Warrioress Creed

A sweet soul recently shared this beautiful poem with me. I am honoured to be a warrioress, and if you are reading these words, I know that you are a fellow warrioress too.

The Warrioress Creed
by Mirtha Vega

A warrioress…
is honorable;
has strength, determination, and perseverance;
is magical and optimistic;
is wise and powerful;
revels in silence;
can appreciate both inner and outer beauty;
is dedicated to the sacredness in her life;
loves to live fully;
is unwavering in her quest for the infinite;
is respectful;
can commit to those she deems worthy;
can let go of what is no longer useful, or necessary;
is compassionate;
possesses the will to walk away from illusion;
is willing to trust and surrender when appropriate;
has extraordinary vision and clarity;
faces her fears head on;
believes.

Yes, yes, and yes!!!

Falling in love all over again… with yoga!

Yoga is one of my passions and I feel that I’m falling in love with it all over again…

I’ve been able to maintain a centering / meditation /pranayama /shamanic /energy body practice, but I have really struggled with maintaining a home yoga practice. My asana practice really suffered over these last six years (since becoming a mom)…

I’ve stayed connected to yoga by teaching a weekly yoga class, but then in December, it felt like it was time for me to spend that “free time” on me, so I’ve started taking a weekly yoga class instead. I’ve been nourished by a restorative yoga class at Shakti Yoga that is taught by a dear friend. It’s been heaven and healing…

But, all levels of my being have been wanting more yoga. And, happily, this past week, I started my home practice again. With the help of the lovely teachers at Yogaglo. If you’re not familiar with this site, I can’t say enough about it. It’s $18 a month for unlimited yoga classes. Excellent instruction. Classes that range from 5 minutes to 2 hours. All levels from beginner to advanced. All types of yoga. Hatha. Ashtanga. Vinyasa. Yin. Meditation. Anusara.  And more. They have over 1,000 classes to choose from, so there’s an unlimited variety of classes to take. I *love* it!

I transformed my healing room into a yoga room. It’s an ideal place to practice yoga. A small waterfall. By candlelight. A healing space. I’m so happy, so thrilled. I’ll continue to take a weekly yoga class at Shakti Yoga, but I’m sooooo happy that I now have motivation to practice daily (or as often as I like) in the comfort of my home.

I was reading Lee Harris’ energy forecast for April and he something that particularly spoke to me:

On the physical side, whether it is beginning exercise for just 10 or 20 minutes a day (remember that even just taking a walk will do), starting (or re-igniting) a practise like meditation or yoga which works on body and balance, or improving and changing your diet; the benefits will be felt within days.

So true…  I’m so happy to be enjoying my body through yoga. And my body, mind and spirit are so happy too!

Very Inspiring Blogger Award

I am honoured to have received a Very Inspiring Blogger Award from Amy Keast, who blogs at Amy Keast, Intuitive. Thank you so much, for the nomination, Amy! I feel a real kinship with Amy and enjoy her posts about her own clairsentient gifts as well as her intuitive children.

In accepting this award, I must follow the 3 rules.

1.  Thank the person who nominated me.

2.  Share 7 things about myself.

3.  Pass the award to seven nominees.

Here are the 7 random things about myself:

• We moved around a lot when I was a child. I was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and lived in Hawaii, North Dakota, the Philippines, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. I currently live in St. John’s, Newfoundland and am putting down deep, deep, deep roots with my husband and my five year old here. We are now living in our “forever home”, the home where my son will grow up.
• When I was a child, I wanted to be Wonderwoman, a vet and a scientist. I kind of do these things now as I am a mom (aka Wonderwoman) and a wildlife biologist (although currently I’m more of a desktop one).
• I love watching movies with my husband, cuddling on the couch and eating white cheddar popcorn.
• I love eating raw garlic. My husband says that I always smell like garlic and you can even smell the garlic as you walk up the steps that approach our house.
• I don’t enjoy cooking.
• I love dancing, yoga, the earth and Spirit.
• When I am quiet, I can hear the voice of God.

