Dream Pipe, Yirdaki, Didjeridu

Shine Edgar is returning for another round of lessons on Monday.
Last time we were treated to a private heartfelt concert as well as some fine instruction.
I encourage anyone to come and experience this primal portal into the Self.
So what is the difference between a Yirdaki and a Dream Pipe or a Didge?
Here is a great article about that. It is also very informative about
Australia.

Miracles, Forgiveness and Action

On Tuesday evening, the Wisdom Group will contemplate the suggestion:
"Always do your best.
Take action on your ideas. Doing your best means to take action. You can have many great ideas in your head. But without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements

On Wednesday afternoon, a participant volunteered the subject:
"Miracles happen when you forgive.
You are born with the capacity to forgive, but you learn the opposite behaviour.
You learn not to forgive, you practice not to forgive, and you master not to forgive. When you learn to let go of your pride and ask for forgiveness, miracles start to happen in your life."
~Dom Miguel Ruiz, quotes from The Four Agreements

peace and love

Taking Risks

On Tuesday evening we will be contemplating the imagining: "Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and explore life."

On Wednesday, we will see if the group comes up with a topic on that day.

peace and love.

Self-Love, Forgiveness and Acceptance

The topics for the Tuesday night Wisdom Group is:

The 3 points of healing are Truth, Forgiveness and Self-love.

-page 178, from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

On Wednesday afternoon we will discuss the card,

"Accept others the way they are, you cannot change other people.
To try to change them to fit what you want them to be is like trying to change a dog into a cat, or a cat into a horse. They are what they are and you are what you are."
~ from The Mastery of Love, by Don Miguel Ruis

peace and love

More Fun for the 4 Agreement Wisdom Group

On Tuesday evening we will be having a special viewing of the film, "Living Luminaries"
It is a semi-documentary featuring several inspirational people. Don Miguel and Don Jose are interviewed in it.
As is Eckhart Tolle and many others.

On Wednesday afternoon. we will be musing on the quote:
"I create my story according to the truth, instead of lies.
When I refuse to believe in lies, everything in my life changes, just like magic. As I recover the power of my faith, my will is free again, and what I can do with that has no limits."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Voice of Knowledge

peace and love

Shine Edgar Didge workshop in Nanaimo

I am arranging Didgeridu/didgeridoo lessons and Didge healing sessions at my house October 22.
Master Player, Shine Edgar from Australia now living on Cortes Island is coming down for a workshop or two.
I took some lessons with him 2 years ago at Leah Morgan's house (seen here playing her didge) It was a memorable experience.
I look forward to another session with him and invite all who may be interested to check out this ancient instrument.

The Parasite and Freedom

The topic for Tuesday evening is, quite simply,
"The Parasite"

For Wednesday afternoon, we will consider the 2 Imaginings from the Wisdom Group material:
"Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and explore life.
Imagine what your life would be like if you were not afraid to lose anything."
~don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving.

On Tuesday evening, the moderator chose the quote:

"In the dream of the planet we have the need to justify everything --- to make everything good or bad or right or wrong, when it is just the way it is period."

~Don Miguel Ruiz

On Wednesday afternoon, the topic was taken from the List of Group Ethics:
"We know that was is false will ultimately collapse, but what is true will always remain true. We also know that we can only give what we have, we coannot give what we do not have,"
and
"In remembering not to take things personally, we are free to not believe anyone, including ourselves."

peace and love

Love love love

On Tuesday evening the moderator chose the card:
"Transform your life with self-love.
From now on, let every action, every reaction, every thought, and every emotion be based on love.
Increase your self-love until the entire dream of your life is transformed from fear and drama to love and joy."
~don Miguel Ruiz

On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 we will re-visit last week's topic:
........"we decide to live our lives in free communion with God, with no expectations.
We will live our lives with gratitude, love, loyalty, and justice
beginning with ourselves
and continuing with our brothers and sisters.
~from The Circle of Fire Prayer by don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

My Mom and Sister

Hey Look, my Mom and sister came for a visit to Nanaimo.
We met for lunch at this awesome Lebanese restaurant, Aladdin's cafe.
The food is made with Love.
I was very happy to see my family and to spend some time catching up.
My sister just emailed me these photos. Thanks Laurie! They are awesome.
I am hoping Candy Minx comes to visit at my blog to see these photos.

