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February 14, 2015
No One Does It Alone
NO ONE DOES IT ALONE:
Musings while stranded at Dulles Airport
Sometimes it takes awhile for all my brain cells to fire up in the morning. That was certainly true on Thursday as the alarm went off at 5:00 a.m., interrupting my dreams to dash out the door for an early flight.
In a demonstration of love, my partner, Ramone, had graciously offered to drive me to the bus—generous because I know how much he loves and needs his sleep. But he didn’t need to get up quite as early as I did, so I quietly silenced the alarm on my phone, and slipped out of bed in the still dark night.
Of course such mornings are rushed, and when I got on the bus, I soon discovered I had left my cell phone on the nightstand, while heading out on a 9-day trip. Aargh! How is it I feel so naked without something that I never even had for the first 50 years of my life?
A quick email sent from San Francisco airport caught my assistant, Gianna, up early enough to pick up my phone before going to her second job, and blessedly, I’m told it’s already in the mail, overnight delivery. Thank you Gianna, for rescuing my lapse in consciousness, and thanks to all those who work round the clock to make overnight delivery possible. What a miracle!
Several hours later, I am sitting in Dulles airport with a 8-hour flight delay, unable to call my destination and warn them. A lovely lady at the United Club desk urges me to come in. She lets me use her phone. She books an extra flight the next day in case I don’t get out tonight. She offers to book a hotel, and tells me where the best food is. I munch on the constant supply of little carrots in the bowl next to me.
When I finally arrive at my hotel, 2:20 a.m., someone is there to check me in, working the night shift, just for people like me, stranded in the world of travel.
All around me in this escapade, I choose to see this miraculous network as demonstrations of love. Everywhere, someone is doing something that makes our world work, most of it thankless and unseen. None of us really do anything alone, and we would do well to remember that on those days when we might feel that way.
We have created a world of massive, interconnected support for nearly every function of society. And much as we may deplore all that’s wrong, we have to marvel that such complexity works as well as it does. Whatever your need, whether it is to have your garbage picked up and recycled, your grocery store stocked with food, your body transported from one place to another, your safety protected, your questions answered, your roads paved, there is someone who is doing that, often at miserable hours and below minimum wage. These are the invisible hands that are working together everywhere, held in a network of support for everything we do. We need to make our actions worthy of such support.
Just as we are enveloped within an invisible field of air, supplying our every breath with new oxygen, we are enveloped in a field of universal love. This field is held together by a web of perpetual reciprocity, an elaborate network of give and take. Generosity feeds this web, and appreciation sustains it.
Sometimes we have to slip and fall to discover the invisible net that is there all the time.
Maybe that’s what Valentine’s Day is really about.
Anodea Judith
Albany, NY
02.14.15
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January 7, 2015
Master Manifestors of Miraculous Vision
We the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
have done so much with so little for so long,
we are now equipped to do the impossible with nothing.
I’ll start with the question of reality itself. What is it, what is it made of, and how do we create it? Not that I or anyone else can precisely answer these questions, but the inquiry itself opens wider possibilities, a space into which we might create the miracle of a world we know is possible.
Since the early yogis first withdrew their senses to find higher consciousness; since Buddha first practiced renunciation; since the early Christians retreated into monastaries; and since New Age spiritualism started talking about ascension, the arrow of our attention has been pointing upward, toward transcendence and detachment—saying that the realities of everyday life were not real—that only spirit was. Even the chakras have most often been seen as a ladder for liberation, a means toward an end: to transcend mundane reality.
And what has all this upward spiritual pursuit gotten us? Do we have better command of the reality around us? Are we more effective in our lives? Have we been able to prevent genocide, ecocide, pesticide, herbicide, and collective suicide? Are we becoming an enlightened civilization? I would argue that higher consciousness contributes to solving these causes, but it takes something more than that to actually create a new world.
In order to create a new reality and tackle the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing us on this planet, you and I need to become master manifestors of miraculous vision. This is an evolutionary turn-around, an about-face from the upwardly mobile trajectory we have been faithfully following for the last few thousand years.
We have entered a time in the evolutionary journey where humans are being asked to consciously co-create our collective reality. It’s time to harvest that higher consciousness we have been seeking for so long and turn it back downward, toward the earth and our bodies, toward the mundane and the finite and learn how to bring our lofty visions down to earth. The Hero’s Quest has been to move outward, but the final step in the quest is to Return Home.
