By Kira Shanthi

Kira's foot stretches into the warm turquoise water, toes making a small spray, as the catamaran speeds along...heart beating faster, she wonders where they are and what they will do when they see her…

The thin, dark arm of the captain’s girl, lifts towards the horizon, gauze sleeve fluttering, soft words scattered into syllables by the wind. The boat veers to where she points, sun glinting, Enya’s voice sweetly wooing the dolphins as they play invisibly in the sea.

Kira's heart races, as a dark fin breaks the surface; and then another, and another! There they are! The thin brown girl quickly sits at the bow, bursting into smiles and girlish laughter as a large silver-gray dolphin appears, flirting with her outstretched toes.

Kira, mouth open in awe, watches without moving as the eight-foot, eight hundred pound creature expresses friendliness to the unfamiliar girl. The dolphin seems to know exactly where her foot is, and gently runs the length of its smooth, shimmering body along her toes……thus begins a journey of all journeys, from which there is no turning back; friendship blossoms with a pod of wild dolphins, that takes Kira into a world of consciousness she has never before imagined; into a magical realm, where color, delight, fantasy and wonder open amazing new ways of experiencing life…and never again will she be the person she was before she began her dolphin awakening…

Perhaps the reason dolphins are so loved is because they naturally impart an awakened state to us! They live in all four brain wave frequencies simultaneously - alpha, beta, delta and theta.

This graceful sea mammal assists us to access at will, states that generally occur only during moments of hands-on healing, creativity, inspiration or genius.

~ Available April 2006, memoirs of many years interaction with wild dolphins...

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