The pandemic and modern tech driven life in general,
have normalized isolation,
separation,
disconnection.
This is why I bring us together
to feel feet held by earth
Birdsong inspiring
the warmth of open hearts
HUGS
the land and trees humming with ancient memory
Breathing and reconnecting
to love, to life, to each other
We all deserve to come home
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I walk through the world always seeing through the lens of a foster child/orphan and all who fall through the cracks of society, those deeply marginalized and forgotten.
It’s been surprising to me how few spiritual approaches can address the great disparity of reality, how even when folks are aware there is so much bypass, naming fate, karma as causes.
It’s always interesting to me that those who accept this are not truly marginalized, most everyone taking time to ponder spirituality has some privilege and disconnect from this reality.
(those in it are surviving)
This is one of the reasons I practice ’emergent spirituality’
allowing what wants to arise from the heart, land, and all Life
that flows through,
hands in the earth,
eyes to the stars,
heart open to the moment.
It’s what helped me as a marginalized child
and what feels most accessible to all now.
It’s how we come home in our retreats
xoxo
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The crux of our retreats; the reclamation and liberation of our sweet soul, reconnection with and surrender to All Life, and our place in collective healing has been unfolding each day we cultivate the sanctuary/monastery/retreat space.
Magical earth builder friends guided our Temazcal build, showing us with love how to weave wood, earth and stone
Friends arrived with obsidian, concha for the altar and hands of love ready to serve
Warm rugs contributed by wise women supporting cozy rest
All that is needed arrives…
This is something holy, beyond me, that wants to emerge, that wants to hold remembering and reverence with earth
that is calling us
A parched earth drawing the water near
A weaving pulling its threads together
(adapted from my original FB posts)
Coming Home (retreats)