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  • Deepening and Finding Your Teacher

    How important is relationship with your teacher? You might be learning spiritual, health, or other kinds of lessons. A good fit with a teacher’s way of presenting information as well as the information itself serves your learning. This interview with Terra Rafael is offered as a way to get to know her flavor, to understand…

  • Rest and Renew

    Rest and Renew

    Rest and Renew is a great theme for now, the time of Winter (here in the Northern Hemisphere). Mother Nature has gone into this mode in the trees and plants. The perennial plants send their life energy down into their roots, insulated in the earth, protected from harsher coldness. They look a bit dead, but…

  • The Power of Prayer

    If meditation is opening to the highest power, then prayer is the speaking through that opening–  with praise, requests and thanksgiving.  We connect and invoke the power of creation to bring forth goodness into the world.  The highest prayer is for Divine Will to unfold through us.  Our ishta deva or chosen deity could be…

  • Embrace the Sun Light

    Embrace the Sun Light

    There is no better time to become aware of the importance of Sun light to our lives. Now that the Winter Solstice has passed, we in the Northern Hemisphere are leaning more and more towards the Sun. This life-giving star of our Solar System gives us our light, gives us our warmth, and feeds all…

  • Strengthen Support from Ancestors

    Strengthen Support from Ancestors

    We can strengthen the support of ancestors who have gone before us. Certainly, they already pay attention to us at times. Yet we can develop our relationship with them. Many cultures have traditions that do this and the fall is the general time of year especially attuned to this work. Helpful ancestors can include unknown…

  • Shamanism with Terra

    Shamanism with Terra

    Shamanism is a timeless practice that connects us to Heaven, to Earth, AND our Deepest Self. These practices seem to be inherent in those who try it, yet generally dormant in our culture. It was dominant for the thousands of years that humans lived sustainably on the planet as part of Nature, rather than apart…