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Hola Amigos! How are you all doing today? We are well, I have a cold still but I am feeling inspired and happy and healthy and I wish the same for you in the coming year.
Last night we were blessed to attend the Karma Cleansing Ceremony at Shambhala. It was very beautiful as always and it was wonderful to come together with everyone and project postive energy and be ONE WITH THE SOURCE!
I am so grateful we could go. Here are two albums of photos I made in Facebook and a video. I could have taken alot more video but just wanted to try and enjoy the ceremony, I know there are others who will document it much better than me.
Sending love and light out to you all and wishing you the best in the New Year! Let's make it Freaking Awesome!!
Today is the last day of 2017. A time to give pause and remember what the year was like. So as we head into this next year, with a coffee and dash of Frangelico in my hand and a bit of a head cold, the first things that I am reminded of is the importance of health.
I am grateful for so many things that happened this year. As I look back it has been quite the incredible journey. Often we get caught up in all the little seemingly mundane things of life and forget to look at the bigger picture.
This year began in turmoil for me. I was in the Reconciliation Carving Program at Langara and just trying to process all the energy, positive and negative, the information, the education and enlightenment and awareness, trying to deal with my energy interacting with others...was extremely challenging. The greatest gift was that I had loving support from friends and family and I had my art. My art is my medicine. Whether it was putting my feelings down on my blog, or carving them out in a piece of wood, my art saved my life this year. I am very grateful and humble. I thank God, the Multiverse, my Ancestors, my child, my family and my neighbors and total strangers for helping me, for lifting me when I fell and carrying me when I really thought I just wasn't going to make it. I had some really dark times this year.
Why am I sharing this?...because I hope it can help others. To let you know that when you are in a really dark place, reach out, as difficult and scary and humiliating as it can be...reach out, someone will help. It may not come in the form you think or from who you think. The world (life) will surprise you. It surprises me ALL the time.
For that I am grateful. So grateful. Thank you!
Thank you so much for everyone,
every energy that helped me this year.
MUCHAS GRACIAS!
What does this next year hold for Angel and I? I really have no clue. I am putting my positive thoughts and energies into finding a new home for us, a new community that will accept, love, support and nurture us and that we can reciprocate.
If you had told me we would actually make it to Mexico this year, I might not have believed you. But I set a date and just kept saying it and telling it to people and it happened. I didn't believe it really until Aaron Nelson Moody- my carving
instructor/mentor told me "you'll do it!" And just like that, I felt I
could. I needed someone to believe in me and help me believe in myself
again. Was it easy, has it been easy, no...in the beginning it was very difficult, we had lots of issues with many many things, but we just kept being positive and things have worked out.
We have 2 more months here . We need a home. I am hoping Salt Spring will be the answer to our prayers. Please think positive thoughts for us. What is my real wish for 2018. My wish is that I get a Tinyhouse and that it can be put on a piece of land by some water but someplace where I can have a beautiful garden and implement permaculture and basically make my Pinterest Vision Board come true. Build popbottle greenhouses and barrel composts and well try to live off the land as best we can, exploit it for what we need but love it and care for it. To nurture it and let it nurture us. Do you have a little piece of land that I can use, have, rent, buy??? and can you help me build a Tinyhouse? or do you have one to give me or do you want to trade for art...can you help me? can I help you?
Tonight is the Karma Cleansing at Shambhala, it's has been 5 years since the last time we attended one and poor Shambhala has really had some hard times with earthquakes, hurricanes and so many things. It's getting older, as the owner Gloria is, as we all are. I don't know when I can come back to Zipolite, could be another 5 years..and I am not sure if Shambhala will be here or not.
So tonight is very very special.
I am going to really embrace this experience for the love that is put into the celebration. For the gathering of souls coming to experience and express their oneness. We are one!
That was my main lesson this year, from my Reconciliation Carving Classes, from the Elder Shane Pointe, from so many beautiful people I have met, the message is being shouted loud and clear...
WE ARE ONE!
We need to think like that, when you hurt someone, you hurt yourself, and vice versa...and we are one with Mother Earth. When we hurt her or one of her creations, we hurt.
So LOVE each other!
LOVE YOURSELF!
Take care of YOURSELF.
A powerful message I received this year...was "put the oxygen mask on yourself first!"
You can't help others if you can't save yourself. It's like the lifeguards/salvavidas swimming out to the person drowning without the boogie board/life preserver...you are going to drown too!
That is why I shut down my other blog. I was drowning.
On the upside I found myself this year. I was lost. I didn't know who I really was but then with lots of research and soul searching I found my roots and balance and made peace with myself and with others. So this year really was a healing journey for me. My healing year I guess. I am still on my journey, I guess we all are. I am not sure it where this next year will take me...
But I FEEL ALIVE NOW! I feel healthy and happy and energized and even though life is still a struggle and I have worries, I am pushing forward knowing it's going to be okay and reminding myself, reach out, ask for help. I hope you will do the same.
