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Our simple actions have an impact and they affect the whole in ways that can be visible to us, but often are not. The exuberant abundance of a small wildflower circle that I planted a few weeks ago was a powerful reminder that the seeds we plant will bloom and thrive in ways we can not always predict.  During these powerful times on the earth our inner voice is being called to metaphorically (or sometimes literally) plant seeds that will bloom and thrive attracting pollinators that will take their sweet nectar and create sweet abundance in the collective.  It's pretty apparent to many of us now that the simpler way of being, which is in flow with nature and without conquering anything. We are losing interest in forcing ourselves into practices and programs with complicated manuals, practices and rituals.  Wait if I am not the I  I think I am and they are not the they they say they are  then what are we even doing  going down those obsolete, obfuscating pathways anymore  Instead  let's walk away from all falsity into the truth of what we are  it's time  right? ~ It's time for us to transcend the systems and embrace what we have always been. To listen and hear the song inside of us, talking to us in the language of love. We hear it in the silence of our heart, in the sound of the river rushing over rocks on the shore, in the sound of the wind rustling the leaves  - and we feel it in the vibration of the roots of the tallest trees and in the sun's pulsing warmth.  As my friend and mentor Kaya Usher (thesimplicityplatform.com) said, "We're simplifying ourselves, the more natural we become, the simpler we become. We are able to transcend systems when we come into a higher frequency. We are able to transform those systems. Solutions will come to you. You become so refined in frequency you need much less. You are able to transcend and move through simply and effectively - going beyond what you have always been told." We are here now to bloom, to thrive, attracting all those who will enjoy our nectar as we give from this overflowing cup of love that we are. Be your own gardener and allow those beautiful seeds you carry to bloom in you. (for more episodes visit the podcast show page https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/)

We are each of us so important in our own simple actions. It's time to remember that, and remember our connection with each other. Why simple acts matter and how they are able to connect us to each other, to all living beings with the frequency of love that is our true connection.  This episode is an invitation to notice how we have often thought that our actions were of little power or consequence and to ponder the questions; What if we choose to inhabit that which we do not "know" - What would this world get to be - What "magic" would unfold as normal - What wonder would we create - What if we remembered the power of our true connection with all of life and our actions sprang from that knowing? YOU are important in your own simple actions. You are a sacred drop that moves the ocean of consciousness creating ripples.  (2 poetry offerings) Beloved, nothing need come between us now as we stand alone  on our mountaintop ringing in the new  While what is done still rages on in the valleys  it will soon take its last breath We each continue to breath the fresh mountain air  we have been longing for knowing it was always coming  here  now Open your arms wide beloved and  welcome it in with your whole heart for you have anointed yourself over and over for this moment and the next  and the next and the next You are not alone We are here we are legion we are love As we join the chorus a song of gratitude rises organically from our throats raining its pure frequency  down on this planet ~ At the top of the in breath Let the waters settle beloved as you remember  more of what it means to be free landing lightly  in your expanded self pausing a moment  as your wings dry letting pain release as you settle  into more of your brilliance This ever changing momentum of the love we are you are ~ (poetry copyright Christine Pensa) More episodes and information through our podcast show page https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

This episode is an invitation to notice how you may have been reacting to things and fixing or fighting them using the same frequency that the un-preferred state had shown up in your life. In fact, many of us are noticing how we've been finding beauty and richness, how we've managed to shift parts of our lives that didn't work into more preferred states. Imagine, because we have been trained to work with what's in front of us - that we've been using this old radio to tune into "better stations." Fiddling with the dials to shift things in our lives to affect a better outcome for ourselves, our families and even our world. What if we had another option? What if we recognize that those dials are only a slice of reality and actually someone else's idea of what this world is and should be? What if we choose to move away from the "radio" altogether. What if it has been a great distraction that keeps us from, as my friend and mentor Kaya Usher says, "…living knowing where you come from." What if you notice where, when and how often you are tuning outside of you, from your own knowing and innerstanding. What if that time was spent instead on being with your own self connected to your true source. That place where you already know. You already know what is right and what isn't. In this moment we/humanity are being collectively called/invited to stand more strongly on our own mountaintop. That one inside our hearts. The one where we know what is true. When we began sensing there was something more, something sacred in ourselves, we naturally looked outside of ourselves. It's how we were trained or entrained to look at the world. The retreats we went on, the books we read, the practices we followed - all came from that old radio dial. We recognize that what we sought outside was just another program on that stagnant dial. Then we are ready to move into knowing more of ourselves. As we stand on this threshold moment, we can feel a kind of numbness or confusion. After all, we haven't been in this place before. This fresh moment when the markers we had don't make sense anymore. Know that the frequencies available here and now are supporting you - if you are willing to take the time it takes to step into the next part of your journey to inner-standing. And know, that there are also others with you also standing on their thresholds ready to reclaim this new ground without fiddling with the old radio dials.  We are hearing this song. We are the light of this world. Standing in the sacred waters. Gathered in Love, Gathered in peace. Gathered in freedom. Gathered in Joy. I think that song is also what the mystical poet Rumi might have been referring to when he said, "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Let's meet there, in that sacred space of you, the place we will know what love we are here to make real in this world.  For more episodes visit the podcast show page at; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

