A collection of stories, reflections, home practices, and more from circle members and facilitators of the Way of the Circle Centre.
Guest Post By Michelle Girouard, with introduction by Martha Lucier Yesterday my grandson Everest turned 4. I asked him what it feels like to be 4. He said “It feels like a tree…like the Grandmother Cedar Tree at your house Grandma!” What wisdom from a young child to help us remember to connect to the […]
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Guest Post by Vanessa Brown, Retreat Attendee & Collective Circle Member It’s difficult to put into words just how much transformation can come from a weekend where all we do is eat and breathe into the question of creation, and dig into ourselves in a way we might not in our ordinary reality. I have
By Hedy Minten, Retreat Attendee & Circle Member On Christmas Eve, I deeply felt the absence of my mother and father who had both passed away in 2017. As I reflected on Christmas with them as a child, I recalled how my father had always made such an effort to make Christmas a magical time
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Allowing the songlines to sing us, we are vessels for deep rooting as the songlines give rise to living in our awakened hearts. We invite you to tone with us while you listen to this track!
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by Martha Lucier In 2015 we hosted a Lomi-Lomi Massage Training with a beautiful soul named Jeana Naluai who offers Lomi Lomi Training through Ho’omana Spa Maui in Hawaii. During the training we learned some Hawaiian chants. After the training, I could feel the presence of Hawaiian ancestors and hear them chanting in an ancient
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by Martha Lucier Just after facilitating a Death and Beyond Shamanic Training, I had a vision of an old Grandmother, paddling a home made raft on the Yangtse River. She used a long pole, to propel the raft through the thick water. She reached down, digging deep with the pole, bringing up old bones and
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by Chris & Trae Sheridan Oh Sweet Earth, by Trae: Oh Sweet Earth is a song prayer composed during a shamanic training program. The song was used in my preparation for shamanic journey to become the hollow bone in service to spirit. “Night Blossom” painting by Ella Sheridan. Lyrics Oh sweet earth, mother mine Keep
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by Jan Beaver I was doing my first fast at the Petroglyphs Provincial Park one spring many years ago. I had my lodge set up inside a cedar circle under a beautiful white pine tree. After a few days, I was disappointed that I had not been visited by a bear or deer or had
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by Michelle Girouard There is a tiny grandmother spirit living in the cedar tree at the Edge lakefront, nestled in a golden room with a bed. So small, and so old, as soft and as joyful as a baby. The cedar tree gifted me with a deep and flushing and instant heart healing/clearing when I
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by Martha Lucier While on a walk on a snowy day, I heard ‘The Thunderbirds are Calling’. This was around the time the spirit of a Thunderbird came to our circle as a guide and messenger. The Thunderbird guided us in creating a Unity Wheel, that is in the shape of a spiral. As we
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