4 Agreement Wisdom

Next Tuesday evening we will be considering the quote:
"Forgive yourself.
The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life.
Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

Next Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 we will look at part of the Circle of Fire prayer:
"We decide to live our lives in free communion with God with no expectations.
We will live our lives with gratitude, love, loyalty and justice
beginning with ourselves and continuing with our brothers and sisters."
~Don Miguel Ruis

peace and love

Love and Messages

The Topics for next week's 4 Agreement Wisdom Group are as follows:
On Tuesday evening the moderator pulled a card from The Voice of Knowledge deck by Don Miguel Ruiz;
"I experience love by jumping into the ocean of love. Everything I do is a ritual of love- walking, talking, working, playing. Just to be alive makes me intensely happy because I am no longer thinking. I am feeling."

and on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30( new day and time!):
"You are an angel, and your life is your message. You can be a messenger of lies, fear, and destruction, or a messenger of truth, love, and creation. But you cannot deliver lies and truth at the same time."

peace and love

Living the 4 Agreement Wisdom Group

Our topics for this week are:
Tuesday evening:
"Forgive Yourself.
The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life.
Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

Thursday afternoon:
"Don't make assumptions. Let your life be transformed.
When you stop making assumptions, your word becomes impeccable, and your life is completely transformed. Magic just happens in your life. What you need comes to you easily because spirit moves freely through you."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Ageements

peace and love

Bioluminescence and the Sunshine Coast

My daughter and I were fortunate enough to be visiting my sons on the Sunshine Coast when a bloom of bioluminescent plankton showed up in the ocean where we were staying.
At night, under the twinkling stars, we swam in the dark waters that lit up around us as we moved. We literally GLOWED!
We did this every night followed by a leisurely hot tub . What a blessed life!

"The underwater mosaic of light, each tiny dot of it resembling a firefly, is produced by microscopic plankton that create light through a chemical reaction when disturbed. The tiny organisms, known as dinoflagellates, feed on blue- green algae that flourish in the saltwater lagoon, making their concentrations higher than in regular seawater."

Communication and Authenticity

Living the Four Agreements Wisdom Group Topics are as follows:
Tuesday Evening will be;
"Be aware of the quality of your communication.
The quality of your communication depends on whether you tune your emotional body to love or to fear.
If you know what love is and what fear is, you become aware of the way you communicate your dream to others, and you can choose to communicate with love."
~from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

Thursday afternoon will be;
"Surrender to the real you.
Surrender all those ideas about being what you are not, and become what you really are.
When you surrender to your nature, to what you really are, you no longer suffer. When you surrender to the real you, you surrender to Life, you surrender to God."
~from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruis

peace and love

Heaven on Earth

The topic for the Tuesday evening group, is:
"Be Impeccable with your word.
Enjoy heaven on earth. Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, success and abundance. You can attain the kingdom of heaven from this one agreement.
Be impeccable with your word."

For Thursday, we are looking for a volunteer to step forward and pick the topic.

peace and love

Love, Medicine and Virtual Reality

The topics for this week's Wisdom Groups are:

For Tuesday evening:
"I am dreaming my life in this moment.
I live in a world of illusion made be images of light. The story I create is a virtual reality that Is only true for me, the one who creates it."
~ Quote from Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

"Love is the medicine that accelerates healing.
Love yourself, love you neighbour, love your enemies, but begin with self-love. You cannot love others until you love yourself. You cannot share what you do not have. If you do not love yourself, you cannot love anyone else either."
~ Quote from Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Path to Freedom

Next week, on Tuesday evening we will consider the quote:

"Don't make assumptions. Eliminate gossip. Making assumptions is a setup for suffering because usually we gossip about our assumptions. We make assumptions and believe we are right, then we defend our assumptions and try to make others wrong."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic:

"Reducing personal importance is one of the most important steps on our path to freedom."

~from the Living the Four Agreement Wisdom Group ethics.

peace and love

I Love

I love you.
Thankyou.
I am so happy and grateful for Life.
For Beauty. For the River.
To express and create, and move
and swim........to dream and share.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. thankyou, thankyou, thankyou,

Joy Beauty and Gratitude

Tonight, at 4 in the morning is the Fire the Grid meditation. For me, its about experiencing joy and gratitude.
What better way to get into the mood than a hike to the river. I went to my "new" spot that I have named, "The Grotto".
Its down a steep ravine.
But once down here, it is paradise. The water was wonderful. Refreshing but not cold. I spent the day snorkeling down river and around the bend.
Then reading and laying in the shallows where the water has carved out the rocks into natural pools and perfect little seats for my bum. Heaven!

The Four Agreements' Topics

For this Tuesday evenings discussion, we are looking at:

"Create the perfect relationship between you and your body.
Treat your body with all your love, honor, gratitude, and respect.
When you make it your goal to adore your own body and accept yourself completely, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone else you are with."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz, from The Mastery of Love

On Thursday afternoon, the Wisdom Group will be contemplating;

"One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this, you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream."


