Drishti of the Day:

"Any pure and proud nation that wants to have a future, of any kind, go directly opposite of the way the United States is going, on marijuana and Technology alone. The decline of the quality of men and women here has been exponential, and they refuse to be led in the direction of saving themselves or the very earth on which they stand. Literally. I've gotten no phone calls, for years, to bring all of my Gifts to bear for this country. It's officially out of my hands and in God's, alone. There is scarcely a high-functioning person who is sober 100% of the time to even trade a look with on this. Can you imagine the next 5, much less 10 years?" -Amy Jin

Natarajasana - (Royal Dancer)

Natarajasana - (Royal Dancer)
Amy Jin - Courtesy Of "The Pitch" & Angela Bond

New Paradigmatic Enlightenment Services:

This Movement is committed to the spiritual power of individuals who are dedicated to their own spiritual growth and existence while they R here. Therefore, all prices are negotiable for those who desire to become more enlightened, ascended, Christ or Buddha-like, and additional donations are always welcome towards this informally begun non-profit Movement.

If U are sincere and have pure intentions, you will immediately be seen for that. These prices reflect an acknowledgment of the capitalistic society in which we live, believes that the best in class deserve to be paid accurately 4 their gifts, and that, in an ideal society, the enlightened would flow money power, if such a thing even existed. It also believes that $ means nothing to the truly powerful, but creating Utopia, so to speak, according to the rules until they R different, is also the place to be.

I find that my practitioners/students who invest and do the work, individually, with me, especially in conjunction with regular attendance to the asana classes I lead, see tremendous benefit, including pretty immediate "huge" revelations, releases of pent-up emotion, a "synchronistic" or miraculous event, or a job promotion, to name a few.

  • · LEARNING (Ashtanga-based)(Santa Monica) POWER YOGA &/or MEDITATION (with many types of influence—primarily Zen Soto [Buddhist], New Age/Metaphysical, & “the kind yogis do in class”) WITH ME-$85 4 1 Personalized Lesson. U may purchase a pre-paid group of 10 sessions for $800 (8-mo. expiration from date of purchase, intended, ideally, for use within 1.5-2)(Non-refundable, non-transferable, however, unused sessions may be donated to other students in financial need prior to their expiring). No “traveling” fees in this Movement, except over 20 miles.
  • · EMF BALANCING TECHNIQUE (Phases I-IV) and SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION SESSIONS-Advanced Energywork connected to the Indigo and Crystal Children Phenomenon, also known as the "Martial Art Of The Heart," and Spiritual Teaching & Guidance Sessions-for truth & healing to the center of your being from an “awakened forerunner Indigo/Crystal Child” (That means “Spiritual Luminary with a high level of spiritual acumen & accuracy”). Typical topics that emerge or are brought to the latter are Work, Relationships, Life Purpose, Core or Untapped Gifts, including Spiritual ones, and past hurts that require higher perspective to be unwound into free-flowing energy. $200 per session (Typically, 1 hr.-1 hr. and 15 min.).
  • · SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT and IMPROVEMENT FROM WITHIN for sole proprietors to corporations. Cost depends on project & can be adapted to fit your budget. Please inquire.
  • Cash, check, & money orders are acceptable methods of payment. Amy Jin may be reached at EternalLove47@aol.com with inquiries or to schedule.
  • Spiritual Illumination Sessions can be done in person, by phone, and also in writing (electronically or hand-written). Energywork can also be done over the phone.

Come to Class!:

