being one with nature

"Be still and the earth will speak to you." ~ Navajo Wisdom

Headed Home - Carl Moon, [American, 1878-1948]

Our life is intimately interwoven with ancestors of the past, the present and the future. Our ancestors are anyone and anything that contributes to our life.

Aligning with our ancestors leads to healing when we are in alignment and collaborate as allies - even when either of us disagree or lack understanding.

This begins with learning to make peace with all elements of our life and opening up - getting up close and personal with our ancestors to allow healing possibilities to happen.

It's about time we start conversations that explore the centrality of ancestor work to the collective liberation of humanity.

The social, political, cultural and environmental crises of these times calls us to reckon with the legacy of colonization, genocide, slavery and the continued violence against oppressed peoples.

Our healing requires that we transform intergenerational trauma using the wisdom, perseverance and resilience of our most honorable ancestors.

Once we trust that all that we need is here for us healing can begin. Our ancestors need to be recognized, honored, acknowledged and appreciated for their contributions.

Our ancestral blessing is the knowledge that life is here for us - supporting, loving, co-creating with and rooting for us - that's tremendous support available always.

How we relate in our life are how we are in relation with our ancestors. All our relations indeed.

love letter

beloved

my heart is pierced

you mesmerize me

I am yours as you are mine

born to you, borne by you

my mandala on an old book page

It's a challenge to not get mired in either religious, romantic or rabid consumer slant we we are sold on on Valentine's Day. With the advent of Hollywood and Hallmark, the story and significance of Saint Valentine has been lost in the fray. Not that that story bore much truth in it either. 

Unlike the relative lack of harm in Santa Claus or the Easter bunny, you have to wonder how much damage the saccharine fallacy of this day of love has derailed us all from the true purpose and meaning of loving someone or something. 

So today I choose to channel ecstatic poets of old and toss off a few loving words of my own. Falling lame and limitedly short of the mark love was intended as. I sit absorbed in the blue rays of my digital device. 

Heart beating to a virtual world of deluded illusion while out a window Nature beckons - be present to me. Mother I feel you under my feet, Gaia I feel your heartbeat, dancing to the eternal music of the spheres. Why hello there.

ecstatic oneness within

Starting another Shift Network course with Sandra Ingerman - Shamanic Journeys Into Nature - continues to deepen my own learning and teaching experience. 

Winter Morning in Yellowstone National Park (U.S.), Tom Murphy

Disconnected from our own true nature, we learn how to turn off external distraction and disturbance, turning inward and centering our being to get back in tune with our natural flow and the cycles of nature and the earth. 

Shift Network announcement

Our first week we learned how much the land nurtures and protects us.

• our connection to the web of life and our true place in nature
• changes to make and be in greater harmony with nature
• a ceremony to bond with the land where we live on
• a shamanic journey to learn what it means to be a nature being
• Honorable Closure, a ritual to dissolve unhealthy energetic ties

I offer you this healing music and video to leave you with the sense of expansiveness this work brings. 

Native American ancestral chants