Imbibe - Living Libations

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The wonder, silence and mysterious depths of the starlit
sky is the wonder, timelessness and treasure of your body.
Wild roses and wooded hills are not opposite from you. You
are not separate from this natural divinity. You are nature,
and naturally nature is you. This is your guide. Come outside.
This is your beauty. You are the elegant elixir of life. Open to
the vast garden of your being with wide-eyed wonder. Be
one that friends the unknown. Fear and insecurities about the
body always escape control and rebel at your worries. Be
beauty, which is grateful. Embrace the fluidity of constant
change, death and renewal. You are already everything,
divine. Look no further. Your own beauty is now, that near,
that clear.
Beauty, if fully told, emanates when shimmering
revolutions of wisdom set the mind unconditionally free:
releasing sight, sound, breathing, feelings, beliefs and
thoughts that rein. Ablutions in beauty are a sacred
communion, a friendship with each anoint and gesture that
graces your being. Would a friendship be any other way?
This is the friend of nature: Nature graces inside, outside
and all around you. Resistance to this friendship generates
illusory opposition. Everything unessential, contrived and
artificial falls away as whole beauty surrenders to Nature.
Accepting All that is; Nature is the sweet smelling sum of the
whole. The moon smiles bright, knowing it is wholly night.
Whole essence is yours to divinely distill, and for this one must
go to our friends in the field.
Giddy wanderings in places unimagined bring liquid
delights. Hold up a cup, receive floral fluids, drink the sweet
sweat of elements turned upside down. Now the tasting is the
Taste. Elements release the spirit of plant ethers thru
distillations, dilutions and infusions: essence upon essence,
upon your essence. True plant oils, waters, and wild flora exist
to gladden all beings as a matrix of gifts, revealing inner
strength, intuition to heal, greater currents of consciousness
and beauty to behold. These are vast nature crafts
happening in a world of wide wisdom. Hear, with your spirit
ear, these vespers, as soil receives the seed. These written
libations are essences to engage your wonder. Play with the
many ways nature may be inhaled, sipped, stirred, soothed
and imbued. Thru every pore is a door, where joyful petals
and green leaf abandon greet the boundless cosmos of your
being.
Why not create a new To Do List, one that includes: a brilliant
dash of shimmering manna to your DNA, adding a thousand
tingling cells of light, heighten vibratory pulse, illuminate
electrical currents, and perhaps, topping off the day with a
radiant rose glow streaming from your heart. May this be an
invitation. Might this alight. Might this be a key to wander from
finite beauty to an open field of fresh found poppies.
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Adoring communion with your body is serene
sovereignty. Often, the tuning of our strings is handed over to
others. But a new adventure, a toning task, opens you. It is
yours for the asking. Be the musician and the music.
Here is a dose of something we call Chocolate
Illumination, perhaps, in the morning, before food or a walk in
nature, ingest a slice of pure source chocolate, anoint a dab
of frankincense under nose and upon your brow… and tune
yourself to wonder.
Our fear of the unknown creates distance and mistrust
with our beloved bodies. Escape is illusion. Insecurities cage in
the bones, dry-up the marrow. Strife stagnates the blood.
Anxiety taints the liver„s liquid. Resistance tightens the heart.
Fly. Fly into thee. Enter the omniscient body, that is. There is
no arrival, there is no separation, and there is no return. Enjoy
the formless wisdom we know, and sometimes not.
Concealing. Revealing. Merge mind with body; it is indivisible
anyway. Gratitude is the exquisite all-accepting song that
attunes your body to you. Trust is the elixir of the adrenals,
soothing the source substance of the kidneys. Gifts of tranquil
inhalations liberate organ pulses, heart throbs and serene
cerebral sways. That that is, is your body, an instrument to live
utterly free.
