Gaia Community: Jamie's Blog

InspiraLogue on the Emerging Feminine - Jamie with Kathe Schaaf

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:42:23 GMT

Greetings, Gaians.

I just uploaded a new InspiraLogue that I recorded yesterday with Gather the Women co-founder, Kathe Schaaf. Kathe and I explore the Emerging Feminine, what it means, what it looks like, and how it's really different from old-paradigm ways of doing!

Pour a cup of tea, gather lunch (or breakfast, or dinner, or snack) and listen in.

You'll find the InspiraLogue here.

Love,
Jamie

Tags: Divine Feminine, Emerging Feminine, Sacred Feminine, new paradigm, consciousness, engaged spirituality, women, gather the women, women's spirituality, women's circles

Healing Magic and Other Wonders

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:02:26 GMT

Greetings, all!

I hope you're all enjoying a beautiful Springtime (or Autumn if that's your season).

I've just posted a new edition of the Ivy SeaZine, with links to two wonderful audios -- one with Robin Rose Bennett, author of Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guide to Conscious Living, and a link to an Institute for Noetic Science (IONs) Shift in Action radio show, which features my dear friend and long-time co-creator, Lawrence Ellis. There's also a link to a new 'Energy of Change & Transformation' portal. Lots of inspiration and good juju.

Here's the intro and the link to the rest of the SeaZine, including the above-mentioned links.

If you've seen the Austin Powers movies, you may remember when Austin awakens to find that he's lost his 'mojo' -- his magic, his unique Divine essence and thus his true gift and source of power in the world. And, of course, the world needs it!

Healing Magic might seem a strange title for a newsletter that includes work and business topics, yet healing magic is precisely what's called for, and what's available to us, from a multitude of Wisdom Wells. You see, many of us -- individually and organizatinally -- have lost our 'mojo', and have to reclaim and re-embody it. As with Austin, the world needs that essence, that 'mojo'!

You'll find the rest of the SeaZine here.

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: healing magic, green witch, herbalism, Nature, Gaia, Wisdom, magic, inspiration, change, transformation

Patterns & Purpose in Deep Transformation

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:47:12 GMT

We are, individually and collectively, being called well past old, established comfort zones and ways of being that have been centered in fear, scarcity, and competition (which itself is an outcropping of a fear-and-scarcity world view).

This goes well beyond change, and more the territory of deep transformation. Yet there is both purpose and pattern -- and hidden magic and joy -- in the seeming chaos.

Read the full entry in my Sophia's Children blog.

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Divine Feminine, transformation, change, chaos, joy, magic, Sophia, consciousness

The Divine Feminine and Abundance

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:47:28 GMT

Venus in Spring

Join me for an upcoming tele-class on The Divine Feminine and Abundance, the perfect antidote to tax-season stress and focus on economic woes.

There is so much more to abundance, and to us, than that!In this tele-class, we'll explore the Divine Feminine tradition and how to connect with and cultivate an awareness and experience of abundance that goes beyond dollars-and-cents (though includes that, too).

You'll also find the current edition of the Ivy SeaZine -- on The Energy of Change and Communication (where energy and shamanic work meet how we go about transformation and communication) -- at Ivy Sea Online, along with a wealth of other inspiring resources.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Divine Feminine, Abundance, change, transformation, energy work, shamanic practices, Indigenous Wisdom, Sacred Feminine

Sophia, By Any of Her Names

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:14:54 GMT

As with many things, there are many ways people reference the Divine Feminine. Some connect with Her as The Great Mother, others resonate more with Isis or Mary, or the Black Madonna, and a host of other 'faces' from traditions that grew from the earliest traditions. For me, Sophia seems the most powerful.

Read the full entry in my Sophia's Children blog.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Sophia, divine mother, goddess, Divine Feminine, Sacred Feminine

Intuition and Energy for Work, Life & 'Crazy Times' Tele-Class

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:55:48 GMT

Without healthy intuition and energy management practices, we might easily find ourselves feeling murky, unclear, confused, tired, and anxious.

It might seem as if things are 'stuck' or 'leaking energy'. These 'lower vibrating' states of being make it difficult to access our higher guidance, vision, sense of abundance, wellbeing, intuition, vitality, and momentum.

