Support Dominique Hurley’s Vienna Visionary Art Scholarship

I invite you to support Dominique Hurley’s Vienna Visionary Art Scholarship. She is answering a Spirit Call to be part of the inaugural class at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Arts and your support will make it happen. She is offering many unique goods based on her art and photography in exchange for your support.

In Dominique’s words…

I’m answering a Spirit Call to be part of the inaugural class at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Arts for one trimester and your support will make it happen. I trust that the unique Goods I am offering you in exchange will inspire you.

I found out about the school the day it was publicly launched – their website sent chills through my entire being.  The following few days brought many undeniable signs confirming my initial intuitive guidance to join this group. I’ve since paid my housing and tuition deposits. I’m committed!

In Austria, I will focus on learning to draw, sacred geometry, and evoking subject matter for painting through visualization and visionary healing modalities.  These will all enhance the energy work I already share with the world through my art. I know, however, that I am being guided there for much more than just learning to draw – I could do that here – so I look forward to experiencing the reasons I’m meant to be there as I once again embrace the mystery and take the leap of faith. By funding this scholarship, you’re supporting my life’s mission to explore and express my love of beauty and the beauty of love – and the gifts to our human community that result from my following my heart. 

I am a huge fan of Dominique Hurley’s work and we have a collection of her paintings in our living room and my healing room. I am wholeheartedly supporting her campaign with a contribution and plan to add yet another one of her paintings to my ever-growing collection.

Find out more about Dominique’s work, her Spirit Call and her crowd funding campaign here.

Enjoy her artwork here.

Follow her on Facebook here.

Finding your tribe

Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.  ~ Edmund Lee

Your Tribe will all ways sing to you the song of your soul, especially in hard times, they will point out your beauty not your faults. If not so they are only coworkers on the path to Source. Seek the ones that make your soul sing and dance your life to the melody of love. - Return to Avalon

Yes, yes, yes! I am eternally grateful for my own tribe, magnificent, loving, compassionate and powerful women, friends and fellow healers who remind me of and reflect my own beauty.

If you have yet to find your tribe and you would like to find one, then make it an intention in your heart, and your heart will be a beacon and will attract other like-minded souls your way. Prepare to feel safe, seen, supported, nurtured and loved. So be it and it is so and so it is.

Holy, Holy, Holy

Every once in a while, a hymn (such as God is so good) will sing itself to me.

This one came up for me a couple of weeks ago during a powerful group healing session, during which I released fear in my body…

Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God of power and might.
Heaven, heaven and earth
Are full of your glory.
Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, sing hosanna
Sing hosanna, sing hosanna
Sing alleluia.

I love it when I really understand what I was singing about as a young  child….

It feels like I’ve come full circle.

Heart chakra affirmations

In honour of the fact that Valentine’s day is approaching, here are some heart chakra affirmations that you may wish to work with during the month of February:

• “I am loved.”
• “I forgive naturally and easily.”
• “It is my nature to love.”
•  ”I welcome the differences of others.”
• “My heart is full.”
• “I see evidence of love all around me.”
• “I am open to love.”
• “I give and receive love freely.”
• “It is my nature to heal.”
• “Love is everywhere.”
• “I forgive myself.”
• “I am at peace.”
• “I have so much to be grateful for.”
• “The love that I give comes back to me many times over.”
• “I am connected to everything in the universe.”

Aya despacho – honouring our ancestors

One of my dear friend’s grandmother recently passed away. Her grandma was one of the most influential people in my friend’s life and was a very bright Light.

To celebrate and honour her grandmother’s life, we lovingly created an aya despacho (a prayer bundle to honour the deceased). Despacho means “to disbatch”, and this ceremony is a way to dispatch our prayers to Spirit. A despacho ceremony involves creating a beautiful, physical representation of our prayers. An aya despacho is created differently from other despachos in that it is created on different coloured tissue paper, to represent the rainbow bridge that our loved ones take when their soul transitions back to Spirit.

We each spoke of our loved ones who had passed, what we remembered and loved most about them.  We celebrated and honoured all of our loved ones who have passed on, as well as to honoured all the ancestors of this great island of Newfoundland and beyond. We felt the presence of all of these beautiful souls in the sacred space with us.

Remembering our ancestors

We were up until the wee hours of the night, lovingly blowing our prayers and intentions into all of our offerings.

