Author: CoCreavatars

Teachings and Offerings from Bettina Rothe

So much has been written about the teachings of the times we are in. I am certainly finding that I am in a deep state of contemplation and taking in information sparingly to be able to process what is alive in me in the moment. This is just another dance! As conscious dancers we have trained for this. To be in chaos for extended periods of time, to rest in the not-knowing, to let each moment emerge as it is.  I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to stay embodied, feeling and expressing as you are moving through these challenging times. When we get anxious or stressed, we often uproot, tighten, repress or depress and disconnect from the resources around us. Use nature as your ally, bring your practice outside. I often move on my deck in the morning and remind myself of the bigger dance, the interconnection and give myself permission to dance whatever it is that is moving through my vessel. I have been supporting some of you on Zoom in this past week and am noticing how important the element of being witnessed is in our experience. Also to have spaces that are held for us so we are able to express freely. Please know I am here and happy to support you in any way I can. Thank you for being part of this incredible caring community. I got so many messages of love from you. It makes it all worth while. Take really good care of yourself during these challenging times and reach out if you need support. With love, Bettina

Online 5Rhythms® Offerings: Wednesday, April 8th 7:00 – 8:30 PM PST on ZOOM Please join me for 90 minutes of embodiment practice, dance journey and connection. This online class will be held on ZOOM. (The Zoom app is free, please download ahead of time.) Please create a sacred space for yourself where you can dance without being interrupted. Have your water close by and wear movement friendly clothing. We will open the class at 6:50 PM and begin promptly at 7 PM. Please note that we will not admit dancers after 7:15 PM. You will be muted upon entering the class space. We will complete the class with a sharing circle in which we will all get to connect. April 8 Dial in info: https://zoom.us/j/462455617?pwd=WmJiUERCcEsxYXArLzQxY3VkNWpjdz09 Meeting ID: 462 455 617 Password: 812246 I am holding this class by donation. Please consider paying as if you would for a regular class to support me in this difficult time. You can send me an e-transfer to bettina.rothe@gmail.com (auto-deposit). Your generosity is much appreciated. Free 1 hour WAVE for your home practice: 5Rhythms® Beat MedicineA tribal blend that takes on a journey through the 5Rhythms® : flow, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. Great for dance or a class that builds to a peak and returns to stillness.  Play Private Coaching: I am increasing my online one on one support through embodied leadership coaching sessions. My passion is to support clients in the development of being an authentic, embodied presence and offer tools for these challenging times.  I work on ZOOM or Skype and can customize the sessions based on your needs. Please contact me for more information.  “Bettina’s private coaching has helped me unlock my inner power and awaken deeper trust in my abilities. Professionally this is invaluable. Bettina’s expertise in tapping the wisdom of the body is unlike any other personal growth or professional development program out there that engages only from the head up.” — Lindsey Hindle ______________________________________________________________________________

Spring Retreats: Dancing into Wholeness: 5Rhythms® & Embodied Leadership Retreat at HollyhockMay 15-20, Cortes Island, BC “As we work on healing our wounds of disconnection in the dance in all creation including ourselves, we recreate our world anew, breath by breath, step by step.” — Bettina RotheHow do we live and lead from our whole selves – uniting our body, heart, mind, and spirit? How do we move from ME to WE and experience life in interconnection? Identify where you disconnect or get stuck in old patterns. Learn how to access the physical body as a domain of learning, change, and transformation. Discover body-based tools that will gently guide you back into being whole. Embodied leadership practices, 5Rhythms® movement, and mindfulness set the framework for this highly experiential program. Hollyhock offers a very unique learning environment with its property being on the sunny, southeastern beach of Cortes. Hollyhock is famous for it’s stunning organic garden, the mouth watering meals, oyster BBQ’s on the beach, relaxing hot tubs and spectacular views of the ocean. More info & registration: early bird savings are available for bookings before March 31 ! SHE: Power, Beauty & the Beast 5Rhythms® Retreat at Stowel Lake FarmJune 19-22, Salt Spring Island, BCWe invite you to join in the creation of sacred space that celebrates the Feminine. As SHEs we will come together to honour our body temples and the wisdom they hold, finding within our true power and beauty. Through the transformative practice of 5Rhythms® we will bring kindness and compassion into the cracks and wounds of our humanness. 5Rhythms® is a path of integration, of healing the split between spirit and body; a path of dancing ourselves back into wholeness. Through storytelling and witnessing, we will honour the stories we each hold that have created separation, doubt and our own version of the “beast within”. Through Embodied Leadership and simple Japanese wooden sword practices we will learn how to shape our power skillfully. Morning Yoga and Qi Gong will support us in our embodiment and energetic alignment. Kundalini Yoga will be taught by Sarah Calvert. Qi Gong will be offered by Samantha Gray. A nourishing feminine dance and traditional song ritual will be offered by Delia Aaron during the Summer Solstice Celebration. Land and community based teachings will be shared by the women of Stowel Lake Farm. Together we will step through the gateway to becoming the embodied, feminine, intuitive, powerful beings we are meant to be. Everyone is welcome who identifies as a SHE. Partial tuition scholarships are available. More info & registration: early bird savings are available for bookings before April 15 !

