I’m an Embodied Flow™ facilitator, Senior yoga teacher, devotee, Tantrika and humble shepherd of the Samāveśa School of Yoga where I offer online and in person trainings, courses, retreats and community. Each week I send out a love letter with everyday esoterism, applying the teachings of non-duality and yoga to our daily lives. I share honestly and authentically and there is usually a free meditation, an offering or an invitation of some kind to help you connect with your body, the moment or each other.
Take off your shoes. This is holy ground 🌹
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Morning love 🙏🏻 It feels like Autumn outside. A whisper of cool wind and the foreshadowing freshness of everything falling away. A year to the day, I journeyed to Greece for what would be a life changing pilgrimage. Today I find myself, once again, packing headscarves and floaty dresses but this time to follow the call of the Magdalene 🌹 She is the rose, the Divine Mother, the first Apostle, the Sacred Whore. A leader, healer, teacher and, for me, a bridge into wholeness. Both thorn and bloom. As I've been reading about Her, I came across these words from the Old Testament, Take off your shoes, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. Just repeat those words to yourself a few times. Take off your shoes This is the Mahā Tirta. The great reverent act. To walk barefoot on the holy ground of what is right in front of us. To be just where we are standing. To remember that the true pilgrimage is to the temple of the present moment because that is where God lives.
I am without form, without limit. Beyond space, beyond time. I am in everything; everything is in me. I am the bliss of the universe. Everywhere am I. Rama Tirtha I have learned so much by sitting with teachers who effortlessly embody presence. Who have learned how to remain open to the whole of the moment and offer from their bareness. Uncontrived and bone honest, their poetry is penned from the well of a heart that is willing to be seen. They are what I consider to be truly holding space because they are not holding at all. They are listening to what's happening inside the space and that is always the practice. The Samāveśa Sessions were birthed so you could come and sit with such teachers and Gwen truly embodies this Grace. She is an incredible facilitator, a beam of light and one of my favourite poets. She is offering a Mystery Hour, each Sunday in June, where she will weave rest, meditation, poetry, energy work and transmission into her presence filled offerings. If you are thinking of joining us for the 250hr then Gwen teaches on the Deep Rest and Poetry as Meditation module. I'll write more from Provence next week and if you would like me to make an offering to Mary Magdalene then do write back and send me the words you would like Her to hear. I'll take them to the caves and make an altar for your prayer. With all my love, Col 🌹
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Samāveśa School of Yoga
I’m an Embodied Flow™ facilitator, Senior yoga teacher, devotee, Tantrika and humble shepherd of the Samāveśa School of Yoga where I offer online and in person trainings, courses, retreats and community. Each week I send out a love letter with everyday esoterism, applying the teachings of non-duality and yoga to our daily lives. I share honestly and authentically and there is usually a free meditation, an offering or an invitation of some kind to help you connect with your body, the moment or each other.
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