"Whenever we stalk our greatest potential, we come face to face with our greatest fear. It IS what stops us - the thing we do not look at. What we do within that engagement marks how we live life. To move beyond that fear and own our own power is what heralds us for greatness. It is why we are here, now, at this time.
What is our true purpose?
It is the question that haunts us. In our humanness we both run from it as we run towards it. Now we must identify what "IT" is, engage it, and so transmute it. This is true alchemy. We turn ourselves into GOLD. Golden light."
-Joy! 2002
What is our true purpose?
It is the question that haunts us. In our humanness we both run from it as we run towards it. Now we must identify what "IT" is, engage it, and so transmute it. This is true alchemy. We turn ourselves into GOLD. Golden light."
-Joy! 2002
Walking the Path
As a shamanic practitioner, I carry a ‘mesa’, a medicine bundle. Rather than it being a selection of sacred objects of personal power, these specific objects have been ‘entrained’ to carry and transmit frequencies to assist in the healing and rebalancing of the energy of the luminous body.
I walk the healers path. I choose to plant seeds, spread knowledge, open arms as we heal one another.
I have journeyed up the high mountains of Peru, vision quested with Ojibwa Apache Qero, Inkan, Navajo and Lakota medicine people. I have sat in circle with many wise elders, and received rites of passage and initiation from many honored teachers and I feel a sacred honor to be on this planet now.
When Don Manual, eldest of the Qero, handed my mesa back to me at the end of our final ceremony, he said “take the work into the world”, and then he said “take care of your baby”. He meant teach, heal and grow the work. Always he would ask, "can you grow corn with it?"
Now I realize it meant more. The ‘mesa’ is the spiritual body of the healer, and though we had finished our training, each of us had a baby that would need to be held, trained and grown. Receiving the rites is the beginning, not the end.
Shamanism is a sacred language of reciprocity. When one begins this journey, we embark on understanding that we are in a constant dialog with nature and the energy of life. Shamans understand the voices in the wind, the whispers that come on wings. It’s more than noticing six Eagles circling over your head one day. It’s about asking, why now, what might be about to happen? What should I be paying attention to? What was my last thought that this is answering? What are you telling me? Where should I put my focus? And, give me another sign in a constant dialog of communication.
Community, to the Shaman, is about responsibility. We become responsible for our family, our village, our mountain, our country, our continent, our planet, our galaxy, our universe, in ever expanding rings of consciousness. That ‘responsibility’ means that there is a core understanding of the power of our thoughts, our feelings, our words, for these are invocations and as our attention goes so goes our energy.
We commit our energy and energetic attention in ever expanding rings of responsibility and with each expansion, we become aware that we are more than the cells of our body, more than the air that we breathe, more than the dirt beneath our feet. We are all life, all force, all that is and all that is conspires to become us for there is no separation from the spiritual life force that is.
Healing is balance. It is being in balance and paying attention to everything around us.
Illness is imbalance and it is calling our attention to something we have buried out of our awareness.
Shamanic healing is about awareness. Bringing our awareness to what is going on that has called us to that particular experience.
Shamanic healing is about learning a new language and about communing with life in a new way.
I walk the healers path. I choose to plant seeds, spread knowledge, open arms as we heal one another.
I have journeyed up the high mountains of Peru, vision quested with Ojibwa Apache Qero, Inkan, Navajo and Lakota medicine people. I have sat in circle with many wise elders, and received rites of passage and initiation from many honored teachers and I feel a sacred honor to be on this planet now.
When Don Manual, eldest of the Qero, handed my mesa back to me at the end of our final ceremony, he said “take the work into the world”, and then he said “take care of your baby”. He meant teach, heal and grow the work. Always he would ask, "can you grow corn with it?"
Now I realize it meant more. The ‘mesa’ is the spiritual body of the healer, and though we had finished our training, each of us had a baby that would need to be held, trained and grown. Receiving the rites is the beginning, not the end.
Shamanism is a sacred language of reciprocity. When one begins this journey, we embark on understanding that we are in a constant dialog with nature and the energy of life. Shamans understand the voices in the wind, the whispers that come on wings. It’s more than noticing six Eagles circling over your head one day. It’s about asking, why now, what might be about to happen? What should I be paying attention to? What was my last thought that this is answering? What are you telling me? Where should I put my focus? And, give me another sign in a constant dialog of communication.
Community, to the Shaman, is about responsibility. We become responsible for our family, our village, our mountain, our country, our continent, our planet, our galaxy, our universe, in ever expanding rings of consciousness. That ‘responsibility’ means that there is a core understanding of the power of our thoughts, our feelings, our words, for these are invocations and as our attention goes so goes our energy.
We commit our energy and energetic attention in ever expanding rings of responsibility and with each expansion, we become aware that we are more than the cells of our body, more than the air that we breathe, more than the dirt beneath our feet. We are all life, all force, all that is and all that is conspires to become us for there is no separation from the spiritual life force that is.
Healing is balance. It is being in balance and paying attention to everything around us.
Illness is imbalance and it is calling our attention to something we have buried out of our awareness.
Shamanic healing is about awareness. Bringing our awareness to what is going on that has called us to that particular experience.
Shamanic healing is about learning a new language and about communing with life in a new way.
