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Happy full moon friends! . . A time of replenishment & renewal. Of manifestations & great intentions! . . And boy was she beautiful. 🌕 . . A full moon is always a cleansing, a time for letting go, the instruction to finally & no matter what, ALLOW. . . And as we sit in the quiet inevitability of all thats been awakened & stirred up, we know that some of us are uncomfortable. Irritable. Experiencing shifts & ascension & awakening as a collective, causes physical upheaval & a sparking of ailments & general unwellness. . . Sore throats, itchy eyes, chest pain, fevers, feeling depleted & washed out & just generally YUCK, is normal & a sign that your physical self is renewing too. . . Be most tender with yourself during this time. . . This August 15th moon in Aquarius is signalling MAJOR change & shifts! Whispering intently, that its time to finally MOVE ON! . . It is honestly the DEATH KNELL to everything thats been holding you back! . . A full moon signals endings of all things that no longer serve us & the stepping into something new! . . And new beginnings are beautiful my friends. . . The energy of Aquarius signals the stepping into our freedom & purpose. . . No longer held back or shackled, no longer conflicted or confused - its a time of honouring SELF & setting ourselves FREE! . . Free to be seen & heard. . Free to experience & take action. . Free to start what we were once too afraid to begin. . Free to let go & release & re-ignite your grandest dreams, gifting you an incredible sense of relief! . . And more than anything else, it is THE perfect time to lean into your greatest desires, your biggest dreams, your grandest conjures & lead the charge with massive intentional action. . . ITS TIME! ⌛️ . . Its the awakening of SELF! . . The claim to power. . The right to move on & move forward. . The ok, to finally charge, headlong & with passion, into something greater than we ever dreamt possible! . . FREEDOM friends! FREEDOM! 🙌🏼 . . The bigger, the better, the DEAFENING call to our grandest realisations, manifestations & dreams, IS upon us! . . A call to service! A call to arms! A call to action! And the call to self! . . ARE. YOU. READY? 🌕 ❤️💫🧘🏽♀️✨🔮
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The only currency that matters, is the energy with which you show up for the world. . . If you consider, for a moment, that once you’re gone from this life, the truth is, the only thing people will ever remember, is the way you made them FEEL. . . Thats it. . . How much money you have, the house you live in, the car you drive, the clothes you wear, the success you experience - all irrelevant. . . No one gives a shit. . . Were you kind? . . Were you funny? . . Were you brave? . . Were you loving? . . Were you honest? Present? Capable? Compassionate? Warm? . . It matters for nought what others think of us, of course. . . But it ALWAYS matters most, the opinion we hold of ourselves. . . What will be our energetic legacy to this human experience? . . In my intentional solitude & time away from social media, I have been & am, 100% focused, invested & intentionally present with myself. . . My energy is growing & expanding in a way thats left me deeply uncomfortable & grappling to find my feet, voice & intention once again. Both physically & energetically. . . My awakening has been powerful & deeply profound. . . Now? I know, I must show up in a way thats meaningful for others. . . And that means I have to be brave, in a much bigger & far more frightening way. . . I’m just taking a hot second, to deeply inhale & gather all of the pieces of myself up first. lol . . BRB friends ❤️💫
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Ahhhh @salutmaroc! . . There is no place on earth like this beautiful boutique hotel! . . It is always our Essaouria home during La Boheme’s Moroccan Retreats & is an absolute feast for the senses! . . Our last group had the time of our lives here in April & our 2020 Moroccan Retreat group is already beyond excited to stay here! . . To be able to give you a magical slice of this beauty on our retreats is such a privilege & it is a soulful, necessary spiritual gear change from the frenetic pace & energy of Marrakech! . . We have a few spots left on our March 2020 Moroccan Retreat. A deposit down is all you need to do to secure your spot on this adventure of a lifetime. . . Far more importantly than magnificent aesthetics, our Morocco pilgrimage is pure unmitigated nourishment for the soul. . . The ripple effect of magical Morocco is felt long after you return home. . . And you might even get to call this stunning room ‘home’ during our stay! 😍 . . What are you waiting for? COME! ✈️☀️🌊 🕌🐪💫
