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What opens us?

What opens you; this is the most important thing.  What leaves you feeling like a well-nourished tree able to bear fruit.  This is what is most important.  All your blessings arise from the deep nourishment of your own Being.  How does that look in your life?

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Work

One soul nourishment of my own…my textile art.

Work needs to nourish you, needs to be what nourishes your heart, your soul, and brings you into a greater richness of life, of giving and receiving.   

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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, 
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Being My True Self

"Building A Cairn" Me at almost 50 in meditation with rock and sun and trees and water...in a moment of love with Life.

This week an article came out about me in a local paper.  Those of you who know me, know that I have assiduously avoided advertising in any way my channeling work, that for 20 years I have cringed at the idea of it. 

But I am about to turn 50.  As I looked at my life’s continuum, I asked myself what I want to do with the rest of this life, what do I want bring to this life and this sacred earth.  My answer was obvious: what I have always felt in my heart and soul and Being, what fills me with nourishing joy, my communion. 

I am fortunate that my communion has evolved over the years to take several forms:  I offer Our Friends through sessions, a sharing that brings me new friends with almost every new person and blesses me with the felt knowledge that Our Friends offer the deepest nourishment to the people who come.  

I create art, which also reflects my communion with and love for this earth and this life.  I write poetry.  I write memoir and creative vignettes.  I write pondering, musing, ideas, and considerations.  I write what the muse tells me to write, and I am blessed that the muse is clear and strong with me. 

Turning 50, I realized that what I want to do, and what my soul needs me to do, is to share fully and ardently my gifts.  This is my source of nourishment and joy; it opens me to love in the most profound and deepest ways.

So when I was asked to allow this article to be written, I was almost willing to consider it.  It took several tries and some negotiation, but in the end I agreed.  I agreed in part because the man writing the article is my beloved, and I trust him to get me right. 

I agreed because he understood my need to be transperant about who I am and how I come to this work, why it is important to me, and why it is essential to me to offer it with the deepest human honesty…without packaging or branding or the “right” bullet points or currently popular descriptors. 

Of all I have learned over the past 20 years, I have learned that one thing is absolute with a gift such as Our Friends.  My first and only real task is to live my life, and make my choices — to the best of my ability — to keep the path, the felt-sense of my communion, clear and pure in my life and Being. 

Since this article (which I will post here next week for your reading pleasure…) has come out, I have been blessed to meet some wonderful people, new friends: grounded, clear, loving people of sweet heart, whose intentions for growth are deep.

I am feeling very grateful for turning 50, for the clarity it has brought me, for “coming out” more fully in my work and in my life, for my beloved who presented me so honestly and clearly (and with humor!) in his writing, for those who have felt drawn to come for sessions. 

Life has been busy the past week.  Next week I will get back to writing and posting Our Friends material.  Until then…

May you be blessed with peace and clarity, with entering the mystery of the present moment…whatever it holds, knowing that whether beauty or pain, it is of the moment and possesses a gift to bestow.  May you feel safe to open to your own feelings, Being, presence, and moment.  Love, Stephanie

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Healing Work in Eden

This is a note from a friend and client who has worked with Our Friends/Inner Teacher for a few years.  She is very committed to water protection.  It is her work and passion.  She is now on a journey to the Middle East continuing to create a network of concerned scientists and citizens to recover the Mesopetamian watershed.  I thought you might be interested in her work. 

Whatever the news may tell us, there are many more who love this Earth than those who would use and abuse her.  I am incredibly inspired by all those who do their own piece of the work of healing this planet .  Gaia creates our bodies and harbors our souls for a time.  She cradles us.  We must learn to cradle her in return.  Blessings, Stephanie

HI Stephanie,  Things are going very well on this trip.  My blog is www.iraqmarshrestoration.blogspot.com  and my web site is www.hima-mesopotamia.org.  Things went super with the Iraqi scientists, and I see myself with help from others building a network of grassroots efforts on water and peace in the Middle East.
Thanks and Take Care,
Michelle

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Honoring Path

“It is important that you honor your own path and your own way of communion with Creation.”                      The Inner Teacher, Our Friends

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Service

“It is possible to serve only by being everything you are, because service can only truly come out of fulfillment, being full…so full that you are overflowing.”     The Inner Teacher, Our Friends

Copyright, Stephanie K. Nead 2008