Gaia dances with her Life partner
A Blessing for us all
A New Earth
Prayer: Earth and Water
Gaia's Womb...
As you pray for the Earth, pray for the water.
Pray for the water of your body before you eat…and the water of your food…that the water of your body be cleansed and nourished by the water of the food, that the waters you breathe out with each breath are purified as they pass through you, that your body be purified by the waters, that all the waters of the planet be pure.
Send love to the waters of your own body as well as to the planet. All waters are one water-body on this planet, as all water is endlessly recycled through the breath…breath of ocean tides, breath of clouds rising and falling again to earth, breath of your body, in and out…all is a constant circuit of life renewing: blessing, cleansing, healing, bringing new life.
There is no life on this planet without water. Every cell of every thing is mainly water. Water carries energies and properties we have yet to imagine much less comprehend. Bless and pray for the water.
As you start with what is closest to home…your own body, you begin in your own root here on Earth. It is important to always start here…with your own root, your own body. Only from your rooted body, self, and place on Earth can you send forth powerful healing. The healing is as much in your recognition of oneness and dependence as it is in your “sending” and intention.
Be thankful, be loving, be kind…and send smiles and loving peace to your own waters and all the waters of the Earth through the endless recycling of which your breath is an integral part. In this oneness all of Gaia is together. In it there is healing and health.
Gift Received…
My thanks to Leslie for the letter below, which she sent out today. Sometimes reading Our Friends words through other people’s eyes gives me new appreciation. So it was today.
My life has been rather busy recently, and I have not had time to get a new post completed. I hope to do so very soon. Inspiration rises with the return of the sun in our parts. I hope spring is blessing you. Stephanie
Praying for the water of our water planet, of our bodies, of our Life...water responds to our prayers...we can offer our gratitude, our apology, our desire for forgiveness...in so doing we join and all life on Earth flows together...
Since I got the green light from Immigration, I have been listening to some of the many recorded sessions I have had with Stephanie Nead and Our Friends during the last 12 years or so. I don’t know what I would have done without their insights, explanations and loving support to make extremely huge changes in my life during those years, realigning my outer world to better match the essence of who I truly am.
I went online to see what they have to say about the current global situation and found two web pages of particular interest. I’ve included the two quotes from one page here – and highly recommend that you check out the other webpage and Stephanie’s whole website online: https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/humans-gaia-en-earthed-2/.
Blessings to each one of you! It is indeed a blessing to me, to have you be part of my world!
Leslie
Quote of the Day
In honor of the Summer solstice, I am posting two quotes of Our Friends. They both feel essential to this
day. -Stephanie
Disconnection from the Earth leads to disconnection from your own bodies and one another.
Whether you are disconnecting or connecting, it is always reinforcing. Connect more deeply, consciously and consistently with yourself, with one another, with animals, with the stars, with the energies of Creation, and you reinforce connection. Disconnect from yourself, and you cannot help but disconnect from all others. You must be connected, with compassion, acceptance, love and peace with yourself.
For most humans, it is most difficult to connect within themselves in a loving, accepting, respectful way, and then to connect with other human beings in a loving, respectful, accepting way. It is the most challenging work for human beings right now. Our Friends
Blessing and Gratitude
It is a great gift to Creation, to the Spirit of Life, that you feel richly blessed. It is a huge blessing to Creation when you take in, richly and deeply, all the blessings of your life, knead them like bread dough within you, so they nourish your very being. Such deep receiving sends out, like rainbows, loving
blessings to Creation. Your gratitude nourishes the energies of Life. Gratitude is life force. To feel appreciation of your blessings is to bless. And the blessing is a real thing, with living energy. Our Friends
Leslie Lightfall
Email: llightfall@gmail.com
Website: www.earthsongnetwork.net
Greetings Everyone!
Gifts Gained through Earth Communion
Below is a letter from my friend Leslie Lightfall. If you have read previous posts I’ve shared from Leslie, you know she is deeply committed to communion with Earth/Gaia and brings forth some of the most beautiful songs of the Earth. I share this letter, because it illumines the gifts gained through committment to communion.
