๐ Beloved Berlin Web ๐ Tomorrow we gather to practice the Art of being Human together & Metabolizing the threads of our inter-connected world ๐
๐ CITY SANCTUARY @ The Church of Inter-being
In these times, we ask: How โ as a community โ can we build an urban refuge for creative resilience, embodied remembering, and communal compassion?
How are we being called to gather, to move, to feel, to co-regulate, to
metabolize, and to root deeper into presence โ amidst the unraveling?
How does the notion of Sanctuary live inside my being, and in the
relational web of our collective inter-being?
Inspired by the Organizing and Community Care that is happening everywhere around the world, we invite you to explore these questions in a special Sunday Service:
A ritual space for movement and dancing, listening and expression, grieving and co-regulation. Let us activate our capacity to be present, to hold complexity, to be compassionate!
๐ CITY SANCTUARY ๐
19. April 1 - 3 pm
๐ฅฐ Potluck until 4.30 pm
๐ CITY SANCTUARY @ The Church of Inter-being
In these times, we ask: How โ as a community โ can we build an urban refuge for creative resilience, embodied remembering, and communal compassion?
How are we being called to gather, to move, to feel, to co-regulate, to
metabolize, and to root deeper into presence โ amidst the unraveling?
How does the notion of Sanctuary live inside my being, and in the
relational web of our collective inter-being?
Inspired by the Organizing and Community Care that is happening everywhere around the world, we invite you to explore these questions in a special Sunday Service:
A ritual space for movement and dancing, listening and expression, grieving and co-regulation. Let us activate our capacity to be present, to hold complexity, to be compassionate!
๐ CITY SANCTUARY ๐
19. April 1 - 3 pm
๐ฅฐ Potluck until 4.30 pm
โ Yo beloveds, This is more than a life-status-update โ
Something profound has been composting inside my being the past cycles: marinating and shaping and carving my path with soul & grit & grace.
I've been offline โ deliberately, necessarily โ in the underworld of my own becoming.
Saying NO to 95% of work offers, taking care of real-life challenges, traveling multiple dimensions of Life with as much dignity and integrity I could muster.
Letting things/timelines/trajectories die that needed to die.
Allowing grievance to what couldn't be saved.
Breathing/sensing/dancing into some of the deepest cracks of both:
Personal wounding: revealing caverns and gardens deep inside my human-heart
Growing the mature capacity to hold myself like never before (hallelujah!!!!!!!)
โ And โ
Collective wounding: noticing my widening capacities to witness, sense, metabolize intricate layers of collective shadow, trauma, (power) dynamics, potential for repair and re-patterning living & dying through the spaces between us
I've been learning to trust the deep dark womb-medicine of DESCENT
And she's been ripening me
from the composted matter
baptized by shadow, reborn by thorns, petals caressing the sweet arousal of wholeness
And now I'm back on 'yo feed. And something has shifted.
I ain't the same Alma โ Omega I was. And I'm not trying to be.
After 25+ years of devotion to what is alive โ the dance-floors, the ceremonies, the grief orgies, the composting ground โ I'm starting to reclaim a new story. Rooted deeper. Clearer about what I carry and who I'm here to serve (spoiler alert: it's the Sacred continuation & protection of Life in this challenging time of Transition)
This is not just about a new โimageโ or website (although I'm happily re-birthing a new website as we speak, and got a new mix inside the Kosmic Womb ready to be recorded and shared with y'alls).
This is about taking a courageous step into Elder-hood, and leaving some Maiden-like chapters behind...This is about building bridges inside the Cracks, planting gardens we may never get to taste the fruits of, but we keep on remembering to do it for the future ones.
Thank you for being on this journey of becoming and unraveling with me...to be continued beloveds.
We are the ones we've been waiting for .
..and we are remembering: We ARE the Medicine ๐๐บ๐ชบ๐๐
Photo by the amazing portal artist that is Jaqueline Louan Ritual & Photography
Something profound has been composting inside my being the past cycles: marinating and shaping and carving my path with soul & grit & grace.
I've been offline โ deliberately, necessarily โ in the underworld of my own becoming.
Saying NO to 95% of work offers, taking care of real-life challenges, traveling multiple dimensions of Life with as much dignity and integrity I could muster.
Letting things/timelines/trajectories die that needed to die.
Allowing grievance to what couldn't be saved.
Breathing/sensing/dancing into some of the deepest cracks of both:
Personal wounding: revealing caverns and gardens deep inside my human-heart
Growing the mature capacity to hold myself like never before (hallelujah!!!!!!!)