With good practices, we have easier access to our intuition, Higher Guidance, inspiration, vision, and a greater sense of motivation, calm, and response-ability!

What we'll cover in this tele-seminar:

This 75-minute tele-seminar will review foundational energy and intuition practices for:

* clearing our energy field,

* disconnecting from and clearing disruptive energy coming from others,

* connecting with Source,

* accessing vision, intuition, and higher guidance to navigate change, challenge, and conscious co-creation, and

* using life as a 'mirror' that provides clues about your energy field and what's needed at any given time.

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time U.S. Audio-class MP3/audio-link of this tele-seminar will also be available for listening at your convenience.

Learn more and register for Intuition and Energy tele-class (or to receive the audio-class).

Check out other Ivy Sea tele-classes on 'The Way of the Feminine and Abundance' and 'Imagination Lab: Working with Imagination to Energize Your Purpose and Vision'.

Tags: intuition, energy, renewal, inspiration, vision, energy management, energy clearing, shamanic practice

The Fine Art of Surrender

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:20:34 GMT

Flow

Greetings! The 'fine art of surrender' seems strange to our Western minds, trained as we've been in 'efforting' -- planning, doing, rolling that boulder up the hill, and swimming against the currents.

And that can be pretty exhausting, and not a little frustrating, can't it? It can feel like you're traveling incognito -- pretending to be someone other than the unique and radiant being that you are.

What does it mean to surrender? What are we surrendering to? There are many answers, no doubt, from many traditions.

Really, the fine art of surrender is a skill and gift we cultivate because something within us knows that there is a more effortless way. It seems impossible, doesn't it, particularly in challenging times?

Yet challenging times are precisely when new ways of approaching and seeing things are most needed -- when the 'old ways' just don't seem to be working, personally or collectively.

The art of surrender calls us to release what we might think is 'the best way' of doing something so that we can open to a more truly inspired way. Surrender is when we let go of swimming against the current and learn to go with the flow of life. We surrender limited thinking and too-small visions; we surrender what isn't who we truly are.

This can seem pretty frightening, can't it? I mean, really, what will happen? Our 'fear-tracks' play over and over again in our minds, saying "You have to DO something!"

Not really. More and more, being is the new doing.

Surrender and being with what is, we stop fighting it and are able to see through it. We open to inspiration, grace, intuitive guidance, and new ideas.

But don't we have to 'do something', you might ask?

Of course, we take action, yet instead of taking action out of old models of thinking and doing, so often driven by fear and scarcity, we allow 'right doing' to follow the inspiration and intuitive guidance that arises. We let go a bit, and allow synchronicities to come into our lives, resolving things in ways we might never thought possible.

It is an art. As with art, we cultivate and practice to gain greater comfort and mastery with the craft. Yet it's also a simple practice.

To what do we surrender? That might depend on a particular tradition of a Higher Guidance, whether our own, Infinite Spirit, God, or other greater awareness.

I recorded an audio InspiraLogue (inspiring dialogue) on the topic of Surrender with a mentor of mine, Lynda Terry, a meditation teacher and author. Such things always help me back to center when I've been overly dispersed!

You'll also find an upcoming tele-seminar on Inspired Marketing -- how to combine intuition and higher guidance with traditional marketing strategy to help those who need your help to find you.

Here's to surrendering to a more inspired way, so that we may more effortlessly and gracefully find our way through the challenges we face -- and so that we might enliven a greater vision that lives within us!

Blessings on the Way,
Jamie

Tags: surrender, the art of surrender, engaged spirituality, flow, grace, Feminine, intuition, Higher Guidance, inspiration

Break on Through to the Other Side

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:14 GMT

Greetings!

Do you remember The Doors song lyrics, 'Break on through to the other side'?

This concept fits perfectly with the opportunity and invitation brought to us with the 'new energies' -- a special delivery to you from the Universe.

In the face of challenges, we can choose Divine Love over old fears, reclaim the power and energy we've given away, and step into a greater capacity to create the lives and experiences we desire.

In some cases, it's a shift in thought and perception; in others, that shift ripples outward into more effective, graceful action. Either way, our experience changes.

