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06. Being Intentioned Without Being In Tension :: Reclaiming Feminine Magnetism from the Death Grip of Over-Functioning + Control
an exploration of the ways we can harness the power of feminine magnetism to >>attract<< our desires in an organic, pleasureful, deeply generative way // release our addiction to the masculine method of going to battle with life in attempt to โconquerโ what we want.
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05. Take the Leap :: Everything You Desire is On the Other Side of Fear
empty your mind, lift your heart and take a leap!
this episode is a meandering exploration of the ways we can embrace uncertainty, heal our fear of change, and be intentioned without being in-tension. knowing that liberation doesnโt come from resisting or avoiding our fears, but from getting to know them well. -
04. Illness is a Stage of Wellness :: Symptoms are Guides, Guardians and Gurus
in this episode we explore the energy mechanics of illness โ why it exists, what purpose it serves to our evolutionary growth, and how we can become allies, rather than antagonists, to our bodies & their symptoms.
i share my own story of navigating chronic illness โ how i excavated the treasure within it and found the light at the end of the tunnel. -
03. Grow a Garden in Your Mind :: Planting Dreams in the Field of Consciousness
our thoughts and feelings color our entire reality, for better or worse.
in this episode we explore the ways we can shift from being the victim of our experience to being the creator of itโฆ consciously utilizing the power of our thoughts + feelings to create, transform and liberate any experience in our lives, from the inside out. -
02. The Authentic Self is the Soul Made Visible :: Listening to Life + Living What We Hear
who are we? what is our truth? beyond all of our cultural + ego conditioning and fear, what does it mean to live a truly authentic life?
in this episode we explore the ways we can use our intuition and imagination to craft a life and a self that is uniquely ours -- a life that is true to our path and the essence of who we are deep down. -
01. Introduction :: Becoming Artists of Consciousness
an introductory episode that provides a glimpse into who i am,
and what this podcast will be about :: exploring the mechanics of deep inner transformation โ how it works, how it feels, how to catalyze our own change + growth + creation from the inside out.
thank you so much for being here โ
this connection means everything to me. <3 <3 <3
r e c e n t b l o g p o s t s
#2023 - this year has brought so much growth- so much expanse-
such a wide and hearty new ring within our family tree ๐ฑ๐๐ณ๐๐ we went out on new limbs, scrambled to new heights, writhed out of skin grown much too tight ๐๐โป๏ธ๐ฆ like seeds, we burst- we trust- we become even more *us*
trusting and flowing with life, we remember we are freeโ
we discover how miracles are made
resolutions ? perhapsโฆ but more importantly, reflection. rumination. integration. vision casting. part analyst, part oracle. dreaming and scheming. feeling the shape of the future. sensing what life yearns to create through us- what we yearn to give life to. there are so many things i uncover when i look closely in the rearview mirror of a year. wisdom, understanding, revelation gleaned in the passing of time.
i follow the rainbows. guided by a voice inside ///
visions, omens, decreesโ led to a new life at the edge of the sea.
โI know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.โ
i envisioned this life so many times.
it felt like some far-off future, always in the back of my mind,
Here I am, living it in real time. ๐ญ๐๐๐บ๐๐๐ฅ
we packed our entire lives into a 26-foot cube and set off for our next grand adventure! (moving overseas is nooo joke โ phew!)
we hug our loved ones tight. thank you thank you thank you !! to my beloved aunt and uncle, to my darling cousins, to my grandpa- monarch and patriarch of the family.
to all who made it possible for us to be here these last few yearsโฆ
our gratitude runs so deep. our love, even deeper.
the islands are calling and i must go ๐ ๐๐๐บ๐ด๐๐ฌ๐ฅฅโค๏ธโ๐ฅ big change is happening, yโall! after three years of hermiting & healing in southwest missouri ๐ง๐ฟ๐ก๐ฃ๐ (aka living in a log cabin deep in the heart of an oak forest wildflower meadow/ gardening, homesteading, wildschooling/)
weโre packing up our lives and moving across the sea to HAWAII โ๏ธ๐๐๐
last night I dreamt my car was leaking fuel #symbolism >>i have life-changing news!!!! but first, the preface<< i rise in the dark of an early winter morning. the dawn is electric with impending change. like the air before a midwestern thunderstorm -- you know somethingโs coming. the entire atmosphere has shifted, but you canโt see it yet with your eyes. (my intuition usually knows whatโs up.)
this morning i woke up by the ocean. on a tiny dot of an island, far out in the very center of the pacific. ๐๐๐๐๐ molokai. i rejoice in where iโve landed. wild untamed alive / a home with a king bed that feels like a cloud / a drawer full of organic spices / a laundry line on the screened porch where our clothes can blow in the ocean breeze and dry themselves in the warm sun. ๐๐ด๐บ๐๐ถ๐งบ
this is our tenth year homeschooling (!!). wowow, a whole decade.