Just like the rest of you we are feeling the collective stress and fear of these unparalleled times. We wanted to take a moment to update all of you on what Oshala Farm is doing to keep our customers, crew and family safe.

As a farm we are one of the essential businesses allowed to continue operations. This is a blessing which comes at a crucial time of the year when we start nearly one million seeds to ensure an abundant harvest. Additionally, we are busier than ever shipping vibrant herbs from our farm in Southern Oregon to all of you. We are proud and incredibly thankful to be able to share plant medicine during these challenging times.

We have implemented many changes on the farm to protect the health of our customers,  ourselves and employees as we move forward in the reality of this pandemic. Upgrades have been made to all of our farm systems and processes to maintain physical distancing. We have augmented our already stringent cleaning and sterilizing processes by cleaning and sanitizing everything on our farm twice per day. We have upgraded our paid sick leave program so that employees can take time off without losing pay if they feel any symptoms at all. Now more than ever we know how important it is for us to carry on so we can support our team, customers and tribe as we move through these uncertain times.

Thank you for your love and trust in the plants and in our farm. We appreciate all the notes of encouragement and thanks over the last weeks: it has definitely lifted our spirits during a stressful time. We are so thankful for our committed team and all the hours of hard work and care they have put in to make sure all of you are getting your herbs as quickly as possible. Know that with every box of herbal goodness we send out, we are also sending thoughts of you and your loved ones staying healthy and strong during this challenging time.

Our heart goes out to all who have lost work and for those who are on the front lines working with the public right now to keep things going in our communities. If you have lost your job because of COVID-19 or working on the front lines with the public, please use discount code STAYSTRONG15 at checkout to receive a one time 15% discount on your next purchase. Expires May 31st. This is an honor system, we trust you 🙂

In Health,

The Oshala Farm Crew

Jeff, Elise, Elana, Omar, Maria-Elena, Prodi, Jesus, Christopher, Julie & Jess

Sometimes, just being fully in a human body can be terrifying.  As though the quality of consciousness beyond the body cannot fit in that vehicle or vessel. As though there is a great spiritual crying out to RETURN HOME!

These are times of much post traumatic shock emergences, awakenings to what we in two legged forms have chosen!  And many are projecting the nightmares of horror during these awakenings upon others as though others are to blame.  The complaints go all the way to SOURCE, the Universal Core, to what we call GOD!  Why me, GOD?

Does this sound familiar?

Tremors arise, sweating emanates, fear frozen during long generations of female suppression and seduction, of women suffering under the guise of safety in marriages or within religious encampments, or infants crucified through harsh hospital births with mothers anesthetized…. Please add to this list so that you can begin to realize what blocks your life force, what keeps you stuck rather than in the flow of life!

Each symptom or signal is a pathway that is opportunity to resolve the original decision in our timelines, when WE decided to view self others and life itself in a certain way.  These CORE beliefs are frozen within the core of being, in the central channel.  Accessible through transformational breathwork, through kundalini yoga, through profoundly grounded and sacred ceremonies, they can thaw and release the images that keep our spirits caught in pasts !

