In the Light of the Moon
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson • www.pathwaysforhealing.net
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IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Last night I went walking on the land around sunset. The sky was glowing with pink and orange flowing streaks of clouds blended with the purples and blues of the deepening darkness. I turned around to face the other horizon and there was the Full Moon rising in the east.
This unexpected encounter with Full Moon stopped me in my tracks. The Moon in her fullness is extraordinary, overflowing with mystery and magic, a huge glowing circle dancing through the sky, filling the night with light. She’s a trusted old friend, a loving companion, always there, always here, watching over.
Full Moon resonates with unhindered self-expression. She simply isn’t hiding. She openly shines her light, touching all life with the very essence of her glow, calling us do the same.
Full Moon generates a time of heightened energy which invites us to be attentive to the emotions and thoughts going on inside us. What do we really want to feel and think and share? In the light of the Full Moon, we can take a closer look at any limited self-concepts that silence and disempower us, that tone down our natural radiance, knowingness and joy.
Full Moon invites us to explore the delights of our senses and feel the beauty of our whole being – freely claiming our truths, sharing our love, and flourishing in our natural connectedness with all life.
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CEREMONIAL GATHERINGS in May
May 10 • 7pm • Peruvian Pipe Ceremony
May 19/New Moon • 6 pm • Peruvian Pipe Ceremony
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WORKSHOP in June
June 17 • LUNA: Medicines of the Moon
Awaken your innate connection with the moon’s cycles and the natural rhythms of life. Explore ways to live in balance with the gifts of natural cycles, accessing and utilizing these dynamic energies and knowings to enrich your everyday life, your personal healing, transformation and growth.
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Everything is Alive
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson • joanne@pathwaysforhealing.net
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EVERYTHING IS ALIVE
Everything is alive. Every grain of sand. The sunlight. The waves and tides in the oceans. Each drop of water in our rivers and lakes.
The soil is alive. So too, the rocks. The lizards and ants. The clouds, coyotes and soaring winged ones.
This aliveness, the remarkable consciousness and creativity present in such diverse beings, is called the Song in the ways of Ka Ta See.
Everything has a Song. And everyone’s Song is unique. Each stone. Each individual tree. Every person. Each and every Song is filled with unique life purpose and passions, vast knowings, beauty and extraordinary gifts.
Have you seen this? Have you felt this? The Song lives inside each of us. It is us. And we can awaken and remember our unique Song anytime.
No Song lives in isolation. Every Song is naturally connected with the intricate web of life. When feeling and being our Song, we can intentionally reach out to connect with any and all other beings whether they are very nearby or far far away.
Connecting Song to Song. Heart to Heart. Curiosity to Curiosity. Respect to Respect.
No judgments. No hiding. No fears. No better-thans or less-thans. No shoulds or supposed-to-be-something-else are found in Song to Song connections.
Today our calendars say it is Earth Day. See what it feels like to reach out to the Earth from your heart to her heart, Song to Song, Beauty to Beauty, filling yourself up with gratitude and respect for the Aliveness within you, within her, and shared between you.
See how it feels to reach out from your Song to connect with the animals, insects, plants and people inside and around your home. Song to Song. Heart to Heart. Aliveness to Aliveness. Uniqueness to Uniqueness. Love to Love.
Honoring yourself, the Mother Earth, and all other beings in this way sends ripples of Song, of unconditionally loving relationship, of beauty and joy and passion into the web of life – touching everyone and everything. It is a gift beyond measure.
So here’s to a Song-filled day…and another tomorrow…and the next and the next and the next…
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CEREMONIAL GATHERINGS
May 10 • 7pm • Peruvian Pipe Ceremony
May 19/New Moon • 6 pm • Peruvian Pipe Ceremony
Please go to *events* for more information or contact JoAnne
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Messages from the Mice
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
MESSAGES FROM THE MICE
When I moved into my house in the fall, unbeknownst to me, I had housemates. I discovered that mice were living here too. The mouse family had well-established pathways behind kitchen appliances and between woodwork and plumbing pipes. Apparently these little furry four-leggeds had staked their claim here quite some time ago.
