Shaman, Shamanism, Spiritual Healing

Shamanic Healing in St. Louis – June 16, 2015

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I am hosting these Huichol trained shamanic healers:  Annie and Dan for individual sessions on Tuesday June 16.

If you are interested in an appointment please let me know as soon as possible.  All sessions will be in the morning, as they must fast from all food and drink until the sessions are complete.
At this time there are still 4 available sessions remaining with Dan.
Sometimes we need a little extra outside help to go deeper on our path or in our healing.  Brief information about Annie & Dan, and the work they do, is included below.
 Some of you may feel somewhat drawn and not know why….Please feel free to contact me.

Annie Eagan and Dan Sprinkles are Marakames, or initiated healers in the tradition of the Huichol Indians of the Mexican Sierras. They are also both Graniceros, or Weather Workers, in the healing tradition of the Nahua Indians of the highlands of central Mexico.  From these ancestral traditions, they provide important healing support and balance for those living in our modern culture. They serve as the Shamans-in-Residence and ceremonial leaders at the Blue Deer Center — a retreat center honoring ancestral traditions in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Annie studied Plant Spirit Medicine with Eliot Cowan in 1997 and has been providing healing help to humans and animals since then. Additionally, she completed a rigorous initiatory process to provide long-distance healing for humans.  Dan also offers a special coaching program designed to help people move into a more appropriate and useful relationship with the mind. Called the Enemies of Learning, this program helps restore the joy of learning that many have not experienced since childhood. By reining in the mind, the course also opens a space for more interplay with mystery and what wants to manifest in our lives.
 As initiated Fire Keepers for the Sacred Fire Community, Annie and Dan host regular Community Fires and Men’s and Women’s Fires at their home adjacent to the Blue Deer Center. 
 
Appointments will generally last an hour and the fee is $100. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing. A twelve-hour fast from food, water and all beverages is required to prepare for a session with either Dan or Annie. Often a client will be asked to abstain from bathing and sex for 24 hours after a treatment, so please plan accordingly. Clients are encouraged to stay open to what kind of healing will be appropriate during their session.
 
If you are interested in a healing session with either Dan or Annie, please contact:   Kateri Meyer, 314-477-8516 or email kateri @ naturesnotion.com
Akashic Readings, Insights & Experience, Intuition

Decision Making Visualization

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The following exercise was given to a Reading client as a recommendation.  It is worth sharing!

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This exercise presumes that you have already developed or learned a method of meditating and clearing your mind of extraneous distractions.  If you need assistance in this area there are many classes and instructors available.  If you wish, you may also contact me for more information.

 Step by Step

1) Focus on only 1 area of your life (e.g., career, relationship, spiritual practices, health or lifestyle choices, etc.)  Make a list of the choices and options that you are aware of.

2) Do deep breathing exercises and/or your meditation practice to clear your mind and center your attention.

3) Imagine a sky full of colored balloons.  Each balloon represents a choice or want in the area of focus.  There will likely be more balloons than choices you have listed; this is because there are always other choices we are not aware of.

4) Watch the balloons floating in the breeze.  Observe the colors and the qualities of the colors and sizes.  Do not associate any importance to any of it, simply observe.

5) Ask your Soul/Higher Self to help you to know what is Right/Best for you at this time.

6) Observe the balloons; which ones sink to the ground?

During this process, if you feel fears/thoughts of the mind interfering, breathe deeply, and on the exhale watch the wind blow through the balloons.  Ask again (as often as needed) for Soul Guidance for your Highest and Best Truth.

7) Step toward the grounded balloon(s).  If more than 1 has landed, step toward the one that attracts you the most.  Pick the balloon up; you may see words or images, or have a direct emotional knowing of what it contains.  THIS is your result; the choice that is Highest and Best for you to pursue at this time.

  1. Observe how you feel/respond to this answer – Relief? Gratitude? Certainty and acceptance? Fear? Overwhelm?
  2. If the balloon is blank or you have difficulty perceiving the information it contains, it represents a choice that you do not yet have enough information about. {see 8.1 below}

8) If you feel anything other than certainty and acceptance and a willingness to proceed it is indication that there is “clearing” work to do in order to proceed.  Sometimes feelings of fear and overwhelm occur because you are viewing the end result.  Narrow your focus.

  1. Acknowledge what you have received – “Okay, so if this is my Highest and Best Choice/Path, show me, guide me, aid me to take manageable steps in this direction.”  Within 24-48 hours something will shift within you or your life to aid you in pursuit of your objective.  {This step also is to be used if the balloon is blank (7.2)}

9) Offer up a prayer of gratitude and thanks for the assistance you have received.

 Still have fears and doubts about the insights you have received?  The surest way to resolve doubts about spiritual guidance is to act on what you have received.  If you obtain results, then it will solidify your trust in your guidance and your ability to discern true answers.  If you are not getting desired results it could be that you are misinterpreting what you are receiving.  Continually asking for guidance and clarification will aid you in refining this process.

Insights & Experience

Wisdom of Solomon – notes

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My friend, Donald, keeps me apprised of new entries into the excerpts from the Readings of Paul Solomon.  Paul performed akashic readings in the 1970s & 80s I believe, and we have always found the teachings, “wisdom”, to be very grounded and insightful.  The following 2 pieces struck me as something worth posting here.  I apologize that I am not making reference to the specific Reading #, as I am sharing what Donald shared with me.  You can research further here:  www.paulsolomon.com

“There is a wisdom dwelling in you, a super-conscious, a higher intelligence that is of the nature of God within you. There is no other being, no spirit guide nor angels, nor other beings; that would know better what the highest guidance is for you than your own Higher Self.”

