SoulRiver Anahata Giri

A night of communing with the wisdom, solace and trickster-disruption of old stories.

We gather as a community once a season in the warmth of the Red Door studio, to share food, share hearts and be in the fine company of old stories.

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❣️ Anahata

The beautiful yellow of wattle is everywhere along the banks of the Birrarung, brightening spirits.

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If you are new to creating rituals or ceremonies, or want to reinvigorate your ceremonial practice, this article is for you.

My heart is aching for the world right now. Ceremony helps.

https://anahatagiri.substack.com/p/the-sacred-art-of-ritual-and-ceremony

♥️ Anahat

Nodding Greenhood Orchid.

Winter, Warrandyte State Park.

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The next Dream Tending Circle starts Thursday 6 August, 7.00-9.15pm, 8 weeks of sacred space that gives our dream life space to breathe and reveal its magic.

In this circle we will attune to and commune with dreams in THEIR language. The language of dreams is the language of soul: image, felt experiences, symbol, perception, metaphor, all wrapped up in loving mystery.

We put aside the habit of interpretation and analysis - our soul life is beyond and underneath that! Instead, we will dive into profound portals of perceiving, to help us swim in the river of the imaginal realm.

We will feel, sense, imagine, intuit our way. We offer up our wonder, awe, gratitude for the remarkable precision that dreamweaver shows, giving us experiences that help us discover and receive the beautifully attuned guidance that we need.

We will also explore active imagination practice through writing and art making to create space for deeper meaning and embodiment.

Dreams are profound portals to help us connect not only with ourselves but with this wondrous web of life. Is the earth dreaming through us?

Dream tending skills will be shared in the group, to empower participants to work with each others dreams. This is not a dream therapy group. These dream tending skills are also foundational life and soul tending skills.

Our circle will be 6-8 participants, book soon if you want to join us.

New and experienced dream listeners are welcome. See link in bio.

I ran my first retreat when I was pregnant with my son, in 2006. This year is the 20 year anniversary for the One Heart Retreat!

Is there anyone out there who remembers a retreat with me, over the years? What do you remember?

I am grateful to the practices of yoga and meditation that I began 35 years ago.
I am grateful to the beautiful and deepening classes and retreats of my yoga teacher and friend Paul Wooden. Who else has practised with Paul? What do you continue to live from your practice?

Embodiment is the ongoing always-there ground of my life. To rest into a ground of deep sensing, deep feeling, a radical being-with what is here, has oriented and deepened my life in profound ways. I can feel my way through the gratitude, grief and grit of life. It takes practise, whether on the yoga mat, meditation cushion or sitting with a tree or river. A return again and again, to feeling what is here, now.

What is here, now? What holds you?

Embodiment is radical, deep-feeling, being-with what is here, now. When we open to what is here now, even if it is unwanted or difficult, we step through resistance and suffering. When we truly meet what is here, we are always led onwards and through. There is a kind of softening into the flow of life, however challenging, expanding, exhilarating or scary what is arising may be.

We soften into what is arising and find ourselves returned to what is always here holding us. We return, even though we hold ourselves away, trapped in fear, tension, suffering. This softening into the flow of actual breathed life, into the wild ground of beingness, the sacredness of all life, is a form of grace. It is love. Love enacted and experienced. Love holds us.

We learn and remember this through our own practice.

Ground. Gratitude. Grief. Grit. Grace. Love holds us.

Simple practices: sitting and walking meditation, meditation in nature, resting, yoga accessible for all, yoga not primarily postures but moving and inhabiting the wondrous body.

Eating our food - our life - and truly tasting it.

Living on this earth. Loved and loving.

This is not 'taught' by me but remembered by you.

♥️ Anahat

The next Dream Tending Circle starts Thursday 16 July online, 7.00-9.15pm, 8 weeks of sacred space that gives our dream life space to breathe and reveal its magic.

In this circle we will attune to and commune with dreams in THEIR language. The language of dreams is the language of soul: image, felt experiences, symbol, perception, metaphor, all wrapped up in loving mystery.

We put aside the habit of interpretation and analysis - our soul life is beyond and underneath that! Instead, we will dive into profound portals of perceiving, to help us swim in the river of the imaginal realm.

We will feel, sense, imagine, intuit our way. We offer up our wonder, awe, gratitude to the remarkable precision that dream maker shows, giving us experiences that help us discover and receive the beautifully attuned medicine that we need.

We will also explore active imagination practice through writing and art making to create space for deeper meaning and embodiment.

Dreams are profound portals to help us connect not only with ourselves but with this wondrous web of life. Is the earth dreaming through us?

Dream tending skills will be shared in the group, to empower participants to work with each others dreams. This is not a dream therapy group. These dream tending skills are also foundational life and soul tending skills.

New and experienced dream listeners are welcome.

❣️ Anahata

I have just learned that this ground covering heath, with tiny tubular flowers that hold up star-shaped ends, is called Cranberry Heath.

Found this small patch in the Warrandyte state park.

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It was beautiful to share wintery stories at the Red Door home studio, with such a warm and deep-listening community. A big thank you to Julie and Virgil and kin for being so welcoming and supportive of all of us, and of the story-beings.

I feel like the story-beings would be happy to hear their stories being shared, bones tended to, longing and grief given song, impossible underworld journeys undertaken, home lost and found, ocean and land and storm, weathered...

With the rain pelting down outside, we lit candles and gave voice to what the stories stirred in us and our prayers for the world.

The next night of stories at the Red Door will be in Spring, Saturday 12 September. What story-seeds will be planted then?

♥️ Anahat