Creating just the right environment to support your highest and best self can be a fun and enlightening pathway to choose.  Here we get to address all of our six senses: taste, touch, smell, sound, sight and insight. The sixth sense or intuitive sense is perhaps the most important of all in which all the senses coalesce and converge.  We say, “Something just doesn’t ‘feel’ right” when our intuitive self perceives disharmony in a room or situation.  When things are out of balance, we sense the low, misplaced, or static energy that ensues. When life and our surroundings are in balance, it feels like, "Ahhhhhh..."

Everything we experience in life has energy, a vibration unique to itself. Let us use this information to create a Home Sanctuary that nurtures, uplifts and heals us, that inspires and motivates, that gives us exactly what we need when we need it.

Our mission is to enrich lives and improve a chosen lifestyle by innovatively conjoining the modalities and energies of Aromatherapy, Color Therapy and Feng Shui - along with a healthy dose of common sense and sense of humor!

This post is simply to give you an overview or introduction to how each of these elements can enhance and enrich your life and how together can create something extraordinary. 

Color Psychology relates how color can effect our mood, outlook and health due to the natural vibrations of color as well as their cultural and societal connotations.
Color Therapy, also known as Chromo Therapy, uses our understanding of the psychology of color directly as therapy for addressing emotional and/or physical imbalance. 

Color Therapy aims to balance and enhance the body's energy centers or Chakras by using the seven colors of the light spectrum, which can help to stimulate our body's own healing process. 

Since color is everywhere, we can apply some basics to our everyday lives (from the clothes we wear to the color of our walls and throw pillows) to help uplift and energize, or calm and soothe as needed.

"Feng Shui (pronounced "fung shway") examines how the placement of things and objects within it affect the energy flow in your living environment, and how these objects interact with and influence your personal energy flow. Your personal energy flow affects how you think and act, which in turn affects how well you perform and succeed in your personal and professional life. Feng Shui affects you every moment of the day — whether you're aware of it or not."  Excerpt from Understanding the Principles of Feng Shui for Dummies

Its fun and creative and another way for YOU to express YOU.  The Bagua Map is one of the most basic tools acting like an overlay for any floor plan or surface to help create the coveted Flow of Chi and Balance. Covered by the Bagua Map are drill down elements such as: the Five Elements of Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood along with their corresponding Colors and Shapes.  Working with various Feng Shui Elements creates an incredibly versatile blueprint for effecting the subtle energies in your life, and can be further customized according to your birth date and those of your family!

Whoa!  That's a lot of information!  That's where we can help.  Through Take Wing's information highway and exchange of knowledge, you'll discover as much or as little as you'd like to know.  Understanding these vibrational families can help you create balance in your personal and professional life - ancient wisdom for your optimal health and happiness - and another fun stop on this Transformational Pathway to creating a healthier, happier you. 

One of Take Wing's current offerings is a FREE 45-minute introductory Webinar called Clarity, Care and Consciousness - three signposts you are on the right path.  While discussing CARE in the context of Self Care, we talk about how addressing all of your senses as you create Self Care Rituals stimulates and solidifies healthy choices.
 
The reason this is so important is our senses, sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and intuitive, are the pathways for experience in this earthly body.  Without all this sensory input, we would have a brain without context of space, time and understanding of how we fit in.  It is how memories are formed. 

And by addressing all of the senses, I like to include the common variety.  Maligned by many as less than common these days, I suppose after falling into disuse, people simply gave it away as if they had no more need for such a thing.  In light of such, let's not forget the importance of keeping one's sense of humor intact...especially since common sense has been chucked out the proverbial window.  I just bet there was a baby and some bathwater involved.

All this to say, we are here to have fun!  Create!  Dream!  Grow!  Be alive!  Thrive!  Flourish!  So what if you try something and it doesn't work?  Say, "Well, that was interesting."  And then try something else.  If we think of life as Play Time, Dress Up, Coloring, Hop Scotch, it can be seriously fun!  Like that.

If you are ever interested in learning some new ways to create a space that supports your particular journey of joy, peace, happiness and creativity, and since you're hanging out here on this planet called Earth anyway, give me a jingle. I would love to connect and hear what you are trying to create. Perhaps we can collaborate.  So I can appreciate the need to cogitate.  Good lord, I"m rapping. Help.

Take Wing Takes You There. (unless you'd rather be someplace else.)

Touché! Definition/Merriam-Webster: “-used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or the success or appropriateness of an argument, an accusation, or a witty point.”  The word touché shouts empowerment, making it the perfect name for a company that combines powerful empowerment tools with powerful skin rejuvenation products.
 
Touché Beauty celebrates a thirty-five year legacy with the development of Artfully Chic, high impact German Formulations that deliver beautiful skin. We believe that by championing self-care and overall good skin health through our spa and medical partners, we in turn inspire inner beauty, personal strength and confidence.  Our packaging, our serum formulas are clearly works of art.  Our commitment to our clients is to treat each interaction, service and education as an opportunity.
 
The Touché Beauty serums stand ‘on guard’ to pick up where health and wellness leave off (and frankly for some, take the visual edge off of some bad habits.)  The basis for looking beautiful is feeling beautiful, so attitude and healthy habits cannot be ignored.  However, since only a maximum of 20% of nutrients are available to the organ we call, “skin”…topical supplementation is mandatory.
 
With new technology in delivery systems and non-toxic cosmeceuticals we can ‘teach the skin to function younger’ by targeting specific (in the moment) needs of the skin with high-impact, high quality and highly performing ingredients.  Here is a list of the Touche Beauty Serums. Take a gander and see if any of these speak to your skin's needs.

