07/16/2018
Over the course of the last 8 or 9 months, I, along with several other inspiring women, have been conceptualizing and co-creating an event for women’s empowerment. The vision came to be Spirit of the Moon Gathering, a weekend-long circle for women to connect, heal, and learn skills for personal and collective transformation.
I could envision 50-100 women, in nature, learning skills, singing songs, doing deep healing work. We would eat beautiful local foods and spend time each day in movement and meditation. Our elders would join us and we would listen and learn and grow.
The process of creation became much more about surrender and learning to trust the universe than I ever could have imagined. Layers of ego and attachment to a specific outcome needed to be released over and over again. I confronted my own fear of failure, guilt and embarrassment. I had to let go.
In the days before SotM, the shifting intensified and many women who had intended to come were unable to make it, including many facilitators. Last minute schedule changes were necessary. When the circle opened on Friday, there were only 5 of us.
It could not have been more perfect.
In this intimate setting we were able to drop the facades. We were able to be in the flow and get real about our lives and experiences. We could just be ourselves without everything society demands us to be in the way.
Had I been attached to a larger event, to the original schedule, to the bigger vision, I would have not been able to connect to what was unfolding around me. I would have felt the lack and the low self worth that comes from it.
Instead I experienced a beautiful, powerful, peaceful and deeply restorative nature retreat with some of the most inspiring women I know.
Humility. Surrender. Trust. These are the practices that are helping me as I navigate intense experiences and growth.
Listening deeply as the universe breathes through me.
Just relax, you’re doing fine.
