Jeddah Mali at Stillheart Institute

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Jeddah Mali at Stillheart Institute

0 Comments 25 March 2011

Jeddah Mali at Stilheart Institute

My friend and spiritual mentor Jeddah Mali made a rare U.S. appearance at the Stillheart Institute in Woodside California on April 15th-17th, 2011. Below is a slideshow and event photo gallery of the images from the event:


Spiritual Retreat at Stillheart Institute with Jeddah Mali – Images by doug ellis

If you would like to deepen your sense of being and feel inspired by our global interdependence and your role in it, by all means please join us! Howard Martin, Vice President of HeartMath, will also be making an appearance to discuss the Earth’s electromagnetic fields and what this is increasingly revealing to us about the interaction between human beings and the Earth.

The setting and venue are world-class.

The registration page and full details can be found here: http://jeddahmali.com/california-april.php

I will be there photographing the event and offering portrait sessions to the attendees.

Here is some of what you can expect in this two day experience of global harmony:

We will look at the universal laws that govern existence, and how a better understanding of these laws will enable us to transform our thinking and realign our intentions towards individual and collective health, happiness and harmony.

We will examine our predisposition for peace and contentment, and see that we are hardwired for harmony – both individually and collectively. We will be exploring the truth of that within our own experience and where we might be freer and clearer in our understanding and experience (and thus bestow freedom and clarity upon the world).

We will look at the options that are available to humanity at this time of increased challenge and examine the poignant questions:

  • What does the future world we desire require of us now?
  • And what are the most viable options for achieving this on an individual, societal and global level?

We will also share some of the ground-breaking science on the Earth’s electromagnetic fields and what this is increasingly revealing to us about the interaction between human beings and the Earth.

Please join me in spending two days with Jeddah at this incredible event, with special guest Howard Martin of  (Heartmath / Global Coherence Initiative).

You might be nutritionally neurotic if…

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You might be nutritionally neurotic if…

2 Comments 15 March 2011

You Might be Nutritionally Neurotic If You…

  • Have eaten, or are eating, baby food because it is more “pure”.
  • Carry enzymes, antacids, homeopathics, probiotics or some other pre or post-meal “antidote.”
  • Own a food scale. Or can tell at a glance what a food portion weighs in grams.
  • Strain and rinse your cottage cheese.
  • Strongly factor your dosha, blood type, lunar, Vedic, Mayan, or Incan calendar into your meal preparations.
  • Chew a certain number of times each bite or put the fork down between bites.
  • Have bought and use your own dehydrator.
  • Grow your own sprouts or wheatgrass.
  • Have a juicer that costs more than your car.
  • Hold food products over your solar plexus and muscle test it before you put it in the cart.
  • Work at a grocery store or farmers market so you can get the discount or first pick.
  • Use dietary habits as a dating deal-breaker.
  • Understand the difference between wine that is ecovine, organic, biodynamic, sulfite-free, and sustainable.
  • Have given up on eating out. Or have friends who have given up on eating out with with you.
  • Buy monthly shipments of E3 Live, Zri, Monavie, Zamu or similar products in lieu of health insurance.
  • Are familiar with “the mother” of apple cider vinegar or kombucha.
  • Make your own almond milk, cheese, or nut butters.
  • Make your own granola.
  • Are crystal clear on which grains are gluten-free and which actually contain gluten.
  • Have tried Raw, Primal, RAVE and Vegan at various points in your life.
  • Have one kitchen cabinet that is full of supplements (+1).
  • Had to install a separate standalone cabinet or refrigerator for your potions and supplements (+2)
  • Must take a cooler or series of Tupperware containers with you at all times.
  • You own a set of those food-combining placemats.
  • Regularly ask what temperature your food was prepared to.
  • Get into passionate discussions about farm-raised and wild caught fish and the pollution in the Atlantic vs the pollution in the Pacific.
  • Have foods that you are intolerant to, allergic to, and sensitive to and check in on their status regularly.
  • Get anxious when you need to get your food cache through airport security or customs.
  • Can’t remember the last time you ate something as it was described in the menu.
  • Don’t have to keep your food segregated from your roommates because they won’t eat it.
  • Regularly consume green things with names like borage, wheat grass, cholorella or blue-green algae.
  • Know what the Master Cleanse and the Liver Flush are and have tried both.
  • Carry your water only in glass bottles (preferably blue).
  • Can’t eat the Kosher or Special Vegetarian meal on the plane either.
  • Time or track the length of time your food takes from source to table.

