by JoAnne Dodgson | Oct 1, 2023 | Blog
“I don’t think I can do it,” I whispered, tears stuck in my throat. Jaguar stirred, yawning and stretching. She leaned over the tree branch, glancing toward me. “Can’t do what?” she asked. “I don’t think I can...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog
What would it be like to have a world of relationships free of judgments, hierarchies, and fears? Soak in the medicines, the gifts shared in our ceremony, about weaving relationships with regard for everyone’s well-being, with collaboration, love, spaciousness...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog
This is the Bridge Time, according to the elders. The out of balance, unsustainable, upside down world is taking itself apart. Bridge Time is a passage between worlds. We are standing in the midst of flowing rivers of change. How will we get across to the other...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 2, 2023 | Blog
Soak in the medicines and doctoring from the spirits, a clip from our Throwing the Bones Ceremony, August Full Moon...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 21, 2023 | Blog
Jasmine bounded ahead, tracking scented trails invisible to my human eyes and ears and nose. Fully in the adventure of her four-legged aliveness, she ignited my curiosity about the stories she was gathering up. She had a world of knowing about who had been by,...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 7, 2023 | Blog
An elegant deer took a few tentative steps onto the two-lane highway, looking here and there, ears shifting around, gathering information, assessing how and when to make her journey to the other side. I stopped in the middle of the road and turned on the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jun 9, 2023 | Blog
Ancestral Intelligence (AI – the organic kind) Wide-open wings caught the rays of the sun as a red-tailed hawk soared from the sky landed with grace in a juniper tree just a few steps ahead on my hike in the desert mesas Wonder filled the spaciousness between...
by JoAnne Dodgson | May 23, 2023 | Blog
I just spent a few days in Southern Colorado, soaking in hot springs and wandering around the lands of Chimney Rock. These healing places have been calling me back, again and again, for almost twenty years. Here is some beauty and magic to share… Lunchtime...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 24, 2023 | Blog
When I arrived at the center where our ceremony was to take place, I was told there’d been a scheduling snafu. The center had overbooked the afternoon, so we’d have to start late and end early to squeeze the ceremony in between other events. I felt...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 22, 2023 | Blog
Enjoy these gifts from the Spirits in our community Throwing the Bones Ceremony. Bear, Lioness, Whale… listen to the callings from our companions on...
