Water is life. This is especially understood in the desert, where generations of ancestral knowledge insure the ability to discover, conserve, share, and respect the flow of water. It represents birth, re-birth, sustenance, abundance, and even death (as we have seen in recent USA hurricanes).
Connecting to our ancestors and lineages means connecting with all these aspects of life. When we do, we remember the sufferings and strength of those who came before, and we are resourced to live with commitment, courage and creativity.
Flow of Water, Flow of Life: Desert Celebrations is the theme of this year’s Western Intensive in Northern New Mexico, May 14th-18th, 2025. I will join international trainers Francesca Mason Boring, Sneh Victoria Schnabel, and Bill Mannle dive deeply into these themes to re-connect with our ancestors, our roots and ourselves.
Systemic Constellations Work helps us do this. It is about the alignments and arrangements in our larger family and communal stories, similar to the web of relationship we find in all ecosystems, including deserts. All of us are the recipients of many generations of collective experiences, just like a desert inherits millennia of unfolding geological, meteorological, plant, animal, and human processes. The practice of Constellations explores how the more immediate situations in our lives fit into those broad patterns that precede our individual lives, just like we see the results of geological history in the layers we see before us now in cliffs, arroyos, and bosques.
Hidden beneath it all — for humans and for landscapes — is the unending flow of water and life. In this work, we can finally discover where we have come from, where we are now, and most importantly where we would like to go.
Registration is open! Installment plans are available, and singles are selling quickly. So now’s the time to check out all the details and, if it feels right, register at Western Intensive.
When have you been inspired by the wisdom of water in your life? How has it reminded you of the hidden flow of love? Please share on my blog below…
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