Pour it out for me.
For anyone that has heard the buzzword "Life List" I am thrilled to share I have finally checked one of the top items off of my Life List. Self explanitory as it seems, our Life Lists can change just as our interests do. Fifteen years ago the number one item on my list for the last three years would not have been "Meet, connect and train with Jerri Lyons, "rebirther of the modern Death Midwife movement." As of last week, that one finally got the big strike through. Jerri Lyons is founder of Final
Passages www.finalpassages.org and is truly a gift to the planet and the hundreds and hundreds of families and individuals she has assisted and educated. She is the queen of empowerment and doing it yourself. She advocates knowing your rights under the law and practicing your rights under the law. She is the Goddess of Blessed Passage, the divine one who invokes reclaiming that which we only recently gave away ~ home funerals.
It was an amazing weekend, in an amazing sanctuary of a retreat space, Mamaland. Through our time together, we shared our experiences, our questions, our answers, poured out our hearts and cried our tears. We also laughed until we cried and collected lots of resource materials. Before we ate we sang the Reclaiming Collective's wwww.reclaiming.org food blessing chant that my tribe and community sing together before ever feast...
"Our hands will work for peace and justice
Our hands will work to heal the land
Gather round the harvest table
Let us feast and bless the land."
I always love how intimate of an experience a long weekend can be. I feel so gifted, so blessed, so fullfilled from all that each person there had to offer. My heart opened wide and the wisdom of all present poured in. I hear the chorus ofthat other Reclaiming song dancing in my head
"pour it out for me,
pour it out for me,
everything you send me
I will drink"
I have a full and glad heart. Full of love, new relationships and knowledge. Glad that finally, number one on my Life List is finally crossed off ~ meeting and learning with Jerri Lyons, honored, respected, deserving, Rebirther of the Modern Death Midwife Movement. Blessed Be.
Passages www.finalpassages.org and is truly a gift to the planet and the hundreds and hundreds of families and individuals she has assisted and educated. She is the queen of empowerment and doing it yourself. She advocates knowing your rights under the law and practicing your rights under the law. She is the Goddess of Blessed Passage, the divine one who invokes reclaiming that which we only recently gave away ~ home funerals.
It was an amazing weekend, in an amazing sanctuary of a retreat space, Mamaland. Through our time together, we shared our experiences, our questions, our answers, poured out our hearts and cried our tears. We also laughed until we cried and collected lots of resource materials. Before we ate we sang the Reclaiming Collective's wwww.reclaiming.org food blessing chant that my tribe and community sing together before ever feast...
"Our hands will work for peace and justice
Our hands will work to heal the land
Gather round the harvest table
Let us feast and bless the land."
I always love how intimate of an experience a long weekend can be. I feel so gifted, so blessed, so fullfilled from all that each person there had to offer. My heart opened wide and the wisdom of all present poured in. I hear the chorus ofthat other Reclaiming song dancing in my head
"pour it out for me,
pour it out for me,
everything you send me
I will drink"
I have a full and glad heart. Full of love, new relationships and knowledge. Glad that finally, number one on my Life List is finally crossed off ~ meeting and learning with Jerri Lyons, honored, respected, deserving, Rebirther of the Modern Death Midwife Movement. Blessed Be.
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