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Video Summary: I've noticed we have this tendency as human beings to hang out in this undecided state in which we defer a decision. And, we tend to do this in the areas of our life that are most important. You can understand why, as it's an important decision and we want to get it right. For example, it could be the decision whether to stay in a relationship or not. Perhaps it’s the decision to get married or not, or to have a child or not at this time. It might be whether to

Video Summary: During the retreats that I facilitate, I sometimes offer the teaching, “How much beauty can you stand?” This evolved during several retreats I participated in, where I was doing my own deep intention work with what I wanted to create in my life and the extent I was willing to allow it. We were doing several days of ceremony, and there was this amazing energy of abundance and spiritual guidance. I could intuitively feel that if I was willing to intend something

Video Summary: I want to contrast two ways of interacting with people. The first is looking outside of oneself for validation, acceptance, and fitting into a group. Most of us were conditioned with this tendency. This can be a challenging issue to look at in ourselves. It's getting over the shame of seeking acceptance or people-pleasing. From what I can tell, we all do this in one form or another. Even those of us who have worked on it for a long time can revert to it if we'r

Video Summary: We're almost through January, and 2024 is predicted to be a wild year according to astrologers, psychics, and prognosticators. It's an election year, and we have wars going on, climate change and weather events, economic challenges, border problems, and a Congress that isn’t functioning well. So there's a great deal of instability and change. However, there are some things we can do to establish things we can count on, rely upon, and trust. It's the time of int

Video Summary: Warrior energy is pure dynamic energy. It is active, yang energy. Sometimes it may be referred to as pure masculine energy, which works if it describes the energy independent of the male gender. Warrior energy was developed in tribal cultures such as the Samurai and the Native American cultures. It typically served as a strong energy and practice to keep people safe so cultures could flourish. In our individualistic contemporary society, it is often directed to

Video Summary: I woke up this morning to four inches of snow here in Ashland, Oregon. It was extremely quiet and still. It set the tone for the time of introspection in the north on the Medicine Wheel. This introspective energy peaks on the Winter Solstice around December 21st, but it's busy and festive as we go into the holidays. But after the holidays pass and we go into early January, it's the time on the Medicine Wheel that I call deep winter. The days are still short, an

Happy January! We're in the north on the Medicine Wheel, which is winter time and post-holidays. This represents a time of introspection where we have the opportunity to look at, reevaluate, and understand ourselves at a deeper level. This year, I've been noticing how we as human beings leak our personal power. This is important because if we notice how we leak our personal power, we get the choice to not do that anymore. When we're not aware of how we leak our personal power

Video Summary: Happy New Year, happy 2024. It's the perfect time of year for new promptings, visions, and glimpses of your new life to come to you. It could be things that you'd like to have in your life. It might be: “I'd like to get to know him/her/them better,” “I'd like to dance more,” or “I'd like to spend more time in nature." Unfortunately, we often experience a fear-based, limiting belief right after we have one of these cool promptings. The belief tells us why we can

Video Summary: Happy belated Winter Solstice- it happened on December 21st. To me, the Winter Solstice is about the first light. It's a celebration of the light. This is a little paradoxical because the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year. But it's a celebration of the return of the light, the new light, the light of the next cycle. The new light is the energy of your new life, your new way of being. It's the energy of the next cycle that you're being introduced t

Video Summary: I want to talk about what I think is one of the most frustrating and misunderstood parts of spirituality and making change. I'm referring to making a change in the way you see yourself and the world. So you’re changing your reality, or what is sometimes called, moving from one level of consciousness to another. The proof in the pudding is holding the things you want in the new level of consciousness, the new reality. This can be challenging because we have a li

Video Summary: The essence of Bear Medicine in my tradition is true strength. The bear can be the clown of the forest because it has no natural enemies. So it has nothing to defend and nothing to prove. So it can just be itself. It trusts itself at a really deep level that it can handle whatever comes along. The secret weapon of bear medicine is security. It is secure and confident in itself. Therefore, it can be purely authentic. There's no need for pretense. There's no need