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What are you knitting together?
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📸 by @mrzyk_moriceau
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#neuroplasticity #flowstate #dreaminginthewild #synchronicities #rewritingmystory #initiated #touchedbydeath

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Bubbles in the Water

She lays beneath the surface,
you wouldn’t know she is there except
the tiny little bubbles that rise
to the still, smooth surface of the water

She lays motionless, with a smile
waiting, wondering, dreaming
under the surface

The Muse.

Will you receive her today?
The rhythm of your Flow
awakens her from her stillness
as you walk the edge of between

She feels your movement
finding your footing
rooting, grounding in your rhythm

Keep moving, pushing
through the discomforts of all that
wants to pull your gaze
away from locking eyes with her

She is waiting for you,
under the event horizon
in the center of your galaxy

Breathe.

And the bubbles
become a whoosh
And she rises
to meet you
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This hit my funny bone...
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#venndiagram #spiritualhumor

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Today is my Mayan birthday, 1 Imox. A Birth Story…

As a light-skinned mixed Indigenous person, I am at home with having my feet in multiple realms and times. Belonging nowhere, betwixt and between.

As a messenger for the voiceless (plants, pollinators, planets), I Dream in the Wild.

A friend of the Dead, the Woo and the Dispossessed.

I am most comfortable speaking in poem, or song. If you aren’t listening carefully, you might think I’m tilting at windmills.

When I can’t decipher the code, you’ll find me in the Stacks searching, reading, connecting the dots — watching patterns emerge, take shape, and flit off yonder.

My cycle of fluid brilliance waxes and wanes with Luna. My mind is soft and permeable, dissolves and forms again.

Time moves swiftly and slowly, now is then.

This work is uncomfortable. Like swimming in the depths of dark waters that squeeze the oxygen from every last cell in your lungs, you already know the piercing pain of “I can’t breathe.” “Water is Life.” “Me too.”

At the edge of darkness we will light a sacred fire to dance with our discontent, and let the flickering shadows be our guide towards the dawning light. Flow like water from your ancestors.

My origin story rewrites itself on the inhale and exhale of sorrows and joys. Do you know your birth story? This time? Last time? The first birth witnessing the exhale of one universe into this one, like a fire-breathing dragon blowing us a kiss?

If you are ready to do this alchemical work, do you know what the acorn holds? The acorn holds a forest continuum, no single tree is mighty. The forest is mighty together, entangled roots and veins in the soil below, whispering up to each of us to become the acorn.

✨🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑✨

Ixchel founded the JEDI Flow Collective, training BIPOC, Women+ JEDIs* to decolonize their time, skip the burnout + do epic shit in neuro-emergent 🧠 Flow states so you can thrive on a transitioning planet.

This isn’t proscriptive coaching. You’re not learning what worked for me. Cultivate your rituals around how Flow works for you, your cycles, your biology. I’m steeped in a multi-modal approach based on successful transformative results. Ready to swim?

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What are you mastering?

My third electric frother whisk broke in the same number of years. When the temperature drops enough to set the coconut oil to firm, it doesn’t dissolve quickly in 200 degree water. It gets stuck in the whisk and slows it down. The wire bends just slightly under the pressure and it stops working.

I remember there is a wood whisk my grandmother used. What is it called? Ah, a molinillo (sounds like mole-in-eeyo). I ask my local friends where I can find one. Several locations in our neighborhood. Jaimey checks them all and some. No molinillos.

Where did they all go?

Fuck. The molinillo artisan must have died. Fuck! Fucking Covid.

I’ve been crying for days when I remember this person may have died. The incessant beeping of the backhoe may have been their grave being dug.

I don’t even know them. It didn’t occur to me they even existed until my electric frother broke.

Not being able to buy a molinillo has reminded me how many people we’ve lost this year that we don’t even know, and all the mastery they held in their hands and hearts. This is what survivor’s guilt feels like. I can’t stop crying. Good bye 2020.

I Google molinillo artisan. I find a story about a man in Oaxaca who’s been making them for 52 years. That is the mastery that Malcom Gladwell referred to in the 10,000 hours theory, seven times over.

A lifetime of craft goes into something handmade.

Artisanal mastery carries generations (millions of hours) of pattern building and deep imagination, that dreaming in the wild that I like to call in.

Creating patterns, or mimicking what we find in nature — whether it be on wood, or in weaving origin stories into cloth, or layering spices into a recipe — requires down time to allow the patterns to emerge.

It’s not all doing. Nor can it be hurried. I’m so grateful to be alive in this time.

What are you dreaming in the wild to master today?

