Monthly Archives: January 2014

I love dreaming. I take great pleasure in imagining my perfect life. Perhaps my dreams might seem grandiose or idealistic to some, though I don’t care. My dreams are exciting and visceral and they basically fuel my life. I know what I am going for; it’s the striving for my dreams that gets me out of bed every morning and nourishes the choices that I make. My dreams guide my life.

Last week I was in Tulum, Mexico for a Dream Craft Retreat. This entailed us writing out our dreams in five areas of our life, sharing them, and partaking in yogic and shamanic rituals to invite & invoke these dreams into our realities.

Before we even met, though, we were asked to evaluate 18 areas of our life: what is, why it is so, what we would change, and why we haven’t yet.

Then we chose our top five areas that we’d like to work on and wrote out our ideal situation.

Curiously I found this exercise quite challenging, and didn’t delve into it until the night before I left. And I worked on my dreams on the plane rides there. Pressure makes diamonds, right?

Reading my dreams out loud was an exciting process, as was receiving feedback on how to refine them even more. I am spelling out my dreams. I am casting a spell on my life. This is what I want, Universe. Pretty please with acerola cherries on top & thank you. EMPOWERMENT.

There was also a bonus component of a Morning Tea Ritual that I found to be especially magical. Sitting in the company of eight other babes in quiet contemplation, sipping Puerh & other fine teas. I’ve come to realize that this peaceful tea practice could unlock some serious genius in my life. And keep me sane. More on that in a future post.

I feel quite invigorated by my experience from last week. The clarity I’ve received by tuning into what I want is a effective calmative, and it does feel empowering to inspire myself.

As I settle into my “normal” rhythm, I am curious to see how this will unfold. This is the part where I surrender and listen for cues & clues.

Lights. Camera. Action.

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It’s a New Year, and I’m really excited. 2014, baby!

In previous years I may have felt a little edgy on January 1 because in addition to possibly being hungover or super tired from partying until the wee hours of the morning, the New Year for me brought all kinds of pressure.

Gotta be better! The heaviness to be more fit, to earn more money, to yadda yadda, my God, it made me want to hide, or distract myself so deeply with activity that I didn’t have time to think.

I spent this New Years Eve by myself. This was a first. I’ve always gone to some kind of party, even if it wasn’t my thang. This year I was invited to a couple of soirees that I’m sure would have been fun, but I was destined to party with me, myself and I.

So, I literally partied by myself. I made myself a lovely dinner, had wine, and chaga tea & played my favorite music and enjoyed all things me related.

I created a special ceremony to celebrate the new year. It was a combination of intention setting & tobacco and a spring water potion christened with flower essenses. This is one of my favorite creative outlets. The craft of a contemporary shamanic artiste! (Said with a french accent).

Maybe this sounds like the most boring night ever, but to me it was a blast.

All the things that typically annoy me about New Years (the coupling at midnight, the getting shit-faced drunk, the fromage factor), were all bypassed.

Instead I visualized who and how I want to be and where I want to go this year and be in ceremony with that. Today I continued with that process some more. It’s interesting how writing all this down has shown me what I really want.

And this is where I’ve noticed massive stress reduction. I feel calm, cool, collected and inspired about the year to come because I’ve already put my order in with the Universe. Highly recommended.

Beats being hungover for sure.