  • ~September 27th, 2012: Love Yoga: The Movement is now endorsed by NICC and is being considered for regularly scheduled class times and within-the-semester-system presence on both campuses, based on leaders from the school's personal experience in class. Look for additional class times & learning opportunities as they become available! Big ups to Northeast Iowa Community College for supporting enlightenment and higher intelligence with both feet in!
  • ~~UPDATE: TH./October 4th, 2012: Word is NICC is not interested in adding anymore "Fitness" classes to their system, 4 the time being. I said, "Yeah, Power Yoga is Fitness if fitness means your whole life!" Oh well. It is what it is.
  • -The Dubuque Community YM/YWCA has been abandoned as of SAT./12.14.2013. Jill Scott's song "Slowly Surely" is thematic to Love Yoga: The Movement's practice location needs today.
  • P.S. A householder cannot be a yog, by definition. And history. And the truth about it today. Especially here (this country). The best you can do is live and practice within its teachings, like anything, and let your heart lead the way from there. I hope you do. It has produced too many miracles for me not to say so.
  • **DUBUQUELAND/THE WESTERN WORLD: Fair warning--though those involved have already been warned!--There are far more false yogs in this country than people truly on a path of self-knowledge and Truth. Oftentimes, "teachers" are not even certified. Please ensure that they know what the bejesus they're doing be4 running around saying you're practicing yoga. What it looks like, to any Eastern person, no matter how Americanized said person may be, is that there has been a hostile takeover of something ancient & sacred that belongs to US by a bunch of looney toon idiots who would happily bastardize something rich & powerful by making it insane & fraudulent--not to mention all-around ugly. Karma always doth cometh.**
  • ***M/6.2.2014: The Practice Of Love Trumps All Things--Dubuqueland/Iowa/Midwestern authentic peops who R in it to win it, I think you're about to see a practice schedule here in a healthy, sane setting that will lend itself to true connection, sans all the inhibiting forces, to help you become perfected in your physical-mental-emotional-soul-Source-thru-Earthness. As always. There are so many of you on the planet right now capable of so much Good. Develop yourself via will so long as U live.***
  • ****At long last! Starting M/JUNE 16, The Year 2014!!! NEW!--THE DUBUQUE ARBORETUM PAVILION (3800 Arboretum Drive, Dubuque, IA 52001, www.dubuquearboretum.com): $17 Drop-In (Cash Or Check For Now), $14 For (Bring Proof!) Students, First Responders, & Veterans. UPDATE! SU/6.22.2014: Love Yoga: The Movement has some Mega-Guardian Beings. Your 1st class is *GRATIS!* to help everyone experience this class. Additional Love Offerings are always welcome for both Love Yoga: The Movement & The Arboretum from The Movement. Feel free to ask about the Team/5-Or-More-Affiliated-People discount:
  • *Bring your own mat! Min. 4 per class! Payment will be taken, upon reception, before class. Sign-in will include signing off on an "I-take-full-responsibility-for-my-health-&-safety-during-this-practice" acknowledgement. We will change, flow, & adapt for the Good Of All as we go, so walk, run, 2-wheel, & carpool to class, & if this area is to become a home to a founding Love Yoga: The Movement shala, it will become a reality from here.*
  • -M/5:45-7:15P-The ORIGINAL Dubuqueland ALL LEVELS EXPERIENCE!--Ashtanga-Based, Santa Monica Power Yoga!
  • -W/5:45-7:15P-All Levels
  • -TH/10:30A-NOON-All Levels
  • *****And then, just like that, by the same treachery as always, life & Santa Monica Power Yoga evacuate the area due to fear & lack that characterize "normal" there. Ask current practitioners for the skinny, & read what happened in my writings below right. Love Yoga: The Movement has left the Dubuqueland area as of F/7.5.2014*****
  • ******MINNESOTA, I look forward to serving you, if nothing else, because I like the way you speak. I'm available for Personalized & on-site work, classes, workshops, & events in the Red Wing, MN area. Please contact EternalLove47@aol.com to schedule, including such learning experiences which require scheduling & travel. Gratitude.******
  • *******HMM...It's hard to serve Minnesota when you have to go back to Iowa & CONSIDER LEAVING THE COUNTRY because it's BUNK!!!*******
  • ********Tick tock, tick tock...Waiting for an impeccable space from which to teach the Power Within...SU/12.6.2015
  • *********W/JULY 20, 2016: Nothing like a 2 year pause button to teach from the mean streets in these times, fighting for my life and this Movement, in "crisis," with some spotty Personalizeds with shady aspirants, in the meantime. Meeting tomorrow, everyone. Downtown Dubuque, Iowa. SU/9.4.2016: Nobody's home so far, peops. Well--LOL--except me.
  • ~M/July 27th, The Year 2020: It is clear how much the country could use real, ancient methodologies through which one can Heal, stay in that lane, and consciously yoke one's will into alignment with God, but in the presence of too much Hell, all signs of Heaven leave the scene. In the meantime, please enjoy, and be enlightened by, these two remarkable women, out of NYC: "Yoga is Dead" Podcast on Spotify. Honestly, I'm glad I never opened up my own shala, in spite of everyone in the world saying I should, or that they wanted me to. 2006 could've been a good run, but for someone who wanted a career for my entire adult life, from a relatively boring, stable station in society, 2014, as an example, to present, is no lifelong path.
  • Howdy. I hope the Lessons about Vibration and Truth have served everyone since your last Handstand in class. I want you to know that my desire for a commensurate role in the empirical world has been real, but unmet, but I have not forgotten about you, and, in spite of everything, have remained grateful to the Teachers I selected to inform my Instruction, holding of this Movement, and practice and, of course, to the truly Beautiful souls who allowed me to touch their lives and help develop best practices and decision-making within them. I have thought about putting presence out on Social Media, for the 1st time, as well as a subscription-based Podcast, in addition to considering when, and where, I might ever feel safe to lead some rockin' asana and related experiences again. :) Let's watch the numbers, the racism affecting Asians in this country, end both, trust God, and continue to lead and exhibit merit, integrity, and nobility, with love, REGARDLESS OF THE EVIL THAT MAY SURROUND YOU. One Korea--I have fallen in Love with you during this pandemic!, and an end to the devastating poetry that is Russia's "Peacekeeping" Mission in Ukraine. Word to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He reminds me of so many of you, at your best. It is time to show up for every noun you owe contribution to, as your Best self, and be Power Yoga, and the other spiritual traditions you hold sacred, outside of practice and worship. Wed./3.9.The Year 2022

Golden.

Golden.
Image Courtesy Of Angela (Schmelzer) Steffen

Big Ups!

The City Of Dubuque's Citizen's (Police) Academy (Dubuque, IA)(2017)
Bored, stuck in Dubuque, waiting out the laying down of the Universal Hand, I followed up my Ride-Along last Fall with the 21st Annual C.A. for our city, thinking it was a big picture, 10-week, Thursday night class in City Operations and the role of Law Enforcement in quality of life. It was actually a course in policy, procedure, and hands-on learning experiences in Law Enforcement itself, complete with encouragement to get sprayed (OC-style--The pepper kind)(i.e. "It's just a spritzer!"), as well as another Ride-Along (on a different shift). An excellent, much appreciated immersion in yet another world untouched by my academic, holistic, spiritual, and worldly studies, perfectly timed in applicability to considerations in Business, Loss Prevention, my own shala, Law/Graduate School, and life experiences, in general, including those shared on this website with Law, Law Enforcement, and city infrastructures in this country.

The City Of Dubuque's/Human Rights Department's Intercultural Competency Leadership Training (Dubuque, IA)(2014)
At their request, so bravo to them, bravo to me. Provided presence, experience, background, & feedback, while simultaneously taking in, getting updated, refreshing past (academic & other) learning, & showing up to add Love Yoga: The Movement/Amy Jin flava to the current diversity-improving model that has already started infiltrating City Government, businesses, institutions of learning, & organizations of all kinds via rocking choice, recognizing a next step needing to be established in consciously evolving Dubuque's intolerant, ignorant, & bigoted past, setting an example for the world.

Voted "Kansas City's 'Best Yoga Teacher" by The People & The Pitch (2007)

http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/BestOf?oid=2211700


Santa Monica (Bryan Kest) Power Yoga Instructor, Trained & Certified (Quintana Roo/Tulum, Mexico)(2005)

A 3-week, 200 hour in-depth immersion in yoga thought, philosophy, and practice including but not limited to 100 hours of Hatha practice and meditation, 100 hours of learning the multi-dynamic possibilities of asana and meditation, as well as Satsang, Sanskrit, kirtan, noble silence, juice fasting, and a 10 hour master Iyengar course.

