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Louise Kripalani’s Lovely Spiritual Retreat Accommodations Close to Self Realization Fellowship Gardens

Yesterday I mentioned that Louise Kripalani’s serene and peaceful home is a good place to stay if you’re in the Carlsbad area of San Diego. It’s convenient to The Abundance Network, where I attended the weekend seminars with voice coach par excellence Arthur Joseph, and it is also close to the Deepak Chopra Center.

She also provides rooms where people can stay while pursuing body/mind/spirit studies. I came to her home because I wanted a place to stay while I studied Vocal Awareness with Arthur Joseph.

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Louise has been a member of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self Realization Fellowship since 1976. Therefore, it’s understandable that the atmosphere in her home lends itself so readily to spiritual meditation. Paramahansa Yogananda is best known as the author of Autobiography of a Yogi.

In fact, her healing home is a good place to stay if you’re planning to visit the beautiful gardens of Self Realization Fellowship’s Hermitage and Meditation Gardens in Encinitas.

Call Louise at 760-942-1079 and mention my name, Carol Chapman, so she’ll know where you heard about her.

Accommodations Close to Deepak Chopra Center

Yesterday I posted from Louise Kripalani‘s lovely home in the San Diego area of California. Don’t you love it when a home has a name? Her place is called Ram Nivas Healing Home because she practices the healing arts of Yoga, Ayurveda, Nutrition and Transformational Breathing. She is a Reiki master and a Transformational Breath Facilitator.

She also provides rooms where people can stay while pursuing body/mind/spirit studies. I came to her home because I wanted a place to stay while I studied Vocal Awareness with Arthur Joseph.

I feel so happy and grateful to have stayed with a lovely lady named Louise while I attended Arthur Joseph’s Vocal Awareness weekend of seminars sponsored by The Abundance Network in Oceanside California.

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Louise is also close to the Deepak Chopra Center. Therefore, if you’re coming to the San Diego area for an event at the Deepak Chopra Center and you want a place that is peaceful, serene, beautiful and conducive to a spiritual retreat, I highly recommend Louise Kripalani’s lovely Ram Nivas Healing Home. She even has a Mediation Room. Or, if you want, you can meditate in her garden with the hummingbirds.

Serene and Spirit-filled Lodgings in the San Diego Area

I feel so happy and grateful to have stayed with a lovely lady named Louise while I attended Arthur Joseph‘s Vocal Awareness weekend of seminars sponsored by The Abundance Network in Oceanside California.

Louise’s place is beautiful, peaceful, has a lovely garden and is immaculately clean. I have my own room and bathroom. An atmosphere of serenity and peace fills her place. Louise herself is a person of deep spiritual connection and a healer. You can feel it throughout the premises.

If you’re in the San Diego area and would like a beautiful place or to stay or have the need of doing some breath work, I recommend that you contact Louise at 760-942-1079 and mention my name, “Carol Chapman.”

Arthur Joseph Also Coaches James Bond Actors

I’d mentioned world renown voice coach Arthur Joseph originator of Vocal Awareness in previous posts. Do you know that he also coached James Bond 007 actors Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan? I believe he also helped Pierce Brosnan to develop his singing voice for his role in Mama Mia.

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Arthur Joseph Coaches Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan

During the teleseminar session yesterday, I learned that one recent client of supremo voice coach Arthur Samuel Joseph is Cesar Milan, renown Dog Whisperer.

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Vocal Awareness with Arthur Joseph

It’s been a great day because I had the opportunity to participate in a teleseminar with Arthur Samuel Joseph. He is a wonderful voice coach. Here’s the link to his web site:

http://www.vocalawareness.com

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Your Photographs Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Wonderful

Sometimes, a photograph is improved through parts of it being out of focus.

For example, take a look at the Edgar Cayce 2009 Calendar again. For the month of May, you’ll see one of the cutest photographs in this calendar. I love it. The image shows a lightning bug (firefly) peaking over the edge of a magnolia flower petal.

The lightning bug and the leaf on which it sits are both beautifully in focus. However, all the petals behind the bug are out of focus. If they were in focus, the crisp lines and detail in the petal surfaces would detract from the lightning bug.

I love this picture. Paradoxically, it is made better by being less than perfect.

Here’s the inspirational quote from Edgar Cayce that goes with that month:

“For he that would be the greatest is the servant of the meekest, the lowliest of His children. Then the Knowledge of God constrain thee in that that the DOING, the being of a channel, is thy opportunity for the SHOWING of thy appreciation, of that love, for His blessings to thee.” Edgar Cayce Reading 262-98

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Photography Advice: Take a Slew of Photographs

Slew: A large amount of something (Webster’s Dictionary)

When I studied photography and filmmaking at Ryerson in Toronto, Canada, my professors always reminded us that “film is cheap.” Of course, today, most of us use a digital camera rather than film. With a digital camera, after you buy the media card, you can take endless numbers of photographs.

I drove around Mount Reiner National Park. As I drove, I kept looking for a place where the mountain had a looming feel to it. When I came to the place, I knew it was right.

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After finding the right place to take the photograph of Mount Reiner that became the February photograph in the Edgar Cayce Divine in Nature 2008 Calendar, I took a slew of photographs.

Some of the reasons I regularly take a slew:

The image is often changing, in the case of the Mount Reiner photograph described above, the mist over the mountain constantly changed dramatically altering the photograph
Especially in nature photography, I often don’t notice something magnificent like a hawk flying overhead (Please see the December photograph in the Edgar Cayce 2009 Calendar. If I take many photographs and examine them carefully afterward, I may discover something wonderful.
It’s good to vary the image changing the angle, from the right, from the left, higher, lower, zoomed in, wide angle, etc.
When I went to photography school, we were taught to “bracket the exposure,” meaning that we should vary the light intensity of the photograph from darker to lighter.

Choosing the Photograph is Also an Art

The process of going through the photographs you have taken and choosing which ones to use is as much of a creative process as is the finding, framing and taking of the photographs.

Second, choose the best one(s). Sometimes, choosing the best one is the hardest part because you loved the “idea” of the photograph while you were taking it.

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If you can let go of the “idea” of what the photograph should look like, you may find a few images that are actually better than what you consciously tried to take photographs of. However, for this to happen, you need to be open to the possibility that your conscious mind, which set up the photography shoot,

Two Important Photography Processes

Again, I’m talking about the process I go through to take my photographs, such as the photographs used in the Edgar Cayce Calendar and in last year’s Divine in Nature Calendar.

There are actually two processes:

Taking the photograph
Choosing the best one(s) out of the photographs you’ve taken

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First, find, frame and take the photograph.

Second, choose the best one(s). Sometimes, choosing the best one is the hardest part because you loved the “idea” of the photograph while you were taking it. But, when you see the way it turned out, you don’t want to give up on the “idea” even though the actual photograph just does not work. It may be out of focus or confusing or bland–even though it seemed to be perfect when you took it.

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