I am so blessed and I know it and I am truly grateful. And so as we head into 2018 I send LOVE and LIGHT and put you ALL IN A BUBBLE OF LOVE so that you can be protected and safe. May this year surprise us all with positive things, may we create lots of positive energy and spread and share love with all we meet. LET LOVE BE CONTAGIOUS! When I touch you, or you read my words, you CATCH it!! I LOVE YOU! Here's to 2018, may it me my best year YET!! CHEERS, MY DEARS! Hugs and Kisses! Besos y Abrazos!
It's
that time of year again. I get so anxious and the feeling is so strong,
I just want to jump on a plane and bus and head to Zipolite. I miss all
my family and friends there. Nearly 4 years now since we've been back.
But I can't, not right now...I am going to go to school for a bit and my
kid's in school, many reading this post and blog know her...she's not
homeschooled any more...I have her in the system. She likes it. She's
learning a lot. I wish I could teach her but she is old enough to
choose.
A few years back I really tried my hardest to make an app but I just couldn't finish it so I could get it in the Playstore...but I did build this blog. Sorry I haven't updated it lately but will soon.
If you want to learn more about Mexico, Oaxaca, Zipolite, Dia de Los Muertos, you should watch my videos and read through this blog. Even though I don't post here that often there is a lot of great info here. http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.ca
Here's some great videos I made in Oaxaca City. It was really a wonderful experience that I was able to share with my daughter and I am very very grateful for it. They are backwards so watch in reverse order
This link is to a Facebook Page Album for many of the Roca Blanca Area- Zipolite Businesses/Negocios and if you click through them you can find info on hotels and restaurant. Just know that I have not updated in nearly 4 years so you have to do your own research.
New Year’s Celebration- Dec 31
Our celebration consists of a ceremony to CLEAN OUR SPIRITS. Our true
being is a pure spirit and this night we will try to give total
expression to our humanity, united in LOVE AND PEACE. This is an
offering to God: The Divine Intelligence.
We have chosen the essence of each philosophy and religion of the world. Because each of them has his own truth we respect.
The symbol of our soul is the flower, and we bring it to the fire
with all the negativity that we have inside us in the form of a tree of
life that we will construct during celebration.
Celebración de Año Nuevo
Nuestra celebración es una hermosa ceremonia de limpia espiritual.
Nuestro verdadero ser es un espÃritu puro y en esta noche tratamos de
dar su expresión total en una hermandad, unidos en amor y paz.
Esta es una ofrenda a DIOS: La Inteligencia Divina.
Hemos elegido la esencia de cada filosofÃa y religión del mundo, pues cada una de ellas tiene su verdad la cual respetamos.
El sÃmbolo de nuestra alma es una flor y la entregamos al fuego con
todo lo negativo que llevamos dentro en forma de árbol de la vida que
construiremos en la celebración.
Check out this great new video of Zipolite. I love to see Zipolite and since we haven't been there in 2 years I really miss it. It is so nice to see video of it. It was posted by Wilvita S. Well done, Well done!! :D Thanks for sharing and I know the people of Zipolite are very grateful too!
Well it's that time again. Ushering out 2013 and Welcoming 2014. I was just looking back at what we did same time last year. We were in Zipolite, Oaxaca Mexico and we went to Shambhala for the annual Karma Cleansing Ceremony.
Here is a little video of the preparation that goes into Shambhala's Karma Cleansing Ceremony. It's takes a lot of love and dedication to create this wonderful event. Please lend a hand if you can!!
Thankfully it's calming down, keep the prayers going. They are still worried
Update: 6:49 PST :
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
500 PM PDT WED MAY 29 2013
FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE..
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON RECENTLY-
DOWNGRADED TROPICAL STORM BARBARA...LOCATED INLAND IN MEXICO OVER
THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC..http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_epac.shtml
UPDATE: PLEASE SAY PRAYERS FOR OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN ZIPOLITE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1100 AM PDT WED MAY 29 2013
FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE..
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON NEWLY
UPGRADED HURRICANE BARBARA...LOCATED OVER THE GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC.
1. SOME SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS REDEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION
WITH THE LOW PRESSURE AREA LOCATED ABOUT 750 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST
OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENNISULA...BUT THIS
ACTIVITY REMAINS POORLY ORGANIZED. ALTHOUGH THIS SYSTEM COULD
BECOME A TROPICAL CYCLONE LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT...ENVIRONMENTAL
CONDITIONS DO NOT FAVOR SIGNIFICANT STRENGTHENING. THE LOW PRESSURE
AREA WILL MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH DURING THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS DISTURBANCE HAS A MEDIUM CHANCE...40
PERCENT...OF BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS
Please take a moment and say prayers for our friends and family in Zipolite, Huatulco and surrounding areas in Mexico. Tropical Storm Barbara is there.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
500 PM PDT TUE MAY 28 2013
FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE..