Right now, many of us are challenged to choose something other than the fear, gloom and doom we read and hear about. There is a choice, and everything in the Universe is conspiring to help us to choose from our highest potential rather than from fear.

If you want to learn more about these energies, choices, opportunities, and practices, tune in to the upcoming tele-classes or schedule a personal consultation.

Learn more about the upcoming tele-classes on 'break-through' practices, inspired marketing, the Way of the Feminine, and other musings to help navigate the times with Grace and Joy.

If you have questions, feel free to email me!

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: inspired marketing, authenticity, break-through, mastery, inspiration, new energies

Sophia Speaks: Wisdom from the Divine Mother

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:55:35 GMT

Greetings. I received this, quite unexpectedly as I was writing something else, this morning, and was guided to share it here. So here it is; may it be a blessing.

My Dear Children, don't be concerned about the the instability being revealed in things you thought were solid and unshakeable. Though it can be painful, we know, to have your confidence shaken and to be thrown into the discomfort of not knowing, know that you're held. There is a greater good being served; a greater wealth being revealed.

You don't have to lose possessions or money to learn this truth, but for many, this is the only way to see that your value is so much greater than the small sum you've allowed, the monetary measure of your worth. You're so much more, but you've become so focused on just one of your creations, one form of Life's energy: money. This beautiful Planet is worth so much more than dollar signs can ever convey. By seeing only in dollar worth, you've made your world very small.

We know that it's easy to get lost in the spiral of fear; it feels dizzying to have so much shaken, so much seemingly threatened. But as your Course in Miracles says, nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, and therein lies the peace of God. We come home to these truths in times of crisis because we've strayed far from them.

But you don't have to lose what's dear to you, and you can never lose what's essential. You don't have to feel panicked or fearful, though we know these responses are ingrained and supported by many forces in your culture. When you feel uncertain, anxious, and fearful, go within, to your center. Call out to the Divine and your higher being, which knows it is one with the Whole, one with All. Come Home to yourself and your Source. I have always been here. It is the separation that causes your fear; the sense that you are somehow separated from that which can never be separate, only Whole.

In times of great crisis, when all that seemed permanent is dissolving and all that seemed 'of value' is gone in an instant, there is also the great call for you to return home to your knowing, to trusting, to remembering who and what you really are.

Because you've been away from it for so very long, and because some have preyed upon your fears for their own short-sighted purposes, out of their own fear and sense of separation, it feels terrifying to trust, to surrender to the inherent Good, the flow of energy which never ceases and is never lacking, which is always creating, always unfolding, always right where you are. You sit in the midst of plenty, and are of that plenty.

As Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is spread before your eyes and yet you do not see it." This only means that your focus has been on other things, on what's lacking, or what needs to be done. In the past, in the future, where fear lurks and fear-mongers find easy prey.

Call yourself back to your Self. Call back the parts of you, your energy, that you have allowed 'thieves to steal', that you've given over to things outside of yourself. Call it back and know. Breathe, in this moment, and know that all is well. Be still and know that I am God.

Find peace and abundance and self-worth and value within, in this moment; be that in the world, and you'll find the world being that back to you.

Yes, it feels like such a risk, doesn't it my Dearests? It's only because you've been away and taught not to trust the most trustworthy of all. Yet it's closer to you than your own breath. You are loved. You are well. You are creative. Your intent and focus of energy is powerful. You are supported by such a vast array that you can't possibly imagine. With Divine Love, all things are truly possible, even what you call miracles. Obstacles melt in an instant of Grace; the Way that seemed closed opens.

Let go of your grasp of what you've been taught is reality; it pales in comparison to the Real. Open your heart to the beauty that you are and it will guide you. Life will flow to you when you allow it; Life will carry you, guide you, support you. Open your heart, release your fear, and allow. Receive. Breathe it in and know. Remember you are One.

It is so. With great love.
Sophia, DIvine Mother

Tags: sophia, divine mother, channelings, channeled messages, value, worth, economy

When the only way 'out' is within.

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:05:00 GMT

Tree Wisdom

There are times when intense energies intersect with intense circumstances and awaken deeply held fears, ancestral dread, anxieties, and worries. The mind spins 'round and 'round trying to 'think its way out' of the challenge, and we feel more and more frenzied when 'the solution' is not forthcoming, or is not desirable.

