by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog
Taking baby steps. When these words are spoken to describe a process of making change, there tends to be a hint of judgment. The “smallness” needs justification. It’s a disclaimer, of sorts. As though the steps and the step-taker aren’t quite enough. As if the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog
On my morning bike ride, I noticed people walking toward me with a few dogs on leashes. In their exuberant explorations, the dogs were romping around roadside to roadside. As we neared each other, we began navigating the crossing of our paths. The women corralled...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 30, 2020 | Blog
I saw the coyote peering back at me through the sagebrush. So highly attentive and tuned into the world around her, she was aware of my presence even with the window and adobe wall between us. With ease and grace, she turned away and disappeared among the trees. Even...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
Our New Moon gathering, a Throwing of the Bones Ceremony, was immersed in a field of magic. We were joined by booming Thunder Beings, crackling jolts of Lightning, Winds and Rains. Just as I began describing the medicine of Butterfly who is sitting in the heart of the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 11, 2020 | Blog
I was instructed by the spirits to find a special stone to bring to ceremony with groups of people. This guidance was perplexing. I’d recently moved across the country and just had let go of my license as a psychologist. Most everything in my life felt unsettled. My...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog
These past few months, I’ve been learning about masks. How to sew them. When to wear them. How to navigate six-feet of separation. How to communicate with muffled words and smiles unseen. For the past twenty years, I’ve been learning about masks in a different...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jun 16, 2020 | Blog
How can we heal the legacies of trauma and rebuild our lives and our world? Listen to these clips for guidance from Throwing of the Bones Ceremony. Vision & Root From the Inside Out Pathway to New Beginnings ...
by JoAnne Dodgson | May 30, 2020 | Blog
I went to the red rock mesas to be in ceremony to grieve for so many with so many for so much I went to the red rock mesas to sit on sacred grounds to breathe – everybody’s birthright to listen to be in the field of a wide-open embrace of the unbound love...
by JoAnne Dodgson | May 19, 2020 | Blog
“There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen Here we are in a global pandemic. Not the first time as humans. Not the first immense shifting in life on our planet. Still, here we are. I’m wondering how...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 18, 2020 | Blog
In the midst of quarantines and closures within each of us lives a spaciousness ready and waiting to be found. You are as vast as a star. Mother Earth is showing us the instinctive power of healing in what looks like magic in the organic unfolding in just a few weeks:...
