A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:46 It is not easy to let go of our need to have what ' was ' continue to be the way it ' is '. All that we've clung to for so long begins to fade into the background. As we let go, those movements and sounds so foreign to all that we hold as ‘real' and ‘true' and ‘right', begin to increase in intensity and flow. ... Continue Reading >>
Entrepreneurial WELbeing
How do I compress 1000 thoughts, streaming at mach speed through the living organism of this quantum biological processor, into coherent and successive statements that will make sense to the intellect? In this moment, I know fully the visceral meaning of that expression of “... a picture being worth a thousand words! “ So many pictures - and far too many ... Continue Reading >>
Accelerated Healing: Safety, Science and a Touch of the Sacred
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:52 Accelerated Healing [audio:https://louiselebrun.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/a-healing.mp3|titles=Accelerated Healing: Safety, Science and a Touch of the Sacred|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] We are long overdue for a new and more powerful perspective that produces the results we seek. Accelerated healing – or ... Continue Reading >>
Balance: Bogus Bounty?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:54 Many devote time and effort to creating balance in their lives. Consider for a moment: what might our lives become if we were to free ourselves from the notion of 'balance' and seek, instead, to create meaning in our lives? You are invited and encouraged to add your comments and share this ... Continue Reading >>
Voices and Choices – Tapestry of Sounds
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:33 Voices and Choices [audio:a-voicechoices.mp3|titles=Voices and Choices - Tapestry of Sounds|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] It is so easy for the sounds outside of us to drown out the sounds of us, inside of us. From the taking of our first breath, we are taught to focus our attention outside of us - on the ... Continue Reading >>
2012: Desperation or Inspiration?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 13:46 2012: Desperation or Inspiration? Much in our world is changing - and fast! Gaia's activity - evidenced by earthquakes and tsunamis, wildfires, flooding, punishing rains, mudslides, etc. - is occurring with an intensity and at a rate difficult to ignore. In the face of such challenges, how can we see potential ... Continue Reading >>
Half measures = Whole Life ?
I woke up this morning to this thought: half measures will never get me a whole life. Half a marathon will never get me across the finish line. Half a recipe will never get me a pan of brownies. Half way will never get me to Hawaii! Half of my attention will never get me a whole understanding. How many times in my life have I longed for... strived ... Continue Reading >>
Sacred Spaces – Inner Places
Take a moment to stop... take a breath... and move all of your attention inside - where you live. We seek and struggle to find outside of us that which can only be found inside of us, where spirit touches tissue deep at the base of the spine. Imagine our surprise when we discover that we are indeed, the very thing that we so relentlessly seek! And it ... Continue Reading >>
From Victim to Victorious Voice
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 8:09 We are not without moments in our lives that bring chaos and challenges. Seeking to press these out of awareness will serve us well... to a point. And then, the time comes when we must wrap our hands around our life, claim all that it offers and bring voice to a much deeper inner truth. In that single act, we ... Continue Reading >>
Addiction: Recovery or Re-discovery?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 7:05 Freedom, like safety, is an inside job. Before we can be free of our so-called 'addictions', we must first free ourselves of our own dated and limited thinking about them. Consider the outrageous and allow yourself to get curious about: where is the intelligence in my moving through my world this way? And were ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… Celebration
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:37 It really is the little things that light up our days! And yet, how easily do we brush these aside in our scramble for what we think will be the more significant event/person/moment/outcome? Perhaps it is not our lives that need adjusting but the lens through which we notice those lives. It is amazing to ... Continue Reading >>
Staying the Course
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:25 Staying the Course [audio:https://louiselebrun.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/a-staying.mp3|titles=Staying the Course|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] Creating what is meaningful in our lives is not always easy and it's not always fun - and it is always worth it. Whatever the original intention of your journey, ... Continue Reading >>
What Does it Take for Women to Lead?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 10:55 The words 'leader' or 'leadership' are rife with cultural rules and expectations - many of them holding little or no interest for the vast majority of women who ponder the possibilities. Before women become willing to lead, it may be required to redefine leadership in ways that become more meaningful. It ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… Abundance
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:08 Thoughts On... Abundance Imagine if we were to consider the notion of 'abundance' from a different perspective. What would our world look like/feel like if we were to stop... take a breath... and chose to look through new eyes? Where does abundance live in our lives, unnoticed and unclaimed? Where does it ... Continue Reading >>
CODE Model Coaching™: Midwifery for the Soul?