Black layer, representing the unmanifest, the potential

Red layer, representing Mother Earth (Pachamama)

Green layer, representing the Middle World, the world of our lived reality

Blue layer, representing Upper World (the world of Spirit)

Purple layer, representing the rainbow bridge that is used by the departed to cross over to Spirit

Gold layer, representing vision, alignment with your destiny and your becoming

Aya despacho with my medicine bundle

The next day, we offered the despacho to the fire, so that our prayers and intentions could be transformed and offered to Mother Earth and Spirit, in remembrance of our loved ones.

Preparing to offer the despacho to the fire.

My dear friend felt that it was an incredibly meaningful and sacred way to grieve and celebrate her Grandma’s life. We all felt blessed to be able to support our dear friend during her grieving, and also to celebrate the lives of all of our loved ones who have made their way across the rainbow bridge. All of our hearts were filled by the experience.

Dying Consciously

A dear friend and I recently attended a powerful two day Dying Consciously workshop in Woody Point, NL with Alison Normore.

From the Dying Consciously website:

Dying Consciously means that we seek to maintain consciousness intact through the journey of death and beyond. It is designed for all persons involved in the dying process: The individual, family members, and friends.  It offers a message of hope that is possible to bring dignity and peace back to the dying process and teaches us how with easy to follow steps.

In the West, we no longer remember how to die with grace and dignity. We shuttle the dying off to hospitals where death is considered a ‘disease’ and extraordinary measures are taken to prolong life at all costs. Families do not know how to come to closure with the passing of a loved one. Many people die in fear, with unresolved issues, not having said the ‘I love yous’ and ‘I forgive yous” that would be so healing for them and their families. We have tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough, it will go away.

The message of  the Greatest Journey is that we can come to the end of a life with grace. Its purpose is to assist the person who is making the journey beyond death to do so in a peaceful manner, full of light.

The great death rites practiced by the shamanic traditions allow us to understand the kind of psychological and emotional closure needed. They provide specific steps to bring reconciliation and healing both to the loved ones and to the person dying. Resources are listed to help all involved prepare medically, emotionally, and spiritually.

During the weekend:

• we wrote our own obituaries;
• we experienced the death rites and listened to our obituaries being read while our luminous body were disconnected (temporarily) from our physical body;
• many of us experienced the touch of angels;
• we learned to hold space for another’s healing and healing techniques;
• we learned the importance of hearing a loved one’s stories and giving permission for them to die;
• we learned to administer the death rites;
• we discussed the importance of ritual and ceremony (e.g., Aya despacho) to care for the living; and
• so much more…

There’s so much that I could say, but words cannot adequately describe the experiences from the weekend. This is a workshop that I wish all human beings would have the opportunity to attend. It was a powerful, heart-opening and joyful experience. We experienced much laughter as well as some tears, but most of the tears that we experienced were tears of joy.

Years ago, one of my healers gave me the opportunity to experience the death rites and it was one of the most powerful and illuminating experiences that I’d ever experienced. I tangibly experienced my luminous body become separated from my physical body and experienced a deep, deep, deep peace of being surrounded by love and light. I saw my husband and son clearly and  knew on a deep level that they would be okay if were to die. I feel that once you experience “death” (and realize what a beautiful an experience it is for the soul to return to Spirit), you are forever altered by the experience.

If you’d like to learn more, I’d encourage you to visit the Dying Consciously website for more information.

Experiencing God’s love

A comment from one of my clients (I’m sharing it with her permission). During the session, she tangibly experienced God’s love for the first time…

I just wanted to say thanks again for the session on Friday night – it was truly amazing. I have never felt anything like that before and you were right, I still feel it in my heart now. I realized that my self-value and God’s love are the same thing – not sure if that makes sense but it makes so much sense to me now… I have doubted God’s love for me my whole life and I think it comes back to my own worthiness. So, I can’t tell you what it means to me to have “felt” that for the first time – and to know that it is true and real. There is a light inside my heart now that was not there before.

It was a tremendous gift for me to witness the beauty and power of God’s healing love, and a wonderful reminder for me of my life purpose…  To be a channel of Light to help others remember their divinity. To help bring people back home to their bodies, their hearts, their Selves and their Spirit. To help bring people back home to God.