Sometimes all the mind -- trained only in what it's been told by 'authorities' or what it's already experienced before, within those 'culturally acceptable' or 'safe' parameters -- can see is an obstacle or situation that seems intractable, immovable, or impossible. It's a hopeless tangle. So it seems. And so we might feel those fears and ancestral dreads intensify even further, seeing no way out.

This is when, rather than thinking our way out, we must go within and access a different source of wisdom and guidance...

Read the full entry in my Sophia's Children blog.

Blessings,

Jamie

* Thanks to PDPhoto.org for the Creative Commons use of this wonderful photo!

Tags: engaged spirituality, Feminine, Divine Feminine, intuition, inspiration, challenges

Tele-Class: Embodying the Divine Feminine

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:06:30 GMT

Join us for this 75 minute tele-class to explore the Divine Feminine as a focal point for purpose in the emerging era. You can also register to receive the audio of the tele-class if you're unable to attend the 'live' tele-class on 1/28.

More than a few traditions and teachers say that we are now in the Era of the Divine Feminine ... an era very different from the one that has come before it. Spiritual leaders such as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi, and Llewelyn Vaughn-Lee say (in no uncertain terms) that women have a special role.

* Why is the Divine Feminine a powerful archetype for you?

* Why is it important to your greatest purpose and unfoldment?

* How is the return of the Divine Feminine affecting the role of women as 'Earth Healers' and midwives of the new paradigm, and how might you feel this call?

* How do you relate to it, remember it, embody it, and work with it to add more inspiration, intuition, creativity, confidence, purpose, etc. to your everyday world?

* What particular aspects of the Divine Feminine support inspiration, joy, passion, creativity & enhanced intuition?

This 75 minute tele-class will discuss the Divine Feminine as a focal point for purpose in the emerging era. By working intentionally with these Divine Feminine energies and archetypes intentionally, we invite more of these qualities to arise within us.

When: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. EST / 2:30 p.m. PST

Audio: An audio will be recorded for listening at your convenience if you're unable to attend the 'live' tele-class.

Who will benefit from this tele-class:

-- Women who feel called to step into more authentic relationship with the Divine Feminine and their role as midwives of the new paradigm.

-- Individuals who want to learn about and connect with their Inner Feminine, and work with the archetypes, myths, symbols, and practices for personal meaning, enhanced creativity and intuition, and a strengthened connection to the Divine Feminine.

-- Solopreneurs and conscious business owners who want to co-create a New-Era, New-Earth way of working and being in business -- the Feminine is a required partner!

Learn more or register for Embodying the Divine Feminine...

Tags: Divine Feminine, Sacred Feminine, Goddess, Fire, New Earth, Feminine Archetype, Era of the Feminine

SUPER-POWERED INTENTIONS: The 12/27 New Moon in Capricorn

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:57:12 GMT

Close on the heels of the Winter Solstice, we have a bright, potent New Moon upon us that calls us to great mindfulness and consciousness, inviting our wisest and most joyful Inner Magician to help alchemize the most wondrous, beneficent creations for the coming weeks, months, and year.

Here are some of the powerful and unique attributes, symbols, themes and energetic signatures of the powerful, super-creative December 27 New Moon in Capricorn (which is exact at 7:22 Eastern Standard Time, U.S.) -- use these to shape your intentions, visions, and invocations during the next two weeks, and perhaps beyond:

* Power Line-Up: The Lunar Astrologer Claudia Thompson reminds us that this New Moon features 9 out of 10 planets lined up in 1/6 segment of the sky. This means intense, super-focused, magnified energetic signatures or themes -- a strong, creative amplification of wherever we're focusing our thoughts, expectations, energies, emotions. Mindfulness means consciously 'becoming a vibrational match' for that which we want more of in our lives (and in the lives of all beings). More than ever, these energies say, 'You'll create and attract what you're focusing and feeling on', so discard and release the 'mindless mantras' of lack, fear, scarcity, and constriction to allow for a more expansive vision of possibility, abundance, creativity, loving-kindness, etc. for you - and for all.