I've never been a big fan of the notion of 'coaching'. Way too guy-like... sports-like... and far too reminiscent of the guy standing on the sidelines, running it all while observing the players on the field - the ones engaging life! Guiding, directing; chastising, praising... and all the rest of it that goes with it. Short conversations with clear ... Continue Reading >>
Layers of Discovery
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 7:00 Layers of Discovery [audio:a-layers.mp3|titles=Layers of Discover|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] Who would think that language could hold such power? Far beyond the meaning of any word is the vibration of the sound that shapes it, transforming tissue and lives. Yet even more powerful and profound in its ... Continue Reading >>
Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 15:13 Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius The ancient Eqyptian goddess, Sekhmet, represents what the living expression of women can be. With the body of a woman and the head of the lioness, she calls to and awakens in us the truth of our capacity to give birth, to nurture and to sustain; and reminds ... Continue Reading >>
When does less become more?
When DOES less become more? When does slowing down speed up my evolution? When can doing nothing be exactly the right thing to do? This may be a moment that will pass, or it could be the impending turn in the road that will take me to a new destination. As I take this breath and lay fingers to keyboard, I have no idea which truth will become my own. I ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… Commitment
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:38 Our commitments hold the power to mold and shape our world. Who we choose to be in the expression of these will define our future and that of our children; shape our communities, our cultures and our systems. With what appears to be a simple declaration, we can lock things into place, hold things at bay or we ... Continue Reading >>
Bifurcation for Mothers and their Sons
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:14 It seems to go by so fast! One minute, their hand barely wraps around a finger; and the next, they're driving themselves to college and working part-time to pay for it all! Where does the time go? With mothers and their daughters, growing up often means 'more' in life as they return with partners and ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems: Discovering what it is by eliminating what it’s not!
Wow... here I sit, wondering: what will it take? What will be the 'right' combination of words, ideas, notions, experiences, outcomes, tools, frameworks... moments!... that will finally have it be clear; that will finally make it easy and effortless to understand what WEL-Systems® is! 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of this amazingly powerful, ... Continue Reading >>
Families: Behavioural Fractals
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:03 Families: Behavioural Fractals "He's just a chip off the old block!" We read those words and know instantly what they mean: that we are an expression of those who have come before us. How does that happen? How do we get to be moulded and shaped in ways that leave us believing that we ARE what we've been ... Continue Reading >>
When does virtue become a vice?
I am so mindful of reactions to and language around those moments when women are perceived to be less than 'patient' and 'understanding' and 'caring'. What exactly does that mean? In a recent chat with a friend and colleague, the thought that kept coming into my awareness was about 'patience is a virtue'... leading me to wonder: when does a virtue become ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… The Level of the Game
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:15 Thoughts On... Level of the Game "Be careful!" "Take it slow!" "But what if...." Many of us grow up, finely attuned to all that might not work... might go wrong... becoming cautious about and suspicious of those internal cues that urge us to live fully and live large! Imagine discovering the capacity to trust an ... Continue Reading >>
Fully Alive from 9 to 5
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 10:57 Given that as adults, we'll spend more time at work than anywhere else, 'work' provides us with an immense and constantly shifting opportunity - a living laboratory! - to discover more about ourselves and each other. Nestled into a vast array of human behaviours, the invitation to see beyond the content of ... Continue Reading >>
Living Large in an Increasingly Smaller World
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 12:09 When we look around at our world and how we move through it, consider the endless invitations that present for us to begin to notice that every choice we make is a reflection of our state of being, which then defines our world. If our world is in trouble (and it is), it may be time to stop... and ponder... ... Continue Reading >>
Being Outside and Inside
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 4:21 Take a gentle journey and discover how effortlessly we can move from the place where we can see our world to the place from which we create our world. Knowing that separation is an illusion, we can flow effortlessly from one place to the other... in a breath! You are invited and encouraged to share this ... Continue Reading >>
