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The Positive Energy Home

The Positive Energy Home 

Our home is our haven, our retreat. It’s where we see our mate, family, and friends, and where we spend time alone. It’s where we can let our hair down, relax, celebrate, entertain, meditate, plan, reminisce, eat, sleep, love. It is our spiritual center.  As an extension of our personal energy, it should remind us of where we want life to take us.  If you long for simplicity, then your home should reflect that. If you are on a spiritual path, then let your home set the stage. Begin by creating an enchanted environment for yourself. You want to feel calm and happy here and you’ll find that by using color in a deliberate way you’ll be making your home energetically supportive – a joyful backdrop to your life.

Home is where we can achieve the highest level of Self-Care and Cristina has an extensive Home Energy Toolbag.  She has worked in the field of energy healing for over 20 years and has done many home energy consultations based on what she has coined The Positive Energy Home. Her goal is to facilitate people to get a true fresh start and set the stage for how they want to live. There are many tools available to enhance the energy and quality of your home and she has extensive experience in this area. She offers a variety of Positive Home Energy guidance tools.

Creating a relaxed, personalized, and organized space is the key to meshing well with your customers and clients. The infusion of aromas, strategically selected color schemes, and designated room energies all work in harmony to help define your customers’ and clients’ needs and intentions. Learn how to foster peace and positivity within the space, within your mind, and most importantly, within your customer or client.

The Positive Energy Home at A Glance

  1. Conduct energy clearings through Sage and Palo Santo. 

  2. Bless your apartment through candles, sound therapy, and intention. 

  3. Rock salt lamps and selenite lamps will ensure positive energy flowing throughout your home. (Make sure that all of your lamps are strategically positioned.) 

  4. Define the vibration your clients want to live in. Vibrations set the stage for who your clients are and where they want to go in life. 

  5. Nature heals; houseplants raise the vibration of your home and can filter the air. 

  6. Make sure your apartment has good feng shui (black hat style). 

  7. Give each room its own energetic personality. For example, the bedroom should be a relaxation room and the living room should be reserved for socializing. Use the techniques above to create positive energy environments in each of the rooms in your home. 

  8. Create a sacred space. Every home should have a space where you can connect with your source. You want to do this in one area repetitively, so that you build up a morphogenetic field. For instance, if you meditate in one area of your home regularly, each time you practice mediation, you will be able to achieve inner peace at a faster rate because of the specific energy field you’ve created in your sacred space. 

  9. Personalize your home. Create your own art and/or strategically place meaningful objects where you can see them. Use these objects as a reminder of the energy you want to achieve in your life. 


The Positive Energy Home – Detailed

ROOMS TO BREATHE IN

Our home is our haven, our retreat. It’s where we see our mate, family, and friends, and where we spend time alone. It’s where we can let our hair down, relax, celebrate, entertain, meditate, plan, reminisce, eat, sleep, love. It is our spiritual center.  As an extension of our personal energy, it should remind us of where we want life to take us.  If you long for simplicity, then your home should reflect that. If you are on a spiritual path, then let your home set the stage. Begin by creating an enchanted environment for yourself. You want to feel calm and happy here and you’ll find that by using color in a deliberate way you’ll be making your home energetically supportive – a joyful backdrop to your life..

  To change the vibrational energy in your home, there are a few basic axioms to keep in mind.

Get rid of all clutter

It disturbs the mind on an unconscious level, lowering your tolerance for others and preventing you from radiating your inner light and joy.

Cleanse  Use a sage stick to cleanse the house regularly and bring in fresh energy.     

 Be thoughtful about the objects you surround yourself with. This is not a question of economics, it is a question of choosing things that are meaningful to you. If you don’t like an object in your house it has to go, no matter how much it cost or who gave it to you.

 Avoid what we call  “poverty consciousness”

Hanging onto possessions because you feel that you never have enough promotes stale stagnant energy. Release and let go to allow new energy to come into your life.  

Take care of your home.

When we take care of our surroundi.ngs we instantly enter a new state of awareness. Like Eastern monks tending their meditation gardns, we have a sense of satisfaction when we have undertaken and completed a project. The forward movement keeps us in the present, opening up our crown chakra.

Use color

There are not many rooms that take more than three days to paint and it is well worth it. Few symbolic fresh new starts are more powerful than changing the color of your room. We have personally found this to be the way out of many funks that can make the difference between feeling depressed and inspired. Changing the frequency of your environment changes the frequency of your situation.  Also the commitment to, for example, painting a bedroom in a shade of green to energize your heart center and work on matters of love is exactly the kind of affirmation it takes to set growth in motion.   

 Always check in with your intutiton.  Shut your eyes and ask yourself what color does this room need? .   As you develop your sensitivity to subtle energies and begin to trust your instincts, you will find that they will never steer you wrong.

Making Color Choices  

 RED needs to be used judiciously as an interior color because it energizes and activates, evoking a very powerful response. It also makes a room appear smaller.  When you want coziness and intensity, as perhaps in an entry hall or dining room, red can work well. Lush and tempting as it may be, red is a no-no for the bedroom. Red in the bathroom is also problematic: But burgundy is fine..

    Because red activates our base emotions and primal instincts, it can cause us to act thoughtlessly or aggressively. So if you are living with red and find yourself prone to arguments and spats with your family or mate, change this color or use it sparing, balancing it with golden yellows or greens.

     Amusement arcades and casinos deliberately use red to cater to our base instincts and promote feelings of excitement.

      One red story I found especially touching is about a woman who was suffering from postpartum depression. Not feeling sexy was her biggest complaint. She told me that about three months after her daughter was born she had the urge to paint her bathroom red. I wondered if the bathroom was the only place she felt she could be alone with her husband and if she was unconsciously setting up a sex area just for them. The answer, to my surprise, was no. This was her place. She would spend hours in there rebuilding her sense of self and inner sense of sexuality. As her depression began to lift, she painted the window frames orange and yellow. She essentially had created a space where she could rebuild herself from the base chakra up. It was fascinating.

      ORANGE, which also connotes strong feelings, has some of the same limitations as red for interiors.  It stimulates appetite and is commonly used in fast food restaurants as is yellow.  For the home, it needs to be used sparingly.  For example, in our first apartment,Tony and I had an old, unfashionable couch that looked terrible.  We bought an orange sheet to cover it hoping to lift our spirits. It seemed all right at first until one day I was overcome with the urge to get rid of it immediately; I was having a fit. Tony admitted that he’d been feeling antsy, too, so in no time, the orange sheet became curtains. The smaller amount of orange worked well on the windows  creating a subtle glow in the morning light that encouraged activity.  As for the couch, we covered it with a pale blue throw and were much happier—and calmer. All mistakes are just experiences that help to teach us what is good or bad for us personally, it’s all subjective, and it’s all trial and error.   

    YELLOW is good for a room where you read and/or work.  It’s bright and uplifitng plus it stimulates the intellect and aids in strengthening your inner power and self esteem.

    GREEN and BLUE are great for promoting relaxation and sound sleep and so naturally they are the colors we encourage for bedrooms. One friend of ours was suffering from insomnia.  For months, she experienced a powerful urge to paint her bedroom deep green, an impulse that surprised her because dark green had never been one of her favorite colors.  In the end, she decided to try it and she hasn’t had a night of insomnia since. Restful green was just what the doctor ordered.

     Another friend, having recently suffered the loss of her father, felt compelled to paint her bedroom blue. What she didn’t realize at the time is that blue eases loneliness. She was listening to her body’s needs and benefiting from soothing blue energy to relieve her grief.

     VIOLET is a receding color, and makes a room appear larger.  Violet makes for a contemplative living space, ideal for bathrooms and dreamy bedrooms. We painted our bedroom area violet not only because it was very small but also because violet helps stimulate dreams and spirituality. I experienced an increase in lucid dreams and from these dreams got inspiration for some of our more unique nail colors. I would suggest painting a room violet when you are going through dramatic emotional periods of your life. It will help your connection with the universe and inspire you to listen to your body and what it needs.

      WHITE. Since white carries an otherworldly quality, it needs to be balanced with pictures, plants, crystals and mirrors.  White is a good choice when you want to make a room appear lighter and/or bigger as are all pastel colors.

The Color Correct Home

This blueprint for a vibrationally correct home will provide you with a starting point from which you may apply color in your own way.  Check out your intuitive feelings against our color guidelines for specific rooms. But as a general guidline have lots of plants and flowers, lifeforce brings good energy. Keep your home free from clutter and filled with things you love.

 The Entrance

  First impressions are big impressions so the color that first welcomes people into your home is important. Red can indicate excitement and  promise liveliness within. Blue may reflect a family with strong independent opinions. Green and pink announce warmth, perhaps a home where harmony and loving feelings are paramount. Yellow indicates a family where ideas and the intellect are valued.   Hanging photographs of family and friends in the entrance is a welcoming touch and can also remind you of the love in your life when you come home after a long day.

The Living Room

     When you think about it, the words “living room” make a big statement since where and how we live affect our energy system and our overall happiness. Unfortunately all too many living rooms aren’t lived in at all – they’re off limits to the family. We disapprove and believe the living room should always have a welcoming, lived in air and evoke a feeling of happiness and joy. 

  Warm colors are good choices for this room.  Deep colors might make the room look smaller but they can have therapeutic effects as well. A deep burgundy might give a safe feel, a sexy feel. A burnt orange will promote sociability and sensuality and help bring conversations to an intuitive level. But in general, you’ll want to go with calming colors for your dominant color.  A blue will stimulate conversation and calm the nerves. Green and blue is a good combination because it promotes loving communication and relaxation. You can use bright and stimulating colors in splashes, accessorizing with  paintings, flowers, pillows, vases and  throws.

  Keep a strong and loving life force flowing in your home and especially in the living room.. Plants are great for energy and aesthetics. Crystals can purify and stimulate conversation. Your own artwork on the walls can be a source of inspiration and conversation. Photographs of you in a special moment will remind you that you are loved and have achieved. Your living room should reflect your life.

The Dining Room

     Since eating is a time for connecting with friends and family, effective honest conversation can be stimulated with blues, violet, or a muted orange, one mixed with a blue or green. Reds and oranges will encourage a more romantic fiery mood. Eating can be a sensual time so deep burgundies, deep violets and greens or a burnt orange would work as well. It’s interesting that the bright oranges used in fast food chains promote sociability but don’t say relax and stay a while, whereas a darker, more muted orange does. The same is true for yellow. Whatever color you choose, colored votives can really lend the room a magical light.

The Kitchen

     For many people, the kitchen is  the most important room in the house —  half the TV sitcoms take place in the kitchen. It’s where we meet and talk with our family and with friends, too. Maybe our social awkwardness prompts us to need a reason to be hanging out together and in the kitchen we have the reason, helping the cook. Cooking is so crucial to our energy system, not just in terms of what we are eating but in how we prepare the food. The energy that we put into food we cook is the energy we will be eating and sharing, so we want it to be positive. Color can aid in this process but there is no substitute for positive thought.

     Keeping positive energy in mind, you’ll want to use colors that are warm and  friendly. As basic general rules we’d stay away from bright or dark oranges, blue, red and unbelievably enough yellow. So many of us grew up with yellow kitchens!. Peach, apricot, coral and the like are good to use, as are other colors that are subtle.  Strong bright colors can be intrusive and can stimulate strong emotion that may encourage negative interaction, rushed conversation, a lack of thoughtfulness and a lack of harmony.

      I personally didn’t want to paint my kitchen so I’ve covered the walls with photographs of friends and other images that make me happy. I think a happy kitchen can help emotional eaters resist attempting to fill that hole they feel in their belly with food rather than with the love they are really craving.

The Bedroom

     This room is our sanctuary, our safe place from the world where we can let go, visualize positive realities for ourselves, make love and of course sleep. Regardless of which of these activities is most important to you, we’ll say this, do not paint your bedroom completely red! We know a woman who did this because she loves the color so much and wanted to stimulate her lovemaking. Of course she’s an insomniac.  For sexual energy, she could splash the room with red through trim or accessories but stick with blues and greens for getting a good night’s sleep.     

      You don’t want anything too powerful in the bedroom. In general we need to recharge our batteries here, refuel and balance our energy system. So the atmosphere should be balanced and calm. When we sleep our deep breathing puts us in a mind state that is open to suggestion.  We become more receptive than we are in our nonsleeping state and can absorb the positive frequencies of colors more easily. Again, the light blues and greens seem to be the best choice but anything is ok as long as it’s soft.  Add uplifting and nurturing energy with splashes of color.  

    We also want to mention aroma for the bedroom. Buy a diffuser to burn real essential oils or buy aromatherapy candles that have real essential oils in them. These scents affect us just as color does. Lavender is a general overall great choice to balance and relax. Bergamot is one of my favorites and the combination of both is great. I always have scents around; it really positively affects my system. Go to a department store or health food store and treat yourself to candles and oils. (But remember, only real essential oils are therapeutic.)

