How would you feel if you knew there was a way to “transform” those horrible voices and the demons that haunt you?

Machig Lopdron was a yogini and enlightened being who inspired many with her visionary meditation practice of Chod.

She was a simple woman like you and me who had the awareness that suffering was a part of the mind that could be “fed” food to satisfy and embrace the part that is causing pain, with compassion.

In this act, transformation can occur.

Come and join this amazing circle of folks who are willing to “invite their demons into their heart for tea and cookies!” ( what a radical concept!)

We will be doing shamanic teachings from various traditions and using the western approach to the chod practice taught by Lama Tsultrum Allione.

Please come for a day of deep inner healing!

Cost: $100 ( sliding scale if needed)

Please register by April 15th as the class is half full already.

Location: The Polarity Center& Shamanic Studies

Times: 10-5

See you there!

In this weekend class we will learn the ancient teaching from shamanic and Tibetan Bhuddist traditions for your own death and preparing others, including family and friends.

We will also learn the practice of Phowa and the shamanic technique of Psycopomp, which help lost spirits to pass over.

There will be shamanic journeying and teachings on the bardo.

Please come as this class is open to all.

Cost: $200 ( sliding scale if needed). Make checks out to Rose Khalsa and send to 9130 Walden Rd. Silver Spring Md. 20901.

Time: Both days, 10-5

Location: The Polarity Center & Shamanic Studies

Send your registration by March 16th as the space is limited to twenty students.

For more information, please look under Life Work on the Home Page and you will go to the page for info on the class.

Hope to see you there!

We will learn the wireless anatomy of Dr. Randolph Stone, visionary, DO, DC, ND, which includes bodywork, movement, nutrition and self awareness.

The weekend will include: theory and application of the  system, polarity yoga for moving energy, cleansing and introduction to healthy eating, bodywork to move the energy through the Three Poles and general footwork.

You will leave the weekend with knowing how to give an hr. polarity therapy session.

This weekend you can receive 16 hrs towards NCBTMB .

Please call Rose to register at 301-891-1599 or e-mail at rose@polaritycenter.org.

Ghislaine blessing the pipe bowloffering for the Mother

Last summer I was blessed to have taken three weeks and traveled to Ireland for healing, rest and to co-lead a pilgrimage.

My dear sister and friend, Eve Bruce, lives there now and drove like a  mad women on the small winding roads, with three other women as we sang, laughed and told stories of our lives.

After resting and hearing some awesome music in Doolin, we made it to the magical land of Newgrange, Tara and Loughcrew, also known as The Hill of the Hag.

This part of Ireland is filled with incredible layers of spiritual majesty. The land itself just breathes an ancient knowing that somehow opens the heart to something so wise, warm and filled with wonder.

I was totally wiped out the days before as I was still grieving the passing of my son and I had brought a bundle of his ashes to lay on the waters there. I knew, he would want that. I also had brought Guru Meher’s Beloved, Ghislaine

after the PIpe Ceremony

who is now my spirit daughter to share in the healing and our pilgrimage.

So, as we had dinner June 20th, talking about the Summer Solstice, they were all excited about getting up really early for the sunrise ceremony at Tara. The sun rises really early that time of day so I was like…you got to be kidding??I’ll just stay back and sleep!

We were in a restaurant that night and they all talked me into having a dessert and some special alcohol drink that I knew would take me over the edge ( and it did!). I went to bed exhausted and sick in my stomach with a headache.

Somehow, it was like some kind of power moved in my brain and body , when I heard the alarm at 4am I jumped out of bed and was filled with energy.

When we arrived at Tara we were sad to see it was ending, so we went up the hill and did our own prayers.

Then Eve and I decided that this was the time to go to Loughcrew. That this would be the place to pray with our sacred Pipes. The whole time we were about, we could not find the right place and time, but we heard the calling and we followed.

It was early. Too early for the keeper of the key to the gate to get into the sacred space under the earth mound, where for thousands of years people have prayed and done ceremony. So, we started to walk up the hill in the fog.

There were cows mooing and we were the only ones there, which I felt was such a gift.

When we got to the top there was a bench and as we caught or breaths ( it is a big hill to walk up), I could feel all the spirits and ancestors coming to be with us at that moment.

Eve showed us where the stone alter was to make offerings and we all came forward with so much respect and honoring of the moment.

Then we saw a circle of stones that we were able to sit in, fit in a cozy way and do our Pipe Ceremony.

There were five of us in the circle. Three pipes to share.

As we opened our bundles, and prayed with the spirits there I felt something so deep shift inside of my heart and soul. I could feel the energy from the White Buffalo Woman, known also as the White Calf Woman, surrounding us with Her power and blessings. It felt like, out of all the people on the Earth, at that moment, right on the Summer Solstice, that we had been chosen to pray in such a sacred way to honor the Great Mother, the Wise One, the Old Hag.

I somehow knew with my entire being that the death of my son and the devastation I had experienced until that moment, somehow was a portal for my soul to be re-born. That at that moment I knew in my cells and bones why I was there and the power of prayer, sisterhood and that sacred moment in time.

As soon as we were finished, it began to rain a gentle drizzle. We gathered out belongings and found our way down the hill ( I got lost in the mist!) and returned to Tara for the Water Ceremony at the Prayer Well of the Sacred Cow, who they see as the Healer.

Loughcrew. The memories are sealed in my heart and it actually took me most of the summer to deepen with the initiation we all experienced that morning, on the hill in the mist, with our hearts open in prayer for the transformation of our Mother Earth and all her children.

Thank you Mata.

And thank you Lynn, Jen, Ghi, and Eve.