Evolution by Intention: New Beginnings for Weary Souls (audio)
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 14:35 We are slowly, but surely, coming to recognize that we need a new place to stand in the creation of our lives and our world. Building on or seeking to change what is, may no longer be enough to offer the transformation that we so greatly desire and require. Take a moment to consider how else we might choose to ... Continue Reading >>
Programmed for Predictable?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 7:13 We want to think of ourselves as unique and special. Yet, how much of how we move through our lives has become habituated and repetitive... and worse, completely outside of our awareness?! Take the time to stop... and pay attention... trusting that no matter what you discover, your world will have become ... Continue Reading >>
Huna: Simplicity and Wisdom for a Busy Life
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 9:58 No matter how chaotic it might be 'out there', you can find and relax into that tranquil sea within. It doesn't have to be hard or take a long time. It can be as easy as breathing in... and breathing out... and trusting that each breath will reveal its undeniable truth. All you need to do is be willing to ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Voices – Women’s Choices
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:49 "Stop... take a breath... and allow yourself to discover more of your own potential." You are invited and encouraged to share this recording and to add your thoughts / comments Women's Voices - Women's Choices by Louise LeBrun is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No ... Continue Reading >>
Letting Go
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:02 It's not always easy to move on. For each of us, there comes a time when in order for us to receive, we must loosen our grip around what 'is' that something new might 'become'. You are invited and encouraged to share this recording and to add your thoughts / comments Letting Go by Louise ... Continue Reading >>
Creativity and Daily Living
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 4:31 You don't need to be a rocket scientist or another Picasso to claim the creative force within, that is the authentic you! In its many and varied ways, living authentically makes it possible for you to be the unique and creative expression of the godforce that you are - easily, effortlessly and in every moment ... Continue Reading >>
A Gift to Yourself: Intimate and meaningful conversations
Happy New Year to all! I, for one, am bursting at the seams with the sense of possibility and potential that 2010 offers us all. I know that each of us will carve out our own path as we move forward into the coming days, weeks and months, remembering that it all begins with a single breath. The world is changing - and fast! There are times when I feel ... Continue Reading >>
The Year of Practical Magic
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 9:17 As 2009 fades into the background and 2010 begins to offer up its opportunities, discoveries and challenges, take a moment to consider how you might choose to live your life in the coming days, weeks and months. Pause.. and consider: when December 2010 rolls around and you look back at your life, who will ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Breathing
Breathing is good! Begin to pay attention to how many times during your day you catch yourself holding your breath or breathing very shallowly into the top of the lungs. In that moment of noticing, don’t bother chastising yourself, just stop…take a long, slow, deep breath….and let your intellect relax into your body. If you want to deepen your state of ... Continue Reading >>
Bullying
I read Tanya's posting and had to move away from it. As I 'heard' the small voice of her son, torrents of memories flooded back into my awareness of a time, not-so-long-ago, when her voice would have been my own. Although the difference would have been in my son being the one in the schoolyard being harassed/bullied/harmed, both would have been victims. I ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Experience
Trust your experience! To trust your experience, you must first learn to trust your body since that’s the only place experience can occur. Your intuition…your instincts….your ‘gut’ feel…are your body’s way of offering you huge amounts of information in a single wave of intelligence. Life expands quickly and effortlessly when we choose to pay ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Heart
Be gentle with yourself. Without that, your capacity for compassion, tolerance and patience with others will be a philosophy that struggles to become your way of life. Learning to be gentle with ourselves teaches us to recognize that moment when it is so desperately required in someone else. ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Chaos
Bifurcation is such an interesting experience in the body. We feel two distinct things at the same time: the chaos of the old coming apart and the great excitement/anticipation of the creation of the new. They co-exist, occupying the same space and the same time, and the sensation plays itself out in the body. Personally? My life has been at its most ... Continue Reading >>