โ And โ
Collective wounding: noticing my widening capacities to witness, sense, metabolize intricate layers of collective shadow, trauma, (power) dynamics, potential for repair and re-patterning living & dying through the spaces between us
I've been learning to trust the deep dark womb-medicine of DESCENT
And she's been ripening me
from the composted matter
baptized by shadow, reborn by thorns, petals caressing the sweet arousal of wholeness
And now I'm back on 'yo feed. And something has shifted.
I ain't the same Alma โ Omega I was. And I'm not trying to be.
After 25+ years of devotion to what is alive โ the dance-floors, the ceremonies, the grief orgies, the composting ground โ I'm starting to reclaim a new story. Rooted deeper. Clearer about what I carry and who I'm here to serve (spoiler alert: it's the Sacred continuation & protection of Life in this challenging time of Transition)
This is not just about a new โimageโ or website (although I'm happily re-birthing a new website as we speak, and got a new mix inside the Kosmic Womb ready to be recorded and shared with y'alls).
This is about taking a courageous step into Elder-hood, and leaving some Maiden-like chapters behind...This is about building bridges inside the Cracks, planting gardens we may never get to taste the fruits of, but we keep on remembering to do it for the future ones.
Thank you for being on this journey of becoming and unraveling with me...to be continued beloveds.
We are the ones we've been waiting for .
..and we are remembering: We ARE the Medicine ๐๐บ๐ชบ๐๐
Photo by the amazing portal artist that is Jaqueline Louan Ritual & Photography
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Channel name was changed to ยซ๐ Alma โพ Omega ๐ tending the Holy Cracks of Now ๐ชบ๐ ๐ยป
๐ฟ For my Scandinavian Web ๐ฟ
Something rare and precious is coming to Trรธndelag, Norway:
Mamo Senchina โ spiritual elder of the Kogi people from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia โ will be gathering with a small group at Storbuan Gรฅrd Bio-Dynamic Farm, August 18โ23.
The Kogi are one of the few indigenous peoples never conquered, still living in their original cosmology. Mamo carries the "palabra antigua" โ the ancient word that holds the knowledge of how to care for life. Not as metaphor. As living practice.
Something rare and precious is coming to Trรธndelag, Norway:
Mamo Senchina โ spiritual elder of the Kogi people from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia โ will be gathering with a small group at Storbuan Gรฅrd Bio-Dynamic Farm, August 18โ23.
The Kogi are one of the few indigenous peoples never conquered, still living in their original cosmology. Mamo carries the "palabra antigua" โ the ancient word that holds the knowledge of how to care for life. Not as metaphor. As living practice.
Five days of fire, deep listening, pagamento offerings to the Earth, forest walks, sauna ritual, and the possibility of private consultations โ including yatukua, water divination...this will also be an exchange with the animistic wisdom found in the North, on the absolutely STUNNING lands of Storbuan Gรฅrd.
๐ฟ What does it mean to remember our indigeneity: our inherent connection and union to the natural world, before the complexity of separation? How can we collectively bring forth this remembering? And how can we bring in more relational repair and communication to our living Earth, mend the broken chains, and take true eldership for our role as stewards?
๐ฟ What does it mean to remember our indigeneity: our inherent connection and union to the natural world, before the complexity of separation? How can we collectively bring forth this remembering? And how can we bring in more relational repair and communication to our living Earth, mend the broken chains, and take true eldership for our role as stewards?
I will be hosting Mamo Senchina at Medicine Festival in the UK next week, bridging his journey to Norway. I just spent a full month being fully nourished and re-wired on the lands, animals, and human/more-than-human entities of Storbuan Gรฅrd โ and although I won't be able to be there myself, I can vouch wholeheartedly for the quality of the hands and humans holding this. If you feel called, trust that: this land is INCREDIBLE
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๐ฟ Aug 18โ23 ยท Storbuan Gรฅrd, Trรธndelag
๐ฟ From 2000 NOK sliding scale (approx. 200 euros) โ ALL proceeds go to Mamo's village in Colombia
๐ฟ In English, with translator Jassiel
๐ฟ Register: hei@storbuan.no
https://organic-structure.net/kogi
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๐ฟ Aug 18โ23 ยท Storbuan Gรฅrd, Trรธndelag
๐ฟ From 2000 NOK sliding scale (approx. 200 euros) โ ALL proceeds go to Mamo's village in Colombia
๐ฟ In English, with translator Jassiel
๐ฟ Register: hei@storbuan.no
https://organic-structure.net/kogi
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Curious who in my web will be going to Medicine Festival this year?
๐ฟ I literally said no to every other festival opportunity this summer: Medicine is more like an intentional global-prayer disguised as a festival...quite the exquisite masterpiece, this one, and worth the massive effort to create and birth.