At night, I could hear them scampering around on grand adventures. The mice nibbled on most anything they could find. They feasted on the food bits left out on the spirit plate. They emptied the bowl of blue corn on my altar, stashing piles of dried kernels in secret storage places.
I found myself spending a great deal of time mouse-proofing the house: plugging up passageways with steel wool, setting live traps, taking mice out to the arroyos, mopping up the mess – over and over and over again. Mice are cute. And incredibly ingenious. And they did funny things. But after awhile, the disruptions, distractions and unhealthy circumstances got very very old.
One morning while sorting through chewed-open supplement bottles and scrubbing down kitchen counters (again), there came a sudden realization. I was stuck in a rut.
Despite all the energy I spent on the same issue day after day, things weren’t really changing. For a few sweet hours, everything appeared just fine, on the surface anyway. Yet inevitably the old pattern would get triggered into action. And on (and on) the cycle would go.
Was it going to be like this forever? Trying and trying to make things better but not really getting anywhere new?
So I asked for help. Even though I was concerned no one would want to deal with the problem. Even though I feared their disgust (mostly of me) when they looked under the kitchen sink and saw the dilapidated floorboards that needed to be replaced. Yet without a flicker of judgment or even a hint of overwhelm, someone listened to my stories, took a look around, and readily agreed to help.
While cleaning things up beneath the sink and pulling out the old wood and reaching into the dusty cobwebbed places beyond the pipes, we found tucked way way way back in a dark hidden corner a huge warm and cozy mouse nest.
So the nest was removed. The floorboards were rebuilt with strong and sturdy materials. The spaces around the pipes got filled in. And since then, not a single mouse.
In the stillness that came without mice scampering around the house and without stress running aimlessly through my body and mind, I could hear more clearly the messages from the mice. Here’s what the little four-leggeds so ingeniously helped me to see:
Staying stuck in old ruts is an option. But it’s really not the only choice.
It’s okay to ask for help.
To get untangled from disruptive patterns which compromise happiness and health, it takes courage and willingness to look beneath the surface and dig through the layers and take things apart and find the hidden places way way back in dark corners which hold the key to understanding why the persistent old patterns keep coming back and what it is that’s keeping them alive.
And with these discoveries, however uncomfortable at first, we crack open the doorway for change. Because we’ve seen now first-hand what had been hidden before. So we can choose do something about it. New possibilities and creative remedies come to light when we expand our view, opening our eyes and minds and hearts, accepting what currently exists and even the history and all that’s still unknown without condemnation, judgment or fear.
So we clean up the clutter. Sweep out the old. Remove attachments, entanglements and messy remnants from the past, anything out-of-balance that has been.
And then we rebuild, starting on the inside, with natural resources – our true knowings, our connectedness, our clear intent. With sustainable materials found within and around, we purposefully create a steady foundation that is authentic, has staying-power and will hold.
This is the dance of transformation. Letting go and birthing the new. No longer feeding disruptive patterns and allowing them to control the feeling and flow of our days. No longer giving away our precious energy and time which enables unhealthy cycles to get triggered into action and just rampantly do their thing, no matter the consequence.
There is boundless beauty and deep respect in the creating of change that is win-win-win for everyone involved.
The mice are at home now in their natural habitat, in those wild open spaces beyond all the walls that have nothing to do with the truths of their lives. The mice are in their element, flourishing and free.
So are we.
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PERUVIAN PIPE CEREMONY
Friday, April 20/New Moon • 6pm • Santa Fe
For more information, please visit *events*
Contact JoAnne Dodgson to reserve your space
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Special Events in April
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson • www.pathwaysforhealing.net
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Come Join Us! More information can be found here: Events
PERUVIAN PIPE CEREMONY
honoring the Sacred in all life
Share in an ancient healing ceremony to honor the gifts of life, to dream new dreams, to manifest what you really want for the here-and-now and for future generations on our planet.