Spiritual Illumination & Leadership (Kansas City Metro Area, KS & MO+)(since 2002)

Expert on the Indigo/Crystal Children phenomenon, healing, and in-the-Light, all-natural lifestyle-related topics, featured in The Edge, KC Wellness Magazine, http://www.childrenofthenewearth.com/, http://www.planetlightworker.com/, and The Kansas City Star. Featured & requested speaker for the Psychic Studies Institute (Unity Temple on the Plaza), UMKC's Communiversity, The University of Kansas Medical Center's Interdenominational/Interfaith Alliance, Gardens of Delight, UCOP (Unity Church of Overland Park), Unity Temple on the Plaza (independent event), holistic healing centers, & spiritual bookstores across the country, The Dubuque Community School District Board, etc.

Full-Ride Division I Scholarship Athlete (Volleyball), Summa Cum Laude (3.95/4.0 G.P.A.)(DePaul University)(Chicago, IL)(2000)
Conference USA All-Freshman Team Nominee. DePaul University Athletic Department’s Jean Nordberg Award recipient (DePaul Athletic Banquet), given for excellence in leadership, personal character, and academics. (Senior year Co-)Captain. DePaul University's College of Commerce's Honors Marketing Program(, by selection). Bachelor's of Science in (Honors) Marketing(-IME).

The State of Iowa's Class 3A Player of the Year (Largest Class at the Time)(Volleyball), Salutatorian (3.99/4.0 G.P.A.)(Wahlert High School)(Dubuque, IA)(1996)

+ (Athletic Stripes in Reverse Chronology) Mizuno 1st-Team All-Star Selection
1996 Class 3A State Champions
1st-Team All-State Tournament
1st-Team Elite All-State
Mississippi Valley Conference "Athlete of the Year"
1st-Team All-Mississippi Valley Conference
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald 1st-Team All-Area
Team Co-Captain
Female award recipient of Wahlert High School's prestigious Galen P. Thomas Award, given for excellence in academic awareness, citizenship, reliability, and participation in other activities in and outside of academia (Nomination by coaches).

...and a powerful story of overcoming all obstacles and odds to get there.

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Image Courtesy Of AOL Image Bank

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STAND UP, ASIAN-AMERICA.-Amy Jin/Image Sourced From www.MalcolmX.com

Yeah, Buddy--

Yeah, Buddy--
Resurrection Raiders, Representin'.

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Spiritual Warrior Soul: Roman Catholic Warrior Leaders On The Hardwood ROCK IT On The Yoga Hardwood, As Well.

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Asians Aren't Known For Verticals, But This One Was. Likely Sept.-Oct. 1995, Repping Our Top Ten Or In-The-Teens? Standing, Playing Other Nationally Ranked H.S. Teams At Mother McAuley In The Chi.

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On The Plane Again--It's Not Glam, But At Least We Got To Shower. Well, Some Of Us Did.

Chi-Town Chinatown Love: Word Up To All My (Astrological) Horses, Worldwide!

Chi-Town Chinatown Love: Word Up To All My (Astrological) Horses, Worldwide!
A Little Adventure With Some Of My Iowan, Chinese-American Compadres, To See What Was Cracka-Lackin' In One Of My Former Places Of Residence--In My Tried And True "Protest Jeans" By 7 For All Mankind--Thank You, L.A.!, Sat./March 21.15

Post-Photo Shoot, Sat./10.29.11

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Titthibhasana - (Firefly Pose)

Titthibhasana - (Firefly Pose)

Honorable Giving: Generous Love Offerings Power This Movement

Honorable Giving: Generous Love Offerings Power This Movement
Feel good about contacting EternalLove47@aol.com to give and receive (M/7.29.2013: Feel good about knowing that this has already begun, more officially than ever before, since my return to Dubuqueland on 12.31.2011. Let's keep it flowing Big on behalf of Source). Needed immediately (Contact Amy Jin [EternalLove47@aol.com] for details):

  • -Donations to back a stand-alone Physical Location/Income for my teaching and this Movement
  • -Increased donations/backing to fund positive Activities, spreading Santa Monica Power Yoga-based teachings and lifestyle, traditional Ashtanga Yoga, traditional meditation, and wisdom teachings from myriad traditions that help to awaken and enlighten a people, regardless of physical location
  • -Others in Mass Media to donate Promotion of the ideals/ideas examined here for the enlightenment and spiritual dimension of those who would benefit from this Movement
  • -A Contemporary, Cutting-Edge Web Designer on donation/trade with the Movement to provide 'Net presence
  • -A Network of Elite Healers to Exchange Holistic Healing/Spiritual/Conventional Medicine/(Holistic) Dentistry Work on Trade, who R committed to excellence in their practice, with teachers and leaders of this Movement, as it develops

Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana - (Standing Splits, Y'All!)

Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana - (Standing Splits, Y'All!)

2011 Lovers of This Spiritual Movement & Amy Jin's Work: Given Resources, Products, Services

  • Jessica Schifman*, Power Yogini (Overland Park, Kansas)(Kansas City Metro Area): Intuitively and custom-made lifestyle products-Please inquire about intuitively-made Power Yoga Mat Straps. My latest is about the beauty of the ancestors (Native American power!) and the Buddha.
  • Sarah Brent, Amy Jin's Co-Captain from DePaul (Volleyball)(Bella Vista, Arkansas): $ supporting the Movement!
  • Lauren Naylor & Focal Point Salon (Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ): Haircut & rockin' purple hair color *TRADE*-turned-Love Offering to Love Yoga: The Movement. A beautiful team effort on Mayo Blvd. to rep Beauty on this list (www.focalpointsalon.com).
  • B.J. & the Metro Motorsports/RideNow Powersports Peoria team* (Peoria, Arizona)(Phoenix Metro Area): YAMAHA Zuma 125 TLC & industry friendship. And they still have my hot chocolate! Become less of a burden on this planet by supporting the rockin' hype color, fun, sensitivity, creativity, style, & opportunity for self-mastery, better operation of all motor vehicles, & personal expressiveness through Motorsports wherever U R (http://youtu.be/lWCK-pq3qDQ)!
  • KEY: $=$1-500, $$=$501-1000, $$$=$1001-10,000, $$$$=Over $10,000

