Dr. Kristi - The Shaking Your Tree Experience

"Sometimes what we thought we wanted arrives in a different package than we expected.

But when we unwrap it, it is far more beautiful than we ever could have imagined.

It is the gift that we never asked for, but we never knew we needed.

And so, always be open to the gifts that life brings you, for sometimes they are hidden in the most unlikely of places.

And remember that just because what you wanted does not appear exactly how you envisioned it would, that does not make it any less special or significant.”

~~ by Tahlia Hunter

[Artist unknown]

Are you ready to come up to the surface, stretch, spread your wings, and try them out?

Our Friday Spiral Up ~ The Gathering Space for Seasonal Growth healing group awaits you.

We come to Spiral Up to support our own
🌀 Soul Growth
🌀 Self-care
🌀 Seasonal Health

It’s time to fly…

Are you mindfully tending to your Rootball of Relationship?
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There was a time you longed for people to love you. You prayed that they’d see or hear you.

You wished they could see the depth, truth, and message in front of them.

Their words, actions, and mindsets pushed you away, but you always pulled yourself back.

You made excuses like: “But I love her/him/them” “But that’s family” “But they’ve been in my life for so long”.

Until you finally told yourself “I can’t.”

There are some pains, tactics, and revelations you can’t bounce back from or unsee—so you don’t.

You just never come back.

To the person that has removed themselves from that group, friendship, or relationship—trust and believe that sometimes the right decision doesn’t always feel good and is seldom understood by the masses.

Choose your peace, well-being, and self-love anyway.

Some roads are difficult to leave behind but destructive to stay on...

~ Morgan Richard Olivier

Dr. Kristi - The Shaking Your Tree Experience

Shaking Your Tree Community ~ The Global Forest of SYT Grads

What an incredible session we had today in Spiral Up ~ The SYT Community for Cultivating Seasonal Growth!

What a joyful and compassionate sacred circle we had today ~ the full range of emotions, from celebrating to grieving…

You ladies are the highlight of my week! ✨🙏🏼✨

✨💚 As Above ~ So Below 💚✨

Trees offer numerous benefits

🌳 **CO2 absorption and oxygen production:** One tree absorbs about 22 kg of CO2 per year and produces enough oxygen for two people. This contributes significantly to improving air quality.

🌿 **Soil stabilization:** With its deep roots, a tree stabilizes the soil and prevents erosion. The roots improve the soil structure and increase the water retention capacity of the soil.

🌳 **Climate regulation:** Trees reflect and absorb some solar radiation, which helps to cool the environment. A single tree can have the cooling effect of ten air conditioners.

🌿 **Cloud formation and precipitation:** Through evaporation, trees contribute to cloud formation and thus have a positive influence on the local microclimate and precipitation.

🌳 **Soil fertility:** Leaves that fall to the ground decompose and serve as food for the soil. This promotes soil fertility and supports the growth of other plants.

🌿 **Nutrient cycling:** Trees provide sugars to the mycelium in exchange for nutrients, which promotes soil life and supports ecosystem health.

🌳 **Air purification:** Trees absorb dust and pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide, which significantly improves air quality.

🌿 **Habitat:** Trees provide habitat and food for a variety of animals, including birds, insects and rodents, thus promoting biodiversity.

🌳 **Sound and visual protection:** Trees can act as a natural sound and visual barrier, which is particularly beneficial in urban areas.

🌿 **Shade and protection:** Trees provide shade and protection from UV radiation, which pleasantly cools the local microclimate.

Additionally, it can be mentioned:

📊 **Economic benefits:** Urban trees can increase property values and reduce energy costs by providing natural cooling.

📈 **Health benefits:** Spending time near trees and green spaces reduces stress, improves mental health and promotes physical activity.

**Conclusion:** In addition to CO2 reduction, a tree provides freshness, water and oxygen. Trees are an indispensable technology that can save us! Plant trees, plant hedges. 👍

Brené Brown

“You know I love a good metaphor! In this conversation, Amy compares the unpredictable change that's happening right now to hitting a patch of ice while you're driving. She explains that we have to resist the human reflex to slam on the brakes and instead steer into the ice.

It's the perfect metaphor because that out-of-control spin-y feeling is exactly how most of us feel right now.

I think you're going to really love her take on the world, the three trends that make up the current ‘super cycle’ of change (AI, wearable technology, and biotechnology), and the need to increase our capacity for uncertainty (ugh).”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/futurist-amy-webb-on-whats-coming-and-whats-here/id1730985049?i=1000653430864

"Depth occurs when we seek to go underneath the surface sensation, emotion, or tendency and into the core essence of something.

