Turn towards soul this winter

This week I listened to an incredible story on a What’s App voice memo. It was recorded by one of my closest friends, and told of a powerful numinous encounter in nature, nested within a series of synchronicities that, in a day of powerful revelation, revealed to her the complete picture of who she truly is at a soul level. The story completed a larger tale that started some 7 years ago, when she began to more closely track the mysteries, or perhaps more true, mystery began tracking her. Across global travels and dream images, drip-feeding her fragments that only this last month became a whole picture.  

This friend laughed as she recounted the journey, saying “It probably took that long because I’m a doubter. Mystery had to convince me.” As the pieces revealed themselves in jaw-dropping moments, the doubt dissolved into awe, and now responsibility. Some things you can’t rationalise. 

This story played out amidst the early years of mothering, of domesticity, of stolen time in dreams, journals and wanders in nature. Of making oneself porous, ripe for the plucking. Despite the doubt. After receiving this story I too feel like some of its magic has rubbed off on me, and I’m alive afresh to the practice of Soul tracking. 

image by Kat Ashworth

These will be the kind of stories we’ll be devouring during the Winter Women, Earth and Soul online course I’m offering in collaboration with Animas Valley Institute guide Rebecca Wildbear. Through embodied movement, dreamwork, and nature-based practices, you'll explore the depths of your soul and the mysteries of the natural world.Five Fridays with ample practice time in between sessions. This is not a spectator sport. It calls for participation. Will you join us?

If you’re after something more hands on, join colleagues Yonke and Mike (alumni from the Nature Based Leadership Training) at a wildcrafting Wild Winter Weekend outside Castlemaine. Winter is traditionally the time for such making, mending and tending. 

In appreciation for wild mystery, 

Claire