Winter flu has me down, but this moment is lifting me up. I used to be terrified of singing in public, despite my love for music. Then someone said, it's selfish to not share your gifts just because you're afraid. This pic was taken between sets at a sold out show at the Horseshoe tavern in December. Despite my expression, I was the happiest I'd been in many many months. I'm taking this badass babe into full formation in 2019, giving her the love she needs to shine bigger than She ever imagined. No one's holding me down anymore - and that includes myself. ❤️💎 . #notetoself #notimeforbullshit #nomoreabuse #fuckabusers #freedom #selfexpression #selflove #singyourheartout #survivor #musicheals
"In the winter the bear enters the womb-cave to hibernate and digest the year's experiences... our goals reside in the West and to accomplish them, introspection is necessary. Entering the safety of the womb-cave attunes us to the earth's energies and lets us enter the great void, where all solutions and answers live. Many tribes call this the dream lodge - where our ancestors sit in council and advise us." . . (from Medicine Cards, Sams and Carson) . . #bearmedicine #winter #introspection #intuition #west #earth #womb #goals #2019 #goinandin #journeying #answersarewithin #guides #kripalu #yoga #toronto
At the center of your being you have the answer: you know who you are and you know what you want. (Lao Tzu) ... .. Imagine a warm, firelit home within you, safe from the outer noise and the inner critic. Walls painted with visions, a fur-lined hearth to rest on, and the instruments of magic at your fingertips. 🌀 .. .. SELF-LOVE and AUTONOMY fuels the ever-burning flames and here you can rest, dance, sing, dream and receive freely.🔥 .. .. This is the home of and for your spirit, sometimes called the shaman's cave, the cave of Brahma or the dream lodge.✨ ... .. Your Shaman's cave is where you store the tools and wisdom that work for YOU, and where you can go to anytime you need, anywhere you are. 💎 ... ... You get to make the rules here. You write the manuscript for ceremony and healing. ... ... No one can tell you what you'll find there - but can get a little help getting there ❤️ ... ... .. Join me for the next 6-week #spiritualarchaeology session starting Sunday January 20th! .. .. We will use gentle Kripalu yoga, breathwork and Journeying to find and warm our winter caves, focusing on the themes of AUTONOMY and SELF-RESPECT. .. .. Spaces are limited! (Event details in bio 🔥) ... Original artwork by @kimberlywebber88 ✨ ... ... #yoga #shamanism #journeying #winter2019 #shamanscave #animalmedicine #autonomy #selfrespect #onlyyouknow #selftrust #selfhealing #samastudio #breathwork #doingthework #spirit #fun #innerexploration #practicalmagic
B&W photography expedition with papa 🖤
Winter solstice blessings to all... May we dance through the darkness into the returning light with fierce hearts and fiery spirits 🔥♥️ . . . #solstice #throughthedarkness #dance #courage #movement #change #fearnot #letgo #winteriscoming #returnofthelight .. .. .. 📸Pinterest
A little plant clipping was taken from @misfitstudio many many moons ago as I tended to her mamma. Today, that tender shoot is a strong independent plant. Soon, the Misfit Queen street studio doors will close, for the purposes of expansion and growth. Thank you @misfitstudio women for the tender gifts of community, fitness, and a space to lead my own classes within your walls last September. It's been an honor to be a student and teacher within this church of movement for the past many years. Just as this little plant has grown huge in my home, I wish you all a safe landing in whatever new home you're destined to set down deep roots in and grow bigger, brighter, more wild than ever before 🐅❤️🔥until then, see you on Ossington!
August 2018: Writing about the river I grew up on, and in... feeling that full circle kinda thought pattern, of cycles of completion on the heels of eclipse insanity... dove down to the bottom of a pool and floated up to find thunder skies above me....thoughts about the space between the lighting and the thunder crack... what happens there? The eyes on the bottom of my feet said: walk down this street, okay, let's go. Here I found a plate, handmade, from the UBC museum of anthropology ... okay yes, you'd like to come home? I think I have a spot for you... later... in a trance, I reached for a card: SALMON came jumping up stream to me, saying this is the time of completion, going /coming home , full circle swimming... I look up at the blue plate just hung on the wall - closer.... 5 salmon swim across her lip... these are the precious days when the chaos forms a coherent pattern, when answers are provided. They are rare, and so precious and important to hold onto. Like Something's got my back - or maybe, it's ME. .. .. ... ..: #streamofconsciousness #salmon #serendipity #writing #swimming #summertime #memories #entries #medicine #imstrongerthanithink #memoir
Portrait of unconditional lovingness. If we all could be as constant and consistent as this furry fellow in our love and compassion for self and others the world would be a much different place. 💓 #animalmedicine #lessonsinlove #furbabies #catsofinstagram #ivan #captainadventure #murfin
This is an Ancient prayer. Someone's hand-etched call for relief....expand..... this scroll withstood the pressure, underground, the cracks, the heat, and the falling away of if its pagan faith rituals over centuries .... now, she is excavated - unraveled, brought back into the light. Today I see The dust being blown off the ancients. the names of the goddesses, of fertility and magic -- the bulls of Isis, of Venus and Mars ring out in the world once again, mouths shaping the words: Wands, penticles, cups, snakes swords and witches ... But did they ever truly leave us? Or were they stored in the coding of our DNA - as recessive faith? What will they bring the world, this time around? In a new 21st century expression, in the hearts of and souls of the humans of the anthrocene? What might decayed prayers reveal about our way into the future? ... ... ... #returnoftheancients #isis #scrolls #prayers #napoli #ritulas #revival #gods #syncretism #excavation #spiritualarchaeology #dna #goddesses #rebirth #feminine #ecologicalspirituality #venus #mars #anthrocene
My heart + These humans = pure happiness ♥️ .. .. .. #missingmyfamily #spain #travelmemories