Well, that didn't go as expected

The most beautiful door

I didn't think I had expectations of this trip, but subconsciously, I must have. Because nothing went the way I expected.

I worked with my body, through light and shadow, learning new healing practices, and all around riding the energetic currents through eclipses while being in a foreign country.

We never know what our growth will look like. I went there to be stretched, and I would never have expected what created the stretching!

It was extraordinary, and uncomfortable. It was so fun with incredible beauty. I made beautiful human connections and communed with the earth. I ate extraoridnarily well for pennies, which makes me more sad about the food situation in America than ever before. That is a whole other story for another day.

When I was on the island of Bali, there were THREE earthquakes, bigger each time. I was referred to the most amazing chiropractor I have ever worked with who was able to shift my bones from a position they had been in for over 40 years. These two things changed everything about the way I feel about grounding and how I ground in my body.

Bali is a place that reveres their ancestors and holds the space for us to do so. I connected with the ancestors I had avoided.

If you have been to a class or worked with me in private sessions, you know I have had a twitch that I would always say helped me read the energy. It did, but also, I knew it was something I couldn't get to. At one point, early in my time in Bali, I identified it as predator energy, that my uncle had left inside me when I was a very small girl.

As I connected to my ancestors, I actually asked my uncle, that since he left that energy in my body, would he help me remove it or help me integrate it. That started unraveling the twitch. I worked privately with two different people, and was able to greatly reduced that hard line which created the twitc. Now energy moves much more smoothly through my body. I LOVE it!

Part of what helped me work with this is there was a predator who I kept seeing around in school and restaurants that was preying on young, fragile appearing women. Every time I saw him I became more powerful in his presence and without saying a word was able to remove him from our space, faster each time. The last time I rattled him to the point of clumsy and scared. We never saw him again.

In essence, I learned how to use the predator energy that my uncle left inside my body to our advantage. If I can teach this to one woman, much less many women, we will all be safer and more powerful!

The earthquakes

While I was asleep, the first earthquake colapsed the back wall in my garden, exposing only jungle, but I felt like my privacy was invaded. I knew instantly that I was no less safe from humans or jungle animals, but I FELT less safe. I felt less contained, which the size of my container was a theme in the months before I traveled. That showed me blatant proof of how false senses of security were living in me and outside of me. That took a few days to integrate.

What gives you a false sence of security? What are you keeping at arms length to protect yourself? How are you containing your heart or your life in the name of security?

The second earthquake, a 5.7, happened after I had a very deep chiropractic adjustment. I came home and laid down on the bed, within 20 minutes my bed shook for at least 60 seconds. I had so much time to ask myself questions, to feel the bed be picked up, settle down, picked up again, shaken like the bed wasn't even on the floor any more. That rocked my inner and outer world in ways that just can't be explained.

That one created a small crack between the wall and my ceiling. I had to sweep up sheetrock dust from the floor. With that I learned to lean more into chaos and find that home within, that can't be shaken. I am at home here in my body, always. I have a strong connection, and I trust the restructure or the new order even more than the old one.

Chaos almost always leads to a new order. Can you find a basement inside yourself where you go to for safety?

I went to the Mother Temple of Besakih, which sits on two ley lines, Most of the worlds energy centers (Matchu Pichu, Glastonbury, Mount Shasta, pyramids, etc) sit on one ley line which pulls up an extraordinay amount of energy, This is twice, if not three times as much energy. Maybe I felt is as three times since there were so many earthquakes?

That led to more chaos in my body and my field. I understood the beauty of this because it was my choice to go, and I had experienced so many of the earth's energy centers before. It reordered me quickly.

I had several days of peace. I went to an intentional community two days in a row. I adored that place, met lovely people and ate more wonderful food. Photos on this post are from this community. It is so beautiful, and of course I have so many more photos of inspiration than what I posted.

Then on my last night in Bali there was one final earthquake, a 5.8, some sites say 6.4, which woke me out of a dead sleep around 1am. I felt rather blaze' this time "that felt like one of those earthquakes, but nah" and went back to sleep. But when I woke up a little later I could feel the energy current in the air. Once again it created a deep unsettling in my body and field. Like the earth burped and large amounts of energy escaped from the earth's crust. Energy that we don't usually feel, but it was deeply powerful energy from the center of the earth that ran through me. I knew I wasn't in danger, but I could feel the earth energy rattled and I knew it was further rattling me.

I was being tested, could I lean into the chaos? I did all my errands, conversed with people, everything was ok. Although, I was ready to leave the island.

After one last chiropractic adjustment and a delicious grounding meal, I felt so happy to be at the airport. I almost just wanted  to come home, but more than that, I wanted to see what Australia had to offer me.

Australia

What a different frequency this is. It has a largeness, and a gentleness that I haven't experienced before. Montana feels large. Texas feels large. This is different. At least this part of Australia feels large, loving, protective and gentle, all at the same time. The divine masculine is what I imagine as I feel into this.

Here at Chenrezig I feel welcome, I am fed well. I have met the most wonderful people of all ages, from all over the world who are independant and work as a team for the good of themselves and this place. This place runs on more volunteers than paid staff. People come for days, weeks, months at a time. Some live here permanently and we all work in exchange for housing and meals. We make ourselves home in the kitchen. We support each other when we are working and when we are not.

I would like to incorporate parts of both of these communities that I have spent time in, in my future community and retreat center. I am on day seven here and I could not be happier. I look forward to seeing what more I get to learn about community living.

I am now in my second day off work here, and I am still in love. Yesterday I went to the beach with a small group of people from here. All from different places of different ages, all with a common thread of service, love, curiosity and joy.

This morning another soul who we recognized each other the first moment as "our people", finally sat down with me to have a meeting of the heart and mind. I am so overjoyed that places like this exist where people with pure, free spirits can meet each other, inspire each other and raom freely over the earth.

I am excited to eventually create one of these spaces and if not, one day just live a life like this. It is not time for that yet. I will be coming home to Alabama and I am looking forward to creating a different kind of stability there. Being with my son as he isn't living at home, creating a different home, supporting my mother as she is moving through trying times with her body and life.

Private session while I am abroad

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A silly story of how I am supported

I have experienced support in magical ways where once I just thought "I wish I could afford a pirvate boat ride, where I get to go out on the ocean, snorkel and swim with fish and not be with a bunch of tourists". And then the VERY next morning my motorcycle driver (because this is the best version of Uber ever) says to me "what are you doing tomorrow?" and I say," in a perfect world I would go to the beach, but my friend cancelled". And then he replies without knowing what I wished for the night before, "my family lives on Amed beach and we will take you out in a boat to swim with turtles, fish, see an under water temple. You can swim to your heart's content and we can do everything on your schedule for $70 including the bike ride down there and back, and I will take you to the most beauitful temple on the way".

He became my regular driver and read my mind ALL the time. We started laughing about it.

It truly was the most beautiful trip. I would have a few hard days and a few wonderful days, and, I would do it ALL again!

With all my love

Sheri

a tiny home