Winter 2024 reflections

Written By Ana

Happy New Year! May 2025 bring many blessings and opportunities to expand your horizons!

In just a few days, we say farewell to year 2024 and we ring in 2025. The Year 8 was filled with opportunities for growth, transformation and change—it just flew by—as I rooted into a life of travel moving between Northern and Southern California—the year showed me how to be adaptable, flexible, and flow with the tidal waves of change. If you had a year of change, how did it flow? Were you able to adapt or did you resist to the changes? How did it feel? When we come to transitions, it’s always a good time to reflect and consider what was most impactful, how did we learn to expand our way of being or what were the challenges that helped us grow out of our comfort zone? Perhaps the opposite, what moved us to shrink into ourselves and go within for inner observation and quiet time alone? How did the number 8 resonate with the year that you experienced? 8 = infinite change, transformation, opportunity for growth and transmutation.

What are your inspirational goals for this upcoming year? How do you envision fulfilling dreams and aspirations? Take some time to write out goals for the next year, next 3 years, next 5 years and next 10 years. How do you envision your life? How would you like things to flow? When it comes to health, relationships, career/work? Create a vision board using old magazines, pictures, photos or whatever fills your heart to dream your visions into being (draw, write, cut and paste). What does the number 9 bring up for you? The number 9 is a powerful number leading toward completion and fulfillment; love and compassion toward humanity and fulfilling your service to the world. May this end of the year bring ease, space for allowing & acceptance of what was, and new opportunities for what the future brings is infinite possibilities.

Ana

Dr. Laura L. Luna (Dr. Ana) is an Indigenous Wellness Practitioner with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology (2014), an M.A. in Psychology (2007), & a B.A . in Psychology with a minor in Spanish (2004). She is a Certified Yoga Teacher (RYT 500 HR), Holy Fire Karuna ®Reiki Master Teacher (2012). She is an initiate into the Munay-Ki Shamanic Healing Arts & trained in Ayurvedic Counseling. She is also an IHS SACRED Practitioner, an energy management technique to promote wellness.

She is currently the Founder & President of Luna y Sol Sanctuary (501c3)a nonprofit designed to provide holistic healing services to underserved communities.

She was born in Banning, CA and raised in San Bernardino, CA. Her parents were born in Barstow, Ca & Aguililla, Michoacán, Mexico. Her grandparents are from Jalisco, Zacatecas, & Michoacán, Mexico. She is Xicana & reclaiming her Indigenous heritage as Chichimeca/Purépecha, original peoples of the Americas. Dr. Luna currently resides between California & Nevada. She is a social justice activist currently working on land back movements alongside Indigenous tribal communities that are returning to their role as original stewards of the land. She is also inspired by Indigenous lead food sovereignty projects that promote sustainability and regenerative practices for the people, water & the land. She is a published author in topics of wellness, education & mental health (journal articles, book chapters & a book is on the way).

Her favorite things to do are be outside in nature with her husky dog, observe and gather plants for medicinal use; she loves food, music, and sitting around the sacred fire for connection, community & personal growth.

“When we Heal Ourselves, We Heal the World!” “In Lak’ech hala ken”

For more information or consultation please visit Dr. Luna on the web: draluna.space & www.lunaysolsanctuary.org

https://draluna.space
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