“My people…”
November has been an incredible month for me - not just because of its intensity but because of the acceleration of my own evolution, as a result of it! November began with the first of two Engaging and Awakening Others women's intensives, offered in Halifax. A small group of women gathered, talking about their lives and the potential that awaited... if ... Continue Reading >>
Sleeping to awaken
I am feeling the urge to reveal myself, to myself. I know of no better way to do this than to allow the words to flow out the ends of my fingers onto the screen, ultimately allowing me to discover who I have become. Last week, in the good company of a loving and ferocious friend, I created space for myself to stop... let all of it go... and rediscover who ... Continue Reading >>
My emerging future…
"Eleven different climate zones generate everything from lush rain forests to arid deserts, black sand beaches to snow-capped mountaintops. The Big Island is Hawaii’s biggest playground." I now better understand what so pulls me to the Big Island of Hawaii. In many ways, I 'feel' just like that! Over my lifetime, some have delighted in but most have been ... Continue Reading >>
Catching up to myself
It's been a busy month! I notice the date of my last post and marvel that it has been less than 30 days and yet, it feels like months have gone by. How does that happen???? Things no longer unfold in increments but in leaps and bounds. Having created the Group of 10 (a gathering of women who know, without a doubt, that each of them IS The One to make a ... Continue Reading >>
Noticing my life
It's been a busy day in the discovery department! Reading blog postings by three amazing young women - Naomi and Lisa and Amy - and marveling at who they have discovered themselves to be! Wow... in such a short period of time, their lives have exploded with their own genius. Does it get any better than that? Watching a great tv show as a world-renowned ... Continue Reading >>
The pause that refreshes
Tomorrow, I head for Toronto for a matinee, dinner with wonderful friends, a stay in a 5-star hotel.... and the pause that will allow me to leave my existing thoughts behind. It's not that they're not good thoughts or useful thoughts or even greatly beneficial thoughts, it's that they are thoughts of a kind that have shaped my world and yet have, in some ... Continue Reading >>
Living at mach speed
Almost three weeks since my last visit here. I look at my calendar and count the days and am amazed that it feels like just yesterday.... How does that happen!?!?!?!? I've been working on creating the new series of Guided Reflections : 5 different topics of 2-CD's, each. I must say, there are moments when I get pretty zoned out... allowing myself to ... Continue Reading >>
I had a dream…
.... or was it a vision? Some might say its a ‘phase shift’ or drifting between worlds. Whatever it was, it came with an insight. I was awake and yet knew myself to be dreaming. The dream unfolded in great detail in the time it took for me to draw a breath. The world was in chaos. Massive change - unlike anything we had ever known or could likely ... Continue Reading >>
Not knowing IS the way
There are moments (like this one) when I realize that I have not chosen an easy path. Even as I write those words, I know I have not chosen (as if it could have been anything else!) but have simply unfolded in the direction that has now become my life. Something inside presses me to make sense of this for the benefit of others and yet, I decline to follow ... Continue Reading >>
Pandemic
It's been lingering in the background for some time. In the last few days, its vibration has amped up significantly as Mexico and other countries 'brace for impact' of what many have long intended and been waiting for. It would be easy to tell a long story about this; to spend time and typing and 'pages' in proffering a perspective that would encompass ... Continue Reading >>
Bubbling up from the turmoil
Wow... has it been that long? As much as I could tell the story of it all, the story now seems completely irrelevant. What feels so much more potent is the place where I continue to stand, not always easy or comfortable and yet knowing that it is exactly where I need to be. So many thoughts continue to come into my awareness, some with great ease - ... Continue Reading >>
Speechless
Rare is the occasion when I cannot find the right words to express what moves inside me. I've spent 40 years of my life - as a way of life! - on this journey of personal discovery and evolution. I'm not quite sure when the turn in the road took me beyond seeking with my head to allowing myself to be found through the body; from seeking to solve a problem ... Continue Reading >>
Whose fault is it, anyway?
Sometimes, I miss having someone else to blame for the state of my body... of my life. I lament the 'good ole days' of believing - heart and soul - that the world 'out there' was doing things to me... that other people were doing things to me... and that I was a righteous and legitimate victim of my circumstances. There are moments when I long for it to be ... Continue Reading >>
If WEL-Systems® is a gateway to a new paradigm, what’s the old one?
