How will you choose to show up?
What can we come to you for?
What can we count on you for?
What medicine is in your basket,
ready for usage by those in need?
When things are going too wild to contain,
what energy will you choose hold?
APOTHECARY BEGINS THIS WEEKEND
Medicine Painting: 3 Week Intentional Creativity Class
You can go at your own pace for up to two months!
.::. Tragedies to Remedies .::. Transform your Wounds into Wonders .::.
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Red Thread Guide Gathering ~ IN PERSON in Sonoma CA
April 13.14.15 – we have a few openings – come circle with us and paint drums!
with Shiloh Sophia & Mary McCrystal
+ Guest Drummer Leader Lavender Cinnamon
Learn more and watch our video
Demo painting for Color of Woman Teacher Training 2018
Photo by Tammra Harrison .::. This is the part of the rose Blessing…
Perhaps the solemn gravity of the wild muse in the painting says it all…
Showing Up: Questions to ask in hard times.
And why you haven’t heard me talking about #metoo more
and other really hot topics on social media.
Rogue Healers by Shiloh Sophia
How will you choose to show up?
What can we come to you for?
What can we count on you for?
What medicine is in your basket,
ready for usage by those in need?
When things are going too wild to contain,
what energy will you choose hold?
What gives you joy, to give freely?
What part of loving makes you come to life?
How do you offer service without sacrifice?
What part of what is happening, hurts the most?
Where is the root of the rage rising?
How will this rage become a remedy?
Is there a message that is yours to offer now?
What expectations will you cast off?
What stories will you tell and how and to whom?
Can you love without empathically taking on pain?
How will you nurture yourself when it is time?
What does your heart say about today?
Medicine people today don’t look like we think.
Rogue healers are roving the lands.
Do you see us? Are you one of us? Will you come?
Our baskets are filled with unexpected delights.
Stories. Songs. Colors. Fabrics. Ideas. Scents.
Cookies. Dances. Invitations to the table. Red Thread.
Walks in the woods. Remedies for what ails.
Paintbrushes. Drums. Bells. Smiles. Tears.
Timing. Magic timing. A call to listen to trees.
Rogue Healers have secret names no one knows.
Yet you can feel it, and sometimes see it.
Watch for us at the cafe between tomorrow and today.
We are at the supermarket and the office.
We are in the car next to you and behind the curtain.
We are offering other kinds of consciousness.
We are not saying it is “all good” or “all bad.”
We may not be offering solutions.
We may not have our sh*t together.
We may have addictions and doses of basassery.
We may not identify ourselves at first.
We are here, telling a different story.
Stepping from one space to the next.
Extending a hand through the veil…come.
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Dear One,
Greetings to you! You may not have heard me speaking online about #metoo and many other hot topics. At least not as much as you might expect. Yet I am speaking about it in person. It isn’t that I am not speaking about them with circles of friends and client beloveds. It isn’t that I don’t see. It isn’t that the rage isn’t rising and the tears flowing. It isn’t that I am not working on it. It just isn’t as visible on social media right now.
First of all, I have found many intelligent voices already speaking language beyond what I felt I had to say. But to my own community, I had to ask – what is my role, right now? Not forever, but right now, how can I truly serve? What can bring resiliency to our collective activism? What is the root of activism I can nurture with the gifts that are in my basket?
The writing above is my own process, Rogue Healer, shared so that it might make it plain for you, my experience and inquiry – and perhaps spark you to your own inquiries.
A few years ago I claimed the tagline: Encouragement for the Journey. I thought that held enough of what I do, and wanted to do. Yes to inform but to bless. But in time I found it limiting. Because if I did want to speak about something spicey I felt constrained, as people told me they counted on me to help – not point out all the bad juju in the world. I know I know, I can share whatever I want. Students also said that since I am a teacher, when I share a view, many students feel like I am teaching and that I need to watch what I say due to the student perception. Sigh. I get the responsibility – but still must remain who I am or else what can I really teach?
I guess what I am saying is that for now, my energy is distilled into my sacred work and how it can empower women to empower others and that has to be enough today. And it is. And it is what I can tend and nurture well.
Each day I study the tragedies of women and girls globally. Water and whales. Birds and babies. Each day I read and feel. I am not asleep to the great unfolding. I am refining my piece of the red thread, which is woven into community circles, friendships and education in my craft. My study of the world, directly influences my teachings on consciousness and how I communicate. My sharing is not a justification for my actions nor a permission slip to non action. Not all that is being done can be seen. My focus is serving those who serve.
Since 2013, every year we have been at the United Nations during this month, but the Sonoma County fires changed everything and we had to seriously rework our schedules. So instead. I was here at the Sonoma campus, teaching a group of 25 women how to access their consciousness by choice. And that, is enough.
The true root of Intentional Creativity stems from my desire to ease suffering -it always has -since I was 23. That took an unexpected turn more than once -yet I know I am in the right place.
Each of us must find our enough. Choose our level of awakeness and engagement. And find pleasure as often as possible. This weekend guiding 25 women on Muse adventure and 50+ online I was in my element, knowing this IS right where I needed to be, doing exactly what I needed to be doing. Being who I ALREADY am. It isn’t becoming something else – or someone else, but revealing more of who I already am and inviting others to the same! It isn’t that I think creativity alone is enough – but I know that when I am able to create through tragedy – I am awake enough to know how to act. Creativity is the healing I need to show up whole.
On Saturday we begin a 3 week journey of what I call Medicine Painting – APOTHECARY and I am delighted to be sharing the teachings specifically about working through hard times. And to welcome my husband, Jonathan out from behind the camera to talk with us – this class was his idea!
We set out Monday morning after a 5 day Muse event for COLOR of WOMAN for a hike and to have coffee at the creek and 48 hours later we had not come back home. Top down and sunglasses on. We went to the beach to watch the wild life at the estuary at Jenner. My favorite thing is watching the horizon line at the sea and letting the sparkle on water enter my eyes. Spent the night at the ocean, watched the moon on the water and could see the bowl of stars from our bed. The next day, it was redwood walking and talking to 1400 year old redwoods in the grove of ferries. Last night had yummie curry dinner on a deck by the creek at Jack London Village with Mary MacDonald.
Then home, to a moon bath hot tub under the stars. The light was so blue on our bodies. Loving those I love, is also showing up for me.
Sending blessings from where I am, to where you are. As I write the white petals are blowing in the spring wind…
p.s. I was so delighted to be a part of the Women’s Search for Wisdom at the Petaluma Museum this past weekend. I spoke with Dr. Kayleen Asbo about Eve and Magdalene, the status of woman today and how the stories of claiming the feminine continue to impact us…and the significance of stepping out of that frame into a more empowered place. The show is up until 3/31!
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May LOVE be at the CENTER of all CHOICES
