Stepping Forth ~ moved by a deeper listening
I receive a lot of emails from people these days saying, “I hope you are doing well, in these challenging times.” I feel something in my body soften when I feel this need that lives in us, to acknowledge the depth and breadth of the challenges, that we are all swimming in this ocean together. And sometimes it feels like drowning. In my own inner and outer journeys over the last while, I’ve been drawn into a much deeper listening. A listening that happens with the whole body, with the...
Read MoreA Place Called Hope ~ awakening the flow of our sacred intelligence
Last week I traveled by road from a small mountain town in the interior of British Columbia back home to Vancouver Island. I drove seven hours through blistering heat to reach the little town of Hope, where I was stopping on the way for the night. I arrived at Hope in the late afternoon, tired, hot and hungry. I was driving down the main street when I heard a loud bell, saw a flashing red light, and the wooden barrier at the train tracks I was about to cross came down right in front of my car....
Read MoreDancing with Mother Kali ~ Strong Medicine for Dangerous Times
“Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.” (Chogyam Trungpa) As we enter the last part of the year, Kali, the black goddess of destruction and renewal, is dancing wildly in the world. She’s really not that elegant-no-one seems to have taught her any manners. She’s not the blue-eyed goddess we’ve been hoping for. She’s more like the horrible fairy godmother in Sleeping Beauty, the very last one you would ever invite to the party. But she’s here now-looks...
Read MoreThe River Beneath the River ~ The Soul Journey of Individuation
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ~Rumi It has taken me a long time to reclaim my inner throne, my true sovereignty. It’s not at all what we imagine when we hear the word ‘sovereignty.’ My throne is not some golden chair up above everyone else. My throne is down in the mud, in the ocean, inside the bloodstream, deep in the bones. I was not taught to live this way. I found my way through...
Read MoreThe Great Affair ~ The Love Affair with Life
Over the last troubled while, I have been moved to explore more thoroughly what our deeper resources are. Resources come in all kinds of forms and flavours, and are found in different places. They can come to us from other people, from animals, from nature, from the invisible realms.
Read MoreDrinking the Tears of the World ~ Start Close In
One morning a few weeks ago something became clear to me: I needed to work closer to home. I live on Vancouver Island, on the west coast of Canada—we don’t have many black people here. What we do have is our indigenous people, who have been living here, in this ecosystem, for over four thousand years.
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