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Apr 13

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Black Lives Matter
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 #dauntewright

The #redactionfont used in the first slide is now my go-to font. It’s about JUSTICE. Read more at redaction.us

In discomfort and grief, I turn to art for processing and understanding. More art, less cops.

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We are disgusted and heartbroken again and again. 💔Placing link to donate to #duantewright family in our link tree.

Last slide rp• @lilithfund Image credit: @victoriaxcreates⁠
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We are in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis as we mourn Daunte Wright, who was murdered yesterday—11 miles from where George Floyd was murdered and 13 miles from where Philando Castile was murdered. ⁠
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As an abortion fund, Lilith Fund is committed to dismantling the structural barriers to bodily autonomy, and therefore this work must include putting an end to the unacceptable and racist police brutality that ravages Black communities across the U.S. We must actively affirm that freedom from police violence and racial justice are reproductive justice issues. ⁠
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#BlackLivesMatter today and every day.⁠
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#justiceforduantewright

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Apr 12

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Good things are coming...
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Happy Monday Aries New Moon!

Stay Wild. Love, fiercely. 💗

📷 inspo from an original by @kristina.co on @canva

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Ixchel (ee-shell) is a ✨Time Witch ✨ Training JEDI Edgewalkers to decolonize time, skip the crash + liberate their Flow.

Have you subscribed to receive 🐉 Dragon Letters 🐉 yet? The next letter is emerging soon. Details in bio link...

#edgewalkers #JEDIs #decolonizetime #indigenous #indigiqueer #flowcoaching #flowstate #restrevolt #newmoon #ariesnewmoon #ixchel #ixchellunar

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Mar 27

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Meet Lisa. Please pray for her recovery. She’s been through so much.

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We’re blessed every day by this patch of space our home sits on. We do all we can to make sure it’s a sanctuary for all critters, including the sloths (perezosos/as) that use the mature trees here as refuge and highway to other destinations.

This sweet girl, Lisa, likes to be in the mango trees near our neighbor’s house below us. She was attacked, fell from a tree, and has an injured foot (pretty important to sloths). And she was pregnant and lost the baby in the trauma.

Our neighbor placed her in a nearby grove and was watching over her, but that’s not super safe at night.

So we brought her home and set up a secure space in our patio for her to convalesce. Hammock strung between chairs. Rope strung between them for when her strength is back. She’ll come in the house at night and we have a vet coming to examine here.

Every moment of getting to hold space with nature here, to help protect it and love it fiercely is my happy place.

#sloth #nicaragua #animalsanctuary #lovenature
#sloths #slothlove #animalrescue

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Mar 19

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Thank you @berhenda for this reminder:
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When we say their names it honors their lives and makes it personal. Please say their names today out loud. #stopasianhate

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Mar 17

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# “After Rest Comes Flow.”
— Ixchel Lunar
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Performative professionalism is the thing that’s gotten in my way all my life. The perfection and impeccability that I was taught was a wyatt supreme see coping skill taught by well meaning BIPOC parents and teachers. (h/t to @gieselleallen and @kellydiels for the insights and questions that unlocked my soul.)

IT’S FUCKING EXHAUSTING!

It’s also a way of Latine (and BIPOC) culture doing proximity to whiteness. If our shirts are crisp enough, our shoes clean and on trend, and just the right amount of gold, we feel like we might pass enough to get ahead.

As a method, it’s definitely worked for some Latine (and BIPOC) entrepreneurs (I see you Marco Rubio). For others, like me, not so much, especially when I’ve used the proximity to dismantle oppressions.

Decolonizing Time pushes back on these systems that weigh on our cognitive load. Carrying this load steals our time, our attention and focus all of which kill our innovation, creativity and our ability to get into Flow states.

I shared about the importance of resting and how it primes Flow in a cohort recently and I began getting quoted all over in discussions. Because we all know that our carrying capacity is at max. We are craving rest. Much of the overload is outside influences taking up space in our bodies rent free.

It’s time to drop that shit.

Part of reclaiming our Time is making space for us to think and feel without all that dominator cultural programming. It’s an ongoing practice that I refer to as Dreaming in the Wild. In my trillium post I quoted Audre Lorde’s insight on self-care necessary for activism.