2012 Powering-The-Yoga Supa Humans/Collective Efforts!

  • Jessica Schifman*, Power Yogini (Overland Park, Kansas)(Kansas City Metro Area): An Amy Jin-encouraged Power Yoga mat strap line, finally developed! I was rockin' one on mine while teaching in Kansas City before any yoga brand came out with similar concepts. "Gold" has been donated to Love Yoga: The Movement (www.lillybit.com).
  • Dr.Joseph A. Magno***, Author, retired Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loras College, and healing practitioner (Dubuque, Iowa): $ for the journey/to support me/the Movement!
  • Sarah-Mom and Sam-Dad Schmelzer**, former Dubuque Internal Medicine Business Office Woman & Golden-Day John Deere Dubuque Works Laborer, respectively (Dubuque, Iowa): $ to raise the current official vehicle of the Movement, my YAMAHA Zuma 125, from the dead and get it back on the road for the first time in Iowa!
  • Northeast Iowa Community College, one of the top ten community colleges in the nation (by the Aspen Institute)!(Peosta, Iowa): Provost approval and leadership (who R Power Yogi/nis!) hoorah!s to post Love Yoga: The Movement flyers and class times at both the Peosta campus and the Dubuque Center locations. U can't get more enlightened than that! Amy Jin & Love Yoga: The Movement, both, support the development of enlightened human beings, a more conscious, intelligent society, and delighting in the enchantment of learning thru whatever excellent means necessary!
  • Brett Albarado***, fellow Light bringer, a former colleague at the horrifying Unity School of Christianity at Unity Village, MO (Red Wing, Minnesota): $ given in the truest spirit of tithing to this Movement.
  • Please note: All Love Offerers are listed with their permission. All who support The Movement R encouraged to receive due recognition and karma for their actions thru this section. Please be aware that there are also those listed who since have been terminated, in regard to their relationship to myself and/or Love Yoga: The Movement but, by my choice, will continue to be listed until I determine to axe all mention of them. As always, may all beings receive their due and righteous karma. As a Catholic schoolgirl, I learned it was once said, "Whatsoever U do to the least of my people, that U do unto me." It wasn't mentioned what would happen when U hurt or harm one of the most significant souls, or on that same token, help them, because it hopefully requires no explanation:
  • *Hmm-mm.
  • **On spiritual/psychic probation by Source. And by Source, not humans, because spiritual invasion or psychic stalking by other humans is not only creepy as crap but against Spiritual Law. Don't break any laws. Simply arm yourself with the truth, and do not stray from it.
  • ***Energy no longer allowed to affiliate with Love Yoga: The Movement. Period. Until further notice. S/6.7.2014: And until Wrong is made Right, where possible. I would, if I were you, but I am not. The question is, "Will U?"

The 2013 Honorable Love Offerers of Love Yoga: The Movement

  • Wal-Mart-Dubuque, my hometown's location of the American retail giant (Dubuque, Iowa): A gift certificate ($) to provide all-natural/organic food for the upcoming Ashtanga/Power Yoga Film Pow-Wow & to Love Yoga: The Movement, in general! Thanks to Jennifer, Cash Manager, for taking the time to hear my vision, the resistance to help by other Food & Grocery people in town, & taking about 3 seconds to respond enthusiastically that "Yes!" they'd help and "Thanks for all you're doing!" in a society where genuine gratitude is a rarity. Now, that's Power Yoga leadership. Way to step up to the mic, Wal-Mart!
  • Brett Albarado***, fellow Light bringer (Seer, Channel, Reader...), former colleague at the "The-Indigo-Children-Will-Need-2-Get-Their-Own-Movement!" Unity School of Christianity at Unity Village, MO, multi-purpose Maintenance Mechanic, vehicular healer, & an all-around amazing incarnate Angel (Red Wing, Minnesota): $$$ donated to Amy Jin, Love Yoga: The Movement, & the spread of wise, conscious, intelligent creation of the world's future, from ground up, as a celebration of the existence of universal love that transcends belief.
  • Monks Kaffee Pub* (Dubuque, Iowa): An original, A&E & consciousness-supporting concept on Bluff Love Offering the space and media equipment for our Love Yoga: The Movement May 26th Ashtanga/Santa Monica Power Yoga Film Pow-Wow & Satsang, giving everyone another home off our yoga mats!
  • Bill Finn, President of Scorpio Productions & one of the first "regular" Power Yoga practitioners in this area! (Dubuque, IA): For being the bridge that led to the connection for the event with Trish Feldman, Monks Kaffee Pub's awesome Co-Owner, who relayed, "They're TOTALLY excited to host it!" Music & chai officially makes the world go 'round.
  • David C. Moeller*, Lead Tech Coach for the Dubuque Community School District & dedicated, front-row practitioner in practice! (Dubuque, IA): $ given with gratitude, in class & with class, to Amy Jin & Love Yoga: The Movement for the spread of Is-ness on the planet.
  • Anonymous (4 now)!***, Food leader of the new paradigms represented by Love Yoga: The Movement (Dubuqueland, IA): $ generously given in faith to The Movement, exemplifying keeping one's word, leadership by example, the power of right alliance, & working positive karma in integrity. Cheers to alliances kept solid thru enlightenment & real effort on both sides. "Clean food" is also about chi. Think "U R what U eat."