Each encounter with what is now arising and alive is opportunity for miracles and each moment can be perceived as miracle.  Since they are the natural order of the day, humanity is at the threshold of claiming its destiny.  At making the quantum leap into another state of consciousness or quality of being and viewing life through a unique lens: that of self mastery learning lessons by studying one’s own path, offering teachings from these insights as a correct view of life’s purpose.

GMA is now sitting overlooking the Sechelt inlet, where fresh waters blend with salt waters.  The levels of salt and fresh differ depending on where one sits and sips.  The levels of our awareness shifts depending upon where within the body, we sit and communicate from.  Everything shifts according to deep tides and movements within the emotional bodies or water realms.  All is changeable.

Dr Maseru Emoto and his priceless HADO Project proved with electronic microscopes the impact on waters created by a group of intentionally dedicated humans.  Murky toxic waters became clarified and signatured by a collective projection called LOVE.  Would you be willing to research these signatured water molecules; Messages from Water, and accept that you are a living loving experiment here on earth?  See for yourself what happens when you intend the waters you drink be blessed with pure love, abundance, prosperity, truth, faith, wellness, health or more.  Feel what unfolds within your organic dimension 80% liquid when you touch yourself with emerald healing hands intentionally offering love as the antidote to what else has occurred within the form.

As the Course In Miracles offers us, we are still as God created us; and our names and God’s are ONE!  May we steep our teas in waters blessed with universal truths.
What is unforgivable, truly unforgivable?  We must answer that from the deepest part of our souls and experience the mirroring of our answer in our relationships.  What is keeping us from with holding our love?  Again, only we can decide what that core fear, frozen, or fighting, or fleeing, does to our initiatives, to our relationships, to our health, to our wealth.  Our names are ONE with all of these cocreative experiences as we center as ONE within the core of our Medicine Wheel.

Long ago, once in an upon away time, I was being hosted by a REIKI 2 student in Playa del Carmen.  It was a private small ceramically tiled suite with a shower!  Blessed waters.  Our Waldorf inspired community school was hosting a Geshe from Mongod Monastery in Southern India.  This was his first time away from the Himalayas and from his refuge in India.  Translator and entourage of monks, Geshela presented a fierce demeanor with a heart of great compassion as he offered empowerments and teachings.

The night before that first empowerment, laying naked beneath a pale yellow sheet, ceiling fan moving hot Yucatan air, the sphere in which I usually dwell parted and merged with another sphere.  My consciousness awareness entered into the body of a Tibetan nun.  My spirit sister was imprisoned, lying still on a hard board, cell cement floored, no ceiling fan.

I experienced trepidation that was familiar, a sense of calm abode and yet sensing , something was about to happen that was a shock to the systems. A Chinese uniformed soldier entered the cellular space, removing his belt and revealing a readiness to take something away from the HER that was ONE with my being.  SHE stopped breathing for a moment, for moments and I heard within my SKULL of ONENESS, Do not give him pleasure. We see you. Om mane padme hung . 

The mantra repeated itself hundreds of times and echoed within the organic vessel called body bathing cells glands systems with waters transformed by the intention of this profound mantra.

SHE and I as ONE remained in the body.  Underclothes removed, penetration begun, the oneminded focus was on OM MANE PADME HUNG.  No pleasure was given .  No pleasure was received.  The man’s fierceness brutally penetrated her calm abiding.  YET she was held. I was held. OM MANE PADME HUNG.

Angered that his intention was not met, he removed himself, clothing his parts, belt back on and done up, and left HER I as ONE in the consciousness of OM  MANE PADME HUNG.  I felt her in some way, die.  And my consciousness returned to my body, naked beneath a pale yellow sheet, ceiling fan as my only witness.  Shocked, my body tremored upon return from such hunger and taking away from my being as ONE SHE.  It took me hours to rest and to release the tensions in my heart mind body soul.
In the dawning of another hot Yucatan day, I rose, preparing for the Geshela’s empowerment, wondering: Was this a test?  Did I pass?  What was this initiation truly about?  And would I arrive at the school’s second floor space on time?