Sacred self care is something that changes and shifts with the times, but at it's core remains the same - being present to what is, not meeting with resistance, but responding with the boundary of love that we are. This episode is an invitation to notice where you might have "gone deaf" to the call of your own heart - why, because you do already "know" what is true and what resonates with you in this moment. We already know what isn't true what doesn't resonate - let's stop focusing outward on that noise and pay more attention to what's coming up inside. We can discern that the voices/noise that contracts isn't true, isn't us, and we are learning to be in more mastery of the voice of our own deep wisdom. We are ready to leave behind the path of pain looping that keeps us repeating lower frequency patterns like shame, blame and guilt. We're turning to, and tuning into, the voice that invites us to expand. We are tuning our inner ears to that beauty.  Using the metaphor of biodynamics which sees farms, "not merely as plots of land but as living organisms deeply connected with cosmic rhythms." Our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies as a bioelectric field, we know, are connected in the same way to cosmic rhythms and not the synthetic "reality" we see around us.   Allowing ourselves to spend quality time with our own knowing before we reach to something or somewhere else to tell us what is. Cultivating what you want to see in your own life, rather than accepting the seeds sown by others means standing on the solid ground of your own internal mountain.  For more information and past episodes visit the show page at; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

If you are a regular or semi-regular listener of the podcast, there has been a recurring theme that has been evident through the last several episodes. How do we, to the best of our ability, embody ever more of our truest selves in these powerful times on Earth. For instance Episode 203, Tending your own evolution in these powerful times was about the call to embody something new, something more of ourselves by letting go of obsolete pathways. Episode 202, Witnessing as an act of self love, part two was an invitation to notice where we might be hiding behind patterns and programs that are not serving us  the greater community - or humanity itself  witnessing as an act of self love that invites others to show us their true beauty. Episode 201, Time to quit watering seeds of past identities, or how we have confused numbness with pleasure. That title says it all.  And finally, Episode 199, You as the fulcrum of consciousness here and now; "Many of us are tuning into the incredible amplification of energy happening now. The amplification includes both the chaos and the positive frequency of our beautiful embodiment of pure love. This kind of love once seemed the purview of mystics or saints. Now, it is becoming more apparent that it is our time to embody, in whatever humble role we can, this kind of love. We are being called to hold this space in our own lives. The call of this moment is to join the ranks of those "manning the fulcrum of consciousness" as it expands into it's next evolution, and at the same time we ARE the fulcrum. In the stillness of ourselves, we're learning to "lift" off the falsity, division, distraction and self hatred programs that need to end. We are being asked to choose, to lend our hearts to creating heaven on Earth for all living beings. This choice is ours." Continuing the exploration of embodying more of ourselves. What is it we keep bumping up against and how do we move past that to embody more of who we truly are? We are not alone. Yes we do choose to embody this love we are on our own, but as we stand in that we begin to see/feel/know others are also gathered because we are that strength together. We are here, we are legion, we are LOVE. Can we choose to hold the magnificence of who we truly are. Can we open our arms wide, spread our wings and allow more of our true source embody. Yes, yes we can.  Much love Visit the show page for more info; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

Many of us are recognizing that the way we have lived is in flux and we are being strongly called to embody something new/more of ourselves. One of my teachers recently asked us to notice where we were "sponsoring what we now know are rapidly becoming obsolete pathways." The invitation is to notice and tend your own evolution of what you are meant to embody here and now. Paying attention to where you are putting your focus. Noticing what modalities that may have served you in the past are no longer working for you, and perhaps are even working against your growth. Like a plant that has lived, and perhaps thrived, underneath a protective glass dome—the time has come to lift off the cover so we can grow beyond what we have been. It's time to stop watering the seeds of past identities and start landing in our own new way of operating. What is that for you? What are you meant to release for your growth? You receive the most brilliant answers to that when you inner stand yourself, when you spend time in the silence of your own being connecting to your true source. It's there that you almost effortlessly reset. You reconnect to the rhythm of who you are meant to embody in this time. Connecting to the rhythm, the universal flow of who we really are—pure love made material.  There is a brilliant golden pulse that is here to support our evolution. It's calling you to stand in more of your true self. Much love (poetry copyright Christine Pensa)  Beloved,  you were not made to remain the same

