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  • Weekly Planetary Connection Meditation

    I’ve been feeling called to hold in person meditations on holding our whole planet in love.

    Below is the meditation that has come through me for this purpose.

    If you are near Taos, NM please come! I’ll place my IG link in my bio. But if not, please take some time to practice meditation. And share it with friends.

    Thank you 🙏🏼

    Arrive to this place.

    Feel your sits bones on the ground.

    Breathe down into your hips.

    Feel the breath coming in and out of the tip of your nose, whether it’s warm or cool.

    I invite now, our guides and all of our ancestors and the spirits and energies of this land, past and present to come be with us now for our and the planet’s highest good.

    I ask for all of our energy to be brought back to us now cutting and clearing ties that no longer need to be there.

    Clearing agreements and belief systems and patterns that no longer serve us, clearing that energy as it comes back to us, so that we can be here now in our fullest divinity in service to our planet and to each other.

    Now I’d like you to imagine a great golden orb, up above your head. This giant golden orbs originates from whatever divine source it is that you identify with.

    On your in breath, I’d like to see this light filling you, washing through all of your cells, filling you up until you’re positively plump with this divine healing light.

    If there are any particular areas of disease in your body, go ahead and place a hand there and see more of that light filling that area and some curiosity and some compassion and some love to those areas to bring them back into balance.

    See yourself well, see yourself in balance. See yourself happy and able to provide love to this planet and its inhabitants.

    Breathe into your heart

    Now imagine and see this light swelling your heart, feel this, feel your heart.

    What do you notice?

    On the in breath, please see your heart expand bigger and bigger, and the out breath bring it back down into your chest, bigger and smaller with the in breath and out breath, bringing it in and out.

    How big can you make it?

    Now start allowing it to stay big and to get bigger.

    Imagine your beautiful heart is holding your neighbor next to you.

    Imagine you can hold all the people around you.

    Imagine the whole town, the county, New Mexico.

    Do you have someone out of state? You can include them now.

    Let’s keep expanding.

    Think about those populations across the globe, about the mothers, the children in war torn regions.

    Gaza, Ukraine, Africa.

    Notice, does it hurt?

    Your heart can contain that too.

    Don’t look away, your heart has the capacity to hold and transmute the hurt.

    Can you include the aggressors?

    Can you include the ones, the groups, who are not in touch with their souls divinity? With their hearts?

    Can you hold that as well?

    Breathe in and out.

    Hold your heart.

    Hold all these populations of struggling humans.

    Let’s include the planet.

    We are still breathing in divine light and love from our giant golden orb, from divine source.

    We are not creating this light, we are connected to all that is.

    See this light filling you and then also see you are also connected to the grid of the planet.

    To all that is.

    Feel our amazing mother, this pulsing, living entity.

    Feel it under you, around you.

    Feel that your heart is connected to all things and hold the whole planet and all those humans.

    Send your love.

    Breathe with us

    Send your love.

    See Israel, see Palestine. s

    See that the ground beneath them is the same.

    Send your love.

    See the love of the planet reaching these hearts, see them waking up to their own divinity.

    Our whole planet.

    You can.

    You can do this.

    Your heart was made for this.

    Send your wish for our connectedness.

    Now begin to bring yourself back, knowing that you are always connected to all that is.

    In your highest good, bring yourself back.

    Breathe this golden light and love in through the top of your head and down through your crown, your third eye, your throat, make some noise on your out breath if you’d like to.

    Breathe this light down into your heart.

    See congruency, see healing for yourself.

    Breathe down into your solar plexus,

    Your womb, whether you are male or female breathe light into this space.

    And breathe down into your root.

    Feel yourself rooted into the Earth while you are simultaneously connected to the divine and all that is.

    Breathing through the top of your head and into the Earth, feel your sit bones.

    Feel your feet.

    Flex your ankles.

    We will make the sounds of three ohms with the intention that we are clearing and elevating the vibration of all.

    Breathe in Gathering the light : Ohmmm

    Breathe in Gathering the light : ohmmm

    Breathe in gathering the light: ohmmm

    So it is.

    Thank you for your service to humanity and our planet

  • Fuck that old man, his bottles piled high

    Corrals are empty

    Barn walls are falling down

    His hands are empty

    His mouth though, is full of magical bullshit still

    And that old dog of his is about to die

    But my heart still surrounds him

    And there is nothing I can do about that

    But watch

    Remembering him riding ahead, breaking branches, breaking trail

    Teaching me to be quiet in the mountains, giving me that gift

    Teaching me his magic

    I hold him now where I can

    And I’ll watch him ride off ahead of me into the sunset

    On a horse called alcoholism

  • Rebirthing 101 Part 1: Lean into Grief

    I have gone through a few large transitions involving varying deep levels of grief in the last 6 months.

    I have been watching my processing around it and wanted to share some about leaning towards our grief and transitioning into acceptance, what that can look like, or at least what it looks like for me from a standpoint of the tools I have been implementing around my own healing in this process.

    I want to start by saying that as with all things human there is a continuum, we have have greater or lesser levels of emotional pain, situations that cause grief, so it is not useful to compare our outward experiences, just take what works for you and leave the rest, we all can share in the inner feelings of pain, loss, loneliness, rage, darkness; as well as the light from our hearts that we can bring ourselves and each other in these hard situations; so let us meet there.

    When things fall apart my tendency is to insulate from the pain. If you think about it it’s a total natural way for our systems to handle things. When something punctures our skin, our natural barriers, thereby putting us on high alert for danger, our body sends blood cell warriors to the site of the puncture, and walls off or encapsulates the site in an effort to prevent system wide infection. 

