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The Fire Ceremony Inspires Spirit

Aloha Kakou!

I opened my curtains at dawn this morning and the pink morning light gifted me with the presence of Fire. Light. Warmth. A radiance in the sky. The moment filled me with recollection, a child remembering the first awe of a beautiful Sky, a small reconnection with Nature after so many years of feeling separate from it, as our dominant cultures try to program us to do.

We are Nature Beings, intimately related to the Elemental Spirits that permeate all life on our planet: Water, Earth, Fire, Air, and Ether. Everything has a Soul. Reflecting on this Soul connection may not seem vital to you, but it is. Human cultures often don’t recognize our shared roots with all of Nature. Reconnection with Nature is at the heart of climate healing. And more and more of us are restoring the ancestral rivers of knowledge through the Love Continuum.

We are reconnecting and restoring our sense of belonging to Nature by listening deeply to the pulsing of our cellular wisdom, flowing in fluid resonance with all of life from inside our sensitive, strong bodies. We are deepening into a soul-level relationship with the natural forces that guide us all.

Through healing ceremonies conducted for the group, ancestors, and Nature, we have discovered new ways to be wholly in our bodies, alive to the inner waters flowing through our veins and the convergence of Elements in Nature’s coherent wisdom.

Despite the ways that modern cultures foster separation from Nature and dissociation from our bodies, when we gather in sacred space, unwind tension, and awaken our cosmic bio-intelligence, the dance of reconnection between our hearts and the great wisdom of Nature is divine.

In the October 19 Love Continuum Movement Intensive, we’re going to explore Fire. I am, you might say, hot for this topic! It has brought up so many ways that I love Fire as a substance and quality that inspires much beauty, music, and poetry.

ELEMENTAL SPIRITS

Through immersive meditations, blissful kundalini-kindling dance, beautiful, soul-searching music, and celebration of a symbolic Fire Ceremony to cleanse and nurture the body, energy, and space, we will dissolve blocks to abundant aliveness and amplify life’s natural radiance. Deep healings happen. Through the attentive embodiment of presence and feeling, tissues move, blocks clear, and prana, mana, and chi can flow.

The Elements are incredible allies for us. They are living beings. Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Ether are intelligent creatures. We can speak to them and invite them to work in partnership with us. This is one of the significant ways that we are reversing our human dissociation from Nature. By tending the Heart Fire, we release the regenerative flow of Light in the body, mind, and Spirit. We receive our source guidance for life-affirming new directions.

THE ELEMENT OF FIRE

What is it that utterly melts the mind chatter when we watch a single burning flame?

What is the glow we see in a person’s face when they are full of wonder and awe?

Where does the fiery heat of Kundalini come from?

Why does every culture and religious tradition have a special reverence for Fire?

Externally, fire is one of the deadliest forces on Earth, but also one of the most unique. The ingredients that make fire possible are only found on Earth. The Sun, though often associated with Fire, is actually a series of hydrogen explosions. Because fire allowed humans to recognize their intelligence and influence, working with Fire – even symbolically – restores our faith in ourselves and a world of balance and peace.

Tending the gentle flame in the heart, igniting the creative mind, and savoring the radiance of the first light of morning or the afterglow of a good meal, digesting by the grace of one’s inner Fire, reminds us we’re doing deep, inner work.

MOVEMENT AND THE MIDDLE WORLD

Nature is always in a reciprocal relationship with us. In the Saturday movement intensive, we’ll explore this relationship as it appears in innate movements revealing ancestral wisdom as well as shadow issues that may keep us from following the guidance we receive.

We will journey to the Middle World of Dreaming to connect with Nature’s flowing power for strength and guidance. By uncovering hidden shadow issues – especially in the gut and chest — that have kept us from following the guidance we receive, we discover and recover the Soul’s depth and beauty.

The Middle World includes the 4.6-billion-year-old Earth, as well as fire beings such as the Sun, Moon, stars, and galaxies. It offers pathways to the Hidden Folk and Elementals who reveal their true power in our lives through trance states and visualizations. These Elements are billions of years old and we can’t live without them. For healing to happen, you must feel deep love for them — as deep as your love for your most precious loved ones.

As you’ll discover, working with the Elements teaches you how to enter into the flow of life. They also teach us about cleansing, death, and rebirth.

Humans are a relatively new species. Right now, we feel dominant over life — but truly, we are not dominant. As humans, we are all woven together in deep relationships with other lifeforms. The Love Continuum sessions are a time to slow down and let the power of Nature return to our bodies and minds, lifting our spirits and recalling how beautiful our Souls embodiment truly is.

In this session, you’ll:

• Engage your spiritual senses to embrace and experience life in an entirely new way.
• Learn about the power of feeling embodying Sacred Reciprocity with Nature.
• Create loving ceremonies and journeys to honor all beings who share Earth.
• Work with the Elements to reestablish your love for them through the felt sense of fluid resonance with all of life.
• Discover how gratitude is a major facet in reciprocity, one of the most powerful practices taught in all spiritual traditions.

Touching the source of Light changes everything. Pure and incandescent, the Fires of change bring a radiance and resourcefulness to our lives that is indescribable and yet with attention and tending, they become allies in the continuum of life, a universal source that can solve many problems through simple primary movements if we allow the flowing.

TRY THIS: STAND IN NATURE AND FEEL THE LIFE WAVE

Close your eyes and notice in your body how everything in Nature moves and flows. Every leaf, insect, and photon is imbedded in the season, lunar cycle, and transitions that are part of one great flow, the Life Wave. Feel this flow of Nature as you rock side to side and back and forth finding infinity circles flowing and glowing in your bones, connecting to the flow of gravity underneath you and the levity and lightness of being flowing overhead.

Once you feel this state of actual flowing, you find yourself going with the flow of life rather than against it. Nature’s flow cannot be controlled. Once you learn how to surrender and move with the flow, health returns on all levels. You walk with the flow of life rather than against it.

WITH REVERENCE

For the wisdom of our ancestors, ancient teachers, and for this land of volcanic Fire, the domain of Pele, ancestral Fire Goddess, we give thanks.

You are invited to discover the grace and truth of the sources of Fire that empower you from within.

WHAT: Love Continuum Fire Ceremony to Inspire Spirit
WHEN: Saturday, October 19, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
WHERE: New Thought Center of Hawaii – 81-6587 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kealakekua. Find directions at www.newthoughtcenterofhawaii.com

REGISTER FOR LOVE CONTINUUM ON OCTOBER 19 HERE

Bring a journal and/or sketch pad, pen, water bottle, a yoga mat and/or blanket, and drums or musical instruments if you have them.

If you have friends who would find relief, joy, or otherwise benefit, please let them know about the gatherings!

I look forward to seeing you there!
Love and Gratitude, Marya

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