The Brilliance of you and of the season

Monday was my first day back at work since last Monday. I went down with something like Covid for 6 full days.

I have learned to not resist, look at it as deep rest, and find where I am out of alignment.

I remember thinking early in the week that I hardly remembered my time traveling, what had I learned or how had it changed me? I could not tell. I was a little disappointed. I moved on in my head to what I thought was a more healing dialogue.

Cut to Saturday, I acknowledged that my new living arrangement was altering how much time I had to spend with me and my daily practice of connecting to self and earth. So, alone in the house, I planted my feet on the floor with intention to connect to the earth. I felt a stronger magnetic pull to the earth than ever, and I felt a deep, powerful alignment within. I knew I had not felt my power like that since I was in Bali.

Then it occurred to me, that all the physical and energetic debris leaving my body was making space for all of me that I rediscovered in Bali and Australia to return right here. Right now.

I am not even fully well yet. 10am class and both my private sessions after that felt different, deep and far more productive. I am being energy differently than before sabbatical. And I am using energy with more power and directness. I look forward to seeing how this develops.

We started Monday Meditation with the words Trust and Strength. As we tapped into this, the energetic debris that needed to leave, left with such a soothing sensation.

As you relax into yourself, the strength or whatever you have asked for, has the space to expand within.

Self forgiveness, the idea, would not let up until we had spoken of the times we disregarded our intution, abandoned ourselves or put someone else's needs above our own. We got forgiving with ourselves where it matters.

How may we be in relationship and/or serve others in our lives (because it is the existence of others that makes life so worth living) without loosing ourselves? This, I believe, is an age old question, and one that I am happy to leave open in my field. Although I plan to speak of my intention with my partner even more often. I am open to more inspiration rising.

We were reminded this season, to be especially aware how we spend our energy. What we do, who we spend out time with is important during this time of darkness before equinox and those first few weeks after. Listen to your body and choose for your physical and mental health equally.

We spent that last portion of meditation breathing into the brilliance within. We were more brilliant than usual. The glow of golden light didn't just exist in a small space in the abdomen, that glow took up the entirety of the body, even going down the legs and consuming the field around the body.

You are welcome to join us any week at 10am. Click here to register

I will be here for every Monday this month. No gatherings Christmas or New Year’s Eve unless we vote in NYE? 

Wednesday evening gathering

Apologies for missing last week. This week I will light a candle and we will share cacao, more than likely, and bathe in the brilliance of our internal lights.

Click here if you would like to join. If you registered last week, no need to register for this week. I moved your reservation.

I adore meditation in the dark. Right now we start and end when it is dark and that feels intimate, cozy and so sweet. It is also productive to meditate in this atmosphere. Energetically we all support each other with our strengths, whether we are talking about them or not, magic happens!

I feel the specialness of the season already this year. Every time I have an opening from the haze of this illness (I am no longer conatgious, but am still dealing with lingering side effects) I get more excited about the energy I can feel.

I consent to appreciating my body, my life, the energy, and my community even more than I have before.

Solstice events

Not one, but TWO opportunites to celebrate winter this Winter Solstice.

I used to hate winter. I thought it was boring. NOW, I adore the slowness, the discovery, the cultivation of atmosphere with candles and blankets, soup making, my own company and the company of my closest companions.

What both of these classes provide is insight into the self discovery of winter. They provide a community of support and the knowledge/comfort that you are not on this path alone.

Sometimes in the worst of it, I have said that I could not promote this path of awakening of the self, but now I can't imagine my life any other way. I love the people I connect with, the intimacy that I am capable of and I love and accept myself in ways I couldn't conceive of before.

Persephone's path is going to take us to spring equinox if you choose to take all the classes, but you do not have to take them all.

The solstice event piece will take place, with myself and Joanna Mann, in the afternoon, in an unfinished building close to Unity with candles and blankets and the feel in all the ways of the unfinished, blank or empty.

This feels magical and comes with a medicine you can use through winter to cultivate your dream space. Cultivate the space of self discovery AND cultivate what you are dreaming into existence.

Winter Solstice Sound Journey takes place in the evening, in the sanctuary of Unity of Birmingham.

Come gather with us on the darkest night of the year, and bathe in darkness, tea, silence and sound. Here, the winter is ripe for the light, and energy of sacred birth is near, when we can truly honor the sacred dark. Join me and Jane Mayer for a night of silence + sonic landscapes (crystal bowls + indigenous instruments) to awaken the fertile darkness.

Private sessions

I had an incredibly busy week scheduled with clients last week, and everything was moved to this week. We only have one more full week to work before Christmas holidays.

If you would like to get on the calendar for next week, reply to this email or send me a text right now. I would be delighted to work with you in the ripeness of the energy that is now.

So much love and happy holidays

Sheri