Trotting down stairs, out the wooden gate, moving swiftly and realizing I needed to breathe, I crossed the meridian of the 4 lane road, entering into the neighbourhood of the school.  I was being carried by the vibrations of OM MANE PADME HUNG.  Entering the wooden gate, climbing brick stairs, I entered into a vast sacred space, 40 folks plus children to my right, the ancient wisdom of the Geshela straight ahead, his translator to his right standing and seeing my appearance.  The altar table and reliquary upon the white table cloth to my left, I stood on the edge of the floor suddenly knowing something but not quite what.

Geshela offered in Tibetan to the translator: Tell her she is the teacher and to sit in front of the altar.

I obeyed humbly, egoically slightly shocked and yet intrinsically knowing truth, sitting, the empowerment began.

Minutes passed with the rumbling of Geshela’s teachings, the entourages repetition of mantras, the rising and falling away of our community members to receive the blessings of katas.  Lastly, I arose, carrying a San Salvadorian silk scarf which I blessed with my kisses, and placed around Geshela’s neck.  A rainbow scarf from women to men. 

Calmed, stilled, no more astonishment, my inner dimensions were organically blessed my sight was clear and my awareness of who received what empowerment amongst our spirit family was sharpened by the presence of the lamas.

My beloveds, it could be perceived that this initiation was cruel and harsh and one could choose to berate the Chinese.  Yet my experience was that through this Rite of Passage, once over this threshold, the GODDESS of compassion of Tibet merged with the GODDESS of compassion of China and became ONE VAST field of compassion into which all of us entered together as ONE.

In my lifetime, I have received many Rites of Passages, may initiations, many tests all yielding a harvest of more and more awareness of love compassion truthfulness honesty joy calm abiding peace for all of our relations.

Yes, prostitution and sex trade women are abused. Yes, we have forgotten to bless our mothers’ sacrifices.  Yes, we have enthroned men rather than acknowledging ourselves as source of men.  Yes, we have succumbed to temptations and YES we have given pleasure to keep ourselves safe and taken care of: economic and sexual exchanges.

AND have we forgiven, just for today.  Have we loved ourselves through our generational lineages of decisions?  Just for today, have we finally said: this too has passed and this too is over?

For this Galactic Hawk Moon , let us agree collectively to offer mantra affirmations powerful words to the waters of our own mind-bodies, to the waters quenching our thirst, to the waters surrounding us on earth.  Let us remember the integrity of our intention and its influence on that which is an aspect of our souls and our destiny is to accept radically that this is OUR TIME TO BLEND with LOVE in the ONENESS!

For all of our relations May this find you at peace Ometeotyl

By Natalie Ross

https://www.earthspeak.love/shows

Yesterday was my 36th birthday, and it marked the one year anniversary of when I first got brave enough to record myself channeling messages from tree spirits.

Looking back at that simple act just one year ago vs. where I stand today, with a whole new platform, business, and approach – it was all guided by connecting with spirit and my intuition.

I’ve been connecting with spirits for years – and I’ve even been feeling the plant spirits wanting me to share their messages for over a decade – but timing is timing, and it took until this past year to be courageous and confident enough to finally speak up guided by the small whispers calling from the back of my heart (and the trees).

My whole approach has been spirit first. To first be in alignment with my own spirit and inner truths, to be attuned to the Divine and the Earth, and in the case of Earth Speak, to consult the spirit of my business to guide me in which steps to take and when.

I’m not perfect at this, as I’ve rushed forward at times when I knew it wasn’t aligned, and I’ve held back when action was the aligned next step. I have made mistakes, and I have learned from them.

I think many of you are feeling similarly when I say that this year has been about deepening trust in inner guidance and acting at your true pace.

Truth be told, I’ve been at this a long time now, experimenting with what happens if I don’t rush forwards at the breakneck speed society wants us to believe is the only way to survive.