There are always textures, truths, and essences beneath the surface of our emotions, our s*x, or our environments.

We can attune to them at any moment, feeling into the root of a difficult emotion, the base of your heart, or the present moment, for example.

Revealing the parts of you that you may want to hide -- or connecting to the source of a flower in bloom -- requires intention, focus, and feeling.

The by-product of doing so is peace, openness, and radical aliveness."

~~ John Wineland

The Art of Healthy Detachment ~ Today's topic and theme in our weekly sacred women's circle time that meets Fridays from 12-1:30pm.

Shaking Your Tree Community ~ The Global Forest of SYT Grads

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

~Ram Dass

~ ✨Experiencing the Now ✨ ~
Staying Grounded and Anchored
~ ✨ Watching it Manifest ✨ ~

Observe how you are feeling, reacting, and responding during this rare alignment and transition time.

As we literally enter a new era, a reset and special new beginning marked in time… notice to what, where, and to whom are you being drawn?

~ Are you spiraling up?
~ Are you able to walk forward?
~ Are you ready to grow beyond patterns, habits, and situations?

Pay attention. Listen to your emerging wisdom!

Integrate. Be Patient.
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Grateful for the Communication style of Lorna at Hare in the Moon Astrology

One for the Memory Books….an Eclipse on Steroids 4.8.24

In one of the most impactful celestial events of 2024 and beyond, on April 8th the Aries Super Moon Total Solar Eclipse is going to be one for the memory books. In a double whammy, the total solar eclipse in groundbreaking, fearless Aries is also a Super New Moon - an eclipse on steroids.

Expect a stunning spectacle as the eclipse shadow sweeps through the daytime sky across Mexico, the USA and Eastern Canada. Globally, we’ll all feel the lights out effects of this lunation - a switch-off/re-boot and solar planetary pause.

Radiating in all directions from the exact moment of the eclipse, a pronounced ripple in the space-time continuum will disrupt your physical, nervous and somatic system, leaving you feeling fritzed and fried, tired, wired and emotional.

It also has the potential to disrupt the Earth’s crust and its seismic field has already caused earthquakes in Taiwan and New York.

This eclipse-just like Pluto entering Aquarius-is an evolutionary game changer. The eclipsed Sun/Moon at 18 Aries are exactly conjunct Chiron, the bridge between Saturn and Uranus, between the inner personal planets and the outer transpersonal planets, between lower human consciousness and evolving consciousness.

It is delivering a stairstep from old separated duality polarised reality to new integrated high triality frequency just in time for the electric Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in Ta**us between April 18-26th.

The collective, global and personal impact/ repercussions/ fallout of this total eclipse will be felt for the next 6 months to the next solar eclipse in Libra on October 2 2024.

With the Sun/Moon/Chiron/ Mercury/Eris all clustered in Martian Aries linked to a heavyweight Mars/Saturn conjunction in Pisces and volatile Uranus in Ta**us, the stakes will be very high amid threats of war and brinkmanship.

Eclipses conceal the truth, so much that is hidden will not be revealed until late May.

On a personal level, look back to April 2005 to the last Solar eclipse at 19° Aries to track the evolving themes in your own life. This is another every 18.65 years’ opportunity to climb the spiral of your evolution.

Something is ending and the new is not yet visible. Take your time. Instead of being caught up in the drama of eclipses and solar flares, ground your expanding energy field and embodiment.

This eclipse is dispensing pure Chironic medicine of magnetic physical healing, repair and integration - don’t jump straight into the Next before you experience the Now.

• create consistent daily foundations to transition you to the new energy

• if you experience sudden splits from people, situations, careers, roles and beliefs that no longer resonate with you, they are likely to be permanent

• with so much of your old infrastructure knocked out, start thinking about how to reshape your life in the image of what you want to be doing, not what you did in the past
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Today, I am touched deeply with gratitude.

Bathed in the powerful energy that comes from gathering in a sacred circle with like-minded souls, all healing and unlearning. Releasing.

We…
🪷 Practice the Art of Self-connection
🪷 Wrestle with Forgiveness
🪷 Lean into our Vulnerability
🪷 Hold each other Accountable
🪷 Grow and Spiral Up Together
🪷 Are Change Agents

Blessed to surround myself with brilliant, intelligent, raw, and real Phenomenal Women every Friday in our sacred circle gathering.

