May 15, 2015 Karen Joy Fletcher I used my grip, grabbing with my pinky first, then wrapping my other fingers around the stick to hold on tight. This gives me my tightest grip. I held with both hands and felt my feet sink into the earth with my soles. As I grabbed, she, on the…
March 2, 2015 Karen Joy Fletcher My practice is Enchantment. When I enter into a state of enchantment, I enter “Narnia”, I enter a magical world, the Faerie world, or as JR Tolkien aptly named it, I enter into Middle Earth. As a child, I loved to play outside. I have a twin sister and…
I am beginning to understand – to understand the alchemy of training, toning, musing with my muscles and what it means to grip, grin and ground and pull as one muscle. So much time is spent floating…floating in our thoughts, floating in worries, floating down the roads in cars, floating over the earth in buildings,…
Beauty. What is Beauty? Do we really know? I recently heard a talk on Beauty and Words in reference to the teachings of the Lord of the Rings. Our world has valued efficiency over Beauty….roads, cars, strip malls, oil rigs, cranes, tankers, concrete, gray, cement, tarmac, box buildings, plastic and packaging of chemicals and life-less,…
Thank you for a magical journey of adventure, Master OG (old growth) connection, forest and mossy green reverie! Thank you for Hoh River play, earthgym training and taichi merging with the flowing, swirling, gushing blue/gray glacial waters and the ever rising, expanding mist of the majestic Misty Mountains. I LOVE coming Hohme to the Hoh…
I love the forest! I love her magic and medicine so much!!! For the past 8 months I’ve lived in the beautiful moss carpeted, dancing cedar tree forests of Our Sacred Acres blessed with the flowing waters of Panther Creek. The forest always gives. She is present. Are you? Am I? I enter her often;…
I’m on my pilgrimage Hohme, into the sacred mountains of OM (Olympic Mts). I make this pilgrimage frequently….it’s part of my training, my study, my immersion, devotion to Master OG (Old Growth), learning from my greatest teachers, our forest trees, mountains, living waters, our beloved Mother Earth. My pilgrimages are filled with awe, love,…
The sun dips over the Salish Sea towards the tips of the Misty Mountains in the West as I begin my evening walk into the Forest. I finished dinner early and the golden glow on the tree tops and in the high soft clouds, pale blue sky lured me outside as I anticipated another wonder…
Have you ever drank water from a tree? On my first visit out to the Hoh Rainforest shortly after I met Mick in 2007, I remember early in the morning Mick coming up to me with his bright eyes and big grin and said, “Want to learn an ancient morning ritual practice from our peoples?”…
Step into your Joy and Vitality! This class is a unique practice combining the fundamental and powerful practices of Qigong 气功 with barefooting, staff dancing and stretching, stone-toning and tree weaving. Trees, rivers, mountains, wildlife, and Nature are naturally Exuberant. Their strength is interwoven with all life and grounded in our Earth’s massive Qi. And…