I follow quite a few blogs about natural healing and parenting, so it was difficult to choose the seven most inspiring blogs. These are the ones that I choose…

Dominique’s Newfoundland Blog – Dominique recently moved to Newfoundland, and she has become one of my dearest friends. A kindred spirit. She is a visual artist and her paintings are beautiful, healing and inspiring. I love her blog as she authentically shares what she is learning about expressing her love of beauty and the beauty of love.

Sweet Sky – Stacy writes about “the salty-sweetness” of raising two young boys. Stacy writes with raw honesty and love about the daily challenges and sweetness of being a mother and a woman. I connect deeply with her writings and always learn a lot from her explorations. An unschooling family.

The Loving Path – Debbie writes with such love about her beautiful and simple life that she shares with her young son and her husband. They are an unschooling family and live authentically.  With presence and love. Enjoying life’s simple pleasures.

Shaman Elizabeth – Elizabeth is a non-traditional shaman and a follower of the “A Course in Miracle” teachings. I very much resonate with Elizabeth’s writings as I am also a shamanic practitioner and a follower of ACIM teachings.

Mommy Mystic – Lisa writes about all things mystic, occult, metaphysical, and spiritual. I find that I always learn something new when I explore Lisa’s blog as she is so good at researching topics deeply and pulling information together in novel ways. I particularly connect with her work with her writings about chakras. I feel that her Women’s Energetics E-book: Healing the Subtle Wounds of Sexual Trauma is very important work, and can help many women.

Blissed Life - I strongly resonate with Gina’s journey. She healed her autistic son through raw foods, the Body Ecology diet and energy healing, and now helps other sensitive families to do the same. I feel that our journeys are very similar. I particularly resonate with one of her recent posts about raising intuitive and sensitive children and their special needs. An unschooling family. She is also a shamanic healer.

Divine Source – Deborah is a shamanic healer, teacher and writer. She is one of my shamanic teachers, and also a friend. Deborah writes poetry and shares her explorations  about the Earth and Spirit. She writes with raw honesty.

I also want to mention one additional blog that inspires me deeply:

Momastery – Just about everyone in the world knows about Glennon’s blog (her blog is the most popular personal blog on the planet right now, I think), after her viral post Don’t Carpe Diem.  In case you don’t know about it, I felt that I needed to mention it because I  find her blog highly inspiring. I either laugh out loud or cry (and sometimes both) with every post that she writes. All of her posts speak right to my heart. She writes honestly. Courageously. About being a mother. About being a woman. About being a human being. About being a child of God. She helps us to remind us to laugh at ourselves, to care about each other deeply, to follow our heart and to listen to our dreams. To be real with each other.

So that’s my list. I hope that you visit them all and find some new inspiration.

I enjoyed the process of thinking about which blogs inspire me the most and also to see the similarities in the blogs that I find most inspiring. I am inspired by honest and authentic writings. Simple living. Natural healing. Shamanic healers and teachers. Mindful mothers. Unschooling parents.

Many blessings to you all, dear readers, friends and bloggers!

Cleansing and healing bath

My healer friend, Regina, gifted me with a cleansing and healing bath mixture, a “Shaman’s bath”.

• 1/2 cup of baking soda
• 1/2 cup of sea salt
• 10 drops of sage essential oil

You pour the ingredients into a tub as you are filling it with warm water and soak your body for 20 minutes. Rinse off and go straight to bed.

I had my “Shaman’s bath” last night and felt relaxed and cleansed. A great way to start off the new year.

A Hopi elder speaks

“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.
And there are things to be considered . . .

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.”

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time!”

“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.

“Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

“The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

– attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder, Hopi Nation Oraibi, Arizona

I share this in honour of the fact that today is October 28, 2011, and according to one interpretation (the one that I resonate with), this day marks the end of the Mayan calendar. We are stepping into a time of conscious co-creation and unity with the divine, the earth and each other. We are being called strongly to live from the heart, to connect with each other, create community and live in harmony with each other and ourselves.

Namaste, my dear friends.

