Your Presence Is The Gift
Hello Radiant One! Welcome to Seed & Spark: Journal of the Fertility Abundance Garden. Thank you for being here and witnessing our labors to share our sacred stories. Our stories are our wealth and in the Garden we are discovering the bounty of our stories and how to apply that wealth to the cultivation of our abundance. The Fertility Abundance Garden is a congregation for creators, a sanctuary for mothers, and a dreamscape for sacred storytellers. To learn more about the Garden or to join as a creator, please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center. If someone forwarded this post to you and you want to receive your own, subscribe to Seed & Spark and receive the Fertile Friday love note every week that highlights new shares in the journal. So much life, labor, and love goes into creating and sustaining the Garden and everything we share. The Garden is sustained by the kindness and generosity of creators and supporters. If any part of our magical world touches your heart and nourishes your being as a creator, please do pour into our Giving Well or join a Sustainability Circle today. If you are already contributing to our bounty, THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE!
Your Presence is the gift
3 ways to celebrate the abundance of YOU this season
Make a wish, bountiful one! What are you calling forth for your new year?
By mother mother binahkaye joy
As families and communities around the world embrace the holiday love and prepare for the coming of a new year, in the Garden we are taking our sweet time to witness and celebrate our growth, healing, transformations, and becomings over the last year. Have you paused lately to look at the contours and movements of your life? What has changed? What needs to change from here on? What are you proud of, grateful for, expanding on, deepening into?
Here we offer some practices to support you in tuning into the abundance of YOU as you swirl through the holiday season. However you celebrate this time of year, this is an invitation to see yourself as the gift in all ways.
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#1 dance naked
Dancing in our bareskinned fullness—unadorned and unconstrained by anything—is a divine way to experience abundance. Our skin is our largest organ, and it has magical properties that give us the ability to feel the world around us while still remaining as we are in our distinct selves.
When we are naked, we feel with every part of our body. We read the energies of the space, and we can tune into our innermost feelings without anything between us and the world we inhabit.
There are so many ways to dance naked! In the dark of night, or in the light of day. Blasting music you love, or with the sounds of your breath coming and going like the tide. Looking at yourself in the mirror, or closing your eyes and moving until you feel yourself transported to somewhere else.
When we’re dancing naked, we discover new collaborators for our movements. Gravity, shadow, texture, temperature, and sound become more present with our process. The tiniest shift in the space makes all the difference in the dance.
We notice the bounty of ourselves in new ways when we are naked. The weight of our parts moving against each other makes its own rhythms as we move. Droplets of sweat collect in usually hidden places and call our attention to places often overlooked. What movements are born in this raw moment? What do we see and sense about our body majesty that is only accessible and witnessable when we are naked?
This is the gift of naked dancing—seeing, feeling, and knowing ourselves in our natural majesty. We are reminded of the abundant beauty, power, and radiance of our being, by simply being as we are.
are you ready for an adventure?
The Garden really is this magical world! When you go to an amusement park, you do YOU! You flow into what feels like a YES for you. You enjoy, you take your time feeling through the possibilities. You live your life. That is the Garden. A congregation of beautiful, brilliant creators living into their Yes and celebrating each other along the way…
#2 go through your archives
When’s the last time you went through your old journals, photos, videos, recordings? Have you ever fully sat with your personal archives and gathered the bounty of YOU and your stories? Our stories are our wealth. How do you recover, remember and reassemble the pieces of your wealth, of your sacred stories, that can nourish and sustain you in your day-to-day living?
Perhaps there’s a closet with boxes of things you’ve written, or a shelf filled with photos that have traveled with you to every place you’ve ever lived, or a folder on your laptop or external hard drive that has been waiting for its next life inside of one your creations. Whatever it is, wherever it is—now is a wonderfully generative time to commune inside your archives and discover more dimensions of yourself and your life.
The gift of time is that we come into deeper understandings of ourselves as creators and the creations that we bring into the world. Revisiting our archives—or setting one up if you’ve never had one—is a great practice in witnessing the abundance of our lives, the abundance of tiny moments and long-forgotten reckonings and once-new pivots into our passions. Being present with our archives gives us ample opportunities to be intentional in how we see ourselves. It creates time and space for us to witness ourselves. And it encourages us to celebrate our many evolutions along the spiral. All of this seeds more and more abundance.
Mother Mother is also sharing stories and archiving the magic of her family’s story at The Family Dances. This is a collection of moments with Mother Mother, Bushman and the munchkins. Enjoy the adventure!
#3 share a sacred story
Connect with someone you love, and share a sacred story with them. The intimacy of the telling will open up a world of discovery for you, and one for them as well. It’s magic every time, how our stories bring us together, and give us more space to be with ourselves, and with each other. It is through our stories and sacred sharing portals that we realize correlations that on our own might never have occurred to us.
The gift of the story is something we can activate even if we’re being our own listener. Sometimes when the stories are too raw, or if we’re still bleeding from the labors of being with it all—sometimes the gift is in finally finding the words to tell ourselves the truth, complicated as it might be.
What makes a story sacred? If the story sharing opens you up to some unexplored or under explored terrain in the makings of you, then you have accessed the majesty of sacred story sharing. Sharing stories in this way, with ourselves and with others, creates more energetic, spiritual, and mental space for us to live. Speaking about our stories softens the places in our bodies that have been holding the stories. In creating spaces for the stories to be shared, we are also generating more homes outside of our body where our stories can live. This is another pathway into the abundance.
where do you share your stories?
Ask a question + share your story with us. The Fertility Abundance Garden is a congregation for creators, a sanctuary for mothers, a dreamscape for sacred storytellers. To learn more and to join the Garden, visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center.
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