* Capricorn - Ruled by the archetype of Saturn: The discipline to 'do the work' (smarter, guided by intuition and heart-wisdom, rather than the old-paradigm task-master who yells 'more work is good work'). Saturn is the Masculine impulse to manifest, to bring the ideals and visions into the manifest with structures that support them. Making it 'real' through renewed commitment and taking those small steps that build momentum. Saturn is also about authority, but not the type that causes (or forces) us to give away our power. Rather, Saturn is ultimately about self-authority, or about authoring your own story, your own rules, your own creation, and your own life.

This is also an excellent time to renew commitment to releasing those 'old rules' which no longer serve us, but rather keep us working in limitation. Deepak Chopra has called these 'perceptual prisons' for which we have the keys -- the keys to more consciously choose the rules we live, work, give, receive, create, relate, and serve by.

* Transcendent-Collective Theme: This New Moon aligns with several planets in Capricorn and Aquarius, and one in Pisces (which means all planets are in 'transcendent' -- or collective good is personal good, and vice versa -- planetary symbols), so if what we do personally is also 'in the highest good of all beings' -- the collective -- we'll have Pronoia, the support of the Force or Universe, behind us.

* Pluto, both as the still-a-planet and the archetype, figures big, since Pluto has just returned from retrograde into the sign of Capricorn, after 13 years (1995-2008) in Sagittarius. The last time Pluto was in Capricorn was 1762-1778, the timeframe around the American Revolution. The name Pluto comes from mythology, where Pluto was the God of the Underworld, and so 'death and destruction' and power are the qualities that Pluto is most known for in traditional astrology. As usual, there's more to the story, and knowing it empowers us.

It was Pluto who kidnapped Persephone, Maiden-Goddess of Earth, causing havoc on the surface as Persephone's Mother, the Great Goddess Demeter, let the abundant growth on Earth go barren from her grief at her daughter's abduction. A deal was struck, and Persephone would be Maiden-Goddess of Earth for part of the year, and Queen of the Underworld for the other part -- a cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

Pluto comes from the Greek word 'ploutos', which suggested wealth and riches from below the surface, so Pluto was also the God of Wealth. The Old English meaning of 'welthe' was 'wellbeing', not just one's collection of money. Ploutos is thought to derive from 'pleu', or 'overflowing', which suggests an abundance of wealth, not a scarcity of it. The story, then, of Pluto, is that some things must give way and die, going beneath the surface, so that more mature, strong, rich 'wealth' and wellbeing might be born anew. Pluto is associated with the Phoenix and the Shaman. These themes also figure nicely into Pluto as it might affect the territory and pursuits of Capricorn (see above).

* Deep-Yin Power: The Winter Solstice is a deep-yin time of the year; the dark moon and new moon are deep yin times of the month. Deep-yin is powerful for visioning, receptivity, intending, seeding that which will become manifest, nourishing, dreaming, restoring, psychic insight and connection, connection to Unified Field or the Great Sea of the Great Mother, intuition, etc.

This is a great time to meditate, cultivate intuition and Divine guidance; invite, and open to a Divinely inspired vision for our lives, our work, our personal and collective contribution, among other things. A 'default setting' might be "If you don't know where you're going, any road will do." If you think you know too specifically, there may be no road good enough (and you won't be seeing other pathways). Yet as the astrologer Dana Gerhardt wrote, "Once you really know where you're going, every road can take you there." It's a great time to get into the possibility space, tap into heart-desire, create that seed-magnet intention and vibe for 'where you're going', and allow Nature and synchronicity to meet you in creating the perfect roads and means.

We can also powerfully intend to connect with intuition, insight, vision that will guide us and magnetize to us all that we need to step into our most highest, joyful expression in the coming days, weeks, months -- starting today, renewing that commitment each day (Capricorn, Saturn theme).

* Returning Light: With the Winter Solstice, we embark upon the 'return of the Light', with the next celebration of Light occurring over Candlemas-Imbolc (January 31-February 3). Great for working with Light and Fire, symbols of inspiration, momentum, transformation, creativity, Heart, Love, Spiritual insight and wisdom, and healing (the fire Goddesses in Antiquity were often patrons of craft, creativity, Hearth, Love, transformation, and healing).