✨ Namaste ~ Honoring Women Today! ✨

Spiral Up ~ The SYT Community for Cultivating Seasonal Growth

Dr. Kristi - The Shaking Your Tree Experience

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:

✨ When did you stop dancing?
✨ When did you stop singing?
✨ When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
✨ When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?

~ Gabrielle Roth

I love Fridays ~ it’s Spiral Up ~ The SYT Community for Cultivating Seasonal Growth day!

Our Friday noon group offers the opportunity to pause and to get centered, connect with souls on their own precious healing journey, regenerate and recalibration from the busy flow of life.

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My Whispered Name

"There is an energy that ebbs out from the leaves.
Even after they fall to the ground,
they still call to me and whisper my name,
although it is not the same
as that my mother gave me.

It is ancient and in a tongue I forget…
a lyrical language like a long ago melody
crooning to the heart of me
so far away and yet so familiar and familial."

~~ P. R. Lowe:

Image source: WallpaperBetter

Rotation Completion

The Holly King handing over his crown to the Oak King in the spirit of honoring the turn of the wheel. It is such a wonderful time of the year, today we celebrate the lengthening of the daylight and the return of our guiding light.

Artist | morgainelefee deviantart

“Everyone is born with a light inside of them. In our early years, it is switched off because we are unaware that it exists, but it turns on once we recognize and awaken to it.

Many people marvel at other people's lights, not realizing the light that exists within themselves and that the purpose of other people shining their light was never to distract them from discovering their own light but to remind them of the light that has always existed within them.

This light may be found and switched on at any point in time; it is simply a matter of them awakening to their own worthiness, beauty and magnificence.

And so may you let the light you see in others inspire you to find the light within, for though you may admire the light that exists in others, and their unique expression of it, it is the same light that exists within all.”

~ Tahlia Hunter

Artist | Asmo Grimae

For those of you who are in Spiral Up ~ The SYT Community for Cultivating Seasonal Growth, we ARE meeting today. ✨🙏🏼✨

Sacred Session zoom at 12pm CT as always. Zoom link in your PB account.

Woke up to my dear friend and colleague Dr Michael Stone sending me this picture from one of our previous trips teaching in China, pre-pandemic. Divine reminder.

This picture is from on of our hikes in the forest high above Beijing, it was my last trip to China in March/April 2019 was the end of an era for me, I came home changed, for the better. More closely connected to my soul and my path. I came back to the beginning of the next chapter for me and my purpose.

I met my life partner Merrick Morlan and a new era started that allowed me to dive deeper into my children, to anchor my family, and then the pandemic began.

Astrologically, that era is closing, I learned so much about my self and my path. I am stronger than I ever thought. I am braver than I ever knew. I love more fiercely and kindly than I have before. I found self-compassion and can hear my truth through all the mind chatter with more clarity than ever before. I am surrounded by the most amazing tribe of souls with an aligned mission and fire in their belly.

The life lessons are coming fill circle. The spiral is transcending up , the next era is beginning. ✨🙏🏼✨ I am ready. What a beautiful reminder from Dr Stone. Namaste.

What if the mermaids are all of the women
Cast overboard ‘cause of old superstition
Drowning beneath the waves, gasping for breath
Then forging a tail with the strength they have left?

And what if the dragons, with their breath ablaze
Were once little lizards all thrown to the flames
Choking on smoke and then swallowing flares
Then rising up, claiming that power as theirs?

And maybe the vampires favour the night
‘Cause they’ve been kept in the dark most of their lives
Starved of companions, affection and love
‘Til they have no choice but to feed on our blood

Yes, what if these creatures of magic and myth
Are those who’ve known darkness but chosen to live
Chosen to breathe and to rise and survive
To harness adversity, hoping they’ll thrive?

And what if you too have been thrown to the waves,
Befriended the night and encountered the flames
And so you’ve assumed that you’re destined to burn,
To drown in the darkness -

But what if you learned…

That maybe your story is not over yet
That there are still pages that need to be read
Pages of oceans that you’re yet to swim,
Fiery chapters for you to breathe in

Lines built on words that are so full of light
Of such warmth and strength, they inspire you to write

And what if you choose now to pick up a pen
And write through the night ‘til you come to the end?

And what if you read it back?

Well, then you’ll find
That your story has always held magic inside

Author | Becky Hemsley 2022

Art | Demelsa Haughton

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This is WHY I birthed The Shaking Your Tree Experience, to guide others through a root-cause approach, as they write their life story in a way that provokes deep epiphanies that spark further healing and life transformation.