I’ve been peeling back the layers and finding my own pace, failing often, and also succeeding and discovering that I can, indeed, go a little slower.

What’s helped me get back to my true pace has been, wait for it…

…consistently tending to my own energy and connecting with spirit.

Plant spirits have been monumental in helping me come back to and go deeper into my authenticity, and I’ll be sharing more about that soon.

I want you, dear readers, to know…

You are allowed to experiment with going at your own pace!

Your intuition is REAL!

And when you hear nature spirits speaking, LISTEN! 

They just might be leading you back to yourself.

By Max Sherpa

Aheeeey. GMA, your work is in providing the scaffolding for damaged hearts to find truth!

I have been reflecting on the roles that can be played in the world, and on our laundromat conversations.

The patriarchal power that we are finding is harmful to ourselves and the planet has had many centuries to accumulate. It’s foundation is on the human consciousness which existed at its inception, one which allows fear and scarcity, and then dark contracts founded on unconsciousness to alleviate said fear and scarcity.

It is so CONVENTIONAL to suppose that great patriarchal power is the route to creating great social change, for it is the predominant form of power which we witness on the planet. So much so that it is a hegemony – an ideology so pervasive it appears a fundamental aspect of reality (credit for the hegemony concept goes to Antonio Gramsci).

But one time at the laundromat you spoke to me of other power, GMA. In my own words, consciousness IS power, that is in and of itself a powerful shift.

It is to be expected that power of a different nature will appear different. It is to be expected that it will not necessarily compete. Simply to say ‘I AM’ is a profound form of consciousness that shakes the earth. Your nomadic ways GMA are your signature, your consciousness which shakes the earth.

What if your bundle was a beacon for this I AM, GMA, one which everyone knew instinctively when they simply saw it? Power in this sense can come from many places, and your bundle has an I AM derived from Indigenous knowing and the land.

Old somatic patterns of my former state of being are in my heart.

Blessings to the great spirit for this opportunity to unlearn how I have held my soma, and relearn what HEALTH looks like!

I dream for the Great Spirit, as I am Great Spirit.

I dream for the Earth, as I am Earth.

Here are the green medicines for antidotes to coronavirus with three other inclusions:

*licorice root *red algae *iodine
• Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)
• Daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
• Red spider lily (Lycoris radiate)
• Leek (Allium porrum)
• Ramsons (Allium ursinum)
• Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
• Cymbidium orchid (Cymbidium hybrid)
• Twayblade (Listera ovata)
• Broad-leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine)
• Tulip (Tulipa hybrid)
• Black mulberry tree (Morus Nigra)
• Tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
• Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)

Strengthen and prevent rather than ignore and deny, beloveds!

We are the medicines!

