UNO Souls Chat

The teaching on Tonglen is Buddhist and it means giving and receiving. It comes from a series of sayings to train the mind in compassion. Join us as we consciously breathe in stillness, and exhale turbulence — breathe in clarity, and let go of confusion — breathe in love, and let go of fear. 

We close with a poem offering, Human Family by @drmayaangelou

Let's remember that no matter how much we give away, we are still full and complete.  ✨

#meditation #health #wellbeing

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

Easy Peasy Mindfulness Technique 

This relaxation exercise is about getting in touch with your 5 senses to reduce anxiety. Reconnecting with all of your senses will ground you in the present moment. And, it slows down your fight, flight, or freeze state. 

Keep this tool handy to use at a moment’s notice.  It will give you some relief from an anxious thought, or from ruminating thoughts.  ✨

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

I am honored today to be chatting with Daniela Moro Williams – an UNO Soul. She is the Chef and Owner of Cucinamore, LLC

Daniela Moro Williams is a very talented personal chef that comes to your home to create a feast for you and your guests. You just have to pick the menu, and you will have a dinner party that you and your guests will not forget. Daniela sees food as an opportunity to nourish your soul. And she is all about food from different cultures evolving through the years. She savors the deliciousness of real food – and encourages shopping at your local farmer’s market and locally-owned shops. And she sees food as a gift that we are given. It enriches and nourishes our soul. We are lucky to have her in our community!

You can find information about her services at https://www.cucinamore.net/

🇮🇹 Listen to Daniela talk about her story – she is from Treviso, Italy.  (1:34)
🙏 Listen to Daniela talk about how lucky she feels to work in her passion (4:30)
🍳 Hear Daniela talk about nourishing your soul with food. It’s her “why”. “In the kitchen, before the formal dining room – that’s where everything happens.” (5:10)
👂 Daniela explains how taking a moment to cook and share a meal with loved ones, gives you an opportunity to listen to others. (7:00)
⚗️ Hear Daniela talk about the technical and professional level of cooking – but what she finds most important – is having a passion and love for cooking. (9:00)
 Daniela quotes a travel blogger that said “You have to taste a culture to understand it.”  (10:30)
🦐 Hear Daniela speak about cooking authentic contemporary Italian food – her style. And hear her thoughts about Italian American food.  (13:00)
💞 Listen to Daniela speak about having an open mind and an open heart. She says that’s what it takes to enjoy our life the best we can. And nourish our soul.  (14:40)
🍕 Daniela shares some tips about making homemade pizza! You have to listen to this – amazing tips and suggestions! (15:00)
🌱 Listen to Daniela’s moment of savoring the deliciousness (23:00)

#WordsofWisdom: “Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.” — @giadadelaurentiis

✨ Thank you for chatting with me Daniela! We are grateful for you!  
✨ UNO Souls are beacons of light in our community that can be guides for how to cope through this collective moment of change. I would love to chat with you – please reach out! I honor the light in all of you 🙏💕

#meditation #health #human #energy #aware #yoga #edenenergy #wellbeing

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

I am honored today to be chatting with Father Daniel Rivera – an UNO Soul. He is the Vicar of St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Sacerdote Vicario de la Iglesia San Gabriel.
Father Daniel is the epitome of community service and being a beacon of light in Loudoun County, VA. He is very humble about this and says that it is part of his faith and ministry, but he goes above and beyond his ministry. Father Daniel has been the Vicar of St. Gabriels’ Church for 8.5 years. He didn’t go to the seminary until he was 40 years old. He studied social work, divinity, and theology. He formerly was an engineer working in IT. Father Daniel puts his whole heart and soul into serving the people in our community that are most in need. He says that it takes a village to provide service for the community – he’s an important fiber in the tapestry of our community. Thank you Father Daniel!

The services are at 10 a.m. on Sundays at Belmont Ridge Middle School and at 3 p.m. in Spanish at St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, VA. https://www.saintgabriels.net/

⚕️ Listen to Father Daniel talk about the importance of vaccines. “I protect myself. I protect my family. I protect you. We protect one another.”  (3:01)
📚 Listen to Father Daniel speak about Educando con Amor (Educating with Love) – a community education arm as part of the outreach ministry at St. Gabriel’s (3:30)
🤝 Hear Father Daniel talk about how his community empowers everyone from children all the way through older adults to help in the community. They helped one of their partners - Loudoun Hunger Relief - with what he calls “Uber Eats” – supplementing the food bags with Latino products and diapers, and then delivering them to homes  (7:00)
👍 Listen to Father Daniel talk about the community resources in Loudoun County and how important it has been for St. Gabriel to partner with them “Go out 2 by 2. Don’t try to do anything alone because you will not be as effective”. (9:00)
🌱 Hear Father Daniel talk about his very interesting background. “I love being a parish priest.” (11:15)
🤲 Hear Father Daniel explain how St. Gabriel’s started and the path he has opened up for the church starting 8.5 years ago. He started a Latino/Hispanic ministry. “St. Gabriel’s is authentically inclusive…” (13:30)
🧸 Hear about St. Gabriel’s partnership with INMED Partnership for Children (17:30)
👂 Listen to Father Gabriel explain “systemic trauma” that is occurring and how it affected him (18:40)
💞 Listen to Father Daniel explain the picture of the extreme poverty that exists in Loudoun County, VA (22:45)
💫 Hear Father Daniel talk about being authentically inclusive which means they do not just welcome people into their church, they integrate them into their church:  “knitting the people into the fabric of St. Gabriel’s Church” (25:00)
💒 He only asks that you pray for St. Gabriel’s Church. And also wants to know what kind of service ministries they can do that will be of interest to you. They want to engage that. Whether you are affiliated to the church or not – but you become affiliated with the people. He says “this is God’s table.”
🙏 And Father Daniel leaves us with a blessing.
     