Accept the adventure. Give up to grace, let the calibration
begin. A song of gratitude to the heart, lifting to the pulse of
loving, gratitude to lungs and chest that fill with breath,
radiating sweetness to the throat, and beaming roses to the
face;
Gratitude to the strength and innocence of the mind,
Gratitude to minerals that feed bones and marrow,
Gratitude to the liver, a field of fuel,
Gratitude to the ceaseless circulating flow of lymph
and blood juices,
Gratitude to the wilderness of cells
that light the body‟s ways,
Gratitude to the rich top soil, the terrain of immunity,
Gratitude to kidneys offering their essence of vital energy,
Gratitude to the stomach that delivers zest for life,
Gratitude to the playful flexibility of moving muscles,
Gratitude to the scepter that is spine,
Gratitude to the nerve‟s tranquil sensory web,
Gratitude to verve and vigor of veins,
Gratitude to the luminosity of clear eyes and ears,
Gratitude to the molecules of joy that rain from the brain,
Gratitude to the endocrine glands, hormones and rhythms
that timelessly secrete open lush secrets,
Gratitude to the rays that form a living harmony of boundless
hues of surging spirals, throughout the day
This is the Benediction of Being: there is rapture in this
communion that soars and sets free, a body of felicity. This is
tonic to tone, to balance to the deepest wilderness of your
being: from the subterranean mixing of elements to the
etheric blue sky shines of pixilated light. Attune with
the eternal flows. Be held by the fragrance of grace.
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This moment is your present gift: an eternal open ended
reality, always fresh, never the same. This is the beauty of
time, it is alive! Live on the blossoming, ever arriving. Free of
path and destination. Life, beauty, tranquility and simplicity
do not depend on time, nor do you. The idea of linear time,
hence linear age, might best be abolished in your mind.
Linear thinking limits life. Birth, then a slow habitual walk to
death, is the line. It is not the end of the body that causes
aging, but living in the constraints of conflict, belief and habit,
which each condition the mind to contract in conclusion,
dulling its extraordinary capacity to be young. Want to
reverse the signs of aging, abandon the cage of age. Life
source spirals as the seasons: live in this flowering moment.
Fear not the sun, for it graces all things green, all life on
this lush planet. Consider your offering to the sun. The sun
ignites our light. Align your heavenly body for cosmic
pollination. Skin is a seed that feeds on vital verdant
ingredients. Let this seed breathe in light with natural oils and
waters. Oils inside are an essential offering to greet this fire.
Solar rays melting melding with our rays, into one. Try to deny these rays alight you. Nothing grows away from the
resonance of this shining essence. The sun presents
revitalizing, illuminating nourishment with wise interaction. Be
the glowing green. Rather than being burnt by the sun, be
ablaze. Be alive with life. At dawn, noon, and dusk: turn as
the galaxy: cells, dancing particles, warmed by the moist
golden orb.
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Millions of illuminating light cells dance in your being,
starry galaxies within your galaxy: cell by cell, thought by
thought, life. Let each cell reflect a star. The care of creation
resounds sweet love, setting the cells afloat in a swirling sea of
Good.
Inhalation births millions of new cells, and with
exhalation, millions expire. Entirely fresh blood and organs are
yours every moon. Infuse your cells with the holiest of telluric
tones, trust this to be the precision work of the body. Arrays of
internal mineral melodies reflect the full spectrum of light.
Minerals are a language of earth and light, that commune
with the wisdom and connectedness in every cell. These
secrets of stones secrete frequencies of light aspiring inspiring
ribbons of DNA and cells to play. A radiant terrain brims with
minerals to pollinate electrical possibilities into each cellular
calyx. This is the rhythm of nature; this is the four seasons in a
day. The death and life of breath; the tree exhales, and we
live.
Set your brain cells psychologically free. Every time the
mind compares, measures, has thoughts of doubt, shoulds,
and what if’s: our cells disorder. Life-depleting thoughts
create sourness in the body, an acidic environment. This is disease. Acidic body fluids disrupt the glowing acres of alkalinity
that is the legacy. Please do not give soil to these thoughts.
See them; weed them from the garden of your being.
Orchestrate octaves of organ tones and metabolic flow.
Nourishment for our cellves comes from food, water, thoughtfeelings and breath rooted in life‟s grace.
Song, breeze, silence, birds, beauty - all arise at dawn
with secrets to stir the self. Awake with morning glory. Inhale
the unknown ethers‟ dew, mused across the land. Open
hand to the unimagined gifts that will be unveiled today.
Stretch, yearn, yawn, long. May life be live. Roots draw moist
life into themselves. Drink in the generous day and all will rise
to the occasion. You are not the means of life, but the
making. Creative life is wider than canvas and clay. Art is the
sculpting, the painting, of the very atmosphere through which
we perceive. Create a quality of Day that sings to you. Be the
connoisseur of your life, live as deliberately as nature. Daylight
lifts to living possibilities. Live wildly awake. But some days
sleep, and rise for the stars.