Dear Cherished Community, As many of you know, recently in Wuhan, China, the largest city of central China with more than 10 million people, the biological viral agent developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology somehow was released in the city where they are currently having an epidemic. The data from China, the best we can tell, suggests that 15% of those who contract the virus die, and 83% of those exposed to the virus, develop symptoms. This 15% death rate approximately follows the death rate of the lethal Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. This has the potential, although it has reached epidemic proportions in Wuhan, China, to become a global epidemic. As one of the main speakers at the Real Truth About Health Conference in Melville, NY last weekend, I noted that many of the attendees expressed fear about the virus. Fear, of itself, weakens the immune system, making one more vulnerable to viral infection. The good news is that, based on my clinical experience in treating viral infections, singlet atoms of iodine (I-) have been shown to be the most powerful antiviral substance available to us. I- is also a very powerful antioxidant. These antioxidant qualities are important because these viral infections release free radicals that tend to break down the system. The I- is also a mucolytic – It dissolves mucus in the system, such as in lung infections, which happen to be common in the case of the coronavirus. I- is also anti-inflammatory. In my scientific opinion, I- is the best and healthiest anti-viral available to us. Historically, the world research shows that no virus can withstand iodine, and, in particular, I- creates an instant kill of the virus. I also recommend taking an immune boosting herbal combination called Mega Defense, which I generally suggest at 4 capsules twice daily, as a preventative measure at this time. Given the fact that viral infections generate free radicals, I recommend you increase overall antioxidant consumption with such products as Antioxidant Extreme. These are the basics of creating a defensive shield against the coronavirus.Iodine’s powerful qualities strongly suggest, although we don’t have direct experience, that iodine gives a high level of preventative protection from being infected by the coronavirus. This is not a claim based on clinical evidence with the coronavirus, but, is based on my general experience with I- in treating viral infections. I make no claim to have direct experience with the coronavirus, but generally speaking, this is the best we can do, as no one has any real experience with this virus. In my clinical experience, the optimum viral protection in general is 20 drops of I- daily dissolved in water (taken on an empty stomach). It’s best to wait 15 minutes before eating anything. If you happen to have a coronaviral infection already, based on my general experience (with no direct experience with this coronavirus), I’ve found that 5-15 drops per hour until the infection is gone is a reasonable protocol for most viral infections. One warning about this protocol: If someone is on thyroid medication and begins to experience heart palpitations on this protocol, stop taking the iodine immediately. Wait several days and slowly start one drop at a time. As I do not have any experience in treating the coronavirus, and hope I never have to, I obviously cannot make any specific claims for the treatment of the coronavirus with iodine. This recommendation, however, is based on a generally safe and effective approach in preventing and healing most viral infections. Additionally, people can have an occasional excessive detoxification reaction from iodine, as it forces fluoride, lead, mercury, and cadmium out of the system. People may feel symptoms such as nausea, burning throat, and heart palpitations. If this happens, discontinue iodine use immediately. Wait several days and begin again with one drop three times daily. Although I’ve never actually seen this happen with anyone, if people become nauseated during detox, it may be helpful to put an eighth of a teaspoon on the tip of the tongue of Transformational Salt and touch the tongue to the roof of the mouth, followed by 16 ounces of water. The form of iodine I have found to be most effective is a singlet oxygen atom of iodine (I-) called  Illumodine. Although I believe other singlet atomic iodine can work, this is the only form I’m aware of that’s organic, radiation-free, and 100% pure (as it’s mined deep beneath the ground in South America). The other important aspect is that in the singlet atomic I- form, it is estimated to be 100% bioavailable. It is true scalar wave energized, which, in my clinical experience, makes it algae free. As I, like most physicians, have no direct experience in treating the coronavirus, I can’t make any definitive claim to prevention or treatment, but this seems like a reasonable and relatively safe approach given the seriousness of the potential coronavirus epidemic. These statements that I’m making haven’t been evaluated by the FDA, and we don’t claim this product diagnostic, curative, a treatment, or a preventative of any disease. My concern as a doctor, a grandparent, and a parent is to protect my immediate and larger family from this potential, lethal epidemic. In concern for your health and wellbeing, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, MD, MD(H), ND(hc), DD

By Jamie Renee Lashbrook

wellbellyhealing.com

I receive you this morning under a rainy window.  

The winds of change tell me something bigger than we can know in our minds is shifting.  

I’m present to the Earth’s prayers and her call for me. 

She says that when all women align to and listen to their womb body life will restore to balance. 

And yet the majority of women are number to their own senses and seduced by forms of wealth and worth that degrade the Earth body- and we/they are disgusting it as the work of the Goddess.   

So much to say.  

It is no accident to have found you in this way.  My soul said to reach you.  I live in the Olympic peninsula. Salish lands and seas.  Eagles cry Her name because the Orca have become silent and the waves that reach us no longer have all of the colors of sky and starlight.  I grieve with the Eagle as he watches her- like old lovers.  He reminds her of her beauty as though she has never aged, never lost her children, never cracked or crumbled.  Like old lovers he sees only the force of pure love and natural wonder she is and will always be- someday again.  

But now he says to me. “Granddaughter gather the women.  The people will then follow.  You’ve been invited here for the largest grief ceremony ever done.  The loudest grief song ever sung.  To witness the transformation of the greatest love ever known.  And all will die to be reborn.”  

And he watched her.  

They know it’s almost time to shapeshift and say goodbye.