 The sacred waters of life are meant to flow freely through you

 You are like water rushing over rocks

 And so beloved,
notice where you may have become stagnant water

 Your true source calls you
to life's ever evolving dance,
letting go of what is done

 Move beloved
, with the ease of a waterfall,
 one who never holds on to the rocks it moves past ~

Part two of Episode 185 Witnessing as an act of self love and universal love. This episode was prompted by my friend and mentor Kaya Usher's comments this morning when she said, people, places and things can wait for your answer. A powerful reminder that we can wait for our own best answer, which may take some time, as we come into alignment with our own source connection, and not in reaction to the timeline or agendas of others.   People can often hide behind responses, patterns and programs that are not serving humanity. As we encounter these people, places and things, how can we choose to embody what we truly want to see in this world. How can we speak or act in a way that will lead to more love in this world. How can we embody the medicine that is needed here and now. In part, we can do that by choosing to take the time we need to witness our own selves in alignment with our own source connection, rather than from the head space where our patterns and programs dwell. So many of us long to create more sacred spaces for ourselves, our children, for all living beings. We long for deeper connection to our unlimited selves. How can we navigate the choppiness of differing opinions in order to get to the real gold. That authentic voice of light which lays beyond is more easily perceived when we can authentically witness ourselves first. Then our discernment of who, what and where to contribute to and with comes forward. We can then begin to weave our golden threads into something that is true medicine for this world. We can choose to speak and act from our alignment to the living pulse we are materialize. This brilliant doorway that opens within you to more of your unlimited expression.  How then can we use witnessing to build community with authenticity and love as it's foundation. I think this is the poem I wrote many years ago when I taught Witnessing as a practice helps to innerstand; Show me who you are
and I will celebrate that beauty with you Show me how you are here expressing
 Show me the beauty of your authentic voice witnessed, I long to hear it, as much as I long to hear my own Show me who you are
 and my ears will drink in that beauty in you As I open to see the beauty in myself
 and allow myself to be witnessed in all the ways I move in this world, 
I can see more of the dance of love expressing and moving through you Show me who you are
, and we will dance barefoot on the Earth with joy I will give you all the space you need to show me who you are, 
I will witness your grace as you show me that note being sung through you to all of creation Those notes we sing together with our love as we bring medicine to this Earth Show me who you are—truly
 and we will sing with that beauty in both of us (poetry copyright Christine Pensa) ~ If we come from this space of witnessing ourselves, and others, we can choose to interact, or not, from that sacred place in ourselves free from programs of division and fear. The action comes from a self love that naturally radiates a deep joy to everything around us.  Much love, Christine Link to our show page for more info and all episodes; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

This episode is an invitation to notice where we have confused numbness with pleasure. We've been sold and educated on false pleasure. Pleasure is meant to open us up, not close the door to the world of discomfort and false selves. Exploring why we might have been misled about what pleasure means and why it's an important element right now to help us to stop watering the seeds of the past, including our own past identities.  As we recognize where we are watering the seeds of past identities, we begin to notice our own evolution. We pay attention to the shifts we are ready for, our upgrades and we can truly nurture what is there in each moment. Then, we can turn our brightness to the unlimited nature of our true being. We release with more ease, not closing the door to our discomfort and not prolonging the stay in our divine bodies.  Host Christine shared moving through a recent painful experience and how paying attention to where she might have run a program of numbing out or distracting, instead choosing to allow enough space for the moving through and release of the physical and emotional pain. The experience led to a deeper inner standing of the nature of suffering and how we as humanity are sweeping suffering and it's attached programs from our divine bodies.  Humanity is sweeping suffering  and all manner of falsity off the table  Resetting this world  new community  laid upon a beautiful cloth  woven with golden threads shimmering with pure love Beloved, you are called  from the cave of your heart  back to this root of who you are to join the unlimited feast  ~ (art & poetry copyright Christine Pensa) Much love For more link to our showpage here; artthatmoves.ca