However you feel called to communion, follow your path. It will unfold for you over time with deep blessings. What may seem miraculous to others, may be more truly an expression of profound attention, deep listening, wholehearted surrender, and open hearted receiving, as well as committed work and intention. Leslie’s experience is inspiring. Blessings, Stephanie
Earth, Water & Fire Glory
Hello, all you beautiful people!
I feel extremely blessed at this moment sitting here in Dunedin as I have been watching the devastation in Christchurch on TV. I am about 5 hours south of Christchurch and had been planning on leaving for that city in two days to meet Leanne at the airport. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling the brief roll of an earthquake, and the strong impression of the Christchurch airport being closed and of me canceling my trip up north.
However, when I talked to the other people here where I’m living, neither of them had felt anything. I went on to the NZ earthquake tracking website and it didn’t show any earthquake activity during the middle of the night. I still felt very strongly that I was being guided not to go to Christchurch and though I knew it would make it extremely difficult for Leanne to get around when she arrived, I sent her an email telling her about my personal internal earthquake and that I felt I had to follow my guidance and wouldn’t be meeting her in Christchurch after all.
I sent this off about 3 or 4 hours before the 6.3 earthquake hit, doing so much damage, closing the airport. When I heard about the quake it validated my following my intuition, even when the outer events didn’t support what I was being made aware of.
I deeply appreciate those of you who have communicated your concern for my welfare and want you all to know that I’m just fine and dandy. I have texted my friends in Christchurch and as of the first earthquake they are still OK. The news broadcasts have shared many stories on the TV. One precious one was about an elderly woman who was totally disoriented walking up to a policeman and getting a hug (people were downtown and their cars were crushed under piles of rubble, cells phones not working, phones lines down and they had no way to get home or find out if their loved ones were OK and were wandering around in a daze, not know what to do).
I know from the core of me that sending loving energy to the Earth (and to the little pieces of Earth walking around in human form), is terribly important for all of us to being doing right now and for the foreseeable future. Particularly in groups. I invite you once again to sing to the Earth! Talk to the Earth! Bless her with your prayers and love! And LISTEN when she/your inner guidance speaks to you about where to go and what to do! Hold a picture of the Earth in all her magnificence and immense beauty and perfection deeply in your mind and heart.
Thank you, each one of you, for being part of my world!
Much love, aloha and warm chi to all,
Leslie
Leslie Lightfall
Email: llightfall@gmail.com
Website: www.earthsongnetwork.net
“The Pivot” Gaia En-Earthed Part V
"The Lava Darkness" ... what is revealed in the darkness, what embraced, what gifted...in the blessing of the dark, what do you open to receive?
(I am deliberately posting this thread in small pieces, because there is much to absorb. Each piece offers something essential to ponder. I hope you are finding it nourishing.) Stephanie
What you consider “the fall,” as so many of your stories portray, is merely the chronicle — very important — of the critical decision that created this art form and allows this unique exploration to create movement. The “decision,” the choice, was to create a will that seems to be, believes itself to be, separate from the Creator, the One. This free will is The pivot upon which turns the creation called human being. Our Friends
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EarthSong Solstice Connection
Gaian Beauty...newly created each evening...Can you hear the song of this sunset?
(Leslie’s work with sound is amazing. It is some of the best and deepest work with sound I have experienced. Check out her DVDs. Her “Earthsongs” are simply incredible…she has found the song of each place she is filming. You can feel it. I hope others will intentionally connect to the work she is doing this solstice. Being in deep communion with the earth, with Gaia, is essential for us and for Gaia. Perhaps it is the most healing work we can do, for ourselves, humanity, and this glorious earth we are so blessed to live within.) Stephanie
EarthSong Network Newsletter
New Moon – December 2010
Kia Ora! Greetings from Dunedin, New Zealand!
Networking for the Solstice
I invite you all to link up with us here in Dunedin, New Zealand to celebrate the coming Solstice. Linking up with others who are celebrating and honoring the Earth is a also a powerful practice, because the loving energy we send back and forth between us humans helps form ley lines within the Earth. Our communion with each other while connecting to the Earth and spiritual energies helps to rebuild and strengthen the Earth’s energetic gridwork.
