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PAST Apprentices are Saying

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Elena

“Stepping away from that world where the tension between seen and unseen, the acknowledged and ignored forces runs so high, and into the nourishing vessel of Elder Farm, gave November’s gathering a flavor of celebration for me, a lightness, a break, a festivity, and feast for the senses.  Being together in sisterhood, in prayer, in medicine space, was joyful and easy and I was aware of a grace that seemed to be passing too fast no matter how sincerely I endeavored to savor it.  

Profound openings came for me through the voicing my prayers inside the container of group intention and sacred space.  I recall a certain new feeling of cohesion emerging, a blurring of the lines of identity into a deeply shared experience of sisterhood, not an erasure of uniqueness but a lack of emphasis on individual personalities that was comforting to me.

As we sat gathered again around the ancestor altar I spoke my prayers aloud, offering gratitude to the shrewd survival strategies of my forebears and asking to be released now of any patterns of hiding that no longer served my soul’s highest truth, so that I can come into the world shining the light that I have to shine.”

- Elena

 

Lisa

"My body is feeling quite different since the beginning of this. I know without a doubt that it is the most important work I could possibly be doing right now...My body actually feels full of vitality. I am becoming healthier and richer on the inside."

- Lisa

Teren

“ Thank you for everything you have offered to my path this year. i purposely did not take another class i was looking at bc i thought it would be “too much”. “herbs”, i thought. “nice and gentle”, I thought. lol! little did i know that this apprenticeship would take me right to the place i was trying to avoid. because you can’t avoid it at a certain point. i’m learning this. and honestly, i can’t imagine a better set up to assist me through this transformation. this group reinforces my ability to feel safe. you guided us and gave us tools to help us create that safety for ourselves and i am so grateful for that. safety doesn’t just exist in this world. you can’t depend on others to make you feel safe. but what i’ve learned so far is that i can step deeper into my responsibility to myself and learn how to communicate and negotiate what makes me feel safe and with whom…”

- Teren

Blake

“Every plant we work with, every teacher, and herbal infusion offer an intimately new and unique depth and lesson for my soul to break down… The chakra work and exploration helped not only my own work, but has also shifted the way I work and assess clients as I am sharing breath work with.  My communication with guides and spirits has dramatically changed and I am finding it easier to clearly hear the messages and know what is being communicated.”

- Blake

Myah

" I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude for being a part of this Apprenticeship.  It is such a blessing for me to feel like I am a part of something that exactly speaks to what my soul wants to see being propagated in the world.  I feel seen, heard, supported, and understood more than I ever have in a group setting before.  The topics that are in each module really build on each other and touch a deeper part of me that inspires growth…. I have felt some definitive shifts since being introduced to Yaya’s teachings.  I feel like I now have more resources to go to when I am feeling lost.  Just the nourishment protocols alone help tremendously and I can feel the difference when I  follow them…  All of the wisdom that is being introduced to us is exactly what I am yearning for. 

It’s perfect!"

-Myah

Malika

“I am so grateful that I am a part of this group… Women in circle, healing ourselves, Sitting under the tree canopy, letting the dark creep in around us.  Nothing to be afraid of in the woods.  Doing the simple, needed, gracious work of forgiveness.  I feel aware that for hundreds of years, women weren’t allowed to sit in the woods together in this way, to make magic together, to be whole together, to work with the earth and the plants like this.  I am so grateful for the simple joy of doing this, and that we are safe here, now, to open those portals of healing together.  For being held, by each other, by the darkness, by the earth under us and tree’s canopy around us.

I don’t want to do healing work indoors anymore!  My body and spirit likes being outdoors.  I enjoy the air, the breeze, the ground under my feet, the aliveness and dynamic nature of everything; the presence needed to keep an eye out for snake and other unknowns; the remembering emerges and is beyond my mind’s ability to put into words.  It is so soothing and precious to my being to have those days out on the land.”