* The Choice Between Downward or Upward Spiraling: The shadow of Capricorn, Saturn, Pluto and other archetypes magnified during this cycle include: abuse of power (power over, and power trips), detachment from empathy, tyranny, gloominess, scarcity thinking, negativity, oppressive rules and 'order', hyper-constriction (that strangles creativity and intuition), and so on. Going with the collective narration that focuses on survival, fear, and scarcity, you'll be aligning with what some call 'the downward spiral'.

The higher potentials and expressions include magnanimous leadership of self, manifested abundance, transcendent possibility, higher vision, power with, and true dharma -- purposeful 'right livelihood' -- and the devotion, resoluteness, commitment, practice, discipline, order, structure, and focus that serve vision, intuition, creativity, the highest good for and potential of all beings, and the wisdom of the heart. This would be flying into the upward spiral.

Grounding ourselves in the higher themes of this New Moon cycle by setting the intention to do so, and then allowing spontaneous or intuitively guided ritual each day can help anchor us in the ever-unfolding expression of these themes in and through our lives.

While the new moon is a super-point for these intentions, that energy continues through the waxing phase to the full moon, and can carry us into the beginning of a new calendar year.

[By Jamie Walters, founder, Ivy Sea, www.ivysea.com. Feel free to share this, with the byline, with anyone who might benefit from it. If you'd like to schedule an individual session to align with and articulate your highest, most powerful intention-seeds, I welcome your email inquiry!]

Tags: new moon, intentions, conscious, mindful, new thought, ritual, alchemy, co-creation, shamanic practice

Everything's Amazing, and Nobody's Happy

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:36:00 GMT

Greetings, All.

Two fabulous (and one pretty funny) glimpses at what's amazing about the times we live in, and how simplicity and reducing your eco-footprint can be a creative and unique expression you make in honor of Mother Earth.

Louis CK Talks With Conan - Everything's Amazing, and Nobody's Happy

and

The Good Life for $5000 a Year

They're short, they're quick, they're inspiring, and CK's funny.

The comments are interesting, too, though creativity is a better response than defensiveness!

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Love and Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Louis CK, happiness, amazement, conan, good life, simplicity, reducing your eco-footprint, engaged spirituality, appreciation

How to be happy in a recession.

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:22:36 GMT

Greetings, all.

The following is from an article by Deepak Chopra, MD, in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper (Nov. 19):

"But as the economy contracts, we must resist our natural reflex to contract with it. Instead, we need to do the opposite. Expansion is the best way to survive any crisis. ... Fear deprives people of choice. Fear shrinks the world into isolated, defensive enclaves. Fear spirals out of control. Fear makes everyday life seem clouded over with danger."

We all know this, yet as we are 'in the world' and marinated in the ways of 'fear and scarcity culture', we must make the choice again and again between fear and Love and let that choice guide our thoughts, words, and actions. That's practice.

Read the full article at the Chron.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: engaged spirituality, conscious choice, Love, fear, recession, Deepak Chopra

Money is Love? Sea-Changes Afoot? Listen in...

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:43:13 GMT

Greetings, all.

A fresh new lunch-time (or anytime) inspiration audio InspiraLogue is hot off the pod. I chatted it up with Barbara Wilder, author of Money is Love, about what money used to symbolize in cultures of abundance, what's it's come to symbolize in a culture of fear and scarcity, and how certain practices connect us once again to the spirit of love and plenty ... even where money's concerned.

Join a growing and powerful movement to banish the existential angst and learned-fears of false scarcity of the passing paradigm, and choose and co-create something altogether different.

Pour the tea, conjure up a good knosh, and listen in to this audio-offering ...

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: money, anxiety, money is love, blessing, prosperity, barbara wilder, sacred exchange

Listen-In: New stories, new energies, money, blessing, & Nature!

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:39:54 GMT

Greetings,

I just added two new audio 'InspiraLogues' in the Ivy Sea audio series. The InspiraLogues are inspired conversations with wonderful people doing interesting things and sharing transformative perspectives and wisdom.