The babies room

     Here you want to be very careful. You want to encourage response but you also don’t want to overstimulate. Studies conducted at Harvard have shown that black and white patterns stimulate mental processes and increase intelligence during the first few months of life; thus the black and white mobiles available for newborns.  By about three months, babies respond to bright colors.  Birren says yellow is usually the most enticing followed by white, pink and red.  .But until the baby is eighteen months old, use these colors sparingly and stick to calming, nurturing pale pastels for the walls.

      In general blue is a very healing color for infants and children.  Pale blue, as the predominant color is best; its vibrations will subconsciously act on the infant helping to communicate needs. Use splashes of pale green and pink to promote unconditional love from the very beginning. Please don’t color discriminate by gender! We all need a balance of colors that include assertiveness and nurturing. So don’t deprive a boy of pink and green or a girl of blue. We need to start taking responsibility for eliminating gender specific stereotypes. They have no place in the new world. 

Children’s Bedrooms

     If you have a say in the matter, I’m sure you’d want to promote balance, self-confidence and the intellect but you may find the little person has ideas of his or her own. Just remember kids have a great innate instinct that guides them and we must respect that and allow the many inevitable phases to play out. But if you are allowed to contribute your two cents worth, just give them some of the information you’ve learned here and let them decide. You might actually go over the different color effects together and decide which colors would enhance your mutual goals and desires.

The Bathroom

 This is the one place in the house where we are never disturbed and because of our immunity to interruption, we can relax.  Even though blue is a relaxing color, too dark a blue can promote depression.so be careful about that. Light colors in the coral family are good. Place a plant or crystal in this room to counteract the draining of energy that happens when the water goes down the drain or is being flushed. No matter how small your bathroom may be, there is always ceiling room for a small green plant.

 The Study

 Whether your study is a room unto itself or a corner, you want to create a stimulating and relaxing environment. Yellow is good as a dominant color, blue is good for communication andcalm, splashes of white and blue will keep work flowing and avoid its becoming stale. Flowers and plants are helpful; you need life force around you for positive stimulati.  Have books around that you’ve enjoyed and if you’re brave enough, put up painting or drawing of your own to remind you of your creative energy.

 The Office

Color can be used in office spaces to increase productivity and focus. In work environments, warm blues can create an overly relaxed atmosphere that is not conducive to productivity and efficiency.  On the other hand, certain strong, dark colors create chaos and distraction.  Cool blues, greens and turquoise  are good for office spaces; they don’t get in the way and they create an atmosphere of relaxed purpose.

Private Space or Altar

 In ancient times there were many good luck symbols to bless a household and color was significant in each. In Ireland, Syria, India, Mexico and Constantinople the symbol of the red hand was used on a wall or door to shield the occupants from harm. In Jerusalem a blue hand was used for the same reason. I feel every alter should represent what connects you to your source energy and this can be anything…my home alter is very diverse.

Having a place you constantly return to for a specific reason creates a particular energy in that area. That’s why creating an altar and or a meditation area is so powerful. You don’t have to have a separate room for this purpose.  Your special place can be any part of a room. Perhaps it is simply a chest covered in purple silk in the corner of your bedroom.  Mine is. 

Your altar is where you place things that remind you of your selflove and inner empowerment. It can be anything from a stone taken from a place where you had a spiritual experience to a picture to a crystal — whatever. My altar has objects I consider magical that have positive emotional memories for me of moments when I felt connected to myself and the universe.

  It is said that wearing the same garment when spending time in your altar space adds to the spiritual energy of this area.  When this is done repeatedly, just putting the garment on or sitting in your place will ignite a specific spiritual state of mind and centeredness. I often put on my blue silk Tibetan dress before I meditate.  Violet is also a good color to wear. Whatever represents your personal spirituality is good. White will help you adapt to whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.  Whether it be finding your inner beauty and power, alleviating stress, resolving a problem or just connecting with a higher positive force, it is important to be open to whatever it is your instincts guide you to do. Whenever I sit in my small place (I try for a minimum of three days a week) I feel the power and it fills me with joy.     

If You Don’t Want to Paint

     If you want to change the color energy in a room but find the idea of painting your walls too daunting, there are many other possibilities:

      –     Just paint your door or window frames  

  • Solarize the room with solarized water or transparent silk curtains.
  • Wear color energy
  • Do color visualization
  • Do color meditation
  • Take a color energy shower
  • Place flowers in the room
  • Use colored sheets
  • Sleep with colored crystals

 I’ve tried the curtains and found it a perfect alternative. Decide on the color you need and buy silk fabric making sure it’s opaque enough to block the view from outside and transparent enough to allow sunlight to penetrate.  You want to create a glow. Let’s say you’ve decided on green fabric.  During the day the sunlight will light the room with a green luminescence at the same time giving it green color energy.  At night the color will be opaque but you’ll still have the green vibrations  stored from the frequency of green light filling the room all day long..

Color Prescriptions

Social Room

Primary color:  Muted orange to promote sociability and wisdom.

Secondary color:  Blue for honest communication and/or green for love energy.

Splashes of: Violet for detachment and spiritual connection. Yellow to stimulate intellect

Intellect Room

Primary color:  Yellow for heightened intellect.

Secondary:  Blue for effective honest communication.

Splashes of:  Orange for intuition and violet for detachment.

Relaxation Room

Primary color:  Light blue or green.

Secondary:   Light blue or green, opposite of whatever primary you pick.

Splashes of:  Yellow for inner power, white to cleanse away anxiety and violet for relaxation and spirituality.

Spiritual room

Primary color:  Violet. It will connect you to your higher self and your psychic self. Secondary color:  White for cleansing the body, mind and spirit. Green for love energy.

Splashes of:  Deep blue for meditation, pink for love, white, yellow and orange.

Unconditional Love Room

Primary color:  Green, any shade as long as it’s not too light or too dark

Secondary color:  Pink for more love and giddiness. White for cleansing, violet to bring spiritual love.

Splashes of:  White to cleanse, blue to ease loneliness, orange for sensuality, red for sex.

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Bringing healing energy into your nervous system

This is great to do everyday!

I’m in a very freeform state of shamanic energy medicine and I’m just sharing the journey, this isn’t formal….I share as I am discovering and / or experiencing the healing and shifting energies…

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Grounding


Earth’s healing energies are a vital part of our over-all health.

Just Some of the Benefits of Grounding:
 Helps to polarize and balance your bodies’ energy
 Promotes feeling centered
 Encourages feeling confident
 Re-vitalizes chi/core energy
 If you feel like your head is in the clouds, grounding will help you focus

Grounding Suggestions:

1. Earthing
My favorite way to stay grounded is to walk barefoot on our beautiful earth, preferably on lush grass but anyplace you love is perfect. Walk, run, dance or stand still – whatever feels good is good for you. I would just suggest taking a moment to stand still with hands on your thighs and take a few slow deep breadths in your nose and out your mouth. With each breadth let the roots in your feet gently go down deep into the earth and allow earths energies to flow into your roots and up into your body – it can feel very strengthening to your soul but there is a gentleness also.
Make sure to wiggle your feet and toes around and even down into the ground if you can, it feels fun and inspires a childlike openness.

2. Earthling Hands
Just as we walk barefoot in in the grass to ground ourselves we can also place the palms of our hands firmly onto the earth and this feeds us earths healing powers. It empowers us with its strength and love and it feels deeply comforting.

Stand barefoot, taking deep slow breathes for a moment or two and center your intention within and from within kneel down and place the palms of your hands firmly on mother earth. Let your hands move around and find the perfect a spot that feels right and let them be open and spread wide physically and non-physically. Let the energy of your hands become receptors for earths beautiful healing force, to it’s life-force, and let it fill you. Do this as long as it feels right to you.

At the end of this you can change your intention and send thanks / gratitude back to earth. When I have done this in the past I feel the earth gratitude for my gratitude and it makes me smile and laugh every time. It’s all subtle energy but beautifully powerful energy!

3. Getting And Giving A Hug From Mother Earth
Stand on the earth as mentioned above, in #1, but this time hold the palms of your hands facing downward and set the intention that nature’s energies are lovingly reaching up and into your hands, take some deep breathes, open your energies and you will feel it!

*** I have also stood in this position with one slight variation – my hands / palms were facing outward as if I was getting ready to hug someone – in this case the earth and I have felt waves of energy that seemingly come from all directions to meet me gently and it feels like the earths energies are hugging me and I hug back. It is one of the most joyful experiences of oneness you can have as the earth and your energies meet through your hands, feet and through every cell in your body – this one is beyond grounding, it’s profoundly spiritual. You can really feel the earth’s incredible power. The earth is hugging your soul!

*** Another suggestion is trying to lay flat on the earth with the side of your face on the earth, palms on the earth, with the intention you are telling the earth how much you love her and how sorry you are we are hurting her. I have found this to be very powerful. Just allow yourself time to energetically join the earths energies in love and gratitude.

4. Sitting or Standing Up Against A Tree
This will ground you for sure, and it will absorb any energy you need / want to release.
Try closing your eyes and feel yourself connect with the tree and its deep roots. Your roots reach out to connect deep into the earth and to wrap around a large stone or to the trees roots itself – whatever feels right to you. In this position, up against the tree, you can send not only the roots from your feet but also from a cord that stems out of the base of your spine – let it reach down into the earth and / or the tree itself to release and receive.
Now set your intent about what you want to release and / or receive – this could be getting rid of negativity in general, excess energy or something specific. There are no rules. Then take a few deep slow breathes and affirm you are letting go and feel energy pour out your feet and / or cord – it can be a subtle feeling at first but with mindfulness and by listening to your internal landscape you will begin to feel the flow of your energies. Empowering. Then ask the tree to send you the energies you need, like grounding, confidence, security and whatever you need through its deep roots and it happily will. Trees are very friendly and smart, check out this incredible video by Professor Suzanne Simard! And this is a great article as well!

5. Figure-8ing With Tress
I discovered this – if anyone really discovers anything – at the Omega Institute the last day I was assisting Donna Eden on one of her amazing 5-day trainings. I felt some release surfacing and went outside and sat up against a tree, as I do, and suddenly I lost it – sobbing. The waves of emotion began to match the waves I felt between another tree directly in from of me about 100 feet away? It was across a clearing and there were other trees but I knew this one was the one sending me energy too. I closed my eyes and clearly saw and felt a radiant figure-8 going between the trees and I was inside one of the 8’s. It was transcending and the happy tears of release streamed away and I felt my energy deepen into the earth and intertwine with these two trees. It was profound. I felt amazing after!

6. Spooning The Feet, And Hands
Our physical body has polarities – our head is the north polarity and our feet the south. Sometimes due to life or shifting earth energies they get reversed and using a stainless steal spoon to correct your polarities is wonderful! This is very important for grounding because our feet are where you take in the earth’s yin and healing energy.

With a stainless steel spoon, use the round side; rub all over the bottoms of your feet. Rub every-where, even the sides. Try doing figure-8’s with the spoon too. You can actually use the front side of the spoon, or even a fork but not too hard, if the other way isn’t working or you may want to just try a new variation. It’s an option but just be careful of how hard you press – it should feel firm but gentle.

Spooning the feet will correct the polarity on your head but to make sure your head is correctly polarized you can use your hand – flip your hand back and forth so that the palm is down and flip it over so the back of your hand is flat on the head – you can do this quickly and it corrects any imbalances…speaking of hands…

Our hands have polarities too so spooning them is very helpful. If your polarities are not correct you will not be able to connect with someone when you shake their hand – let alone if you are using your hands for healing work. An interesting note about shaking hands – if you want to really connect with someone use both your hands when shaking them. One hand is shaking and the other is gently placed on the back of the other persons hand and this creates a complete energetic connection. Bill Clinton always did this and is perhaps why so many people reported feeling an instant connection with him. Basically carry a spoon with you at all times, joking, but do remember your hands have electromagnetic energy so if there is no spoon in sight just use them to correct all your polarities by flipping them facing up and down.

Our non physical body has polarities too – about a foot over our head, over our heart and between our legs, this is best to energy test for but I see no harm in gently using your hands over these areas just in case.

These are a great Eden energy Medicine Technique.

7. Grounding With A Hematite Crystal
Hematite is a very grounding stone and when all else fails I always put a tumble hematite stone on the side of each pinky toe and I just sit there for a few minutes – you usually can feel it when you’ve grounded – trust your intuition! But, it’s a great quick fix.

Try this Grounding Visualization.
Learn more about Earth Energies.
Learn what The Legendary Kogi Tribe of Colombia teach us about earth.

Healers note:
Healing energy travels faster through earth than air so if you are doing long distance healing for someone try and lay on the ground palms facing down and send out the healing! When I do Skype sessions I have a small square of green grass (you can buy them at a plant store / nursery / farmers market) and I place my feet on it to increase the energy transmission – and it is helpful in releasing energy for you and your client.

