Somatic Writing
Prayer Intensive
with Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
During our Somatic Writing Prayer Intensive, we will work at the nexus, the liminal intersection of body, soul, and spirit. In a process called Story Archeology, our deepest stories will reveal themselves as we peel back the layers in our soma where our stories are stored or frozen. Through our writing, we will bring in resources, such as our ancestors, animal and nature guides, and our connection to pleasure, in order to open to our stories, and our bodies, in a radically different way.
What story does your body want you to hear?
By Janet Conner | | Prayer Practices
The Year of the Body: Week 8 Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, When people hear my name, their first thought is: oh, yes, that woman who wrote a book on soul writing. And that is me. I did write Writing Down Your Soul and tens of thousands of people have read it and begun a mystical…
Your body knows something valuable about you
By Janet Conner | | Redefined Witch
The Year of the Body: Week 7 in which our bodies reveal the true source of our value, great ideas, and confidence Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. In theory, it’s a sweet holiday but in reality, children’s hearts are broken when they don’t receive many valentines.…
Let’s talk about that icy black puddle you keep stepping in…
By Janet Conner | | Redefined Witch
The Year of the Body: Week 6 in which Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow and winter continues…or maybe not! Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, This week was ripe with mystical dates. Dates that, if it weren’t for the humorous celebration of Groundhog Day, I would have missed. And I bet you missed them too.…
A message from Perdita Finn–and the Dead!
By Janet Conner | | Mystical
The Year of the Body: Week 5 Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, What is it with January? Typically, January is presented as little more than a commercial moment in which to purchase new diets and exercise programs to create the new, thinner, and therefore happier you. But then the real January comes along. And…
Your dead are calling. Do you know how to listen?
By Janet Conner | | Redefined Witch
Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, And we thought 2020 was intense. Ha! In just three Wednesdays, we’ve reeled from watching a live insurrection on TV, to applauding the second impeachment of a vain and traitorous president, to celebrating an inauguration like no other. No wonder our bodies are reeling. The body is the…
It’s time to Take Back the Magic
By Janet Conner | | Redefined Witch
As we enter week 3 in 2021, the year of the body, we can’t help but wonder what will happen now? None of us knows for sure; we’re all holding our breath. You may not be conscious of it, but you probably haven’t taken a long sweet cleansing breath since you saw a crazed right-wing mob…
Your body knows what really happened this week
By Janet Conner | | Redefined Witch
We just lived through the first week of 2021. A year, I said in last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, would be the year of the BODY. And what a first week! We watched an angry mob of white male bodies screaming and circling the US Capitol building, crash into the building and crush the…
2021–The Year of the Body
By Janet Conner | | Divine Feminine
Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, and everyone lining up to welcome 2021, As we say goodbye to the wild four years of 2020, I’m reminded once more that the numbers themselves hold a lot of wisdom and magic for us. The four isn’t actually departing. She kicked off a whole decade of four, so each…
A radical Astrology forecast for 2021
By Janet Conner | | Mystical
Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, and everyone waiting with bated breath for the 2021 forecast, As I sit down to write this final Notes from the Field for 2020, my internal eye skims over the 50 letters I’ve written this year. In the stillness, I listen for a theme, a story, a song to…
Is tonight the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
By Janet Conner | | Mystical
“Stop being so small. You have the whole universe within you.” Rumi Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, Tonight, Sunday, December 20 is the eve of a most auspicious Winter (Summer down under) Solstice. For the first time in 800 years, Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets in our solar system, are coming so close that…