Thursday, April 5 • 7pm • $20
Kakawa Chocolate House • 1050 Paseo de Peralta • Santa Fe
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SOUL RETRIEVAL JOURNEY
Eastern Andes Sacred Spirit Journey
The unsettling feeling that ‘something is missing’ is often a yearning to remember and reclaim vital aspects of your self that seem lost, left behind, or out of reach. Repeating old patterns and getting caught up in addictions are common attempts to fill the empty spaces inside. In ancient healing traditions, the reclaiming of missing soul pieces reweaves inner wholeness and awakens significant potentials for happiness, personal empowerment, and holistic well-being.
In this workshop, experience a Peruvian spirit journey to reclaim pieces of your spirit ‘lost’ during challenging life events such as accidents, illness, trauma, loss, injuries, unexpected change.
In the unique medicine ways of Ka Ta See, the Soul Retrieval Journey is a ceremonial process in which you personally reclaim your soul pieces. This first-hand experience and self-empowered healing provide you with tools to continue to engage in soul retrievals independently.
Saturday, April 7 • 10am-5pm • $95 • Santa Fe
**Please contact JoAnne to register for workshop by April 2nd
Soul Retrieval Journeys are also offered in individual sessions with JoAnne Dodgson. For more information, click here: Healing
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PERUVIAN PIPE CEREMONY
Dream a New Dream
Share in sacred ceremony and vision with clear intent to manifest what you really want for your life, for all life, for our planet.
Friday, April 20/New Moon • 6pm • $20 • Santa Fe
please contact JoAnne to reserve your space
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Spring Equinox Blessings
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
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“It’s beautiful!” he exclaimed. Smiling, he reached his arms out wide as if to embrace the ramshackle pile of wire and metal posts I had gathered up from the land around my house.
The delighted father and his son wanted the fencing for their garden and goats. What was being given was warmly received, just what they were looking for.
In this ordinary moment standing by my garage with people I’d just met, there was such heartfelt connection in our exchange, in the joy of having co-created a win-win-win for everyone and everything involved. No unresolved debts. No obligations. Nothing happening at the expense of another.
This is the balance, the beautiful field of abundance and equity, the flowing rivers of giving and receiving that naturally nourish all life.
As we move with the earth into Spring Equinox, we are invited to explore equity and balance in our personal lives – in our inner world, our relationships with others, in the health of our bodies and minds. The balance of Equinox opens the doorway into the passionate awakenings of Spring, the dynamic birthings of new life in a new season on earth.
Seeking and sharing balance and equity, we step into our own awakening and the passionate aliveness which roots us in the truths of who we really are. When we allow this knowing to flourish freely in our hearts and naturally ripple out into the world, we touch others with vast new potentials and possibilities.
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Come Join Us!
Spring Equinox Ceremony • March 20 • 6pm
Manifesting Ceremony • March 25 • 1pm
Soul Retrieval Workshop • April 7 • 10am-5pm
For more information, please click here: EVENTS
Please contact JoAnne to reserve your space.
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Manaole U Manaole
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Letting Go with Love
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson • www.pathwaysforhealing.net
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LETTING GO WITH LOVE
I’ve been watching songbirds get more active around their old nests in the terra cotta light fixtures on the porch. I assumed the songbirds were returning home to roost. However, one morning all the twigs and dried grasses were scattered around on the ground. The birds had deliberately taken their old nest apart.
These winged ones instinctively know that every new cycle, even the passionate awakening of spring, is always joined with a letting go. Taking things apart, undoing what has been, is a sacred task which opens space for the new.
Funny thing is, I’ve been de-nesting too. Rearranging the space in my home. Sorting through things, making piles to sell and give away. Clearing away expectations and self-imposed limitations that I’ve been carrying around on the inside. In the remembering of who I am in this here-and-now time and place, choosing how I want to live and love and think and be, all the old baggage, anything held onto out of fear, simply doesn’t belong.
While untangling the old structures and opening space to build something new, the winged ones sing, fly around, sit in tree branches, gather up food. There’s joy in the air, curiosity about what’s to come, and such purposeful action-taking to shape a nourishing place for present and future lives.