And, being barefoot in the grass, as mentioned above, is very grounding.

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Chakra Love / Connecting Your Heart to the Heart of a Tree

This was a blissful experience, I hope you find some positive energy in it. later on in the video I am doing a heart to heart with a tree and the audio may be low…the tree and I will be happy to redo it if you can’t hear it. it was euphoric…loving…

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Raising Your Vibration

Raising your vibration with nature….the deeper you ground the higher you can fly….

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Connecting to love & commpassion

Opening your heart, grounding…connecting with your inner power….freeform as usual…..

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Bringing In Radiance

Right after my last video of releasing I went to the centre of the field to bring in pure radiance, playfulness and love. I share waiving into the chakras, earth, nature and heaven rushing in….

I’m in a very freeform state of shamanic energy medicine and I’m just sharing the journey, this isn’t formal….I share as I am discovering and / or experiencing the healing and shifting energies…

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Releasing Energy Blocks

I have been working in nature to release energy blockages and create space for new deeper connections and higher vibrations….

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Self Care Journey

I’m in a very freeform state of shamanic energy medicine and I’m just sharing the journey, this isn’t formal….I share as I am discovering and / or experiencing the healing and shifting energies…

The wonders of nature have been blessing me and this is a free form video where you can listen in to what I am doing and join in and or mute it and enjoy the nature and create your own meditation / visualization / connections….I will be adding my writing of these experiences soon so stay tuned, thanks!

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Deep Connections In Nature

I have begun co-creating with nature & this is such a great self-care session in nature….

I’m in a very freeform state of shamanic energy medicine and I’m just sharing the journey, this isn’t formal….I share as I am discovering and / or experiencing the healing and shifting energies…

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Chakra Self-Care in Nature

This was very powerful for me. Laying in a field of flowers I “waived in” the radiance…follow along and you will feel it…

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A Moment of Relaxation

Take a quick moment a breathe….

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Nature Watching

I find nature / earthing so helpful…

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Shamanic Humming & Nature Connection

This was a really powerful experience for me….The wonders of nature have been blessing me and this is a free form video where you can listen in to what I am doing and join in and or mute it and enjoy the nature and create your own meditation / visualization / connections….I will be adding my writing of these experiences soon so stay tuned, thanks!

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Nature Journey Part 5

The last part….

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Nature Journey Part 4

Such a great journey….

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Nature Journey Part 3

Real Healing….

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Nature Journey Part 1

Nature…

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The Three Gratitudes

The three gratitude is a part of my daily ritual.

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Moon Meditation

I invite you to meditate with some full moon energy….

Energy moon bath…..coming soon

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Earth Energies

Mother Earth gives us life, breath and healing. Now is the time to give some of that back to honor & help heal her.

Earth is a sentient being that provides everything needed for life. I have received a few side-glances when I say earth is sentient but I am not alone! Almost all ingenious people have this same belief such as the legendary Kogi Tribe of Columbia. They believe the earth “The Great Mother” is sentient and that we are her children. As children they see themselves as our “Elder Siblings”. As our Elder Sibling they are completely disappointed, and angry, at how we are destroying our great mother, Aluna. They believe we have done so much damage that they must now cautiously come out of the shadows to teach us how to change, how to heal the earth not destroy her. I traveled with John Perkins to meet the Kogi and what an amazingly transformative journey it was!

It’s time to recognize earth’s sentience. We need to empower the indigenous voice – it’s time to listen and learn from their earth wisdom! This amazing talk by Suzanne Simard about earths intelligence is just the beginning of how science, once again, is proving what many of us have forgotten.

My Mayan friend Tata Julio (a Shaman in Guatemala) told me to stop and think, what do I take from the earth and what do I give back? He did not pose it as a simple question to be answered immediately but a contemplated challenge to be honest with myself. Be honest! He always says this and I get it – self-honesty is hard and sometime unrecognizable but you can get there if your intentions are to do so! I now ask you the same – how much do you take from earth and how much do you give back? Really give yourself time to think about it. I would encourage you to think about it on your own at first and if you are ready to measure your eco footprint, go for it! I did it and it was eye opening! My footprint was not as low as I expected it to be so I am going to make some changes.

Even with our destructive ways our great mother still loves us and is happy to heal us when we ask, as any good mother would do. I am very grateful for this and to show my gratitude I try to support her in various ways, by giving her my energy healing and through organizations I trust. There are a few fantastic organizations that are making progress by working directly on the ground so to say – these are the organizations / people that I believe make a real difference to our environment and to the indigenous communities they work with.

Go Conscious Earth
Patchamama Alliance
John Perkins

Great News! Significant progress is being made regarding plant conciseness and sentience.
“Plant consciousness is the process of bio-communication in plant cells, which has come to mean that plants are sentient life forms that feel, know, and are conscious. The scientific field of neurobiology has been effective in demonstrating plant consciousness.” ~ Shift.is this is a fantastic site in general about nature and how it works and heals…. it’s incredible!!!

The science of Forest Bathing is incredible. In japan they are actively promoting people to connect with nature to increase the well-being and happiness in their lives. I love when science catches up with what most of our instincts have told us all along. It has such great benefits so get out there and breath, and connect.

In the Ecuadorian Constitution, which was rewritten 2007-2008 – It states: “The new Ecuadorian Constitution includes a Chapter: Rights for Nature. Rather than treating nature as property under the law, Rights for Nature articles acknowledge that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles. And we – the people – have the legal authority to enforce these rights on behalf of ecosystems. The ecosystem itself can be named as the defendant.”

In New Zealand the Whanganui river is a “personhood”
The NZHerald says, “Today’s agreement which recognizes the status of the river as Te Awa Tupua (an integrated, living whole) and the inextricable relationship of iwi with the river is a major step towards the resolution of the historical grievances of Whanganui iwi and is important nationally.”

And the Land Rights Now organization supports the indigenous rights over their land in the united states and they say “Life on Earth as we know it depends on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as custodians of our planet.”

AMAZING!!!

Our great mother gives us life through breath, her bountiful harvest, healing herbs and flowers, crystals and basically everything we have, use and ingest is from her – we owe our lives to her! On a practical level:

  1. She heals us when we ask and here are some great grounding tools that will make you feel fantastic!
  2. She can even speak to you if you listen. This is an experience I had with a tree.
  3. Her rhythms are our rhythms, the 5-elements.

Give Love
In energy medicine we say to hold your client with love during any session so I say to you hold our planet in love with every breath you take. Sending Mother Earth love is beautiful and simple to do. Give it a try and I bet you will feel some love coming right back to you!

A Few More Ways Earth Heals us
Mother Earth heals us in so many ways! I find this first one amazing…there is a natural occurring microbe in healthy soil called Mycobacterium vaccae and it is said to be a natural anti-depressant so when people say gardening is their happy place that’s actually quite literal. I know when my hands are getting dirty in the soil I feel refreshed and alive. Healthy soil equals a healthy us. It is in this soil we grow our food and healing herbs. More to come on this…stay tuned.

The ocean salt-water grounds us and keeps our polarities the right way up. It also feeds our bodies important minerals we need for our physical health. Our oceans play an intricate role in the entire planets health as it filters our air and nourishes the cycle of life on our planet. Fresh water is healing too. Most of us have jumped into a river or lake at one point and isn’t it the most refreshing feeling! Lying in a low river and letting the stream wash away any emotions or obstacles you are holding on it is transformative. If you have never done it I highly suggest trying it.

Mother Earth holds the power to nourish us or deprive us based on our treatment to her. We need a shift in awareness to just how much damage we have done thus far and how with a few sacrifices and mindful living we can restore our planet to a healthy and vibrant place. This is my wish.

The above is what I really wanted to make sure I shared – but below are some interesting ideas as well. This post will be evolving so please check back if you are into it, Thanks!

The earth has energetic grid lines that are closely related to sacred geometry and it is through these patterns that the grids move and intersect and believers of this theory believe that not only vortexes appear in the intersecting points but also that these points are like human acupuncture points where earth can release specific energies and possibly where we can commune with earths energies to find wisdom, healing and to also give healing.

Plato the great philosopher recognized grid patterns and theorized that Earth’s basic structure evolved from simple geometric shapes to more complex ones – scared geometry. Sacred geometry includes sacred universal patterns that are found in the design of everything in existence. This is also of interest – Plato associated each geometric shape with one of earth’s elements – it differs slightly from the 5-elements I have studied in Energy Medicine but it’s close! It’s so interesting to me how knowledge just downloads to people with the right vibration regardless of the where and when. Besides being a great philosopher I think he was intuitively connected to everything, to the collective consciousness.

Anyone who has traveled knows that different parts of earth hold different kinds of energy. I have known people to come into their power fully due to being in a specific place on earth or other aspects of themselves come out. I know this happens to me pretty much everywhere, within NYC / Manhattan I can feel the difference in energy from one neighborhood to the other. There is so much energetic diversity and some of it can be attributed to Ley Lines. This is when a certain area is marked with a specific energy due to man-made structures and / or energetic paths that we follow instinctually. This just shows how complex, alive and sensitive our planet is.

I would conclude by saying our planet, our great mother, is magnificent and gives us everything and we need to show our gratitude by loving and protecting her.

What is Climate Change Actually Doing? An Academic View

7 Species Hit Hard By Climate Change by National Geographic
Causes and Consequences of Species Extinction – an academic study from Princeton University
Global Climate Change – NASA’s scienfific evaluation

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The Legendary Kogi & Their Wisdom


This is part one of three personal stories about my Shamanic journey to Colombia December 2016. Other posts include a Wondrous Heart Opening and The Many Cristina’s

A super long post, sorry, so it’s broken into sections and certain topics in bold for you to find what interests you the most as you scroll through. I have some great environmental recourse links at the end…but one very important part of this journey was that it lead our group to create a Land For The Kogi Fund, a private fund to help them reclaim their ancestral lands and I am thrilled to report that through our efforts we raised close to $10,000 which bought 99.7 acres of land, and we had enough left over to buy them a solar panel so for light, which they have never had till now. More details on this towards the end of the post but feeling very proud! Being in service to others is a beautiful gift and I am thankful I was able to be apart of helping them because they sure did help and affect me!

Who Are The Kogi?
The Kogi, our Elder Siblings, the Guardians of Mother Earth are living in what they consider the “Heart of the World”. They have a profound wisdom about nature that could very well make everyone rethink their ideas on the environment and the universe. They offer us solutions that are so simple – to connect, ground and respect the earth or “Aluna” what they call Mother Earth, Ocean Mama and Father Universe. They have a presence that commands respect and opens your heart and worldview boundlessly.

The power of their wisdom and energy is humbling. They live in the Colombian Sierra Nevada Mountains but few people outside of Colombia know who they are and what they represent and now is the time they have chosen to come out and share their hearts to teach us in hopes of saving our planet.

They are the direct decedents of the Tarona tribe who fled up to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to escape servitude – the Conquistadors never conquered them in the 500th century so their culture is pure. Since the 1988 documentary From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning (Kogi message) they have not let many into their community, let alone to stay with them, until now. Our group lead by John Perkins, Daniel Koupermann and Jaruen were invited to stay in one of their communities for a night to partake in ceremonies and teachings. They invited us into their sacred ceremonial lands and spaces.

Before we could enter their community they had us purify ourselves – discussed further on in Ceremonies and Offerings in this post. In the morning a beautiful Moma, Manual, invited us into a sacred space for the men and the honor we felt was palpable. Within this sacred hut he told us that we are now accepted into their hearts and that they consider us friends – there was not a dry eye in the house! To be apart of this historic trip of meeting and staying with them was amazing in itself but the openness and acceptance of us into their hearts is beyond what I can express. I will take this opportunity to honor our group. We had a collective purity and openness of heart – we were all there with respect and honor towards them and I believe they recognized that. Massive amounts of gratitude to the amazingly beautiful souls I traveled who are pictured on this post.

We had the great honor of meeting with them 3 other times for teachings and ceremonies, one which was unexpected so it was a beautiful sign that we were / are in harmony with their purpose.

The Kogi are now ready to actively teach us and share their wisdom…we must listen. Some will not like what they hear because it can be a hard pill to swallow when you recognize your participation in doing harm to the earth and our fellow man, it was for me, and that’s ok. But this bitter pill is what will allow us to accept their truths. We are ready to accept truth when we are ready but I encourage you to reflect on their wisdom. It is worth mentioning that to become a Moma / Shaman you are chosen at the age of 1-2 years old and for the next 25 years endure intense training. The Kogi people honor their own wisdom, they practice what they preach in such a deep way and we can all learn from that – major respect!

Kogi Wisdoms
The Kogi busted open my mind and energy and gave me such wisdom about earth and life. Man I thought I was so connected to earth but they tore apart that illusion! I do not mean to diminish any of my past connections with Aluna – it’s been a constant in my life since childhood and earth has helped me and me it but they way the Kogi speak about it is unlike anything I have ever heard. When they speak it’s as if you are receiving an energy transmission so you are not only hearing the information you are feeling it – many of my fellow travelers commented on this.