    My initial tendency is to not experience the pain. To push away from it. Pretend it’s not happening. Use sex, shopping, social media addiction, running (I literally try to run away from it, god bless it!), work, and a new one in the last few years…. meditation, ceremony, spiritual practice. 

    But all these behaviors have in common a way that I am trying to change whatever feeling I am having rather than just being with the feeling and actually experiencing it so that it can naturally move through, transmute, and dissipate the emotions out of my body and field. 

    So what’s the answer?

    Lean towards it. Whatever it is. 

    Rage, sadness, even the excitement of love. 

    What I have found is that if I don’t lean towards the feelings , they lodge in my body and turn into stuck feelings. DEPRESSION. 

    I used to feel depression quite often as I was in the habit of never feeling my feelings, always pushing them away in an inability to experience any emotion. So they always settled into a stuckness I began to know well as depression. 

    I really had no idea this was not normal until very recently when I experienced on a body-feeling level the difference in letting emotions process through and also watching what happens when I don’t and the subsequent feelings of stuckness and depressed feelings that follow. 

    How do we lean towards our feelings?

    When we are having big feelings that feel overwhelming or constant, or cyclical/repetitive: 

    ~Focus in on the sensations in your body when you are having the emotions. 

    ~Where is the sensation located in your body, what’s the quality? 

    ~Are there colors, temperatures, visual representation or auditory accompaniment that go along with the emotions? 

    ~Focus and describe these to yourself or if working with a therapist describe them to them.

    Practice this until you can get familiar with this practice, don’t try to change the emotion! Just BE with it. Be with the sensations and whatever is coming up. Try sending some curiosity, some compassion and kindness. 

    Treat yourself and your emotions you would someone you cherish.

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  • Wonderment

    I was musing on my run today about how in wonderment I was having to stop every so often and marvel at the glory of the outdoors.
    It reminded me about gratitude practice. Allowing myself to feel, see, experience and be present with how beautiful the world around us is, is a powerful mindfulness and gratitude practice tool.
    That for which we have gratitude for INCREASES in our lives…
    There is always something amazing about our world and allowing ourselves to LOOK UP and OUT of ourselves, to get out of whatever mind fuck we find ourselves in, is a way to both practice mindfulness, to practice getting out of our heads and into our hearts, and to see that the more we notice beauty the more there is beauty around us.
    Try it.
    And also try more gratitude practice.
    If and when you are stuck in your mind or are in a dark place. Think of something that you can be grateful for. If you can’t think of anything in the moment, then fake it until you make it. Such as “I am grateful for my breath”, “I am grateful for the earth under my feet, that I am not just careening through space, that I have this huge supportive force under me”.
    As you do this you may get micro bits of space that you can breathe into and grow.
    Practice allowing yourself to be grateful for daily wins, for time spent that feels free, for financial spaciousness wherever possible and watch as those things grow as you focus more on the positive and less in lack.
    Come learn more about yourself and see that the only limits are the ones you make in your mind. Come play and have Ceramony with us under a mountainous full moon in beautiful Taos Ski Valley in July 2021.
    Shed your skin, shed your limits by going more within and finding the limitless possibility that is YOU.


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  • Ashes to dust

    Heart

    Still

    Hopeful

    Even

    As

    I

    Grind

    The

    Ashes

    Under

    My

    Boot

  • Fly

    And I guess, she thought,

    I am very grateful.

    For She never knew

    She could love that much,

    and in that way.

    So that as she turned her eyes

    once more toward the horizon

    she realized she’d never look elsewhere

    than her own sweet heart again.

  • Passing

    In the evening

    When friends have gone

    The light is perfect and

    The sun is slung low on the horizon reminding you of another day slipping full of you into the night.

    When will you pick up the phone and tell her you love her, that you miss her or him?

    Because another day is going

    Life is passing

    And love is abundant but rarely makes you laugh so.

    And you’re still breathing

    So what do you have to loose?

  • The Teacher

    Man, woman, child

    Has shown me

    Through trial

    The necessity of

    My one HEART.

    And the need to

    Wrench my eyes away

    From looking out

    To the looking in.

    Inside the holding

    Of my heart space is

    Where God meets me,

    Fills me.

    Where I finally find

    The teacher

    Was light all along.

  • Give Thanks

    When the defeating sounds of my mind subside

    After the thoughts stop tumbling all over themselves, I can hear the music again

    I feel my eyes relax in their sockets.

    Ideas, accusations stop firing away in directions that no good will come of

    No more grasping

    I stand

    Heart pulsing

    Lungs breathing

    Maybe or maybe not

    My mind is open, my heart is open

    Light falls on circumstance and my raised hands lift it up and out of me,

    Let it go, fall where it may

    Gratitude replaces wanting desire, I am full already

    Moments of dank emptiness evaporate in the warmth of the divine.

    Give Thanks, give thanks, give thanks 🙏🏼

  • The Desert Smells Like Rain

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    The desert smells like rain

    As the mists rise up the mountain

    Dew seeps down the stalks.

    Leaves of sage and chamisa,

    the bushy artemisa fragrant and lush.

    Their roots are dry

    The earth has been waiting

    The plants have been mining deeper,

    Roots searching for sustenance.

    Just as the leaves and branches have risen higher

    Praying for light,

    Root to rise.

    And the desert smells like rain.

    Chaos building in the ether,

    Structure built in the plant reaching.

    Divine bridges the desire.

    In an instant opening occurs!

    Sweet deluge, red dirt wet,

    Musty, aromatic hallelujahs!

    The desert smells like rain.