The 2014 Love Offerers' Wall Of Celebration & Is-ness--

  • Brett Albarado***, Maintenance Mechanic, Aspiring Power Yogi!, & embodiment of Faith in the Truth (Red Wing, Minnesota): $ above & beyond the Suggested Love Offering for individualized work, as a way of giving & expressing love naturally & perfectly, & funding to help establish the 1st Tapas Workshop in this area as fact!
  • Frank Bonacci, one of a cast of all high-caliber professors chosen, but Amy Jin's 1st! English prof, at DePaul University, now a Grant-Writer, a certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, AND a steadfast practitioner of Love Yoga: The Movement's Work! (Schiller Park/Chicago, IL): $ in Scholarship & Love Offering toward the "LOVE YOGA: THE MOVEMENT’S VISION: On Life & Flow—The Tapas Of A Modern Day Yog/ini" Workshop & the continuation of brilliance all over the world, moving on inspiration, producing results, as dedication always does.
  • Wal-Mart-Dubuque (Dubuque, Iowa): Sadly, Jennifer's gone, but Wal-Mart has stepped up again this year to provide a little charitable $ love after our "On Life & Flow" Workshop, thanks to Karen K. & the Accounting crew! Eventually, I'd like all area businesses, big & small, on board with eco-friendly, happy, healthy reality-creation. Our Tapas couldn't be more needed or relevant today. A bow of gratitude to one of the only places whose prices I still trust on organic, all-natural, vegetarian sustenance.
  • The beautiful Dubuque Arboretum (Dubuque, Iowa): This venue, under the leadership of Sandi Helgerson, Executive Director, has offered a "supporting landlord" place (more like support that's otherworldly) to put Ashtanga-based, Santa Monica Power Yoga classes back on the map in Dubuqueland/the Midwest! after many months without a physical location to call "home." The magic, peace, and perfect partnering of this space--a strong presence & opportunity to experience natural beauty in the city for 33 years on volunteers alone--with the destiny of this Movement has infinite potential in both synergy and spark for both individuals and our nation.

2015 People Who "Get It"--Love Offerers Who Keep The Lights On!

  • Frank Bonacci, one of all high-caliber professors chosen, but Amy Jin's first English prof, at DePaul University, now an independent Grant Writer & seminar provider, with experience in grant-writing in Mental Health, a certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, & a steadfast practitioner of Love Yoga: The Movement & enlightenment on the planet (Schiller Park/Chicago, IL): $ funding safe spiritual refuge in 2015, in clearly hostile territory.
  • ...and many others who have stepped forward and have yet to claim recognition, representing Kansas City, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Dubuqueland, IA, & all the places you've gone to school, lived, worked, & called home before...You prove that there are everyday heroics--of all Races, nationalities, religious backgrounds, occupations, economic statuses, educational levels, etc.--being performed every day by "everyday citizens" that effectively battle that which hurts, harms, and takes innocent & important lives, with the kind of love we are all meant to give and receive. You are heart-blooming awesome and are literally changing my 2015 and the course of my life through the love you show, in the absence of all of those who were supposed to be there but turned to shadow, instead.

2016 Love Yoga: The Movement Backers Of The Year:

  • Frank Bonacci, one of all high-caliber professors chosen, & Amy Jin's first English prof at DePaul University in Chi-town, Grant seminar Trainer, certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, in the lineage of Yogi Bhajan, & powerful practitioner of Love Yoga: The Movement's ideals & enlightenment on the planet (Schiller Park/Chicago, IL): $ & complete moral support, creating the gift of safe, spiritual sanctuary, again, which is becoming harder & harder to find. All the more reason to stand tall and staunchly in conviction that bases itself in the Truth. The existence of F.Bonacci should make all Italian(-American)s and Brazilian(-American)s proud of their peops.
  • ...as well as others in this (final) time of protected class refuge and bigger Decision. There are no words for trust met with solidity. My only demand is that it stop being the exception to the rule.

2017 Love Offerers To Love Yoga: The Movement!...:

  • Anonymous, L.A. native and positive connect of Amy Jin's and to Civil Rights leadership in the U.S. of A. (Kansas City, MO): "$100 in honor of Amy Jin Schmelzer to the Kenya Service Trip at Clarke College, Dubuque." $

Urdhva Dhanurasana - (Backbend)

Urdhva Dhanurasana - (Backbend)

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Thursday, July 30, 2020

From One Of The Midwest's First Asians. I'd Confirm That With An Asian Who's Been Here At Least As Long, But Sometimes I Don't See One For Years.


