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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
On Saturday, July 16, three hardy souls joined me for the four directions teaching and medicine walk at the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. The day was grey but our hearts were light as we joined together in the ancient ceremony of sitting in circle on the earth. Our basecamp was ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
October 8, 2011 - Vancouver
Yoga is...
... union or communion. B.K.S. Iyengar
... a poise of the soul which enables one to look at life in all its aspects evenly. Mahadev Desai
... a way of remembering our true nature, which is essentially joyful and peaceful. Donna Farhi
... an act of kindness toward ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Finding Healing and Guidance in Nature
July 16, 2011 - Vancouver
“Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we’re supposed to be.” - Evelyn Eaton, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel
This day-trip in the North Shore mountains, just 20 minutes from downtown ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
Readers of this blog will recall that one of the themes I have explored through my work in nature and writing on this blog is the phenomenon of anger. New insights keep arising over time, and new information comes to light that I'd like to share with you. Last time ...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
BC Wilderness Visions and the Monkey Valley Retreat Centre celebrates its 5th anniversary of nature programs this summer! The first program was a medicine wheel teaching in the summer of 2005, when 25 people came to Monkey Valley and created a beautiful medicine wheel. Teachers Joyce Lyke and Tracy Leach ...
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver, 1992
Do you ever wonder what you're doing with your life, and whether it is truly fulfilling your deepest joy, your purpose here, right now, on this earth, in this lifetime? Do you ever ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
It's been a while since I've written about anger, and I'd like to come back to the topic today to share recent experiences with digesting this aspect of my being. As you may recall, I last wrote that I was starting a new technical writing contract, and hoped that I ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
I'd like to conclude my story of the medicine walk with telling you about how Ruth and Larry mirrored the story for me, and what has happened since then. As I mentioned in Three parts of the ceremony, the final stage is reincorporation. During this stage, we bring the gifts ...
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
A medicine walk, just like a full-length vision quest, has three parts to the ceremony: severance, threshold, and reincorporation.
The time spent mirroring my intention was part of the severance phase, during which I was preparing to leave my people and go out into the wild. This time also included packing ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Continuing on with the story of the east shield ceremony, I was now near the mouth of the canyon, near the canyon wall on the north side of the wash. The wash was filled with stones, from tiny pebbles to large boulders, but I'd chosen a ceremonial spot that was flat ...
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