toltec dreaming

I am coming back to Ireland in a week! how soon time rolls around…

Back to mists and mellow fruitfulness and away from my new found watering hole under a railway bridge and constant sun and dust (dust has permeated my pores, especially since the water in the house we are staying in ran out so no showers or washing dishes) and dogs sleeping away the day and barking at each other all night.

So news for those of ye in Ireland who are interested in self discovery and exploration and healing of the body and being. There is some workshops happening now and for May in Co Claire in a retreat (language school) called Holywell. Its on the edge of the burren and a very inspiring place to be. The work is Toltec and is about facing yourself and your wounds and healing them. The teacher is Luis Molinar who was an apprentice to Miguel Ruiz who wrote ‘The Four Agreements”  and “The Mastery of Love” and he is a very understanding gentle teacher. I have worked with him now for about four years, various workshops in Ireland and trips to the pyramids in mexico.

Dreaming is changing your dream. We are dreaming right now, creating our world from the energy we carry and send out and everything we see is a reflection of our inner being, the beautiful side as well as the side we don’t want to admit to carrrying. In dreaming you take the limited side and literally re-dream it. Change takes place on a deep level.

I always find I have changed after doing these workshops even if it seems nothing was happening at the time. Its like a glacier melting. Small streams grow to big streams and then all of a sudden when you are least expecting it a whole big chunk falls off and there is a lighter quality of being. I love doing them, I love the quality of energy that surrounds them and that stays with me after I leave the world of the course and go back out into the big world again.

For me also its about getting rid of all pre-conceptions I have about the world. All the ways of looking at the world I was taught growing up and that I don’t want anymore. To be able to really see the world through love and not through the smoky mirror of my own thoughts and habits. Leap of faith into true freedom of spirit.

I have posted the poster but if anyone wants a bigger file of it post a comment or email me and I’ll send it to you. He is also doing private sessions of an hour long in his house in claire but they fill up fast and sure maybe see you at a workshop!

I will be going to the yoga day and then the Language of love. There is a mens workshop also. I know this is kinda short notice but I have been distracted lately, hard to get to internet and then when I generally did have it I was working so not much room for keeping up with the list of ‘things to do’. There is a link to Luis’s site in my blogroll or here  http://toltecheartwisdom.com/

love and light!

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mexico city

…back from the big smoke to the (relative) smallness and countryiness of Guanajuato. Mexico city is an amazing place. Full of everything. We wandered round museums and down streets and up buildings. The picture above is a street, but see how it undulates? from the earthquake in 1985 (wikipedia) the streets curve into the distance. Mexico city is basically built on a lake bed so subsidence is a problem. There is a pendulum in the cathedral which shows the movement of the building over the last few hundred years or so and it topples slightly to the right and then to the left!

It is full of art this city, the Palacio de Bellas artes is incredible and there are art museums all over the place. Little places are hidden inside courtyards. We stumbled into a building and found a sculpture exhibition. What was interesting was that there was braille beside the description. They were beautiful to look at, heavy shiny metal, big faces and full round bodies, but also when I started trying to feel them with my eyes closed wonderful to touch aswell. I don’t have the name of the artist, whoops! didn’t even think of getting it, just looking and wandering.

also a lot of art along the paths. I love these guys.

And, finally we got a new Huichole painting. I love the Huichole art work. They have websites selling their work and galleries all over mexico. I like the market in Mexico city because it’s actually them selling their work. Puerto Vallarta is terrible, the traders have these huge stores selling the ‘best’ of the art but really all they want is to get you into a timeshare interview. We were being offered paintings for free if we would only come and listen to their pitch (hell on earth as far as I am concerned, you might get something for free but I could not listen to the hard sell for three hours) and it made me wonder how much money the artists actually got for their work from these guys.

Isn’t it beautiful?Not sure what it means, there was no story written on the back. Its night time, and the man is a shaman and those animals are probably his spirit guides, and then I thought maybe he is a shapeshifter, just from the alternating dog and human footprints. Your guess is as good as mine!

Ok! time to do some work, have to see if photoshop has decided to start behaving itself again after I told it to repair itself, xx clio

from earth to sky

so its thursday morning (i am fairly 100% positive) and I am going to mexico city tomorrow morning with Paul for the week-end. He has never been there before, despite having lived here for two and a half years. Mexico city is a full-on place. It has everything, museums, shops, incredible art galleries, pollution, dirt, poverty but above all it has people, around 20 million of them, all packed into a circular valley, overflowing the edges with slums and shanty towns.

So to the title of this blog, I was intruduced to the Hubble site by Paul ages ago, he loves it. Its photos from the universe taken by the hubble telescope. They are incredible images. Have a look if you have never seen them before.

Kinda puts everything into perspective. Makes me think of when I am flying at night and I can see the traceries of city lights below me on the ground. They always look so beautiful and delicate and like some alien language or landing codes being sent out into the universe for all to see  ‘land here! good rates on hotels, residing locals friendly and welcoming’. I can forget that down amongst those lights is a big messy mush of emotions and needs and wants and love and goodness and anger and dirt and beauty and anything you can think of.  Sometimes it makes me want to hang above it all just looking at the pretty twinkling things and daydreaming vague idealisms.

today

I am feeling sad right now, I miss my girlfriends in ireland I think. Not that i want to be there but it would be nice to have a portal like in star trek to zip home for a few hours, have a cup of tea and a natter and then be back here in time for dinner. Mexico is so far away from Ireland sometimes.

I had a dream this morning I had a magic donkey with white curly hair who could fly. We were zipping around the place, like in google earth when you zoom in closer and fly across continents. I was wondering why it was a donkey and the word stubborn came to mind.

I am very stubborn.. I know this. It cuts both ways, I can be stubborn about something I should really just let go of but I can also be stubborn and stick my feet in the dirt when it is something I want for myself.  The trick is working out the difference.

Ok, be positive.. going to go have coffee with a friend here in Guanajuato and talk about playing some music with her and another girlfriend. Oh, and get some more prints organised. I will be sellling them on etsy when I get the paper right. Should be soon.

Thanks.. x

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letting go

So… it is time to get the new years resolution into action! I decided this year I would try and clear as much of my past as I could. Release old ways of thinking and behaviours that don’t work any more, finish projects or definitely say good bye to projects that aren’t working. Use up the big pile of fabrics I have on the floor of my work room before I can buy new fabrics. I get more inventive when I have to improvise.

  I did this once before, about four years ago when I was coming to mexico for the first time. I reckon, looking back, I was about 95% ruthless. I burnt old diaries and sketches  and stories and writings that I had been hanging onto since secondary school. I went through my clothes and books and jewelry and gave away anything that I never wore or rarely wore or just some items I knew a friend would really like. It was really hard to do but I felt so light after it was all gone.  

Clearing the past is not forgetting people or places or times but rather clearing any old negativity or limitation round the memory and remembering with love and acceptance. It also clears any energy blocks that are preventing me from going forward or achieving my goals.

 I bought paper this morning to get started on the illustrations for the crow story and I have three nearly done embroideries waiting for borders and a skirt hanging waiting for a hem. All the new stuff can wait for a week or so while I get everything sorted.