      One of the things that tickled me the most about Business Writing--Formal course name approximate--at DePaul was an articulate rant, by my Prof, about tired, cliched writing and speech. I decided against Race Relations, as what many people would've almost expected to be a natural fit, as an academic pursuit, in my undergraduate work, for a number of what I still deem solid reasons, even today, but as someone who's been called an "Original," in this and in life, in general, I want to impart on those wanting to learn that you sharpen the tools in your toolkit, in Diversity acuity, through study. If you're fortunate to have a degree to pursue, a choice to make about it, and the way to make that real, that's one way to accomplish that. Pick apart the protected classes, to start, and put your ego aside, relegated to Truth-seeking. Study history and multiple perspectives of the same facts in linear time. Take the time to open your mind, if you're fortunate enough to access the best of all learning environments--a classroom with a class and a prof, to listen to everyone's weigh-in, freak-outs, and brilliant and not-so-brilliant questions and answers. Knowledge is power, but Consciousness is King.
      Then, I'm going to tell you what some of the "powerful talking heads" don't want to hear. Put your boots on.
      Everyone wants to be an activist, since the time I actually was one but didn't care to be called that--a default, natural Leader...a chosen Leader, at times. A token who turned out to be "the real deal" by Design, to some people's chagrin and running, and to most people's amazement and belief in what used to be the magical evolution of the U.S. of A. That's when everything wasn't an extreme version of some bad stereotype of American citizens come true. And when "You become what you condemn" hadn't fully descended upon and made manifest, pervasively, throughout the White majority and all of its poor, sorry, ill-supported "minorities" either selling out to, mimicking, or by sheer good fortune or genes, leading or getting what they wanted out of the White majority, on request, because they, frankly, didn't do anything wrong, did everything right, and had, or did things, their White counterparts, likely best friend(s), boy/girl(friend) did, or could, not.
      If I hear one more person say "moment," "unprecedented," "folks," "ally," not specifically talking about nations who would defend us in wartime, and vice versa, I'm happily outta this popcorn stand as soon as this virus clears.
      The only way this country is going to change is if people in this country get tough as f**king hell. I'm going to say it like that, in spite of my general dismissal of foul-mouthedness over an extended period of time, because my general observation, now having seen all I want, or need, to see about the true nature of what's going on in this country, is we're at a point I long knew was inevitable, and, unfortunately, I'm right about a lot of things being completely lacking or missing altogether, and a huge part of that is reality. That's why everyone here is nuts. And the people who aren't and can cut throught the Maya, are likely of the enlightened ilk that has disallowed their willful participation in an entire country run on defense mechanisms, suppression, repression, abuse, self-absorption, and greed, bigoted genocide, and general hideousness of character, including, but not limited to, lying and manipulation as a means of primary communication, predatory everything, insecurity/self-esteem issues as a baseline, and lowering the standards of entry and beauty because the society starts to see the impacts of the aforementioned on both systems and people's appearances, so all aspirational people and their attributes start literally getting torn down so all the ugly, fat, sub-par people can be "happy," even though they're not. And that's the point. Unless they are. In which case they're not complaining about the standard to begin with because they're too busy being beautiful and happy, no matter what their face or their a** looks like.
      It's crossed my mind that if we don't work to eliminate war on the planet, in this century, we should follow the wisdom of nations like South Korea or, from what I was told by one of my Power Yoga practitioners who came from there, Israel, all U.S. citizens, maybe should take a turn serving a requisite amount of time in one of the Armed Forces. I'll add to that, as an idea long before all the ish hit the fan about Policing, some time in Law Enforcement. If you literally can't even say you'd make it through Basic Training for the latter, especially, to protect or defend all of us, SHUT. THE. F**K. UP. I mean that. The infinite Listener is finally stopping you right there.
      I'm questioning how I'm seeing Congress members with a spouse who was, at some point recently, a jail bird. I'm pondering how a generation that raised their kids on "Just Say 'No'" is now so pathetic, weak, and/or pedophilic, in an entire country that's generally sexually sick and ignoble like that, or so far in one direction they're literally cheering on criminals serving no time for their crimes because they're personally deciding there should be no punishment for anything since the criminals all had terrible upbringings in a sub-culture that f**ks and abandons and/or traumatizes their own progeny because they're genetically high-quality like that. Makes total sense (W. T. F.).
      And now they've got stupid Whites, Asians, and whomevers pulled into the Drug Game/Poverty/I-Had-A-F'd-Up-Childhood-,-Too illegitimate, mixed-children-no-one-really-cares-about-or-you'd-be-a-stand-up-parent-who-got-married-first-and-maybe-learn-about-childhood-development. As a really sick, off way of fixing the Race problem, for one. Wrong answer. As The United States of America gone bad, more like it. There's no Consciousness. And certainly no Love--in some of the most obvious, fundamental things that should. For everybody.
      When I was growing up, there were people who chose to interracially date/mix, and in places like the Tri-State Area here, or even the State of Iowa, it was so rare, and it was so clear they both might be persecuted--harshly--for it, that it was almost like a rare, tension-filled, high-powered event that everybody watched, whether they wanted to or not. In the many years that have passed, and I bloomed, I'll say, to clarify my evolved stance on this, within the past 10 years, that at least back then, NO ONE, or far fewer would've dared do so without what--Consciousness. And Love. And, in that way, some of these couples were literally applauded and revered by the kids, the "woke (Cliche word)" peops back then, as almost like American heroes. They put their whole selves both in and out there. Clearly.
      And you want ME to TEACH or defend you OR your lost-as-you-possibly-could-be, trash-talkin' "little s**ts?" F**K NO. I mean, you tell me. It's clearly evidenced you have no interest in learning.
      And what does a soulless country, with all its arrows off the mark, do, when you add in Technology and devices, after 2000? Watch. The standards come down. YOUR being beautiful, your being "perfect" is now a threat to not just people's general happiness but their literal LIVES because they're totally all there, in the first place, and well connected to their healthy family, with parents who're awake enough to actually love one another and raise strong, healthy children, physically, mentally, and spiritually. DEFINITELY. Meet Instagram and soccer moms taking off their clothes in their Computer Rooms, during the last Recession, or stripping to go to Harvard to see what the bottom lines REALLY are in this country. Hating on Asian girls who are to blame, then, for their self-loathing, versus the fact that they're actually the whores, from inside out, because the Asian girls actually just get straight A's while they're at Harvard, and are naturally beautiful and lacking the general weakness and impurity of character exhibited by their White, female aggressors. As with anything in my classes, if it doesn't apply, let it be cuz for the woman with the karma for it on the mat next to you, here's the mirror.
      Rather than a Race War, maybe we should create a Council at City, State, and Federal level. Based on Race. Yeah, I said it. Every Race should be thoroughly vetted, including statistics on who's who, including what percentage of your Race has committed a crime, what percentage has committed multiple!, and the categories of those crimes. For ALL of us to see. If there's a way to track who's reporting, and NOT, because they're ACTUALLY all participating or complicit, skewing those statistics for all of us, we should all know that. And then we vote, based on the Races of Man, on everything. This would drive Races to handle their own s**t and either look like a s**t show, for REAL, in front of all of us, or get their s**t figured out and start improving from the inside out, recognizing their true leaders, natures, roles, etc.