I'll be managing the day-time Sacred Program at The Sacred Glade again this year (literally the most profound ceremonial "stage" I've ever encountered: held by ancient oak tress and a sacred fire burning as a prayer the entirety of the gathering)....if you're there, come say hello!
We'll be hosting absolute legends such as Pat McCabe/Woman Stands Shining, Josh Schrei from the The Emerald Podcast, Mamo Senchina, Rituals of Reparations for the Blessed Isles/Ireland, and more...May these prayers ripple outwards into the cracks of this world, filling it with beauty and repair ๐ ๐๐บ
๐ฟ I literally said no to every other festival opportunity this summer: Medicine is more like an intentional global-prayer disguised as a festival...quite the exquisite masterpiece, this one, and worth the massive effort to create and birth.
I'll be managing the day-time Sacred Program at The Sacred Glade again this year (literally the most profound ceremonial "stage" I've ever encountered: held by ancient oak tress and a sacred fire burning as a prayer the entirety of the gathering)....if you're there, come say hello!
We'll be hosting absolute legends such as Pat McCabe/Woman Stands Shining, Josh Schrei from the The Emerald Podcast, Mamo Senchina, Rituals of Reparations for the Blessed Isles/Ireland, and more...May these prayers ripple outwards into the cracks of this world, filling it with beauty and repair ๐ ๐๐บ
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Hello fine people!
New Substack Post (damn, I love this platform):
Iโve spent the past three months largely offline (a modern luxurious fairy-tale come true). I said no to 95% of summer work invitations and allowed myself to be embraced by various landscapes of raw, nourishing nature โ communal/intentional gatherings, land-based/integral projects, and the kind of intimacy with place and people that fills you in ways screens simply cannot.
What I found there: grounded animistic devotion, structures designed by natureโs principles, and a growing clarity about what is actually at stake in our modern realities โ and what is worth protecting.
Coming back to Berlin this past week has been a jolting reminder of the tension, control & demanding distractions of modern urban life. The written word (and music!) are helping me metabolize the return (Iโm just here in B for a micro-dose of time, before I head out to the US to attend to my elderly motherโs next stage of care: talk about growing up!), So here you goโฆfrom the thresholds:
What Really Matters?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-212814792
New Substack Post (damn, I love this platform):
Iโve spent the past three months largely offline (a modern luxurious fairy-tale come true). I said no to 95% of summer work invitations and allowed myself to be embraced by various landscapes of raw, nourishing nature โ communal/intentional gatherings, land-based/integral projects, and the kind of intimacy with place and people that fills you in ways screens simply cannot.
What I found there: grounded animistic devotion, structures designed by natureโs principles, and a growing clarity about what is actually at stake in our modern realities โ and what is worth protecting.
Coming back to Berlin this past week has been a jolting reminder of the tension, control & demanding distractions of modern urban life. The written word (and music!) are helping me metabolize the return (Iโm just here in B for a micro-dose of time, before I head out to the US to attend to my elderly motherโs next stage of care: talk about growing up!), So here you goโฆfrom the thresholds:
What Really Matters?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-212814792
Substack
What Really Matters?
Crossing the threshold into a riper flavor of Maturity
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โ MUNICH โ I'm coming down south to you this THURSDAY for the very last edition of Ecstatic Wildness, co-hosted, held and tended to by the VERY talented & soulful Mattea Luna (who happens to be a super dear sister with a voice to penetrate your soul).
This will be the closure of a big arch and cycle, in order to make space for the next spiral: so many of us are standing at the thresholds of the new that is beckoning us, and I look forward to honoring THIS creation, and moving and dancing with gratitude and grace.
This will probably be my last official "Ecstatic Dance" container: and I look forward to going out with a bang (with the Funktion One speakers there!!!!!!!!!!!! boooooooooya! ) and weaving some serious BASS in BAYERN...Tell your Munich Homies: Vamos Bailar โ
Photo by the Queen that is Zi Ta
This will be the closure of a big arch and cycle, in order to make space for the next spiral: so many of us are standing at the thresholds of the new that is beckoning us, and I look forward to honoring THIS creation, and moving and dancing with gratitude and grace.
This will probably be my last official "Ecstatic Dance" container: and I look forward to going out with a bang (with the Funktion One speakers there!!!!!!!!!!!! boooooooooya! ) and weaving some serious BASS in BAYERN...Tell your Munich Homies: Vamos Bailar โ
Photo by the Queen that is Zi Ta
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Hey friends ๐ชบ๐บ๐โจ
I'm DEEPLY touched by Miracle Project & Fundaรงรฃo Terra Agora: with their vision and process in freeing a mountain/land/watersheds, campaigning to buy 15,5 football fields of burned land in Central Portugal, never to be sold again and only to be used for regenerative purposes...True land stewardship over ownership: trailblazing a (new) path in relating to land and regeneration.