Scoring System

0-5: Answering yes to 0-5 of the questions indicates a low level of nutritional eccentricity. You have gentle preferences that allow you to pass in mainstream society. You can still go out and possibly still eat pizza.

6-10: Answering yes to 6-10 questions indicates you are beginning to develop mild nutritional affectations and sensitivities and are beginning to confine your grocery shopping to organic markets and health food stores.

11-16: Your food sensitivities and associated rituals are beginning to significantly hamper  your ability to socialize, travel, and eat out. You generally cook or chop for yourself because no one really gets it like you do. You have mercola.com bookmarked and order supplements online to save sales tax.

17-22: You give dehydrated apple chips at Halloween and are also probably convinced you have anemia, candida, hypoglycemia, or any other myriad of maladies that that require constant care and attention. You tend to these over a big bowl of greens and people don’t get too close for fear of catching whatever it is you have.You see food as medicine, energy and vibration and are rigorous, some may say, militant, in dictating its source, preparation, and overall lifecycle, planetarily and otherwise.

23 and above: Answering yes to 23 or more indicates a high level of  nutritional fundamentalism. You are a sensitive, unique individual who is also your own nutritional guinea pig and lab rat, constantly on a quest for the next miracle nutrient or trace of contaminant, with little time for anything else. You are either a professional triathlete, chronically ill or both. Either way you should stay away from kids and teenagers because they spread germs and eat like crap.

See the related post: You might be spiritually neurotic if….

 

You Might be Spiritually Neurotic if…

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You Might be Spiritually Neurotic if…

1 Comment 07 March 2011

You Might be Spiritually Neurotic If you..

  • Have more white and purple clothes in your closet than any other color.
  • Know the difference between Ganesha, Gangaji and Gurmukh.
  • Put up your dreamcatcher in a hotel room.
  • Have tried both holo and hemi sync and the theta goggles.
  • Have ever purchased a Q-link, Em-wave, or healing crystals on credit or layaway.
  • Make a wish or another ritual when you see repeating numbers on a clock.
  • Have five or more close friends who are doulas, energy healers, or shamans.
  • Say a prayer of gratitude when you put a key in a lock.
  • Own both the brown Animal totem book and the purple rock/crystal book.
  • Consciously charge or energize popcorn and other snack foods with your hands.
  • Have used a pendulum to dowse a major life decision.
  • Can describe the difference between an angel, archangel, avatar, and ascended master and know a few by name.
  • Have a special bindi you like to wear for kirtan.
  • Have your own energy worker, astrologer and animal intuitive.
  • Require your friends and family to call you by your spiritual name.
  • Know when to use the rose quartz and when to use the smoky quartz.
  • Have helped at, camped at, or somehow greased your way into, a big spiritual workshop or event you couldn’t afford.
  • Have  a medicine pouch either in your car or on your person.
  • Have feathers or white sage in your car or bathroom.
  • Have slept out for Amma.
  • Have done the spiritual triple crown: Bali, India, and Esalen.
  • Own both the hardcover and softcover versions of ACIM.
  • Regularly travel with your own incense, mala, singing bowl, tingshaws, or zafu.
  • Play either crystal bowls, a harmonium, or digiredoo or tabla.
  • Know the difference between sri and zri.
  • Know your sun, moon, and rising sign.
  • Prefer to buy or price things in multiples of 9 or that add up to 9 ($108).
  • You use phrases like “cut cords”,  “held space”, “star seeds” or “twin flames”.
  • Check the Vedic astrology to make sure it is “in the flow”
  • Have “grounded” your car.
  • Have run up a Sounds True bill higher than  your grocery bill.
  • Resonating with someone or something is both the Alpha and the Omega.
  • Feel uncomfortable when someone handles your mala.
  • Have the words Light, Star, Love, or Rainbow in your email address or online dating profile.
  • Have aspirations to build a better Burning Manor Rainbow Gathering camp next year.

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Scoring System

0-5: Answering yes to 0-5 indicates a very low level of spiritually neurotic activity and behavior. I have no idea how you found me and my website. Spirit must be playing  a trick on you.

