PERREAULT Magazine November 2014 | Page 74

We wrote SECOND WIND based on our experience with the Penny Lane Residential Treatment Center, where we did a six-week Acting For Life program. That musical ran three years and sponsored too many residential treatment houses to count, and was chosen by the United Nations for New Songs For Peace and won the first Theatre Impact Award.

SK: You overcome life’s challenges with love, compassion, and grace. You keep teaching at Bua Acting For Life. What’s the source of your genuine personality, strength, and drive?

TB: Thank you. My connection to the Spirit, and the love of humankind, the animal kingdom, and burning desire to serve. And humor!!!! All of my projects and teachings are based on love, permission to be great, the idea that everyone has a genius and a hero within. My job is to assist that confidence to come out of the shadows and live fully, in art and in life!

SK: Miley Bua, the most beautiful Husky that was rescued from a garbage dump, became a sensation reaching 18 million fans on YouTube. How is Miley doing now?

TB: Miley has filled the hole in my heart which was left when Gene, as well as my last husky Anushka, went to the light less then two years ago. She is kind to all beings and is surely a brilliant, adoring old soul! Five hundred others from around the world wanted to become Miley’s family, and the Spirit lead us to each other.

SK: What makes your heart sing?

TB: Miley, and helping another soul to blossom like a radiant lotus. And music, writing it, recording it, and experiencing the outcome. Music and story can heal instantly.

SK: What would you share with PERREAULT readers and fans?

TB: Never wait until that magic tomorrow to make your dreams come true. We surely do not know how long we are meant to stay here in this lifetime. There is no other time to take action and go for your dream like right NOW.

And if we are smart enough to let go of results—rather, the outcome we picture in our heads—if we follow our hearts and allow God/the Spirit/the Universe to lead the way, our dreams may alter and not be what we figured out in our heads.

And yet [they can] be so much greater and healing for us then we ever imagined! This is a very courageous way to live, but I believe it is the path to bliss and freedom. Request, say thank you, have faith, let go. This is what I strive to teach through art, through carrying on Gene’s legacy at Bua Acting For Life, my stories, my songs. My life. Here’s To Life!!! With great love hope and fire to every single one of your beautiful readers. As the angel tells the girl in Pepper Street: “Even if you have a hundred other lifetimes on a thousand other stars, there will never be another YOU.”

Love your life, love your dreams. Don’t let anyone or anything stand in your way. Your best destiny awaits.

The time is right NOW.

Toni Bua www.buaactingforlife.com

Toni is now a speaker, making her debut Sept. 2013 at “THE WIN EVENT” in LA where she spoke to 1000 people, with healers and innovators from all around the globe.

Currently at the MoHo Productions in Van Nyes, writing songs with President and star Brandon Jarrett!

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