~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreement Companion Book

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Fire the Grid!

I thought that this bears repeating.

Here is the link for a Intro to what its about: Fire The Grid

Enjoy!

Fire the Grid!

This is a wonderful idea.
And worthwhile checking out.
A Nova Scotian woman had an incredible experience and is sharing her truth with all that will listen.
I watched her Youtube presentation (all 8 parts) and I feel richer for having taken the time.
Her name is Shelley Yates and she is a true hero.
The website is Fire The Grid
or just go to You Tube and type in her name or Fire The Grid.
This is not just Canadian....it is a worldwide event for July 17, 2007.
Its possible to do this kind of stuff because of this medium.......The Internet!!

I LOVE IT.

Unconditional love and Respect

The Four Agreement Wisdom group on Tuesday night, the moderator picked a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck:
"Respect is one of the greatest expression of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic:
"Love is unconditional. In love, there are no conditions; you love for no reason, with no justification. You are free to be what you are, and you allow others to be what they are."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Love, Honor and Beliefs

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group on Tuesday evening will considering the quote;
"Our emotions tell us how we are doing in our life. If we don't like our emotional reaction, we need to clean up the lies that we believe. By following our emotions, we change our beliefs, and our circumstances change."
~from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

On Thursday afternoon, the group will be invited to contemplate the following:
"Love and honor your physical body. To create a relationship that takes you all the way to heaven, you have to accept your body completely. You have to love your body and allow it to be free to give, free to receive, without being shy.....because "shy" is nothing but fear."
~ from the Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Gratitude, Love, Loyalty and Justice

On Tuesday Evening we will be considering the quote from The Four Agreements:
"Don't take anything personally.
Refuse to eat emotional poison. Taking things personally makes you prey for predators. They can hook your attention with one little opinion, and feed you whatever poison they want.
Refuse to eat poison."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group will meet again on Thursday afternoon with focus on part of the Circle of Fire prayer:
"We will live our lives with gratitude, love. loyalty. and justice
beginning with ourselves."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Silent Knowledge and Our Art

Tuesday evening we will be considering the quote;
"You are an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz from Mastery of Love

Thursday afternoon, the card was picked from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck:
"We are born with silent knowledge. When we are born, our body knows what it is, and it knows what to do. We can feel silent knowledge every time we breathe."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Cob Cancelled

Here are some of the Mudgirls mulling over the details of the workshop.
I got more information in this meeting that made me realise that this was not going to work for me.
So I took care of myself and cancelled my offer to host the workshop on my property.
22 participants were coming but they pared my project down to a 10' diameter, not enough room for my drumming group or my meditiation group. :>(
22 people plus young children would be using my bathroom and the clincher was that they are taking no responsibilty for anything that may happen. 100% responsibilty and liablity was to be mine.
It worked out ok, they found another host property fairly close to here and I wish them well.

Freedom and Forgiveness

This Tuesday evening, the Wisdom Group will be discussing the 4th Agreement;
"Always Do Your Best
Under any circumstances, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse and regret."

Then on Thursday afternoon, we will consider the quote:

"Forgive Others. Forgiveness is the only way to heal your emotional wounds. Forgive those who hurt you no matter what they've done because you don't want to hurt yourself every time you remember what they did. When you can touch a wound and it doesn't hurt, then you know you have truly forgiven."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from the Mastery of Love

peace and love

Love and Adoration

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group will be considering the following quote for this coming Tuesday night:
"Imagine that the message of Love is possible and you will find that it is yours."

On Thursday afternoon, the topic for consideration will be,

"Create the perfect relationship between you and your body. Treat your body with all your love, honor. gratitude. and respect.
When you make it your goal to adore your own body and accept yourself completely, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone else you are with."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Action and Transformation

On Tuesday night's group,
the topic is:
"When I am absorbed in what I'm doing, the voice of knowledge hardly
speaks.
When there is inaction, my mind has to have action, and that is an open invitation for the voice of knowledge
to talk to me." - Don Miguel Ruiz

The Thursday afternoon group will
discuss:
"Always do your best.
Practice makes the master. By doing your best over and over, you can master the art of transformation. By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time." - Dom Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Skiing in May

Here are my lucky lucky kids who got to go skiing in May.
Their thoughtful Aunt and Uncle, who run The Mountain School
invited them to join them for a weekend at Whistler Blackcomb.

They look so beautiful.
And the mountains are so beautiful.

Amazing.

I stayed home for the Cob workshop and then it got postponed at the last minute. Oh well.

I did enjoy a very quiet introspective weekend.

Mother's Day Peonies

Look at these incredible peonies!!!

