Apprenticing with the Trees..

I take a deep breath, I pause for a moment.. As I deepen into my tree apprenticeship, taking a moment to honour the 27 month journey I have embarked upon. Spending two months in immersion with each of my Tree Allies that make up my medicine wheel, ending my time with each one in a 10 day isolation dieta. This is a shamanic initiation for sure. Their deep, strong, potent teachings, expanding me through all layers of my journey and healing. Layers and layers being uncovered, opened, held with love and assimilated.
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Did I prepare enough for this profound and challenging experience!?  I’m not sure!
What I do know is the trees of my medicine wheel called to me to go deeper and each tree Allie passes onto me tools to support me on my journey, each one preparing me for the next, each one taking me deeper. I trust the process!

Oak graciously anchoring balance throughout my being, while Hawthorn is supporting me with my nervous system regulation. Each day fully dropping into deep listening to make sure I’m supporting my body and giving myself what I need, to support myself in being able to assimilate and alchemise all the frequencies I’m downloading.

As my journey continues around the Medicine Wheel, I bring my presence to this sacred moment. Reflecting upon all that has moved through me since the Summer Solstice, when Hawthorn stepped forward and our time together began again. So much has arisen and moved through me. Hawthorn’s potent heart medicine bringing me deeper and deeper into my somatic healing.

It amazes me how much my body and nervous system are holding. For the past 20+ years I’ve been on a deep journey, learning how to listen to my body. Bringing awareness and understanding to the incredible mind/body connection. There is so much to be felt and held, to bear witness to and to bring loving presence and awareness to. To deeply listen and to really hear what the body has to say and is trying to communicate. These past 4 years, since I did ‘Smart Body Smart Mind’ the nervous system regulation training with Irene Lyon and the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy course through the Embodylab, has been eye opening. To actually begin to fully understand the language of the body, to finally understand my stress responses and that I’ve lived most of my life in functional freeze! And how slow the nervous system actually needs to go in order to process, assimilate and heal the traumas held within the body. Wow! The body is so wise. The body remembers it all and holds it all. Even with all the somatic and healing work I do there is still more to be felt, more to be understood, more to be held and loved.

Hawthorn has been such an incredible Allie and teacher. I am blown away by all that has moved through me these past few months. I am now in pre-dieta, preparing for my 10 day Dieta with Hawthorn, which starts next week.
I sit in humble awareness and loving presence, holding myself in tenderness, as I tend to the fire of summer that is supporting my expansion.....


So much love
Theresa

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