We meet Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm CST except the last Wednesday of each month from May to December of 2021 to read a chapter a week from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer as a sacred text. Our goals are: to integrate the teachings offered throughout this book into our daily lives and practices. toContinue reading “Braiding Sweetgrass Weekly Sacred Circle”
Author Archives: Sonia LeBlanc
Raise a Glass…
I just learned that Sir Ken Robinson passed away today. He was my gateway drug to self directed learning. In 2007, I watched his first ted talk which is now the most watched you tube video of all time. I went on to devour his books and research and I used it in many waysContinue reading “Raise a Glass…”
The Labyrinth
(a story from my program offering Retrieval: Self… Soul… Story…) A while ago, in the year leading up to my 42nd birthday in fact, I read something about how the body physiologically renews itself every 7 or so years. At the time I was deep into my own radical self awareness journey that I have sharedContinue reading “The Labyrinth”
Shift…
You can be a country that was under a dictatorship from the 1930s until the late 1970s and then come out of that, and in 2020 when you have seen the devastation of a global pandemic ravaging humanity, you can make decisions in your country about how to protect your citizens and have that putContinue reading “Shift…”
Pour Forth…
a contemplation by sonia fernández leblanc pour forth the magic that is held within the vessel of your soul. vessels are for pouring, for emptying… then filling again, fresh. if a vessel can not fulfill its natural meditation of filling up and pouring out, that which is inside becomes stagnant, stale. emptying… refilling from Source…Continue reading “Pour Forth…”
Fear…
October is a time to connect with ancestral bridges that offer a chance to drop into deep understanding of ourselves and the fear we carry, to untangle the frustrations that fear brings up every day. A tremendous part of my daily inner work on self and outer work as a staff member, spokesperson, and parentContinue reading “Fear…”
Flames through the Broken
On September 16, 2013, I broke by all mainstream standards. Two years ago, around the 4 year anniversary of the break, I wrote a beautiful message to myself about how I was beginning to heal myself from the broken and I compared my broken to how I felt the world was in the Fall ofContinue reading “Flames through the Broken”
Spinning…
There is a story that is told about me when I was very young. It goes like this: When I was three years old I went to an iceskating birthday party for a friend who was a year older than me. It was my first time on the ice. I was fearless. I was offContinue reading “Spinning…”
