By: CJ Ananda Page I sat for several hours on the Chocolate Shaman’s porch, observing many of the participants having individual and unique breakthroughs. I watched as men and women of various ages and backgrounds were processing the teachings of the cacao medicine, recognizing the holding of their minds and egos and dropping into their hearts where they could release the stored and stagnant energy. The release showed up in different forms ranging from quiet tears to heavy sighs to bodily shaking to dramatic screams. Thank you cacao!
By: Matty Van BieneWe live in a fascinating time, in which cultures, traditions, and ideas are flowing freely across humanity in a tangible way that we on earth have not known before. It is a time in which ancient wisdom is meeting modern understanding. While these points of view were once seen as opposites they are now beginning to meld and propel the evolution of our consciousness and how we live. Practices such as yoga and meditation have crossed this divide remarkably well and likely have more western practitioners than those from whose cultures they emerged. The proliferation of plant medicine has been leading a new understanding of how to heal the symptoms of diseases that our modern world has unfortunately helped curate. PTSD, sexual trauma, depression, and social anxiety are a few examples of illnesses that result from a population that has been systematically repressed, divided, and put into conflict with one another and the earth. Many people have had enough and find solace and healing in these ancient practices that provide doorways into deeper understandings of the self. By: Saraswati Hayley Tennyson“Pick up your baby,” our midwife Luz stated simply and directly. It was the most intense moment of my existence as I stared into the water in amazed wonder at the baby that had just swooshed out of me and into the bathtub. Had she not told me to do so, I now wonder how long it might have taken me to register that I needed to gather my child from the waters and into the new atmospheric existence with us. This moment remains frozen in time for me as a pause between breaths, between worlds, between periods of incredible effort and surrender, between maiden and motherhood. This moment was an incredible gift; not only the meeting of our first child Elijah Rumi, the ancient wise one now held in my arms like a slippery fish, but the gift of empowerment our midwife offered to us in that very moment. She gave us a chance to do it differently; to claim this new being’s birthright, to take the power back into the hands of the mother as the first one to touch her own child. I now clearly see how this moment was her greatest gift to me. |
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