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What if the change you have been waiting for does not take a year, a retreat, or a whole new life? What if it begins with the very next thought you choose?

Welcome to October, the month of changing and transforming. Your guide for this journey is Sarah, a certified Spring Forest Qigong practice group leader and trainer who has walked from her own darkest season to a life she describes as magnificent, and who is here to show you that the same shift is possible for you. Transformation is not about becoming someone better. It is about revealing the powerful being who has been inside you all along.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to change your mind and your mood in any moment, using a breath, a movement, or a one to five minute meditation
• A simple way to interrupt the thought loops that keep you stuck, and choose a thought that supports you instead
• The story of the two wolves, and the question that can change your week: which one are you feeding today?
• How to treat your mind like a garden, pulling out what no longer belongs and planting what you want to grow
• Why fall can stir up grief or heaviness, and how to move toward contentment one small step at a time, without pretending you are not hurting
• Why the little light inside even your hardest feelings is the part of you seeking to emerge
• How Penny Makris' intuitive calendar for October, changing and transforming, can guide your month

You do not have to fix yourself to begin. You only have to be willing to play with change and see what happens.

You are the magic. And the middle is the pause where everything begins to shift.

Continue this journey:
Practice with Sarah live, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, for 30 to 35 minutes of Spring Forest Qigong: https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page

Download the free Fire Horse Journey and bring these practices into your mornings, middays, and evenings: https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong

Penny Makris Intuitive Calendar 2026 - https://www.zazzle.com/2026_seasonal_monthly_calendar-256392882718449413

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Your phone is not in charge of who you are today. You are. And it is time to take your power back.

We just crossed the equinox, equal daylight and equal night, and your body is moving right along with the Earth into fall. This is the season when your lung energy comes on duty, and Sarah is back with week two of the Fire Horse Journey, precision and purpose.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why the pause, that quiet space between one thought and the next, is not wasted time but where the magic actually happens
• A morning practice that puts you back in charge of your own day, before your phone tells you who to be
• A midday white light purification breath that balances your lung energy and clears anything gray, heavy, or stale
• An evening energy audit journal to gently notice what is feeding you and what is draining you, no judgment required
• Why the fire horse year can push you toward overextension, taking on too much because everything feels possible and urgent
• How the metal element offers the corrective, discernment, quality over quantity, and the loving no that protects your yes

Sarah shares this from a place of real experience, having known deep darkness herself, and speaks directly to the magnificent being that already lives inside you, the one that is always worth the few quiet minutes it takes to come home to yourself.

Contentment is a choice. You are worth choosing it.

You are the magic in the middle.

Continue this journey:
Join Sarah live on zoom for Qigong practice, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, link is here https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page

And deepen this work with the full Fire Horse Journey, free, here is the link https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong

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Welcome, welcome, welcome. As Sarah worked in her garden this week, hands in the soil, she felt the season shifting, and it reminded her of something we forget every fall: this isn't a time to shut down, it's a time to nurture.

The equinox is here, that perfect balance of yin and yang, equal light and equal dark. In Qigong, this is when our lung energy system comes on duty, the metal element, governing grief, depression, and release. If you have been feeling a heaviness you cannot quite explain, your body may simply be responding to the season. That is not something wrong with you. That is your body doing exactly what it was designed to do.

In this episode, Sarah walks through the fire horse journey week four, metal week, clarity and conservation. You will learn a morning practice using the reticular activating system to direct your day before your phone does it for you, a midday Qigong lung activation you can do standing, sitting, or lying down, and an evening journaling practice for naming what you are ready to release.

You do not have to release everything tonight. Just simply name it.

Sarah also shares Master Chunyi Lin's pear tea recipe for lung support, why gratitude and contentment work together to raise your vibration, and why letting go is not losing, it is making space for what wants to grow and express next.

You are the magic. The middle is the pause, the contentment, the beautiful emptiness where healing lives.

Continue this journey:
Join Sarah live on zoom for Qigong practice, Monday through Friday at 7am Pacific, link is here https://marrvelouslife.com/spring-forest-qigong-practice-group-page

And deepen this work with the full Fire Horse Journey, free, here is the link https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong

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