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Cristiano’s Bees
My 3 month live-in trade swap at InanItah is over. After an incredible weekend where we all went on a ritualistic journey together for Halloween, I gathered the things I wanted to keep and left on Monday feeling 100% ready to leave the lovely cocoon that was my home for a little while and take on the world!
I’m really lucky to be staying at my friend Cristiano’s in his awesome loft space. On a firm mattress. His house is made completely out of recycled and reclaimed resources and when I wake up I look up at the plantain leaf roof, the wooden stairs that go to the very top, and feel like I’m in a treehouse. The light streams in from all sides. I love living here. Cristiano is a really special guy.
He lives on his hostel and eco farm El Zopilote on Ometepe Island. It’s incredibly beautiful here, he’s done an amazing job, and it attracts tons of interesting volunteers from all over the world.
Today he showed me some of his bee hives — he has african bees, non-stinging bees and teeny tiny mini bees too!
Perching on a tree…
…feet dangling stupidly. So free from ground the air makes them tingle. Almost tired from dancing and laughing and spinning all day I stand up and climb higher. Around me birds dip and float and flip, showing me how to ride the changes of life without any effort. I learn from them for hours, just watching instinct at play. Life is bouncing all around me, delicious, luscious, fruity flavours of light, colours bursting all over me like mango juices dripping down my face, with no shame. I wont wipe them off this time. Never again.
I am so happy this day in the sun, as I perch, wildly swaying while ants step onto me in their path, about to drop off this branch and swoop to some place new. That someplace could be you.
I am home
I stood eyes closed, arms outstretched, bare feet on the earth, as I felt my roots penetrate deep into the earth, through the ancestors I carry with me with this lifeforce, right to the very first ancestor that links us all. I felt the light run all the way from zero, through my body and out the crown of my head, reaching to the stars and beyond in a long white light. I am rooted in this light. The thread of life. I am home. Everywhere I go. I am free. The search is over.
My friend Kelly found me and took this photo a few minutes later…
This morning I was ready to leave InanItah. Every question I had when I came is answered. I gathered the pieces of my soul here that were scattered for years. I packed my backpack, fewer things than I came with, hugged the friends who had become my family goodbye. For three months we grew, learned, danced, shouted at and cried together. I will never forget any of their faces, each of their scents, how they each laugh and show love in different ways. I’m still on Ometepe Island. I don’t know for how much longer. Every day is taken as a gift here. I’m enjoying every minute.
I’m honoured I was chosen to be alive.
Catharsis
Today’s 5am meditation was EXTREMELY powerful! 15 minutes of intense fast hyperventilation through the nose while I used my whole body and pumped my arms to shove the energy out on the outbreath. It creates a massive build up of energy and emotions and deep seated memories that swirl around. Then the music goes nuts for 15 minutes of going absolutely crazy, screaming, yelling, crying, pounding the walls, jumping around, laughing uncontrollably, whatever I wanted as loudly as I wanted! I went completely nuts. Then 15 minutes of exhausting yourself completely by jumping up and down with arms up in the air shouting “hoo hoo hoo!” from the belly. Then standing frozen in silence with arms up in the air for 15 while the energy tingles up and down the body and everything settles down slowly, and finally gorgeous dancing by which point I was just completely tripping out. Mmmm. Yeah. I let go of a LOT of old unwanted stuff. And celebrated life too!
They’re thinking of doing this for 21 days in a row here at InanItah, which I dont think I will be here for the full length of it to complete. But every day I do it, I heal a little bit more. Its wonderful how great I feel all day afterwards.
For more info about Osho’s Dynamic Meditation you can go here. Its available as an mp3, guided. I’d recommend finding a place somewhere to do it where you don’t feel strange about making a massive noise. Like a padded room, or the wilderness ;)
Woop!
Poy Boy Pete and Llovely Lliana Firespinning
We had an amazing party Saturday night. Aerial silks, dancing, feasting and super caliente fire-spinning. Mmmmmmmn YAY!
Less than a month left……………..
Feeling anxious about it today. Trying to release attachments since the first day I arrived, now I need to be ready to release attachments to being around this family every day, certain incredible people, all the hugs all the time, releasing this amazing beautiful place. It’s going to be a big shift. If I can do it. If I leave with attachments it’s going to ache and never stop.
I love this place. It’s my home right now. These people are my family. I’m here to learn to let go. Leaving will be the biggest lesson of all.
Super Amazing Pete. happy happy mud hug.
Simone…
Lovely Lliana…
Niklaas the walking Zen Garden and Lanka Buddha
Marjanne I miss you!
Carol making a late night butterfly on her toe
Oh James. Left us and came back a day later.
Pete, Gaia and Paul
Goodbye Marjanne
Marjanne left today for San Francisco :’( Yesterday I made her a braid with handed down Seawolf Medicine to keep her safe on her travels (photos). Just as I was about to take a photo a little sweetie stopped by to lick her with butterfly luck… he came back later again and hung out with her for an hour while she walked around and did stuff.
Bon Voyage Beautiful!
The Jungle Shower!!!
We have running water again! Here’s the grand tour of our bathroom and shower.
Bells Shells & Spells
A photo diary of fun fun fun making magick braids for friends who travel the Whirrled…
Marjanne’s happy goodbye prezzie – red and pink and purple and orange and butterfly and WOW! Happy travels in San Francisco, Schöne!
eine kleine nachtfreude
A few of my secret nighttime joys on this jungle island that I haven’t shared with a soul before…
A mangy old dog who looks like a sack of pathetic little bones with a bumped-raw nose comes to visit me almost every night. He travels 45 minutes from his home to get here. I save scraps from my plate to fill his belly, sometimes I save him half my pizza. He falls asleep under my hammock. Sometimes he gets up in the night and bumps with his nose through the net at me giving me a hell of a startle at times. When intruder dogs come he barks at them. I luff my El Tigre. When he sees me he wags his tail by spinning it around and around in a circle, made evermore adorable by the white tip that makes it look like a sparkler in the night. (more…)
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