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I am always flummoxed by the way time moves us through space. It has been a month since I posted on the website, and well babes, a whole heck of a lot has happened. On April 10th and 11th I trained a small pilot cohort of 4 individuals, all previous students of my herbal teachings and accomplices in community, plus 2 auditors. It was both a breeze and nerve wrecking in a way that I can only explain as- I wanted to do my very best for people I care for and love deeply in my heart. I have so much confidence in their ability to take this new healing technology, 5NP, and reach people in communities that may not be reached for nervous system and substance abuse care. I was nervous with the responsibility to do this teaching in a good way. To pass the knowledge down and the spirit of the medicine in such a way that it can live in them. Added fuel to the already bright fires they all carry. It felt extra special because I was able to teach in the bedroom of the late cicely b. rodgers. cicely wanted her home to be a shared community space of learning- Reclaiming ancestral ways of being and Political Education. It felt bittersweet, I cried many tears while preparing the room for class. I spoke to her a lot while Selin, her partner, and I put up the projection screen. Played with the curtains and set up a the seating. It was a real change of an era for Fehu House. Fehu, a rune representing cattle, community wealth. cicely talked about Fehu a lot. With her friends, her partner, and asked us to think on what community wealth meant to us. For me these days, community wealth is our inherited technologies-healing modalities, security modalities, magic, and lessons in failure. I think about how I can help to build our community wealth and true wisdom. I learned a lot from this pilot training and am in the process of reorganizing the slide deck and polishing the online classroom platform. In the time outside of preparing for the training, acquiring the materials for training, and setting up the space for the training. I have also been offering 5NP at the Herb House on 1st and 3rd Thursdays. from 5-8pm (last person seated at 730pm). You can find a calendy link on Contact tab to book a 30 min session! You can also schedule time with me if you wanna scheme up a pop up ear clinic or a training for your crew. I have also been offering care clinic pop ups and home visits. BUSY! I KNOW I have been allowing time for rest. I give myself time before a training (3 days) and time after a training (3 more days) because I NEED that time! I need it to rest, digest and integrate, to pray and to meditate, to just rest and let my body do what it needs. I also tend to my body. I am in recovery for disordered eating and I am working to feed my meat suit regularly. And y'all if you aren't in a practice of feeding yourself, it is hard to develop the practice. So yeah, feeding myself, cleaning my house and doing my laundry, spending time with my old man dogs and getting body movement in ! It's A LOT! I'm disabled. I have 3 chronic illnesses (physical body) and 2 chronic mental health illnesses. Resting and tending to my capacity has been a hard lesson and practice but it's VITAL for may ability to show up in a good way for my community. For my beloved relatives, comrades, accomplices, in the struggle. And because I take the responsibility of walking with this Medicine of 5NP, so very seriously, I am also very committed to tending to my self. I feel so grateful and truly blessed with luck to get to live this life and do the things I get to do. I believe it to be my centli, my purpose, and I want to be able to walk with this medicine in a good way. I owe it to the ancestors of Craft and Spirit along side my ancestors of Blood. I am humbled by the brilliance of this cohort. I am ready to hold the respondsibilty of supporting their journey in holding this Medicine, and I invite you to also send up a little bit of love and support to these brilliant earthlings who have already been doing community labor. May their path with 5NP be a sweet one, a path of continued learning, moments of being humbled, and moment of the kind of joy that makes your eyes fill up with tears and wonder how beauty can exist along side so much destruction. May we be the tenders in the rubble and the supporters of the reconstruction. In a good way. The next training is May 15th and 16th 10am -4pm and 10- 5pm respectively If you are interested in joining the second cohort to train to be a 5NP Tech, send me an email on my contact page. If you want to help send someone to training you can send a gift of money to @lettydogheart on my venmo with the tag- Supporting 5NP. $50 covers some of the materials for training. Any amount is welcomed. This one was for you cicely. I love you and miss you so so much. We keep pushing. Love! Solidarity letty learn more about 5NP here
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