      Honestly, your saying you're going to make the Vice President, or a Supreme Court Justice, e.g. BLACK, which used to be a BAD WORD in Diversity work, and not even that long ago--Interesting--makes me sick for us all. So what you're SAYING is that White people know they're getting out-populated, they give up on, either in racism, or general defeat, hoping their "great nation" isn't turning into a s**t show because of their former slaves, e.g., run wild, so you start going against more of the rules that bind us, which is literally giving away the farm, based on Race, like that isn't just as indicative of your general fallibility and inability to hit the self-correction bull's eye. Since you got here. And how bad is that on the African-American community to even consider accepting when you've been claiming to know better all along, to participate in that bullshit or take the bait of--It's the same racism because you "can't earn anything because you're inferior, lazy, stupid, yaddahyaddahyaddah, RIGHT?!," instead of point out it should be the Best of the Best, period. I mean, you're above the shit they do to you, right? Honestly, I've stopped being sure.
      Asians, from their weird a** perch they've made me part-someone they Hiroshima/Nagasaki'd/bombed the F**K out of the Korean Peninsula, killing millions of our precioius people, during the GOD DAMNED WAR, then basically walked away and scratched their a**es about it, focusing, as always, on THEMSELVES about it, never actually helping make peace there to help make Korea Korea, or finish the damned thing--Honestly, you don't ever want these people to do surgery on anyone--part-chattel Cabbage Patch Doll, part-rescued baby from, I'm connecting through the resources I have available to me, and like the rest of my life, am watching you not know what the hell you're doing, and run from engaging me, as if my e-mail's instruction for the rest of your life, or a rhetorical question that requires no response, like either I'm not real, or you're not, if you just think it so. I know some of you speak English. I'm being told by, e.g., my Thai, Taiwanese guy friends I'd "hate" my own people's men cuz they're "assholes," that you'd be scared of me because I'm more like, it's insinuated, a powerful White woman, maybe even a man--LOL--or worse, the Ascended Master extraterrestrial that seems more reflective a truth, based on my experiences. Anyway, welcome to The United States of America. They consider us one lump over here. I learned not even that long of a time ago part of the hold-up, via deduction, is that the Asian Diaspora is so ancient, proud, strong, and clear, that you/we consider yourselves/ourselves separate Races of Men, not nationalities. Which explains why a consummate Asian-American kid with natural leadership ability, leading all kids, or other people, other than Asians, is STILL looking around like, "Where the hell ARE they?!!!" "They're pu*sies." "They're small/shy/quiet." "There aren't any." Honestly, we're also smart and fast as light, so let's get off the decades-late situation and find a unified way to promote Asian heritage and Asian pride. I'm so sick of you trying to suck everybody's. Yeah, I said it. I've never done that. Actually, it's been the other way around, for me, and you can only get that from people, universally, when you're always right, and you'd never hurt them. And you make them Great, not play the karma game with them. Quit apologizing or being the first, for instance, magazine to fail to blast the perpetrators of Asian racism on your cover and, since the pendulum might be swinging over to the descendants of slaves run amok, centuries pissed--Honestly, it'd take White people THREE DAYS to get that collectively nucking futs--start talking "Yellow Peril For Black Lives" s**t if they're beating up Chinese-American Grandma over COVID-19 straight up RACISM, while spreading in their 'hood Blacks can't get COVID (I mean, their genes are, OBVIOUSLY superior, physically, to everyone's, ESPECIALLY the sickly little yellow people like, e.g. Bruce Lee). OOPS! Now, they're all trying to play violins over all their people dying off! Wrong answer! LOL--No one playing violins in either direction--Black OR White--even the Filipino, Thai, Korean, Chinese, or lump Asian (epithet) wants to call THAT s**t on the rug. Let's just blame the President! And then psycho-analyze his being f'd in the head, due to an abusive, German-American upbringing, like that's going to help, all without Ph.D.'s, much less in Psych. Last time I heard, this country has a 9th Grade, collective I.Q. level. Like I said, SHUT. THE F**K. UP.
      I'm going to tell you something. I was one of the first PEOPLE, much less youths, in this all-White, "most racist City in the United States," likely the "first" minority/human of Asian descent to do a lot of s**t around here. Which is likely why I've been exiled everywhere in this country because they're like, "S**T. Anytime we let her do anything here, either in actuality or because of that, she's going to set a record here, and we can't let that happen--more." Then, they'll turn and stare at me, during this Pandemic, half-guilty, half-stuck because they can also see, e.g., I could be their Doctor. And the story hasn't changed, but I've run into more racism and bullying by African-Americans, both as a child, and in very grown-up, what just turns into pure evil, contexts, as an adult. While simultaneously being slotted, by everyone, as "urban," "Black(-leaning!)," "one of them," etc. my entire life...because no one had to tell me Black Lives Matter. I came onto the planet crying when they did. "Sympathetic to." "Defends and protects them." Take her down. Same with Hispanics, even, most recently, Native Americans. Allies, what? RECIPROCATE. Is it game off because I had to bother saying it, to those too f**king weak to already be hut hut about it. It's not a question. And there are countless of those instantly cool, but that SHOULD be the given. We all need Allies. So don't take your best, most objectively effective ones and literally almost die trying to make them enemies...but it's all on everyone BUT you, right? "Everyone hates Black people." WRONG. We hate what you DO, which then becomes WHAT YOU ARE to us. Which is a kind of people to have nothing to do with. Oh my God you're back at Square 1, but now you did it to yourselves. You decide. Or have you, already?
      If the White Race is really leading or teaching, much less "Superior," in any way, explain how, or why, it's actually been me, who, for years, has simply put two and two together, in times of necessity, or when I feel I must, that I have never seen anyone get--Not Black, not White, not the Tribes, not the "superior," enlightened Asians--No one--that, by definition, if you're "SUPERIOR," you'd be so f**king ginormous, both heart and soul-wise, you wouldn't be able to just take care of your Race, or Religion, much less just your own spouse, kids, and your iPhones, because you'd NATURALLY SEE AND OWN THE WHOLE PICTURE OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. You'd need the garage, the skyscraper, the better part of the city block, and likely the whole planet. And the definition of the "Superior ______ Race" would be everyone's cheering and jumping up and down because, by God, even the racist White people stopped being racist and actually had to admit they liked you as the Mommy, or Daddy, way better. Oh my God, everyone's HEALTHIER. And can see other people more clearly. And God's Races of Man ARE actually all very diverse, within themselves, and they are all amazing and beautiful as they are human and potentially erring, depending on their level of personal advancement, via natural talent and/or destiny or hard work on it on this planet. And wow--I can be free to stand up for Justice, with you people in the lead. And we actually all WANT to immediately correct to make it better for everyone. Now, we're all actually HAPPY the only way--the REAL way! And we didn't all have to mix ourselves into an oblivion or overdose together to do it!!!
      Chuck your stupid "America's Got Talent," all the international copycats, "American Ninja Warrior," "The Voice," dog ears on your head--Yeah, you are your dog, at this point, and idol/celebrity worship when, honestly, they were f**king dorks as far back as high school, and f**king work on THAT. I can't imagine what might naturally result, in terms of general suicide and soldiers coming home, offing themselves, because we actually got to the point, while they were gone...if anyone's even needed for war, period, after that, and we've not only ensured it's actually a country worth dying for, but now we're working on World Peace. It's the "Leader of the Free World," but that's not even within the scope of what we've just decided is the real purpose of our existence, and wonder why everyone's choosing opioids and "weed," instead? Either we can, or we can't, because we really are, or we aren't. I'm waiting. And so is every other country that likely has descendants who are now "Americans," over here.

