In Sydney we met the most amazing lady!!!

Sondra and Jonine in Sydney

In Sydney, Australia, we hooked up with one of the most powerful women in the worldwide breathwork community we have met as yet. Jonine Lee not only has an active full time breathwork practice in Sydney, but is the president of the Australian Breathwork Association that is giving breathwork in Australia an accredited position in the healing arts. Jonine has been practicing and training others in breathwork for over 20 years, and graciously accepted the job of organizing events for us in Sydney on our Pacific Tour, which she carried off with great aplomb and grace. We are so happy to have made a new friend who is so committed to this wonderful work of liberating people from their negative and toxic thoughts through the power of the breath. We stayed with Jonine and her twin flame, Victor, over the span of a week, and had many opportunities to spread the good news of breathwork to the people of Sydney. The workshops were well attended, which speaks of the fruit Jonine has nurtured and cultivated over the years in her building of the local and national breathwork community.

Also, we would like to thank Fiona Bury, the young Irish lady living in Sydney, whose mother Angela Bury, who we met in Dublin, Ireland, gave to us as a contact. Fiona was responsible for hooking us up with Jonine, and also drove many hours to be with us as an assistant at our workshops. Her bright face and upbeat attitudes about breathwork are doing much to uplift the people of Sydney, and extend the service of this work to many others. We were happy to go out together to the famous Sydney Opera House on Monday night with Jonine and Fiona, joined by Tom Pellegrino from the USA, who had flown all the way from Atlanta to attend the workshops.

Of course, Mark painted during the trainings and came up with this rendition of "Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom in Sydney", which one of the participants purchased to hang in her rebirthing room. It was a powerful presence to have the painting being made right in the front of the room over three days. People were amazed at how calming an effect the painting had on the overall atmosphere while the teaching was taking place. It was like having a silent teaching unfolding visually before their eyes. The different stages of color being applied showed the creative process in action, which many said inspired them to "dig into" their own creative projects they had been putting off until some future date. Having the painting going on stirred in them the gumption to get going!!!

So, now we are in Adelaide for a week, but we feel we "left our hearts in Sydney", with our wonderful new friends, until we meet again next year to be with the dynamic Australian Breathwork Community. Accolades go to Jonine Lee, for keeping the fires burning, and keeping her dedication on the high road of Liberation for herself and the people of this wonderful cosmopolitan city of culture and well deserved recognition.

THANK YOU to the people of Sydney, those who attended our workshops and sessions, and to Jonine, Victor, and Fiona for making our stay a little piece of Heaven.

Bole Baba Ki Jai!! Love, SONDRA & MARK