Wild Lotus Living

06/16/2018

We need new myths beyond the heroic and the myth of the "more" (more stuff, more progress). Stories which bring us deeper into the world. Stories which celebrate diversity and encourage us to invite all people to our table...this is cultural healing...thank you, Sharon Blackie

How can myth and folk tales lead us to live more deeply and more authentically, and inspire us to fall in love with the world all over again? Dr. Sharon Blac...

12/27/2016

My final blog article of the year...a synopsis of the grit and the glory of 2016. Here is looking forward to 2017 with clarity, strength and authenticity...we are going to need all 3! http://www.wlotusliving.com/blog/years-end

08/21/2016

I'm steadily making my way through my 12 week journey into a new contemplative art practice. Below is my first project that feels really complete - collages for each of the hours of traditional prayer representing the cycles of creativity in our lives.

This entire process has been a touchstone for me as I navigate the winding road of my own life's creative path. A process like cutting out images and taking glue to paper seems so simple and yet it felt like I was diving into the ocean each time I created one - things churning in me at a deeper level than my everyday consciousness coming out to be seen.

In addition, I will share a poem that was part of this week's creative process. I usually do not write according to formula, but this week required me to do so and I find this poem ended up speaking to me in backward ways, surprising me in the directness and unexpectedness of message:

found at the precipice of destruction
my life is a series of stumbles
remembered with heart breaking fidelity
I weave patterns to the rhythm of my heart
my life is a series of stumbles
ways to dodge the difficult conversation
I weave patterns to the rhythm of my heart
my deepest longing and my ego have become friends
ways to dodge the difficult conversation
remembered with heart breaking fidelity
my deepest longing and my ego have become friends
found at the precipice of destruction

08/11/2016

They are back!! I just picked up a new batch of "fresh off the presses" poetry books - available on my website (below). I still cannot believe that I sold out of the original run! You all amaze me - a huge amount of gratitude for all of the support for this work - work that is so tender and precious to me.

This book is a culmination of poems written in 2015-2016 as part of my own personal journey of healing. My deepest hope is that it will be a source of contemplation and inspiration for others on their own path towards becoming the wild flower they really are.

07/07/2016

Today I start a 12 week journey into a new contemplative art practice. I am following "The Artist's Rule" and I can't tell you how much I was dancing with joy when my book arrived. Looking forward to where this takes me and my growing creativity...

Today I start a 12 week journey of contemplation and creation. I am using Christine Valters Paintner's book "The Artist's Rule: Nurturing your creative soul with monastic wisdom" as my guide. My...

04/30/2016

A book of poetry inspired by my own healing journey - deep words for personal (& earth) healing and evolution

02/07/2016

Please join me in this upcoming World Peace Hologram session where a group of Resonance Repatterning students will be working with YOUR INPUT to address the roots of oppression.

This month I am working through the World Peace Hologram to address the shadow of oppression that has woven into our collective and personal histories and to also recognize the treasured gifts of humanity's struggle to rise up despite it all. LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE...

02/05/2016

Enthusiasm: intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
From enthous, meaning “possessed by a god". Chris Johnstone explains why we need to protect enthusiasm like the natural resource that it is...https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/chris-johnstones-5-burnout-tips-no1-see-enthusiasm-resource

01/15/2016

I recently wrapped up an online series in partnership with the World Peace Hologram project where we explored how many of our issues with world and personal peace are actually symptoms of being stuck in a form of grief. Whether it is grief over the loss of a loved one, a home, a country, dream, or way of life, many times the apathy, violence, reckless consumption, and depression we see in the world today and feel within ourselves comes from this sense of loss. Through the Growing Through Grief series we looked at each stage of grief and used resonance repatterning to shift ways that we get stuck in these stages and come into alignment with an acceptance that is not apathetic, but rather authentically proactive. Read more: http://www.wlotusliving.com/blog/january-15th-2016

12/18/2015

A Beautiful expression for this time of year!

One more today. Rachel made this and it's so apropos just days before Solstice.

'Allow me Love to embrace and bow to the quiet dark, trusting all is birthed in the perfect time and way.'

11/29/2015

Dec 10th - In this forth session of a 5 part series we will explore how depression that stems from loss and grief shows up in the world and in our own personal lives. It might be our sense of hopelessness about climate change or our political situation. Or maybe it is looking at how our sense of “nothing is ever going to change” leads us to addictive behaviors or apathy. What ever it might be for you, please do share as your experience helps us shift these patterns for the greater whole in a positive way. Learn more at: http://worldpeacehologram.com/2015/11/28/thursday-12-10-15-growing-through-grief-fourth-stage-depression/