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Showing posts with label ritual. Show all posts

11.01.2023

🌗 Reflect & Manifest annual template │ November newsletter

 

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We live in complex times. My heart goes out, comes back crying, and settles back in my chest. Breathing, feeling, expanding. Present, painful, here. We live in complex times. May you find your breath, anchors and glimmers of hope and beauty, amidst the pain. Don't get lost. Come back. Come back.


The leaves are falling. The world is goldening. Dry air. Growing and falling tides, swell, change. This is my favorite time of year. The transitional season. Coming inwards again. Tide receding even as the winter tide grows, even as the winter stones pile up against our surf-stairs, even as we change into our winter wetsuits, water colder than air. Change happening. Wars. Weddings. The works.


Anchors and touchstones are everyday bits of extraordinary grace that help presence us back in our bodies amidst adversity. This can be a practice like taking three breaths, an object like a special stone that you keep in your pocket or by your desk, or an idea like a word or phrase that you return to throughout the day.


In rough waters, what anchors you?


Reflect & Manifest

I’m embarking on a big writing project. Elements are organically falling into place. This was on my 2023 “Manifest” list, and a Big Dream far before that.


Have you ever had a Childhood Dream or Big Goal organically manifest? What conditions supported this manifesting?


After Halloween, I start reflecting on the year that came before, and visioning the year that lies ahead. As the darkness grows, I feel a delicious reflectiveness settle in. This is the time of year where it feels most natural to ponder big questions— and write.


What are your Big Dreams— or Childhood Dreams? What's calling for your attention? How can you cultivate the soil so that the fruit knows that this is the perfect place to grow? What reflective processes and timing feels natural to you?


Here’s my “Reflect & Manifest” template for reflecting on 2023, and manifesting the 2024 of your dreams. Download, share with friends, print… do as you please. And:

  1. I hope that you have some kind of “Reflect & Manifest” process— ‘cuz it’s important to look back before stepping forward, so you can learn, refine, and move with intention. When done right, manifestation works.
  2. Have fun!

Download template & guide:

REFLECT & MANIFEST


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Coming up

  • Elemental Creativity at Green Gulch Farm— art, movement, and meditation with Zen Monk Fu Schroeder, Art Monk Abbess Suiko McCall, and me! 11/29 - 12/3 (Get to know us on video here! This retreat will be extra special with the radical teacher trio of Zen monk, artist, and acupuncturist)
  • The Five Elements of Yoga & Chinese Medicine retreat at Esalen with Paula Wild and me, 12/11 - 12/15 (Love hot springs with an ocean view, alongside yoga practice and Chinese medicine goodness? Come join us!)
  • Ojai Herbal Symposium in Ojai, CA and online. 12 CEUs for acupuncturists! 11/11 - 11/12
  • Ecstatic Dance at Bodhi Salt, end of the month


Recommendations

  • Love ethnobotany? Mimi Hernandez just published her gorgeous new (and first) book, The National Geographic Herbal-- watch for our upcoming November Tea Talks interview!
  • Made in Taiwan is a new (and first) cookbook from my favorite young Asian American New York Times author, Clarissa Wei! (For gluten and sugar "okay" folks, see her sweet and savory mooncake recipes on NYT)
  • Poignant interview with herbal author Chanchal Cabrera (author of Holistic Cancer Care) about Holistic Cancer Care on HerbRally
  • Fun interview with herbal author Robin Rose Bennett about Green Witchery on Herbal Radio


❤️ Happy beginning-of-the-holiday-season, and welcome to the darkening days, 


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10.01.2023

✨On Ritual & Incense ⎸ October newsletter

 

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As cultures around the world gather to celebrate our ancestors in autumn, we can consider our own small rituals, such as making incense.


I love small rituals. Having lived out of a backpack for most of my twenties and still traveling a lot in my thirties, small yet potent packages of transportable sweetness help me create a sense of belonging no matter where I land. On most adventures, I commune with the landscape of my inner and outer terrain with my traveling trifecta of tea, journal, and incense.


You can create a traveling incense box from upcycled matchboxes or mint tins. Consider adding:

  • Matches or lighter
  • Small incense holder
  • Other aromatic incense plants, such as sages, cedar, or palo santo
  • A meaningful poem or picture 


Walk, bike, or drive to a special spot outdoors. Bring a little tea, incense, and perhaps some poetry. Laozi's “Dao De Jing” (老子道德經) is perfect. Sit solo, or with a friend. Watch the landscape, sip tea, and savor aromas. Meditate on dancing smoke, commune with your ancestors and the spirits of the land, and wiggle your toes. Feed your free and easy wanderer self with beauty and breathe. 

Read more about how to...

MAKE INCENSE


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Labrador tea (Rhododendron columbianum, Ericaceae). Sierra Nevada, CA


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❤️ With gratitude,


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4.23.2022

Free & Easy Wanderer Incense Recipe

Learn how to make Free & Easy Wanderer Incense (逍遙散香) on my Mountain Rose Herbs blog, YouTube video, and/ or podcast. Enjoy!     

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12.01.2021

December newsletter

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As we welcome the contemplative yin season of Winter, we assess where we came from and where we are now, to consciously direct where we are going


To support your year-end reflection & manifestation process, I integrated my favorite retrospective practices within a Chinese medicine Five Elements conceptual framework. Download here:

REFLECT + MANIFEST


REFLECT on the past year, reconnect with your Purpose, clarify your Visions, then MANIFEST your new year and each season with a clear Plan and aligned Actions. 


EVENTS

SOLSTICE ACUPUNCTURE, YOGA & LIVE MUSIC Join us at Ojai's beautiful Light & Space yoga studio to welcome Winter. Enjoy restorative yoga w/ Samantha Garrison, smooth beats from DJ Earthtones (Serge), and savasana-acupuncture from yours truly. Dec. 15, 7-9 PM.


MANIFEST NYE | Join Justin Michael Williams online on New Year's eve (FREE!), for your spiritual pre-game to your evening activities. Dec. 31, 11 AM- 2 PM.


BODHI SALT | Welcome to Ventura's newest yoga studio! Join us for our grand opening on 12/8, and for my weekly Elemental Flow vinyasa 1 classes on Sundays at 11!


WILDYOGA YTT-200 | Join us online to invigorate your yoga practice with Balanced Rock's unique combination of yoga teacher training & spiritual ecology. Life-changing. I'm teaching the Integration module again, to help weave these beautiful threads elegantly into your life. Feb - Sept, 2022. Get $200 off with code: jilingwildyoga


2022 EVENTS | Join me in 2022 for Yosemite backpacking retreats, Esalen hot springs retreats, and more! Bookmark this page for fresh updates.


GIFTS

GIFT CARDS Give the gift of health with an Acupuncture gift-card!


REFLECT & MANIFEST │ ... or, simply give the gift of Reflection & Manifestation (the above PDFs)


Thank you for your support of my woman-owned small business this past year. I'm honored to serve you. Cheers to many beautiful years ahead. May the seeds of Beauty that you are sowing bloom & flourish, seeding further ripples of Beauty for all our future generations. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you thrive.


Happy HolyDays ❤️


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