tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24592643834751609692024-03-05T12:58:16.333-08:00Expressive Art SanctuaryTherapeutic Arts, healing, expressive arts, art therapy, play, creativity, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459264383475160969.post-43002346710799592902017-02-15T18:00:00.000-08:002017-02-15T18:01:07.923-08:00Workshop Incubation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently went to an almost 3 week training on attachment. For a really inspirational summation of some of the things I learned check out Kent Hoffman's website <a href="http://www.eightysevenminutes.com/" target="_blank">eightysevenminutes.com </a>, that's basically how long it will take you to read if you do so in one sitting. One of the central themes of the methodology presented was the idea of "being with." Being with is such a core component of my practice for myself and for my work with others. It is the idea of presence. An idea of what is truly healing. A parent's presence is the basic component of what creates a secure attachment. And presence and connection is what so many of us crave and what ultimately can create something called "earned attachment." It is why mindfulness and mindfulness based processes work! In my personal healing journey I know it is the folks who were able to hold me and all my feelings and behaviors in presence. In other words, Being with = presence = LOVE. In "being with" me, others provided with an opportunity to be with myself. In "being with" I could be present, I could love. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459264383475160969.post-40163853922902755582016-01-13T08:09:00.000-08:002016-01-13T08:09:55.535-08:00In the Arms of the Blessed Mother This morning I am listening to this beautiful offering from Donald Kalsched. He is speaking on trauma, the body, healing and so much more. In describing a client in her moment of survival he describes her as leaving her body and being held in the arms of the blessed mother.<br />
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And I remembered a drawing I made during a supervision directive to create the architecture of loving. The place where you can bring everything into loving. This was such a powerful directive and I was amazed at what I created.<br />
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She is me. She is holding the place in her body and aligning her mind, heart and solar plexus for ultimate loving and power.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459264383475160969.post-90919478639078683062015-12-27T17:21:00.001-08:002016-01-13T08:12:03.979-08:00Flourish Wildly - Word of the Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love Susannah Conway and her generous offering of <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/2015/12/were-coming-for-you-2016/" target="_blank">Unraveling the Year Ahead</a> I completed her 5 day course for discovering my word and I loved the process. I can't wait to complete the booklet. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3M64fGJ1q9KBJ0XYZPPzpBdgIjUooJBVJaS00l9blLGkFDB7Nm_mD30Bh1nxXRcoCE1CFwJ5zoyfvdJH1-K_ifiLrR1Lk4FrOp92VSifra_Xxe3ivvDCqHGuVoj1W7boFJPtuoe5LeXS/s1600/fwprocess.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3M64fGJ1q9KBJ0XYZPPzpBdgIjUooJBVJaS00l9blLGkFDB7Nm_mD30Bh1nxXRcoCE1CFwJ5zoyfvdJH1-K_ifiLrR1Lk4FrOp92VSifra_Xxe3ivvDCqHGuVoj1W7boFJPtuoe5LeXS/s320/fwprocess.jpg" width="320" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459264383475160969.post-51638248967087042892015-10-20T19:54:00.000-07:002015-10-20T19:54:49.292-07:00Rage & Compassion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My anger rage is like a boiling sea river pond. It is on fire gaseous heavy ephemeral hot huge vast wide and deep. It cannot be held in my hands it is too much to hold and spills over into grief. It makes a sizzling quiet sound that is just beneath the surface I would like it to scream deep and rumble and beat like the sound of a large sacred drum. If it could speak it would say, "HONOR me, RESPECT me, FEEL me, FEEL me and do not fear and ignore me. It can be found in the silence of deep woods at the edge of the earth. In plain sight it can be created and ritualized at any body of water. It moves and cleanses and it teaches in moments and movements. It flows and it rises and transforms into something sacred. It is fast, slow, adaptive a part of the matter it lives inside of. It is graceful, it is messy, it is chaotic, it is unconscious, it comes to the surface, it hides. </div>
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It is cracked and bubbling, sometimes unable to express itself in conscious ways. It is part of life, of everything. Self care using tools, feeling, feeling, fear and insecurity, wisdom, mystery of life, dance, move, make art, move through, do not deny, value self, respect self, be true to self, anger channeled into boundaries - grounding into earth ritual, lead to greater power, wholeness, confidence in self, real self, true self, actualization. Hold for other, take on healing journey into depths. Feel, feel, feel. Power & Rage. Channel, read, express, move through with respect, find support, like minded, touch with the feather of love, gentle moves, make sounds, bring forth. </div>