As I go about clearing space in my home and inner world, I’m finding a rhythm to it all, like a chant joining up with the earth’s shifting seasons and following the drumbeat of my heart: Letting go. Letting go. With lots of Love. Just let it go.
As the earth moves into Spring, I’ve been witnessing another transition in the cycles of life. My grandmother, nearing her 100th birthday, recently passed away. In honoring her life, I’ve been feeling so aware of the lineage of grandmother – mother – daughter. My birthing in this lifetime was seeded in my grandmother’s womb. Grandmothers shape the generations to come.
In the letting go of her physical life on the earth, my grandmother passed on profound unspoken teachings. Her physical health had been declining for some years. She had dementia, increasingly moving away from her relationships with the 3-d world. And in her last days, with heavy doses of pain medications, she was mostly in restful sleep.
Yet the vastness of her spirit, the intent of her heart, reached beyond all that to touch other people’s lives, to orchestrate healing among her family in remarkable and unexpected ways. In her letting go, she created something new – for herself, for her children, for her grandchildren, for all life.
She showed us about the tenacity of the spirit. About the ability to reach out energetically to weave connections and bring healing to old wounds and share love, even in our final moments, even with our final breath. What a beautiful legacy to leave behind.
Letting go can be surrounded with Love. With an embrace of the mystery and magic. With trust in the birthing, in the gifts unfolding, in the sacred space for new life.
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Come Join Us!
Spring Equinox Ceremony • March 20 • 6pm
Manifesting Ceremony • March 25 • 1pm
For more information, please click here: EVENTS
Please contact JoAnne to reserve your space for the ceremonies.
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Manaole U Manaole
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Heart to Heart
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
Dear Friends,
Here’s to remembering the vast Beauty and Love that flourish within us, between us, and all around.
Heart to Heart,
JoAnne
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PERUVIAN PIPE CEREMONY • Sunday, February 19
Manifesting Your Dreams…for your life, for all life, for our planet
Click here *EVENTS* for more information
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EMBODYING BEAUTY
How is it we’ve come to believe that there are some people who are beautiful and others who are not? Does it really make sense that bathroom scales, clothing sizes and calorie counts hold the power to determine whether or not we’re worthy of love? What drives us to spend countless hours and dollars to recolor, reshape and resize our bodies, over and over again?
Why has the beauty of who we are become so difficult to see?
The mother earth has something to say about beauty that’s free of judgment and unburdened by fears. Bears don’t worry about the shape of their bodies. Dragonflies aren’t distressed by the size of their wings. Oak trees don’t attempt to look more like the pines. Vultures aren’t hiding behind pretenses, pretending to do something other than what it is that they do. The mother earth reveals beauty that’s filled with integrity, that celebrates rich diversity in the web of life.
Beauty sings out from the sunsets and echoes in the wind and rains down from the moon and dances in the sea and whispers on wings and howls with coyotes and weaves webs with the spiders and lingers in the scent of the sage.
Beauty calls out from the mountains and rumbles with thunder and sits quietly with the lizards and soars with the hawks and radiates from the rocks and buzzes with the bees and glistens in the shimmering dawn.
Beauty comes alive in the free, unencumbered expression of being just who we are. Beauty is the honoring of what is, a celebration of life in all it’s magnificent, mysterious, remarkable shapes and sensations and colors and purposes and forms.
Mother Earth’s exuberance is a compelling invitation to open up to our own natural beauty. Beauty is found in the feeling of who we are, in the essence of our aliveness, our uniqueness. The truth about beauty is not tangled up in comparisons and competition. No winners and losers. No suffering or sacrifice. Beauty just isn’t that complicated.
Beauty simply is. And comes vibrantly alive when there’s acceptance in the air. And openly exists in all cycles of life, in our connections with each other, in sharings of appreciation, inspiration and awe.
Remember the last time you experienced Mother Earth’s beauty? Maybe seeing the full moon. Smelling spring rains. Tasting wild berries. Breathing fresh air. Hearing the tree frogs call in the night.