One of the main messages was how we are destroying our earth. They talked about how every step we take greatly affects the world around us. In cities we may not take notice of this but in nature it’s more obvious. Getting in touch with how we affect our world is a crucial part in creating positive change, not just for the planet but also for our internal landscape. The solution is a deeper connection with earth.

My friend Theresa got to ask one of the Moma’s what he thought were the most import things we can do and, “He said the most important thing to share with family & friends is to encourage everyone to become more connected with nature – to spend more time out in it, to plant our own food – but essentially to reconnect so that our love & respect for our planet can grow.”

It is our duty to accept responsibility for the damage we have done and continue to do. They spoke of how we hurt the earth through explosions just to get minerals, to get crystals, and the tears uncontrollably streamed down my face as I realized my participation in this damage. I tried to explain what I do in my business and asked how I could change my ways. If you pick up a stone yourself and ask permission it is ok they said but to mindlessly collect pretty shinny stones is supporting the desolation of our Mother Earth. I clearly see my part in hurting the earth and I am ashamed. John said to me, and I paraphrase, I really do feel your pain but there is nothing you can do about the past so let that go and re-evaluate how you move forward. I am fully committed to changing my personal ways, how I sell and present my T&T crystals and in encouraging others to do the same, as gently as I can. Most of us have awareness about the harm and destruction from diamond mines but not about crystals, I didn’t, and now I know the same harm is being done. Especially because crystals popularity has sored and even in my beauty industry it has become a major trend thus creating more demand which then creates harsher extraction practices and treatment to the workers. By Kogi standards anything that is not offered to you from the earth directly is not good. I am still processing this and figuring out how to ethically continue my crystal use. I have tons of crystals in stock for sale and in my oil blends. I have apologized to them since I am home. The crystals I use for healings are fine because I have a deep relationship with those guys – my personal crystals are given lots of love and gratitude. But until I figure it all out I will be asking anyone who wants to buy my crystals to do so with the awareness that they are a life force given to us by Mother earth. I want to bring an awareness of deep gratitude in hopes anyone with crystals will value and honor them in a deeper way.

I found it amazing to hear their thoughts on happiness. They say if you are unhappy in life you are not connected to earth. We all get so busy we forget to slow down and evaluate how we really are. My friend Theresa reminded me about what Jared, a great guy in our group, asked about their definition of success and they didn’t fully understand that concept in the way he was asking because their concept of success is passing on their wisdom and honoring the earth but his take away is worth sharing. He said he thought he’d been doing things the right way based on our measure of success but knows now that means nothing. And that more importantly, we throw our elders away, cast them aside and ignore them instead of learning all that we can from them and passing it along to our children and grandchildren. Sharing the wisdom of the elders is one of their highest missions.

From my own research on happiness I know in cultures where elders are respected and included with their families and communities their lives are extended and happier, and the meaning of those around them is increased.

They say above all else they respect and honor woman because we give life and they believe that it is only the woman who hold the wisdom to tell the men STOP, you have gone too far and this currently has implications to every aspect of every sentient being. So calling all ladies, we have to empower ourselves and value ourselves enough to know our words have meaning and will help change the world. Many men will support us in this effort but it’s the men who do not like this that we must find a way to reach. I would ask you to evaluate how you can contribute to shapeshifting our world into a place of love and harmony. Remember everything counts, there are no small acts!

Women Supporting Women
We keep learning lessons in life but in our openness learn them in a deeper way as we move forward. On this trip the importance of woman supporting woman deepened. My friend Jonelle said we have a new collective paradigm to support and nurture each other and she and another girlfriend, Theresa, showed me that support during this journey. Each of them on an important journey to fully come into their power and they are inspiring. Many modern cultures have somehow lost much of this but not the Kogi.

This is an important time for woman – in my energy medicine world we speak about this being a time of the matriarch. It is time for us to be empowered and help heal the world and by supporting each other, and by sharing our hearts we inspire each other. John was very encouraging to all the women in the group to speak out and share our stories because now is the time we need women’s wisdom and the way to optimize that is by us celebrating, supporting and empowering each other.

A collective energy has been birthed out of our trip. I believe we can help the Kogi keep and share their wisdom and that more and more people will awaken to their message. We can shapeshift our world to one of loving-kindness and respect, not our current state of mindlessness and destruction. I think if we are all honest with ourselves we will see how we contribute to our disposable society. Gentleness is required to get some people to change because who wants to admit they are hurting themselves, their loved loves and our planet – it’s not easy to look at but this truth and the awareness can transform our lives on every level and just maybe we can co-create a harmonious, healthy and happy planet.

Our Disposable Lives
As I said some of these are hard lessons or adjustments to make, we all like to go out and grab a Starbucks or buy new cloths instead of mending the old ones. It’s easier for busy people to order in or eat frozen food instead of making it themselves. We are living disposable lives so from that point of view how can expect our internal world not to be just as disposable? We are not disposable and need to value ourselves more. The Kogi say the only answer to all this is to deepen our connection to earth, to constantly make offerings, to be aware of what we take and what we give back…this is not dissimilar to the other indigenous people I’ve had the honor of learning from. The time to listen to the indigenous voice has come!

The following are all questions I am personally revisiting thanks to the Kogi. What do you give yourself? What do you give away? Do you love and honor yourself and if so how? Do you value your life and gifts and again if so how? Do you respect yourself? Do you respect our planet? How do you treat your body? Do you honor your elders? Do you have compassion for your fellow man? What do have that you really do not need? What can you do without in order to help others? All these questions should be deeply pondered in an honest way because if you are open to seeing where improvements can be made you can and will transform yourself and those around you to have a more loving harmonious, meaningful and joyful life.

Honoring Life
We must recognize these indigenous tribes have a wisdom that has been lost to many of us. So many of us are separated from the earth that literally breathes life into us. My friend explained to me how if you turn a tree upside down or the lungs right-side up they look almost exactly alike – the trees literally are our lungs and our lungs the trees. That every breath we take in is receiving the yin of life and every exhale the giving yang of life – I hope I am getting that right, will correct if need be. The idea is clear to me though…that with every breath we are connected to nature, to earth and there is no separation between anything so if we dishonor the earth, nature, we dishonor ourselves. When we hurt the earth we hurt ourselves. The opposite is true as well – we can care for Aluna we heal her. There are so many ways to do this and doing some good old fashion earthing and earth hugging is a great place to start! So is mindful breathing! You can set the intent that with every breath you are feeding life and love into our world.

There is no green without blue; no blue without green…just as there is no “us” without a healthy environment. We must protect our oceans and forests for without them we will perish – the tipping point has arrived and it is time to take action. Some ideas of how to do this are listed at the end of this post.

Ceremonies and Offerings
From other indigenous experiences I know how important making offerings are to the Aluna. The Mayan’s also speak about how we have to honestly look at what we take from earth and what we give back. We must make offerings for what we take from the earth and from any energy we draw from. There must always be an equal and balanced exchange of energy. If you feel there has not been an equal exchange you may want to try a forgiveness cerimony the Mayan’s taught us or do the Cotton offering I speak about below.

Cotton Offerings and Strings of Achievement
Before entering the first Kogi village we were given a small piece of cotton and told to put all our negativity, worries and unneeded energy into it, which we then gave back to them. They would later bury this cotton. This signified our purity to enter their village and we received a simple but beautiful sting around our wrists to signify our purity of heart and energy.

Before we left this same Kogi village we were asked to put all our apologies to the earth into another piece of cotton. It was raining hard and they said this was a great sign from Aluna that she received and accepted our “sorrys”. This one got me big time. I wasn’t expecting it to be so effortless, I held the cotton in my hand and instantly tears of sorrow began to fall, it felt cleansing to take responsibility for the damage I have done and for what we have all done to our mother earth. I kept saying I am sorry I am sorry and I felt the earth accept my apology, which is currently beyond words for me.

The last Kogi ceremony we had was on a beach that has a lagoon on one side and ocean on the other, magic yet again. There where many sacred Kogi stones, the number nine has great significance to them and in this place were nine holes in large stones, and they said if our intentions were true the water in the holes would begin to bubble and spin clockwise. We were asked to place our sacred items on the sacred stone. We were with the Kogi Moma, Juan, his pregnant wife and his son who is a moma in training and we got to witness the father teaching the son how to make an offering – allowing us to see this was an honor beyond words!

The Kogi Moma asked us to ask the universe for enlightenment and I write about this in my heart opening post but it’s important to mention here as well since it’s a Kogi ceremony. I found the wording I needed “Let the light of enlightenment flow through me” but I felt something was missing; I needed to offer something in return. I offered the universe my fully open divine femininity and the message was received and my journey deepened. I opened and connected in a way that I can’t fully express. It was an ecstatic feeling that I connect with daily now.

During this ceremony I did feel the light come into me and I was laying on the sand, head on a sacred stone and I realized suddenly a stone was in my hand and that it felt soft and feminine – it was soothing like a stress stone. I felt it was a gift from Aluna. I heard the moma family behind me so I open my eyes to look back sensing the ceremony was coming to an end and the moma (shaman) looked me right in the eyes and nodded to me as if to say YES – I felt like he saw my connection and I enjoyed that moment of recognition. We received two cotton bracelets this time with a little bead on it, they hold such value to me, and I never want them to fall away….

During our surprise invitation to another Kogi village, later that day, the moma asked us to put 9 wishes into the cotton he gave to use. He said they would then be taken high into the Sierra Nevada Mountains to be buried in the earth – to plant the seeds of our wishes. He invited us into their “school” and spent a fair amount of time explaining the meaning of their sacred items – the experience felt very special. Beautiful. Grateful.

Cotton Ceremony At Home
You can easily do this cotton purification ceremony on your own – I have since I’ve been home. You take a cotton ball, organic is best, and sit outside on nature, or by a house plant if you live in a city, and meditate on what you want to let go of, or apologize for or wish for. I meditate on this for about 10 minutes and then bury the cotton or throw it in water, and on one occasion I flushed it down the toilet – intention is everything! You then turn in a 360-degree clockwise circle and then counter clockwise 360 degrees and your done. Always thank earth / nature for absorbing what you have let go of and the earth will then happily transform it back into pure source energy.

Why We Wanted To Help The Kogi

Giving Money To Their Mission
They are in a dire situation where some of the communities that are in the highest parts of the mountains are starving because of infertile soil. They are still recovering from having been abused by the Colombian farmers, the FARC and mainly the right wing Paramilitaries since the beginning of the republic. In the 60´s they were abused for the marijuana plantations and then after that for the coca plantations.

Now the Colombian government has controlled the illegal activities in the area, and this is why the Kogi’s can now come back to their ancestral lands in the lower part of Sierra Nevada where agriculture is viable, as well the weather, and maybe they can have access to some basic health services.

One of the Kogi’s biggest missions right now is to share and preserve their wisdom. Jaruen, our local guide was super open, sweet and is close with the Kogi – he had taken a couple of them into his home when they were in danger from the Narco’s. He said too much wisdom is dying with their elders and they need to find a way to get around to all of the Mamos/Elders and glean as much of their wisdom as possible, not just for themselves for future generations. He said they would require financial support to provide the transportation and resources they need to travel to various villages. Jared asked if they’d rather have money for land or money for transportation and Jaruen said buying back the land was most important because then they could live together and share the wisdom on a daily basis. He said that they would view success as being able to harness and relay all of that wisdom. To me this shows their incredible purity of heart.

Our goal was to raise $10,000, which would buy almost 4 HECTARES (10 ACRES) of land for them and we did it!!!! We even had enough money left over to buy them a solar panel, which will enable them to work at night. This was a private fundraising initiative and I am so proud! I will keep everyone updated once more inicatives are under way.

Help Honor And Share Their Message
I hope I was able to relay some of their wisdom here but please also check out the BBC Documentary as well as John Perkins Blog about this trip.

Preserve Nature
I would ask you to look around your immediate community and see how you can help preserve nature and earth itself. Even in NYC there are ways to do this with Green Roofs and Community Gardens so I know outside the city your efforts will be easily achieved.

Be conscious of your Eco Footprint. When I measured mine I was shocked!

Learn about Earth Energies.

Learn to Connect With Earth.

In Colombia I’d like to find a way to help to stop Don Diego River being dammed up. That is the river we floated down on tubes and it was filled with life in and around it. It was also a gathering spot for the locals. At one point we passed a small beach where families had gathered to connect in song, dance and fun and it really made a lot of us think wow you might look at where these people live and think how sad, they are so poor but that is our false perception. They have everything – love, community and natures gifts. If this river is dammed up all of those guys who carried our luggage up and down the river and the men who kept us “in bounds” on the river would all be out of a job and that the village would cease to exist without the revenue generated from the tubing experience. So damming up a river is not just the loss of a beautiful nature reserve it is ending the livelihood of those beautiful people. I am throwing this out to the universe and would love to hear from anyone who is able to let me know ways to support this not happening! Thank you.