We all know it’s going to take a miracle to turn things around on this planet. I teach a course, Creating on Purpose, about manifesting miracles, in which I posit that we are here to co-create Heaven on Earth. That’s a big dream and it will take many, many people to make it happen, people who know how to create reality from their imagination and live into their dreams.
One of the primary tenets in this course is: “Never let your reality define your reality.” This means you should never let the reality that currently exists define the reality that can exist. Let me explain further.
Imagine you are standing in your current reality, with all its constrictions. You have only so much money, so much time, or your skills aren’t what they could be. You have various obstacles: bills to pay, kids to feed, aging parents to care for, or health concerns. These are all part of your current reality. Everybody has such constraints in one form or another. They are pre-existing conditions to what you want to create.
Now imagine that from this reality, you stretch toward a dream. You have a dream of making a contribution, of finding a more appropriate job, of going back to school, or getting your body in shape. That dream does not yet exist as reality, but we all know it can. Moving toward these dreams is the stuff that life is made of; it’s what gets us up in the morning. The place between what is and what could be is our “reality sandwich.”
Now imagine you are extending your attention like a rubber band between your current reality and your dream. We call this “intention,” whose root is tendare to stretch. The word attention has the same root, and when we set an intention, we stretch our attention toward a goal- a goal which does not yet exist in reality, but only in our imagination.
When a rubber band stretches, it wants to resolve. If you let go of one end or the other, it will snap back to its original shape. So in this case which end do you want to release: the one in your current reality or the one in your dream?
Most of us constantly reaffirm our current reality when we contemplate our dream: “It’s too expensive to go back to school; I don’t have the time; I’m not smart enough; it’s a tough job market; all the good men are taken; nothing I do ever succeeds.” Fill in the blank with your personal version.
When you reify what is, the end of the rubber band hitched to your dream lets go and simply returns to your current reality, with nothing changed. You’re left with the reality you started with.
If instead, you keep our attention on the dream, and move your reality in that direction, then the rubber band snaps toward the new reality. We consider where we might borrow the money, how we might find the time, or look for a tutor to help us get up to speed.
In actuality, you do this all the time. If you have an appointment at 8 in the morning, you arrange your reality accordingly. You know what time you have to get up, whether you have time for breakfast, and when you need to leave your house in order to fulfill your intention.
Can we do this on a grand scale of creating miracles together? Can we hold a vision of Heaven on Earth and adjust our reality accordingly?
Moving Down through the Chakras
Manifestating miracles is a process of moving your ideas and dreams down through each of the levels of the chakras into the earth plane until it condenses into solid form. It’s a process anyone can learn and follow; it just takes mastering the steps.
Step One: CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES
Creation begins in the 7th chakra, in the realm of pure consciousness, with a conception or idea. Ideas are like arrows in a quiver. We get lots of them and stow them away for future possibility. As we choose an idea to bring into being, it becomes an intention.
Step Two: VISION VITALYZES
Our intention is aimed toward a goal, a target we can see in the mind’s eye, but which doesn’t yet exist “in reality.” This requires the imaginative properties of the 6th chakra, located in the third eye. In order for our arrow of intention to properly land on our target, we need to keep our “third eye” fixed on the goal. Imagination is the art of the inner “I” making magic through images (I + mage).
Step Three: CONVERSATION CATALYZES
The next step is to talk about it, which brings you down the fifth chakra. The more you talk about your dream, the more likely you are to catalyze consciousness around its creation. You find people who want to help you by offering ideas, feedback, or support. Someone knows the perfect graphic designer, real estate agent, or angel investor. Someone else has good advice or resources for you.
Step Four: LOVE ENLIVENS
As soon as you talk about your dream, you are entering into relationship, related to the heart or 4th chakra. When you treat every relationship with an attitude of caring and love, those relationships thrive. This applies to your employees, your investors, your clients and your customers. Furthermore, what serves the greater good puts the wind at your back.
Step Five: POWER PRODUCES
As you move downward through the heart chakra, you start to enter the planes of collective reality. Here in the third chakra, you have to take actions and do things. You have to go to the gym to lose weight, make phone calls to find funding, apply hammers to nails, or dig in the garden. When you know how to empower your will, you can get things done.
Step Six: PLEASURE PLEASES
As you enter the second chakra, you enter the waters of passion. Here you find the real law of attraction: Pleasure Pleases. When you bring fun and pleasure to what you are doing, you make it more heavenly and certainly more attractive to others. People are attracted to join you, as the waters of this chakra make the creative process juicy and enjoyable.