I just supported their vibrant and visionary project: they are almost half way to funding this land, with under 3 weeks to go...please watch, absorb and feel the embodied integrity of what is being stewarded here: and support those that are getting their hands dirty and walking the talk! ๐น๐ชบ๐
I'm DEEPLY touched by Miracle Project & Fundaรงรฃo Terra Agora: with their vision and process in freeing a mountain/land/watersheds, campaigning to buy 15,5 football fields of burned land in Central Portugal, never to be sold again and only to be used for regenerative purposes...True land stewardship over ownership: trailblazing a (new) path in relating to land and regeneration.
I just supported their vibrant and visionary project: they are almost half way to funding this land, with under 3 weeks to go...please watch, absorb and feel the embodied integrity of what is being stewarded here: and support those that are getting their hands dirty and walking the talk! ๐น๐ชบ๐
โค3
Forwarded from Michelle Malou
๐ We're Freeing a Mountain!
This is a story for those who want to believe in miracles.
During a raging forest fire, a small brave bird started carrying water to it.
One drop fit in his beak. Tirelessly he flew from the lake to the fire, dropped it in, and flew back.
The other animals told him he was making no difference. The fire was only getting bigger.
But he didn't want to stop. He wanted to do ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
So he kept going. One drop at a time.
Eventually the other animals couldn't bear to watch and do nothing. One by one, they joined him.
At least the fire stopped growing.
Then the elephants came. It didn't take long before the fire was out.
The little bird had done the impossible.
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This is the essence of the Miracle Project, co-founded by Raymundo Resink;
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Water cycles restored, syntropic agroforestry, and the land owning itself again, with people as its stewards.
And importantly: money used as fuel to restore what has been exploited, extracted, and damaged.
"People need to see what's possible. We need living examples."
๐ป First milestone: securing the 11 hectares in Central Portugal that burned, so the regeneration can begin.
This is your invitation to help and carry water!
โก๏ธ ๐ณ Here is the link to the fundraiser
Will you help us carry water? ๐
WATCH THE VIDEO AND SHARE THIS MESSAGE WITH PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BE BYSTANDERS. โคต๏ธ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKwsa4YG2Y&t=1s
This is a story for those who want to believe in miracles.
During a raging forest fire, a small brave bird started carrying water to it.
One drop fit in his beak. Tirelessly he flew from the lake to the fire, dropped it in, and flew back.
The other animals told him he was making no difference. The fire was only getting bigger.
But he didn't want to stop. He wanted to do ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
So he kept going. One drop at a time.
Eventually the other animals couldn't bear to watch and do nothing. One by one, they joined him.
At least the fire stopped growing.
Then the elephants came. It didn't take long before the fire was out.
The little bird had done the impossible.
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This is the essence of the Miracle Project, co-founded by Raymundo Resink;
S
mall-scale models of a thriving planet, built by reviving ecosystems and reinventing how we live, work and relateWater cycles restored, syntropic agroforestry, and the land owning itself again, with people as its stewards.
And importantly: money used as fuel to restore what has been exploited, extracted, and damaged.
"People need to see what's possible. We need living examples."
๐ป First milestone: securing the 11 hectares in Central Portugal that burned, so the regeneration can begin.
This is your invitation to help and carry water!
โก๏ธ ๐ณ Here is the link to the fundraiser
Will you help us carry water? ๐
WATCH THE VIDEO AND SHARE THIS MESSAGE WITH PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BE BYSTANDERS. โคต๏ธ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKwsa4YG2Y&t=1s
YouTube
#9 Weโre Freeing a โLostโ Mountain ๐ Hereโs How [English narration]
๐ Help us prototype a New Earth โ adopt a piece of planet: https://MiracleProject.earth/free-a-mountain
๐ต๐น Para a narraรงรฃo em portuguรชs, vai para https://youtu.be/1ycGdrknKGM
๐ณ๐ฑ Voor Nederlandse vertelling, ga naar https://youtu.be/hRBW1XLH7x8
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๐ต๐น Para a narraรงรฃo em portuguรชs, vai para https://youtu.be/1ycGdrknKGM
๐ณ๐ฑ Voor Nederlandse vertelling, ga naar https://youtu.be/hRBW1XLH7x8
๐ฌ SUBTITLESโฆ
