New Moon 2012


Join us in honoring the ancient practice of new moon sisterhood and self care .
Below is a visioning practice and themes we will be contemplating here in the Boulder circle . Remember the new moons are a time to make time to honor our bodies and be available to the wisdom that lives beyond the rational mind!


New Moon January 2012 : Visioning and Truthtelling
We still sit within the cave of winter ... peering out to the light of a new year. There are naked trees speckled with nests . The squirrels diligently continue to unearth seeds and nuts . There is a stillness humming around us in the cold air. The cold wind stirring our minds making us a bit more brittle.
What can we do this January moon to create a softening flexibility , to warm our bones , and relax our mind into vision time ?

- Take a sip of warm nourishing tea

- Take a few deep breaths, enjoy the expansion and contraction of you ribs and belly .

- Unfetter your mind, breath out and remember you are all things and no thing in this moment .

- Place you finger on your third eye ... take a breath in , Remember Divine intelligence flows through you .

- Call out the wisdom that lives deep in your bones- deep in your minds dreaming center .

- Look out ... see the opening of the cave and like a private showing of theater , see before you the vision of 2012 . The actions , dreams and new ideas that will align and support your personal mission . Your part of the collective vision of the unfolding paradigms to piece together with your people.

- Just let these visions be awakened and reviewed till right action and strategy effortlessly arrives . Be patient like the roaming deer of winter . They will come . perhaps tomorrow or next month , they will come . We only need to know the next clear step ...

- Take time to journal ...
Perhaps close your night with a warm bath and a candle.
- Be at peace and know many woman hold you close within the circle this night .

- Return here to share and read posts of this first new moon of 2012 .

Blessings !

Jan. Newmoon



Monday January 23 - 6-9:30pm first of 2012!


New Moon ! New Structure !

(IF you are interested in coming to a new moon circle this year ...

please take the time to read 2012 New Moon intentions and changes ! )


For 2012 new moons will be by donation . Pay what is true for you . Do not let finances keep you from the circle at the same time do your part to serve our circle and our shared intentions of supporting womens nourishment and culture by offering what you can .




I began womens work because I feel women are a major resource to support the earths healing at this time . I took on womans culture as a priority in my own life for my own personal growth and centering . As my life felt more and more supported by circles of women I vowed to work in service of womes culture as what I can do to serve our planets rise to unity .


My hope is that this new moon circle will inspire women to co-create ritual and circles more naturally in their lives for the deepening of meaning , reception and support they long for .

With this circle held as a place to return to again and again for inspiration and support of this practice.


After the venue is paid for, the remaining money gathered will be put into a fund to support our women's community here in Boulder and global outreach . The first $100 gathered will go to a women of need in our community to receive a healing treatment of her choice within our community . Any woman is welcome to put her name in this raffle as the women in need and anyone offering a healing modality is welcome to be listed as an option to choose from to receive the payment of $100 .




. Logistics for each moon:



- I will provide the venue , tea, theme and facilitation.


- 1 Assistant each month ( a woman who has worked closely with me in some capacity and wants to serve and practice womens circle and ritual holding , please contact me if you would like to be considered for this . This needs to be clarified a month in advance )


-4 WOMEN to sign up to bring a yummy treat to share with the circle ( I say 4 so no one is burdened by this - something simple )


- 4 WOMEN to step in to call in a direction each month ( please let me know when you rsvp if you are called to do this and which direction is calling you)


  • *you are welcome to bring networking material to place on a table - DO NOT use this time or these women as a networking strategy . this is a time to relax outside of all the outer worlds pressures and stresses . I invite you to come and let roles and work go in this circle .
New Moon Dates for first half of 2012 :
Tuesday Feb. 21
Wednesday March 21
Sunday May 22
Sunday April 22
Sunday May 20
Monday June 18
Thurs. July 19


Registration :

RSVP 48 hrs before our circle right here Spandarupa.com

- write your name and email under this New Moon post.


