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Ready for anything

If I can't take what happens, I'm not ready for anything. - John Cage, artist, composer

According to Angeles Arrien's Four-Fold Way, Winter is the season of the Warrior.  We embody the Warrior when we show up and choose to be present.  Doing so means we are ready and willing to be with whatever is here.  One way I'm accessing the Warrior is by volunteering at the Reiki Clinic in San Francisco. 

In Reiki, we practitioners simply show up and serve up Universal Energy to the client.  The client's body-mind system knows where and how to direct that flow of energy.  Relaxation, releasing, and self-healing all take place organically.  Being a practitioner means showing up, getting out of the way, and trusting the process. 

Being a strong conduit for Reiki and holding space for what wants to happen is a very Warrior activity.  Oddly enough, it feels easy, effortless, as if you are really doing nothing.  We take for granted the huge gift of our Presence.  By choosing to show up and be Present, we lend ourselves as witness and create and maintain a strong container for healing.

Anything can happen in life.  By showing up and choosing to be here, we are saying we can take it.  We can respond with full hearts and clear minds.

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The body is the sacred sanctuary of the soul.-Ilana Rubenfeld. Be good to your body today and tonight.

Creativity for life! Thomas Berry says, "Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman."

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body unconscious is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.
- D.H. Lawrence

is planning Dreamwork & Shamanic Arts workshops with Dan Gronwald. YAY!