edlozini

I recently started Yoga classes at Samata Yoga studio in Warner Beach and I must say, it has been quite an experience…I have always been interested in anything and everything that deals with the mind body and soul and yoga seems to bring the balance that I need in my life.

When I help people spiritually, I always tell them that as a spiritual medium I will help them spiritually but if they have other problems which need medical attention, they need to consult with their doctors immediately. I am not that kind of a healer who claims to know it all or heal everything. I understand that spiritually, problems can start as stumbling blocks in life and then go on further to be emotional problems and then later become medical conditions. People who neglect their spirituality tend to be susceptible to all sorts of medical conditions. This is a result of an imbalanced life, because they tend to neglect the basic core of a human soul. When you strengthen your spirituality, you become more balanced thus enabling the body to utilize its natural mechanisms to heal itself. And when you are spiritually aware, you can even sense when you start to lose the balance and then do something about it spiritually. When you strengthen your spirituality, you allow your ancestors to work for you in guiding and protecting you throughout your living life. When your ancestors are happy with your conduct they can even warn you in dreams about dangerous situations or individuals around you.

As a spiritual medium, I deal with peoples’ problems day in and day out to an extent that it affects my own life. I deal with so many kinds of complex problems that people encounter in their lives such that it affects me because at the end of the day I am also just human. Sometimes I get stressed when I realise just how much suffering is going on out there. I am also exposed to a lot of the dark side of life, where you find that people do bad and devious things in life, just to get by. People come to me and confess these deeds and it affects me negatively because I realise that, at the end of the day life is more complicated that we think it is. Some of these things are revealed to me by ancestors during readings and I have no choice of blocking out the negative effect it has on me. As a result I decided to do something that can make me cope so that I can carry on with my calling.

I had been contemplating on doing yoga for a long time but I wasn’t too sure if it was what I really needed to do. Just recently I took a step and started to enquire more about yoga and happen to find a very good instructor who was willing to take me under her wing and teach me all about it. I find that doing yoga is making me cope better and concentrate on the important things in my own life. She tells me that yoga brings the balance into ones’ life and make us slow down to appreciate the most important things in life, that we sometimes take for granted. Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India.

I take my yoga classes at Samata Yoga studio in Warner beach, which is 15minutes from my house and I find that it has helped me a great deal. I find yoga to be a form of exercise that benefits my body without straining it, while feeding my mind and giving me soul food at the same time. With the breathing exercises I get to slow down and take time to concentrate on myself and my body for its own benefit. I become more aware of my body and how it functions in order to keep me going everyday of my life. Yoga is what I needed at this stage of my life. I find that I am coping better, I have more control of my emotions and I am much more at peace. I am dealing better with the problems I encounter as a result of my work as a medium, and its all because of my yoga classes.

Believing in ancestors is very similar to doing yoga with the only difference being that both operate on opposite levels. With ancestral rituals we deal with high vibrations while yoga takes me down to very low vibrations and keeps me in touch with even the minor details about this life. Ancestral practice concentrate on the problems we encounter in life, ranging from bad luck, relationship problems to following a calling. With yoga one concentrates on the mind, body and soul thus giving one a well- balanced way of living.

Together Yoga and Ancestral practice can do wonders for a person who is open minded and willing to try new things in life. Ancestors want us to help them so we can see a difference in our lives and yet without a well-balanced life we may never achieve this goal. Putting ancestors and yoga together can do wonders for one and it can make you achieve more than you have ever imagined for yourself. Yoga gives you a self confidence that we all need to succeed in life, when ancestors can open doors and give you good luck if you honor and accept them accordingly.

When I discover something that is useful and can benefit people, I always like to share it so as to empower more and more people out there, which is why I am sharing this information with you.

I have thus started introducing some of the people from edlozini to yoga classes at Samata yoga studio. We are planning to get more people involved in practicing both ancestral rituals and yoga in order to see the results and good effect it can have in our lives.

Samata yoga studio is willing to work with edlozini in spreading the knowledge of yoga to all those who would like to get involved and practice yoga.

Caryl Donna Gillies-Bridge

Yoga instructor

Samata Yoga Studio of Warner Beach

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For yoga classes contact Caryl at Samata Yoga studio in Warner Beach

edlozini is looking forward to umgidi celebration once again this coming saturday 5th May 2012

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Losing a loved one is an experience that we all go through at some stage in our lives but it is something that one can never get used to, no matter how many times it happens to you. It is part of life and we all need to strengthen one another should it happen that someone close to us lose a loved one.

It always happens unexpectedly even if a person was sick, but we always hope that a miracle will happen and they will get better. Some people get sick for a little while and they pass on, while others suffer for a longer period of time. It doesn’t really matter how we lose a loved one, it is always a traumatic experience and as human beings we will never get used to it.

