I want to introduce you to Donna. I met her at a Deep Writing Workshop at Kripalu in Lenox, MA. When I dropped myself down into the chair next to her, we somehow both knew we were meant to meet.
Mutual Anointing
In the Mutual Awakening Practice, we heal one another each time we enter into a practice. By looking into one another’s eyes, and seeing clear through to the Origination Point - that space of pure "divine” energy that exists within each of us - we anoint one another with love.
As anyone who has suffered with significant trauma or struggles with demons knows (and dare I say that is all of us), ritual anointing of this type is cleansing, calming, and necessary for healing. We can do this practice with and for anyone who chooses. No one is excluded, except by their own choice to not participate.
Victim Advocate
As many of you know, I care deeply about advocacy. In fact, I founded a site called the Heart of Advocacy because I believe that advocacy contains the potential for deep healing for each of us as individuals, and for society as a whole. When we learn to connect core to core, from that place that Thomas Merton calls the “the point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion…” we spark the deepest point of potential hidden within.
Please listen in to Erica Heilman’s podcast, Rumble Strip, about Victim Advocates. You will be awakened and inspired by the women she interviews, and the valuable and too often invisible work they do.