you want to quit but you keep going. It reminded me that these bodies are capable of so much and there's a wisdom that moves through them naturally if we do not get in the way. And that most amazing things that get birthed into this world, are often preceded by some challenges and pain. Oh and that women rule for bringing us into this world!....

blogs, happiness, love, sex, workshopsKamali MinterJuly 7, 2014Vitality, birth, July 4th, babies, senses, sensuality, classesComment