In all my years of working with others to help them understand and access the paradigm that a WEL-Systems journey makes possible, it has never occurred to me to first speak to and identify the existing paradigm in which we live. I have always assumed that it was obvious. These days, I'm thinking, not so much.... Trying to answer that question is like ... Continue Reading >>
The desire to pounce
The 6-day ‘Manifesting a Meaningful Life’ experience is THE conversation that lights me up! Big! Bold! Boundless and formless! Edgy, provocative, compelling… not because it’s a pathway but because it’s the unsettled, feral essence of our potential being. It is not that we move through those conversations, it is more that we trek… and climb the rock ... Continue Reading >>
Feral Consciousness
In my own, decades-old journey of personal discovery, I have long been a student of the notion of the evolution of consciousness; or the acceleration of consciousness; or those of awakened consciousness and expanded consciousness. In my own thoughts and in my conversations with others, there has been this ‘other-worldly' quality of and to consciousness... ... Continue Reading >>
My Dilemma of the Terrible Embrace
I continue to be held in the terrible embrace of my two worlds : the one I have lived and the one I know is waiting for me, to be lived. I see it played out in the inner turmoil and tension I am experiencing around the notion of decloaking; around the notion of ‘being silenced' vs ‘being silent' - one imposed from the outside, in, making me a helpless, ... Continue Reading >>
Density, intensity and manifestation
It happened on Saturday and has been rumbling around inside me since then. A seemingly harmless Valentine's Day breakfast among friends - and my life is changed. I arrived with a sense of agitation, having spent about 20 hours editing the soon-to-be ready for production, multi-CD set on 'CODE Model Coaching™ - Part 2: The Awakened Self'. Having ... Continue Reading >>
Paradigm of BEING
It's one of those moments. Things are moving way too fast - inside, where I live - for me to be able to calibrate or track for specifics, or for information in any kind of order. It is all an explosion of formless and nameless ‘stuff' and yet, I know it all makes perfect sense. For some time, I've been mindful of the degree to which a WEL-Systems® ... Continue Reading >>
Being In-Different
As my world continues to unfold, moment-to-moment in an Emerging Future, I am beginning to notice something about myself. I care deeply and passionately. I live my life from RIGing - for myself and others. I am indifferent. Hmmm.... I wonder out loud... how do all those fit together? I am in-different. I don't need to be the same as you or have you be ... Continue Reading >>
Money and Manifestation : Follow Up
After posting this, Noreen Mejias - a contributing author to Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women's Genius and accomplished Financial Advisor - shared her thoughts on the Women Gathering Google Group . Take the time to read Noreen's unique and profoundly enlivened way of engaging with others! As you scroll down to the bottom of the posting, what ... Continue Reading >>
Money and Manifestation
A small group of women gathering, talking... about the impact and meaning of 'money' in their lives. The language of 'currency', 'money', 'wealth' and 'abundance' came into my awareness as I was getting ready to head out to this gathering. For me, this is another layer in the Currency of Consciousness conversation. It was indeed, a great conversation ... Continue Reading >>
Polar ice cap: just how fast is it melting?