In light of this, it seems worth sharing that I have found it most helpful through the past 16 years to write out my thoughts (confusions, frustrations, dilemmas, wonderings) in the form of a letter to my Higher Self (and guides and guru as appropriate) or to speak aloud as I drive my car or take a walk.  This activity has ALWAYS resulted in clarity of what step(s) to take next, as well as giving me a feeling of grounding, support, strength, courage.  The process of writing/speaking requires focusing and clarifying one’s own thoughts.  Simply “thinking” something does not carry the same clarity.  I have found this clarity is essential to the process of receiving insight and spiritual aid. 

Note: in the writing/speaking – I always ASK for insight, guidance, advice.  This, too, is a key element.

Spiritual Healing, The Ways of Nature, Uncategorized

Do you…..

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  • Feel overwhelmed and unable to cope with prior, present, or potential experiences?
  • Feel like you’re hitting brick walls as you try to move forward in life?
  • Have ideas and need clarity on your next step?
  • Experience frustration in your career or interactions with others?
  • Long to feel supported, and capable to live your life fully?
  • Feel the need to add another dimension to your physical or emotional healing journey?

NATURE KNOWS:

  1. how to persist and even thrive in a wide variety of conditions (think mint or bamboo)
  2. how to change and evolve effortlessly (think vines and other plants that adapt to their surroundings)
  3. how to be abundant (think zucchini and tomatoes and dandelions)

Let Nature’s Notions inspire your next choices.

Intuition

Intuition is like GPS

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Last week my brother-in-law gave me his Tom Tom that he was no longer using.  My first attempt at using it was both interesting (took a route I’d never have imagined) and frustrating! 

Driving along, marveling at sights I’d never seen before…”Wow, I never knew this was here.”

“after 700 yards, turn left, then bear to the right”  then SILENCE for blocks

How far is 700 yards?  What street am I turning on?  ….the choices I would have made without the GPS playing on my mind and trying to figure out what the route is….

“after 500 yards turn left” 

“turn around and make a  right on the next street”  THAT was 500 yards?  Oh.

After several rounds of this, and feeling confused and frustrated, trying to navigate traffic and streets that are unfamiliar, it STRUCK me “This is a LOT like how intuition works!”  We get “hits” and then nothing.  We are expected to respond to what was given.  If we act on our intuition we get another “hit”, but not before floundering around in some new, and sometimes scary, territory.

If the idea that was presented is out of our normal range of activity, or pushes us toward something we are afraid of, or it seems too big a risk to act on….NOTHING – SILENCE….while “it” waits for us to open up for another opportunity to give us another “hit”. 

We rarely know what the “route” is; we just have this sense that we need to do something in particular, like take that upcoming seminar.  We don’t know why; we haven’t finished paying for the last seminar we took and haven’t finished integrating everything from the last seminar…and “you want me to go to another one!?” (That’s gone through my head more than once.)   Then, after the seminar, when we’ve made valuable connections and gotten new insights….and actually integrated that earlier seminar thanks to this new information….we see where this Goal Positioning System was taking us.

The Goal Positioning System adjusts for our choices too; just like the GPS recalculates our route and gives new instructions when we did not take the recommended street.  

Sometimes we choose not to respond to a hint or opportunity, and we find out after the fact why we had that “hit”.  Something similar will arise again and give us an opportunity to take another route toward our goal, and we will have learned something from the “not choosing” (oh, that’s 500 yards).

Unless we never respond, then it’s like not recharging the battery; it dies out.  We end up feeling like life has passed us by.

I finally figured out how to get the GPS to display an overview of the streets on its planned route and that eased my confusion.  I then had more information to rely on, and I could just enjoy the ride.

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If YOUR personal GPS needs recharging, or you would like assistance in learning how to work with it, a session or two with Kateri can clear the mind clutter and reconnect you with your heart goals, and attune you to the frequency your messages are being delivered on, so you can find your optimal life route.

The Ways of Nature

Why “Nature’s Notion”?

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In 1995/1996 I was introduced to information that so inspired me that I verbally stated “I want to work with Nature in a more conscious, tangible way.” I’d already been working with flower essences and taken some training in that area. I wanted something more, something deeper. As I continued researching various lines of essences, the book Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan “jumped off a shelf” at my local bookstore.

The reading of it touched me so deeply, I cried through half the book. I needed to study with this man. It was 1999 before I finally got that opportunity and was formally introduced to Nature as a true partner in the work that I now find myself performing.

Through these years of working co-creatively with nature via Perelandra processes and Plant Spirit Medicine, I have found that nature is not just plants and earth and trees. Nature is an Intelligence. It organizes and supports ALL life on earth, from the most minute quark to the cycles and rhythms of our bodies and our days, and how they all interact.

As I was casting about for a title or term that accurately describes my work, the term “Nature’s Notion” popped into my head. In my Webster’s Dictionary, “notion” is “a conception, idea; a general concept”.

Nature is always in balance and harmony with everything that is occurring. It has to be; that’s its job.

True, the environment, as we know it, is a mess – but nature is constantly balancing against what we’ve done, are doing, to it. That margarine commercial from the 70’s or 80’s – “It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature” [sic] often plays across my mental screen whenever there are devastating storms or earth upheavals.

Nature knows how to maintain balance with what IS; and also, how to Create a balance that you or I consider to be harmonious. It doesn’t always look like we think it should or might.

My job is to take what the client presents and, using nature’s notions, restore balance and equilibrium within the energetic and spiritual systems or plant the seeds of the client’s desired objectives for nature to balance and align with.  These changes, then, naturally affect the mental and physical levels.  With nature’s role being primary in my work, the title “Nature’s Notion” is perfect.  Of course.

Providing a healthy alignment with the rhythms and cycles of your life