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Be still as the lake does for the moon; emotions and
minds in buoyant-still-water guided by the evening star. Deep
insight and peace are the order of the eve. Mind flows into
expanded chest. Quiet darkness restores, gathering strength
to meet the light of day. Lay and play in an open sacred
bed. Let tension unravel, relax jaw and tongue. Open the
gateway, there is no more explaining to do. Die to the day.
Enter into absorption. Disintegrating. Integrating. Dream a
voyage into the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe corridors of
your being. Emptiness calls without invitation, to whisper and
renew; a visit to the infinite night-time parts of ourselves. From
room to room, this emptiness is existence too. A simple, quiet
mind emits a most Sublime Fragrance, dreams deep insights
to rejuvenate the body, and emanates innumerable light
beams vaster than a starry night field. Soar to sights within
sights. But some nights be awake till dawn, be the moon
greeting the sun.
Attention is the unknown.
Attention attunes.
Attention is the death of habit; the end of weariness. Of habit
that dulls the mind, heart and senses.
Attention is the embodiment of ablutions: the wholly pleasure
of whole, of washing water over emotion, of anointing flower
oils to flesh, of nourishing tongue and belly.
Attention is the whole, tension is the part.
Attention is the tonic to transform tension in the body.
Whole attention is clear intention.
Tension is a calling from the body.
Listen.
Body stress is not to be solved at the same level it was
created. Matter-healing-matter only goes so far. Attention is
the alchemy of awareness.
Attention is the strength of immunity. Immunity is the terrain
that invites understanding.
A beyond completes the process. Follow the bread crumbs;
the wisdom on, in and around the body. These are the rocks
to be unearthed, the wilderness to be wandered, wondered:
brought into the sun, into the light of awareness.
This is the beyond, the awareness that brings harmony.
For where attention is,
Beauty follows,
Beauty flowers.
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Lids open or closed - look around.
Look around.
Mysterious divining rods;
Magic reflecting pools.
Third eye beyond division journeys within and without.
All wonder. Inner. Outer.
Be and see the illumination that is now. Inner eye awakens to
merge with outer-space, embodying the alchemy of infinite
revelations. Brow-light illuminating everywhere, beams the
galaxies of your insides.
Absorb light and reflect jeweled delight. Eyes are surrounded
by muscles. Wonder stretches. Contraction holds. Habitual
fears burrow and furrow. Relaxed expansion sets vision free.
Free vision liberates the skin around the eyes. Clarity
strengthens sight. Open eyes with curiosity and aware. Inner
eyes like to roam unknown. Move eyeballs with lids closed,
into unmet corridors, above and below. Looking up and in
activates pineal and pituitary soma. See equally, eternally,
past present and future. Boundlessly abandon doubt and
fear, glow with Vast Benevolent Eyes. See clear far and near.
Hang around upside down. Arms and legs above
heart, head below. This illuminates veins and heart halo. There
are so many ways to be in motion, open to wholehearted
glee. Lay down body belongings, be light. Move with playful
abandon fly, dance, shake, roll, skip, plunge, climb, sing.
laugh, hug, hula, run, spin, stretch, surprise; every moment a
new body to court your whim.
Your light reaches everywhere. These streams of life
running thru the body can be fine-tuned with brushing. A dry
natural bristle brush is the instrument for circulation. Sweep
from foot to crown with upward strokes towards the heart.
Brush hair upside down. Brush what no longer serves the body:
say a rosy hello to lymph flow and fire-up blood glow. Follow
with water, a rinse, bath, shower, stream or waterfall ablution.
Motions are spiraling within motions, dissolving,
gathering, perfect cosmic commotion; seasons beyond
reason; Sun and moon magnetically moving ocean, land and
hand. You are the effortless
rhythm of the universe, an
embodied wave silently drawn
towards existence. Dilate to this
fiery fluidity. Catch the stillness in
expression and the currents in
calm.
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Discover the flashing innocence in every eye.
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The fairest flower blossoms in you. Groom each petal.
Yield to the perfume that abounds around, and from, you.
Nourish all the senses which have been parched for your
Essence. This fragrant air beckons the water of your true
nature. Water settles, the reflection of a garden unfolds,
revealing fresh qualities and colors. Gifts from the land bring a
wild reception to be your finest bathing attendants.
Water and oil, cloth and brush are simply all that is
essential to exfoliate, moisten and wash. Of course, luxurious
pink lotus water, rosehips and silk make lovely attendants, too.
