Quickening: Rhythms of Change

"Quickening: Rhythms of Change," is a seasonal newsletter. In each issue, a regular feature will support the vision of the Energetic Connection to quicken and open the body to spirit. By offering an idea or model, as well as a personal and physical experience of the links between physiology and its spiritual counterparts, the information here will help you de-stress and guide you toward the discovery of your own path through the wonder-filled-bramble of life.

In this we will honor the transformative qualities of wild-crafted herbs, supplements and other natural and organic products designed to enhance consciousness. Some of these are edible organic skin care and cosmetics, some are food and supplements. Side bars will offer both an energetic exercise to do at home for help with stress (anything that creates reactivity in you on any level), and experiential workshops to aid you in connecting the physical to subtle bodies. Keep in mind that while chaos might be uncomfortable, it isn't always stressful nor does it promote reactivity every time. It's all in the way you transmute it.

As with everything else, energetic connections remain the primary focus here. This newsletter reports on methods that encourage opening the body to spirit through energy mastery in the midst of very chaotic times. It also impresses the importance of balancing the right with the left and a practical intention to help people in sustaining high levels of responsibility and enthusiasm for life.

My sincere intention is that these chronicles give you tools to transform your experience in whatever way you'd like to do so. If these articles and stories stimulate you to go a just a little bit deeper into your own journey, yet also to a more practical place of self-understanding and mastery, they will have served a purpose. I want you to become both self-realized and, more importantly, self-actualized. We are in this together, all of us are filled with intelligence and the ability to expand. Let us together embrace and incorporate this capacity for alchemy on all levels.

Truly blessed we are that "...our spiritual consciousness unconsciously plumbs its own depths by exposing itself to situations that alter its inner structure," Holgar Kalweit, from Tom Cowan's "Fire in the Head."

Fuel for the Fire

Here we stir the cauldron of Earthly elements, meeting and mixing them with the rain, the wind, the Sun and the soils inside the lives we've conjured. Always our constant muse, we fuel the fires of internal awareness in our podcast series.

There are two podcasts, Fuel for the Fire and Spiritual Freedom, which include breath and visualization practices; movements to balance and awaken chakra centers; seasonal invocations from the Celtic Wheel of the Year; and interviews with shamans, spiritual teachers and healers, writers and artists, stargazers and the Queens of Fire themselves.