somehow it feels huge and fleeting at the same time. bittersweet, as with all things parenthood. even after all these years, i * marvel * at all the ways in which homeschool fills our cups + sets us free. free to live joyfully, openly, magically in alignment with our deepest values and soul callings. free to radiate that aliveness out into the world. healing, wholling, revolutionary.
happy sixteenth birthday to my nature loving, storytelling, poetry weaving, mountain climbing, wave riding, french speaking, film directing, solo traveling, water healing, golden haired and golden hearted, ever sun-kissed, dolphin-spirited daughter anna madrid ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐๐ฆwise so far beyond her years. yet silly, uninhibited and so very playful :: she who DJโs every gathering because of her incredible taste in music ::
life these days: waking at dawn and facing east, tending this little cottage in the forest, caring for chickens, stewarding bees, reading books aloud to my loves, teaching the teenager to drive and build a website, teaching the 9-year old to use power tools and haul water, farm chores until weโre stiff and dirty and hungry, dirty fingernails in garden soil, fresh picked salad (gosh, sooo much salad) and berries and vegetables, picnics, growing herbs for medicine,
ode to the moon in taurus. i believe in creating a home environment that supports the life i wish to live. magical, earthy, grounding, nourishing. our environment is an extension of our energy field. influencing // being influenced by our thoughts, feelings, wordsโฆ the energies that flow through day by day. i harmonize my home. it tunes me back. physically, mentally, emotionally.
loving to read = constant learning + growing // the ability to expand your mind + life // discovering new sides of yourself // teaching yourself anything โก๏ธ๐ญ๐ช๐ก๐งฉ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ง ๐ธ๐คน๐ books have *literally* changed my life over and over and over again. and i wanted to share some of my biggest change-makers. hallelujah for the written word!! ๐ and enormous gratitude for being a modern human, with the sum total of all human knowledge at our fingertips ๐๐ฑ
beauty = nourishment = medicine = healing = magic ๐ธ๐ฟ๐๐ฑ๐ผ
iโve trusted the plants with my life and theyโve walked me all the way home to myself. revealing a world full of shimmering gifts + tools scattered at our feet. ๐๐๐๐งโโ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐งฉ๐ฃ๐ฅโก๏ธ๐จ๐ this is not a metaphor! the world is alive and speaking to us. (mckenna) our only role is to be * o p e n * and present. we have the power to change our perception + consciousness at will (real life magic โก๏ธ)
โyou hold the spade to turn new soil. for the coming grace you hold the plans.โ -- ayla nereo ๐๐ฟ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐พ๐๐ธ๐ฆ โโป๏ธ๐๐งฌ๐
a lil earth mama in her garden bliss. turning compost / churning change โป๏ธ๐ making wishes she had no idea would become so true (or so trying). this last year has stripped me of all the old, stale, decaying parts of myself and chucked them into a giant compost heap to decompose and be regrown.
โIf you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?โ { rumi } i once read a meme that said โmeasure your growth by how you see others.โ everything and everyone in life that triggers us is a sacred mirror. >> gaze deeply. everything that upsets us about others can lead us to a greater understanding of ourselves, if we choose it. iโve been hurt in my life.there have been times when others have caused me great pain. i sit in it. it feels like suffering.
a direct transmission from my work with amanita muscaria. profound, life-changing, radical. never the same. i stand beneath a cliff-face upon which every dream of my life is strewn. i reach up to touch them but i fall short. theyโre * just * beyond my reach. if only i were a few inches taller. if only i could stretch myself a tiny distance more. i try and try and try but nothing changes.
home is where the heart is open โจ๐ฒ๐ก๐ณโจ guys! last weekend we moved to southern missouri. it was a spontaneous leap. we decided on a thursday and drove our essentials down two days later. we moved into a darling cabin deep in an oak forest, atop a hill overlooking the meadow, on the land where i was born.
"i am learning how to become a flower. how to remember my body. how to commit to her regeneration. how to reassemble these bones into starshine." // dominique christina ashaheed //
this is my story of 2019.
it's a love story about a woman and her body, and the openness, freedom & beauty that bloomed from the very seed of her being when she gave herself over completely to it, letting it lead her entire life.
in may we were invited to present a new program for work in july in tallinn, estonia (airfare included!) so of course we leapt at the idea, and made sure to book free, extra long layovers in liverpool on the front end, and dublin on the back end #promove
mama used her super-vision powers to plan an iNcReDiBle trip to the holy lands of our ancestors โ england + ireland, and daddy channeled his road warrior studness to drive us all around europe, on the opposite side of the road.
pat attends his 10-day vipassana retreat -- a light warrior doing battle on the front lines of his own self mastery. changing our lives from the inside out. itโs huge in a way i donโt have words for. monumental invisible change. i can feel his energy weaving with mine, even as weโre apart. lifting, rising, brightening. luminous love. he returns and iโm drawn to him like a magnet - canโt get enough.