Remember how you felt?
How full of beauty you felt?
How beauty-full you felt?
Remember. How beautiful. You felt.
Beauty resonates within you and ripples out into the world when you honor other beings for being just who they are.
Beauty radiates out from the inside when you simply are who you are, filled with clear awareness and unconditional love. No hiding. No searching somewhere-out-there for an official stamp of approval.
So next time you’re about to look in the mirror to figure out how much beauty you’ve got, just redirect your attention to how you’re feeling inside. In any moment, any place, you can fill yourself up with the remembering of beauty. And you’re beauty-full instantly.
You’re beautiful. It’s a matter of choice, of where you’re putting your attention, of what you’re allowing yourself to feel.
Beauty thrives in acceptance and unhindered self-expression.
Beauty comes alive when you naturally are who you are and love who you are exactly as you are, here and now.
Feeling the Beauty. Being the Love.
Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart to mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Growing LOVE from Inside Out
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
with JoAnne Dodgson
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
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GROWING LOVE FROM THE INSIDE OUT
It all starts on the inside. Love, that is.
We’ll never really know Love if we bypass the essential seeding. Love, real love, only comes alive when it’s rooted deep inside us, gets nourished in every cell, and is given ample space to flourish free and wild.
Unconditional love naturally grows from the inside out.
Most of us learn about love that’s conditional. We’re loved only if and when certain expectations are met. So we endlessly search outside ourselves for signs we’ve gained approval. Are we measuring up? Are we ‘good enough’ in someone else’s eyes?
We fight against our own bodies and judge other people’s lives while handing out this-thing-called-love that’s tangled up with evaluations and rules and regulations about what’s supposed to be given and what should be given back.
Conditional love is fleeting. It’s situational. Very slippery. With this kind of love, we’re never really sure if we’re gonna’ get some or give some. Maybe. Maybe not.
Love without conditions – the boundless embrace of unconditional love – is what naturally feeds and fuels life. Just take a look around and ask: The trees. The coral reefs. The spirits and our ancestors. The elephants, lizards and ravens. The winds and waters, sun and moon.
Unconditional Love accepts and respects all beings and all life, loving everyone and everything just as they are, here and now.
Unconditional Love awakens clear vision and clear heart, calling us to step out of the battles and untangle from the never-enoughs, to intentionally weave fibers of connection with caring and respect which bring healing, new perspectives and true relationship.
Love that grows from the inside out is abundant and ever-present, shared without hesitation. Not an ounce of energy or attention ever gets spent on determining who and what is worthy of love. We are literally In Love all the time.
Because the Love is in us, saturating our bodies, spirits and minds. We’re made of Love and making it. We are cherished and cherishing, adoring and adored, loving and beloved all at once.
We taste the beauty of acceptance and feel respect in our bones and share heart to heart connections with every breath we take, with every word we speak, with every emotion we choose to feel, with everyone we encounter, with each precious moment of life.
Love is right here just waiting to be found and so hungry to grow…from the inside out.
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FEBRUARY SPECIAL EVENTS • Come join us!
GROWING LOVE FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Saturday, February 11 • 10am-5pm • Santa Fe
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PERUVIAN CEREMONY – MANIFESTING YOUR DREAMS
Sunday, February 19/New Moon • 1pm • Santa Fe
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
new year blessings
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
Dear Friends:
This new year is filled with the promise of new beginnings, the sweet callings to awaken and open new pathways for living. Seeding new visions and dreams. Intentionally letting go of what’s no longer needed. Bringing into our lives what we want to experience, to give and receive, to learn and share.
It will be an honor and joy to walk together, co-creating, with such extraordinary potentials for healing and transformation in each of our lives and on our planet.
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SHAKING DOWN THE SEEDS
In this time on the earth so potent with change, I feel the whispers as I walk about the land: Nestle in the stillness. Breath in the earth. Soak up the sun. Shake down the seeds.