But, we understand that it’s also community care, community rest. This how we can review and adopt or adapt our ancestors traditions of community care and rest so we can become good ancestors in the future.

Do you rest in community?

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I’m a ✨Time Witch ✨ and founder of JEDI* Flow Collective. I train #Edgewalkers to #decolonize time, skip the burnout + cultivate Flow…

We are edgewalking on the left side of liberation. Walk with us?

Register for mini course in bio

#JEDIs #restrevolt #flowcoaching #flowstate #performativeprofessionalism

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Mar 16

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Oogh! Finished listening to the podcast from Dr Nadine Burke Harris, CA Surgeon General, on the Ezra Klein Show. So good!

The first part really dove in to #ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study) and her book that I’m getting (owning that I have a 10 out of 10 score, higher is not better).

This podcast took me few days to digest. It brings up a lot for me. She ended with the favorite books, and her favorite kids book is The Runaway Bunny, which sent me off into an ugly cry because of how much I miss my kids (now 30 + 31) and all we are doing to wait out Covid in Nicaragua.

The toughest news coming from US State Department this past week is that vaccines aren’t going to be made available at Embassies and how that means a longer wait for me travel to be with family, with feelings of being abandoned by my country of origin.

Learned @HBOMAX is releasing a Runaway Bunny show. *sigh

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The long-term impacts of the #COVID19 #pandemic on today's kids are likely to be profound. However, they are preventable with the right investments now.

‪In a fascinating interview with @ezraklein and @nytimes, @nadineburkeharris dives into adversity, COVID-19, and how to protect kids’ future health. ‬

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Mar 16

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JEDI Flow Collective and
the Edgewalkers Labyrinth

The image is my Venn Diagram Framework of the journey of the Edgewalkers Labyrinth. The three petals of the trillium flower are further described below. (h/t to @kelly.diels fir her amazing Surface Your Methodology workshop!)

JEDIs DECOLONIZING TIME

Initiated: Identifying life events that forever change who we are and supercharge our purpose here and now. Living at the edge, being the bridge between the Deep and the Divine.

Autotelic: Your inner compass, your outer North Star. The Deep Why, intrinsic motivation, that helps stay with the discomfort in unlearning, for the deep work required of us in this time.

Earth Knowing: Revive and support indigenous ways of knowing and being in relationship with Earth and the Ancestors. How do you give back, repair, decolonize?

LIBERATE YOUR FLOW

Reclaim your Birthright: Reclaiming our Time with Flow as our birthright. Centering Flow in your life.

Devote yourself daily: Transform the stuckness of an old rut into the new nervous system pathways (neuroplasticity). Developing the mettle (grit, resilience) for the challenges ahead.

Innovate: Dismantling the old systems and developing the new ones that center Flow as your way of being need innovative ideas and ways of being because dominator culture wasn't made for us.

DREAMING IN THE WILD

Rest Revolt: Rest for the Revolution. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde

Wild Idling (h/t for this similar term from Lianne Raymond): Reconnect with ch’ulel, (chi) the embodied energy of the cosmos, let you mind, heart and sacral free.

Find Your Rhythm: What is your beat? Your biorhythms, your cycle or creation, your dance? What is the pace of your walk on this Earth?

✨Time Witch ✨
founder of the JEDI* Flow Collective. I help Edgewalkers decolonize time, skip the burnout and cultivate Flow…

We are edge walking on the left side of liberation. Will you walk with us? Link in bio
#edgewalkers #JEDIs #decolonizetime #venndiagram #trillium #indiginous #indigiqueer

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Feb 28

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What are you knitting together?
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#neuroplasticity #flowstate #dreaminginthewild #synchronicities #rewritingmystory #initiated #touchedbydeath

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Feb 24

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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
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Hierve el Agua, Oaxaca, México.
#oaxaca #hierveelagua #milkyway #milkywaygalaxy #muse #coaxingthemuse #flowstate #poetry

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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 Edgewalkers (BIPOC, Feminists + JEDIs*) to decolonize their time, skip the burnout + do epic shit in 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
(1921-2003)

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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):
http://bit.ly/CIIS-amb
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#pleasureactivism #adriennemareebrown #emergentstrategy #ciis #ciispublicprograms

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