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Wondrous Heart Openings


Preface…I’m still processing all this so I have tried to break this into sections, so you can just scroll to what interests you…as my Dad will say, this is practically book and way too long but hey it’s my journey and this trip was spectacularly packed with so many wondrous experiences I can’t help myself…This is apart of three stories “shares” about my Shamanic Journey in Colombia, December 2016. Other posts are The Legendary Kogi & Their Wisdom and The Many Cristina’s

Before The beginning…
I believe my journey began before I even got on the plane. My body tends to react significantly if a big shift is coming and two weeks before the journey to Colombia my body began shifting in uncomfortable ways – it knew parts of me were about to die in order to be rebirthed. I had multiple heart openings and connections happen for me – all connected through the feminine energy within me. I see and feel these connections and openings on a much deeper level than ever before.

Laying The Groundwork
My first day in Colombia, hour really, I was unwinding in the deck pool thinking about how I wanted my heart to be more open and as I gazed up at the moon and one bright star two birds suddenly flew closely over my head in complete harmony. That same night we all witnessed a magical wedding, fireworks and then some salsa dancing and it was the beginning of an opening.

I know how to be alone and enjoy it but I’ve taken it too far and that is apart of why this is all significant. I can think of a million reasons I’ve had my heart closed, in so many ways, and I am a world-class expert in that matter. I have now shapeshifted my perceptions to be a world-class open heart human and I affirm I will stay that way.

It’s taken me a long time to get to here – my heart opening really begun in Guatemala when I had a beautiful conversation with a tree about it, and now on this trip it manifest in glorious ways.

Calling Forth My Femininity
On this amazing island, Mucura, we did a few journeys and one of the first was about finding your intent for the trip and John was saying go deeper and push harder but I felt nope, just the opposite for me – I felt a gentle energy come up and my intent was clear, to gently yet fully allow my feminine self to surface and blossom.

The next journey John led us through was a partner experience, to find your partners animal spirit that would then support them through what was about to come. Once you found your partners animal spirit you would blow it into their heart and head, super cool! My partner didn’t see an animal for me but instead light. He said he saw a bright light that he perceived as a light shining from my heart and connecting to the universe. This message deepened throughout the trip and by the end I was effortlessly seeing and feeling a continuous light circulating between my heart, nature and the universe.

Happy Discoveries
I rediscovered how it feels to feel! I’ve done so much deep energy work, years of healing that I needed to do alone and of course the journey never ends, how boring would that be! But now I’m open and ready to continue my journey walking hand in hand with whoever my person may be. I opened in everyway possible and maybe most importantly learned to love myself in such a deeper and different way its humbling, a great gift.

What Aluna Gave and Showed Me – Nature Opened It’s Arms Wide
This entire journey busted my heart and energy wide open and the gifts that came are amazing. My open heart embraced everything!

The Forest and Plants Opened to My Openness
I opened to the land, universe and trees in a profound way…I was able to actually see the life within them. In the past I’ve had strong feelings of connection with tress and I’ve even had conversations with them but this time I could physically see their life force and I know that is because my heart was fully open. I had an Avatar moment in the first Kogi village where we spent the night. I wondered to the jungles edge and saw what looked like veins of life, of light, flowing though this one particular tree and everything looked illuminated. I thought am I really seeing this and a friend with me said he saw it too so we stood there in awe. Later John told me there is a fungus that is phosphorescent and that is what I may have been seeing but I know it was deeper than that. I not only saw it, I felt it.

Later on in the journey I was standing looking deep into a bunch of tress with super big leaves and I felt them reach out and invite me to journey into them – of course I did – and I saw radiant light shimmering. My heart joined their heart and again physically saw and felt the radiance, it was magical. These plants offered me their light and I offered my open heart in return and I felt their happiness in our connection.

OceanMama Offered It’s Oneness…I Accepted
I’ve always been a forest girl, appreciated the beach and love it’s healing qualities but it was never my “go to” for connecting. On this journey I had two very significant ocean experiences. The first was with a new friend, Lisa, on the magical Mucura Island. We were lying in the ocean hammocks and she asked if I was interested in standing in the sand / water to connect with it, uuuhhh yes! We stood there for a few minutes connecting and we both felt something deep beneath us, reaching up into us. I viewed it as a crystal bed hidden deep beneath the ocean floor and I believe her experience was slightly different but we opened to each other and to the ocean and when it felt complete we just hugged. Beautiful.

My second ocean experience was after our tube ride down the Don Diego River, which needs saving and is mentioned at the end of my Kogi post. We slided down this amazingly beautiful river filled with and surrounded by life and this river runs into the Caribbean Sea. We landed on a small beach / peninsula where one side touched the river and the other the ocean, amazing! Most of us dove into the ocean –The waves were fierce! I’ve never swum in such powerful waves. I would dive under a large oncoming wave and the water was pulling me forward and backwards at the same time and I felt the oceans energy reach into me and my hair and body felt as if I was receiving a full inner and outer energy massage. The water was pulling me out to sea a bit and my fellow travelers began to whistle and call for me to come back – it probably looked like I was out of control but I only felt the oneness of it all. Huge sigh of wow, I will never forget that loving feeling.

A Bath of Light
We went and took a light bath in Kelp off the island and when you moved your body these radiant drops of diamond like lights appeared all around you – again light showing up as a message for me. You wear a life vest in a dipper like fashion so you can bob in the water and as I moved my hands and feet igniting the kelps light I made motions to open my chakras to bring in the light – it felt powerfully gentle if that makes any sense…

The Universe Opened
I’ve spoken to the universe / to nature since childhood but to have someone see the light between my heart and the universe was amazing and more so that it just kept deepening throughout the journey. In one of the sacred Kogi ceremonies they asked us to ask the universe for enlightenment. I found the wording I needed “Let the light of enlightenment flow through me” but I felt something was missing so I set the intent and energy that I was offering my fully open divine femininity to the universe for the gift it was giving me. I could feel the message was received and the ceremonial journey deepened for me even further. To fully offer my femininity, my inner goddess, and then receive the light and enlightenment back was profound and I opened and connected in a way that I can’t fully express. It was an ecstatic feeling that my open heart will forever be connected to.

Since home my connection has not failed, maybe a moment here or there but as soon as I open and connect to Aluna I feel the light of my femininity fully connecting to earth, the heavens and nature. I feel receptive. Connected. Embraced

Some Happy Homework For Staying Open…
In energy medicine we always say it’s not just about fixing your energy it’s about making that healing stick so I know everyday I have to fight to stay open and here are some of my ideas on how to do that, I hope some of it resonates with you.

Being Open To Life
There is so much to embrace in this life and I plan to live more fully. To love more, to have more gratitude, to be in service more…to play, sing and dance as much as I can and to offer my open heart more to heal Aluna as the Kogi call it – Mother Earth, Father Universe and Ocean Mama. Life is exciting, amazing and anything and everything can happen. Having passion for it all is definitely a heart opener!

Stop and Feel
I’m always rushing around and although I mediate and do my energy medicine I now feel a sense of peace after this trip. I have had a few moments of that urgent I must do this, blinders up, must focus feeling but I stopped myself and say slow down, clam down and I can feel the great benefits in this. It opens me which actually facilitates a higher level / quality of productiveness.

So now when I find myself with a busy mind or am rushing around possibly forgetting to even breathe I stop. I’m reminding myself to take my time to breath deeply and connect to my light, the earth and to the love in our collective consciousness.

Loving Yourself
It all begins within us. I want to feel every part of myself in complete acceptance and sometimes that can be a challenge. Self-acceptance…whoa…I am skilled in self-criticism but that has all changed and I am determined to keep it that way. I have to remember to love myself deeply and do anything I have to in order for that self-love to stand strongly within me. I see a new harmony between happiness and love being firmly grounded in openness. Also by slowing down the noise in my head, as Daniel Koupermann would say, is key in this.

I’ve always been passionate about showing, sending and using love in day-to-day life but this new openness is just more, deeper, it is for everything. Everyday I will greet life with an open loving heart. It makes me happy to be in touch with that on such a deep level.

Being Happy
We “played” a lot on this journey – John is a great jokester and it’s contagious. I think the openness of playfulness is important during this continuing journey. I want to lighten up and I don’t need to be so serious. I need to play in order to be happy and I can’t be open if I am not happy so…

The Kogi say we can’t be happy if we are disconnected from earth – so connecting to the earth and ourselves, as we are, is a beautiful and very necessary way to maintain all openings.

Being Vigilant
I have to be very mindful of slipping into my old ways…it’s easy and comfortable to fall back and retreat. In the past I’ve always talked about how happiness is a choice and now I know so is an open heart and I choose that. Everyday.

Get Physical
We have to move! Our energy needs to flow easily through us and movement creates openness. We need this for every level of our being; our energy systems need this – another thing to be mindful of. I can get stuck at my desk writing for very long periods of time, the entire day for sure and sometimes into he night. I find stretching and dancing around the apartment really helps me open and connect with myself, and it’s entertaining to me. If you get creative you can do both at the same time and it just completely shifts your perspective.

Affirmation: I am open. Open, open…be open…

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The Many Cristina’s


This is apart of a three part story about my shamanic Journey in Colombia, December 2016. The other posts are a Wondrous Heart Opening and The Legendary Kogi & Their Wisdom

I had many revelations and this one was extremely profound for me and I believe many of you will be able to relate.

One of our guides, Daniel Koupermann, who is also a Shaman among other wonderful things, has such wisdom! I remembered many of his words from our January 2016 journey in Guatemala, like quieting the noise in my head to get a new perspective on getting what I need. Funny, even writing those words “I need” seems a bit foreign right now. I know I don’t ‘need’ anything, other than survival stuff I suppose. I am committed to just be in the moment and in vibration with an open loving heart and a passion for life (If that’s a hopeful Cristina I like her). On this journey Daniel really lovingly pushed me. He said when he knows someone and cares he likes to help and that honored me very much.

We were sitting by a river, pictured on this post, and he asked for permission to share some observations about me, of course! He said, “Cristina, you have too many Cristina’s” = enters a bioluminescent firework explosion in my head of ok here we go. I will be paraphrasing most of this – I wish you could here his voice; he speaks slowly, thoughtfully and with great insight.

He said I am getting in my own way. I had been feeling some of this truth and even mentioned it in a group share I believe but his words penetrated my heart, mind and soul in a new way. As he spoke the truth about me I had streams of tears, but happy realization acceptance tears.

He said he had met the “Protagonist” Cristina, the “I want, I want” Cristina and the “I have more to say” Cristina…Yep. There are tons on the list but some that immediately come to mind are the insecure Cristina, the need for validation Cristina, the ego Cristina and the over sharing every detail Cristina. He said he was sharing this with me because I am ready to shed them so that the authentic Cristina, who is a bright light, can surface and live fully.

He said start by just observing them. I replied sure, I can see them and then say ‘thank you but go with love’ and he strongly said no, I must fight them. Don’t be kind to them because they will not want to go so get angry and fight like hell. He said I am a brave warrior (of light)…(Oh look, ego Cristina feeling the need to share that, lol)

He suggested putting a small stone or pebble in my shoe, nothing that would hurt, but something to remind me to observe myself more closely. After this conversation I became very aware of myself, I began to observe them and saw a loud Cristina, an over excited Cristina, the I get annoyed Cristina and the judgmental Cristina… yeah, wow, the list really can go on, a bit embarrassing.

And while taking a writing break during this post I found another Cristina I don’t like at all and am currently telling her to piss off and game on. In my heart opening post I said my heart was irretrievably open but an “I have the best walls, it feels safe and I like it” Cristina reared her head – dammit these 50 shades of Cristina are a real bitch but I’m ready to fight. Mental Ninja Time – May The Force Be With Me.

All that said, during this journey the authentic Cristina did come out because of the great wisdoms I was given that tore open my heart and energy in everyway possible. The openings for me on this journey were very deep so how could my authentic self not come out? I can see my light, connections and the transformations I shifted into during this trip. I found a deeper self-love and worth and I know this part of myself will continue to grow. I observed myself open and vulnerable and I like those parts of me, they can stay. I am very grateful and blessed to energetically be where I am now.

Daniel said listen, start with the big ones and don’t expect to get them all because it’s a life long journey – I’m ready, bring it, the gloves are off.

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Chakra Radiance


If you are unsure where your chakras are….
For basic chakra clearing and balancing…
I’ll be making a video of all these techniques but until then if you need visual help just contact me and I will be happy to send you a picture or even a quick Skype call to demonstrate…

Chakra Heart Connections
Sometimes our individual chakras may be super strong but they may not be connected to each other and we need them to be. They need to communicate and transmit supportive energy to each other, and to our Auric field, so making sure they are connected is fantastic chakra and healthy energy maintenance!

