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"Alida Birch: Healer/Teacher/Organizer in Southern Oregon"
June 27, 2007
Jen has a heart the size of the Forest that surrounds, supports and nurtures her. She is a gifted and authentic healer who strives constantly to deepen her relationship with Spirit and offer a safe place for those who need healing.
Jen believes in community and works tirelessly to bring it into fruition. If you ever get a chance to support her in this, you will not be disappointed. This is because she understands deeply what it is to be alone and because she knows the healing power of community.
She is my friend, my teacher and my healer.
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A healer is a door.
She creates, carves out, cuts open a portal, nails the braces,
makes sure it's steady and then gets out of the way.
She makes the door of herself, the fabric of the worlds around her,
mundane and cosmic,
her desire for goodness and the will of the person seeking healing.
She allows other people to walk through doors
and for spirit to come out of them to do their work.
Her craft is in the doorway,
in the hollow bone as the unnameable rushes through her and like a dance,
the unnameable forms itself into a hollow bone
to entreat her passage to the other realms.
She is one with all things and beings.
When she smiles, the world smiles with her.
She changes with everything she touches.
Everything she touches changes.
about me
I'm a seasoned sacred path traveler and shamanic practitioner. I have have roots in hard core activism/organizing and Wiccan ways. I teach in several capacities.
ABOUT FRIEND INVITATIONS: Much to some people's dismay, I reject friendship invitations from people I have never spoken to. I like to keep my life simple and honest. I choose to use this magnificent tool to actually network with those that I have a rapport with.
Thu, April 10, 2008 - 11:24 AM
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I breathe. My life goes before me in simple breathes. It expands, retracts, expands again, flowing more life over the ridge like a near waterfall on the river that I cannot see the other side of. Gingerbread cookies and chai are in my future. Teaching and growing is in my future. A baby is not in my future. Intimate love may or may not be in my future. Just last night, I was smiling uncontrollably in a dancing drum circle that I have been nurturing for almost a year. I could not have been hap...
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I am happy to report that I called the city and they are going to do whatever they can to protect the money-grubbing developer across the street from killing the trees and have a little more respect for Mother Earth. (I can say with confidence "money-grubbing' as the developer himself told me quite loudly over another issue that he is not here to make friends; he is here to make money.)
So that's the short version. Hooray for defending the trees! Gees, I have been learning all sorts of thi...
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The Darkness comes down, creeping sunrise by sunrise, stretching longer into each morning. The moss drips down from the trees, wet with a mist that blows through on the way to caves of night. I gather my morsels to chew over Winter.
The Goddess does not sleep. She reigns in the caves warm and comforting, caves of slick mud, caves of pitch blindness, these places we enter to do our dreaming. I call the sacred directions and they come on cold winds. I travel to The Morrigan, the Celtic Dar...
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Burma, which has finally hit the mainstream news, was one of the countries I learned about when I was on my "genocide documentary binge" after getting laid off. The one I saw was "A Secret Genocide". We followed the very brave natives and camera team through the jungle to find a hidden village that hadn't seen anyone from civilization in over a year. They provided food, some fun things for the kids and what medical treatment they could to the clearly starving people. A few days after th team ...
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My goddess is not round and voluptuous but rather long and sinuous, gentle and veiny in her hands, like my mother's. She is a horse, a cat, with reserved resolve but serving me grace. She is not the ocean (unless under the moon) but forest streams trickling through the roots n' stones down into fish-bourne pools. She is not a rose but an iris, the lily of the valleys, maybe a few long daffodils but with the slender leaves included.
My goddess feels with her loins, walks long distances and...
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Tonight I watched a documentary on Darfur, The Devil Came on Horseback. This film is about what Brian Steidle, a former Marine Captain (who has recovered from many broken bones - neck, feet, knees, caused in combat) saw went he went to work as an observer of a supposed "cease fire" in Sudan. It will be out on DVD in the Fall.
www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/
This is what I learned:
- After rebel groups, who had been fighting for education, food, health care for their people attack...
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**Bee Imagine**
Imagine you are a bee.
You buzz in airy ocean
of the most delicious smells,
waves and ribbons of them
some pungent and full,
some like narrow streams of gladness.
In low places there is found lace, heaven.
Further on, grace.
Along the fences is rosy rose,
burst of rose,
sweet rose,
cool rose.
But there is one scent,
a ravenously dizzy scent
that calls soft through airy jungle
as you madly fly its trail
all high and too hither.
Fri, May 18, 2007 - 3:09 PM
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There is a genocide going on in Darfur, a province of Sudan. It has been going on for 4 years and the world has not stepped in yet. Here are some plain and simple fact everyone should know about, along with the fact that WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
- 3.5 million people have been displaced
- More then 400,000 people have been killed
- Rape is a method of terror used by the militia. Women are repeatedly dragged out of refugee camps to be raped.
- The camps have rice but no firewook to cook...
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A healer is a door.
She creates, carves out, cuts open a portal, nails the braces,
makes sure it's steady and then gets out of the way.
She makes the door of herself, the fabric of the worlds around her,
mundane and cosmic,
her desire for goodness and the will of the person seeking healing.
She allows other people to walk through doors
and for spirit to come out of them to do their work.
Her craft is in the doorway,
in the hollow bone as the unnameable rushes through ...
read more
[[This is a sample chapter from a much longer piece. It reflects where I was in my 20's. Does it resonate with you?]]
The Winds From Behind
If I may be allowed to write
in this box
little,
black,
made of pyrite, mine.
My views
on my world
from my foot prints,
the ones I’m standing on
that you haven’t seen yet.
If I may be given the room to hear my own breath, permission to speak for myself, in this little box, for this little period of time. I know who I am and I have ...
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TURTLE DRUM AND DANCE
Turtle Drum Circle is a community ceremony where we take a deep journey using our drums and our bodies in dance to explore the otherworlds for insight and healing, for ourselves, each other and Mother Earth.
As drum jams come in waves, we ride each wave,
feeling our way through it, keeping our eyes open to insight,
keeping our ears to each other.
It is place to practice listening to the spirit of the drum
and the spirits the drums evoke.
**People of all religions and spiritual paths are welcome.**
1st and 3rd Saturday of the Month, 7-9PM
Embrace the Moon, 1716 NW Market St
OR
Jamtown, 12729 Lake City Way
[CHECK THE WEBSITE TO SEE WHERE IT WILL BE]
www.turtledrum.northwestceremonies.com
$10-$15 suggested donation
Hope to see you there!
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SHAMANIC JOURNEY CLASSES - Seattle
Learn to conduct your own shamanic journeys to the other worlds to meet your spirit allies, whether in the form of animals, plants, deities, teachers, angels or any other benevolent spirits who are attracted to you. Deepen the relationships with your allies, allowing them to assist you with the challenges in your personal life. Shamanic journey is not only for shamans and healers. It is accessible to all and can help us live deeper, more meaningful lives.
Taught by Jen Domeier, a shamanic healer and passionate teacher.
Location: Eastlake area, Seattle
Dates/Time: Courses run once a week for 8 weeks at night, 6:30–9pm
** NEXT CLASS STARTS on April 13th and will be on Sunday nights
Cost: $175
More about Jen at www.northwestceremonies.com
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