Water runs hot and cold. Hot is cleansing and dissolving. Cold
is the river running thru, strengthening and toning. A shower of
both sets circulation in motion, grooms your immune, and
calls every body filament alive. A mix of half water and half
oil, stirred and applied with a cloth before rinsing, is all that is
needed to cleanse and exfoliate. Applied after skin-brushing
and bathing, this fragrant dressing moistens and tones the
skin. End with mists of floral waters, loving sips for the skin. Mists
of rose-water spray restore the order of the day. The dews of
plant wisdom flower your face. The sun, the moon, the wind,
the rain, the soil, the trees, the grasses, the rivers are all here
to bathe in, on and around you.
The craft of nature is effortless beauty. Beauty that flows
thru you, not applied to you. Beauty is not another regime of
becoming. It is luxurious ease. The simplicity of a flower that
rises to the sun, sepals smiling because she is the perfume she
loves. Simple is that near, that sincere.
The loose hair strands of beautiful women don’t
have to be combed. ~Rumi
Nadine in bounty with Leif in her belly.
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The mystery of longing that streams to a deep well
inside carries us on a moonlight river ride to our yearning. We
are the water thirst is for. Always inside. Emotive currents ebb
and flow, silently stirring the lifting, the longing to be both
drunk and drank. Inhalations and exhalations move this
watery world of desire. Crystal fluid floods notions of otherness
and separate action. Water carries sound waves of pulse, be
near, be dear. Waves of emotion tide the throat and heart,
releasing dowsing tears, invitations from clouds to dive in.
Take a river ride inside; anoint frankincense water to lips, nose,
ears, eyelids, brow and crown.
Let the waters that wash thru our being continually
rejuvenate our blood, lymph, nervous system and cerebralspinal fluids. There is a tidal pull to water intake; see what your
body of water prefers. There is a fine composition between
damp thirst roots and dried branches. Be the moist air, soil
and seed that make plants grow.
Imbibe upon dewdrops, savor solar rays, taste
invocations of twilight, lift your chin to the silvery decantations
of moonbeams. Welcome life in. Digestion is the resurrection
and the life of the body. Food is for nourishment, delight and
abundance; let that be your guide, nothing else. To eat is to
give the body life force - not deplete energy. Choose only
the purest. Digestion is the discernment of the senses. Extract
what is sweet and savory, swallow what nourishes. Let only
sacredness land on your lips. Decide if the thoughts, feelings,
experiences, breaths, actions, gestures, water and food in
your environment are for giving-life or taking-life. Your body
works as a whole, continually releasing and renewing; even
laughter giggles the heart, sending nutrients everywhere.
Hearty fuel fans the flames of the belly. Tend to this
purifying fire that distills essences and dissolves waste. This
begins with a relax and relish, in eating and preparing meals:
inviting the reception of food, welcoming minerals and
enzymes to the banquet. Each meal is your body. As you are
alive, eat living foods. Eat the laughing berries, these are the
seeds you need. Provide nourishment to oneself, as the earth
provides. Figure out what this means for your body. This is a
call to Digest life. Digest its beauty, freshness, pulse and
charm. Take it All in. The bounty going in illuminates your
entire insides.
Plant waters are a natural gift that
imbibes union. Revel in this Accord. Drink flowers, sip trees,
wet your whistle with leaves. Pure plant waters wash away
doubt droughts of separation from creation. Raise a cup to
give cheer, know that elementals are near and dear.
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Listen for something you have never heard.
Taste something you have never been.
Inhale something you have never imagined.
Grace something you have never given.
See something you have never seen.
The song of a bird, a distant flute, frees the limitations of
the ear. Listening is the quiet you looked for. A kind breeze
whispers to the hair, the gliding gesture you wished for. A
savored seed surrenders taste to the core. The sweetness you
are open for. Eye enters eye, the beloved you dissolved for.
Night blossoms waft thru the air, the wisdom you inhaled for.
The inner and outer weaving of the senses is the
sublime spirit food of being. Smelling is the culmination of all
the senses, a portal to the flow of known and unknown. The
breath, the nose, inhales, as above so below. Smelling with
no language of its own, the nose feels the texture of a petal,
tastes the perfume, sees fragrance vividly and listens to a rose
all in a single inhalation. The nose, the sensory ether of breath,
unlocks the entrance to all sense, one sense… Let all the
senses rise to each percepatory occasion in choir. Imbibe
thru every sense and pore. This returns juice to awareness.
Perhaps intuition is the whole of the senses in communion.
