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Use This to Create More Inner Resiliency + Creative Ritual

8/31/2016

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Emotional Body Authenticity + Loving Kindness

Emotional body literacy is rare.

Very few people learn the art of emotional body intelligence, let alone put it into action through relationship with self, relationship with others, and heart centered communication.

The ability to attend your emotional body inner wisdom consistently and authentically takes courage, commitment, presence and ongoing practice. But the results are profound.

It is vulnerable territory. To show up radically for yourself- to navigate the often choppy and violent inner waters.

The emotional body is as wild and untamed as the Divine Feminine.

She is your ever expanding Self. She often forces you to look at Her even though you'd rather not. Most people are resisting Her- which means they are also missing her wisdom, intelligence and gifts as well.

As you courageously move closer to your emotional body, you gain access to a fuller range of experience. As a human being. 

Deepening emotional body intelligence increases your capacity to feel, to receive, to get needs met, and therefore be nourished more as well.

I've come to the conclusion that everyone has the same basic core need:
deeper nourishment.

Think about it.

To be "nourished" means that you feel safe, comforted, supported. It means that you have moved beyond survival. It means that you are receiving on some level- you are not in resistance or avoidance.

Nourishment is life, essentially.

When you are able to say yes to nourishment, it means you are saying yes to life as well. 

How often do you feel nourished?

When does this feeling show up?

Who does it show up with?

Who does it not show up with?

What does nourishment mean to you?


Where do you feel nourishment in your body when it arrives?!

Nourishment is a powerful resource.

A tool of resiliency and inner stability. It is a baseline that can help deepen receptivity- so other needs can be met. It is also an important marker for emotional body intelligence. 

Inner tracking is the first step in honoring what is arriving within.

It can open the door of loving kindness- for yourself and others. It can help you show up for yourself in a non judgemental way, a compassionate way. When you can show up for yourself in this way, you can start showing up for others in this way too.

You can start communicating from this place as well. (Ill be sharing more about heart centered communication in the coming days).
If you're ready to deepen your relationship with Nourishment, see below.


I've posted a Creative Ritual to help you honor your inner nourishment and to help you build more awareness with this powerful resource.


In the coming days I will continue to share resources that will support your emotional body relationship.


I'm honored you are following along, that this conversation is meaningful to you, that you feel a desire to lean in closure to yourself and your inner landscape.


It takes courage. But it is a vital part of the healing journey. Your willingness to listen to your inner intelligence will take you far. 

Looking forward to sharing more emotional body wisdom with you in the coming days as we continue this 14 day journey together.

Join me for a *free* 14 Day Emotional Body Challenge!
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Nourishment Creative Ritual


1) Using craypas, paints or pencils, create an image of your nourishment. What does nourishment feel like for you? Create an image that expresses this feeling using colors, textures and shapes. Allow 20 minutes at minimum for this nourishment image. Title your image.


2) Use your image to inspire a movement exploration. Let your body move in response to your nourishment image with an intention of "moving with your feelings of nourishment". What sensations emerge for you during your dance? What awareness? Allow 5 to 10 minutes for this movement exploration. I encourage you to extend this time frame as you recycle this process.


3) Harvesting. In your journal answer these questions:

I am, I want, I need, I sense, I feel, I imagine.

What deeply nourishes me? What no longer nourishes me?
Where do I feel support in my life? Where do I need more support?
What am I opening to? What am I closing to?


Join me for a *free* 14 Day Emotional Body Challenge! I'll be sharing resources, tools and extra guidance to navigate these choppy cosmic tides in the coming weeks.Get the Details
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Soma In A Cup {Simple Ayurvedic Recipe for Rejuvenation} 

8/31/2016

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Create soma instantly with this simple Ayurvedic recipe.

Soma is considered the divine nectar of the gods in the Vedic tradition. It is pure life force energy and brings immortality. The Moon offers direct access to soma and will help your own body create powerful health from its golden, filtered Sun light. As the Moon fills each month, we have access to this nectar more fully. At the time of the new Moon, soma is less available and replenishing your inner reserves is necessary. As Venus (life force, Shakti) is debilitated this month, it's an ideal time to be attending to health, vitality and wellness more carefully. This nourishing drink will support more health, well being and physical resiliency. I call my version the Maha Date Milkshake, the cure for what ails you!

