Creating Community

As 2011 ends and 2012 begins I find myself looking back over the past year and see that a theme emerged in my life:  Community, creating community.  Not only the community here on Earth, but our spiritual community which covers the cosmos and other dimensions including  all those in spirit who help us as well.  The culmination of all of this “gathering of community” for me was the retreat that I facilitated with my shamanic students and friends in November.  It was a magical time and all I can think is how we can create this “feeling” in every day life.

At the retreat, from the very opening, people were in unison and harmony.  As we smudged to begin the weekend, Beth Lamb asked if she could be the “smudger”, Becky Stanton began playing her beautiful flute, and Sherry Gutkaes tapped her singing bowl that sent vibrations of foundation and cohesiveness through the group.  A spontaneous ceremony was born that touched each heart present.  It was community offering its gifts to one another.

On Saturday morning we all came together in dance with Wendy Siracusa offering us a way to connect with our chakras and prepare for the day. We gathered to learn how to reach out to a world in crisis through shamanic healing techniques.  We were there to learn how to help.  We drummed, we radiated, we danced, we shared, we sang out the song of Mother Earth. 

In the afternoon we addressed our Cosmic Community and searched out our own connections to the stars in our search to understand the Ancient Ones.  We then participated in a grid activation that Becca Mutch created for us all.  She led us through this energetic opening to literally connect beyond the earth to our cosmic community.  There was no doubt to those present, that a portal had been opened.  And in the evening , beneath an almost full moon, in harmony with the wind spirits, many of us returned to the portal and experienced its wisdom and power.  I continue to visit this portal frequently and feel its upward spiraling energy, connecting me to the stars and home.  And I know that several of you present there, continue to do the same.

Sunday morning Troy Schmit led us through a beautiful meditation that opened our hearts in preparation for the community healing.  I had received this community healing ceremony in a dream, and to see it unfold as it did was beyond anything I could have imagined.  It became a living, moving, entity in and of itself.  Beth smudged, dancers danced, drummers drummed,  those with cedar boughs cleansed, those with water blessed, those with rose petals loved, those with lavender soothed, and we all sang as we moved around those to be healed.  Each person moved in harmony and love, offering their gifts, and it was magical in its unfolding.  I know that lives were changed in that moment, as I have been told.

Zelko Leon graciously offered to take a picture of our group so we would all have a memento of the weekend.  I’ve noticed that many of you have posted this picture on your facebook page.  It is a reminder of community.  It is a reminder of what life can be every day! 

Let’s all work on envisioning this beautiful way of living, manifesting it in our communities and out into the world.  2012 is about manifesting the world we want.  I send this vision out into the world and hold in my heart the gratefulness for each one of you in my life.  We are forever community!  May you always feel the love that surrounds you,  May you always know that you are loved, May you always remember we are One!

In deep gratitude and love for each and every one of you,

Jeanne

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