Directions and details will come via email no later than 48 hours before our circle to those who RSVP

Nov. New Moon


Women's Tent ... 
NOVEMBER NEW MOON

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 

FIRST CIRCLE OF THE WINTER CAVE
Healing touch 
Chanting 
Dancing 
and Yumminess ! 
Topped with Rose Pedals! 

A Nourishing , Revitalizing Dive into the Divine Feminine! 

Last Circle of 2011! 
6-10pm / $18 
PreRegistration Required


Iamlove.org 
11-11-11 
Friday Night 
Millenium Hotel /Boulder/Co
7pm 
Art /Dance/Joy /Love 
Come Celebrate Life with us !

IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING LIFE AS ONE 
Lets Do IT! 

All Ages / No drugs /No Alcohol 
60's revival Dancin to the Oldies ! 
Suggested Donation $2o 
children and unemployed FREE

Monday Oct . 1st at the Starhouse
with live music, movement , meditation and a Ritual Journey through the veils !
Fee: Sliding scale $20 - 12

If you cant make it to the community rituals please check back here for Ritual Inspiration to deepen your connection to this season coming soon !

SPANDARUPA
Dance and Healing Arts Presents ...

Dance of
Skeleton Woman
A Day dedicated to preparing for the cave Through the Life /Death / Life Cycle
and the Plant Spirit Medicine of Willow

With Ceremonial Dancer and Shamanic Healer Ixeeya Beacher

Ladies Come... Let Us Prepare for Winter
Into the starkness of our Beings...
there is Deep rest there...

Shamanic Dance Journeying, Sounding, Drumming and Nature’s Elements have captivated Many a woman and brought her home to her self through all of time. Join us for this unique opportunity to Discover and Embody deep Truths, Create Alley-ship with nature, the unseen world and you own body! Be Guided back to the bare bones of who you are, release the skeletons in the closets, walk freely as yourself into the gestation of Winter .
Some journeying experience is required.
Preregistration Required
Early Registration :  $65 for the Day til Oct. 31 

$75 for the day  Nov.1- Nov. 5 Space for 15 women to come join us
( includes a full day of Guidance, Sauna, and a nourishing hot Lunch )


Sun. Nov. 6, 2011/ 10 am - 4:30 pm
at a beautiful retreat space 10 minutes outside of Boulder Co.
Pre-Registration is required

Pay Here On - Line :

- go to the top of this page where it will say pay hear / calender - go to this link and ...then you will see .Buy now - select full day work shop in the white area
it will prompt you from there - with your credit card


EQUINOX

Scroll way down here for info on the Equinox Womens Dance Journey !


Blessed EQUINOX to ALL
Ahhhhhh ... Blessed Equinox BEauties ! BALANCE ... equal light and dark this day, action and stillness, heaven and earth.
.... Our time to harvest the summers gifts and contemplate the stillness in the busy action of preparing for Winter . How will summers bounty inform and serve our walk into winters cave .

Like with all the quarters and cross quarters ...I like to pause to listen to Earth , Sun and Moon's lead and the metaphors they are linking up for our human unfolding . We pray and contemplate the wisdom of the changing seasons , to reflect on what has come to completion and what is calling us forward . The yearly markers are potent times for intention setting and co- creating with the universe.
This weekend many of us will gather to ritualize these contemplations . Creating prayer fires, meditations , dances and feasting to share in this pause and come present for receiving the revelation of this Equinox (Mabon) moment .

If you are unable to join us this weekend in person please read on to synch up in intention and ritual . We are all woven into the web together . We are all affecting each other even from a distance . You are with us and we are with you , if we intent it to be so.

Friday morning Prayer Fire - 7am - 10 - we will sych up with the mountain tops of the world to pray our intentions for our communities and planet . Join us - at some point light a candle to invoke the Equinox Spirit to listen to your prayers and link they up with our - Imagine in your sacred imagination each prayer sinking into the flames and rising with the smoke off the mountain top of your mind choosing .
What is prayer : Offering a clear and positive statement of what you intend for this equinox moment - for example - I see and feel the waters on the planet coming into balance ... restoring life and purifying the seas ... give nourishment and strength to all marine life. See it in you mind feel it , speak it out loud .
If you are at Work? take a pause wherever you are - take a deep breath and whisper your prayer into the air somewhere you can relax and take a moment for this visualization . Bathrooms are always a great place to escape to for a prayer or asana moment in the midst of mainstream life! We work with what we got - that is the greatest teaching my first Shamanic teacher ever gave me !


