Snohomish Thursday Farmers Market
Full Moon Fires
Soles for the Soul Moccasin Crafting Workshops
Adults ~ Babies
Drum Birthing Workshop
Rattle Crafting Workshop
Wing Medicine Workshop
Medicine Bag Workshop
Talking Stick Workshop
Private – Group – Experiential Workshops
Oh! This set me back on my heels. I trust. But, do I trust absolutely? In all moments? Within days I was given an opportunity, a test of my absolute trust.
These last many months, it feels as though I am, we are, constantly being tested. Absolute trust is required to stay sane, balanced, and right-sided. And action. Many actions. All our attention is needed in every direction. There is no being on the fence.
I write this as a small boat, with duel American flags, slowly motors by on the river below where I sit. What trust is required to be an American, to be a citizen of the world? How does one go on aware that there was not one Treaty ever honored with our Indigenous Relatives, on stolen land where immigrates are unwelcome, while their government systematically destroys people, sacred places, civil rights, and has it’s dirty warmongering hands in the destruction of foreign people and lands globally? To trust that this is all in divine order requires great strength, total surrender, and a willingness to face the terrible facts head-on – it hurts, yet the suffering of other living beings the world over is unimaginable. Rising in compassion and empathy, it is only absolute trust that carries me. I hearing the birthing cries above the commotions and distractions, above the motor of the boat drifting by. #RiseUp #Vote #Divest
One Human Family – Sending Up A Prayer
To you, your families, and your communities… Love…
All My Relations
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I am sustained by Divine Light I am protected by Divine Light I am surrounded by Divine Light I am ever growing into Divine Light Swami Radha was my first spiritual teacher some 25 years ago. Her teachings woke me up to myself through the many practices of yoga. I was surprised to discover I wasn’t studying yoga. This powerful path was self discovery – body, mind, and spirit. Until then, I’d been a sleep-walker, in survival mode. I really worked it hard, this union of self/Self. I’m awake. Even with this, it was a medicine way path that brought me fully into my heart. The Bear Nation showed me a way home to myself by way of the heart. A four chambered heart – open, full, clear, and strong – a unified, whole, integrated self. “The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.”
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FIRST DANCE
Gratefully, I was commissioned to craft moccasin for a Dancer, she hadn’t worn moccasin before to make her prayer. Prayers of health, help, and happiness, as well as her own prayers were held with every stitch. They came together so beautifully, red buffalo medicine. A brief and sweet exchange over tea, we wished one another off to our respective ceremonies. I returned home to find this photograph and an email in my inbox:
“I hope you’re not horrified,
these moccasin went to the depths and back with me. They were strong traveling shoes and I’m so glad for them.” ~ CE Horrified? Quite the contrary. The sight of the good Red Earth and her words brought me to tears of joy and gratitude. Worn only once, their first dance, four days, sacred shoes, sacred feet, dancing a prayer. So filled with Spirit, they are even more beautiful. It humbles me. It is an honor to be united in this way of making prayers. “What if we All came together
to pray for peace, unity, and justice for ten seconds? Just ten seconds. Imagine how powerful our prayer could be in this sacred place.” ~ BRWhat if? It’s all sacred.Join me, from wherever, however. 10am PST ~ Daily 10 SecondsAll My Relations |
Life is one great big learning curve. A spiral dance.
“Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.” ~ Starhawk
I caught myself in fear. Unraveling the tangled thread of it I found judgment, which showed me clearly that even in the kindness of giving a gift fear can have ugly hooks.
It’s the odd thing that sticks in ones psyche that prevents peace in the heart and creates fear and story in the mind. Tis the case with me anyway. Medicine work is always my teacher. It seems the New Ones coming in at this time are Sages or Wisdom Keepers, knowing so much more than me – again bringing me a lesson as I prepared to stitch baby moccasin, inviting me to examine and understand myself more fully, to be more self-aware and to see plainly another layer in the spiraling learning curve of my life.