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON
RECENTLY-DEVELOPED TROPICAL STORM BARBARA...LOCATED NEAR THE GULF
OF TEHUANTEPEC.
1. SATELLITE IMAGERY AND SCATTEROMETER DATA INDICATE THAT THE LOW
PRESSURE AREA LOCATED ABOUT 850 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF THE
SOUTHERN TIP OF THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENNISULA HAS BECOME BETTER
ORGANIZED THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL SLOW DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE
AS THE SYSTEM MOVES TOWARD THE NORTH OR NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10
MPH...AND IT HAS A MEDIUM CHANCE...30 PERCENT...OF BECOMING A
TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
This collection of photos and videos are from our final days in Zipolite in January and February 2013. If you follow my blog http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.mx/ you will know that my computer broke just after I managed to upload all the videos from Shambhala's Karma Cleansing.
Strangely or maybe not that strange as I guess it was a projection as I said that in January I would stop working on the computer and spend more time enjoying the sunrises.
So that's what happened. Over the next while I spent my morning walking the beach and sometimes up to the Mediation Point.
This is the 3rd of 5 videos...I'm still working on them,...might be more or less. I was able to take some lovely photos and I am happy to share them with you now. Enjoy!!!
Gosh I'm missing Shambhala. Almost every morning for the last month I was there I would go up early and spend a little quiet time. Often before or at sunrise. It was so peaceful. I thank God for those beautiful precious moments.
I was fortunate to create some great videos and watching them now brings great peace and tranquility to me. I hope they do the same for you. You can see them here on Shambhala's Website that I made for Gloria. http://shambhalavision.blogspot.ca/p/videos-photos.html
Shambhala- Casa de Gloria
End of the Year and New's Year's Celebration.
Dec 31st, 8pm.
"The symbol of our soul is the flower, and we bring it to the fire with
all the negativity that we have inside of us in the form of the tree of
life that we construct during the celebration". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We had a wonderful time as always at the KARMA CLEANSING at Shambhala -Casa de Gloria - last night. Here are some photos and videos. The lighting is always very difficult. It all happens so fast, so not really time to set things up. Anyways I was lucky and got a few really great shots plus a friend there took a few photos of us. That's nice because I made our dressesoutfits and you only wear the floral crown during the ceremony (then you burn it) so if you don't get a photo, there is no other opportunity.
Looking at all the video again makes it so much more special. Next time though I may not photograph it. Just go and watch and really get into more.
I was disappointed I didn't get more photos of Gloria. Should have done it right at the start, but just had time to give her a kiss and hug and it was time to find a seat.
This year though we couldn't and it was hard for Angel to stand the whole time. She was happy when we got to the beach and she could sit. Still she did fantastic and I'm very proud and grateful for her.
I'm really grateful for Gloria for putting on this incredible magical event. It's really amazing that she pulls this off year after year. Especially this year with the hurricane and all. I know things have really been tough.
You will see all the work that goes into when you watch the videos.
Karma Cleansing 2012 Shambhala Vision
Many Thanks to Gloria for her Shambhala Vision
and for creating the Karma Cleansing Ceremony.
It was AMAZING!
Graditude to the beautiful talented dancers.
Gracias to the Shamans.
Thanks to everyone that attended.
"Remember to take care of your body, it is the
temple that holds your soul"
Below is a message from Shambhala's FB page and then below that are some photos take at the Celebration 4 years ago and some photos of Shambhala and the view from there. If you haven't been to the celebration, don't miss out, it's something you'll remember all your life. It's really special. I can't wait! :D
We would like to invite you to share with us the end of the year and
the entrance of the new year. Our celebration consists of a ceremony to
Clean Our Spirits ;
Our true being is a pure spirit and this night we will try to give total expression to our humanity, united in Love and Peace.
This is an offering to God: the divine Intelligence.
We have chosen the essence of each philosophy and religion of the World.
Because each of them has its own truth that we respect.
The symbol of our soul is the flower, and we bring it to the fire with
all the negativity that we have inside of us in the form of the tree of
life that we will construct during celebration.
Namaste
Celebracion de fin de Ano y Ano Nuevo
Queridos Amigos,
Les queremos invitar a pasar con nosotros la terminacion de este ano y la entrada del Nuevo Ano.
Nuestra celebracion consta de una ceremonia de Limpia Espiritual.
Nuestro verdadero ser es un espiritu puro y en esta noche tratamos de
dar su expresion total en una hermandad, unidos en Amor y Paz.
Esta es una ofrenda a DIOS : La Intelligencia Divina.
Hemos elegido la esencia de cada filosofia y religion del mundo, pues cada una de ellas tiene su verdad la cual respetamos.
El simbolo de Nuestra Alma es una flor y la entregamos al fuego con
todo lo negativo que llevamos dentro en forma de arbol de la vida que
construiremos en la celebracion.