- Malika

 

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“ Being together in sisterhood, in prayer, in medicine space, was joyful and easy and I was aware of a grace that seemed to be passing too fast no matter how sincerely I endeavored to savor it. Profound openings came for me through the voicing my prayers inside the container of group intention and sacred space. I recall a certain new feeling of cohesion emerging, a blurring of the lines of identity into a deeply shared experience of sisterhood, not an erasure of uniqueness but a lack of emphasis on individual personalities that was comforting to me.” ~Elena, Medicine Mandala 2017 . . (photo by @jamiestreetphoto )
Lots of work, resting, listening, prayer, self care, bone broth, and sweaty exhausted satisfied work days with @elderfarm preparing the land to recieve our newest group of sisters in the temple. Welcome care packages sent, the journey begins when you say YES! 🌲💚🌲
Nature Spirits of the Tantric Traditions with @laura.amazzone Each of the great lineages of earth contain a cosmology and vocabulary for understanding natural law and the principles by which consciousness condenses and dissolves into and out of form, and their own unique vocabulary and iconography that enables our psyches to perceive the process. First year Medicine Mandala Apprentices have the opportunity to meet and learn from lineage holders of several different earth based traditions for the purpose of looking at the underlying commonalities of these traditions and in so doing, coming to a deeper appreciation of the roll our own ancestral lineage and personal medicine plays in the big picture, the greater fabric of reality that holds us all, regardless of where we come from, where we are going, or where we happen to be at right now on our evolutionary journey. Thank you Laura for for your presence and bringing these teachings to our circle of sisterhood and study!
Wild Willow Farms Tulsi harvest for our next group beginning next month! Many thanks to @wildwillowfarm @laluneria @elderfarm and @lorenrobertsonproductions for this day of sisterhood and storytelling in the garden!💚
That time in August when we gathered for Lughnasad and the kitchen fae brought us hyssop for our morning chia parfait😋
Green Witch Initiation Weekend The short version of the story of our final gathering of 2018, where 20 green witches took their vows of service, is this: Goddess is big and sometimes not even especially concerned with all our personal stuff. Sometimes it takes a whole group of women to embody the fullness her multi faceted nature so that we may all get to have the experience of beholding her majesty and vastness simultaneously. When we join our hearts, we create a multidimensional community garden in which we get to really feel the truth that She is at once the farmer, the medicine maker, the songbird, the knower of plant wisdom, poet, the drummer, the oracle, the listener, the councilor, the muse, and the mother of many children, projects and creative babies. This is what it looks like when She flows through this reality- she is that beauty, that creativity, that subtlety, and above all VARIETY! . . . She is also the Sacred Seamstress, and we have infinite gratitude for Erin Hanson of @sacredseamstress who will be joining us as part of our new group of first year apprentices. Erin has spent many months cutting, sewing and naturally dying our ritual garments as sacred exchange for a partial work trade scholarship. What a joy to receive the fruits of another’s dedication, and to get to share these celebratory ritual garments that where handmade with love and sacred effort! They are comfortable, practical, and beautiful, and have helped us to mark the end of our first year and have the opportunity to reflect on all the places we have been together in the last 5 seasons! Photo by our sister and sacred witness @erinleigh_alchemist . . . #medicinemandala #greenmagic #ecosystem #ittakesavillage #teamwork #templearts #sacredexchange
Community + Communication = Communion For our first of 4 in person training weekends, we will meet over Samhain and create a set of shared agreements that will support us as we move through new and subtle emotional and spiritual landscapes on our journey together through the wheel of the year. Our agreements include mindfulness, vulnerability, self responsibility and direct, non violent communication practices. Apprentices will gain a clear sense of how to maintain healthy boundaries in a group environment and reliable practices that enable us to transform and deepen our relationships through any misunderstanding that may arise. Paola Garcia of @kakawsana will be joining us from Mexico to share her wisdom and profound relationship to Cacao medicine, as well as her path with mindfulness meditation and how it facilitates embodiment of unconditional love and other lessons revealed by Cacao. With the support of Cacao Medicine Ceremonies facilitated by Paola, we will share a direct personal experience of integrating our emotional/physical/spiritual self in the multidimensional sacred space of our own heart.
Medicine Mandala: A Dirt Lovers Guide to Everything All around the world, archeologists continue to discover sacred sites where thousands of ceramic Goddess figurines have been found and studied for clues into ancient societies and their peaceful,  Goddess based ways of living. We are continuing to weave with our extended family of skilled artisans and are deeply delighted to welcome clay artist and earth architectress Caitlin Dean of @urthenware into Medicine Mandala as an honored guest facilitator. Caitlin will be joining us from Joshua Tree for our final in person gathering as our guide to yet another pathway of working directly with the earth element to create devotional ceramic art as both sacred objects and as offerings to this land that holds us as we journey. It is such a blessing to create with the materials given to us by the earth and and even greater blessing to choose to give it all back to Her in gratitude! . #greenmagic #greenwitch #oraclesofgaia #medicinemandala #medicinemandalaapprenticeship

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