An aside, my Guides have been talking with me. They are saying, It is the time of Peace Keeping. It’s time now to hold the vision of the Green Grass Walk in bare feet. The Green Grass Walk is a time of Peace Keeping. Even as I write that I feel it as a Circle. I am, we are I believe on a Peace Keeping mission. To be at peace in our hearts, to spiritually awaken to the presence of peace, rekindling our rhythm and relationship to our Earth Mother, to attune to a higher vibration. Peace movements are happening all around the globe. I am gratefully holding this vision, the visceral sensation of bare feet walking on green grass.
Peace. Peace. Peace my Sisters and Brothers. Peace.
Mitakuye Oyasin ~ All My Relations
Open ~ Medicine Gift Crafting: Create whatever you wish! How can I support you? Announce your intention to attend, thank you. ♥ Offering ♥ Gratitude
Wing Medicine: Craft a feather fan to cleanse and clear in your personal life and for professional practices.
Drum Birthing: Send up a call, let the beat of your drum harmonize with the heartbeat of our Mother Earth.
Rattle Crafting: Move the energies, call your guides, meditate and journey with these powerful tools.
L♥VE Offering ~ Fund Raiser for Cocoon House
Soles for the Soul: Moccasin are for everyday wear, for ceremonies, moccasin for life!
Medicine Bags: Personal, protective and private – honor the medicine that comes forward for you in a good way for the new year.
Talking Sticks: Are you one who has been called to form a talking circle? Many have in these times and it is good. The talking stick is a respectful way to share and listen to what is on one another’s hearts.
Leather Crafts: Come sew, stitch your best intentions into the leather, create what you have a need for. There will be cake.
Children’s Circle: In a sacred way, each circle date is a unique exploration into the natural world.
Feeding the Fire Ceremony: Celebrate the feminine by feeding the fire with Grandmother Moon.
Looking forward to spending time together working in a sacred way. With gratitude.
Mitakuye Oyasin ~ All My Relations
The door is always open. Come in, make yourself at home as you are welcome for the Spring Workshops at Soul Proprietor.
April 4 – Wing Medicine, noon until complete
April 5 – Leather Works, noon until complete, what do you need?
April 11 – The Night Turtle Dance Fund Raiser Auction, 5pm – 8pm
April 12 – Rattle Crafting, 10am until complete
April 25 – Medicine Bag Journey, noon until complete
April 26 – VQ Rattle Crafting (closed)
May 3 – Medicine Repair Day, noon until all repairs are complete
May 9 – Children’s Circle, 1pm – 5pm
May 10 – Drum Birthing Day, 10am until complete
May 16-17 – Moccasin Workshop – Bainbridge Island Bodhi Center
May 23-24 – VQ Moccasin Workshop (closed)
June 6 – Children’s Circle, 1pm – 5pm
June 7 – Turtle Shell Rattle Crafting, noon until complete
June 20-21 – Moccasin Workshop, 10am -7pm each day
“There is no difference between the Creator and creation, just as there is no difference between the ocean and its waves.” ~ Amma
Calling all seekers and artists. Come. Have fun. Craft in a sacred manner – medicine objects – tools for your practices at home and at work, tools for your rituals and ceremonies. Bring your good intentions. Come and create just for the sake of creating. Working with animal, plant, and mineral medicine is joyful, it centers and teaches in surprising ways. A workshop day slows our pace and can create peace of mind – an extra gift to yourself.
Working together in a good way – there is something quite special about sitting in a circle, with community. One heart. One mind. Each working individually yet together. Spiraling up. Gathering light. What is needed to support you at this time? What is calling to you?