I got an email today from a family friend who has recently been posted to the Far North. Lou left Ottawa in late '08 and is now living and working amongst those in the community of Qikiqtarjuaq (spell that without looking!). Those of us who are in Lou's life have the great fun of getting her newsy (and sometimes very funny!) updates and pics on life in ... Continue Reading >>
The currency of consciousness
Day 2 of a New Year. It feels fresh and ready, like the proverbial blank slate waiting for me to place my mark in the creation of my own life. I'm aware of many things. Some have to do with what has been and some have to do with what I believe will be. And, in a holographic universe, it will be because I say so. Not like imposing force of will and ... Continue Reading >>
RIGing – a powerful alternative to ‘love’
I've come to conclude that the language of ‘love' is highly overrated! Having just completed a week-long conversation with a small group of women gathering... talking about their lives... it became clear to me that we have mastered a huge variety of ways to denigrate ourselves in the name of ‘love'. "Love' is not real. It's a nominalization... a code word ... Continue Reading >>
The Audacity of Being Present
I've been reading the blogs and emails of some of the women I spend time with. I've been chatting and listening to the direction their lives have taken since our last time together. There is a theme emerging and I believe it is greatly important to pay attention to it. The theme is this: the audacity of daring to claim our own lives! The audacity of ... Continue Reading >>
Sorting out Shadows
More pieces are coming into my awareness. Yesterday, I had time with a wonderful woman whose company lights up my day! Lisa dropped by the office because of a technical problem with CD's... only to discover once she got there, there were no problems. AND we had a great conversation! I feel compelled to acknowledge that our messages come in the strangest ... Continue Reading >>
Hints of things to come
I'm in the middle of a retreat or program experience, and I find myself observing myself saying something. A small voice inside me (somewhere) says: "Pay attention to that - that's important. " And in the blink of an eye, it's gone. Hours will go by, possibly even days, and it happens again. I'm saying something and notice a sentence or a new word in ... Continue Reading >>
So many forks…. so many roads!
I am all over the map! Not a day goes by that I am not mindful of the degree to which my life is unscripted... without rituals and routines... a constant invitation for me to stop and wonder: how does the godforce that I AM choose to live - in this day, in this moment, in this breath? Without exception, the moment always comes with a choice to be ... Continue Reading >>
Restlessness….
I am aware of the degree to which I am restless... agitated... ready to move! I am also mindful of the speed at which change can occur (from my Manifesting 6-day of last week) and the alternative state of paralysis that is a reflection of the attempt to manifest from the intellect. Slooooowwwwwwwing down to re-enter what is considered 'normal' is creating ... Continue Reading >>
From depression/despair to delight!
I had an amazing experience, recently. A very dear friend wrote me in a state of despair. In a moment of engaging, I shared some thoughts with him - and his world changed. Imagine! Such profound shifts from such little effort! Can it really be that effortless? In a matter of days, he started a new life and is now LIVING! If that's not magic, I don't ... Continue Reading >>
Get off my holodeck!
Wow... two in one day! I really do have to stop listening to the radio..... I was driving to pick up my son and was listening to CBC's 'AphCanada' - which I found very disturbing today since this same son intends to enlist and join Canada's military. I find myself wondering... maybe I should have let them play with guns, all those years ago. But I ... Continue Reading >>
Invitations to greatness
There are always bumps in the road. Just how dull would it be if the road were always smooth, without any twists or turns to test our attention and our skill.... to test our willingness and ability... to own both the destination and the journey? I'm one of the lucky ones. In my life, I cross paths with more genius women than likely my fair share. ... Continue Reading >>
The forces that shape culture
I really must stop listening to the radio when I'm in the car. Will I ever not have something to say???? Today's topic was young offenders and the impact (or lack thereof) of longer sentences. An interview with a criminologist spoke to the degree to which more and longer incarceration periods were not achieving the outcome of reducing crime rates ... Continue Reading >>
Another day…
I sit here, coffee in hand, ready for my day to start. Another full day of editing the recorded material from my last 'Decloaking' experience in the program room. I expect to complete the editing and move on to track and production details by the end of this week. But then, I said that last week - and life took a few turns of its own, redirecting and ... Continue Reading >>
Alive and well and trundling along…
Wow! Time sure flies when you're having fun! When I checked the date of my last post to this blog, I was struck by how quickly I've gone from July 7th to August 21st. Lots has happened and I know there is lots more to come. Since July, I've seen my life take some dramatic turns. Perhaps the most stunning (for me) was that the July offering of ... Continue Reading >>
Imaginal Cells
It seems that since that fateful day in January 2006, my life has been a constant stream of turning points. From that small gathering in January 2006 came the Declaration of Evolution by Intention, the Sekhmet Rising book, Emerging Futures as a process for mindful and meaningful living, a profound shift in the approach to 'certification', new direction for ... Continue Reading >>
For the love of dancing… Part 2
Even when I sleep, I am still dancing! I awoke this morning with an yet another insight into my experience of dancing. My dancing is not dependent on whether or not I like the music, the people or the environment. Dancing is an essential form of expression of who I AM in my world. Music or no music; classical, rock or jazz, dancing is still the ... Continue Reading >>
For the love of dancing
I am a dancer. I have no memory of anything other than loving the movement of body, connected and engaging in flow, with or without music. I remember moments of walking down the street, being present to the vibration of every cell in my body, as it engaged in the flow of getting from here to there; vibrating to, responding to and dancing with the sounds of ... Continue Reading >>
Living is a choice…
... but living fully is a determination... an intention and an accompanying presence that will not be swayed by anything outside itself... and one that requires we be awake, fully present and both willing and able to engage. Living fully is no small feat in a world of mediocrity and complacency. That's not rhetoric but the cold, hard truth of what stands ... Continue Reading >>
Breathing is good….