Step Seven: MATTER MATTERS
At last you settle down into the first chakra, whose element is earth. Here you come into solid matter, the manifested plane. We learn that “Matter matters.” It matters what we put in our foundation, how we treat the earth and our bodies. It matters that we complete our tasks, because if we do—if we complete all the steps in the manifestation process–we bring something into being that never before existed. We have created a new reality.
Miracle Making
I believe this model offers a formula for a miracle. This is a formula of reclaiming each of the elements related to the chakras: (from the top down) consciousness, light, sound, air, fire, water, and earth. Each element exists inside of us as well as in the outer world. Each one proceeds into density, into the particular. But this is where we most need it now—not just in the lofty realms of consciousness where conception takes place, but right down here on the earth plane where people are starving and carbon is driving up the temperature.
I believe each of us has a piece of the puzzle, a vision of something we want to create–whether it’s in the realm of health or technology, green energy or economic transformation, peace-making or education. Each of us can imagine a way to make life a little more heavenly for ourselves and for each other. Affirming our current reality is child’s play. Anyone can do it. Creating a vision and bringing that dream into reality—that is the work of adults.
I believe that “Evolution is the Gods’ way of making more gods.” This means that our rite of passage into adulthood requires that we begin taking reality into our own hands. I don’t know what your version of Heaven on Earth might be. That is for you to decide. I can only offer you the steps to get there. But if the trajectory of evolution is turning back around and taking us home from the Hero’s Journey, back down to earth, then learning how to create something out of nothing is our lesson at this time.
When enough people learn how to do that together –then miracles are possible.
Anodea Judith
01.07.15
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December 19, 2014
The Light of Generosity
It’s only in the last 100 years or so that humans have lived in the midst of electric lights. Even so, I look out my window at the drizzly rain and grey clouds, with days that begin well before the dawn, and feel the darkness of the year looming all around me. I can only imagine what it was like living in stone castles or small huts with candles for light and fireplaces for heat. And yet, today we have another kind of darkness, unknown in the times of old.
While the greed, violence, abuse of power, and ignorance have always existed, today we have them on a larger scale. Yet, like the yin yang symbol, where each side contains the other, there is always a spot of light. The tools of power: communication, information, and organization are in the hands of the common people like never before. Facebook, if it were a country, would be the 2nd largest in the world, yet its tendrils are everywhere, so our connection to each other and our access to information is also on a larger scale. In evolutionary terms, this new dawn of social consciousness is getting wired up at the speed of light.
Yet the light side of this worldwide network also has a spot of darkness in the form of personal isolation. We sit at our computers, our desks, our cubicles (40 million Americans spend their days in cubicles), and then bury our heads in our cell phones while commuting back home again. We are connecting, yes, but often at the cost of what is right in front of us: face to face connection.
The darkness of the year invites us to come closer. To sit by the fire and dream of a new world. To let go of the busyness of the year to spend time with friends and family. To share ideas and the warmth of love.
The winter holidays also invite us to get beyond our narcissism and share our gifts. So many organizations have formed to address the needs of the poor, the degradation of the environment, the creation of social justice, the preservation of democracy, and the pursuit of peace. Give something to the organization of your choice. Make a difference. Bring your light to some part of the world where it is most needed.
Here are some of my favorites:
Women for Women: Lifts women out of poverty in areas plagued by violence and rape. Even a small donation goes a long way.
Doctors without Borders: Deals with issues like Ebola, with heroic efforts to bring medical treatment where it is most needed.
Womens’ Earth Alliance: Educates women to become leaders in their communities in Africa, India, the Southwest, and more.
Amnesty International: Works against human rights violations to bring social justice.
Oxfam: Working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice.
There are so many more and they need our support. What’s your favorite?
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Blessings,
Anodea
12.19.14
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November 24, 2014
The Attitude of Gratitude
Blogs abound about being thankful for all the usual things: loved ones, a roof over our heads, food on the table, good health—things that some of us take for granted, yet countless people don’t have. May we remember them with compassion and gratitude this holiday season.
My missive on thanks this year is about where we are at this time in evolution.
Think about it:
Nearly everything we need today (at least in the first world) is already here: the roads, the transportation system, the airports, schools, hospitals, stores, playgrounds, daycare centers. With our computers and cell phones we can find instant answers and access to the whole world with the tap of a finger (or talking to Siri). We can buy food from anywhere in most grocery stores, or find a restaurant to prepare most any dish we are hungry for. Even our garbage is hauled away for us, sorting and recycling something we might have used for only a few minutes (like a coffee cup). We can order most anything we desire from the Internet and have it arrive on our doorstep the next day. If you have a car accident, there is a service that rushes you to the hospital, police on the scene of a crime within minutes. For every practical human need, there already exists some way to address it, even if many of those needs remain unmet.