Discovering The PC Cam: (11.7.2016: From Being Held Hostage & Trafficked? By 1 Of My Backers?!!)

Discovering The PC Cam: (11.7.2016: From Being Held Hostage & Trafficked? By 1 Of My Backers?!!)
(See My Writing On Brett Albarado & Jeannie Madison, Out Of Red Wing, Minnesota, 2014, In The Writings Above!)

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F/July 18.2014

F/July 18.2014
(And My Personal Favorite--The "Miss Universe" Wave)--If Only All Encounters With PC Cams In Our World Were This Pure.

Prasarita Padottanasana - (Spread-Legged Forward Fold Position)

Prasarita Padottanasana - (Spread-Legged Forward Fold Position)
The Shell-Toed, Park Bench Ad-Lib

Tryst

Sometimes u got me feelin' like feelin' like I's high as high as a kite. Sometimes I's feelin' like sticky licky fingers in a can o' peanut butter and u gotta know better than this.

To take advantage of me's a tryst. U's usin' me 4 her. Her *****, her calm. It's the smile in my demeanor. I got u figured out.

I can't begin to tell u how to move, how to make it betta. Her personality's vexing--sure 'nuff is--& I think it's time u made her your world, or for once,
u gonna get kicked to the curb.

Now's the time for feelin' good. How 'bout u say what u feel(in').

I want you. That's what the point is. As piercing as it might be, you can feel it in your heart, can't u, Boo? Pretty ain't as pretty when it's covered in the aftershocks of your hos/fire and ice. In your head. Your jones for her, instead. Your moans. Emotions can't be played with when they's locked up in your head.

Here's the big picture: U want her, go get her. Feel me? Have no fear, & do it. Go get her. Be a prisoner no more. I tell u, it ain't worth fear. The shark underwater. The fierce pirate's been stealin' your loot, & it's u. Why u bein' severe about it? Pressure-free. Feel u? Feel me?

Peace.

How can u say it ain't a peace thang. Your life's been tied down to nothing-ness since the day u met her. U don't sweat her. There. There's the matrimony. Dutifully. Please believe. In yourself. For once. Go and get her.

A-men. There's the prayer part of you. Puttin' it out there slow enough for truth-tellers to command something new. U think, like a messenger, it ain't ancient teachings I was sent to you? Put u in your new place, space for makin' a blazing choice. A "hi" "how u doin'" half a million dollar smile might work nice.

Best be spendin' those pennies. I like to see you spendin'. Prisoner no more, we've done better, I'm sure. At least u got to steppin' those feet in the right direction. And can't any diversion keep those feet from crossin' the threshhold to the new me, the new u.

Free at last. Free at last.

Thank Goddess & Buddha I'm libertad'd from u. You hunk a' monkey bread. Junkin' me up instead of practicin' what u got. It's sweet love. Sweetness and freedom that's been sent from above. Dios. Thank Dios. Apprecios mi pretty prose so at last I can feel my emptiness.

You got it. A prophet.

A harnesser.

A tryst.

It's over. Be at peace now.

We's complete.

U'r on your path.

And I worship you no more. Nirvana.

Me. So free. I'm back in paradise.

-Amy Jin
(This piece was written as an expression of both understanding other women's perspectives & offering them a higher option.)

Word Up.

Word Up.

S/March 7.2015:

S/March 7.2015:
Enjoying The Popcorn.

The Not-Lost Souls: The Practitioners Of Love Yoga: The Movement

(Normally, The Practitioner Photo Gallery) Sunday, April 15, 2018: We'll see where we go from here, Ashtanga-based peops. Determine the quality of your soul in the matters, circumstances, and with the choices, before you. That is the purpose of our existence.

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The One True Mirror Is The Depth & Truth Within.

When I Left Everything I Knew, I Did What I Knew I Needed 2 Do--I Purified (Asana, Pranayama, Tapas), Knew & Further Studied Myself (Svadhyaya), & Surrendered My Being & Existence To Source (Ishvara Pranidhana--My Favorite). I Was Brought To Ashtanga, To Yoga, To See That What I Had Identified As Being Responsible For Inner-To-External Freedom Was Not Only Teachable But An Ancient, All-Encompassing Wisdom Tradition. I Said To Source, "I'm In."

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Pretty Princess Rachel Photog'ing Me At Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. on Halloween 2016!, Dubuque, IA!, M/10.31.2016!

One Of The Only Ultimately-Good Things To Come Out Of Cell Phones--Creative Expression.

One Of The Only Ultimately-Good Things To Come Out Of Cell Phones--Creative Expression.
Even When I Try To Look Like A Bad A**, Tho', This Is Apparently My Peers' Interpretation.

From Said Exile: Year #X

From Said Exile: Year #X
"Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." -Mark 6:4, The King James Version. Word To Ya Mutha. Monday, January 15th, The Year 2018

Roots Of Many Kinds

Roots Of Many Kinds






T Night, Wed A., June 26th, 27th, 2018

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S/June 27, THE YEAR 2020.