6-10: You are beginning to develop mild spiritual affectations and energetic sensitivities, but there may still be hope to re-enter mainstream society if you move back to the midwest. Fast.

11-15: Code Indigo (6th Chakra): Your daily life and spiritual life have begun to blur into a smear. You are beginning to show clear signs of being an odd duck in a queer pond and have begun the dismantling process or your regular waking life.

16-20: Code Orange (2nd Chakra):  You don’t just do this on Sunday mornings. You speak the lingo and know the secret handshake. You are also past the point of return. Get into the body for the next plunge down the rabbit hole.

21-26: Code Red: (1st Chakra): Spiritual hardcore.  If you aren’t one of my coaching clients yet we should talk. This is the final push. You likely either live on the West Coast or in a van down by the river. Fortunately for you, your sangha does too so you don’t care anymore.

27-32: Code White (TP Point): The only difference between someone who is enlightened and one who isn’t is the one who is enlightened knows there is no difference. You are There and You Are That. Congratulations. The Paranormal is your new normal and you have come full circle.

Nobody else understands you but since there are no Others in your dimension of experience Its all Good.  Thanks for being you.

Also see: you might be nutritionally neurotic if…

Spiritual McNuggets: Wisdom in a Bulleted List

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Spiritual McNuggets: Wisdom in a Bulleted List

0 Comments 05 March 2011

One of the things I love best about Buddhism and Taosim both is its brevity…quick little bites of wisdom like the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path that you can spend your whole life embodying. Simple but not always easy. As Walt Whitman once said, “Truth is simple. If it were complicated everyone would get it.”

Just in case you love lists as much as I do, I’ve taken the liberty of writing down the Eightfold Path and Lao Tsu’s Four Virtues below. Feel free to post them on your fridge or whatever feels right.

Note: the substitution of”Right” to “Wise” in the Eightfold Path below is the new progressive version, presumably because it seems less dogmatic and right/wrong than saying “Right Understanding” etc.

Eightfold Path

  • Wise Understanding (realizing the cause of suffering)
  • Wise Intention (motivation to end suffering)
  • Wise Speech (speaking in a way that promotes clarity)
  • Wise Action (behaving in ways that maintain clarity)
  • Wise Livelihood (supporting oneself in a wholesome way)
  • Wise Effort (cultivating peaceful mind habits)
  • Wise Concentration (cultivating a steady, focused, ease-filled mind)
  • Wise Mindfulness (cultivating alert, balanced attention)

Lao Tsu’s Four Virtues

  • Reverence for all life
  • Sincerity
  • Gentleness
  • Supportiveness/Service

I’m a big proponent of hiring and/or choosing friends and mates for character/qualities like these..because they tend to be perennial. Skills/techniques come and go and fall in and out of fashion. The classics like the Four Virtues only improve over time.

Spiritual Seeking for Fun and Profit

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Spiritual Seeking for Fun and Profit

0 Comments 05 March 2011

Or..going for broke spiritually without going broke financially.

Or..why the Eckhart Tolle park bench and spiritual shabby chic is way overrated.

These are a few of my tips and recommendations from 23 years as a sometimes earnest, sometimes disenchanted, often dazed and confused consciousness cosmonaut and spiritual polyamorist.

A few breadcrumbs as you make your way down the spiritual path.

Tip 1:Don’t dabble. Don’t try to squeeze it in on the weekends or 2 weeks a year on vacation. Follow the sage advice of Sri Ramakrishna who said, “Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.” Throw yourself completely into the spiritual washing machine tosses you out. As quickly as possible get over the idea that it is out there..there is no out there out there.

Cure the addiction to spiritual seeking the way some people do with smoking–chain-smoke the whole dang carton in the car in the garage until the thought of ever going to another workshop again makes you feel sick. Up-level your addictions to things that are at least partly wholesome and light-filled and then let release those too.

Tip 2: Don’t Forget the Inner Journey
Of the Buddha’s Three Jewels (buddha, dharma, and sangha) the most important of all in his view was sangha. And you
will find fellowship and friends at retreats, conferences, workshops and other spiritual gatherings but the real spiritual journey is the 18 inches from your head to your heart. For some that is a solo journey, others find the passageway through comnitted relationship.