Our ancestors toiled long and hard for the things we take for granted today. In our modern homes, we live better than the kings and queens who suffered cold winters in stone buildings, and slept with fleas in their bed, facing short lifespans. We live at a pinnacle of privilege.
The real question is:
What is all this FOR? If we are given everything at the touch of a button, shouldn’t that free us up for something grand? Now that we no longer have to make our own soap, or sew our own clothing, or be limited to one small area of the world for the entirety of our lives—what are we to do with it all? Zone out on TV?
We are the most privileged, most informed, and most capable population that has ever lived. Our potential is unprecedented. Our environmental and social challenges are equally unprecedented, but we have actually been given the tools to address them: tools of communication and creativity, tools for organization and information, tools to activate and co-create a world that works even better.
I think we are here to create Heaven on Earth. It’s a simple concept but not a simple undertaking. But maybe, just maybe, some form of it is already here. We just need to appreciate what we have and make use of it for something grand.
I for one, am thankful to be alive at this amazing time. I am thankful for everything provided to free up my time to learn, to offer service, to create. I am thankful for everyone that works a tough job preparing food, or driving taxis, or cleaning toilets in an airport. I am thankful for every resource I use, and try my best to put it to good use, to give back more than I take.
Thanks. It’s a simple word that we’re taught to say from the time we first learn to speak. We should be saying it all the time, but it’s nice to have a time of year were we are specially reminded.
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November 14, 2014
Aligning Your Sacred Core
We best access our core and our chakras through proper alignment. When this occurs, we not only align within ourselves, with more facility at experiencing the flow of Prana or Shakti, but simultaneously align with the basic order of the universe. A Core Principle for chakra alignment is: Roots Down, Crown Up.
Imagine the individual soul as a string stretched between Heaven and Earth. To tune the string, we pull each end apart — just the right amount for the proper resonance of the string to sing its individual song in the symphony of creation. When life plucks the string, as surely it will, the vibrations create the standing waves that we see as the major nadis that create the chakras.
We can see each chakra as a jewel strung on that string, like a necklace.
When the two ends of the necklace are stretched in opposite directions, the jewels come into alignment. One can imagine this while sitting or standing as it stretches the two ends of the spine in opposite directions. This is our most basic chakra practice and can be practiced by even the most beginning or limited practitioner, anytime, anywhere. It begins to give a person a sense of their core, their alignment, and the axis mundi.
Putting your hands in prayer position over the heart (anjali mudra) emphasizes both alignment with the vertical core, as well as acknowledgement of the heart as the center of that core, and the central point of integration. It is a common form of prayer and honoring throughout many cultures of the world.
Standing, walking, dancing, lovemaking, and all yoga postures have optimal alignment for the flow of prana. Through attention and practice, we train ourselves to live more deeply in that alignment both on and off the mat. This brings us more intimately in touch with the divine within, and aligns us with the structure of the universe without.
However, blocks in our psyche, blocks in our body tissues, and life limitations distort that alignment and take us out of our optimal functioning.
Ultimately, we are aligning with the Divine. That happens through a lifetime of dedication, service, and continual adjustments as we listen more deeply to the truth we find within and without.
In yoga, proper alignment helps us find ease in the body, rather than strain, and opens us to the divine.
With Love,
Anodea
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November 5, 2014
Mourning After
Education – Photo by Jaime McIntyre
Well, here it is, folks, the morning after, and many of us are mourning. Election results are in, and it looks like we can expect a sea change in the direction of repealing health care, moving backward on environmental protection, and increasing the gap between rich and poor, just for starters. At a time when the future of the biosphere is hanging by a thread, good ol’ America has chosen to be duped by money and propaganda leading us in the wrong direction. Lack of vision and backbone on the part of the Democrats has brought their demise.
I can only look at everything in its evolutionary context. The political system is outdated – a system set up when we were just 13 colonies and Senators rode to Washington on horseback—a very different world than today. Perhaps it is meant to be broken. This system fails to take care of the true needs of the people: social justice, economic equality, environmental protection, the preservation of peace, democracy, and the furthering of science, healing, and consciousness.
