This is an open letter to all my breathing friends and compatriots...to express my gratitude at the amazing world which has been opened to me through your love, light and breath. Thank you. Thank you, ten thousand times thank you.

Gail, one very special spirit, for her laughter, light, inherent reverence for and focus on the Soul that unites us and is within us all. And for the belly joy and belly laughs. BELLY BELLY GOOD. WOW. I never thought 'SEEING GOD' could be so "SAFE AND EASY" --nor did I ever think I would be seeing Spirit in action even in the ego's expression of lower vibrations like anger, sadness, and fear. Thank you for creating an atmosphere of sanctuary and love in which we could all expand.

Breathing with you has challenged my life, my path forever. It's like Gail said - "once awake, you can't really go back to sleep". From then on, from NOW on, it's all a lesson, a beautiful lesson.

I've thought a lot about the role of the 'witness' in breathing. It has been and continues to be important to me...both in being a witnesses for you and in your being a witness for me. Developing the observer, and holding one another as whole and complete as we are... Total Beauty.

Thank you Maggie - for the unconditional love you inspire..the directness with which you approach life, and for the real difficult at times openness both in facing your pain and in sharing your innermost quest.

Thank you Bill, for your intensity, your toning from another dimension, your assertiveness in sharing Kundalini with your men's group, and especially for the group breath session which I call the 'F__ You' session -- the purity and honesty of your feelings had us all tap into another level of ourselves we needed to be with - what a session. For me, it triggered an old (I thought resolved) victim-psyche event which lasted into the next day - when, in another breath session, it did resolve itself or integrate in a way that created a major shift to a new way of being with primitive negative emotional energy. This 'FU' session was the catalyst I needed to become aware of just how much I had let myself be controlled by other people's work. Seminal.

Thank you Rick, for asking me to be a breathing partner at a time when my fear of rejection was so great that I was truly astonished at your request -- in fact, I had to stop myself from trying to talk you out of it (remember - I'm too far away for anyone to want to breath with me....interesting phrase - too far away). Thank you for sharing with compassion, honesty and integrity the issues in your heart-mind. I smile at our group's fondly calling you 'The Monk' -- for me this symbolizes in a way the radiance and Oneness we all seek - in the glistening eyes and quiet broad smile and laugh you often have after a breathing session. I think it also reminds us of the humility and grace you are with all of us. Thank you too, for being a witness to my first truly remarkable breath session - of rebirth and ancestral taproots. Your response to my session - non--judgmental and appreciative - gave me 'permission' I couldn't give myself at the time to do what I needed to do with the breath, to experience the integration and loving higher vibration.

Thank you Jan --for the hypnotherapy session which allowed me to retrieve the inner quiet and spaciousness I needed to be fully open to the miracle of the group breathwork as it unfolded for me. For sharing the intuition cruise and tantra yoga workshop info with us.

Thank you Judith-- WOW - what an ethereal voice - you can tell me "ITS SAFE AND EASY' to do anything - anytime. And what a wonder. Acceptance. For being a listener without judgement, a true witness, to a certain confusion and pain I have been working on and breathing into --to transmute to joy and love. Thank you too, for your laughter.

Thank you Mary - for the Queen and Snow White, and Champ the Angel Dog. I will carry the image of you three at the door to my consciousness as I was returning from a breath session - always. I will think of you as Gatekeepers and bringers of joy. Thank you also for sharing parts of your personal story in which all of us could see ourselves in some universal way. Thank you too for including me in your workshop. I learned so much that day.

Thank you Vicki - for your honesty and openness about your personal journey, for giving voice to and shedding light on some of those shadowy areas of our collective mind that we experience as our own special dragons.

Thank you Joc, for your humor, the other-worldly toning, and telling me about the 'sine way' - it anchored in the continuous, circular breath at a body-level and the warm and friendly hugs at group breathings.

Thank you Brenda - for being one of the newest members and allowing me to bear witness to your transformation in the training program.

And thank you Amy -- for having the vision, the joy and the courage to take on Gail's practice -- it takes a lot of love and strength to take such a leap -- and we know about your leaping!!! Having the continuity of the 'spiritual opening place' to come to - to return to - creates for me a sense of renewed connection, renewed commitment to grow and learn and face my challenges, and continue to open to giving, receiving and being love.

I hope we all continue working/playing together in some capacity --and to breath together often. This is my intent and my request to each of you. I have never felt so much love and light in one place as when we breath together -- it is powerful, provocative, and seriously enjoyable (a lot of the time). It lets me express and transmute my karmic stuff without putting that stuff in someone else's' lap. WOW!

Gracie