Tip 3: Give Yourself Permission to Float and be Soulfish
Be clear about what you are up to..tell your friends and family up front that you are going to be a spiritual self-obsessed odd one for a while until either your money, cultural conditioning, or resistance wears out.

Tip 4: Don’t over-rely on invisible means of support. As spiritual as it may seem to renounce all your worldlies, American culture doesn’t support or even acknowledge 21st century sadhus. Being a spiritualized poverty case can make you sensitive to all the wrong things. It’s not more spiritual to be poor and living on a park bench for two years won’t make you Eckhart Tolle. The New Earth needs karma yogis who can live powerfully in the material and spiritual and bridge both worlds.

Tip 5: When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
I’ve made a semi-professional lifestyle out of traveling in spiritual/transformational circles with evolved and conscious beings. You can too. There is a temptation with consciousness exploration or spiritual practice to get more and more extreme or esoteric or weird in pursuit of truth..its not better or worse, just weirder, and a symptom of being what is affectionately known as a “bliss junkie” or monkey.

Because more and more people are opening to new dimensions and realities of being, lots of spiritually powerful places and techniques are really exploding in popularity. That means they are hiring and you can work in exchange for attendance/room/board or real money. Might as well get paid to be who you are, do what you love, and actually live like you are on retreat or in a conscious loving workshop 24/7, instead of having peak experiences and post-workshop traumatic stress disorder when you slink back to your cubicle like an occupational veal calf.

Likely Stops on the Journey of the Peace Pilgrim

Yes, the “path” is a pathless one, a gateless gate, a journey and not a destination..and still..there are space/time coordinates where other peace pilgrims and members of our tribe are likely to gather. These are a few to help focus your spiritual wanderings.

Groovy Workshop/Seminar Places Where People will Love on You No Matter What

  • Esalen Institute
  • Omega
  • Hollyhock
  • Feathered Pipe
  • Harbin Hot Springs
  • Findhorn
  • Mount Madonna
  • Nine Gates Mystery School

Conferences & Events With the Vibe

  • Bhakti Fest
  • Burning Man
  • The Rainbow Gathering
  • Yoga Journal Conferences

Buddhist/Meditative Havens & Sanctuaries

  • Spirit Rock
  • Plum Village
  • Dhamma Vipassana
  • Deer Park
  • Green Gulch
  • Tasajara

Where the Energy/Healing/Intuitive Types Go

  • Carolyn Myss
  • Barbara Brennan
  • John of God
  • Theta Healing

Where the Cerebral Types Go

  • Integral Studies
  • Alan Watts
  • Andrew Cohen
  • Ken Wilber
  • Robert Thurman

Where the Movement and Yoga Types Go

  • Kripalu
  • Yoga Journal Conference
  • Moving Center School
  • Nia Now
  • Five Rhythms

Spiritual Colleges and Universities

  • California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
  • Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP)
  • Maharishi University of Management (MUM)
  • Naropa University
  • Pacifica Graduate Institute
  • University of Santa Monica (USM)

Spiritual Mentors & Teachers

  • Adyashanti
  • Byron Katie
  • Eckhart Tolle
  • Gangaji
  • Jeddah Mali

 

Tools & Techniques

  • The Hoffman Process
  • The Sedona Method
  • The Diamond Approach
  • Holotropic Breathwork
  • The Work

Enjoy the journey! Feel free to share your experiences and recommendations here.

Strongly Inspiring Movies about Strong People: My List of Documentary Oscar Nominees

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Strongly Inspiring Movies about Strong People: My List of Documentary Oscar Nominees

0 Comments 24 February 2011

I have a flair for finding very obscure independent and documentary films. The so-called “categories” the Netflix algorithm cooks up for me string together unlikely adjectives like “visually striking cerebral foreign movies” and “understated biographical documentaries.”

I love stories about people who “find the grain in their own wood.” Especially really eccentric artists and musicians, geniuses, misfits, and social underdogs who persevere despite overwhelming odds and succeed on their own terms. There is something completely riveting about watching a soul express what it was born to do in an unvarnished way. To me, these true originals creating against all odds deserve an Oscar.

An iconoclast is “a person who attacks established or traditional concepts, principles, laws, etc.” But most of the people chronicled in the list below aren’t overtly against anything. They are strongly for something, following their own calling and the creative impulse so closely and intently that the warp and woof of societal norms bends and shapes in their wake. Still they don’t look up. They do what the do, be who they be, out of love.

