life roadmap

“In many traditional cultures, healing was not the burden of one person alone, It was held by the entire community.” ~ Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval

Is it any wonder then that no matter the advances in science and health today, a growing number of dis-ease and illness afflict too many in our modern world. 

this critical time is calling us to shift to a higher dimension of reality

As we were never meant to be alone, soul healing was never meant to be a solitary journey. It takes a village in community - knowing each member and caring for each other's wellbeing to keep us all going. 

Sandra Ingerman | shamanic journeying for healing

Today is the start of a new course with Sandra Ingerman - "Shamanic Journeying for Healing" at the Shift Network. 

Shift course page

It is perfectly timed - opening 2024 to much of it potential and possibility. Exploring an ancient practice intimately intertwined with the elements of nature. Journeying into non-ordinary realms in ceremony - for healing, support, and guidance. 

Sandra Ingerman in an intimate connection with helping spirits and nature beings of these unseen realms. Into worlds beyond our world - shamanic journeying to connect with multidimensional guides and their insights since ancient times. 

Sandra Ingerman teaches how to experience firsthand what it looks, feels, and sounds like to explore other worlds and be in true physical presence with the divine beings who dwell there. 

Providing options and solutions to our greatest personal and collective challenges to share - with family, friends, colleagues, and community. A truly life changing experience. 

May we all contribute in the creation of a better world for all. A glorious 2024 to all!  

our sound quest

Bali beckons East West Women for a week of transformational exploration. The enchanting journey of voice and the powerful medicine of healing instruments opens us up to reconnect, discover, and develop our creative essence. 

Sounding The Sacred Feminine facilitated by mother and daughter, Michele Averard and Charli Kornblum, is a six day retreat - a women’s sound quest.

Ganesha at the entrance of Askara

Our venue - a beautiful sound dome aptly named Askara Sound Temple in Ubud, Bali - sits at the edge of a tropical rainforest where cascading trills of the river running below were our constant companion. A beautiful labor of love created by Chris Prawita of Bliss Wellness.

in & out

As the day dawns I light some incense and the candle on the mantle. Smudging some sacred smoke over myself and out into the world. I offer up the day's prayer and purposely encircle each room as I fan the wafting smoke all around myself and my space. 

I sit in silence for a quieting moment. Breathing gently and intentionally. Centering carefully before my day begins. Lots of thoughts - floating and bobbing, coming and going. Surrounded this way in suspended animation - a fetus in its amniotic fluid. 

Enclosed in the cocooning world of a warm and throbbing womb. All externals muted out and drifting far into the fog. Waves circling and undulating as I sink into the emptiness. Submerge deeper. Slowed down. Each atom of my being weighed down more and heavier. The self disintegrating into the void. 

Immersed. Isolated. Internalized. Into the vast unknown I go. 

elements in space & time

Change beyond the speed of thought. A dozen years ago I stepped out of community life. Bereft and adrift I stayed clear of any group. I took a masters in adult education and training. Loved what I learned, the gang who shared this with me, and how I absorbed the new with the old. 

all interconnected

“By attending the online Summit, you will be part of creating a powerful healing container to bring light to collective trauma for the collective consciousness  of humanity at this pivotal time on our planet.” ~ THOMAS HÜBL

Collective Trauma Summit 2021

A 10-Day Online Event with 45+ Experts to Explore How to Work With Individual, Ancestral, and Collective Trauma - SEPT 19 to 28, 2021.

Join over 100,000+ souls for an all NEW online event with expert presentations, talks, poetry readings, movement sessions, guided meditations, and panel discussions where we will delve into the theme of Collective Healing in Action.

Virgo new moon transformation

I love Virgo season - my only daughter and my college mentor are both born in the sign of Virgo. The Virgo archetype has the innate skills and ability needed to bring order to the chaos of creation. 

art by Lori Menna

Birthed from Leo (the constellation just before hers), she takes the desires of our hearts, our gifts, talents, and unique self-expressions, and transforms them with her practical magic into something that can grow and thrive in our earth-based reality. 

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.

what our dreams portend

Since attending the Dark Night of the Soul course given by Sandra Ingerman recently, I noticed the gap between my asking for something and it manifesting has shortened and compressed, yielding almost immediate results. 

It has resulted in some changes in fine tuning my healing practice and disciplines. For example, I grew up a believer in the power of prayer. The powerful act still moves me deeply, yet I now prefer to light a candle and wordlessly offer it up on the altar with whatever intentions I hold. 

Dreamwork Summit 2020, The Shift Network

The simplest offering of love and light is enough to yield immediate and miraculous outcomes. Best yet, when I am confused or at a loss, I allow grace to move through me and ease any stress or fear. The act of absolute surrender frees and liberates me completely. 

mystical magical Carlos Santana

We don't need to be a flower power child of the 70s to love the music of Carlos Santana or the lovable icon himself.

His signature sound of fusing American rock and roll with smooth Latin rhythm has kept us on our toes and on the dance floor for the last five decades.

the man, the legend, the lines

Having lived through those times I am now a proud AARP member and card holder. Which means I get their magazine. Their summer music issue featured Carlos Santana on the cover.

The interview contains classic Santana gems that capture his charm and mythos.

“The universe will bring you an abundance of opportunities and possibilities. It’s really all about trusting that before you got there, when you were sleeping, the universe was conspiring to give you something to blow your mind. Would you be open to receive it?”

"You stay relevant by trusting you have something people need. You know, people need air; people need water; people need some serious rrrrrromance,” he says, rolling the “r” for emphasis. 

"Three things: your spirit, your soul and your heart. If you find those and you really find them, you’re going to realize that innocence. Those things don’t leave you, and you don’t misplace them or lose them. Those are the ingredients for you to have a glorious existence.” 

One of his favorite terms is naked awareness - the ability to see yourself fully and make changes away from the negative.

His advise to his younger self? “Strip yourself naked from anything that anyone taught you about anything. And only listen to the voice of your heart, the voice of your light.”

Advise we would all do well to follow as we trip through life. 

Integrative Sound & Music Training

Sound Healing is an exciting Energy Medicine approach developed by Dr. John Beaulieu. 

It integrates energy healing, systems science, molecular research, spiritual wisdom, and use of tuning forks to calibrate the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align our posture to visual harmonics. 

Mindful listening, postural analysis, exploration of sonic intervals, and five-element evaluation using voice and movement patterns are foundational to the class. 

The sound methods we will cover include the use of Pythagorean tuning forks, Otto (osteophonic) tuning forks, five-element music, and voice analysis. 

Dr. Beaulieu will also share relevant stories and clinical evidence he has accrued during his thirty-three years of practice.

A Two-Day Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, December 15 – December 16, 2018
December 15, 2018, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
December 16, 2018, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Additional class:
Friday, December 14, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Human TuneIn™ Sound Healing Event with John Beaulieu and Friends
Click here to register

These programs can be taken individually or as part of the Integrative Sound & Music Training program.  

be still & BE

This blog is all about BEing.

Reminders to recall us to the fully realized completion that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Offerings that bring stillness and mindfulness, leading to balance, clarity, harmony, and healing.

Because we are creative designers and artists here at East West Women, we choose to express and present these alternatives to you, our fellow seekers and beloved co-creators, in the form of visual aids and touch energy.

We are all born healers and creatives and it is our abiding intent that together we shall collaborate here for the space and place in which to manifest our individual transformation and our collective realization.

Here we bring you our own and others' inspiration, suggestions, and successes. May you share, find and actively apply what resonates with you.

Enjoy, breathe easy, and be well!