***

The prophecies move through me and I share in the wisdom I have been gifted to give through my womb channel- which bleeds today.  A day after I laid to rest a beloved man of the Earth with my community.  He was of the Eagle and Sky.  He walked between the worlds.  He has three children -yet a whole band of brothers and sisters he knew could step in.   

So much to say about the messages I received by witnessing his body lay to rest- as nourishment and the most high and sacred offering to this Earth that he fought for.   

He was buried in a simple shroud of woven love and prayer and dirt.  

Thank you for asking to share my voice.  We must unify and support one another. 

By Sarah Love

Have you ever heard of a Lotus Birth?

Have you ever considered the beautiful organ that nourished you in Mama’s womb? In many cultures, this organ is revered for its sacredness, power and protective qualities. The placenta is honored and treated as a living being.

Allowed a gentle and natural process of detachment from the baby. Or allowed the time it needs before being cut or burned in a ceremonial manner.

A lotus birth is when we don’t cut the cord, but allow it to naturally detach from the baby. You place the placenta in a bowl after birthing and cure it with salt, flowers and herbs.

Being pregnant has opened my eyes and heart to ancient practices like these…

I never thought about my placenta, and upon remembering my connection to this being that nourished me through my mother’s womb, I realized a deep sadness and sense of loss.

Unfortunately in most hospitals, they take the placenta away, after immediately cutting the cord and proceeding to “throw away” the “medical waste”.

(It’s been found that they actually steal this precious resource of life force, stem cells and all to redistribute, sell and experiment with.)

My mother wasn’t aware of my unique connection to my placenta,

And many of us never hear any mention of it our whole lives…

To my dear placenta… I love you and am sorry we were separated in such an awful way. Thank you for being my angel and best friend in the womb. For nourishing and protecting me. Whatever they did with you was hurtful, the way they cut us apart and threw you away has me with feelings of anger and confusion. I send my deepest apology, I send you my love. I offer forgiveness. I allow myself to grieve the abrupt severance we experienced….I love you so much.

The disconnect in today’s birthing practices has me enraged!

What to do but create a new experience.. holding reverence for the process and trusting in my innate wisdom as a woman of many generations of natural birth.

My will is to hold the torch for sacred natural birthing practices and empower others through my own experience. 

Every birth is sacred, we deserve the transformational experience that only 

Birthing can offer us as women.

This book ‘Placenta, the forgotten chakra’ by Robin Lim is incredible. 

I highly recommended this to anyone and everyone, especially those

Curious about their dear Placenta.

🧡

Did you ever feel the pull to open a file, or to go to a shelf and to just be drawn to something there? Synchronicity and these magnetic laws of attraction have worked in my life and I am curious about how you relate to those laws?

I found a large white envelope this morning, scribbled with notes on its front :*followup with SCIO with Sue Kern  and more.  Agreements to follow up with folks on that September 4, 2006 day.  Notes on the cover that stated clearly what my vision for my life is and what my values are.  My heart knew that I have been consistent!

And what of the contents of this mysterious envelope from the past to 2020?With a deep sighing breathe of relief and appreciation, this GMA discovered LOVE: prayers and poems honouring mothers, valuing the impressions left inour souls’s bodies by these precious women.  Tonal qualities that resonate to this day!AND two more poem prayers inspired by the full moon of that long ago summer.I include one, “Stone Spirit” at the end of this message.

Dusk falls with increasing fog here on Davis Bay, Sechelt, Sunshine Coast, BC! I am warm and writing within the context of my RAV4, Pearl.  A dock extending outwards into the inland Salish Sea waters is like an extension of my TONGUE into humans’ states of emotional being.  We all crave for some form of being touched, recognized, remembered.

I have move yet once again.  This time to Tuckers Inn, just north of this enlarging town on the Sunshine Coast.  Initially asking when I knocked on the door: “Is there room at the end for me?”  Smilingly, Keith , 75years on earth, said ,”Yes” and offered a tour of his five years of tending to this two acre botanical garden, gushing waters from the mountain side retreat.