I am posting this recipe, well, because it turned out great!  You know, when you are making something up as you go along and hoping for the best...and then, voila! it turns out so good you just have to share?  The recipe follows at the end, so you can just scroll down to it if you need to.

Here's how it went down. 

Three days ago my husband announces that he and our neighbor, Ramona, have harvested our rhubarb and "its cut and ready to use."  Okay. The only thing I know to make with rhubarb is pie.  However, there's not enough of it to make a strictly rhubarb version, so I do what I always do when I need help...ask Google. I stumbled upon Grandma's Strawberry Rhubarb Pie recipe (courtesy of Valarie Enters, Sanford, Florida) and chose it because the pie crust was different than I"m used to making, and I was up for something new and different.  AND BECAUSE ITS FINALLY SUMMER! It also turned out great! 

And because my husband and I do NOT need to eat an entire pie by ourselves, I thought to share it with our neighbor, Ramona, and her family.  And then I thought, I also have a giant butternut squash begging to be eaten and I could make something easy for dinner and just have them come over for dinner and dessert. So once the invitation was accepted, I started with my creation.

Confetti Quinoa with Roasted Butternut Squash and Walnuts
Serves 8
Ingredients:

• 1 large butternut squash, cut in half lengthwise seeds removed
• 1 large yellow onion, cut into peeled and cut into quarters or eighths
• 2 teaspoons Herbs de Provence
• 14 - 16 TBSP olive oil, divided
• 2 cups tri-color quinoa, (cook according to package directions in 4 cups water or broth)
• 1/4 cup yellow and/or orange baby bell peppers, diced small
• 1/2 cup red onion, diced small
• 1/4 cup fennel, finely chopped
• 1/2 - 3/4 cup walnuts, roasted and coarse chopped
• 2/3 cup Parmesan cheese, finely shredded, divided in half
• 2 TBSP red wine vinegar
• 4 TBSP lemon juice
• Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Place squash and yellow onion on a shallow non-stick baking sheet. Coat squash and yellow onion with approximately 1-2 TBSP olive oil and sprinkle with Herbs de Provence.  Bake for approximately 20-30 minutes, or until a sharp knife inserts easily into the thickest part.  Remove and let cool.

Cook the quinoa according to package directions: 2 cups quinoa in 4 cups water (or use vegetable broth for added flavor). 

While quinoa is cooking, saute the red onion, bell peppers and fennel in 1 - 2 TBSP olive oil until crisp tender, 5 - 7 minutes.  Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Once squash and onion are done, remove from oven to cool. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees and roast walnuts until fragrant, approximately 3-5 minutes.

When squash and onion can be handled, peel squash, and chop both into bite sized pieces.

Mix red wine vinegar, lemon juice, 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese in a small mason jar or whisk in a bowl. Add 12 TBSP olive oil and mix by shaking jar or whisking in bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Assembly:
Grab yourself a very large baking dish.  I used 5 1/2 qt. (16" x 11" x 2 3/4"). Add plain quinoa, then sauteed veggies, mix well. Add dressing, mix again. Cover entire surface of quinoa with chopped butternut squash, roasted onion, walnuts and final 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese.  Cover with foil and place in 350 degree oven to heat through, approximately 20 minutes.  Remove foil. Turn oven to Broil.  Allow to start bubbling and browning slightly on top, 3-5 minutes. 

Serve while its hot! So flippin' good!

I’m looking for flutter-mates. I’m offering us a place to BE, SHARE, CARE, and LET GO.

What would that place look like? How would it feel to co-create a world where we honor each as sovereign beings, inspire each other to our greatest potential, and live like we mean it for ourselves and the Seventh Generation?  Life in Joy, Love, Compassion, Kindness, Beauty and Creativity.  All growing with our ever expanding Universe toward Oneness.  Growing toward and achieving alignment of Self: Heart and Mind, Body and Soul. Yeah, that’s the ticket.  How do we do THAT?

Together, that’s how.  Learning from each other. Asking curious questions. Being open to ideas, beliefs and methods beyond that which we have currently been exposed.  Listening. Learning. Applying. Teaching.

Let us use today’s energy to create today’s fulfillment.

Here Butterflies truly are free."

Take Wing is the launching pad for you, for me, for women, for this very moment in time, to be a part of something greater than ourselves.  Delving deep within to discover that inner space offers a more delicious landscape, and more fulfilling challenges than we could have imagined.  Do you have the appetite for it?  Here we get to be explorers - safe within the nest.  We get to be courageous - born of shared experience, and bolstered by community. 

Egg. Larva. Caterpillar. Butterfly. The cycle of transformation can be applied to everyone and everything.  Knowing where you are on your journey, or at what phase a particular project lies within the cycle helps determine your next best course of action to achieve the most positive results possible. 

And though butterflies may be free, personal empowerment classes and coaching, are not...or are they? 

What would proven, permanent, life-changing personal power habits be worth to you?  Would they be worth, oh, I don't know, let's say, FREE????

Click here to find out how to qualify for Module 1 of the "Life Changing - Game Changing - World Changing" Life Mastery training course for FREE!  We need to make some huge changes in our world, and the only way it is going to happen is one person, specifically, one amazing, powerful woman, at a time!  Ah, that would be YOU.

Empowerment principles and habits save my life every day. (That's what mastering something means, right? It becomes such an ingrained part of you, you don't know where it starts and you leave off.) When these principles started to become habits, they rocked my world so dramatically, I HAD to find a way to share what I learned.  We are all in the same boat before creating those habits of mastery - Pure Habit Potential .  I still am.  I, we, are works in progress. Always growing, evolving, transforming... 

Butterflies ready to Take Wing.  Is that you?

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In health and joy,
Ciao, Bellas,
Colleen