So here is my list of obscure documentary films that deserve an Oscar. Click on a link below to see a trailer or related clip.

Agnes Martin: With my Back to the World
• A Man Named Pearl
• Born Into Brothels
• Emmanuel’s Gift
• Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
• Hoop Dreams
• Into Great Silence
• Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
• Man on Wire
• My Flesh and Blood
Rivers and Tides
• The Cruise

Check out at least one or two of these films and let me know what you think.

 

Revenge of the Lightworkers

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Revenge of the Lightworkers

1 Comment 03 February 2011

Have you noticed the new premium on essence and the space around things? A ping-or-be pinged world demands constant curating and can create bone-weary word fatigue so deep even a 100-character tweet washes over us in a haze.

The virtual becomes hollow so fast that even among hardcore digiterati there is a head to heart flight to “slow food”, email curfews, wisdom circles, and community gardens..anything embodied and unplugged.

Thankfully, technology can help silence itself and our tech gadgets are getting smart at filtering pesky thought forms, blocking  popups, silencing robot telemarketers.

We are now learning to do the same with our energy hygiene—to filter our influences at etheric level, to block lower and increase higher frequencies and make conscious choices about who/what/where we let our beingness be. In these transitional times, it is increasingly vital that we become fluent in energy cultivation and exchange and learn to speak the lingua franca of life, and synchronize to wiser, broader rhythms.

An etheric digital divide is forming in the New Earth. Knowledge workers are being replaced and eclipsed by light workers. A light worker in the broadest sense is someone who helps others grow in love or holds space and energy to create what desires to be done. Light workers are people who live cultivating, directing and applying light consciously, who up level every situation and environment by their “mere” presence.

Doreen Virtue’s definition of a lightworker is: those who volunteered, before birth, to help the planet and its population heal from the effects of fear.

I love this definition because it includes way more people than just energy healers, clairvoyants, or those in the traditional helping professions. There are thousands of flavors of light workers in all occupations and roles of society.

If you are a light worker, you may have noticed (and smiled) at the fact that you now have a seat at the economic and political table. Not just the kiddie massage table off in a darker corner somewhere, but the real grown-up middle of the dining room, silverware and service table.The personal economies of shamans of energy and space are transforming from microeconomics to macro. The empaths/healers/clair-anythings who were at the fringes and margins of society are being pulled into the middle  by necessity. No longer confined to spiritual refugee camps like Sedona, Boulder, or Marin County, energy and vibrational “bridge people” now have the critical mainstream mass to catalyze global transformation.

This is bigger than just a woo-woo healing weekend thing, crystals, Tarot cards, or a Reiki master. I’m talking about a whole new way of living where we don’t wipe our feet on being en route to crossing off a task. I’m talking about measuring and graphing the vibration of your website or a thought or a song in a concrete, tangible way, and deliberately creating a certain frequency as a kind of lighthouse beacon to your tribe. I’m talking about calibrating every single thought, color, fabric, space, sound, smell with a level of specificity that would make David Hawkins gasp.

We are moving beyond knowing to unpacking the resonant vibrational signature of something. Beyond personal illness to a broader awareness of its role in the planetary ascencion.  Beyond being entertained to deeply appreciating. Most importantly from human doing to human being.

Light workers are leading this silent revolution in vibration. This wave of conscious energy movers, healers, and shakers is the second or third generation or second wave of “cultural creatives” and pioneers in the New Earth.

Conscious beings of light and love are taking their seats at the head of the socioeconomic table and it’s happening now. Can you feel it?

How will your vibration help shape this new Earth?

Please post comments below and visit the resources below to learn more.

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Doug Ellis Photography Manifesto

0 Comments 07 January 2011

And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?

~ Mary Oliver

Who I Am

I behold and am beheld by the beauty and intelligence of light.   I am a messenger, explorer, and spaceholder. I am also an empath/healer/writer/marketing professional/webmaster and spiritual life coach.

What I do

  • I express your brand essence and best self in pictures.
  • I convey your truth visually and energetically in crystalline light.
  • I photograph as an act of devotion and reverence.
  • I encourage you to Presence yourself consciously and fully and instinctively cooperate with what comes forth.
  • I give voice to silence and a sense of the ineffable.
  • I stand for true expressions, in between moments, and the interplay of gesture, color, light and shadow.
  • I convey the heights and depths of human experience.
  • I lightly hold the moments that matter.
  • I photograph portraits and sacred ceremonies and spiritual conferences and events.
  • I give people at the thresholds of life a friendly shove by the parachute.

