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Are you making this critical creation mistake?
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If you were constructing a building would you go to the construction site and say to the crew “ok now just put the foundation anywhere and use any materials you want?”
Would you proceed by allowing the framers, electricians, and plumbers do what ever they wanted?
With no plan in mind at the outset there would likely be no coherent usability for the building, even if the entire crew were skilled at their individual jobs. Without a blueprint for the project there is no direction for the construction crew, there is nothing that lets them know how and where to apply their energy.
How the Elements Can Help If You Teach Anyone, Anything
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The elemental forces of creation will assist you to achieve more effective results in any profession. In the same way the elements of (Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit) hold our world in form, they function as the core energies that bring about success in any endeavor.
Let me give you an example of how important knowing how to apply them can be if you are a teacher, trainer, or facilitator. Basically if you are teaching anyone, anything, you need to be sure and include each of the elements.
Earth/Physical: You need a step-by-step system that layers in the skills of your subject effectively. Each stage of development needs to be mastered before you add in the next level of learning. You want to take the learner from their current abilities to the desired accomplished skill capacity.
Grow Your Business with the Spiritual Entrepreneur Masterclass Telesummit
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Grow Your Spiritual Business
If you’re a spiritually minded entrepreneur or small business owner and you want to find out exactly how to harness source energy to grow your business, I have the perfect opportunity for you!
My colleague, Lisa Turner, has created a truly exciting event which is happening in early July and I’m thrilled to say that I’m taking part.
It’s called the ‘Spiritual Entrepreneur Masterclass’ and it gives you the opportunity to listen to no less than 10 of the World’s Leading Spiritual Entrepreneurs (including me!) as they share their personal secrets for boosting your business success by harnessing source energy.
The Role of Dance as a Workshop Tool
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Sherri McLendon
Duds, all of them. I felt the words running through my head, along with my own frustration. Known as a lively, engaging teacher and facilitator, I couldn’t seem to get the room full of hopeful writers to respond.
Was it because it was Monday? Was it because it was raining? Did they eat breakfast? Or were they completely brain dead? I decided to go with the latter, and awaken the zombies. After all, they needed their brains as well as their bodies if they planned to write anything worth reading.
As a writer, coach and Natural Rhythms Sacred Dance Facilitator, I know what most of the individuals in the room do not. That word and breath are intrinsically connected. That the sacred act of communication and human understanding starts in the body. I take a deep breath, and shift gears. I clear my head, step into presence.
“Okay, everybody stop what you’re doing. Put down your pencils. I’m putting on a piece of music. Pick out one of the instruments, and move around the room acting as though you’re that instrument come to life. Don’t think, just move.” I have one of the participants turn out the lights; there’s enough coming in the window. I set the ground rules: each person must move around the room at least once; no touching or bumping; be willing to risk. I start the track, and then, because there’s a pause of disbelief, I join in, encourage, direct traffic.
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Dancing with Self-Doubt
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Self-doubt creeps up behind me and throws me to the ground sometimes before I can even turn around. I find that anytime I am stretching my edges, claiming my next step, or solidly going for my dreams, it pays a visit. The funny thing is it takes me awhile to notice since it never comes in the front door. It sulks around back and then pokes it’s head in when I’m not looking.
My self-doubt doesn’t just come around when I preparing to do something big that I’ve never tried (although it’s done that many times) it really likes to saunter up and sit down after I’ve had the courage to step out in a new way. It loves to say, “are you sure you did that right” or “should you have said that”?
I wonder where that voice came from? How long did it stop me from going for my dreams before I learned how to move around it, through it, in spite of it, and then finally to dance with it?
Your Dancing Body Temple
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A temple is a structure reserved for spiritual activities; such as prayer and the worship of a divinity. Often seen as the dwelling place of the Divine, a temple provides sacred containment for reverence, devotion, and connecting one’s soul to Spirit.
The body is often referred to as a holy vessel or a temple. Understanding and aligning with Spirit within your body temple can provide you with a clear and direct inner path to the Divine. Hidden among the layers of skin, muscle, blood, and bone resides the creation glue of the universe.
Comprised of the fundamental forces – Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit – your body provides you with a portal to the core essence of creation. The rich matter that make up your cells flow in harmony with the universe when you honor the forces of the Divine within and dance in time to the rhythmic pulse of cosmos.
Just as an outer world temple becomes enlivened by the prayers of the people within its walls, the Divine within responds to your devotion, reverence, and activation. By dancing your body as you pray to the sacred musical pulse found in the rhythm of the sun, moon, and stars, as well as, your beating heart; you enliven the forces of creation that live inside your body temple.
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Spirit – Apply Your Power of Choice
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Spirit - Apply Your Power of Choice
When it comes to creating anything, including abundance, Spirit provides the inner guidance and direction to bring your goals, dreams, and desires into reality. Spirit helps you connect to the creative spark of your unique essence urging you to the next level of personal development.
In order to creatively grow, Spirit gives you the gift of choice. With this gift, you have the power to choose your perceptions, how you interact with your feelings, others, your finances, and what actions you are going to take. Then, at any time, you have the power to choose something different.
This sounds like such a simple power, yet it is profound. Choice directs the powers of creation. Each time you choose something — what you will eat, wear, think, do, not do, express, feel, spend, save, or where you will live, work, and play — you design and define yourself and your life. This power of choice gives you the ability to create your life and then change when appropriate.
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Get Growing
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- Expansion Up & Out Requires Deep & Stable Roots
Anytime you want to be more, have more, or do more, in order to expand up and out in your personal or professional life, you have to develop a deeper stronger and more stable root system. Just like a tree, you are an organic living system comprised of the elemental forces of creation (Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit).
Each of the elements impact your organic living system and your ability to expand and bring into form any of your dreams and desires. The more consciously you know how to draw on, access, and work with the elements the more effectively you can strengthen your “inner root system” in order to expand and create.
Strengthening your “inner root system” requires something different with each element. With…
Earth you need to deepen your ability to create structure and form for your expansion and creations. They can only be as solid as your capacity to effectively hold and manage them in the physical earthly realm.
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A compass and a guide
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- L to R Leslie Clayton, Judy Keating, Cherie Lyon, Paula York, Jeff Craft, Susan Kersey, Bonnie Salamon, Lynette McCormack, Dr. Tammy Huber-Wilkens, Lisa Michaels
When someone is out in the forest with no compass or map, every direction looks almost the same. Which way do I walk? Where do I call for guidance? Is it safer to rest or keep walking?
While many of us have clarity about certain areas of our life, it is not uncommon to have specific situations arise where we feel a little lost or stuck. And there can be times when we feel no clear sense of direction at all.
The Natural Rhythms coaching sessions provide you with the vision and tools to better understand how you found yourself in your current situation, and more importantly how to clear a pathway to begin confidently moving in a clear direction with clear goals in mind. The Life Purpose Session helps you better understand how you interact with the world and the energies that naturally expression through you.
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The Goddess Temple of Orange County
Posted by: | CommentsTwo weeks ago, I entered the doorway of 
the beautiful Goddess Temple of Orange County, California. I heard about the temple the week before from a lovely woman, Vajra Ma, sitting next to me on the last day at the Woman of Wisdom Conference in Seattle.
She had also presented at the conference and as we discussed our love of dance and where we were traveling to next we discovered we would both be in Southern California. She told me about the Goddess Temple and her presentation about the Natural Spiritual Authority of Woman. I was thrilled when I realized I could be there.