When the senses tune, whole intuition expands. The flowering
of all the senses is to grace, taste, smell, see, and hear
beauty. Be beauty. In onesense, past habits of perception
die, and there is a renewal to each gesture. An attuned force
of sensory-sync sends vitality to adoring ablutions, the stroking
of hair, the oiling of skin, the brushing of teeth. Sacred
awareness sweetens, something descends, as it opens,
Be there.
Beyond all senses there is a door of breath,
that joins sense
to element,
to spirit.
Formulas & Fun Ways to Play with Plants
Daub on the perfume of your dreams at dawn.
Essential oils in honey, a muse for the medicine.
Fresh green coconut nectar infused with ylang and orange
blossom waters is the dreamy drink of deities. Bliss!
Peppermint is the chill for burns, bumps and bites; refreshes
tongue, liver, throat and temples.
A palette for perfume: anoint single oils across the body.
Flower waters are the champagnes to sparkle soirees.
Greet the sun with mists of rosewater, grace for your face.
Mash a bowl of wild berries together, with a dollop of
macadamia butter, and a dash of ylang oil. Oh my!
Polish and dip apples into rosewater.
Dash essences to soups, salad dressings and berry blends.
Rub dewy geranium leaves on the face for toning and
glowing.
Peppermint oil and tea tree are lovely essences to brush
teeth and gums
A few drops of essential oil or a dash of All-Illuminating Flower
Water Spirits any bath.
Plant waters may be delightfully diluted in a glass of pure
water, from a few drops to a tablespoon. Play with sipping
different dilutions, mix floral waters together in water or other
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natural spirits and juices. Stir it up. Drinking these waters sparks
a reverent communion with nature. Always bring a traveler.
Lemongrass for the mop-water that cleans house.
A drop or two of cypress essence enlivens your dry brush.
Many essential oils may be used straight on the skin, try a
small area and discover for yourself.
Stir pure enchantment. Delve into mixing scents. Design
earthy gems with angelica root, sandalwood and vetiver.
Play with rockrose, vanilla, benzoin and clary for amber
aromas. Ylang inspires jasmine. Champa unearths blossoms.
Add a dash of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, or clove to
accent.
Rub a drop of silver fir onto the palm of your hands. Hold
cupped hands to face.
Shower your sweet self, in blessings bestowed from sprays of
adoring rosewater.
Commune on the full moon with vetiver, or take rose at high
noon.
Rise to any occasion with a mist of rosewater and carrotseed.
A cacaoshake soars with a dash of peppermint and
cayenne.
Chime a new tea time: pray into an array of flower waters.
Then sip the incantations of your grace.
Pack light and forage fernfronds, daylily bulbs, dandelions,
redclovers, wood sorrel and wildviolets. Yum.
Here is a game:
inhale essences without looking at their name.
Radiate as a mountain of gold, cleanse and nourish skin with
a pure mix of jojoba, lavender, myrrh and neroli water. Ordain
frankincense to brow, or a drop under tongue and feel cells
dance diamonds on a sunlit lake.
At the blush of dawn jasmine‟s juice runs to the tips of her
petals and applauds the day! Bedew this essence upon your
chest.
Grace your senses with the distillation of a special Attar; these
distillations have surrendered and swooned into sandalwood
for a moon. This attar is the ambrosial immersion perfume from
the earth loom.
Play hooky with flowers.
Warm 1.5 liters of beautiful water in a glass pot
Add:
1 tablespoon of organic ground cinnamon
2 drops of cinnamon essential oil or 2 drops of
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½ cup of tocotrienals
1 teaspoon stevia (or honey, or agave)
2 scoops of SunWarrior Protein Powder
Shake together in a mason jar, or blender.
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1 cup blueberries
½ cup ground chia
1/ 2 cup tocotrienols (rice bran solubles)
3 tablespoons agave
3 drops lemon essence
Mix in a blender. Spread out like a pankcake on a dehydrator
tray. Dehydrate over night.
Wake up. Serve Warm. Roll chocolate into the pancake. Yum!
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In a small bowl, add:
6 tablespoons of finely ground Celtic or Himalayan salt.
1 tablespoon of finely ground chia seeds
2 tablespoons of
, or organic jojoba oil.
Add 6 drops cypress essential oil for circulation. Or,
8 drops of marjoram for relaxing muscles. Or,
4 drops of peppermint for any inflammation.