The three days around each of the Solstices and Equinoxes are the times when the Earth is most able to receive human energy. This year’s Solstice, Dec. 20 to 22, is going to be a particularly powerful opportunity for honoring and gifting energy to the Earth and aligning with her cycles and seasons because there will also be a Full Moon and Full Lunar Eclipse during that time.
Vision
I want to share the vision I have been given for our Solstice Gathering, “Heart Visions & Soul Songs” for Dec. 20, 21, & 22, 2010 here in Dunedin. This gathering is definitely a heart vision for me. My heart literally throbs when I feel into this gathering and the seed possibilities it contains for each individual participating, for the group, for the Dunedin area, for the connective network of sound circle groups and individuals that link up with us, and for the planet.
I am being shown a gathering of 6 women, myself and 5 wonderful women I have connected with spiritually and at a deep heart level over a period of several years who will be coming from both the north and south islands: Pania Lawsen, Heather Burch, Livia Tsai, Jaqueline Joy and Tracey Crampton-Smith.
The time we women spend together will be a spiritual retreat that is part workshop, and part ceremonial practices of using sound, song, and movement, sound sculptures and silence to gift energy to the Earth. With the intent that she take and use our energy wherever and whenever it is most needed, we will be using times of sounding and times of silence and deep listening to align ourselves with her cycles and rhythms, and current process of rapid evolution.
We will be visiting at least 6 different sacred spots that lie on the rim of the ancient volcano that surrounds the Dunedin Harbor, beginning with a cleansing ceremony, walking up the creek to Nicols Falls. (It is extremely important to take time to release the density and busyness of everyday life and deepen one’s connection to the Earth, before commencing with Earth energy work and communion.)
During the 3 days we’ll be circling around the rim, interacting with Earth energies at each of the sacred spots, ending with a gifting ceremony, releasing our energy to the planet and to our sound circle network from a nearby mountain top.
We will be overtone chanting in caves, creating a Sound Sculpture on the beach, playing in the mud, and dancing with the ocean waves during our three days. I will once again be teaching the EarthSong practices that I have developed over the past 15 years but what I am most excited about this time is that we will be experiencing it all in the context of Nature. Sharing our energy in the wild places, taking time to honor Mama Earth and listen for the her Song.
When I asked about how we women could hold sacred space and move around from location to location and take care of practicalities of nurturing our bodies while spending much of our time in altered states, I was shown a diagram of six dots forming a hexagon, surrounded by four dots forming a square. The four dots represent four men who would be serving to create and hold a safe, nurturing space around us, freeing us to go deeply into the energetic work.
Working as a team, the four men would help provide our transportation, meals and delivery of meals, and act as guardians both in a practical sense and an energetic sense for the 3 days we are engaged in the process.
I have been calling people I am connected with at a deep heart level on the phone, so that our group here in Dunedin will be linking up energetically with individuals and groups all over the world. I invite you to do the same with people and groups you are each connected with – that is, sharing this vision with them of what we (or with what you) will be doing and inviting them to link up in to you (and us) in whatever way fits for them.
(For those of you who have asked, our opening ceremony at Nicols Falls will take place around 10:30 am on Dec. 20 which translates to Dec. 19, 1:30 pm PST. We will close on Dec. 22 up on the mountain around 3 pm > which would be Dec. 21, 7 pm PST.)
Powerful energies are building for this Solstice and I invite you all to take time out to nurture both yourself and the Earth by listening for her song, singing your own song to gift and honor her, and connecting with all those who have deeply touched your heart through the years.
Please call or email me if you have any questions or wish to connect.
In New Zealand: call/text 021-259-0712
In the USA: call 541-255-2295 (this will ring through to my computer in NZ)
International: call +64 21 259 0712
Namaste,
Leslie Lightfall
Email: llightfall@gmail.com
Website: www.earthsongnetwork.net
Gaia En-earthed Part IV
- En-earthed creature blending with his home in gorgeous dignity. Photo by Stephanie K. Nead
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It is a sad mistake to perceive physicality as a limitation to be overcome or escaped. It is a mistake to believe that you have less and experience less on earth, with bodies, than is possible in “spirit.” Precisely the opposite is true.
