Yay!!! What an amazing several days! My husband Nate is a long time student and disciple of Harrison Moretz, Taoist Master and founder of the Taoist Studies Institute (TSI). This past week marks a magnificent and even magical fruition of some of Harrison’s amazing life’s work and over 4 decades of cultivation. 28 Taoist Masters…
Are you a “free and easy wanderer”? If not, it’s a fun way of being to consider. Plus it’s good for your health!! During the spring months, the 2nd half of my Moon (menstruation) cycle, I take a Chinese herbal formula called Xiao Yao Wan – literally meaning free and easy wandering. ☺ You see, I’m…
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…
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,…
They loom tall. They are friendly giants. They stand in silence, and are dark against the shimmering stars of the night sky and the full autumn blood moon eclipse. I inhale, take another inhale and another. Oh the freshness of these trees, their strength, their majesty taken in through my breath, fill my own living…
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;…
How do we listen to the forest? How do we open ourselves to the mysteries nature is constantly revealing, to the treasures the trees are patiently sharing and the majesty the Mountains are forever emanating? Why are we drawn back again and again to the wild? I find remembrance. I find life. I find my…
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…
Greetings from CHINA!!!! YAY!!!! Oh my GOSH! I’m so happy to be back in the Lands of the East!! I find it funny how I feel so at home…both in the West and the East…and in one night’s sleep, how I can feel fully acclimatized to being back here. Before I left Seattle last week,…