Sensitive children and shamanic healing

I believe that humanity is in the process of remembering our divine nature. And I believe that our children are helping us to remember. Children are born remembering. I believe that sensitive children, particularly children who are on the autistic spectrum, I believe that they not only remember, but are in direct connection with the divine. Some of them are more connected with the spirit world than with our physical world. This is why some of them are non-verbal. Our sensitive children have come as our teachers. On a soul level, many of them are in fact spiritual teachers.

The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal is Son is a fascinating true account of a family in search of healing for their autistic son, Rowan. It details the family’s horseback journey through Mongolia and their encounters with Mongolian shamans.

“‘[The shaman] also said – and two others said this too — that he thinks Rowan will maybe be a shaman.’”

This was interesting. Were shamans sometimes adult autists? I though of Temple Grandin’s point, that autists could be connectors through the “normal” human world and the animal world, or the world of science and music. Were autists, in traditional societies, sometimes also connectors to the spirit world? I thought of Besa and some of the other healers I’d met, all of whom were odd, spoke in riddles, were “away with the fairies,” as the British put it. That wasn’t so far from Rowan. Although it was interesting how all of them had integral roles in their communities rather than being marginalized. (p. 110)

I very much resonate with this. As I mentioned in my last post, shamanic healers can act as bridges between the spirit world and the physical world. So  can our sensitive children. For those children who are more in tune with the spirit world, I believe that shamanic healing can help clear their energetic bodies so that they can be more comfortable in their physical bodies. This can help them to be more grounded in their physical bodies, and be more at ease in their physical bodies. I know that shamanic healing (as well as Heilkunst homeopathy), helped to clear my son’s etheric body, so that he could become more comfortable in his physical body. As one’s luminous (light) body is cleared and healed, one’s physical body is also healed.

Our sensitive children’s luminous bodies can need clearing because our children’s luminous bodies are open and they tend to act like “vacuum cleaners” on a spiritual level. They tend to be etherically open and can attract all sorts of energy into their energy bodies. Their etheric systems can then become overwhelmed and on a physical level, they can have a lot of anxiety in their systems.

Further to this, our sensitive children can act as healers for the whole family. On an energetic level, they are trying to resolve all of the karmic patterns of the family. This is why sensitive children can so easily be and are often overwhelmed. Their energetic bodies are working overtime, trying to clean up the entire world around them.

This is also why is it often helpful for parents to seek their own healing as well. Since family members are all connected, as one shifts and heals, they all shift and heal.

What is shamanic healing?

The shaman was found in all cultures and are known as medicine people and healers. These wise ones spent many years learning the rhythm of the earth and the healing power that it contained within. Teachings were passed on from generation to generation and much time was taken connecting to nature, and learning from Mother Earth and Spirit directly.

The title of shaman is typically reserved for indigenous people who learn from the land they are part of and that their family and ancestors have been part of. Those who are remembering how to listen to the earth and to Spirit do not take the title of shaman, but are called shamanic practitioners or shamanic healers.

Shamanic practice is a form of healing that focuses on the spiritual aspects of health. Illness comes from being separated from Source and from forgetting our spiritual nature. Separation from Source can lead to  the taking on of invasive heavy energy and/or loss of parts of our spirit (i.e., soul loss).

A shamanic healer works as a bridge between the physical world and the world of Spirit. With the aid of nature and the spirit world, shamanic healers help to bring healing to the human luminous energy fields, removing heavy energy and retrieving lost soul fragments.

At the Andean shamanism workshop that I attended, the shaman told us that shamanic practice is simple and is based on three principles:

1. Unconditional love, divine love;
2. Everything has a spirit (including rocks, birds, trees and even inanimate objects) and can be communicated with; and
3.  Respect for nature.

In our modern society, many of us have forgotten how to listen and respect our earth and nature. We have forgotten that we are part of nature. We have forgotten how to listen. Shamanic practice is about remembering our connection and remembering to hear the voice of Spirit.

I believe that we are all in various stages of the process of remembering our divinity, and that we all have the capacity to hear the voice of Spirit. Spirit speaks to us through our intuition and through the gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) nudgings that we receive from our hearts.

I believe that humanity is in the process of waking up. We are all remembering. It is time for us to remember.