Not too long ago a person I have seen mentioned a few times on various YouTube and Facebook threads came to closer attention, Stephen Jenkinson, co-founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. I can’t say I always understand everything he says while listening to the various many offerings and interviews available online, but nonetheless there is a sense of deep resonance.
Last night I watched the film Griefwalker, a deeply
Lately I have come to realize that loving the world and appreciating its beauty somehow seems of paramount importance, arguably the most important “thing” you can do. Some day we all will face the big, as a topic usually avoided at all cost, big final moments on earth, and are we prepared for death coming as a lover? Are we prepared to let go?
But I digress, because this post is about these trees.
Final embrace
The parched earth here drank deeply from the waters coming down during this AR (Atmospheric River) Storm during the last 2 days this late October 2021. This uncharacteristically early in the season storm also bent over one of our beloved magnificent and still fully leafed tree, who fell and took with it, almost carefully, a beautiful beloved Juniper evergreen. A lesson in impermanence, again.
On closer look, I can’t help but see the embrace in the encounter of those two trees, who have been standing next to each other for decades now. Knowing that the main body of the tree
Distance Energy Healing
Next free session, on zoom, September 10, 2021 at 11 am PDT.
Focus: check in for participants
New topic: Most effective use of your exercise time
Hope to see you there
PS. I consciously use facebook as the one social media. Y.ou can communicate via that platform.
https://www.facebook.com/christiane.wolters
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This year I began offering German and English classes.
German: some knowledge required. Konversationsdeutsch, Tuesdays 11 am – 11:30 am PT
English: beginner English as a foreign language. TEFL certified
I don’t charge for the course. You can inquire on my facebook page.
Our small group just finished a segment on how to keep your immunity in top shape by giving your body what it needs and now, it is time for our Lucid Dreaming course…in English and with Spanish translation.
Orientation is this coming Friday, May 21, 2021.
The email will go out through IDHHB, I posted in on facebook, but unfortunately, I forgot how to post in Instagram from a PC (as some of you know, I don’t have a cell phone, never did except when they first came out in the 90ties and I was on call every other day.) But, I digress, below is the note and zoom invite/registration link for the orientation meeting.
Time is getting close for the start of the Lucid Dreaming segment of the Friday morning DEH (Distance Energy Healing).
What is lucid dreaming?
Why would you want to do it?
And, how does one do it anyway?
These three questions will keep us busy with the DEH Lucid Dreaming practice for at least 6-8 weeks.
If you are interested – or, just want to find out more – join us Friday, May 21, Distance Energy Healing with Dok, – Explorations into Consciousness.
This orientation event is open to all. You can register in advance for this event: Lucid Dreaming Orientation Zoom meeting.
When: May 21, 2021 11:00 AM -Noon Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for the orientation.
https://us02web.zoom.us/
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
During the orientation event, you will get a chance to experience the format, space and learn more about how we will be exploring Lucid Dreaming in this course.
If you ever wondered what lucid dreaming is, why you might want to be able to do it, how it could change your life, how to use it in a spiritual way, how you can use it to explore your mind and states of being and – how to actually do it, come on in.
The Lucid Dreaming Course will be held on Fridays 11am -12 noon PT for 6-8 weeks.
“It feels like such an important and useful tool in a variety of ways and the impulse to teach it has been growing stronger lately – so here it is. All are welcome – however, minors need to be accompanied by a parent. I hope to see you there.” – A note from Dok, aka Christiane.
The first online mention of Conscious Life Creates, but, more in the next post.
The world is playing out as it is, quite chaotically atm, and people are taking up their roles in it. What is yours?
For me, one of the things I am focusing on is working to manifest a local garden that has room for other living beings. There is learning involved, inner work and a lot of physical work. The role might be described as creator and harmonizer.
With this garden, I do have a goal in mind, however, it is better to focus on the process, not the outcome. This shifts a lot.
Some people are living a life very different from mine, in countries far away, and are speaking of anchoring new energies, a higher level of being. I see images of beautiful beaches and flowing dresses. Okay, what if your life path isn’t living in a tropical country at the beach? How would I want to anchor energies of a higher vibration or dimension? One thing is for sure, inner work is part of the deal for me. A strong, clear physical/mental/emotional vessel can conduct energy differently and on a higher and larger scale.
