Circle Stories From The Heart

Guest Post by Arlene Clark I’d like to invite you to take a moment to soften your eyes and connect deep into your heart. Imagine looking at the ground and spotting a flower just beginning to sprout forth. Feel it’s roots deep under the earth, offering stability & grounding for the delicate plant that’s emerging. […]

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member I still have this clear vignette of a moment 20 years ago during one of my work days as a nurse at a bustling city hospital emergency department. One of the doctors is telling me why her bright red lipstick is always looking more worn

Guest Post by Maria Kornacki, Circle Member I know a young lassie. Her name is Hoppy. But when she tells people her name, they seem to hear “Happy”. “Oh! Happy,” they exclaim. “What a nice name.” This happens over and over. Hoppy is frustrated. “No, not Happy. Hoppy! Why does everyone call me Happy?” Well,

Sometimes our best teachings about how Creation works come from experiencing how things don’t work. I have been reflecting deeply on how the way of the circle works after a recent experience, where I was asked to assist in manifesting a vision then was never contacted again….such a lost opportunity. What could have happened if

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member Both my Grandmothers loved Hyacinths, one for their scent and signal of Spring; and, the other for the fabulous colour. I think back to my grandmothers now and all the tools they taught me. My paternal grandmother taught me practical things like how to sew

Post by Doug Mannen, Way of the Circle Co-Facilitator ~ “One million hearts. One million hands. One Drum” Honored I was to caretake Grandmother World Drum for two sessions, Nov. 10 to 16 and Nov. 19 to 23, 2018. For the first two days She partied with the other drums that are here in my

By Martha Lucier, Edge Co-Founder & Circle Member ~ painting by Martha Lucier Along a northern boreal coastline dotted with black spruce and yellow cedar, Killer Whale notices Black Raven walking along the shore. Black Raven’s eyes burn red with fire as she paces up and down the shoreline, leaving her scattered tracks in the

By Martha Lucier, CCSS Circle Member & Co-founder The heart is the first sound and vibration we hear when our human bodies are formed, and it is where the Song of Creation lives and is expressed through us. Living in a world of conflict and instability, we may feel lost at times in our vulnerability

Guest Post By Cinzia Sarigu  ~ Full moon in Sardinia, by Cinzia Sarigu In the midst of very powerful shifts in energetics as well as physical aspects of the world, I’ve been experiencing much sadness, tenderness and deep healing. It feels like clearing out a lifetime’s worth of stuff. Recently I have been reading about

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member “We’re all going to the same place, and we’re all on a path. Sometimes our paths converge. Sometimes they separate, and we can hardly see each other, much less hear each other. But on the good days, we’re walking on the same path, close together,