Why it matters

  • Because light has its own intelligence and way of loving and wants to be revealed.
  • Because its healing and revealing to be deeply seen.
  • Because life is never the same way twice.
  • Because beauty, humor, and silence crave and deserve our attention.
  • Because you aren’t here. Here is in you.
  • Because having your light and openness reflected back aligns your inner and outer life.
  • Because remembering your basic goodness and soul’s purpose feels good.
  • Because its hard being a grownup all the time. Its much more fun, productive and profitable to lead with your being.
  • Because your new website, brochure, book jacket, or CD/DVD cover photo will help people “get you” and your tribe to follow you.
  • Because it feels better to finance your faith than your fear.
  • Because attention and awareness are the deepest gifts we have to offer one another.

See www.dougellisphotography.com and www.dougellisphoto.com for some of my current work.

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Thirty Ways to Really Use Your New Pictures

0 Comments 20 November 2010

One of the things I love about being a professional photographer is seeing my photographs get used..online and in print. I also love lists and this post covers both topics.

Let’s say you just took or purchased some great new portraits or event photos. Now you have all these .jpgs on a disc or on your computer and you’re not sure what to do with them so they are sitting there just gathering dust.

Here are 30 fun and generally affordable ways you can leverage the power of your pixel magic and share it with folks who want a better sense of you:

E-marketing/Slideshows/Websites

  1. Update (or create) your About page on your website with pictures of you and your staff/team.
  2. Update your website header banner. You can even consider an animated slideshow banner.
  3. “Knock yourself out” of the background and use it to do a product endorsement or just blend well on a white or solid website background.
  4. Update your Facebook Profile Photo (recommended size for FB profile is 525px  wide by 655px high if you don’t know what this means, call me.)
  5. Create a fun and free frivolous e-card using JibJab
  6. Create a slideshow online using Animoto to promote your next event or conference. Email the link or embed the show on your website.
  7. Put the images in a digital picture frame and let them cycle through automatically..as fun as an aquarium and way less work.
  8. Use it as a screensaver or desktop on your computer.
  9. Use it on a dating site like eharmony or match.com
  10. Put them on your Iphone or Droid and show people.
  11. Create a digital vision board using a tool like Vision Board Systems.
  12. Email some of your favorites to your agent and publicist to create a press kit for you.
  13. Add it to your email newsletter.
  14. Add it to your logo or email signature.
  15. Create an account with Flickr and tag it and share it with people.
  16. Update your online avatar/profile in directories like LinkedIn, Bioneers, even Gmail and Yahoo.
  17. Use them in an online family tree like My Heritage, and you can play around with the Celebrity Morph feature to make yourself look like a celebrity or see who you look like.

Printed/Products/PR

  1. Create your own customized greeting cards/post cards, posters or stickers to send to clients and friends.
  2. Get some nice prints made from a good printer and frame them up for table display.
  3. Get them printed and mounted on a knockout board or styrene or something more contemporary to make them pop
  4. Create a hardcover or softcover book of your favorites using Blurb or a higher end designer and print shop.
  5. Add them as a design element to your business cards.
  6. Create a printed journal or scrapbook and paste them in.
  7. Add them to your paper collage/vision board.
  8. Give it to someone you love in a nice frame as a gift.
  9. Use it in a promotional poster or flyer
  10. Create a photo calendar of your top 12 favorites.
  11. Create a t-shirt, mouse pads, mugs, just about anything with it on Cafe Press.
  12. Use it on a CD cover or the CD itself with a design.
  13. Incorporate it into your resume.

I hope these lists have inspired you to use your new photos. If you would like to add more options or clarify, please feel free to add comments/updates using the post tool below.

Thanks so much and Happy Holiday season.

Light and love,

Doug


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Anusara Yoga Immersion II Boulder CO

0 Comments 13 November 2010

Anusara Yoga Immersion 2 Teacher Training with Amy Ippoliti. Solstice Center, Boulder, Nov. 2010


Anusara Yoga Immersion 2 with Amy Ippoliti – Images by doug ellis

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