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We must learn from those who came before us, and share our stories with those who come after.

New Years Blessing :: Compassionate Sensuality

2/5/2019

 

Happy Lunar New Year of the Earth Pig!

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• Compassionate Sensuality & New Years Blessing •

We made it! Not sure where but we made it! ;) 2019 has initiated us with our first cold, our first stomach flu, then another cold and the worst travel luck EVER ... oiy! But I can feel the winds shifting in our favor with the magical piggy energies of the Lunar New Year.


Shaye is talking up a storm and has found his love of dancing, hugging and kissing... still getting the hang of napping! Mama Emily is remembering who she is as a person and is finally figuring out how to find time for starlit hot tubs, friends, and cooking again... at least once in a while! (For the first time in almost 2 years my wedding band fits and I am wearing real pants) There is hope!
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This week is the Tibetan and Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year. Welcome year of the Earth Pig! In the animal zodiac, pigs are humanitarian and generous givers who strive for equality and justice. They are loyal, courageous, magnanimous, and prosperous.

This year has the potential for grounded, vigilant, and stable energy that is inclusive and abundant. Like all signs, realizing the beneficial energies also takes intention. Focus on embodiment, developing love and tenderness for all beings (especially those who are suffering) and resisting self-indulgence (the not-so-healthy-kind). Remember that being "right" is far less important than loving and feeling loved.
Things must get messy before they get better. A "woke" life is NOT a less messy life. (Pigs=Messy, remember;) Waking up is inherently messy. Just keep going, keep growing ~ beauty and grace will reveal in the unexpected, and in living the belief that you are more worthy of these gifts than you remember yourself to be. Consciousness is not about achieving perfection, keep a watchful eye for "shoulds" in disguise.

Praying for guidance, sensuality, understanding and compassionate inspiration.
* Happy New Year to all *

~ Thank you Marisa Aragón Ware for the artwork, and all those dear to me offering your wisdom towards the new year qi

Teen 18th Birthday Rite of Passage Ceremony

1/18/2019

 
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Grateful for the precious moments to bless, to witness, to love the teens and mamas we have the honor of working with. Happy 18th dear E & mama N. Thank you for letting us in on your magic ✨

How Do You Create Community?

1/15/2019

 
how do you create community?
i do not know
a hundred ways
a thousand ways
but
how do you kill community?
I can tell you one
sure to do the job.

be self-sufficient.
always have enough
always have it together
always be a giver
always have all the tools you need
never need to borrow a sewing needle
never need a cup of sugar
never tell anyone you're breaking down
never need anyone
your pride
your insistence on competency
your unwillingness to be a burden
on us
when it is the proper time for you to collapse
may be the end of us all
knowing what time it truly is
or knowing how to know the time at all
you
needing our help
being unable to continue without it
you
not knowing
how to do everything
creates the occasion
for the village to reconstitute itself
and know itself again
--From Tad Hargrave

Happy New Year!

1/3/2019

 
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Starting 2019 girls groups with the full range of emotions.
Calling in grounded clarity, creativity, joy and hopefully some rest too!

Happy Holy-days!

12/25/2018

 
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December 21st, 2018

12/21/2018

 
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Solstice means “sun stands still,” as a moment of stillness before the light of life begins to return from the depths of darkness - when the sun stops in time, just before the darkness becomes too great to recover from.

Holiday comes from the “holy days” reminding everyone of the sacredness of life as well as our innate connection to the world’s capacity to renew itself in the darkest hours - and reflects a capacity within the human soul to assist in the renewal of life.
Rituals of gift-giving once carried the intent of encouraging the finding and giving of the inner gifts that each soul brings to the world.
Amidst all the anxieties and pressures of modern life it is a sense of timelessness that is most needed. At the still point of midwinter the sun pauses amidst the darkness and there may be no better time to rekindle the instinct for uniting together and expressing love, care and inclusiveness.
May the holidays be holy days for you; may the light of inspiration find you and the warmth of love embrace you and yours.
Wishing you restful, nourishing days with those you love,
Emily

(Photo of the Bay this afternoon from my regular baby car nap spot - Poetics mostly by Michael Meade)

Whole Person Sexuality :: Podcast Interview with Emily by Youth Passageways

12/1/2018

 
We are honored to be included in the international rites of passage organization Youth Passageways Confluence Journal! Their Winter 2018 Volume III "Right Relations" is a diverse collection of writing and interviews that dive head first into the depths of relationship. Enjoy this interview with Emily on "Whole Person Sexuality" discussing her work with teens and a little about her own story too...
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We are the generation that stands between the fires...

11/22/2018

 
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~ Wishing you a beautiful Thanksgiving. May it be a time to reconnect to grace and wholeness and all that which you love most ~

These times seem to oscillate between darkness and confusion, and a most resilient light and hope. I find our work with the girls truly holds this paradox of such vibrant promise for a future filled with possibility, and a great weight of responsibility towards all that lies ahead. I see it in the girls - our meetings have been more filled with tears than usual, and also quicker to dive more fully into the waters together. I see it in my family - Shaye just turned 1 (we did it!!!) and his wonderful innocence amidst smoke filled skies highlight just how complex it is to be alive right now.

We have been loving our 3 East Bay Girls Groups, and are excited to announce we are enrolling a Marin Girls Group now, to start in January 2019. We will also be at the Marin Teen Girls Conference on March 31st. We are also hosting a panel event featuring our oldest teen girls, in April. Juicy details to come.

Sending prayers of healing and support to all those affected by the fires, and anyone feeling disheartened. May we find our way back to love.
     Emily


Photo Above: Our younger group's Dia De Los Muertos Altar

Shaye Turns 1!

11/13/2018

 
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• BIRTH DAY •
November 13th

My last note was about my own birthday, and this one is about Shaye's birthday, and my birth into mama life. It seems the profound cycles have got me, to keep me in remembering what is holy and bigger than us all. It's a lot, and it is good.

Dearest Shaye,
Happy 1st Birthday! This has been the fastest slowest most wild year of my life. I am so so lucky to me YOUR mama. Thank you for choosing me, for teaching me, for humbling me so deeply. I love you like crazy! You are magic and your innocent love heals us all. ✨♥️✨
Love,
Mama

Birth Day

9/27/2018

 
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Today is unlike any other birthday I’ve had. Somehow I never connected the dots as vividly that this day marks not just my life, but my Birth. 💕
To know birth from the mama side, is as if to have touched the belly and crown of every birth before mine. My mother’s, my grandmother’s, hers. To imagine that 32 years ago my mother gave birth to ME, that was me that came through! And almost 90 years ago my great grandmother gave birth to my Nana, and that was HER that came through. And somehow the stars danced so we could share our day of birth through her daughter, my mama. ✨
What illuminated threads weave our stories, womb grown and wrapped in the darkness of unknowns, warmed and revealed by the light. So powerful, so vulnerable. All so fleeting and forever at once. 💫
Nothing changes you like becoming a mama. Nothing can prepare you and there is no going back. Today was the first year in many that I did not walk the hills and spread my Nana’s ashes and remember. Instead I spent the day with my baby and took a seriously deserved rest. I guess the juxtaposition of the tender softness of baby’s cheek and the raw truth of ashes let go to the wind is image enough to remind me how precious this all is. 🙏🏼
Thank you mom. I love you.
Happy birthday Nana. I miss you.
Please help me to remember how holy it all is.
Grateful for this life.
🦋
The birthday girl
With some new wrinkles to prove it!

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