Late June and early July was the time of preparation and drawing in of all those who participated in the gathering at Stewart Mineral Hot Springs. We were a collection of women from California Bay area, Ashland Oregon and Vancouver Island. I was the only resident of the Hood River area. The women were wonderfully all dedicated to lives of service. Be it social work, corporate restructuring and developing sacred commerce models, to yoga teachers and healers.
What became so gently reminded was our role in the shift from the male centered times of the past and the nurturing women centered and heart centered ways of NOW
We committed in our hearts to be of service to all , to practice with the possibility of freedom for those we have no understanding of freedom, for those who at this time can not see, or even begin to imagine their own freedom. We know now in a deeper way our role is so very beyond our own lives experiences on the mat , but that our time on the mat is a practice of service for others. We were able to share and open in ourselves a deeper level of vulnerability to feel the global pull for heart, love, kindness and a sacredness that none of us had experienced before.
Kokoro.....when heart and mind are together, when the mind is still and the heart is open.
We closed our time together with an hour long meditation with Anita , although what happened that morning July 4th 2010 will be powerfully remembered by the seven of us, it will never be adequately describes as it was really something to be felt and not meant to be described. You will know by reading this that the commitment was etched into all of us to continue to open ourselves through our hearts and to live our lives shifting from any place of ego and self into a place of service. The call to us as women of opening up the doorway for others is here.
The seven of us will meet again next year Mt Shasta women's retreat July 1-4th annual event, if you are touched by this work you will be called to join us next year. My thanks and love to all the women and men of this world who are called to be the living pillars of light nurturing and guiding us into this next phase of our human experience.