If you know how to self-test fantastic but in all honesty I always connect them all at the same time – it cares for the entire chakra system and our energy, and chakras, appreciates that.

A beautiful way to connect your chakras is with over-laying hearts. With the palms of your hands trace a heart over your 1st / base chakra and from the bottom of the heart pull the energy up to your 2nd / sacral chakra and trace the heart so that the bottom of it ends within the top of the heart you just made on your 1st / base. From this spot you pull upward to your 3rd / solar plexus chakra and let it end inside the top of the 2nd / sacral chakra. You continue this upward, it’s almost like weaving hearts and over-laying them up your body to just over the top of your head.

More Heart Energy Tools try the Electrical Heart Hook-Up and the 12-Hearts

Figure-8’ing The Chakras
This is super simple yet super powerful. With the palm of your hand, starting at the 1st or base chakra (over the pelvic area) and you make figure-8 motions, slowly, upward towards the sacral or 2nd chakra and then continue this all the way up to and slightly above your head. Take your time, three slow breaths worth of time to connect each chakra to the one above it.

Once you have completed the above finish with a two-handed, crossing over, continuous figure-8 motion up the front of your body. Instead vertical figure-8’s you are now making horizontal figure-8’s with both hands and your hands crossover each other as you harmoniously weave upwards. You are not only connecting each chakra but also creating crossovers within many of your energy systems and it feels amazing!

Waving Into The Chakras
Inspired by Eden Energy Medicines Heaving Rushing In

It’s simple and powerful! I’ve been doing this for long time now and it makes me, and my clients, happy every time! The benefits are limitless bringing joy, radiance and healing into your bodies energy systems. You can also customize this for whatever energy you need at the time. Sometimes we need comfort, other times bravery, just know whatever you need is available through this self-care tool.

1. Quickie Version. Standing, sitting or lying down have your palms upward, arms slightly extended from your body, about 1-2 ft., as this is really one continuous movement where you open your hands upward briefly to bring radiant energy into the palms of your hand and then with a flowing wave motion you scoop that energy into your chakra(s). You start at your 1st / base chakra moving up to the 7th / crown. You may feel the radiance in the form of heat or even a tickle, it will be different for everyone, and some may even see it. I sometimes visualize golden balls of energy in my hands and I connect to all the joy and love in the universe and then scoop that into each chakra. Remember you can call upon any energy you need, such as happiness, confidence, relaxation etc. I usually do this process pretty quickly and because of that as I move up the chakras I am creating crossovers at the same time. It’s like Lacing the Nadis, except you move upwards and are scooping in universal radiance as you go.

2. Shamanic Version. In Tikal Guatemala we were doing a sacred ceremony at night in the middle of a ruin that was an energy portal to the Pleiades star constellation. The energy was out of this world, literally! I wanted this radiant magical energy to become apart of me. I was lying down on the grass and began to make true wave motions. I opened my arms stretching them outward as far as they could go, palms up and slightly higher than my body. Sometimes I turned my palms to touch the ground and then upward because I wanted to get the earth energies as well as the cosmic ones. So with palms up I let them fill with the high frequency energy I was bathing in and I slowly waived that energy into each chakra. It’s not one wave, it’s a few encouraging waves. It was a smooth and gentle gathering of the energies surrounding me and seeding within me. I did this several times to each chakra. Sometimes the waving was continuous and other times I took the time to let my hands sit on the chakra I was feeding, which really allowed that chakra to soak in and root to the radiant energy. This is a very instinctual technique, you want to follow the energy and do what feels right to you. Set the intention for what you want to bring in and affirm that it is very loving, nurturing and radiant.

You don’t need to be in some sacred place to connect to this kind of high frequency energy, you can do it in your backyard or even your floor – intention is everything! Mother earth is wise so you can ask that she connect you with certain energies and / or places anywhere in the world – everything is connected! I often call upon places where I have had profound meditations or experiences; it’s a great tool and a great reminder of our oneness with everything.

3. I have found doing all these radiant chakra techniques in different environments and times of the day can really shift what you bring in. At night you can bring in moon energy and all its femininity, its gentleness and radiance. Do it in the middle of the day and take in the power of the sun energy, which I have found to be energizing, uplifting and joyful.

You can of course always visualize any part of this process – our mind and intentions have great power!

Speaking of intention….

Ellen Meredith teaches us to tap into radiance and let it “drip” into your chakras, or any other place in your body that needs radiance, like an injury or someplace that just feels stuck, blocked or heavy. It’s quite simple, using your intuition and intention to find some radiance – point your left pointer finger up in the air and move it around until you feel radiance and let your finger plug into it. Then hold your right hand / pointer finger over the area you want to fill with radiance and these 2 hand / finger positions will allow radiant energy to flow into you.

Trust yourself and enjoy!

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Creating Space Through Forgiveness

Creating Space Through Forgiveness
Mayan Shamanic Journey: Part 5

Also see Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four

WWe were having a fire ceremony at night that focused on forgiveness. For over 4000 thousand years the Mayans have used stones carved into a round shape, some had carvings on them and they are raised about half a foot off the ground, they were everywhere, it was amazing! The fire was blazing on this ceremonial stone and most of us were on our knees hands in payer position or hands on our hearts and of course on the earth. Our Tata said BE HONEST, what harm have you done to others? Whether you meant it or not be honest about your feelings, do you have jealousy, resentment etc. The way he said, “be honest” gave the word honesty such meaning and clarity. I felt like I was in a trance, I began to see people’s faces and situations pop up in my minds eye and saw the bad and negative things I’ve done throughout my life – it was all flashing by – and I kept saying I am so sorry, I’m so sorry. Emotion rose up and I felt my heart crying in apology. Then we were asked to forgive ourselves and I went through the same process. Then we switched to forgiving those that have harmed us and again I saw pictures flashing by of situations and people who had hurt me and I forgave. It was beautifully emotional. My heart felt expanded and cleansed. With each deep breath I could feel the new space in my heart center, and the space felt radiant.

Now a story, which to me shows so much how our vibration affects others and how we all hold up mirrors for each other. During the beginning part of the trip I had this unspoken tension with one of the girls, we could barely look at each other, and I realized during this ceremony I was jealous of her – I’ll skip the meaningless reasons why but I saw it clearly. I also saw how I have pushed down the idea that I could be jealous of someone because it’s just not an energy I am in vibration with, or so I thought! It was kind of shocking when I realized this emotion was apart of me. I asked for forgiveness from her and for myself, I felt ashamed I had felt that towards her. I was deeply sorry. I released these negative feelings into the earth and the fire completely evaporated it from my internal landscape and my vibration changed. The very next day the girl and I began to look each other in eye and connect. A few days after that were laughing together, speaking openly and I looked at her with love and still do. I wonder if I was a mirror for her in any way? But the big take away is that I let that emotion and all the feelings attached to it go. A weight was lifted and space was created because that emotion was now cleared away.

I have always known how the bigger issues, and the stories we hold onto, in life can take up so much space within you that it hinders your energy systems plus takes up space that can otherwise be used for positive things. It unbelievably did not occur to me that these little things were actually bigger than I thought and take up valuable space within.

What a great realization and gift to have this awareness so I can be mindful of it moving forward in life. Once I forgave myself it then changed my vibration, which then changed the relationships around me. The interconnectedness of everything is amazingly beautiful! I find it comforting as well to see such a clear example how we do control our own energy and can change whatever we do not like. We can broaden our perspectives and find entire new views and/or let go of old ones that then liberate us. The potential we all have for personal growth is limitless and that blows me away with gratitude!

I’m really grateful to that girl for allowing me this experience. I am grateful for our Tata always asking and encouraging us to BE HONEST with ourselves. That can be a “big ask” for some people and the journey can be painful. Looking into the mirror of who you are isn’t always pretty but when you bravely look and see the truth and then create positive changes based on what you did not like…well that’s a huge gift to yourself. You come out the other side energetically lighter and happier, and probably a kinder person.

I’d like to mention Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine here about internal space. Donna says whether it is good or bad we can become filled up with too much energy. Energy needs and wants space and when we hold onto too many things we fill ourselves. We need to be mindful of the space within us and how it is vital to our happiness that we have room for new, better and wondrous energies and emotions to come into our being. The blow out exercise is great for this! Even when things are going great for me I do blow outs with the intention of releasing excess energy so that I always have room for great surprises to come into my life and energy field.

A note about this Photo (by Rick Maitri): We climbed this pyramid after the fire ceremony and I did the most magical Connecting Heaven & Earth on top of it. I am one of those lights on the top – pure magic!

A related story about internal space
I was feeling blank for a few days, again, I mentioned in another post how I felt blank during the beginning of our Mayan journey, but it happened again about a month later and I thought oh no what’s wrong with me, I can’t focus, I can’t think and I just said to myself ok ok, I accept being blank. When I had felt blank on the trip it allowed amazing realizations to appear so I thought maybe this is a good thing? I had a big business meeting and I am a preparer but because I was “blank” I didn’t prepare as I usually wood. I just said to the universe, “I trust you”. I put together a nice goody bag of our Tony&Tina products and did some blow outs and off I went to my meeting and whoa! I had the space to accept fantastic things. I came out of the meeting with more good stuff than I ever would have imagined. I really believe it is the space I created in my energy that allowed me to attract great things in this situation. If I had been full-up…?

I sum it up like this:
Forgive and let it go.
Be brave and look into the mirrors in your life.
Keep your heart and mind open, always!
Blow out excess energy as a daily ritual so that you have more internal space because you never know where or how life’s gifts will show up.
Be open, show up and see what happens!

These are happy acts:)

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Finding Deep Self-Love


Finding Deep Self-Love
A Portal To Pleiades: Mayan Journey: Part 4
Also see Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Five

Tina’s Note:
This experience was so powerful and sacred I am having a hard time capturing it on paper, it may still be processing and it’s extremely esoteric, so I will continue to work on it but I wanted to share as much of it as I could in this moment. I have broken it up into sections so you can skip parts you may not be interested in. This photo by Rick Maitri is inside the ruin while the following story was happening – pure magic!

The Story Leading Up To The Story
In Tikal, Guatemala, we were encouraged to have alone time to explore and commune with whatever our energies needed. I was walking around on my own and not a person in sight – most tourists come in the morning so the park after lunch it is practically empty, which was amazing. Mysterious feeling too because I was thinking wow I am walking though an ancient Mayan city! It was thrilling and because I was very connected to the love energy of this land (not the brutality). I was taking it all in…and then a truck full of men with machine guns pass me by. This is not unusual for this area so I wasn’t worried but when they stopped way up the road (and I use the word road loosely) I thought do I just keep going to where I know, which means I would have to pass the men with guns, or do I go off road which I was warmed to be careful of because getting lost is a real possibility. Clear choice, the road less traveled.

The path became very narrow and I heard bustling in the dense jungle I was walking through. I stopped, it stopped. I walked, it began to walk again. I stopped. It stopped. Jaguars are nocturnal so I wasn’t worried about them but there were many other exotic and possibly territorial animals. So I said out loud, hello I’m friendly! Silence from us both for a few minutes and then I heard the bustling going away from me, I guess he was just checking me out but now I wanted to see him. I did try! It was thrilling pushing back huge leaves and branches as I tried to find him. Unfortunately I never got to see my jungle friend.

A Ruin Found
When the path became too dense to follow anymore I didn’t want to get lost, which I felt I already was. I turned around and the path lead me into a different direction than I had come strangely, I couldn’t find the main road but I was loving my adventure and just went where energy guided me. I came upon a ruin with a very dark tunnel on the side of it. I wanted to go in and immediately went towards it and then I felt strongly I wasn’t supposed to go so I began to walk away and then I felt called to go in. Into the pitch-blackness of the tunnel I went. It didn’t even occur to me I could use my phone as a flashlight, crazy. The tunnel was narrow so I was brushing my hands against the walls, which were moist with moss, and walking very carefully. I could feel a change on the wall, it began to curve slightly and I saw a glimmer of light. I followed the turn and saw the exist about 20 feet ahead of me – it was beautiful and exciting – I felt like a real explorer☺

I walk in and immediately my heart jumped with joy and I gasped with delight. I looked around, sat around, did some energy moves and began to look for stones – I asked the land to give me a stone but I couldn’t find one that stood out to me so I figured it had nothing for me. The energy began to feel very intense as if it was saying time to go so I went. Some of this sounds very whoo whoo but I promise these energies were so palpable that they could not be dismissed.

The Loving Experience
Later that night we were having a sacred ceremony in a very special place they told us, an energy portal to the Pleiades constellation. When we arrived I was stunned it was the place I had found earlier. The Pleiades had called me to this place for some reason, asked me to go and now welcomed me back with all it’s love and power. The shaman (Tata) went in first blissing the “birth cannel” (the tunnel I had gone through earlier) and we then had to bow and kiss the earth humbly asking if we could enter. As I walked through again and reentered the ruin it felt different – the power had increased but it wasn’t intense, it was powerfully gentle.

