An archive of weekly reflections — practices, prayers, and quiet dispatches from the path.
Lets talk about 'not knowing' the answer right now...
Let's settle the anxious current that not knowing brings.
Let's challenge the projection of what you want...the expectation of how it should happen, and open to the curious movement with reality...
Walking with the questions.
Moving with the questions.
Allowing the emergence of the solutions to happen in ripe timing.
How do we observe the culture we are?
How do we see something clearly without placing our judgement upon it?
How do we step into our dignity and look for the subtle movements that bring health to a community?
What are the real conversations that are needed?
How do we work with the elephant in the room...
SO that the reflections can come...not with a punch in the face,
but with the confluence of education and energy we hold.
A skillful action.
A subtle movement of our energy
that can seduce a moment of reflection, integration and positive action.
So we don't become the red cross and the saviour.
SO that we don't revert back to the religious conditioning of right and wrong or good and bad.
Instead we open a SPACE for repair to occur.
Even within protocol and regulation,
we can break the rules.
When we smell the fragrance of dignity and possibility
there, within the space of listening
there, within the education that the water brings...
The connecter of all,
the movement in between borders and man made boundaries.
We are reorganising the culture,
for the health of the generations.
Be gentle & firm in the seeing & serving, for the greater health.
We are walking as a civilisation within the atmosphere of fear,
weaved together through deep interconnectivity and 7 degrees of separation.
It's not personal or even communal,
but the times are shaking us.
The reactivity that dwells underneath the surface, the old systems collapsing,
and we inquire,
how do we walk with the questions without caving in?
How do we hold duality, two opposing opinions without dispersing the energy...without making someone else wrong...without gossiping?
If we allow it, this provocation, this conflict we feel and see and witness in the culture is the education that is carving us to walk with a
new level of dignity.
It is the curriculum of our own evolution.
What are the practises...what is the movement of the word...what is the connection to land...what is the reciprocity that we move with that supports the health of the individual and community?
The health lives outside of isolation.
Health dwells in the diversity of conversation required to widen our perspective.
Be gentle with yourself,
let people in.
ask for support,
keep opening yourself to new pathways...
step by step.
We are walking, with faith in the secrets of our own hearts, and of the communal health that we know is possible.
Meet that moment where the tightening comes...
The bubbling and boiling of the blood.
And the rush takes over,
and then the mind believes what it has created.
Attached to that tiny frame of reality.
What is it to free ourselves
from the heaviness that sits in our tissues?
From the little prisons that we create?
How do we widen our seeing...
outside of the little thing we are focusing on?
What is the art that expands us?
The artistry of life...the art of cooking, the poetry of coaching,
the work of our hands, the aesthetics of relating...
The aesthetics as the return of our sensory knowledge.
The creative act,
that brings us closer to the immensity of creation
So we can work with the atmosphere of fear,
SO we can work for the culture,
and not get caught in our little traumas,
but
renovate them through our service.
WHAT IF THE SICKNESS LIES WITHIN THE ATMOSPHERE OF ISOLATION,
and the health we are seeking
is the relational web?
In community
In the work
In the song
In the dance
In the debate
In the service...
In the quality of communication we have,
with the land, self, and community.
After over 3 weeks of almost solid grey and rain,
the sun has returned
here on the lands we dwell.
The crystalline blue sky against the sharp depth of fertile green,
inspires.
We heard once that green is the colour of hope.
These cycles of forgetting and remembering are like that...
periods where it's grey, and deep, maybe narrow and stagnant or cozy within the cauldron of our own internal space.
Then suddenly the light shines in...and the corners of the inner landscape are illuminated and kissed by the warmth of the life giving sun.
The darkness we've dwelled in makes the caress of the sun that much more nourishing and magical.
This dance of life,
from one spectrum to the other, allows us to widen the appreciation for all the shades of living and being.
"There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken.
A shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is a sorrow beyond grief, which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength.
There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being.