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Well its Friday & I was long overdue some Frida magic 😍💫🙌🏼 . . I love how wistful & mischevious this Frida by @helenablackart is. As if she is about to conjure some serious, intentional, EPIC magic 🔮💫🧘🏽♀️✨ . . I know @helenablackart has made some limited edition prints of this gorgeous Frida. . . But I also know they’re almost all gone! 😱 So run! 🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️ . . She is the perfect powerful addition to my morning meditation & manifestations 🧘🏽♀️✨ . . Happy Frida Friday energyyyyyyyyyy friends ❤️💃🏻💫🍃
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Someone said to me recently “No one is ever broken.” . . But guess what? Yes, yes they are. . . And Its ok to be broken. . . Shattered into a million pieces. Cracked beyond repair. Its ok & for many of us, its just LIFE. . . We begin again. We re-build. We become. . . A 6 year old can’t be sexually molestered & remain in tact. . . A 12 year old can’t be violently attacked & almost raped in an aggressive & bloody encounter & remain in tact. . . A child cannot withstand a lifetime of emotional, physical & psychological abuse & remain in tact. . . A 16 year old can’t want to die & try to end her life because she’s drowning in too many boxes of darkness...& remain in tact. . . A 20 something year old woman, can’t flee the life she has known, for sweet freedom & run straight into the arms of an abusive man, because thats all she recognises in another human being - & remain in tact. . . You cannot lose a child & remain in tact. . . You cannot spend a lifetime never being seen or heard or kept safe & remain in tact. . . Our levels of brokenness are all different of course, but its what we do with the all the shattered pieces that forever remain ours, that is most important. . . How are you going to live? . . Who are you going to be? . . Do you know how much the world needs you? Exactly & precisely as you are? . . Admitting you’re broken is an awakening. . . Healing your broken, is brave. . . And the Universe listens to BRAVE. . . We are all spiritual beings, having a heavy, dense human experience. . . Sometimes its magnificent & beautiful & filled with joy. . . Sometimes its tragic & traumatic & etched with sadness, fear & grief... . . Whatever song is on, let it play my friends. . . “Dear Universe, I surrender. All that I am & all that I want, I KNOW, already exists for me. My life is a story filled with various Chapters. But I am brave. And the world rises up to meet brave. I will make the most colourful & beautiful mosaic out of all of my shattered pieces. I am ready!” ✊🏽🌈🧘🏽♀️✨
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I dream of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco... . . They call to me as I slumber. . . I remember standing in quiet wonder & awe, before taking this photo in April. . . Afterwards, I sat on the rich, raw earth & meditated with the wind whipping against my body & sending my hair upwards... . . As if the Universe had clutched my curls with eager fingertips, to pull my face toward the warm sun. . . Here, I feel closer to heaven. The energy of these sacred mountains, filling my skin with sparkling, shards of light. . . There is nowhere on earth like this place. It is a privilege to be able to take my retreat groups here & stay & watch on in the wonderment of Mother Natures majesty. . . These mountains bring a peace, I cannot explain or articulate. The absolute knowingness, that I am nothing....& everything, all at once. . . The understanding that I am imperfect & flawed, but utterly divine in my design. . . The reality that I am no one...but a part of a far greater collective consciousness, threading its way through the world. . . I belong nowhere & to nothing & to no one. . . In the majesty of the mountains energy, I have the most profound & powerful sense of belonging to ME. . . Home is not a place. . Its not even people. . . Its the energy with which you truthfully & purposefully & authentically, unfold into yourself. . . THAT, is home. . . I have said to many of my coaching clients in the past “you must love yourself first” & I always get the same thing back from them “but I do!” 🤷🏽♀️ lol . . Yes, you think you do. . . But you’re not there yet. . . Trust me. . . Just when you think you love yourself enough, the Universe will tear you open, so you can love the corners & nooks you never even knew you were neglecting. . . And my friends, I’m going to share with you, the most profound, most powerful, most useful thing I could ever share with you... . . Happiness, fulfilment, love, success, prosperity, abundance, contentment, wholeness...all comes from one source. One. . . . YOU. . . So, Imma ask you again, do you love yourself?????? . . Your life, your existence, your experience, right now....is your answer. 💫❤️ 🧘🏽♀️✨🏔