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#molinillo #cacao #cacaceremony #ixcacao #MasteringFlow #FlowStates #artisanmade #JEDIMastery #patternliteracy #patternrecognition #GoodBye2020

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December 24th has always been the most precious of days on the calendar. It is my Grandma Bea’s birthday. On the day she was born, all the flowers were born.

Though long since returning to aether, her presence today it ever palpable. She even carried a Christmas tree birthmark on her arm. 🎄

Bea loved sharing her birthday with our family as a way to bring everyone together around the old mahogany round table.

We ate the tamales we had made together a few weeks earlier, with the let loose dance, libations and laughter.

Wrapping paper would be torn in a squeal of delight and the room would burst forth with new toys for the dozen grandchildren and rent-a-kids.

In the earlier days there would be an exquisitely decorated cake with winter scenes made by her master baker friend René. We would sing Las Mañanitas, hopeful for every beautiful morning.

Her wrinkly skin so soft and sweet, like a raisin in the sun, reminding us to age in sweetness and let go of all that makes us bitter.

Today is precious. I am still unwrapping her gifts and cherishing her smile, the greatest gift she gave me.
Beatríz Withrow de Lunar
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My alma mater CIIS is hosting @adriennemareebrown in February (online, link below)

Prevailing ideas around social justice activism tend to focus on “doing the work,” putting in long hours, and facing challenges head-on.

Activism is rarely associated with personal joy and pleasure. But can there be a deep connection between activism and pleasure?

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience?

How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life?

Author, Black feminist, and social justice activist adrienne maree brown has been talking, writing, and celebrating the intersection of pleasure and activism since her much-lauded 2019 book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good.

Pleasure activism is a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work.

Drawing on the Black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism.

Through connecting with our inner desires and needs—physical, mental, emotional—we can become better organizers, activists, and social justice workers.

Join Sonya Shah, CIIS professor and restorative justice expert and adrienne for a powerful and joyful conversation exploring how to tap into the full spectrum of our sensual desires and emotional needs while organizing for justice. Whether you’re a seasoned activist or new to supporting social justice movements, adrienne invites you to embrace the idea that activism can feel good.

Please note that this conversation will be hosted live online and includes an audience Q&A.

adrienne maree brown on Pleasure Activism, A Live Online Conversation with CIIS

Register ($25 suggested donation):
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What is a Flow State?

Steven Kotler of the Flow Research Collective (where I’m becoming certified to coach on Flow States) paraphrases Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s definition of Flow “as an optimal state of consciousness, a state where you feel your best and perform your best.

“More specifically, the term refers to those moments of rapt attention and total absorption, when you get so focused on the task at hand that everything else disappears.

“Action and awareness merge. Your sense of self vanishes. Your sense of time distorts (either, typically, speeds up; or, occasionally, slows down).

“And throughout, all aspects of performance, both mental and physical, go through the roof.

“You don’t get to live in a #FlowState. And you wouldn’t want to.”
-Steven Kotler

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi found #FlowStates are universal in humans, given particular precursors.

The term Flow was the phenomenological description of the experience people used to describe their experience of being in the zone, or “mind like water” as martial artists describe.

Biologically, Flow is an emergent state of being that appears when individual or groups engage in activities of complexity. Flow is triggered by certain conditions, to create an energy exchange in the nervous system to shift energy for greater focus and attention.

And while you can’t live in a continuous Flow state because it’s a cycle that requires a significant amount of physical energy, you can become #autotelic in your leadership style to cultivate Flow for your teams and work.

The JEDI practice becomes intrinsically rewarding and motivating when we do the work in Flow.

Have you created daily practices for triggering Flow states?

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Ixchel (ee-shell) here, a biz + leadership strategist for JEDIs to cultivate daily rituals for #DecolonizingTime so they can do epic shit in Flow. Link in bio for Flow mini-course.

*JEDIs are Justice-centering, Emerging, Decolonizing, and Interconnecting for a post-hegemonic-colonial-patriarchal-capitalist global network of planet-centered businesses, politics, and NGOs/non-profits.

#decolonizethewild #decolonizeyourmind #flowfollowsfocus #mihalycsikszentmihalyi

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Did you know our bones are alive, crystalline in nature and respond in amazing ways when we breathe into them?

Bone breathing supercharges our blood and bone marrow.

As Saturn moves into Aquarius, an air sign, for the next 2 years, and Jupiter joins in the Great Conjunction of 12/21, we will begin the Cacao Ceremony with a teaching of bone breathing.

I’ve been doing this practice this week, and it’s brought a wave of delightful energy into my bones and body.

Bone Breathing improves the natural capacity of immunity, allowing the nervous system to deeply relax and trust in life.

Bone marrow generates immune cells, which move to the thymus to mature, ready for whatever comes your way.

