This week, we are clearing the way.
As we head into the final week of the year of the sheep, it is time again to reflect on what is important and what really matters. Travel is on our mind, with Chinese families gathering to catch up over symbolic traditional meals and many expats packing for a time out.
Celebrations are held throughout most of Asia where the Lunar New Year is recognized as a beginning. Rituals are centuries old with festivities that centre around ancestors. It is a time of sweeping away bad fortune and clearing the way for fresh good luck. It is a time of letting go of the old to make space for the new. Fireworks and bright red colors serve to scare away evil spirits.
Sustainable bamboo is given as a sign of virtue, reflecting soul and emotion. Our Cantonese neighbors will hang their fuk sign upside down to symbolize the arrival of luck, happiness and prosperity.
Whatever our beliefs, it is always a useful exercise to remember those who came before us — those whose lives may be different but whose blood runs with ours. We build on their strengths and accept inherited weakness. We learn how to distinguish their beliefs from ours and live in our own integrity while loving who they are for being who they are.
Lessons can be learned or mistakes can be repeated. The choice is always ours.
We are preparing for a fired up year of monkey business where conflicts can be settled with comprise and concessions — a year where it will be easier than before to solve conflicts by reaching agreements in a general atmosphere of optimism and happiness.
While some in our community shift attentions towards home, others gather with friends who become family.
What are you ready to clear?
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Events in Hong Kong this month
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1 (6:30-8pm) Remembering the Past: Educating the Future | details
1 (7-9pm) EFT for Emotional and Physical Health | details
2 (7-8pm) Personal Energy Management | details
3 (11am) Chai and Chat | details
3 (12:30-2pm) Gender and Nationalism in Post-socialist China | details
3 (7:30-9:30pm) Meat Free Dinner at Loving Hut | details
4 (10am-1pm) Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cooking Class | details
4 (2-4:30pm) Farmer Reskilling Course | details
5 (7pm) Monkey Madness Wine Tasting | details
5-7 (9:30am-6:30pm) Akashic Records | details
12 (12-2pm) Understanding Repressed Truths | details
12 (7:30pm) Vegetarian Mediterranean Food Experience | details
13 (12-6pm) Abundance Pot Ceremony | details
13 (2:30-5:30pm) Attract the Love of Your Life | details
13 (3-5:30pm) Prana Wheel Workshop | details
15 (11am) Mom and Baby Yoga class | details
15 (6:30-8pm) Zei Wei Dou Shu Astrology | details
15 (7-8:50pm) Moving Steps | details
17 (10-11am) Meditation Yoga | details
17 (10:30am-1:30pm) Hong Kong Helpers Cooking Class | details
18 (10:45am-12:45pm) Easy and Nutritious Breakfast Class | details
18 (6:30pm) Nurturing Happy and Resilient Children | details
18 (6:30-8:30pm) Guided Shamanic Meditation | details
19 (7-9pm) Dancing Goddess | details
20 (9am-6pm) Kundalini Yoga Fest | details
20 (10:45am-12:45pm) Superfood and Self Care | details
20 (11am) Tai O Cultural and Eco Tour | details
20 (11am-1pm) SiSuClimb Hong Kong | details
20 (1:30-3pm) Posture Taping for Neck and Shoulder Pain | details
20 (2-5pm) Heart of Hatha Workshop | details
20 (2:30-4:15pm) OCD and Anxiety Support Group | details
20 (3pm) Nature’s Food Afternoon Tea | details
20 (7-9:30pm) The Art of Receiving | details
22 (7-9pm) Awakening of Love | details
24 (10am-12pm) Flavourful Ferments | details
25 (7-9pm) Fermented Vegetable Workshop | details
26-28 Fasting Retreat | details
27 (2-5pm) Wellbeing Through Creativity | details
27 (3pm) Doga with Snowball and Friends | details
27-28 Heal Body, Mind, Emotions and Soul | details
28 (2-3:30pm) Free Community Drum Jam at the Harbour | details
29 (7:30-9:30pm) Pipe Ceremony | details
29 Hysan Healthy Hike and Run | details
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Coming up
Mar 10-12 LOHAS Expo and Veg Food Asia
Mar 25 – April 5 Permaculture Design Course at Ark Eden
April 7 Farmer Reskilling Course
April 17 & 24 Animal Communication Workshop
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LOHAS Expo & Vegetarian Food Asia
Natural, Organic, Green Living & Vegetarian Food Products
The 5th annual LOHAS Expo and the second Vegetarian Food Asia will be held in March at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This is a regional sourcing platform for trade, visitors and consumers with over 200 exhibitors and 12,000 trade buyers expected from around the region. Get practical tips from global industry leaders and experts to grow business at the LOHAS Forum and meet numerous of master chefs at the Vegetarian Kitchen and learn cooking tips. Last year, the LOHAS Expo attracted more than 10,000 visitors over 3 days to meet over 100 exhibiting companies. Visit the fairs to find out more.
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WEBSITE : lohasexpohk.com | vegfoodasia.com
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