Sacred Flow

Healing our wounds

Radiance

The body is awakening, happy until a wound is touched. There are invisible wounds we carry around like old guards that rise to the surface whenever someone touches us. What are these wounds that prevent real contact with life? These are patterns that drive us to keep others away so we [...]

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Liberating sound, voice, and language

Expanding waves

I often wonder about the silencing effect of language on our animal like voices. These multi-dimensional voices with texture and color become monotonous expressions of constricted life force. Even this unwholesome state has its own purpose in letting us know what needs expression and healing. What is the medicine for [...]

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Grounding and flowing

Surrendering, listening and receiving this river of thoughts, feelings and images locating fertile ground in my body, gates open: nectar begins to fill, flow and overflow. I become this river discovering secret abodes within my being. What is this force writing, flowing, searching, moving, finding and mending the scattered pieces of my heart [...]

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Winds of change and transformation

Star Weaving

Have you ever felt the forces of the universe storm through your life breaking the very foundation you thought carried you around?

Has Kali or Oya graced your life with destruction of the old to such degree that you no longer recognize the now wild but once conquered landscape of your being?

These are [...]

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Rain kissing the Earth

Do you ever dance and kiss the rain?

I love dancing in the rain, feeling its heavenly drops kissing my body, rejoicing in its cosmic showers of cleansing rejuvenating water washing away the old and invigorating my whole being with awakening energy.

Let’s join in the embrace of crisp fresh air [...]

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Opening heart flow

Heart Flow

Lotus Flow Art

Ah, the beauty of relaxing into each moment as one meets fellow travelers with open arms. The meeting of hearts nourishes the soul in mysterious ways.

What does it mean to live life with an open heart, to melt into each other if even for an instant? To feel [...]

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Spirit of collaboration

Drinking from the Stream

Ah, beautiful emerging spirit of collaboration! I don’t know if it has been here for a while already and I am just awakening to it, or if it has just started to blossom among us all. It doesn’t matter. Feeling it, entering it joyfully, there is deep gratitude [...]

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Magical land

Live in simple faith…
Just as this
trusting cherry
flowers, fades, and falls.

~Issa

It is not Spring officially, but new growth is here! New life is blossoming with beautiful surprises that delight the heart. These new bursts of life reminds us of what is starting to blossom in our hearts and lives. Enjoy these images of the beautiful East [...]

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Bab'Aziz - The prince who contemplated his soul

A few nights ago, I saw a film that deeply touched my soul; its scenes are still haunting my memory and finding a home in my heart.

Bab’Aziz, the Prince who contemplated his soul, is a cinematographic feast, a stunning film of visual poetry and symbolism. From director Nacer Khemir, it is an enchanting film that [...]

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Fire of my life

What if each one of us honored the element that graced us with its presence since birth? How much easier would it be to ease our way into becoming who we really are instead of constricting the greater forces of nature within us to fit a prescribed role?

Fire is the chosen element of my meditation. [...]

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