The Great Round of Mandala is a map and a compass to teach us more about cyclical wisdom, how to live in right relationship with earth’s cycles and seasons and to deepen our felt-sense of the interbeing, the web of reciprocity, between me and the more-than -human beings
This month in our Deep Parts Wisdom circle online we dived into what we keep in the shadows, our exiled emotions ....(if our other protective parts let us!) We explored some of our exiled emotions by creating a Truth Mandala, (one of Joanna Macy's important grief rituals in the Work that Reconnects / Deep Ecology)… Continue reading The Importance of Ritual: Truth Mandala
IFS believes that each of us is an ecosystem of parts, and when all parts are in harmony, the ecosystem runs smoothly, yet when we are taken over by one or more parts we can feel out of balance or stuck or in chaos or not even recognize ourselves, as we sometimes swing wildly from one emotion to another.
This blog holds more information about the archetypes we are exploring for the Tending the Wild & Sacred Circle starting 23rd September 2024 (invite here) - hope it sparks your curiousity! And creativity! What does your heart and soul say? Peoples separated by time, place and custom have used circles to designate sacred space, to… Continue reading Exploring Wild & Sacred Archetypes
An exploration of how we need to find ways to safely release our grief in order to have an enlivened Soul -filled, Self-Led response to the world. "The sacred ground of grief …shakes us and breaks us open to depths of the soul we could not imagine. Grief offers a wild alchemy, transmutes suffering into fertile ground. We are made real and tangible by the experience of sorrow. …We are stripped of excess and revealed as human in our times of grief. Grief ripens us, pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in our beings.” Francis Weller The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Rituals for Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. P8.
What parts are getting in the way of you feeling harmony within yourself and in your life? What parts are stopping you from having an enlivened response to the world ? Is it fear, grief, anger, confusion, or numbness /powerlessness/hopelessness that is keeping you stuck? If you are like me, on any given day, in… Continue reading Deep Parts Wisdom (Spring 2023)