#WordsofWisdom from Father Daniel: “Don’t forget your neighbor.”
     
✨ Thank you for chatting with me Father Daniel!! We are grateful for you! 
✨ UNO Souls are beacons of light in our community that can be guides for how to cope through this collective moment of change. I would love to chat with you – please reach out! I honor the light in all of you 🙏💕
 
#meditation #health #human #energy #aware #yoga #edenenergy #wellbeing 
 

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

What's your style of communication? Is it the same for non-verbal communication? 

Join in on Brigitta and Phillip's chat about communicating, and how we are showing up in a relationship in terms of interpersonal dynamics.

5️⃣  5:30 Do you know the 5 elements of mindful communication? Join in with us as we learn about the elements!
📚  10:30 'The Five Keys to Mindful Communication' by Susan Gillis-Chapman — https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781590309414 
🎶 🚶 🌱  14:10  Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK — https://www.ellenreidsoundwalk.com 

How crucial (critical) is our style of communication in a relationship? Feel free to chime in with any thoughts or comments. We would love to hear any of your insights, or tips on how to forgive.

✨  UNO Souls are beacons of light in our community that can be guides for how to cope through this collective moment of change. I would love to chat with you – please reach out! I honor the light in all of you. 🙏🏽💕

✨  Find us on YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook at @UNOsouls! You can also visit us at unosouls.com. #UNOSouls Chat #podcast is on Apple Podcasts, Pandora and more!

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

 A tool to have handy to use at a moment’s notice. 

Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed, having trouble falling asleep, or just want a few seconds to yourself during a busy day  —

Box Breathing is a great stress relief technique ✨

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

I am honored today to be chatting with Pat Pao – an UNO Soul. She is my Yoga and Eden Energy Medicine teacher.

Pat is an amazing lady that we are very lucky to have in our community. She is a former professional dancer and ballet teacher. She was also a movie casting director in Asia. And she has been a yoga teacher for 20 years. Pat also offers private instruction. She has worked with many clients teaching them to use yoga and breathing to help cope with high blood pressure, Crohn’s disease, stress, fibromyalgia and cancer. Pat teaches from the heart and emphasizes opening up to the total experience of yoga. She has been one of my lifelines during pandemic. I am so grateful for her!

💓 Listen to Pat talk about 4 things that Dean Ornish says we need to keep our heart healthy. (2:21)
🌱 Listen to Pat’s fascinating life journey (6:30)
Hear Pat talk about working at Roxy’s Roller Skating Rink in NYC in the late 70s, as hip hop was starting. (9:00)
🎬 Listen to how Pat starting working as a movie casting director in Asia (10:00)
🧘 Hear about Pat’s first live in-person yoga class and how that got her career in yoga started (13:50)
☀️ Hear Pat talk about how she started with Eden Energy Medicine (23:00)
💤 Hear Pat show us an Eden Energy Medicine technique to help us sleep (31:20)
🌿 Listen to Pat talk about how the importance of awareness of our bodies (34:00)
😌 Listen to Pat talk us through a Deepak Chopra technique to calm the vagus nerve (38:35)
Listen to Pat walk us through a quick and easy Eden Energy Medicine daily routine (41:40)

#WordsofWisdom Listen to Pat recite the beautiful poem “We Are Of A Tribe” by Alberto Rios 

✨ Thank you for chatting with me Pat! We are grateful for you! 
✨ UNO Souls are beacons of light in our community that can be guides for how to cope through this collective moment of change. I would love to chat with you – please reach out! I honor the light in all of you 🙏💕 

#meditation #health #human #energy #aware #yoga #edenenergy #wellbeing 
 
 

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

Spend just a moment with an easy peasy way to lower your anxiety, no matter where you are. At work, in traffic — or even at the grocery store. This is a hand tracing exercise. Feel free to return to this exercise, whenever you need a moment of calm. ✨

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

UNO Souls producer Phillip and host Brigitta do their best to answer that question. 

What do you think? What is your answer? Feel free to chime in with any thoughts or comments. We would love to hear any of your insights, or tips on how to forgive.

#WordsofWisdom

🌱 "Forgiveness can make our soul be full" —by Buddha 

🌱 "True forgiveness is when you can say thank you for the experience" —by Oprah


✨ UNO Souls are beacons of light in our community that can be guides for how to cope through this collective moment of change. I would love to chat with you – please reach out! I honor the light in all of you. 🙏🏽💕

✨ Find us on YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook at @UNOsouls! You can also visit us at unosouls.com. #UNOSouls Chat #podcast is on Apple Podcasts, Pandora and more!

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨

Salud, bienestar y conexión, se pueden lograr si aprendes a utilizar tu respiración. Puedes hacer esta práctica en cualquier momento, en cualquier lugar, en cualquier situación. 

Nuestra mente puede vivir en muchos otros lugares... en el futuro, en el pasado... pero nuestra respiración solo puede estar en este momento presente. Está anclada aquí y ahora. 

El poder y la presencia de anclaje de tu respiración. ✨

UNO Souls is a wellbeing organization that centers and nurtures each person so they may blossom into their fuller self.  ✨