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Learning to Journey for Self-Healing
Introduction My first contact with shamanism was in 1992 in a college course called ‘Magic and Religion’ (definitely the coolest thing about my school). The class examined indigenous and Western shamanic history and practices as well as some aspects of the occult movement and modern witchcraft. I didn’t pick up my shamanic studies again until…
Loving Kindness Meditation
This meditation, developed out of a yogic practice, is now in wide use all around the globe including in education and the mental health field where it is used as a tool for self-compassion, gratitude, and empathy. With regular use, this meditation can promote stress reduction, increase compassion, and in “high-use” situations has been shown…
Tree of Life Meditation
This is a lovely, well-known meditation that has dozens of variations and can last for as long or as short a session as needed. This is the version I’ve developed to help clients ground and center themselves before or during a healing session or reading, and which I use in many of my workshops. Below…
Teaching Meditation to Children, An Introduction
My youngest child has to learn how to meditate. Like, really meditate – sit still and quiet in a dark room for an hour and… meditate. They’re 10. They have ADHD. They can barely sit through a meal, even when on their meds. But in 3 or 4 months, they will take their Black Belt…
Meditation for Renewal
2020 has been a challenging year, and I’m sure most of us have taken on lots of additional stress, or fear, or anger as the year has gone on. All those feelings are valid and an important part of being human and part of a larger society. But negative feelings can accumulate like anything else…
Threshold Blessing
As we linger at home in our semi-quarantined state, turning our focus inward to our surroundings can help up reconnect with this place we find ourselves restricted to. Seeing it with fresh eyes can help us re-imagine our space and make it what we need in these strange, unprecedented times. One exercise that is relatively…
Lectio Divina, the Practice of Sacred Reading
It’s funny how things enter your life. Or at least, how they enter mine. All of a sudden patterns start to develop and in short order, they point to something that needs to be part of my life. Lectio Divina came to me that way. It sort of gently nudged its way in, and seemed…