Circle Stories From The Heart

By Hedy Minten, Retreat Attendee & Circle Member ~ Surrender, photo by Hedy Minten In our Spirit Canoe, we sit, ready to embark. The river winds ahead. Large, smooth, dark boulders sit like calm shadows, ancient guardians to guide and protect us. Tall, evergreen trees stand sentinel behind them, alive and dancing in their quiet […]

Guest Post by Jane Large, Retreat Attendee & Mentor, Circle Member It is no wonder that water is universally loved and desired. Waters nourished us inside and out- it not only gives us the gift of Life, but it also baths us with its healing sounds and beautiful vistas. And as it turns out, water

Guest Post by Jane Large, Retreat Attendee & Mentor, Circle Member In Japan, Kintsukuroi, is the ancient art of mending broken or cracked pottery with gold or silver. In this tradition, the belief is that the object is more beautiful for having been broken… We tend to avoid breaking anything in fear of being seen

Guest Post by Jane Large, Retreat Attendee & Mentor, Circle Member If we could gaze upon each other with our Creator Eyes, the clearest and truest eyes we have, we would see that each one of us is a Pillar of Light, ever connected to the Heavens through our crowns and to the Earth through

One of the earliest teachings I heard as a student of shamanism was that the drum was the horse we rode to journey to Spirit. We are carried upon that beating heart into the cosmos of possibility where teachers are met, questions are posed, and deep listening occurs. When I was invited to join my

Post by Doug Mannen, Way of the Circle Co-Facilitator Grandfather Sun was glowing a dull, reddish orange through the morning mist as I found myself floating gently on the calm waters of a small lake, high in the mountains. The mist danced hauntingly around me, beckoning me towards a distant shore; I paddled forward. Approaching

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member I have felt the stirring to Spring clean, to make room for new happenings and people and ways of being that I have a sense of arriving; and, to gather together the threads of what I have already collected. In doing this I am noticing

Guest Post by Maria Kornacki, Circle Member “When I am doing the work within it always has a way of rippling out in the world more than we know or understand we don’t need to know this just recognize it  our interconnectedness how we are interwoven the true and holy within manifests outside ourselves naturally”. 

By Martha Lucier, CCSS Founder (CCSS Wings of Light Truth Shield) Revealing the shield of our Truth as a circle community, we re-claim the value of the way of the circle and the Edge in these times of great shifts.  Coming into our hearts we remember our connection, committing more deeply, as we journey deeper

Guest Post by Jane Large, Retreat Attendee & Mentor, Circle Member At the summit of Bealach na Ba, a mountain pass connecting the Applecross Peninsula with the rest of Scotland. The Gaelic name for this area, ‘a Chomraich’, means ‘The Santuary’. When I was a little kid, one of the things I used to do