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The way the late afternoon sunlight kisses everything so gently & so repeatedly.....😍 . . Beauty has always exalted me. . . Whether textiles, places, people or Mother Natures splendour. . . I am at my closest to heaven when sitting amidst the awe inspiring Atlas Mountains, or by the raging ocean on a Winters day.... . . As a little girl, when a storm was brewing, I would go outside & stand in the middle of the garden with my arms outstretched to the heavens, my eyes on the sky watching grey clouds moving at a clipping pace & the sky rolling with the monumental energy of an incoming storm. . . I would stand there as if commanding Mother Natures awe inspiring visual symphony. Eventually I would close my eyes & just feel the powerful energy washing over my skin & charging my bones... . . I would be elated when the first rain drops pelted my face, opening my mouth & twirling in the garden with a joy I cannot express.... . . The heavens would open, thunder would roar, lightening would clap through the sky & there stood little Jo, arms outstretched, the co-creator of this splendour. . . My Mother would yell at me, in a panic, to get inside....but only when I was soaked to the bone...only when my hair clung to my face...only when the thunder clapped through my heart, rattling my ribcage, as if it were inside of me...would I go inside. . . And then I would watch the storm rage from the window...forlornly, as if I were missing the majesty, by not standing at its helm. . . My Mother would lecture me, telling me how dangerous it was, as I sat wrapped in a towel, dripping wet... . . Whatever lightening is, I thought... . . I am made from the same thing. 💫✨⚡️ . . I knew, with every fibre of my being, at the age of 7, that we are co-creators of life & the energy charged through my little body, like lightening & rolling thunder... . . I knew it then. . . Life just made me forget. . . But I remember it so well now my friends 💫⚡️✨❤️ . . A magnificent storm is brewing, can you feel it?...😍🧘🏽♀️✨🔮
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I went into surgery to have my gall bladder removed & was quite nervous. . . I had manifested an emergency surgery date, but I felt a forboding as I was wheeled into theatre. . . My surgeon came to see me. . . “40 minutes tops. We’ll get that gall bladder out & you’ll be feeling better in no time” . . I looked at him. Squeezed his hand & said “I trust you. But somethings wrong. Just please take good care of me on that table. We’re both meant to be right here today” . . He smiled at me & said “You are going to be fine. I promise. My team & I will take the greatest care of you” . . And so, a 40 minute surgery, turned into a 4.5 hour marathon. . . A laproscopic operation, turned into open surgery. . . My sick gall bladder, heaving & leaking & rupturing as they tried to evict it from my body. . . My surgeon would later tell me that it was as if this organ didn’t want to leave. It was literally rupturing, bile permeating every crevice as if it were clinging to my physical self at all costs.... . . Eventually, through open surgery, they got it out. . . I had an adverse reaction to the anesthetic, so ‘coming to’ was like a battle scene out of Saving Private Ryan. Vomiting blood is no fun friends.... . . And then just when I was home, just when I was recovering...a raging staph infection TOOK ME OUT! A final gift from the gall bladder that didn’t want to leave. . . So here I am, home again. The staph infection still present, but now, getting better. . . I look like I’ve been shot through the torso with a literal missile. (Just as well my bikini days are long gone!) 😂 . . It all sounds horrific of course, but there’s something much bigger here....a learning, a lesson, an awakening, an understanding. . . I had a huge awakening just before surgery. . . But post surgery, I have hybernated, stayed quiet, allowed myself to heal & have spent so much time honouring that magnificent, broken gall bladder of mine. . . Soon, I’ll share why. I’ll share the awakenings that have left me raw & forever changed. . . In the meantime, meditations right here, for the first time in six weeks, with my Lakshmi Goddess watching over me🧘🏽♀️✨ . . I’ve missed you my friends! ❤️
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Keeping it simple as we close out the week! 💫🍃 . . My surgery has been rushed forward, I’m going under the knife in 3 days 😱✂️ 🚑 (I manifested this, so I cannot complain, but shiiiiiiiiiit) 😳 . . My kids are sick. . . The freighters are taking the last of the orders they didn’t pick up last week 🙄 . . And it feels like utter chaos in my world! . . But soon. Soon. I look forward to it all being much MUCH calmer 🧘🏽♀️✨ . . Happy Thursday beauties. 😘 . . Send me some good vibes. . . Lawd knows I’ll be meditating this pre-surgery anxiety away, as best I can 😬😂😫