Since returning from the Emerging Futures: Entrepreneurial Women retreat, I'm noticing that I can hardly breathe! From one day to the next, I catch myself holding my breath - time and again - and wonder what that's all about! Typically, breathing comes easily and effortlessly, bringing with it a sense of the vast Space that I AM for my own evolution. But ... Continue Reading >>
Emerging Species, Women and Pollination
I spent last week with a small group of women, talking... about many things, all of which were indicative of but a sliver of their own potential... and mine. (Visit the Women Gathering blog for more about the week.) I was deeply moved by my time with them. I witnessed terror and courage; grief, sadness and loss sharing space with determination and hope. ... Continue Reading >>
What I’m up to
It feels like I'm ready to come up for air and check out the rest of the world. Between my time in Hawaii, my re-entry into the world of grocery shopping and laundry, engaging in programs and with clients and - let's not forget! - the riveting moments of 'Dancing with the Stars', I'm just now feeling like I'm back in the game and ready to play! For some ... Continue Reading >>
My life: re-entry
I love being in the deep end of the pool! I love the power of the conversations and the way they change lives. "Just talking' is more than enough to guide us all through 'invite and allow' that we might find a new place to stand. I love the intensity that accompanies this highly personal, individual and unique journey of discovery. No two of us are the ... Continue Reading >>
Radical, you say???
That we change is not what separates us from the rest of the world. HOW we change, is. We are not the first (and likely will not be the last) who claim to have found a way to accelerate their personal evolution; to create profoundly meaningful lives for ourselves. Given that I've been in the ‘personal growth' world both as a participant and as a ... Continue Reading >>
I am a changed woman…
My time in Hawaii is almost complete. Tomorrow, I leave the Big Island until the spring of 2009 when I return for a four-day retreat for women. Emerging Futures: Power, Passion and Purpose will change lives... including my own! (More information will follow on this 'Emerging Futures' retreat re dates, etc.) I am already a changed woman. During my time ... Continue Reading >>
Hawaii completions
They're almost all gone, now... with only 5 remaining on the Big Island and most of them leaving tomorrow. It has been a magical time through the Mauna Lani Experience and Huna conversation and is, I know, the beginning of more things to come. We gathered to explore connection - to the elements, to each other and to Self. The conversations were powerful ... Continue Reading >>
Ohana gathers
And so, we begin. I am on the Big Island of Hawaii, at the magnificent Mauna Lani Bay Resort. Slowly, over the last few days, 'ohana' (or family of choice) has been gathering in this place to spend time in shared discovery. Our first time together will be in about an hour, at the Aloha Reception for the 22 of us who are here. In this moment, my heart ... Continue Reading >>
Taking it back!
Another one of those moments... driving to work listening to the CBC. This time, I caught the tail end of a conversation about how difficult it is becoming (at least, in Ontario) for people to find a family physician. The conversation also explored the characteristics of the patients that doctors don't want (my words, not theirs....that would be much too ... Continue Reading >>
Lives Changing
I decided a long time ago that what lights me up - what makes my life worth living - is engaging with others for lives to change. This came profoundly into my awareness today as I listened to a CBC report on babies being abandoned at birth in some far-away country because these were 'incest babies' (babies conceived as a result of rape by a family member) ... Continue Reading >>