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I express my gratitude and admiration to all my students for sharing and expanding their One Love healing with the world.

I realize my previous blog post was quite some time ago. It appears that my most recent blog article coincided with the last time we had a flat spell here in the Caribbean. What I mean by a flat spell is that there are no waves.

I apologize for that, but I had numerous blog pieces written in my thoughts while waiting for waves in the sea. I also apologize for the prospect of multiple blog pieces being published at the same time; depending on how long the flat spell is, I may be writing a lot and getting them out there and out of my head.

This blog post is dedicated to all of my surf, Thai, Reiki, and yoga students that are out there in the world giving one love and healing. I am very passionate about everything I do at One Love, which is how I came up with the name One Love.

Everything I do and teach is One Love.

They are all taught and offered from a place of love and the heart. They are also all my one and only loves. Love heals and will heal the planet. You only need a loving heart and good intentions to heal the world.

Sometimes living down here in the Caribbean, of Costa Rica, I feel scared like maybe I am not following my path, my dharma because I don’t have a 401k plan, I don’t have a big bank account, I don’t work 60 hours a week, (sometimes my kids and I don’t even have shoes, and when we do have shoes we usually just have one pair of flip flops), we don’t own a car, but most importantly, I am debt-free. I have no school loan debt, no car payment, and no mortgage.

We certainly do not live the American dream or the “typical American life.” What I do have is a stress-free life, time to spend with my children, good clean water, a river, and a canoe that serves as our driveway to the beach. I also have wonderful, well-balanced children who can fish, hunt, and start a fire by rubbing two sticks together. We have dual citizenship, and we have over 150 tropical fruit trees in my garden, as well as their fathers. We have two dogs and two cats as well. We have surfboards and can spend time in the sea surfing, fishing, and snorkeling every day. We are surrounded by jungle, animals, therapeutic plants, and an incredible healing community. I can swap massages with several of my talented colleagues and friends at any moment.

I live like a queen, especially during the slow season, eating freshly caught tuna at Laslo’s fresh fish restaurant about three times a week. If I’m broke and my children need to feed, I can find free food growing everywhere; I could go on and on about the things I’m grateful for in my life. But, because I am not living the typical American dream, I have moments when I doubt myself and my decisions.

Wai Khru is the healing prayer or mantra that pays respect to your teachers and is chanted before giving a Thai Massage.

A Thai massage is a form of metta meditation. Metta means loving-kindness. Before you start a Thai massage you always start with the Wai Khru Mantra, or prayer. Wai Khru means to give respect to your teacher. The Wai Khur isn’t unique to practitioners of Thai massage. Throughout Thailand, people perform the Wai Khru ceremonies that are specific to individual jobs and ways of life. It is performed before any type of discipline like Muay Thai kickboxing. They perform it to thank the Buddha, their parents, and their teachers.

First, you warm up your hands by rubbing your hands together and start in Namaskara mudra or in Thai, Wai mudra. You start by feeling the love in your heart and connecting with your loving energy. The arms are an extension of your heart, the love from your heart goes out of your arms, into your hands, and into your client.  This prayer is meant to focus your mind and prepare it for the massage. This prayer is not from any religion, it is just a way to pay respects to the original teacher, and founder,  of Thai massage Dr. Shivago Komarpaj, and thank him for bringing us this special healing art. It is also a way to ask for healing for our clients as well as for ourselves.  It sets the intention, or Sankalpa for the rest of the healing session. The mantra itself comes from the Pali language, which is a dialect of Sanskrit.

It goes a little something like this:

Om Namo / Shivago / Silasa / Ahang / Karuniko / Sapa Satanang / Osatha / Tipa Mantang / Papaso / Suriya Jantang/ Komarapato / Paka Sesi / Wantami/ Bantito / Sume Taso/ Aroka / Sumna Homi ( repeat 3 times)

Piyo Tewa/ Manus Sanang / Piyo Proma / Namut Tamo / Piyo Naka/ Supan Nanang / Pinin Siyang / Nama Mihang/ Namo  Puttaya/ Navon Navien/ Nasatit Nasatien/ Ehi Mama / Navien Nawae / Napai Tang Vien / Navien Mahaku / Ehi Mama / Piyoung Mama / Namo Puttaya (repeat 1 time)

Na A / Na Wa /Roka / Payati / Vida Santi (repeat 3 times )

English translation of Mantra:

We invite the spirit of our founder, the Father Doctor Shivago, who comes through us through his saintly life. Please bring us the knowledge of all nature, that this prayer (mantra ) will show us the true medicine of the universe. In the name of this mantra, we respect your help that through our bodies you will bring wholeness and health to the body of our client.

The goddess of healing dwells in the heavens high, while mankind stays in the world below. In the name of the founder, may the heavens be reflected in the earth below so that this healing medicine may encircle the world.

We pray for the one whom we touch, that he will be happy and that any illnesses will be released from him.