There is a cry deeper than all sound, whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place which is unbreakable, and whole, while learning to sing." - Rashini Rea
May the sun shine upon you today xxx
Some words of inspiration today...
A poem that has been very present with us in these times...
"I would like to beg you, dear friend, as well as I can,
to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is,
to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
In this wild dance of the unknown, let us trust life-
trust the intelligence of the body and heart to show us the next footsteps xx
In a time where attention is a currency and our life-force is drawn into an endless field of information and story, maybe one of the ways that we can activate change within the culture, is by learning to
contain our energy.
Practicing containment, allows life force to circulate
and vibrate within us
Choosing to tether the attention - anchor, instead of fragment.
In that anchoring, rooting - presence...seeds of inspiration can nestle and germinate - instead of spilling the energy, the ideas, visions, and insights
INSTA-NTLY
diluting the force and potency.
Let's question this, and inquire: How do we keep nuance alive?
How can we continue to live in reverence for the incredible
unique poetry of our human-ness
amidst a culture that calls us forth at rapid speed, where the subtlety is lost?
How can we continue to nurture craft, study and LIVE a body of knowledge and experience so that our children sense that thread of inspiration and question the culture?
Maybe the quiet depth, the secret prayer and intention,
the hidden seeds of devotion
are creating more of a ripple into existence than we realise.
Maybe that private dialogue with life,
that whisper to the river, or our own heart
is weaving the web of reality,
just as much, if not more than the the incessant DOING, the control, the goals, the spilling of the energy.
True cultivation of depth, mastery, meaning, intimacy - takes time. Consistency.
Authenticity. Devotion.
Containment.
Practice.
Hello dear Community,
More of a personal share this week…
I share from a deep full heart, as Velan sits on the mountain in Colombia for his next cycle of Vision Quest.
His last 4 year Quest was over 10 years ago, and we've been walking this design even since, learning these ways with our teacher and supporting others who are resonant with this journey. And now, he has been called back to the mountain for the continuation of his own quest.
It is a dry prayer, an offering of thirst, of hunger, in silence and solitude…
to return to the origin, and listen.
In these times of comfort and over consumption,
these ways, these ancient designs, shared by the elders of tradition are
a balm for the thirty soul, longing for meaning and belonging.
These practices support us to remember again that
we are a part of the web of life,
all connected, all related and weaved through the pulse of creation itself.
"Earth, water, air, fire are weaving an umbilical web which synchronises humans with their surroundings. The earth vitalises humans with her fruits, and humans vitalise the earth with their rituals and sacrifices." — Fidel Sepúlveda Llanos
A Simple Practice of Gratitude
So today, I offer an invitation, to simply be present and
grateful for the clean water you drink.
Feel your feet and receive the support that is provided by
the earth body.
Acknowledge the great Fire of the Sun, that shines light and warmth and calls the seeds to rise into new life and nourishment.
Breathe in Life,
and be grateful today, for the simple gifts xx
Greetings to this Global Community xx
Thank you for being here.
It brings great inspiration to feel the invisible threads that we are weaving together through shared intentions, congruent vision and the willingness to inquire and grow.
In the volatility of the global movement, community in all the forms is a needed medicine...so thank you for being a part of this Onemovement.
We offer you a simple breath practice this week, to calm the nervous system, centre the awareness, and return to homeostasis.
-Find a comfortable seat...allow the spine to come into alignment.
Lie down if you prefer.
-Widen your hearing
-Close your eyes, soften the jaw, eyes, forehead, shoulders, belly...and receive gravity.
-Observe and allow the natural movement of breath to emerge - be with that experience for a few moments, calling your attention back to the simplicity of breath.
-On the next exhalation, slow down the breath and extend the exhale for 2 or 3 seconds longer than the inhale.
-Continue that process of breathing in naturally, slowly, deeply, without force or effort and allow the exhale to extend and lengthen.
-This simple form of breath extension recalibrates the nervous system, and offers a return to grounded presence.
Practice this breath experience for 10 minutes to shift your energy and Return.
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