This failure of authority systems to do what is right is actually giving rise to what Paul Hawken calls the largest social movement on the planet: the movement of citizens into NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) which are designed to address the issues listed above. There are now millions of these organizations world-wide.
In short, this is part of our growing up—the failure of parental authority is part of the adolescent emergence into young adulthood that realizes we must take things into our own hands. It is part of the shift from the top-down authority systems organized through the love of power to more peer to peer networks organized around serving and saving what we love. The power grab of the authority systems may be part of the process, showing us what is truly broken, so we can put our energy elsewhere and build something new.
That doesn’t mean we don’t have cause for concern. What it means is that we have to try even harder to support these organizations. We have to take our emphasis away from the political system, which can’t get much done no matter who is elected, and realize that change is not going to come from that sector.
Gandhi said, “Be the change you wish to see.” It is time for all of us to step up and grow up, to wise up and rise up, to come out of our narcissistic cocoons and work together for a guiding evolutionary vision of a world we know in our hearts is possible.
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August 15, 2014
IN THE NAME OF THE GODDESS: ISIS and the THUGS of IRAQ
What does the word ISIS mean to you?
a) One of the most revered Goddesses in ancient history, Egyptian in origin, worshipped throughout the Greco-Roman world, even into the first centuries of the Christian era. Healer to Osiris, she represented the renewal of fertility in the ongoing cycles of life.
b) The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a dangerous organization of thugs who are trying to take over Iraq and Syria through horrifying violence, a jihad serving religious beliefs that are rigid, misogynistic, and violent.
These two definitions couldn’t be more opposite. At first glance they seem entirely unrelated. But are they?
In ancient times, humans universally worshipped goddesses as well as gods. What we now call the Middle East—the Tigris-Euphrates and the Nile Valley—were strongholds of Goddess culture—places where the divine feminine was worshipped in temples as well as in the wild. This was established religion, stable and colorful, deeply woven into the rituals of everyday life, all inclusive of men, women, and children.
Here, the first cities arose, with irrigation techniques that created enough abundance for evolution to leap forward: writing, architecture, mathematics, and art. Here, at least in Egypt, stood the most stable, long-lasting culture ever known. Here, in what we call the Cradle of Civilization, the Goddess rocked her children from our collective toddlerhood into our middle childhood—the backdrop of our current adolescence.
The goddess cultures were summarily wiped out by violence nearly everywhere in the ancient world. Overthrowing a belief system that spans millennia is not easy to accomplish. People were dominated and traumatized, the status of women demoted to that of a slave, rituals forbidden, punishment often by death. Annihilating all that stood for nature’s balance, the world tumbled into chaos, with droughts and floods, wars and pestilence—issues we are increasingly dealing with today.
The trauma of that land has never been healed, nor perhaps even addressed. Over the many centuries that have passed, sieges and warfare have been nearly constant. The land has been taken over by one empire after another as this amazing infographic shows: http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html) Patriarchy, in its worst form, is more extreme in this part of the world than perhaps anywhere on earth.
The band of thugs who disgrace the name of ISIS are the long term result of multi-century, multi-ethnic trauma. These are traumatized psychopaths who have lost homes and families, resulting in deeply wounded individuals who hunger for power and glory in violence. They are regressing to an earlier stage of savagery with a childlike understanding of spirituality—not dissimilar to the witch burnings of the Middle Ages or the “ethnic cleansing” of the Nazis.
Our war in Iraq and the destabilization of Syria were sparks that ignited their fire. Now that fire is ravaging an area already weakened by loss and warfare. Their zeal is infectious to the disenfranchised, spreading like the Ebola virus in Africa. They are the shadow children of tyranny and empire, the antithesis of everything that the Goddess ISIS stood for: peace and longevity, feminine and masculine balance, cyclic rounds of nature.
Yes, they need to be stopped, but unless we address the root causes of trauma and warfare, ever more desperate groups (using weapons likely manufactured by the U.S.) will continually threaten the evolution of a sane culture.
Do we not notice the absence of powerful women in the peace talks, the negotiations, the rulership of these lands? Perhaps we need to call on the Goddess ISIS once again to stop this degradation in her name. Perhaps we need to balance this in our own world by calling the Goddess back to her rightful place, embodying her in our lives, and protecting the natural world that she stood for, before its annihilation brings a tragic end to the human experiment.
Life, death, and rebirth are all part of a natural cycle. But without a Goddess to bring forth birth, there is no way to return from death. Isis the healer and renewer, the creative force that can bring forth rebirth.
