Sacred Journey Blog

Since the beginning of time humans have engaged in ritual to consciously collaborate with seen and unseen forces of nature. Rituals color our entire existence and solidify our knowingness of Spirit. Ritual is an intentional patterned movement of energy used to heal, create, and transform. Through ritual we familiarize ourselves with our own internal power to create, move, and replenish energy. Rituals elevate the energetic vibration of one’s internal and external space, creating a sacred invitation for spirit to work its magic. The interaction of energies created by integrating sacred words, thoughts, and symbols with breathing, meditating, dancing, chanting, and visualization allows the power of spirit to mesh seamlessly into our lived experiences.

Political activist, scholar, author, and professor, Angela Davis asserts that the liberatory project of each individual must entail the liberation of all humanity. Therefore, neither the oppressor nor the oppressed can experience freedom until their relationship is transformed into one of human equality. Activist, scholar, and author Audre Lorde affirms that “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.” Bell hooks, educator, scholar, and author argues that the engagement in a movement to end sexist oppression requires participation in a revolutionary struggle to “eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.” These African American women scholars, activists, visionaries, and revolutionaries give clarity to the importance of naming, shaming, and eradicating all manifestations of race, sex, and class oppression.

All disease and illness comes from imbalances in our personal, familial, social, and global environments. The current viral mass invader is produced, reproduced, and feasts on those imbalances. The extent to which we are engulfed by this pandemic is a direct reflection of the pandemics we are slowly dying from in our bodies, families, societies, and governments.

Everything She Creates Has a Beat...

Life begins with a beat; a vibration of energy that permeates through the cells of all human and non-human nature. The first sound we hear in our mother’s womb is that of her heartbeat.

A fetus vibrates to the primordial rhythm of the mother through the vibrations and pulse of her blood flow, the chemical energy in her body, and her emotions. These are rhythms of the living Spirit within the human body, the primordial beat of the drum.

Love is beyond a feeling, an expression, an idea, a longing, a desire to feel connected. It is the purest essence of who we are as divine beings. It is the energy that interconnects all planetary beings. It is the awareness of our oneness with Goddess/God, the Angels, the Stars, the Moon, the Sun, the Ancestors, Mother Earth and all her inhabitants. Love is the foundation for all creation. An intimate experience of all there is.

The sacred art of healing connects us with the divine forces within—spirit, ancestors, God, Goddess, angels, spirit guides, masters, teachers to create spaces for wholeness, expression, dreaming, healing, truth, beauty, love, and compassion. Without it, we would cease to exist.

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Who Am I, Really?

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Posing this question begins the journey to self-exploration and establishing a sacred relationship with self. Reclaiming the pure essence of the embodied heart, prior to parental, societal, and egotistical conditioning is the key to loving ourselves enough to do the work to liberate mind, body, and spirit from oppressive, mundane cycles of fear, trauma, and unhappiness.

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The secret to maintaining balance is to be in right relationship with self, others, and nature. Relationships must be nurtured and thus require us to be actively engaged not only in the communications process, actively and passively speaking and listening, but also in the work to heal, restore, and make whole our broken relationships.