09.30.2024. Body As Temple. Heart As Altar
"Your body is your temple
Your heart is your altar"
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These are the words washing over me from my time on retreat, permeating my insides. What happens on your deep interior walls when you rest into this view, this teaching, 'body as temple, heart as altar’, what opens in you?
I watch a kindness arise. A respect, a taking off my muddied shoes before entering a holy temple. I am Moses before the burning bush, knowing I am standing on sacred ground. A quiet reverence rides through my insides. A deep sense of care opens, the early morning dawn stretches her butter soft light across the floors of the temple of my bones, I know I am more. I am Grace.
I kneel before my heart as altar, lie down my begging bowl full of pale pink rose petals-prayers, tender worries and fears. Light red crystal incense, the most sacred of scents and request blessings, asking the ancestors for help, warmth and care. I bow and invite the Holy One. Dedicate merit to ripple out into the world. I pray.
“Burn all away
that does not serve.”
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Below, lovely offerings for your Heart: 2 Poems. 3 Quotes. 1 Instagram. 1 Exciting Share. 2 Spots Open! 1 Closing Healing Song.
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Two Poems to Share
A Loving-kindness Affirmation | David Richo
I say Yes to everything that happens to me today
as an opportunity
to give or receive love and to free myself from fear.
I am thankful for the enduring capacity to love
that has come to me from the Sacred Heart of the universe.
May everything that happens to me today
open my heart more and more.
May all that I think, say, feel, do, and am express loving-kindness
toward myself, those close to me, and all beings.
May love be my life purpose, my bliss, my destiny, my calling,
the richest grace I can receive or give.
And may I always be a compassionate assisting force
toward people who are considered
least or last or who feel alone or lost.
May all of us co-create
a world of justice, peace, and love.
🌿 From David Richo new book, By Your Side: How to Find Soulful Allies and Become One to Others
I was introduced to David Richo’s work during my studies at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, was a pivotal read, How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving. Here is his website to explore more his work
Home Body | Rupi Kaur
I will never have
this version of me again
Let me slow down
and be with her
-- always evolving
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Three Quotes | Alex Banayan. Earthschool Harmony. Pam Muñoz Ryan.
"When I interviewed Maya Angelou, she told me to write this sentence on my notepad and to never forget it: “Every storm runs out of rain.” I still think of that line to this day.” — Alex Banayan
"Let’s keep pouring light into each other, into all things and all situations. At a time when change is all around us and we are not sure what we can do, simply pour light in. Love wins." — Earthschool Harmony, Back To Grace: Spiritual Poetry and Reflections
"Your fate is not yet sealed. Even in the darkest night, a star will shine, a bell will chime, a path will be revealed." — Pam Muñoz Ryan
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A Shout Out to Our Mothers | Jane Goodall
Make sure volume is on. A mystic of our day, the lovely Jane Goodall (a personal inspiration) Zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist, sharing at The Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting this week and reflected so fondly on how her mother was a huge proponent of her early passion for animals, proving how maternal support and presence is so formative and second to none.
Earthworms in her bed and all
Give a watch here (2:00 min)
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An Exciting Share | The Dream Team is Dreaming On!!
Megan Dunne-Krouse, Courtney Riley and myself will be offering a one-day, Embodiment Body, Breath and Soul Retreat on Monday December 9th. Save-the-Date.
Interested?
We would so love you to be there! 💖
Click here. Courtney will add your name to our list.
You will be the first to know once the final details come into form.
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✨ Two Spots Open ✨ | Healing Vessel Energy Circle: October 8 & December 10.
Two Spots Open for next Tuesday, Oct 8 Healing Vessel
Come Join Us!
Email or text 847.971-7010 Gina. Let her know you are a ‘YES’ 💖
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Join me and my two dear friends, Julie Fedeli and harpist and music-thanatologist Margaret Pasquesi for an evening rich with being, with meditative prayer and silence.
When: Tuesdays: October 8th & December 10th, 2024.
Time: 6-8:30 pm.
Space limited: Limited to 12*
Cost: We offer a sliding scale of 3 fees for payment. Please choose the amount that is best for you.
STANDARD FEE: $140
SPONSORSHIP FEE: $150-$250. Includes added donations to support scholarships and our overall costs. THANK YOU for supporting our scholarship program!
REDUCED FEE: $100
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Closing Song | Jhené Aiko - Trigger Protection Mantra
Give a listen. Headphones recommended.
The alchemy crystal singing bowls played by Jhené Aiko in the key of A (third eye, support intuition, wisdom, perception, clairvoyance, inspiration, visioning.), E (solar plexus, the energy center of personal power, strength of will, courage, spontaneous expression, mental body- deep grounded) and C (root chakra, grounding the body into stability ).
A powerful listen when you find yourself swallowed whole, sliding unstoppable, down a mudslide of reactions, a rabbithole of rich emotions. Find yourself lost, caught in the swirling energy of seeking, grasping-on, the mind darting-fleeting back and forth in fight, flight, fawn or freeze.
Let the lyrics soothe and relax the nervous system. Let her voice help slow things way down. Open your breath deep and accordion wide. Let the rhythm of your own breath calm the stormy internal seas. This is the healing medicine of breath. It only dwells in the present-now. It cannot reside in the past or jump ahead into some desired or feared future. It only knows now.
“You are protected
Slow down
Calm down your energy”
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Listen here YouTube (6:47 min)
Spotify here (6:54 min)
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Have a blessed day 💖
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