Your next stage of evolution is calling
Many, many years ago I came across a piece of writing called, A Hopi Elder Speaks. Since, I have shared it with many students in my yoga classes across the world. It’s a prophecy shared by the elders of the Hopi Nation. Even after all these years, it still moves me to tears every time I read it. It’s like poetry to me… I literally feel it in my bones, moving through me as if it were a treasured memory, a sort of long lost knowing.
I share this with you today, inviting you to take a sacred pause for just a few minutes with your daily tasks and duties. While the things you need to get done may be very important, I will reveal to you a self-mastery and heart-centered leadership ‘secret’ that has served me, my productivity, my creative problem solving, and my work in the world in the most profound way…
We often think we don’t have time for the sacred (meditation, reflection, prayer, ritual, and so forth), yet what I have come to realize is this:
To speed up, we must slow down
Before reading the words of the Hopi elders below, take this 4-part Dynamic Release Breath I teach to my students. It will help your nervous system re-set, calming your thoughts, attuning your awareness, and opening you to your intuitive faculties:
inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth
inhale through the nose, exhale through the nose
inhale through the nose, exhale with a sigh
inhale through the nose, exhale in any way that feels most freeing to you right now
(through your mouth, nose, with a sigh, a flutter of the lips, a scream…there is not wrong here)
And now, A Hopi elder speaks…
You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water? Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
If this resonated with you, then I invite you to join me in community (because yes, the time of the lone wolf is over) for EVOLVE 2020: a free workshop to summon your true power and forge your year with soul.
Reserve your seat here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/evolve-2020/register
*This is a virtual workshop, happening Friday, January 10th 4:30pm PST/ 7:30pm EST. Block off 90-minutes for this experience. Bring a journal, your favorite relaxing beverage, a candle and anything else that feels soothing and sacred to you.
To bringing our full selves to the world…together,