One night expanded into two, team conversations sharing gifts of this location, transformed my doubt into a YES, further conversations with the Inn Keeper yielded conscious agreements and support: for a series of Return into Silence Retreats here with a win win win intention.

For a Travelling Grandmother, those agreements stretch across time when there have been no conscious agreements made and conflicts with personality issues arise to make landing somewhere and living somewhere challenging! even within family!
Yet, here, with time as the great illusion, beyond a man-made clock, or the Julian calendar, despite man’s ignorance of thirteen moons, there is a humility that with mutual honesty and respect for differing points of view, yields a welcome!

It was like that when I met John Fitz Patrick, the poet and author of a literacy that eased my body being back to North America after living in Mexico for two years.
Both older and elder brothers eased the shock that had resided in women’s bodies for generations, enslaving nervous systems enslaved by the clock and that calendar.
Today, with sun set, coldness creeping into the bones of my car, I know that the cycle of ignorance of the ways of womb and women’s cycles is over.  Today I know that the loss of our divining what is mother how to be woman is over.  Today, within this envelope of poems and penned gratitude for my existence just as I am, rests a man somewhere near Rhinebeck New York, who knows the indigeniety and intelligence of stones,of rainbow eagles, of clans, of the moons tides and the directions.

Today, I and millions of women can safely wisely emerge without resistance to the white patriarchy, rather resting in each others arms and embraced by older brothers like these.

Today, I celebrate lotus births, midwives, doulahs, placental capsules for mamas, umbilicus ceremonies for the future of trees.  Today, I celebrate my 4 year old grand daughter, birthed through C section, yet two weeks ago, asking to rebirth her dolls and two stuffies.

Here is the miracle of serving as a Grandmother; she lay down on the yoga mat. Held the doll beneath her shirt and asked me to midwife here.  Massaging her swollen with doll belly, I suggested that she and her baby knew exactly what to do.  The breathing changed, we shifted to labour as the doll baby she moved head downwards towards the expanding vagina.  With more massage, and she being encouraged to moan sound sing, the babydoll she was delivered.

Held to her momma granddaughter heart and breast, the babydoll her was latched onto the nipple for colostrum.  Cooing, Tlell felt the precious moment of no separation. More massaging, the placental release accomplished, the umbilicus hours later cut, we began the rituals.  Dried placenta ground and encapsulated, Tlell accepted this immune booster four times.  Dried and ribbonned, she chose the kind of tree for each of these four rebearthings,beneath which to bury the umbilicus!

Satisfied that the baby infant self was nourished, Tlell rested in the deep earth mothers embrace, the ancient tradition of beyond clocks, outside of obstetrics, beyond stress testing and equipment, beyond her birth mother’s fear, into the deep rest of the Old Ones Ways.

Today, I found an envelope that was charged with the love of mothers at mothers’ deaths.  Full of appreciation for directions and fulling moons, the pages resonated deep appreciation for women.

This week, GMA’s heart was flooded with these new species’ flavours: Matias Man and Fiona’s new daughter held naked on lap in Chile, Sarah Love’s nakedness holding her 8 month old son in Hawaii, uncircumcised and pool bearthed.  This week, I rest in pachamama’s breathe as another 180 sistars dance in sacred geometry in Puriscal, Costa Rica, celebrating those who have dedicated themselves to this service for all women, for FOUR YEARS FOUR DIRECTIONS!

Today, I found an envelope of poetry appreciating the soulforce of woman, written by a scholarly sage warrior of the rainbow eagle clan.

This issue, we celebrate five years of MOONTHLY offerings, conceived, gestated, laboured, written,massaged, delivered and held by our team of midwives.  For YOU to be nourished by our poet warrior artists, to ignite a passion to dedicate readers to this new decade of light! For each of you has a voice and experience and agreements that with higher consciousness, can uplift the spirits of all of HUMANITY!

Starting with the Mother, ending within HER!
Bowing down each of our gifted team of editors, collaborators, partners in this midwifery and alchemy of expression and birth!
 May our efforts serve your divine selves and release the human selves from the violence of being shocked confused collapsing frozen resisting your own delivery!

For all relations
Four turtles in four directions