I positioned myself in the middle of the grounds, right under the Pleiades constellation and the moon was lighting up the ruin, stunningly magical and mysterious. You could feel its life. I was lying on the earth looking up and feeling everything – I could feel the entirety of patchamama. I laid there on my journey staring up at the sky, at the stars and moon and I would turn my body slowly to stay aligned in the center of the portal and one of the times I moved my hand which was laying face up but somehow the earth seemed to be reaching up to give me a stone. It felt like an earth hand literally put it into my hands – what a gift, what an experience. All of the sudden this stone was in my hand and I knew it was a sacred gift from the portal. I put it on my heart center under my cloths and felt it helped deepen my connection with everything. It’s a powerful stone and I am thankful for it. I keep it with my special wakka stones / crystals next to my bed and I travel with them too. But this Pleiades portal stone still retains it’s full power – when I touch it I can feel the energy of the place running through me, feeding me, empowering me with love and earth and cosmic energies.

The earth was hugging me, I seriously felt it around me and the heavens were bathing me and I felt it showering through and in me that in itself is incredible. But, it was even more glorious when I felt true deep sold self-love light up inside me. Never have I felt love that deeply and it’s still with me – I transformed. I sat up and began to hug myself and what a feeling! I have never hugged myself that way before in the physical sense but also energetically. The land and the energy portal was wrapping me with so much love and radiance I felt connected to all the love in the world but mostly it was the love inside of me that opened wide.

I began to do the Waving Into The Chakras. This is inspired from Donna Eden’s Heaven Rushing In. I opened my arms wide, palms up and let them fill up with this magical power energy and I scooped it into each chakra – it was indescribably beautiful. And I can feel the difference in the foundation of my chakras and all my energy systems really. This energy integrated into every level of who I am physically and non-physically. It felt liberating, sacred and opening in everyway.

You Can Create This At Home
The energy of any land has it’s own unique energetic vibration and if you are a traveler you will know what I mean when I say some places just encourage your energy to transform into something deeply wonderful and lasting. That said where you live could be your radiant power source. It might be that already and if so you just have to tap into it and if not you might need to do some energy work to create it by using sage, crystals and set clear intentions all over your home and land.

You can also call for energy from a place you had an amazing spiritual experience – energy from the entire planet is ready to connect with you and be in service to you, just ask and you shall receive.

I have found it is rare to find any land that does not respond to love and gratitude. Everything is connected! Try it out – lie flat on any land near you and send it love, gratitude and tell it you are so grateful for its beauty and strength and see what happens! I have asked friends to do this in the past and they were amazed they could feel love being given to them.

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Waving Into The Chakras


Waving Into The Chakras
Inspired by Eden Energy Medicines Heaving Rushing In

It’s simple and powerful! I’ve been doing this for about 3-4 years now and it makes me happy every time! The benefits are limitless bringing joy, radiance and healing into your bodies energy systems. You can also customize this for whatever energy you are needing at the time. Sometimes we need comfort, other times bravery, just know wherever you need is available through this self-care tool.

1. Basic Quickie Version. Standing, sitting or lying down extend your palms upward, arms slightly extended but not much (no more than 1 ft.) as this is really one continuous movement where you open your hands upward briefly to bring radiant energy into the palms of your hand and then with a flowing wave motion you scoop that energy into your chakra(s). You start at your base chakra moving up to the crown. You may feel the radiance in the form of heat or even a tickle, it will be different for everyone, and some may see it, I sometimes see golden balls of energy in my hands and I connect to all the joy and love in the universe and then scoop it into each chakra. Remember you can call upon any energy you need, such as happiness, confidence, relaxation etc. I usually do this process pretty quickly and because of that as I move up the chakras I am creating crossovers at the same time. It’s like lacing the Nadis, except you are scooping in universal radiance as you go. I’ll make a video one of these days. Contact me if you have questions, this is really worth having in your self-care tool bag!

2. Shamanic Version. In Tikal Guatemala we were doing a sacred ceremony at night in the middle of a ruin that was an energy portal to the Pleiades star constellation. The energy was out of this world, literally! I wanted this radiant magical energy to become apart of me. I was laying down on the grass and began to do Waving Into The Chakras but the energy and my instincts were guiding me differently. Guiding me to make true wave motions. I opened my arms stretching them outward as far as they could go, palms up but my arms pretty much stayed parallel to my body, maybe slightly higher at times. This felt right because I wanted to get the earth energies as well as the cosmic ones. My palms were up and I let it fill with the high frequency energy I was bathing in and I slowly waived it into each chakra. It was a smooth and gentle gathering of the energies surrounding me and seeding within me. I did this several times, taking the time to lay my hands on the chakra I was feeding, and sometimes I didn’t do that, I was following the energy. Sometimes once the energy was waived into one chakra, in a continuous motion I let my hands / arms crossover to open my arms once more and repeat the process. I might say it felt profound but that seems cliché because the energy was like nothing I have ever felt. It was very loving, nurturing and radiant.

Please know you don’t need to be in some sacred place like this to connect to this kind of high frequency energy, you can do it in your backyard – intention is everything! Mother earth is wise so you can ask that she connect you with certain energies and / or places anywhere in the world – everything is connected!

3. I have found doing this in different environments and times of the day can really shift what you bring in. At night you can bring in moon energy and all its femininity, its gentleness and its radiance. Do it in the middle of the day and take in the power of the sun energy, which I have found to be energizing, uplifting and joyful.

You can of course always visualize any part of this process – our minds and intentions have great power!

Hope you enjoy!

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Environment / Shamanism Healing Intentions Positive Thought

Getting What You Need


Mayan Shamanic Journeys: Part 3
Also see Part One, Part Two, Part Four, Part Five

I admit I have had a tendency in the past to worry that I will not get what I need. Whether it be from a relationship, a class, work, trip, etc. and so on. The 2nd evening of our journey my roomie and I were randomly talking about wishing we’d see jaguars on our night walk to the fire ceremony. One of our guides, Daniel Koupermann, looked deeply into my eyes, held the sides of my arms and very slowly said, and I do paraphrase a bit, “Cristina quiet your mind…It will all happen. Just let yourself enjoy the experience…and don’t think of what you want”. I got it right away and took it to heart immediately because it resonated deeply.

This may not be breaking news but it was the way he said it, meant it and the abundance of energies in the land supported the idea. This one idea of letting go of the worry of “not getting” was such a relief. It was taking up valuable space inside my mind and energy. I’ve studied Abraham and others like her / them but this felt different. It wasn’t about me being in a certain vibration to attract what I want, it was about not being in vibration with feeling I won’t get what I need. The difference in the perspectives may be slight but I find it powerful.

With this new energy I went forward in a blank sort of way. I actually had a moment of thinking wait, what, I can’t think, I can’t take anything in etc. and now I look back and I see I was allowing myself to just “be” to just “experience”, without my internal dialogue, and from that blank space incredible revelations and experiences blossomed within me. If a worry began to come up of me not getting something or saying something or being apart of something I just let it go and amazingly I received everything I wanted and more.

Big lesson for me. Amazing lesson in general – you will always get what you need once you let go of it – let all options be possibilities for you – you may just get something better than you even wished for. Decide to love and have gratitude for what you do have and are doing.

We never did see a Jaguar. And I never felt I missed a thing.

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Opening Your Heart


Mayan Shamanic Journeys: Part 2
Also see Part One, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five

The Set Up
On the second day of our trip – on the way to Tikal – we stopped at Iximche for our first fire ceremony. Our Tata and Nana were late plus another family was in the middle of their own fire ceremony on this sacred alter so we had a wait. The ceremony takes place on a typical round stone platform, about ½ a foot off the ground and roughly 5-6 feet in circumference – they all vary. A few feet away from that was a small pyramid alter ruin where candles were dipping – past offerings still adding to the magic of the place.

I found myself walking around this alter to the back where a tree was growing out of the rocks – I didn’t realize at the time that this tree was actually growing out of the alter and had actually become apart of the alter. How I didn’t notice that I have no clue. The heart of the tree, as I call it, had three different trunks meeting to create the perfect seat and there was also a hollow on the side that to me looked like the trees hands forming a large cup. I was up there over an hour and it was unbelievably comfortable, as if I was lying on moss. I was very comfortable physically and energetically.

The Lesson
I was mediating and it felt really beautiful. I was using my own techniques plus the latest one I learned from Phelgye at Do Kham. I was slightly self-conscious in the beginning because everyone could see me but if you can’t meditate out in the open on a spiritual journey with spiritual warriors where can you ☺! Then something changed. The trees energy seemed to wrap all around me as if to hug me and I felt myself sink into this blissful feeling. I noticed how strong and grounded I felt and I was very aware of this trees life – of its consciousness. You could not deny this tree was alive and this life being in the form of a tree began to speak to me. It was as if information was downloaded or translated by one of my energy systems – this may sound strange to some but I would encourage you to give it a try with a local tree of yours and see if anything happens. If you quiet your mind and sit in stillness for a while you might be very surprised at what you hear and / or feel.

For the purpose of writing this I will write it as a conversation, which it was but these non-verbal conversations are hard to describe. There I am deep within myself and I hear the tree say “Do you see how safe and protected you are”, “Yes” I replied with a soft happiness. The tree continues, “It’s safe for you to open your heart, I’ve got you” and I energetically opened my heart and smiled and felt the lovingness of just that action – opening. I sat soaking up this energy for a while and a tear or two was shed but very gently. Then the tree says, “You can feel this way all the time” Silence from me. “You are always this protected” the tree continued and I must have thrown a million questions at it, such as what do you mean, is it because I’m grounded, do I have to be connected to be protected, am I really safe etc. and the tree in a very gently powerful way said “It is safe for you to open your heart because we will never stop protecting you, we are connected to you always and you can call on this strength anytime”.

I sat with this energetic truth and was feeling what it felt like to have my heart completely open while feeling completely protected. New feeling. Life changing. I’m protected? My heart is safe no mater what? The trees point was made and it had nothing else to say, neither did I. It just kept feeding me this beautiful energy and I sat there taking it in.

What’s The Take Away?
When I was ready to come down I laid two crystals in the hollow of the tree as my offering of thanks to it. I learned on this trip the importance and power of offerings – this isn’t breaking news but the way it was presented was new and my perspective of its implications broadened greatly. I make offerings everyday now in various forms; even smiling at a stranger is an offering of kindness to the collective conscious and universe.

This was almost a month ago and I can still feel that trees connection and message. Thank you tree. I will honor this tree with trust and by keeping my heart open. I am protected and I can feel that. Keeping our hearts open can be a hard thing in today’s world. Finding an anchor, a place of strength for your heart to feel protected by can really be a life changer. When you feel safe and share your heart beautiful things happen – internally and externally.

The earth has amazing healing and supportive powers and we all have access to it. All we have to do is connect and ask. Earth, trees and many other elements are happy to give you helpful energy, or to take away unhelpful energy – it’s their nature. Pun intended:)

I do have a picture of myself in the tree and will have to post it on FB as I have not learned how to add pictures to posts – yet!

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Letting Go & Retrieving Your Heart spirit


Mayan Shamanic Journeys: Part 1
Also see Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five

Writing up all the internal and external wonders of my shamanic journey to Guatemala is happening slowly. The integration is slow, gentle and joyful. It’s almost two weeks since my return and I have sung and danced everyday since! I think it will all come in parts and I’d like to start at the beginning, as we did.

These are two journeys John Perkins led us through the first day. I think these go hand in hand. It was important for us to be unburdened, open and free, to feel safe and to have the space to take in all the wonders and deep spiritual places our energies would go throughout the week. We all wanted to be open and allow the wisdom of Patchamama to teach us and enter our souls.

For the first journey we were asked to let go of all blockages and worries that could get in the way of us being open and to get rid of anything that could hinder our journey in anyway. Then we went straight into our second journey to find our heart spirit so that our hearts would feel protected and strong in order to open and receive the gifts that were waiting for us from the Mayan earth and cosmos. They are very specific energies! I see how these journeys needed to happen together for us. We needed to be clear in all ways in order to really have open hearts and minds – that’s the optimal way to embark on this kind of spiritual journey.

Both of these are partner journeys. Many of the journeys we did in general are very simple and it’s really up to you how deep you go and how far you allow your consciousness to open and explore the pure potentiality of you.

John used a hand drum during both these journeys, you can do it without a drum but it’s much better with one. There is something special about the tribal origins of drumming that our spirit innately reacts to in a positive primal way – it brings us deep, quickly.

Letting Go Journey
How Too:
We were asked to partner up and get comfortable and to make sure we were touching but not side-by-side. Some people sat in a meditative pose holding hands and others found creatibe ways but I was focused on my journey so my partner and I laid down with our feet touching – and throughout the journey we would adjust our feet and our legs connected, it felt natural and was not distracting at all. It was actually comforting because we both were on the same journey and it put us into harmony.