Mitakuye Oyasin ~ All My Relations
https://www.soulproprietor.org/events/
January 2015
10 The Ceremonialist Children’s Circle
11 Wing Medicine Learning Workshop
17 Drum Birthing Day
18 Turtle Rattle Crafting Learning Workshop
24 Drum Birthing with Soul Sisters (closed)
25 Wing Medicine with Regine della Luna (closed)
February 2015
8 Wing Medicine Learning Workshop
14 The Ceremonialist Children’s Circle
15 Rattle Crafting Learning Workshop
21 Drum Birthing with Soul Sisters (closed)
28 Drum Birthing @ Bodhi Center (Bainbridge Island)
March 2015
1 Wing Medicine Learning Workshop
8 Drum Birthing with Hazelnut Circle (closed)
14 The Ceremonials Children’s Circle
15 Drum Birthing Day
22 Rattle Crafting Learning Workshop
28 Moccasin Crafting Learning Workshop Day 1
29 Moccasin Crafting Learning Workshop Day 2
Gratitude is the theme of this years Sundust Oracle Institute’s Artist’s Fair! What a tremendous place of focus as I work and prepare for this show. Every stitch, each knot is tied with intention – GRATITUDE!
The Winter Solstice will be a celebration of art, entertainment, music, poetry, readings, food, silent auction, solstice ceremony and a dance party! Come! Celebrate with old friends, make new acquaintances, shop for last-minute holiday gifts with purpose. The Artist are all local people committed to a path of spirit oriented work that serves the greater good.
The Factory Luxe ~ 3100 Airport Way South, Seattle WA 98134 Sunday, December 21 ~ 11am~8pm, plenty of free parking available.
Soul Proprietor will be bringing a variety of medicine objects – feather fans, rattles, drums, baby moccasin, staffs and talking sticks. Every piece of work crafted with intention, holding the feeling of gratitude, connecting consciously with the physical sensations, the emotional experiences and the earnest desire to share – to pass it on so that gratitude might live within each of us, full-time. While I’ve been working and holding this way of being in my heart, I’ve been reminded of The Night Turtle Dance – the dance is a ceremony of gratitude. Mother Earth is so generous, all our needs are met and then some by her multitude of offerings. The medicine I have been working with, all a gift of the Earth – Winged Ones, Four-leggeds, Standing Ones, Water Beings and the Stone Nation – each have been prayed for and now prayed with that whoever is drawn to each piece receives the gift of gratitude as well as the gift of our Mother.
I have offered my own gratitude to All the Nations I have been working with. I am fortunate to receive such abundance, medicine for my own life and process. Blessings and Boons! Wopila!
I’ll be measuring feet for the durable moccasin I am sewing too. These shoes are custom fit for your feet. While I am taking measurements at the show, they will be crafted in the Studio afterwards – first come, first served.
And a bit of photography just for fun!
Mitakuye Oyasin ~ All My Relations
I hope today has been joy filled and nourishing for you all. I enjoyed a quiet day, reflecting and resting. I took the opportunity to sew with buffalo leather, a beautiful possible bag, while sitting in the warm afternoon sunshine. I don’t find Mother’s Day to be special in any particular way, not as a daughter nor as a mother.
As a daughter, my needs were met in a good way by the very best possible mother for me. My mother, Toni, was funny. She sang with the voice of an angel. She taught me about self-love and tenacity. She crossed a few months ago yet continues to be present in my life – everyday. I still have a quite a road ahead, grief is a life long process. So is the healing. Gratefully, I am recovering myself through the progression of my grief. Her loving Spirit is soul doctoring me.
My effort at mothering resulted in a happy, healthy, productive part of humanity, a good citizen doing good in the world. I am deeply appreciative of the fine man my son is. It is very gratifying to know he is self-respecting and spirited. Richard taught me unconditional love, brought joy into my life and gives me reason after to reason to be well-pleased.
I don’t have any real laments either, about being the daughter or about being the mother. It is true though, I would like it if I could have a do over in both cases. If I could, my mother would still be on this side. If I could I would relish my boy growing up once again. This is would cherish. Since these fancy thoughts aren’t possible, I will be grateful instead – knowing my mother loved me and that she knew I loved her. The same can be said for my son, I know he loves me, he knows I love him. And I am blessed with knowing how to mother myself in a very good way. This makes everyday special.
Many blessings and Happy Mother’s Day.