You can follow this site or the CW Holistic Health and Healing FB page for tips and “CLCs” Conscious Life Creates. Or you can follow one of our adventures on the FB page Chicks and Weeds – Holistic Gardening with Chickens.
Winter Solstice 2020
A time when nature in the Northern hemisphere is slowed, processing inwards, underground, incubating, quiet. Soon the internet will be flooded with pictures of the 2 planets, the Christmas star of 2020, everyone trying to get that great shot, at the end of this year like no other in recent memory.
Me: a picture of a garden from the frozen ground to which the great mother invited me today via slippery frozen crystals and had me landing on the ground, the holy ground of this magical earth. Miraculously, I landed softly.
There are some that do a certain type of practice, a sadhana during this time of apparent pause at the end of contraction, the out-breath in the natural cycles of life, and before the expansion. I did too this year, a more formal one, with a little ritual at the end, intentions finally condensed into three words, each full of meanings, practices, transformation and beingness, meanings particular to my process at this time. Released, surrendered, may it be so.
Playing around with changing what and how much I eat isn’t new for me and I have settled on basically healthy organic foods, increasingly self grown.
Once in my life I went on a 2 week diet to prepare/purify for an important event. It was lemon juice maple syrup, and it was the worst food experience I ever had because it permanently shifted my body’s metabolism, my gums were bleeding. I did lose a lot of weight but I didn’t feel purified.
I now do intermittent fasting, as in I basically never have breakfast and don’t usually eat before 10am at the earliest, often not till noon.
I came across Eric Edmeades through a Mindvalley Masterclass. I liked him, his approach and presentation. Then a friend of mine signed up for the whole 3 month WilfFit program and shared a few things. Wow, this guy is brilliant in how he goes about it. Then his mini quest: & days to Breaking up with Sugar” was made free, and I took it.
Eric makes sooooo much sense. Anyhow, it was not the super easiest week because I love my little sweet treats. While I had been maintaining a good weight, there was this belly fat that just would not leave. Sticking with the week’s experiment was easier than expected, and surprisingly, it stuck. I now still have some fruit, also sweet potatoes and some bread, but not treats and slowly that fat is being burned. After lunch there still is the faint desire for sweet, but not having it is easy. And overall, I feel better, have more energy.
I highly recommend this quest to anyone who is struggling with weight, their relationship with food, is prediabetic or who just wants to stop putting a very destructive, addictive substance into their body. You’ll learn a lot at the very least.
Is there more to a healthy “diet”? Yes, but breaking up with sugar is a very good start.
Best Nutrition for the human body – 001
Recently I made a commitment to write nutritional, holistic wellbeing posts regularly. This is the first, short and sweet.
I have this image about apples in my files, from somewhere on the internet, there was no credit given, so I don’t know who made it. I thought it was interesting. How is it relevant? Sugar, just notice it.
Just writing about some of my experience with this game I played.
Not that long ago I had the opportunity to play Dream-Life. It is a game where you either make a few lists or tables with location, events or encounters you had during dreams or use pre-made tables. Roll dice to determine one item from each list/table and then make up a story about it.
Lists, or tables, can be made up of actual things, locations, activities, people or creatures you have experienced in a dream, or, you can use generic tables.
You roll the dice and whatever number it falls, that is the location, activity or event that you get to make your story from.
So, a small group of people I knew for some time from work played and I noticed some interesting effects.
It was very connecting to get to know people from a very different “than the usual social” angle.
It felt great to be listened to without there being any judgment.
If anything traumatic was in your dreams and you put it on a list, it might get coupled with a different time or location, or encounter, depending on the roll of dice. This potentially loosens a grip a dream might have on you. There is always an observer in you that gets activated.
When I played with the list made of people’s actual dreams, it felt more connecting, but not at all threatening. This is important for people for whom other humans are generally a source of distress, anxiety or energy drain.
If you use pre-made tables, you simply get to tell a story that may or may not contain actual dream events you may have dreamed at some point.
This is just fun and kind of telling about yourself, but not directly, you make things up into a story, you train to speak, and there is no judgment.
If I were using 3 or 4 words to describe the effects of the game on me, it would be fun, connecting and healing and the game adds an observer component to the entire playtime. If you wanted to, you could even do a little acting or dramatic storytelling.
This game might also be a good voyaging tool, traveling into universes you would not normally go to. Could even be the whole group goes there.
It trains in listening.
And sis I mention it is fun?
from the website page:
Link to the short form instructions in case you want to give it a try.