This Ayurvedic recipe is the ultimate soma producer. Feeling burned out? Taxed? Energize from the inside out. Here's my recipe for instant nourishment.

- 2 Cups whole milk (preferably raw or non homogenized)
- Three whole dates, pitted
- Small handful of peeled almonds 
- 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- 2-3 organic rose buds (or 1 tsp sweet rose petal jam)
- 3 whole cardamom pods (black seeds only)


Bring milk and herbs to a gentle boil and remove from heat. In a blender combine dates and almonds. Add milk + herbs and blend until smooth and frothy. Voila! 

Enjoy!


Join me for a *free* 14 Day Emotional Body Challenge! I'll be sharing resources, tools and extra guidance to navigate these choppy cosmic tides in the coming weeks.Get the Details
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September New Moon + Solar Eclipse Wisdom + Creative Ritual

8/29/2016

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Moon shifts into Purvaphalguni nakshatra just before Thursday, September 1st begins, moving into the domain of Bhaga, the resource and pleasure provider. At 03:03, the new Moon officially arrives, bringing an emptiness and release with it. The new Moon is in sidereal Leo and Purvaphalguni nakshatra, coinciding with the annual solar eclipse.

This particular solar eclipse will not be visible in North America, but will touch Southern Asia, Western Australia, Much of Africa, the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The eclipse will begin at 00:13 MDT on the 1st and continue until 06:00 am, with the maximum eclipse occurring at 03:01 am MDT. 


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* All timing is in Mountain Daylight Time. To determine the current nakshatra for your time zone, add or subtract time based on your distance to Mountain Time. 

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Moon Mind Calendar {August 29th to September 4th}

8/29/2016

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This Week's Intention: Stay close to your heart and emotional body wisdom this week. Honor your steps, but go slow and be steady. What is your intention for action and movement? 
Let your momentum come from this place. 

It is a new Moon week. The Moon is waning, turning inward, becoming dark and empty. As the Moon tides soften and become still, as does your emotional body. Pause more. Listen carefully and honor the wisdom coming from your soft, inner landscape. With this new Moon, the two week eclipse portal between lunar and solar eclipses also begins.

Monday, August 29th
Moon in 13th tithi
Trayodasi


Monday begins with Moon moving into Pushya nakshatra and its own sign Cancer. Pushya, the nourishing star, is Brihaspati's domain. As a personification of Jupiter, Brihaspati brings learning, knowledge and wisdom as well as support. 

                
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* All timing is in Mountain Daylight Time. To determine the current nakshatra for your time zone, add or subtract time based on your distance to Mountain Time. 

Join me for a *free* 14 day Emotional Body Challenge! 
I'll be sharing special resources for creating a deeper relationship with your
​emotions and inner landscape. 
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Grief, the Maha Guru (The Great Teacher) + Tapping Meditation Podcast

8/27/2016

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The ability to hold both joy and pain equally, is the gift of grief.


Grief is not glamorous. It's not popular. Few people want to talk about it let alone do the work that it takes to heal it. Grief is not happy. It's not fun and it requires your greatest patience. Patience with your self and patience from others.

No wonder it is so repulsive.

Grief asks so much of us and so much from others. It’s messy, chaotic and extremely uncomfortable. It challenges others to witness the ugliness of grief. It disrupts and creates lasting changes that forever shapes how we move forward.

The emotional body experiences explosive, violent and disturbing waves. These waves are uncontrollable and unpredictable. It can feel scary and unsafe. When will another wave hit? How will I get back to shore? Can I get back to solid ground? Touching your emotional body through the grief process is a deep relationship with the Divine Feminine- her untamed, wild body of wisdom, strength and uncertainty.

Grief is far from popular.

Very few people are brave enough to do the work, the tireless work, that it takes in order to use grief as a resource for healing and awakening. Consequently most people don’t grieve fully and the healing does not take place. The gift never arrives. The wisdom is never extracted. Stunting the grief process is damaging on multiple levels and can effect all four bodies- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Grief can be your biggest transformational resource for awakening. So why do most people resist this process?

If used properly, grief can heal and transform your biggest wounds, as well as repair your ancestral karmas. In fact much of the grief, suffering and pain you will face in your life time is directly handed down from your ancestors. This is the result of your ancestors not honoring and healing their own grief. From an epigenetic perspective, this unprocessed grief becomes your familial mythology and shapes your personal mythology as well.  