- Learn and experience bone breathing, which you will be able to practice in your daily movement routine.

Benefits of Bone Breathing:

1. The number one practice for insomnia, stress, and calm the mind.

2. Ideal for bodies with period irregularities and pain, experiencing uncomfortable menopause. (#pmdd Power surges, etc).

3. Very easy to learn with improvement in as little as 15 minutes daily

4. Strengthens the Kidney & Water energy in your body. Water is held in the myelin sheaths, where ancestral memory and/or trauma is held

5. Increases the production of red blood cells and white blood cells

This Solstice is the Great Conjunction of Jupiter + Saturn. As a plant ally of Cacao, I’ll share how to appreciate, not appropriate Cacao medicine.

Let’s gather over Zoom on 12/21 for a cacao ceremony to let go what’s no longer working and set intentions for what our heart desires for the next 20-year cycle. See bio for access.

(Bone breathing benefits repurposed from Andrew Fretwell)

📸 Gianda Masi

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Ixchel (ee-shell) here, a biz + leadership strategist creating space for JEDIs to craft daily rituals for Decolonizing Time so they can do epic shit in Flow.

*JEDIs are Justice-centering, Emerging, Decolonizing, and Interconnecting for a post-hegemonic/colonial/patriarchal global network of planet-centered businesses, politics, and NGOs/non-profits.

#nervoussystemregulation #cacao #cacaceremony #bonebreathing #ixcacao #decolonization #decolonizing #decolonizingtime

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When I’m untethered...

I will return home to the Galactic Center. I will merge back into the molecular stream. Becoming resources.

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When I’m untethered...

I will lay down on the Earth, let everything become still, and Ophelia come and take my hand, guide me to the river. Let the water wash away the pain, the weight of the struggle will take me deep.

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When I’m untethered...

My body will become food for the winged ones so they can carry my spirit back to the center. Let my blood soak into the soil. Let my body return to source, resourced.

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When I’m untethered...

I’ll become the roots of the orchids. I’ll become the mycelium pushing up higher consciousness. I’ll become calcium for new corals. Eyelashes of new baby perezosos. Footpads for stealthy Jaguar, walking silently through the jungle.

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When I’m untethered...

I will catch the wind and become the scent of the rose, the hum of the bumblebee, the tremor of an earthquake.

But today we live from the possibility of merging with it all.

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Ixchel (ee-shell) here, a business + leadership strategist creating space for JEDIs to craft their daily rituals for Decolonizing Time so they can do epic shit in Flow.

*JEDIs are Justice-centering, Emerging, Decolonizing, and Interconnecting for a post-“hegemonic colonial patriarchal” (h/t to Feminist Copywriting Course for that brilliant linking) global network of planet-centered businesses, politics, and NGOs/non-profits.

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Celebrate Our Lady of Tonantzin, Coatlaxopeuh (pronounced quatlazupe or Guadalupe).

A guiding light in my family, to the Mexica (Me-shee-ca), the Indigenous Aztecs, Tonantzin is Mother Earth, the Mother of All.

Her image depicts her family: the Sun, the Moon, the Herbs + Song (La Flor y el Canto), the Tepeyac Mountain, and the Milky Way.

Her shape is a vulva, or mandorla, Vesica Piscis, a mathematical equation, a lens to see into the center where two worlds meet. The inside of a torus.

Astrologically, the depiction unites the Sagittarius Sun of Spain and the Capricorn Moon of Mexico.

She united Old and New World in the syncretism of Indigenous meaning within present day Mexican Christianity. The Indigenous that flourished over 12,000 years in the New World knew how to be resilient and make do with what is.

As a child, I regularly attended Mass at the National Shine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Sacramento, California. My Grandma Bea donated a life-size photograph of the tilma for the shrine.

My father had visited the tilma in Mexico City and was given access to photograph the tilma where it was hanging in the original closed church before the great Basilica was built. He made several life-size reproductions of the photograph, which my grandparents had framed in ornate golden frames and donated to churches.

After Mass we would gather and drink cacao with cinnamon and eat pan dulce conchas (shell-shaped sweet breads). On special days my Grandma Bea would make cacao at home too.

What does your heart desire in these tender times?

In my last post, I shared about the Solstice, the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. As a plant ally of Cacao, I like to show you how to appreciate, not appropriate Cacao medicine. Let’s gather over Zoom on 12/21 for a cacao ceremony to let go what’s no longer working and set intentions for what our heart desires for the next 20-year cycle. See my bio for details and access to the private group.