This lovely friend of mine grew them herself. And she cooked me a fabulous Mother's Day lunch that took us all day to enjoy.

Bless you, Sweetie!

Love and Creation

This coming Tuesday evening, we will consider the quote from Don Miguel Ruiz's book , "The Voice of Knowledge":

"I co-create with God and with life.
Life creates what is real, and I create a story about what is real. The story is how I qualify, justify, and explain what I perceive. My story is my creation, and it's a masterpiece of art."

On Thursday the moderator chose a card from the "Voice Of Knowledge" deck that reads:

"I choose to write my story wih love.
Love is the material that comes directly from my integrity, from what I really am. In my story, what is real is my love."

peace and love

Cob Building

The workshop got postponed til June 9th.

But this article came out in our local paper and it explains what is going to happen here much better:


Local Earth Building Series Empowers Both Women & Men



Using soils and rock from the earth, wood from nearby beaches and forests, and by recycling materials like coloured bottles, broken pottery and tiles, car tires and windshields, the MudGirls Natural Building Collective have rediscovered the home building alternative that many people are searching for.



Looking back towards tradition and forward to a sustainable future they have been building beautiful, unique, energy-efficient and inexpensive homes for themselves and with others. The effects of current day construction methods and development are beginning to be felt by many people the world over, both intellectually and in the form of chemical sensitivities and environmental pollution. Many habe been left wondering if there is an alternative to the harsh materials and resource depletion that go hand-in-hand with modern housing.



Jen Gobby, founder and co-ordinator of the MudGirls, says she “believes strongly in keeping the learning of [natural building] skills financially accessible, as well as a very inexpensive form of building for the owner-builders that we assist. We build with gifts from the generosity of the earth, and want to honour that generosity."



The MudGirls have been facilitating workshops for two years, during which students trade their labour for the skills they gain, which makes it both a cost-effective and communal experience for all involved. “I must say, cob is the most fun, back-to-the-earth, down-to-earth way I’ve ever built,” says Amber Hieb, a MudGirls member. “For me, coming from a long line of builders—all of them being men: my brother, my uncles, father and grandfather—to be able to reclaim building for myself, in a way that is using what is readily available and accessible around me is rewarding on many levels.”



Although there are workshops offered for both women and men, there is an emphasis on women for this very reason: to change not only what is built but also how. “Where presently we have a more rigid, square, hierarchical model of construction, the MudGirls represents a shift towards a more fluid, feminine, cooperative way of building—from the bottom up,” says Julie Chadwick, a new MudGirls recruit.



Until now, the MudGirls have used cob—a mud made of clay, sand and straw that one sculpts into form—for their main building medium. However, this summer they will be expanding their horizons by offering their labour in the creation of hybrid projects that can include elements of building with adobe, strawbale, wattle and daub and earthbags.



“The Mud Girls aim to empower women and men with the skills and confidence for building both shelter and community,” says Gobby. “We want to seek new and ancient ways to live in harmony with the earth and to also have a singing dancing laughing good time while doing it.”



They will be working as crews to help people who are embarking on their own natural building adventures, offering services from basic eco-renovations of an existing home to helping build small structures such as cob ovens, outhouses or garden walls, to assisting with the construction of cottages and homes.



This summer season the collective is also offering some of the most extensive and exciting natural building workshops to date. Each one is tailored to include aspects of both hands-on skill sharing and building, and an emphasis on subjects such as Social Activism, Alternative Technology and Alternative Transport. Through the workshops. Participants will get the opportunity to experience true communal lifestyle, with group camping, childcare and home-cooked meals.



Workshops are happening in the Nanaimo area this summer! The Earth Masters Program has teamed up with the MudGirls to offer a series of affordable weekend hands-on opportunities to get to know cob from the ground up. The adventure begins with learning how to scout out just the right site, to finding ingenious ways to incorporate recycled and scavenged treasures into your home. Participants will learn how to sculpt walls out of the earth beneath their feet, split cedar to shingle a roof, and make non-toxic paints from little more than household items.



For more information about the upcoming Nanaimo area, five-weekend workshop series, starting June 9th and 10th please contact: Earth Masters at 250-753-5605; or communityassets@telus.net .

The Power and Magic

On Tuesday Evening, the moderator chose the subject:

"Faith is the power of creation that all humans have.
I we invest our faith in a lie, that lie becomes truth for us. If we believe we are not good enough, then thy will be done--we are not good enough. If we believe we will fail, we will fail, because that is the power and magic of our faith."
-from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

On Thursday afternoon, we are asking ourselves the question;

"How can we support each other in overcoming blocks to changing old beliefs?"

peace and love