Grief does not go away. Let me repeat that. Grief does not go away.

Grief changes though- and it will change you. Change is inevitable and impossible to avoid. The very nature of the grief process is change, uncontrollable change. These changes must be honored- authentically and consistently. The changes your grief forces you to confront will awaken you- if you let it.

Grief is not joyful.

It usually doesn't look or feel happy. But it can become your greatest teacher.

From a Jyotish perspective, grief is shown by Saturn, the planet of both hard work and enlightenment. This is the story of grief- hard work and enlightenment. From consistent heat, pressure and time, the diamond appears. Saturn supports you with this transformational journey.

Saturn also brings resistance. Karmically speaking, the very thing you most desire is often what you are also resisting the most. Saturn shows us our resistance to healing and expresses the simultaneous desire for liberation. He shows us where the hard work must be done.

Do you know how to work with your resistance as a healing resource?!

In my personal experience with various forms of grief (lifelong grief, acute grief, as well as trauma induced grief) the lack of external support for my grief has been one of the biggest hindrances to my awakening.

I consistently see the lack of support with the grief journey as the biggest obstacle to healing and awakening that my clients have. This is also how the grief process gets suppressed and avoided. Without the necessary holding, reflection, witnessing and mirroring during the grief journey, there is a risk of it becoming stuck, stagnant, or even worse- creating disturbing mutations of the shadow.

Witnessing and holding clients through their grief journey has been powerfully validating for me personally and professionally. Consistent holding and honoring one’s process of awakening can in fact change personal and ancestral wounding, liberate one from systemic family issues and transform and heal simultaneously.

This has also been my personal experience with grief and trauma. It has only been through very consistent, reliable holding that I have had the courage to face my own darkness. The courage I’ve needed to face my own debilitating grief has come through very sacred containers. This includes one on one support and group support. I’ve been fortunate enough to experience containers of support that mirrored to me that I am safe. (But plenty of others that mirrored to me that I was not safe, not contained, that my grief was not welcome or honored).

Safety is the antidote to grief. But safety must be rebuilt and re-established after a loss. Being held in a safe and sacred container can help to re-establish the feeling of safety inside and out.

Grief is in fact an opportunity to look at your biggest shadows, and your darkest darkness.

But the grief journey is not a popular one.

It is shunned and so often misunderstood. There is little to no space for grieving in our relationships and communities, resulting in unprocessed grief more times than not. Far too often the grief journey gets stunted or is incomplete.

The truth is that the grief process does not end, but we must attend to it very intentionally, with deep presence. It goes hand in hand with life and must be honored as an equal partner in the process of living. Grief is your most powerful medicine, a potent tool for your inner awakening.


I’m on a mission to normalize grief, to educate others about its wisdom and power. I continue to be inspired by my grief journey and what I witness in my clients. Grief is a powerful teacher.


Join me for a *special* workshop to clear your heart and awaken your emotional body wisdom.

{Space Clearing the Heart}
Discover how to transform your emotional body in a creative and embodied way.
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Tapping Meditation

Use this Tapping Meditation to work through your grief process- when you feel stuck, afraid or resistant to change. Remember that we always start with "truth tapping" by expressing feelings and experiences that feel challenging. This is a vital part of the process and paves the way for transformation and healing.

In the podcast below, I share a tapping (EFT) sequence with you that will guide you through transforming and releasing the old stories and invite in more receptivity. Remember, we start with identifying the challenges, then moving into possibility and desires in order to transform our shadow into light.

Use this podcast as you tap through these points:

Karate chop point (side of the hand).
Crown of the head.
Eyebrow point (above the eye).
Side of the eye.
Under the eye.
Under the nose.
Chin point (crease of the chin).
Throat point (collar bone/throat chakra).
Heart point (center of chest).
Stomach point (above the navel).
Side body (nipple line at side of chest).


Tap six to ten times on each point and just keep cycling through the points. Repeat the phrases I use aloud. Notice any thoughts, stories, memories or emotions that emerge as you tap. These are important pieces to return to, do more tapping on, as a way to clear blockages. As always, if the words I use don't work for you, change them to support your process more fully.

Share your experiences below! What emerged for you in this process? Excited to hear from you!
Join me for an embodied grief workshop ~ Space Clearing the Heart. Discover how to work transform your emotional body in a more creative and embodied way. Get the Details
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