If we seek it, we will find it for it too is seeking us ~ this spirited dance of life we’re naturally a part of. The vibration of ancient rhythms will be carried up along our roots. We’ll feel the hum and soon find ourselves humming along, sharing our voice, finding our rhythm, dancing on rich fertile ground.
Nestling in the stillness. Breathing in the earth. Soaking up the sun. Shaking down the seeds.
Nestling in the Stillness.
Breathing in the Earth.
Soaking up the Sun.
Shaking down the Seeds.
for your free copy of the complete story, click here: shakingdowntheseeds
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IN THE FLOW
“Today you are in for a real treat! I found JoAnne to be enlightening and peaceful. So get a cup of tea, get comfortable and breathe deeply while you listen in to my chat with JoAnne.” ~ Tracy Lieberman
Join JoAnne Dodgson on ‘In the Flow with Tracy’ in a heartfelt conversation about personal transformation and our connection with natural cycles within us and all around. click here to listen: intheflow
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PERUVIAN PIPE CEREMONY: MANIFESTING YOUR DREAMS
Beginning in January 2012 – Monthly gatherings
Share in sacred ceremony and vision with clear intent to manifest what you really want for your life, for all life, for our planet
January 22/New Moon • 1pm • contact JoAnne for location
‘Manifesting is a birthing, a calling-into-existence, an intimate weaving of the choice and intent of everyone and everything involved. It’s a mutual thing. It’s embodied in connection. It’s nourished by gratitude, by our passions and dreams. What we seek we will find when we know (without a doubt) that it too is seeking us – be it a friend or abundance or freedom or love.’ -from Magical Manifesting by JoAnne Dodgson © 2009
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PERSONAL SESSIONS
Personal sessions are available in 2012 for spiritual counseling, traditional energy healings, and Peruvian ceremony and spirit journeys. We can meet in person in Santa Fe, by phone or skype.
Feel free to be in touch to explore how we can work together in support of your healing process and spiritual quests.
click here for more information: healing
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2012 CEREMONIAL GATHERINGS • WORKSHOPS • RETREATS
click here for calendar of special events: events
Come join us!
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
Winter Solstice Gifts
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
JoAnne Dodgson
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
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WINTER SOLSTICE: GIFTS OF THE HEART
Winter Solstice is a unique and special moment in the dynamic dance between the earth and our sun and our moon. Winter Solstice is the longest night, the aspect in the natural cycles which generates the most hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise. This year, Winter Solstice is followed closely by the New Moon.
In the busy-ness of the world, we so often disregard the natural rhythms of life and seasonal cycles we are so deeply immersed in and a vital part of.
There’s a bold and beautiful invitation being naturally shared in the ways of the earth, sun and moon. We’ll feel the calling, receive the medicines, if we reach out to connect and feel and listen to what’s happening inside us and all around.
The wintertime invites us to nestle into the quieting and focus attention inwardly. To discover the gifts inside the stillness. To abundantly nourish our bodies, minds and spirits. To warm our hearts and homes.
Like the seeds resting in the soils until the coming of spring, we too have inside us great knowing about who we are, about the potentials of who and what we are becoming, and the resources needed to awaken, fully blossom and grow.
The rich fertile darkness of the Solstice and the new moon cycle invite us to a joyful remembering –
of who we really are,
of what we’ve come here to do,
of unconditional love,
of our connection with all life,
of our dreams, our most beloved and genuine dreams.
The seeds of our dreams hold the blueprint for what will grow inside us, for what will be present in our everyday lives and come into existence on the planet. It’s a sacred and powerful thing, dreaming our dreams with creative and loving intent.
May the world within you and all around be filled with Love this Solstice season.
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WINTER SOLSTICE CEREMONY
Gather in community to honor and celebrate the earth’s changing seasons and passages of your life.
Honor what has been and let go of the past with gratitude and respect.
Dream the dreams of your heart, creating space for the new, awakening potentials and boundless possibilities.
Claim your intentions for the coming cycle of your life, for all life on our planet.
Thursday, December 22 • Kakawa Chocolate House • Santa Fe
7pm • $20 • contact JoAnne for more information
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Manaole U Manaole,
from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