As John drummed he would encourage us with a word or sentence, only once in a while, like ‘find where your blockages are and let them release into the land’, ‘let your worries go’ etc. I know how simple this sounds but when you are in it lying on the ground with a partner and a group all having set the same intention and the drum is beating it’s amazing how powerful it becomes! I can’t wait to re-create this in a workshop!

My Journey
I said I wanted to let go of tension and anxiety and the earth came up to hug me deeply and a butterfly came to sit on me gently, it was as big as me and she was radiant as if her wings were irridecent, dragon like in a way. She seemed to be working on my front and back and I was just watching her and feeling all the worry and anxiety just melt away. My head got involved for a second of what do I do now, should I fly with her and the answer came immediately, ‘no, don’t rush just, be.’ so that’s what I did and then boom, my cosmic self showed up and she was beautiful, seemingly glowing and she reached out her hand to help me out of my old skin. I was new. Everything good in me just needed the clutter to clear so it could shine. I looked back at the old skin and it was a clump of clutter, which made me giggle a bit about why on earth was I carrying that around? I felt deep love and birds began to show up and I began to playfully fly and do loops around all the spirits that were with me and then I took my cosmic self into myself. I fully let her in, it felt amazing. So I’m feeling this blissful radiance and the big message came to me in thought and feeling – I realized I was not alone! I am not alone. Big for me. After we shared our experiences with our partner and tears were shed, but happy tears.

Retrieving Another’s Heart Spirit
How To:
The intent is to find your partners hearts spirit guide so that they, and you, would feel safe allowing all the amazing heart energy journeys and challenges we were about to be faced with. Oh sure finding someone else spirit guide, no pressure, lol. But John was very encouraging, the drum began beating and my new partner and I looked each other deeply in the eye and said, “we can do this” and we began.

You and your partner lay side-by-side holding hands. Once you clearly see your partners guide you squeeze their hand to gently let them know and you slowly sit up, eyes closed if possible and your partner continues to lay on the ground with their eyes still closed and you then blow the image of their heart guide into you hand(s), as if you are really holding it or at least its energy. Then you put your hand onto the center of your partners’ heart center (middle of chest) and you blow it into their heart with a big shamanic “shooooowosh” sound. You then quietly lay down again and wait until your partner finds your heart guide and she or he will do the same as above. You can choose to lie down again or just stay up and your partner joins you to share experiences.

My Journey
So there we are lying side-by-side, hand in hand on the semi grassy wet ground. John’s drums sounded louder this time – I could feel the earth reacting. My partner squeezed her hand first but I think we both had our images about the same time – even with all my energy medicine training and practice I was still surprised by how quickly we connected and found what the other needed. I surprisingly saw these green stalagmites with blurred yellow rings around them but they were facing away from her and I knew they needed to be turned around so I did that for her. I felt she was giving too much away on every level and that she wasn’t giving herself what she needed. Not surprisingly, at this point, she immediately confirmed what I saw and felt. It was a very loving moment.

For me she saw this big bird of pray show up. I immediately thought it would be an owl because I have flown with one in other journeys but she was clear it was an eagle. I have shapeshifted into birds a few times and let me clarify shapeshifting – yes there are indigenous mythologies of real physical form changes but I speak of energetic shapeshifting where you merge energetically with an animals or earth spirit – a talk for another time but you get it I’m sure. The meaning of why the bird came as my heart guide didn’t really sink in at first. Finally I realized it is almost always a bird that is flying me around in other journeys I’ve had and because one of my main lessons of this trip was to learn to open my heart the fierce bird of pray came to protect me. And the bird was there to show me it’s time for me to fly. That message has been coming for a while and after this trip I am ready. Lets fly!

And this folks was day 1….

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Winter Solstice Blessings


Whether you are celebrating winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere, tonight is a time to honor the earth and its rhythms. For the exact time see the end of this post. I am in the winter solstice energy right now and generally speaking, this is a deeply yin time, meaning a time to rest and reflect, and a time to honor the light. There are many ways to honor the light and Mystic Mama has some great ones. Just to make sure you have all the options you can try any of these sacred rituals.

Most of you can guess I will be making a Solstice Intention Candle today but my other favorite ritual is the powerful Fire Ritual, which can be done anytime but takes on a deeper meaning tonight. Write down what you want to release (I suggest 3 things but if you have more that is fine), read it out loud as the spoken word has incredible power and then burn it in fire. If you have a fire pit or fireplace great, if not what I do is to have a bowl next to me and I burn the paper and once it’s really flaming I put it in the bowl and watch as it turns to shimmering ashes, it’s really beautiful. Then I write 3 things I want to bring into my life and repeat the burning technique above. I write them down all at once but then burn them one at a time so that I can really focus my energy on what I am releasing and what I am calling into my life. I then take the ashes outside, or open a window, and let the wind take the ashes back to mother earth. It’s a beautiful ceremony, especially with friends!

If you are doing this with loved ones I suggest sitting in a circle and allowing everyone to read the first thing they want to release and then the next person goes. The circle continues onto the 2nd, and then the 3rd thing each wants to release. Then move onto what you want to bring into your life the same way as the releasing – one at a time within this sacred circle you have created.

Please note that the solstice happens for everyone on earth at the same time and that time can vary from year to year. This great site will calculate the exact time for all solstices, but that said I believe the solstice energy is here now and will be with us for the next 24 hours.

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Energy Medicine Environment / Shamanism Intentions Intuition Positive Thought Visualizations

Finding Your Inner Wisdom


Our inner wisdom is the best guide we have in life. Only we know what is truly right for us or not – it’s your unique path. Our inner wisdom, or intuition, can help us with small daily decisions or with life-changing ones.
A great starting place is to ask yourself do you trust yourself for real?

1. If you have a crystal or glass pendulum you spin it in front of your 3rd eye – bet. Your eyebrows and that helps to activate intuition. This is an Eden Energy Medicine technique.

2. With your middle fingers or pointer – whichever feels right to you – put them on the top of your nose and firmly press and you slide your fingers upward through your third eye, up to the center of your forehead and then spread them apart – each finger spread and moving towards your temple – do this a few times. This is an Eden Energy Medicine technique.

3. Sit and ground yourself either by rooting your feet into the earth or imagine a cord from the bottom of your spine that extends in to the earth – which ever you choose you let your roots or cord ground to a crystal or stone in the middle of the earth – once you are dimly grounded you rub and squeeze each pinky finger from the bottom all the way up and really give it a pull as if you are opening and pulling energy out – do this a few time – this pinky rubbing begins to open your intuition and the deeper you ground the farther out you can reach into the heavens / universe to ask your questions and search for what you want to know. This is an Eden Energy Medicine Technique.

4. Almost the opposite to the above is to sit quietly – do the grounding and pinky rub but you then tune inward instead of outward and you ask yourself a question and go into a no thought space and allow the answer to come up – most of the time if you set the intent to trust what comes up and you have given yourself some time to get into a meditative state you get the right answer right away and sometimes it’s so simple it’s surprising. This is a Shakti Gawain technique from various workshops.

5. Sort of a longer way is a shamanic technique which again includes centering yourself and really knowing what you want to know – you need to be very clear with what you want to know and you then ask “patchamama” (Mother Earth / father universe) which is essentially putting your question out to nature and then it will give you an answer but it’s usually in very off hand ways – like you will pass someone having a conversation and part of it will apply to you or you will notice a sign / billboard that applies to your question – it really can come in any form – even a ray of light shining through the clouds or a bird singing just as you are thinking a specific way about what you want to know.
I did this once asking why I wasn’t getting something I wanted and on my walk to work I saw a huge billboard with my name on it and I stopped walking in shock b/c I took that walk everyday and I never had seen it and then boom the day after I asked my question it went up and I new in my gut it was the answer – it was saying I was getting in my own way.
So this shamanic technique takes some trust and being very open to everything and everyone around you – you have to be open to accepting that you are indeed being sent this message. This is a John Perkins Technique from his Shapeshifting Audio tapes. We sell these so just email us for them and you can find a detailed description of the tapes here, scroll to #4.

A note: You have to give yourself time and space with all these options – sometimes when we allow ourselves space and don’t rush to the first thing that comes to mind or try to analyze other deeper truths surface

And remember slow deep breathing with no thoughts really calms us and allows you to have a blank canvas where answers can appear:)

Your 2nd, or Sacral Chakra, is our first intuitive center in our bodies and our 6th, or 3rd eye, chakra is our main intuitive center so clearing and balancing these chakras will help clear the way for you to be your own best guide in life!

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Finding answers through the world around you


This is a shamanistic technique, meaning you will be connecting to the earth and all her elements. Sit quietly, turn your attention inward and focus on a question. Then take this question and bring its energy outside yourself. Send it out to all that thee is… ask the trees, the wind, your guides… ask life force, ask mother earth and father universe, also called patchamama, to answer your question.

Be open to what and how the answer comes back to you. It could be a conversation between two strangers and at the moment you are passing by you hear exactly what you need to. You could see an advertisement that seems to speak to you (that actually happened to me)… it could be an internal voice, a dream… answers are everywhere, we just need to be open to seeing and hearing them.

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Environment / Shamanism Healing Visualizations

The Radiant Tree


Get comfortable and begin to breath slowly and deeply in your noise and out your mouth.

Imagine you are deep in the woods surrounded by beautiful healthy green leaves and grass everywhere. See yourself laying down on the soft warm ground and continue your deep slow breathing.

Begin to feel yourself, as if a seed, begin to root your body, your energy into the ground. Your roots deepen and become one with the earth – you begin to feel your body expand and reach upward. You are transforming, growing into a strong beautiful tree. You are drawing up strength from your roots to for your energy to transform into the tree trunk, and you grow branches and on these branches leaves and flower begin to blossom.

You now begin to feel warmth showering down on you. You see radiant universal light showering down into and onto you, coating your branches and leaves with shimmering radiant light.

Let these images and feelings of being this radiant tree sink deeply into who you are. In your heart you can see how beautiful you are and you know you can easily become everything you want to be. Breathe that in and call upon this energy whenever you need it.

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Environment / Shamanism Healing Intentions Visualizations

You Are Everything


This is a two-part visualization and you can make it as short or as long as you want. Read through it first and then get comfortable and take a few deep slow breadths.

Imagine you are comfortably lying in a shallow river and the water is rushing around your body. Feel yourself letting go of fear, grief and any obstacle that you want to get rid of. Feel the river washing it all away. It’s washing away everything you do not need or want in your life. Whether it is emotions, situations or an unhealthy connection to someone let the river take it and feel it flowing away. Feel the release in your body, the lightness you feel from being letting go and being cleansed. Sit with this as long as you need to.

Now that you have let go and released its time to renew and refill the space you have just created. Step away from the river and walk into the forest. In your minds eye find the perfect place to lie on the ground. Imagine you are a seed and plant yourself into the earth. Feel yourself rooting and grounding. See yourself sprouting from a seed into a sprout and you slowly begin to grow into a tree. Your roots grow deeper and your trunk begins to grow strong and grow branches and leaves. You are growing tall and feel the sun feeding you and the earth strengthening you. Stretch out your branches and take in from the sun, from the heavens what you want. Take in love, strength, hope and everything positive you can imagine. Really let yourself feel power you have – feel it in your mind, body and spirit. Breathe it in and sit in this energy for as long as you like. End by getting up and stretching your physical body and give yourself a big hug.

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Environment / Shamanism Intentions Mindful Self-Care Visualizations

Renewal Visualization

This is a two-part visualization is inspired by John Perkins who led a group of us through this in the Ecuadorian Rainforest and you can make it as short or as long as you want. Read through it first and then get comfortable and take a few deep slow breadths.

Imagine you are comfortably lying naked in a shallow river and the water is rushing around your body. Feel yourself letting go of fear, grief and any obstacle that you want to get rid of. Feel the river washing it all away. It’s washing away everything you do not need or want in your life. Whether it is emotions, situations or an unhealthy connection to someone let the river take it and feel it flowing away. Feel the release in your body, the lightness you feel from being letting go and being cleansed. Sit with this as long as you need to.

Now that you have let go and released its time to renew and refill the space you have just created. Step away from the river and walk into the forest. In your minds eye find the perfect place to lie on the ground. Imagine you are a seed and plant yourself into the earth. Feel yourself rooting and grounding. See yourself sprouting from a seed into a sprout and you slowly begin to grow into a tree. Your roots grow deeper and your trunk begins to grow strong and grow branches and leaves. You are growing tall and feel the sun feeding you and the earth strengthening you. Stretch out your branches and take in from the sun, from the heavens what you want. Take in love, strength, hope and everything positive you can imagine. Now let your inner light, your hearts light, shine out through your branches / arms just like real leaves and branches do. Really let yourself feel power and connection you have – feel it in your mind, body and spirit. Breathe it in and sit in this energy for as long as you like. End by getting up and stretching your physical body and give yourself a big hug. And if you are near a tree give it a hug as well:)

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