January 3, 2013 We Begin...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!          2013

Today marks the beginning of my third year of teaching a class on the Chakra System.  It's always exciting to begin a journey and today has that feeling for me.  For those new to this blog, you can check out the first year at:  wheelsoflife-maryfrank -- (just google it).

The second year was marked by a personal tragedy -- the loss of my son, Matt -- which halted my continuation of the blog, but what there is of it, is also available to read at : year 2- healing the chakras.

Now we're in the third year.  2013.  Wow.  We've been through the end of the world -- 2012 -- the end of the Mayan Calendar -- the end in some way for all of us.  And now we have a chance for a new beginning.  All it takes is saying Yes.  Stepping Up.  Taking Action!

Where this takes you is up to you.
What do you want?  What are you willing to commit to?

The drawing introducing this series is one I made in a workshop I attended back in 1999 -- way back in another century!  The workshop was called, MATURE WOMEN'S ANCIENT INITIATION RITES -- big title, and important time for me.  We explored the Dionysian mystery rites for women held in the city of Pompeii.  These rites were depicted on the walls of a villa buried in the 70 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.  Through a series of images collected in a book entitled, Villa of Mysteries, by Linda Fierz-David, we, as a group, dared open to the dark, the dangerous, the fearful, exciting, unknown, mystery that is ourself.

One of the first things we did was to make a drawing on how we would welcome the God (the Dionysian spirit).  Throughout the twelve weeks of the class, we continued to embellish our "kista mystika" (an instinctual guidance within which leads downward to the light under the earth).  I drew the Chakras -- from instinct, not from outer knowledge.

It's fourteen years later and I'm still working with these amazing centers of energy. Now teaching this inner journey along with Kundalini Yoga -- a practice to bring us to ourselves --
our True Self -- our Sat Nam.

Those of you in Santa Fe, I hope to see you in class -- 9 AM today.  Others please follow along...