This episode is an exploration of metaphor as the sweet nectar that calls to you and allows you to discover more of the sweet, sweet nectar you are for this world.  So often a metaphor appears right in front of our eyes. Consider that it has been sent by our own hearts to point us in the direction we are longing for. The message is quiet, gently insistent asking for our attention, very different from the cacophony of the outer world banging on. If we are willing to pay attention, metaphors become these beautiful tiny seeds planted, calling us to move into more of the vastness of our being.  Which metaphors are calling to us in our own garden of the future. What seeds do we want to cultivate in order thrive, rather than just survive. Choosing is our low key superpower. Choosing allows us to notice and begin to work in alignment with nature. Choosing to hold and nurture what feels both unknown and also in a way completely and utterly known. This nectar feeds us and, at the same time, we are the nectar. We are both. We feel both in our bodies. Our bodies have the knowing. As we become more adept at tuning into that wisdom and inner standing, we operate in a lighter and yet more powerful flow with our own sacred selves.  The invitation is to notice what gently insistent metaphor is appearing right in front of your eyes. Will you answer the call to embody more of your own brilliance. You choose.  Much love Link to our showpage for all episodes here; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

Many of us are tuning into the incredible amplification of energy happening now. The amplification includes both the chaos and the positive frequency of our beautiful embodiment of pure love. This kind of love once seemed the purview of mystics or saints. Now, it is becoming more apparent that it is our time to embody, in whatever humble role we can, this kind of love.  We are being called to hold this space in our own lives. The call of this moment is to join the ranks of those "manning the fulcrum of consciousness" as it expands into it's next evolution, and at the same time we ARE the fulcrum. In the stillness of ourselves, we're learning to "lift" off the falsity, division, distraction and self hatred programs that need to end. We are being asked to choose, to lend our hearts to creating heaven on Earth for all living beings.  This choice is ours. Will we stand in the solidity of ourselves, our true selves connected to our Source of love. What if we all chose to use each moment of our lives as a fulcrum, not only to move into more of ourselves, but as a point of power that can lift that consciousness of all living beings into a positive high frequency.  We are here. We are legion. We are love.  When you are the still point and that fulcrum. You allow the momentum to leverage your being, you likewise allow mutual becoming, as we all open into more of our pure love. As you hold that silent solid strength of yourself, you do not effort to move mountains, they move around you as it were. Part of the distortion has been the thought form narrative that one person isn't able to make real change in this world. When you imagine yourself as the fulcrum, there is no raging against the machine, or feelings of futility. There is just a deep knowing that you are here now to stand with those lifting all living beings above the chaos simply by being who you truly are.  Thank you for being here and being a part of this incredible time on Earth. Much love   Link to the podcast show page for all episodes here; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

The invitation of this episode is to notice where you are aligned, or not, with nature. Noticing your ability to tune into thriving versus survival in these times. Now is the moment to let flow, or flower, the pure love you are here to embody in this world.  Paying attention to how you are moving through your day and noticing how nature's timing can model a natural flow in each moment. Though it is also in our nature to flower, to evolve, we have a program that says, I want to get "back to health". What if instead of fighting to get back to who we were, we allowed ourselves to evolve into something more? What if we let go of that part of ourselves that wants to return to former and instead focused in the moment on what the un-preferred experience was leading us towards so we don't get the in the way of our own evolution?  I shared the lessons from a tiny apple tree and the heart opening joy of seed saving, which led me to deepen into the knowing we are here to cultivate, tend and plant new brilliant potentialities. Despite the possibility that some seeds we plant will not survive, because they don't need to, while others will thrive beyond our expectations, we continue cultivating in each moment the seeds that call to us. We move in alignment with that clarion call from our own Source, which leads to joyful creation, tears of recognition, wonder and a deep sense of knowing it is ours to do.  It is part of our beautiful evolution to tune into those seeds that are ours to plant here and now.  This poem is also one of the seeds I plant in this moment… Mountain Once upon a time you spent millennia with the silent songs inside the mountains  Your heart soars at the remembering of this home Now beloved, it's your time  to weave that love into this world  to thread the wonder of that strength into every fibre of your living  So that every living being turns toward that grace within  And connects us all once again to pure love and nothing else _ (art & poetry copyright Christine Pensa) With much love, Christine   Link to listen to all podcast episodes via the show page here; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

