Category: Notes From The Trail

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Earth Tending Event

In the past, many indigenous people had relationships with the waters near them; simple yet profound ways of connecting, honoring and cleansing. And we can do the same today.

With Spirit’s help, let’s connect with the waters close to home and ask how we can work with them and help them to flourish.  


Tending Local Waters
led by Nancy Lankston
New Date – Wednesday January 21st
11 AM Mountain

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89110769105?pwd=6ylFhTDtgplewrzH2999CGZiDbbDSv.1

Meeting ID: 891 1076 9105
Passcode: 888670. 

This is a free Shamanism Without Borders event. Shamanism Without Borders (SWB)  is a global response network of shamanic practitioners who tend to events around the world. In doing so, we seek to alleviate suffering, to restore balance and harmony worldwide.

SWB invites anyone who would like to lend their care and support to join these tendings.

Think Globally. Act Locally

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What The World Needs Now

“The ‘medicine woman’
is one of the most forgotten
and suppressed female
archetypes in human history.

She is the wise woman,
the visionary, the seer,
the intuitive, the healer,
the sexual priestess,
and truth-holder.

She holds the gifts of
energy, healing, and
expanded consciousness.

She sees the past and future
and sees deep into the hearts
of others.

Her passion is to serve
and restore harmony,
balance and healing to
Humanity and the Earth.

She is the aspect of us that is
ready to return as part of a
greater Human Awakening.

In our pre-patriarchal past,
during arguable hundreds of
thousands of years,
the Medicine Woman occupied
an celebrated position in her
society.

She served her community in all
parts of the globe in myriad ways
as shaman, wise woman, midwife,
herbalist, oracle, priestess,
sacred dancer, seer, and queen.”

~Diana Beaulieu

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#seer
#wisewoman
#medicinewoman
#priestess
#shaman
#sacredfeminine

Art by Susan Seddon Boulet

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Being Authentic

“The best thing about being authentic is that there is no image to maintain. You will delight some and disturb others, and none of it will concern the truth of your being.”

~Unknown

Art: The Energy of Me
by NancyL

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Let the World Hear You

“Be loud, my sweet girl.
Make some noise if you want.
Let the world hear your voice—strong, clear, and full of all the things that make you you.
You don’t need permission to take up space.

Care deeply, my darling.
Put your whole self into what you love.
Let your heart stretch wide, even if the world doesn’t always understand.
The depth of your kindness, your passion, your love—it is your gift.

Be brave, young one.
Bravery doesn’t mean you won’t feel fear.
It means you step forward anyway, even with shaky hands and unsure steps.
Your try is always a great feat.

You are beautiful.
You are gentle.
You are kind and sweet.
You are bold.
You are creative.
You are perfectly, wonderfully, uniquely you.

You are so many things—and so much more.
Never let anyone define you but you.

Because right now, in this very moment, you are exactly who you are meant to be.
And that is enough. Always.”

from Be Brave Mom

Art: Leap of Faith
by Lucy Campbell

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Slow Down

‘’Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season.
Let it be the way it is.
The magic is there in its power.”

~Henry Mitchell

Photo: Lair of the Bear
by Nancy Lankston