The Sacred Mechanics of Change: When the Wound Becomes the Warrior’s Way

By Christina Alexa, ETJ Co-Founder Change does not always arrive as a thunderclap, as a jarring shock. Often it is a culmination of “slight, edge action”, born of showing up with daily commitment to personal guidance. We forget sometimes that we are willing participants in change. Somewhere along the way we made choices through decisions… Read More »

The Heart Opens When We Simplify

By Christina Alexa, ETJ Co-Founder When I am teaching, I often look around the room and feel moved by the individual promptings that draw each person to practice. Stepping out of the general flow of our lives to seek moments of reset and connection takes focus and effort. I know that if I see just… Read More »

Atha & Creating with an Open Heart

By Christina Alexa How long had it been since I felt truly open-hearted? Since I had empowered myself as the creator of my life and not just the person within it? This morning I was reflecting on the journey – the travel through the past that dropped me into the now – or in Sanskrit,… Read More »

Return to Heart

Many of you who know me know this has been a rough go these past few years. I came into this life with a drive toward freedom from all limitations. This path is a current, like the current of Ohm that places me in the caves with the Brahmans, timeless in the eternal seed sound.… Read More »

Grow

  GROW: “To spring up and develop to maturity.” (Merriam-Webster) “It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.” – Ram Dass Illusions: Cloaked Doorways to Empowerment   Imagine if illusions were shatterproof, like acrylic dishes that simply bounce when dropped on… Read More »

Survive Life Transitions and Reclaim Your Power

  I once wrote a piece about a childhood memory in which I was grocery shopping with my mother (click the link to read), back when 2-liter soda bottles were made of glass. One slipped through my mother’s fingers and shattered; my mother slipped in the soda and was cut badly in several places. The… Read More »

One Well

A Little Bit About a Big Concept Though life takes us on many diverging paths, there is only one good red road that we walk, and only one well that we need to dig to find water. – Christina For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by the possibility of freedom… Read More »