As the Awakened Woman Self Care podcast enters season 8, it seemed fitting to have a guest join me to sing us into the next season of our becoming.  It was a joy to welcome singer-songwriter Sydney Jones to share her genre of music, which she calls, "rhythm and sunshine." Sydney applies her life experience and connectedness with nature, our limitlessness, and the importance of staying in the present moment during this time of conscious awakening. Her positive, life affirming lyrics lift and open the heart of listeners.  We talked about her latest single and how our own creative expression can be a catalyst which opens the hearts of others, allowing them to connect with their own pure note of love. She writes both the music and lyrics to her songs, and invites listeners to interpret her songs through their own inner light in whatever way opens them up to the expression of their purest essence. Each element, word, and rhythm in Sydney's songs echo her connection to, as she puts it, her "heightened sensory awareness" of the natural world around her. She explains, "it's not just like I'm appreciating the Sun, I'm really feeling those light codes. I'm really feeling the power of the Sun right now. It's a whole experience of presence." Sydney shared that the resonance of actually singing feels like the best medium through which her unique expression could come through. Writing the lyrics, the melodies and creating cover art for her work is the way she allows it to blossom through her, always spreading love through her self empowering messages and spiritually uplifting content. Sydney is at the forefront of music in these times as it was meant to express a part of who all of us are, the inclusiveness, and the sacredness of pure love.  Enjoy this longer podcast episode, which also features her latest song, "Mother Earth."  Much love and thank you for following and supporting Sydney's beautiful expression on the platforms listed below, Christine Find Sydney Jones on; Spotify Youtube Instagram Find the Lullaby series Podcast show page; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/

Though this past weekend in many parts of the world has been programmed to mean the end of summer, our inner knowing and nature's vibrancy would tell us otherwise. Noticing this how this lands in your own body, emotions and mental attitude is a great sacred self care practice.  During a summer full of lovely visitors, and all kinds of experiences, the cicadas came in as beautiful teachers for these powerful times of change. As I was able to witness part of their life cycle, I reflected on how the splitting open of their old world in what seemed to me a kind of backwards trust fall, was a brilliant metaphor for what we are experiencing in our human bodies.  After the cicadas shed their skin, they take time to rest and allow their beautiful green wings to open fully and dry before they were able to take flight in their new bodies. As many of us are noticing, there has been an amplification of the release of programs, and as that happens for us, there is this open space for our "wings" to come in. The invitation of the cicadas, for me, for us, was to allow time in the quiet to let those wings dry.  As we continue to move ever inward to allow more of who you truly are to be born and embodied in this world, noticing and allowing the time you need to integrate is your own powerful sacred self care. Not in alignment with the programs and patterns that have disempowered, but in alignment with your own source of pure love and the natural rhythms that are part of our journey here and now as human beings. Taking the time you need to notice what is coming through the landscape of your own being.  Much love Visit our show page for all episodes here; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

Episode 195 Navigating our natural conclusions in these times   What are ready to walk away from and how do we move through the nuances of letting go in these times? This episode is an invitation to become present to what we are holding onto through habit, obligation or simply inattention.    As I pondered the theme of this episode, I encountered a beautiful analogy around letting go. If you as you are now walked into a room and your friend of 35 years was there, would you still be attracted to them? Imagine that is not only a person, but a place, a thing, an action, a workplace—would you still be attracted to those things if you saw them across a room now? Would you expand or contract as you interacted with any of these.   In these times, we are being called to be ever more impeccable with what we are choosing to surround ourselves with. Recognizing the lower frequencies of habit, obligation or duty around a person, place, practice or thing and inner standing that it might be time to move away in order to be more of yourself.    Walk into the room of your life right now, and notice all the things in the environment of you. Can you reconcile everything in this room with your true longing to fully embody the pure love of your own source. Notice if there is anything that diverts you from your own joyful expansion—importantly, without blame, or creating divisiveness.    Are you ready to release what you may have considered a big part of your identity so you can welcome more of you in?    Much love (for more information and episodes visit the show page at; https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/)

This episode is an exploration of what and why we become distracted by the mental, emotional or physical events that keep us small or in looping patterns, instead of choosing the bigger picture of our own divinity and natural adeptness for alchemising what shows up in our lives. As we continue to move into a deeper knowing of our own divinity, we are being called to be more impeccable with letting go of what does not serve our future/new selves. At this precious moment when we are so beautifully ripe for the next expansion into ourselves we can get distracted by things that come in to pull our attention away from that expansion. As a metaphor, when you break your toe, suddenly your baby toe becomes your whole world. It's an invitation to become aware of anything that harnesses our attention to focus only on our limitation, on our "smallness," rather than an awareness of our "vastness" or divinity.  Recognition of how and where you are doing this allows you to let go with more ease and turn your focus to your divinity which naturally "alchemises" the distraction into your personal gold. It's time to remember our divinity and see clearly our seat at the table. Noticing where and how your personal alchemy appears, and how you can use that to create a pure love soup for yourself and for this world. What is your unique recipe to bring to life here and now. It's time to share it beloved.   When remembering our divinity becomes our focus through the "toe-stubbing" then we allow our natural alchemy to come forward to nurture this world with the pure love soup that is ours to bring into material form. It's happening in the sweet silence of our true hearts. Let the alchemy of your song of wonder rise up and join in a beautiful chorus. Much love, Christine