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#ixcacao #cacao #cacaoceremony #theobroma #cacaomedicine #indigenous #theobromine #decolonizechocolate #ourladyofguadalupe #tonantzin

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What does your heart desire in these tender times?
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The world is tilting in contraction, striving for expansion as Saturn + Jupiter dance once again. This is the closest Air sign meetup since 1226, starting Air sign conjunctions every twenty years for the next 240 years.
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Will we contract in this time? Will we retreat to our place of comfort, or move into a rarified discomfort to expand into our greatness?
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Open your heart as your Guide during this tender times.
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Come for a Cacao Ceremony over Zoom on Dec 21 — the Great Conjunction — on Winter Solstice to share a cup of ceremonial cacao and set intentions for 2021 and this next twenty year cycle.
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Cacao as medicine is pure fermented ceremonial cacao loaded with theobromine and cacao butter (good brain fat) that act as carriers for theobromine.
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Theo broma literally means food of the gods. The cacao butter (vegan) helps the theobroma to reach our neural network, opening our blood vessels and vascular channels.
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This opening creates a receptivity to our current state for greater awareness of what’s trying to emerge.
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When we resist what’s trying to emerge, it creates stress on our body and that in turn sends dis-ease signals to our genes (epigenetics).
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When we are open to what’s emerging, the cacao is a powerful medicine to reset our DNA and RNA. Studies confirm cacao’s healing functions reducing tumors and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Decolonize chocolate. Honor cacao.
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I’ve created a simple, yet powerful guide to working with Cacao medicine in meditation and in group ceremony.
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The Guidebook also includes how and where to source indigenous-grown, regenerative ceremonial-grade Cacao. And, since you are likely a JEDI*, you’ll want to know how to honor, not appropriate, this sacred medicine from Ixcacao.
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And because community is essential for emergence, we hold space for each other in a private group to support your Ixcacao journey. The Mama Cacao Collective is $14.99. Join us, link in bio

Stay Wild. Love, fiercely. 💗

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Ixchel (ee-shell) is a biz + leadership strategist bravely holding space for JEDIs to craft daily rituals for Decolonizing Time

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My morning routine...
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I have seen a trend where influencers “come clean” and share their morning routine (they say soooo many people are asking). Have you ever asked? I’m not sure that’s anybody’s business, but... my take...

We don’t have running hot water. Long story short... the solar heater, and I mean literally a 55 gallon drum on the roof that pipes water through a glass covered box before gravity feeding to our shower, has an ambient temperature of 90 degrees on a rare hot day (who wants a hot shower on a hot day???) and mostly 75 degrees.

So, as a pitta vatta Fire sign , I’m not into cold showers (sorry @iceman_hof). Most days I wear a ballet bun and rely on the Zoom touch up filter to look presentable. But on the rare day when Jupiter and Saturn are aligning in the sky, I will wash my hair with stove-heated water and pray it dries before bed. Nothing hear dries between May and March (wet season).

Of the many gifts that are my genes, I have #ichthyosis, it’s a genetic form of snake or fish scale-like skin caused by a lack of natural release of dead skin cells. It builds up. The second photo shows my freshly scrubbed skin. I use glycolic and salicylic acid washes to melt my skin off my face. Unless I do this daily, skin scales. But resources aren’t easy to come by in places like Nicaragua.
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#DecolonizeTime #decolonization #bravery #JEDI #disabilities
#decoloniality #indigenous #decolonizeyourself #decolonizeyourmind

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There is power in protest, and power in women.

The largest protest in modern Poland’s history is being led by women after the Polish government has banned abortion (even in cases of rape and unviable birth). This is shortly after a decision by the government to create “LGBTQ-free zones” and take other measures to oppress queer Polish people.

Polish women have taken to the street, are on general strike and are refusing to do shit for ANYONE (including household labor) until things change.

Turns out, things don’t run too smoothly without their compliance and labor.

This week of protest has been so effective that the government is now reconsidering its decisions. In short... they fucked around, and now they are finding out.

As a Polish-American woman and as a feminist, this image and these efforts bring fucking tears to my eyes.

Holy fuck, women are powerful.

Our rage is powerful. Our assembly is powerful. Our presence is powerful. Our unity is powerful. Our refusal to submit is powerful. Our autonomy is powerful. Our action is powerful.

Everything we are told is bad about us, is a power source. No wonder.

As this election in the US draws near, we are feeling burnout and witnessing/experiencing similar fuckery underway, let us hold these Polish demonstrators in our hearts and minds, along with the relentless work of BIPOC women and folks of all genders here in the United States.

Go vote if you haven’t. We are not looking for government to save us but to buy us some time to do greater work that is long overdue.

#strajkkobiet #womensstrike #myheartisinwarsaw #polishwomen #prochoice

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