I’ve been working with this Spirit since I met him at the Albany Workshop. He was brought in by a man who had very little experience journeying – no matter, he has connections!  We began the weekend by meeting new Spirits who would be our guides and teachers for the weekend. We made shields to honoring them, and to be portals their power.  We set the shields on the perimeter of the spiral. Through the weekend we met the spirits and danced with them. I love the dance – allowing each compassionate being to merge and move with me. I journey with them while I am dancing.

In Albany this Blue Spirit really grabbed me, and we danced for a long time. Since then I have been connecting with this Spirit to bring healing power in for clients, and he is bringing in big juice! It is fresh power that is formless and big, with a sense of calmness and beauty that radiates love. This, my dears, blows me away!!

Some of you have seen the swirling soft blue and white light that comes in when we ask the Spirits to impart healing power. This image comes up a lot in our circles. This Spirit it feels like the source of the power, like a force of creation itself. The Spirit imparts healing with blue light, often with white swirls.

I have found this Spirit in a lot of places. Ask your Power Animal or Teacher to introduce you. I most recently met this spirit on the other side of the Crystal Cat Palace in the upper world. I have always wondered what what on the other side of that portal place, but I never went to look! The power there is incredible.

Really – you must come do this powerful work with us live! We will be making shields in Chicago on Friday (that day is free!) and then working with them all weekend as we learn hands on healing techniques. We have 3 more slots left. Sign up today! 

Golly what a summer!

I started in North Carolina visiting Sue DeLamater, and training with Jim Masterson in The Masterson Method of Equine Performance Bodywork. I committed to doing the full certification program – all 40 case studies and 7 more days of training, and then prayed I could pull it off! After the workshop I visited dear friends and family, and as my nephews scrambled up the side of a mountain in the Smokies, I sat and journeyed into a gorgeous waterfall.

When I got home I began the case studies. Ladies and gentlemen, bring me your horses.

First of July Dad and I did the Wild West Tour. I started in Glacier with Matt. Fun! Then I dropped him at the Bozeman airport and picked up my Dad for a 2 week wildflower tour. We worked our way  through Wyoming, hitting the swinging hot spots of Yellowstone of course!  I got to see my nephews in a camp rodeo in Dubois WY. These kids are from Michigan and it was so fun to see them swaggering and roping. Then Dad and I wiggled down through Colorado’s mountain towns, and landed for a day of fishing on the San Juan river. That 87 year old man fished for 11 hours straight sitting on a boat in the hot sun. I was cooked after 4 hours.

When we got home it was in the 100s, and a great time to do 20+ Masterson Method case studies. I finally figured out how to efficiently write up each one’s 3 pages of painstaking detail – Dragon Naturally Speaking. I was actually taking my computer into the horse’s stalls and dictating as I went. (Oh look, a yummy keyboard!)I set my goal to have all 40 done by mid August, so that I could attend the final round of training in early September.

Then my summer highlight – The Spiral Retreat in Albany NY. Oh how wonderful that was. Words can’t describe the fabulous feeling of being loved and healed by so many spirits at once. I even got to work on 7 more horses there! Knock em dead, Carla, 12 to go.

Upon return I finished them! Complete with a great video shot by none other than the famous Diana Lamb! Look to utube soon for a short edit.

And then Dad and I took a week in the White Mountains of Arizona in little town called Greer. It was peak boletus season and I mushroomed and hiked while Dad fished. On the last day I hiked 14 miles – and climbed 2000 feet. How I am not sure, but I did and it was wonderful.

Now I am wrapping up my new website equinebodyfreedom.com. And I am revising the ASN courses to incorporate so many things I have learned since I developed them 3 years ago. Please – if you haven’t taken a shamanic teleclass give it a try. We have such strong connection with spirit and so much fun.

I have developed a new live class, Hands on Healing. The first offering is in Chicago in September through ASN. It will be intimate and wonderful, as the workshops in Chicago always are. I love my friends there so much!

Last spring we launched a live program for The Center for Animal Therapies in Orlando, and I will be returning there in November to teach Hands on Healing.

As I type this it amazes me what we people can do in a short time. Corporate-types know this, what with their busy schedules and deadlines all the time. But as a solo-type I sometimes forget what we can accomplish if we dig in and git er done. Yee Haw!

Jark, Lyra and I are spending 4 days with Peggy Cummings. She is the founder of Connected Riding and is revolutionary in her understanding of body posture and holding patterns in horses and people. We are learning how the way we hold ourselves is reflected by our horses. Their stiffness is ours, and visa versa. We are also learning about the importance of the reciprocal flow of energy through the body, and how the most commonly taught horse handling techniques and riding postures set the horse up for stiffness. The first thing we had to do was release our own holding patterns, and  that really brought up some old emotional stuff! So I journeyed that night and ask the spirits to extract and transmute the junk that was resisting the release. I was wondering if they would do something with the spiral, or perhaps a dismemberment. They did something much more simple! They took me  back to one of my very first landing places in the lower world, a bubbling hot spring. The first year I was learning shamanism I would get up tight about not being able to do the work, or not getting it right (sound familiar?) The spirits told me to go sit in the tub and talk with the animals there. This time is was extra welcoming, and it washed out the tension and filled me with bubbly love. Yummy!

I am traveling with an amazing woman, Jaclyn Strahan, who is a master body worker for horses. She has a healing practice in southern Michigan, and is establishing a second base in Arizona. She too had red arrows pointing to deep pools of unresolved emotions as she did the posture exercises. So she journeyed to a golden waterfall and simply sat there for 10 minutes getting cleansing and power. It helped her a lot.

This is a pretty simple thing to do and takes almost no shamanic training. You can do it for yourself easily. Just journey and ask your power animals to take you to a sacred place in nature. Ask the spirits of that place to release your stress and pain and fill you with renewal. Just be there and let the spirits do the work.

I highly recommend Peggy. I rode with her in clinics pretty regularly in Oregon, but I haven’t seen her in 8 years. I won’t let that time elapse again! Jark was happy to see her too (she helped me start him) , and Lyra Love has a new way of walking now.

Jacy and I will be building a community in Arizona of horse people who are seeking new ways to connect with horses. I will be teaching shamanic work, Jacy body work, and Barbara Owens (a TTEAM and Connected Riding Instructor) will come in regularly to teach Connected Riding and Groundwork. Peggy will come periodically too once we have a base of people established.

We are very excited, and we hope you will join us!