The first is with Barbara Wilder, teacher, writer, and author of Money is Love and Embracing Your Power Woman. Barbara and I talk about the recent election, electing new stories, emerging new energies, money, blessing, and the Divine Feminine.

The second is with Julie Charette Nunn, Crow's Daughter, conscious entrepreneur, and teacher/practitioner of shamanic herbalism. Julie and I talk about the inspiration, healing, and wisdom we can find in Nature, and what the trees offer to us.

You'll find both of these, and others on wisdom, wellness, right livelihood and the Divine Feminine, here in the audio archives. Enjoy!

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: inspiration, audios, Nature, wisdom, Divine Feminine, trees, election, new stories, blessing, money

Inspiration from Hafiz

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:47:40 GMT

"...we have not come here to take prisoners or to confine our wondrous
spirits, but to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage,
freedom and Light!"

and another musing on the prison theme...

"The small man builds prisons whereas the wise woman ducks under the Moon and tosses keys to all the rowdy prisoners."

~ Hafiz, Persian Poet

Tags: Hafiz, courage, freedom, wise woman

Listen In - Turning Anxiety into Inspiration, & Tree Wisdom!

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:29:21 GMT

Greetings, all!

The latest Audio InspiraLogue is fresh in. I invited Julie Charette Nunn, shamanic herbalist and founder of Crow's daughter, to join me in a juicy conversation. Julie and I mused about how we transform anxiety into inspiration, and the amazing guidance we can receive from Nature (including the wisdom of the trees - more on this in an upcoming InspiraLogue!).

Join us, and listen in...

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: inspiration, anxiety, mindset, Nature, tree spirits, trees, shamanism, herbalism

Listen In - Graceful Power and Our Amazing Opportunity

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:42:06 GMT

Greetings, all!

I recorded the latest InspiraLogue today, and was joined in dynamic dialogue by Barbara Wilder, healer, teacher, speaker, writer, and author of Money is Love and Embracing Your Power Woman.

Barbara and I took a joyful dive into graceful and courageous transformation, power dynamics, Love, Grace, and the great opportunities facing each one of us. And, as always, we had a lot of fun.

Pour some tea, pull up a chair, and listen in for inspiration.

Love and Good-Juju Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: grace, transformation, power, opportunity, choice, new paradigms, conscious change, Sacred Feminine, Sacred Masculine

The Power of Your Word

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:22:16 GMT

Autumn

These days, it's vital (and deep practice) not to get caught up in the mass-hallucination of what's gone horribly wrong (and it's a compelling case!) -- and the collective fear, anxiety, and 'ancestral dread' -- but rather to cultivate and revere a vision of what's possible, what's beautiful, what's abundant and Earth-friendly -- and where that's been the case in our deep history and ancestral memory -- when we're in balance and right-relationship with all that is.

We know that matter follows energy, be it the energy of our beliefs, thoughts, words, or actions. In this way, our word is magical, acting like 'strange attractors' around which matter organizes itself. Wherever we allow our thought and energy to focus, or to languish, we'll see that reflected in our experience, or our perception of it. As in martial arts traditions, we strengthen whatever we focus on and give our energy to.

Recently, a shamanic-practices teacher reminded us that if we don't begin each day with an intentional choice of what energies and Spirit helpers we want to call in and align with, we'll find ourselves calibrating to the predominant thought-stream of the masses. And she asked, "And what do you think they're thinking - what do you think the primary energy is focused on?"

Mother Theresa of Calcutta, not long before her death, also emphasized the 'deep practice' of minding one's word, energy, and focus. When asked if she'd attend an anti-war rally, she said, "No, but when you hold a pro-peace rally I'll be there."

It's a powerful choice, to see what is and to choose to orient towards that which is beautiful, joyful, well, harmonious, loving, in right-relationship, and benefiting all beings. And don't forget the spirit of playfulness and joy - the Trickster and Wild Woman can be divine allies in times such as these, showing us how to combine playfulness with revelation and wise action.

We can cultivate our energy focus, intention, and word-power in our morning and evening rituals, and in small ways throughout the day. While seemingly humble, it's a powerful contribution and service.

Blessings on your Way!

Love, Jamie

Tags: choice, intention, energy, shamanic practice, thought, power of the word, perception