last night i dreamed of myself meditating. eyes closed. immersed in a transmission of tantra. a livestream of the soul, playing behind my eyes as a vision, and within my energy field as an instrument. tantra = embodied meditation. a weaving of oneself into the fabric of the experience. merging, embracing, integrating all aspects of life, from the darkest to the lightest. accepting all, denying none.
wandervision// mystical quest-taking
what do you do when youโre given clear divine instruction?
in june i was told in meditation that i needed to travel into the desert for 40 days- crystal clarity. regardless of time, money, or circumstanceโฆ when you receive messages like this, the only reasonable choice is to heed them. and so began my 31st revolution around this life-giving star. #happybirthdaytome
โif you want a teacher, try a waterfall, or a mushroom, or a mountain wilderness, or a storm pounded seashore.โ { terence mckenna } itโs sexy to seek transformation in faraway places. novelty is medicine, to be sure. iโve trekked through jungles, screamed beneath the pounding pressure of waterfalls, kept my cubs warm with mere body heat while camping in a colorado mountain blizzard
life feels like waking up in a lucid dream. reality vibrant and clear, my periphery expanding to include so much more, an instinctual awakening to a deep felt sense of absolute interconnectedness // inseparability from all beings (animate and inaminate).
truth:: there is an incredible power of benevolence flowing ceaselessly, magically all around us. orchestrating timing, signs, messages, attunements. waking us up in the dream.
i prayed for miracles/ followed the magic. swept into my greatest dreams, riding in on divine light beams. we travel 36 hours to the other side of the planet and land in bali. where up is down and dark is light. where it snows flowers instead of ice on rooftops.
where the rooster crows at dawn over the rice fields, and i hear him through the wide-open bedroom windows that have no screen. weโve come to live here for as long as it makes sense.
what medicine does your heart yearn for? give me the mountains. my husband and i leave our children behind in the loving arms of tag-teaming grandparents (#blessed) and embark on a pilgrimage to the top of the world: hiking the alps. big #mountainmedicine we set out to hike the tmb :: a 10-day, 100-mile trail that circles the mont blanc massif through france, italy and switzerland, with 8,500 feet of elevation gain / loss.
july is here. high summer steeped in warm golden sunlight, the bioluminescent glow of fireflies in the meadow at dusk, and the sweet serenade of cicadas // moisture in the air. my rainbow sunbeam daughterโs birth month. (big things happen to me in july) monumental change, monarch metamorphosis, buds bursting into bloom. this year holds a juxtaposition of feeling:: rejoicing in what is! my children are bright deep wise visionary. so many things iโve done really, really well as their mama
:/:/coyotes, mushrooms + sacred waters::// ๐๐๐บ๐๐ฒ๐ช๐๐
we take a pilgrimage to the sparkling waters of lake tahoe to celebrate my 30th birthday + solar return. the wild calls us home to ourselves. fills and lifts us from the inside out. where do you go to feel deeply connected? to feel spirited/ alive? attunement is a magical, powerful thing. i meditate on the lakeshore until the sun goes down on my 29th year.
heart to head >>> where you are is exactly where you need to be. life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. how do you know this is the experience you need? because itโs the experience you are having. my conceptualization of โdivine timingโ transforms into intuitive, embodied knowing.
this morning i was asked a question that i couldnโt resist thinking deeply on. โwhat unconscious conditions do you feel need to be met in order for you to manifest your healthy qualities (highly principled, humane, gracefully balanced)? what in you is preventing you from being at your best place right now?โ { enneagram type 1 prompt -- iโm a recovering perfectionist }
:: n u r t u r i n g s e e d s o f ::
+ c o n s c i o u s n e s s +
โyour picture of reality
is your most important creation.
make it powerfully, profoundly beautiful.โ
{ alex grey}
consciousness is the field in which all lifeโs seeds are sown // what are you growing??
as artists of consciousness and co-creators of reality, we possess the power to create the more beautiful world we know is possible from the inside out by expanding our awareness + reclaiming our imagination
+ c r e a t i v i t y +
โeverything you can imagine is real.โ
{ pablo picasso }
life is the blank canvas that we dye with the color of our thoughts, feelings, and choices . we architect our own reality -- in the image of our fears and frustrations, or our wildest imaginations . itโs a choose-your-own adventure! our choices arise from one of two places: our emotional programming, or our visionary spiritual practice // devotion to quantum artistry in every moment.
+ t r a n s f o r m a t i o n +
โalchemy is consciously assisted evolution.โ
{ frater albertus }
alchemy = the transmutation // intentional rearrangement of raw elements into something new . we can change anything about our selves or our lives by holding it in our awareness + transforming our relationship to it from the inside out . we can walk into the darkness of our shadows and be with them until they begin to glow . we can turn our poisons into nectar!
+ l i b e r a t i o n +
โthe world was made to be free in!
give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.โ
{ david whyte }
we transform our lives + expand our reality by setting ourselves free from limiting beliefs. โemancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.โ liberation = a radical unshackling of our thoughts and deep attunement with // reclamation of our most *authentic being*