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Ritual for FriDay - SunDay : gather candle , bread or baked good , pen /paper, rugged non flammable bowl or plate.
Create your sacred circle , sit inside , find the center and place your candle and your bread , pen and paper and any sacred objects that are informing/ supporting your life at this time

For 10-15 minutes energetically become one with the Earth.

Do this with your breath .
Inhale the light around you into you from all edges of your skin - exhale it down into the EArth like roots of light .

Inhale the Earth's energy into you and exhale it out all surfaces of your skin including the top of your head -

Repeat -
Once this flow is established intend for it to continue as you do this next step .

Join the EArth in her vibrational tone .
OM - broken down as aaaa - uuuu - mmmmmm- Synch up with us at starhous at 2pm on Sunday !

when this feels complete - thank the earth and receive her nourishment of grain - as your baked good /bread - charged with the vibration of your meditation - Bask in a disposition of Gratitude as you nourish yourself and relax into this new sense of balance . Write on your paper 5 gifts of your summer and 5 intentions for your walk through fall to winder place them on either side of the candle and feel into how your 5 summer gifts balance and support the 5 fall intentions . When you feel complete give your words to the fire to be ignited and transformed into memory and action( place on plate or bowl to burn ) , blow out your candle and walk your circle once giving thanks again to the earth and spirit of equinox . Conclude bay clearing your sacred circle .


This will help to balance your energy flows as well as "send" energy/"love"/"honoring" to the Earth Being.

You can also drum, dance, or whatever you wish to do at the same time if you wish, but most importantly intend to merge energetically with the Earth Being.
May we all remember Earth is our home , our mother , our teacher She is preparing us for what is to come . May we take time to heal and restore all that needs balancing in our bodies and lives , May we harvest , receive and transform what is ours to tend to and serve at this time . Walking this path with you and sending love Ixeeya and Mitra.




Nourishing.... body and mind .... New Moon and Fall Season ...





Our New Moon Women's Circle GAthers in the EArth Shrine at 6pm Monday
for our Earthing Practice - sending our roots down , chanting with the earth, sharing nourishing tea , working with the Lemniscate (figure eight ) to connect with each other and the earth for balancing and nourishment through . It is time to surrender . Join us where ever you are , take your pause at this dark moon time with some sisters or your self .

Perform the nataraja-asana gracefully as if dancing, yet firmly with focused attention.
Root your standing foot into the EARTH . Press you back leg into your hand and let it lift you into your dance ..
BREATH ..... Enjoy .... Balance

ASANA of the Month ! I am calling this our Equinox Asana - for the obvious reasons ... it is a balance pose. But more than that it fills you with the fullness and grace of summer as you dance forward into the fall! It is nourishing for so many of the Early Fall Bodily cruxes , overwhelm , late cycles, digestions discomfort.
This posture helps to strengthen your sense of balance and concentration. The arch formed by the back and stretched leg gently aligns the vertebrae of the spine restoring suppleness and easing strain caused by poor posture or long periods of sitting. This gentle arch in your back massages your kidneys and adrenals and open your belly to bring circulation in to your digestion . It tones the muscles of the hips and legs as well as stimulates the chest muscles.


Yummy Nourishing Fall TEA:
Burdock Root
Hawthorn Berry
Dandelion Root
Cinanimon
Licorice

ROOT SALAD for Balance and Deep Nourishment
with a metal hand shredder or food processor shred the following and mix with
Olive oil , Sea Salt , Tumeric , Pinch of Cyan ,Cumin , CAcau nibs and or raisins, slash of yogurt .
Golden beets
Red beats ( do these last)
Carrots
Fennel
Celery
Ginger Root ( can be strong add bit by bit to see how much tastes good to you ! )
Horseradish root ( can be strong add bit by bit to see how much tastes good to you ! )