No one knows exactly happens after death but we who believe in ancestors say that our loved ones who pass away, become our guides and spirits. Some people believe in different lives for one soul, while others believe in ancestors that form another family in the after life. It doesn’t really matter what you believe in because at the end of the day we were all created from a “source”, for a reason and once our purpose is done on earth, we all go back to the source.

I have been exposed to a lot of religions in my quest for some answers in the mysteries of life and I have come to understand that we all believe in one thing but we call it different names, according to our understanding and culture. This is perfectly normal and it helps a lot when we are faced with hard times as it gives us a support system that makes sense of a situation and then keeps us going. The key is to accept life as it is brought to you by the creator and to deal with it’s ups and downs in a way that makes you a better person in your lifetime.  It is also very important for all of us to support one another in times of hardship and never to judge people according to their beliefs and culture.

We believe that when you love someone, you have that connection with them, that makes you finish each other’s sentences and sometimes you can even sense when your loved one is in trouble. However, death is another mystery that has not been revealed to us in totality, because most of the time people get shocked by the news of passing of a loved one. I know, I was…

I lost a loved one in July of 1999 in a very freak road accident which happened in the early hours of one morning in KwaMashu township. When the accident happened, I was sleeping peacefully at my home on the other side of town, to be woken up by a phone call from a friend who told me that my boyfriend and a father of my child was in a kombi that collided with a municipal bus at 3am that morning, and everybody was believed to have died in that accident. When you hear something like this, so unexpected, it numbs you and you wish it were a bad dream. Well, for me it wasn’t a bad dream. Later I were to find out that even though my boyfriend was still breathing at the accident scene, he had broken his neck and was announced dead when they arrived at the hospital.

During this whole ordeal, I felt like I didn’t have full control of my body. It felt like I had borrowed my senses to someone else and I couldn’t control my emotions no matter how hard I tried.

Yes, it is hard to believe at the time and it is even worse if a person didn’t get sick. This is the case where you find that even the departed don’t realize what happened to them because it happens so quickly before the mind could make sense of it-I only discovered this information when I started doing readings and got these messages from the other side. When doing a reading for someone who passes away like this, they are in a state of confusion and are waiting for a confirmation from the loved ones who are still living to release them and this is the hardest part, if you are not aware of what is taking place.

Sometimes we want to hang on to a memory of a loved one who has passed on because it is hard to finally accept that they are gone and we will never see them again on this earth. This is a major set-back in the after life because the dead remain in limbo being held back by us who are still living. It is a pity that during a reading we only catch the spirit of the dead during the time of death because they are stuck and not after it has been released and sent back to the source. If that was the case then we would be able to know even the source itself through the dead. The only thing we know is that, once a soul is released it floats freely on its way back to the creator and it becomes an angel to us(whoever it is assigned to). As to who do we meet after death, I have not gone that far into the after life and I wouldn’t even like to know about that part of death.

Like everybody else , I also hung on to a soul for so many years thereafter, finding it difficult to move on and forget. Then one day, I realized that I didn’t have to forget but I had to accept the life that my God has put before me. I had to live my life and be on my path that was set for me to travel without wanting to change anything.

Yes, you do accept and try to move on but the pain is always there-its part of life. There are days when you feel like it was just yesterday and you start to cry but over the years I have learnt to follow up on that tear with a smile, which is a confirmation that I am okay with everything that God has put before.

Once I did a reading with a medium from Mozambique and my loved one came forth and told me that his soul was snatched too quickly before he could realize what was happening. Even though this was painful for me to hear, I also took comfort in the fact that he didn’t feel any pain at all.

The only problem with such a soul is that it becomes attached to the things it loved and will always need affirmation to say that it must move on to the other life. My boyfriend left me with a two year old daughter whom he loved very much. She didn’t know him very well at that time but she surprised us all at the cemetery when she started waving goodbye to the sky as the cars were going away from the graveyard- I just smile with tears in my eyes.

Since then I have made it a habit to visit his grave once a year, just to say a small prayer and to acknowledge him as a father to my daughter. When my daughter grew older she made sure that we don’t miss a year without going to Redhill cemetery. Sometimes she gets sick if we delay to go, in that particular year but I always make sure that we go before she complains too much. She has her special relationship with her dad and each time we get there, I leave her behind to say her peace alone on her dads’ grave. My daughter is 15 this year and I know through doing readings for her that her ancestors are with her and they love her very much. It is my duty as a parent to always pray for her dads’ spirit not to come across too strong to her because a dad is not supposed to guide a child. I always have to do a prayer and affirm to him that his daughter is doing well, the ancestors are with her, and he must rest peacefully…

Rest in peace Sifiso Lawrence Dlamini