YOU ARE NATURE

There is a reason why walking amongst nature is most people’s best advice when depression strikes.

Because walking in nature is a return to ‘home’.
You are not a lover of nature, or a fan of nature, you ‘are’ nature.

You are as much nature as the trees in your garden and the bees on your picnic.

You were designed to live your days out in the wild with your fellow creatures and plants but progress, humanity, had different plans for us all.

And so we exist day-to-day, in our homes, but never ‘home’.

The quickest route back to self, to inner peace, is bare feet on grass, arms around trees, head in the clouds and heart in a forest.

Put your bones in water, whenever you can, smell each flower you see and crumble dirt between your tired-of-typing fingers.

You are nature, go home once in a while.

It will bring you much you didn’t even know you were missing.

Author | Donna Ashworth
Wild Hope; a book of short poems

"There are seasons of the heart. There are seasons in our lives, just as there are seasons to all of nature. These seasons cannot be forced any more than one can force the coming of spring by pulling at tender blades of grass to make them grow. It took me a while to understand."

~ Melody Beattie

YOU ARE NATURE

There is a reason why walking amongst nature is most people’s best advice when depression strikes.

Because walking in nature is a return to ‘home’.
You are not a lover of nature, or a fan of nature, you ‘are’ nature.

You are as much nature as the trees in your garden and the bees on your picnic.

You were designed to live your days out in the wild with your fellow creatures and plants but progress, humanity, had different plans for us all.

And so we exist day-to-day, in our homes, but never ‘home’.

The quickest route back to self, to inner peace, is bare feet on grass, arms around trees, head in the clouds and heart in a forest.

Put your bones in water, whenever you can, smell each flower you see and crumble dirt between your tired-of-typing fingers.

You are nature, go home once in a while.

It will bring you much you didn’t even know you were missing.

~ Donna Ashworth
Wild Hope; a book of short poems

Starting the process of moving my passion project Dr. Kristi - The Shaking Your Tree Experience into a self-guided Root-cause Medicine online course.

I’m looking forward to our new format that will break the content and coaching experience into progressive levels of self-care, rooted in the principles of Funtional and Lifestyle Medicine.

The four modules will roll out over 2024, as we are scheduled to release one after another. Then I’m February, I’m excited to add a live weekly healing group where we can gather to process our experience of self-awareness, self-compassion, as we shake our tree, clearing the path for growth and true healing.

You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You simply come to know yourself
as Life Itself.

And you turn towards the wounded place.
And you flush it with attention,
which is Love.

And maybe the wound will always be with you.
Maybe you will always walk with the hurt.
But now, you hold it. It doesn't hold you.
You are the container, not the contained.

It doesn't control you any longer, the wound.
Because it is drenched in awareness now.
Drenched in You.
Loved by You.
Even celebrated by You.

You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You find healing 'in' the trauma.
You find yourself at trauma's sacred core.

The One who is always present.
The One who can bear
even the most intense feeling states.

And survive.

The Indestructible One.
The Infinite One.
The Powerful One.
You.

~~ Jeff Foster

Falling in love is an enchanted experience, a sudden eruption of color in a previously black-and-white world.

The alchemy of love transforms the ordinary into the mystical and the mundane into the charmed.

Routine encounters suddenly occur as rich in nuance and possibility and commonplace tasks take on new meaning and depth.

Yet, just as easy as we are caught up in this cyclone of delight, we can also be dropped from the sky with nothing but the cold, hard earth to break our fall . . . . Love does not promise to heal all wounds and make straight all crooked paths. Rather, love will often es**rt you straight into the most wounded parts of yourself, leading you round and round in some strange circuitous route right into the heart of disaster.

It is better, therefore, to separate the magic of enchantment from the experience of falling in love. We need to know that the mystical heights to which we aspire are not necessarily dependent upon any one person or any one kind of relationship.

Love must be regarded as less the phenomenon of a particular connection, and more as a state of heart, body, mind, and soul that we are seeking to attain.

For it is this intensely alive state of being, this thriving and optimistic perspective on life that we enviously long for as we surreptitiously observe new lovers at play.

We yearn to be so naive, so happy, so connected, and so inspired. It is the brass ring, the gold medal, the Academy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize rolled up into one.

Its source is not necessarily to be found in a lover, however. Its source can be found within each and every one of us.

~ Katherine Woodward Thomas