July 3, 2014
Religious Freedom or Religious Tyranny?
I admit I didn’t sleep well these past few nights. The Supreme Court decision granting religious conservatives the right to dictate their restrictive moral code upon women working for minimum wage just didn’t sit well in my heart. Not to mention allowing demonstrators to further harass the women who couldn’t get easy birth control in the first place when they have to resort to the painful decision of abortion—all in the name of a concept I basically believe in: freedom of religion.
But is this religious freedom or religious tyranny? Five hundred years ago the Christian Church was burning people at the stake. Is that religious freedom? Various tribes in the Middle East believe their God will reward them in the afterlife for being a suicide bomber, killing, and maiming innocent people. Religious freedom? Mayans once cut the heart out of living people to feed their gods. Do we say, “Oh well, whatever your god wants, they shall have.” What about religious organizations that use hallucinogenic plants as part of their religion? Does that mean they no longer have to fight for that right and any 501c3 organization is free to administer drugs to people against their will? Or that Christian Science owners of a business could say they don’t even believe in health care because it employs doctors? You catch my drift.
Religious freedom is the right to worship and pray as you choose. It is not the right to dictate your choice to others. Religious freedom does not give us the right to harm, manipulate, or control. Religious freedom is granting women the right to make the most important choice of their lives—to prevent a pregnancy or to terminate it without harassment, should that prevention fail, or heaven forbid, they are one of the 30% who experience some kind of forced sexuality.
The Hobby Lobby case is deeply flawed. They say the government can pay for women’s health care. But who is the government when it comes to paying for things? We are. That means the general taxpayer, who may or may not support any of these ideas, is now forced to pay for this, without having a say in the matter. That even means some conservatives, who don’t believe in birth control, will be forced to pay for it. Is that religious freedom? What if it’s part of your religion to preserve the environment for future generations and you feel overpopulation and lack of birth control is a threat to that future? Taking it to extreme, would you have a right to force other people to have an abortion?
I’d like to see each of the five male justices who voted against this measure locked up alone with a two-year-old for a week. Then let’s call for a re-vote.
In love and struggle,
Anodea Judith, Ph.D.
7-3-14
May 13, 2014
Yogis for Marianne
Marianne Williamson, one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, is entering politics. She is not the usual kind of politician, which is exactly why we need her there. And that’s why we need to give her our support.She is an articulate voice that is both fierce, yet comes from love, with a spiritual perspective and a firm grasp of the big picture, seeing both what is wrong and what is possible. She is a feminine voice, needed to bring balance to a hyper-masculine ruling elite.
She is running for Congress in California’s 33rd District. She has to come in as one of the top two in the June 3rd primary to fully enter the race. Reports are that she is doing well, but nothing is certain.
Here’s what you can do:
If you know anyone in the 33rd District, get them to vote on June 3rd. Most people don’t vote in primaries. If we have a big yogi turnout, we could swing the vote. For cities that are part of District 33, go here.
If you live elsewhere, there are still things you can do, from volunteering to sending money to her campaign. For info on volunteering or donating, click here.
You can also host a yoga fundraiser, and she even has instructions for this on her website.
Someone told Marianne that she could never win by speaking to people with yoga mats. She smiled and said, “Oh yes I can.”
Let’s prove her right!
Blessings,
Anodea Judith
5-10-14
April 28, 2014
Beautiful Sacred Centers Kin-ships
Anita Geugien is the founder of Lichtfontein, a small retreat center located in northern Holland (Appelscha). Check our her beautiful new website (you can click for translation) and see pictures of Anita living her dream.
Anodea will be teaching two workshops at Lichtfontein this fall:
Charge, Trauma, and Character Structure: Freeing up the Energy Body
September 8-10, 2014
This advanced workshop in bioenergetics and trauma will take your work to a deeper level and give you support for your own difficulties as well as your more challenging clients. Come to learn, heal, or grow in an atmosphere of safety and intimacy.
Chakra Yoga:
The Practice of Connecting Heaven and Earth
September 13, 2014
Experience your own chakras awakening as you learn dynamic postures for activating each center through asana and bioenergetics exercises, including breath, chanting, meditation and more.
Marcia Garcia, also a graduate of the Sacred Centers Certification Program, is the founder of Sacred Centers East located in Chester Springs, PA, 45 minutes Northwest of Philadelphia and 2 hours from New York City. Sacred Centers East provides a variety of offerings based on the wisdom of the chakras. To learn more about this beautiful center and its, visit www.SacredCentersEast.com.