With a body you are graced to experience touch, smell, taste, sight, light, hearing, as well as emotion – life force of your Essence, that spark of the Creator which reflects, enhances, uniquely expresses and experiences the whole precisely because it (you) are “limited” by the vehicle of this creation. Everything that is within Creation as a whole, with the Creator, resides within you. It cannot be otherwise. You experience the felt sense of this. You do not need more.
What you perceive as limitations of perception are much less a function of the vehicle of your body, than a function of beliefs developed over ages by humanity.
In truth, you have access to the whole of Creation from within your body; you do not need to leave it to experience anything. In truth, with your body, you may engage in experiences those “outside” of physical form cannot.
In truth, each of you are the vessal through which many Beings see, feel and experience. Your concept of yourselves as one, as individual, as an “I” is vastly mistaken and leaves you feeling alone and isolated in a alien state, which indeed it would be…were it true.
As you reclaim your true embodiment, you will discover there is no alone in Creation, in God, in the One. There is the experience of movement; there is the experience of uniqueness as a means of extending the experience and expression of Being that is the One, but there is no alone, no true separation. Our Friends
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Gaia En-earthed Part III
Crater Lake Photo by Stephanie K. Nead
This is the third installment of “Gaia En-earthed,” regarding humans’ place in, with, on this Earth, as creatures and creations of Gaia. I will post a short section each day or two for the next couple of weeks. To read the piece from the beginning, click https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/humans-gaia-en-earthed-2/
The One, the Creator, is the ultimate artist.
As an artist, to explore one must first choose a medium. Without this choice , one cannot create but is stuck in stillness, all possibilities locked within. Choose a medium, be it clay or oil, metal or fiber, math or music, and suddenly you have a limitless array of expression. The medium creates parameters within which creation becomes possible. Such is true of physical life, of this earthen creation, of your earthen bodies.
Call now to schedule a personal session with Our Friends in person or by phone. (541-292-9390) Introductory sessions are half price: $50. Refer a friend and get another session for the introductory price. Order a gift certificate for the Holidays and get a session for yourself at half price. For more information on sessions, click https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/contact-and-session-information/
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Humans: Gaia En-earthed Part Two
Gaia's majesty in rock and sky...
(This is the second installment of a piece regarding humans’ place in, with, on this Earth, as creatures and creations of Gaia. I will post a short section each day or two for the next couple of weeks. To read the piece from the beginning, click https://innerteacher.wordpress.com/humans-gaia-en-earthed-2/
This creation, this earth, these bodies…this is not meant to be a limitation. It is a gift, an experiment, an expression of Creation.
The Creator and the Creation are One.
Whatever name you give to the ultimate impulse, which is the very heartbeat and breath of the One, the impulse is movement…there is nothing but movement. And in this movement, there is always extension of the Being of the One, and in this there is creativity.
The One is not static, not finished, not done. Always complete but never completed, the One is a constantly breathing tide of movement into expression, always exploring the limitless possibilities of experience. This world, this physical universe…and all that is of it, and in it, including all that is non-physical (which is the greater portion) is part of this exploration of the One.
The One, the Creator, is the ultimate artist.
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Humans: Gaia En-earthed
Blessings for a day filled with loving laughter in gratitude. May you recognize fully all the richness of your life.
(This post begins a long piece regarding humans’ place in, with, on this Earth, as creatures and creations of Gaia. I will post a short section each day for the next couple of weeks. I will create a new page that I will append to each new post, so those who wish may read through the entire sharing as it unfolds.)
Human beings tend to think of themselves as walking upon the earth but not being of the earth. There is not the recognition that your bodies are made up of water and dirt, that every element and chemical that builds your bodies is of this earth. And so, like the bees, the grasses, the ox — and the water that is so much a part of you — you are of this earth. You are part of a much larger organism and a much larger consciousness than your individual “I-ness.”
In that loss of awareness, or separation, is a tremendous dislocation and disconnection that creates a fear of death, a fear of complete annihilation, because it loses the recognition that you are part of a much greater Oneness. And then comes the need to try to change that and control it, which truly is beyond your ability to do. Our Friends
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Marvel of creation between earth, sky & water...all in the making of Gaia...all held under her dome...
Our Friends: Sacred Counsel 