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Compassion comes up from the depth of rage. Compassion grows. Compassion softens. Compassion is gentle. Compassion does not try to fix or make rage try to go away. Compassion sits. Compassion is not afraid. Compassion comes from sitting in the deep, seemingly chaotic mystery and wild aliveness of destroyer, big emotion rage. Compassion - sit with, feel, move through, soften, moisten, cope, feel aliveness of emotion delicateness of life, gratitude, grace, spirit, strength, beauty, mystery, depth, being in respect of. Natural tears that drip and make land fertile, make land grow, turn fire smoky. </div>
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I have had these cards for a long time and recently cleansing my space decided to put them out like I would for a workshop. Creating sanctuary in my home like I'm living in this workshop every day because this life is a journey of learning and navigating. I'm experiencing the folding of time. Every day I drive through beautiful New Mexico I'm remembering when I first got here and the shifts that took place in my life... and I'm also thinking of the dreams and the longing to share with others. I haven't always had the patience to let the pieces of the puzzle come together. I feel the pieces coming together. They still require some tweaking, belief and magic. Dear sweet universe and highest selves come together one exquisite moment at a time. Let it be imperfect and radiant. </div>
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I am the tears that flow like a river from the first mother who opened herself like a great crack in the void and birthed you into being. I melt and flow and am more powerful than you can imagine because i go around, I flow through. I am more precious than diamonds as I cleanse and heal b<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">roken hearts and broken souls, souls that are strewn over and need to be retrieved from the thousands of places they flee to hide and survive from me. I make bodies mostly all matter is from me and i have sparkle, jewels and magic. If you know how and where to look i am from the spirit world. I flow from eyes and help release built up energy that is stored in the body as a result of you being incarned in this form. you are so sensitive that I flow mightily from you. Release. Let it come. A thousand billion tears are not enough for the sorrows of this world. This is inside your body. your mama body, so precious and vast it contains the universe. Treasure it and let it pass, do not try to catch the tears they are ephemeral, transcending and disappear. Express gratitude in each drop.</span></div>
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This weekend I went to a meditation I'd been wanting to go to for awhile. I haven't seriously meditated for years and this was a 45 minute sit. I didn't know what to expect. It was at the fabulous community restaurant of a radiant man named Balam. My body was sore in sitting but the silence was nice.... or the sitting and attempt to still my mind was nice. I looked at Balam who was sitting to my side and he had his face to the earth as in child's pose. It looked so exquisite. I wrestled for several minutes with a mind gremlin who told me I shouldn't copy him. And then something wonderful happened and my inner child took over. She said, "I want my face in the earth." And I did something simple and radical. I listened. I also knew it would make my back feel better. I did it and it was something else. I felt held by the earth and I remembered when I was a kid and I was free to play in the earth. I loved the earth and loved to make mud cakes. I loved to play in the earth with water. It was different from the experiences I have had with energy pouring into me via my typical sit. I felt held and release in the earth. Then after we ate and shared community. This part of my day taught me I can do things different. And its easy and simple and radical. Do you meditate? Do you do something which such rigidity it makes you go into your judge or freezes you in your tracks and keeps you from the simple and radical?<br />
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I just got back from an awesome trip in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (we call it T or C). This renewed and inspired my gratitude for living in New Mexico. We stayed at this great place you can find on Airbnb called The Garden. It's amazing! The pictures below are little pops of the magic in the garden. Pics of the mineral springs hot tubs you can find on Airbnb. I picked up this amazing book by Wendy Tremayne. It has set some inspiration in me about finding alternative living! Check them out at Holy Scrap - <a href="http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/">http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/</a></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you love? Are you drawn to bright colors? Do you love a certain shape? What do you do that feeds your creativity? Do you take at least 10 minutes a day to nurture yourself through space, art making, journaling or meditation? I invite you to practice just a few minutes a day to slow down, sit with yourself and your feelings and see what comes of making this space. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com