Lovingly massage into body, or your friends, in small circular
motions. Rinse in a sea salt bath, or go jump in the lake.
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With a mortar and pestle refine 2 teaspoons of Celtic or
Himalayan salt to the finest particle.
Add a pinch or organic baking soda
Add (optional) 1 teaspoon of orris root powder
Add 2 drops of Healthy Gum Drops
Gently scrub teeth with this paste on a DRY face-cloth or
toothbrush.
This removes plaque, whitens teeth and creates resilient
gums. Finish with a floss of
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One of the gifts of plant essences is their illumination of
our life. Nature knows divine. Flowers, trees and leaves
continually invite us to their banquet. Join in! Join in! Imagine
this feast, beyond all senses, in just a drop... all the secrets of
the sky, all the sweetness of the soil, all the innocence of
spring, all the voices in the air, all the eros in the sun, just
spinning around. A rapture of oils‟ waters, liquids to light. Their
presence shines extraordinary revivification that is shatteringly
alive, and breathlessly quiet, suddenly there is a summer
meadow in a drop of oil. Here are eleven illuminating plant
presents. Join in!
divines calm wisdom. Her cerulean blue is an
open sky abounding blessings all around: bestowing true blue
wisdom to all graced by her luminous devotion.
is here for strength and stability. All is well at
present. Clear, uncompromising action attuned to the
frequency of Essence. There is strength in every moment, it
yours for the taking.
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is the utter strength and fortitude in the Laying Down
of Arms. Inhalations of this root manifest light clouds of
fearlessness.
calls clarity to see what is false. Naturally,
this root flames passion, a precision, a burning of all that is
unessential.
is above and below, a serum that sings duality is
an illusion. Ancient intuition is shared, a message of utter
communion dancing with heart and mind, inhalations and
exhalations, pulses and impulses. Anoint to feet and crown.
bestows timeless Beauty. A vibration that is of
this world and otherworldly is the breath of this serum: there is
nothing between thee and the eternal.
is an
offering of divine crystalline clarity on the flower of the heart.
is Everlasting compassion accepting, melting,
yearning, perfuming to the full light of sun. Immortelle
longingly, passionately points to invisible origin. In in in!
petals beckon, to divine harmony where all is one.
Whispers surrender invitations, to a garden of Accord. In
concert with Venus, Jasmine minstrels a melodious stream of
moonlit abandon thru our inner senses, a song where all is
perfect.
trumpets the order of the universe: calling attention to
the troubadour of mind. A clarion call bringing the virtue of
the universe to the order of the mind. Clear action is the
freedom.
blossoms spark zesty flames of exquisite relation to life.
Orange glowing love lights your relation to creation. After all,
her perfume reminisces, we are life. Let your perfume expand
the living ethers of inconceivable light.
sweet drops chime divine, blossoms lifeforce energy and its auric-field expression.
A balm of
forgiving love: Heart flowers to mind. From benumbed to
sweet succumb, the mind falls in love with the heart.
laughs at our serious resistance to life. Invitations of
child delight unfold from fragrant petals. Always knocking on
our hearts to come out and play, a world in a day.
There are as many electrical currents in the river of your
being, as there are sparkles in a starry meadow. The breath
keeps this river harmoniously flowing, distributing vital source
energy through your entire body. The endocrine lands secrete
secret serum, circular fields of glandular libations. These lands
of glands are living gateways between the physical body
and the electrical subtle body. Molecules from essential oils
and spirit waters send invitations to the overseer of the
endocrine system, the hypothalamus. Tickled by these
molecules, spiraling secretions are released to other glands.
The susumna is the fluid sap soaring thru the trunk of your tree
of life. Along this sceptre stem are gems of rainbow orbs that
cruise the cerebrospinal muse. The spine is the conduit for the
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journey of these electrical energies. Along the spine each
chakra-orb is the over-lighting deva of certain glands, organs
and rhythms in the body. Flexibility of the spine fuels the flow.
Plant essences give liquid light to this journey. Light is the key
to this portal land of chakras and glands.
The soma of plants ever-offer the gift to expand our
beauty: Halos of essential oils and plant waters inspire spiral
streams, revealing jeweled points of energy. The harmonizing
of our chakras flows into the glow of our aura. The auric-field is
a mirror of reflectance and acceptance, gleaming inner and
outer worlds. Let it shine.
Earth is the well-spring filling us with life force. Connect to the
ground, as much as tree roots connect to soil. This is the first
spiral of energy, the wetlands that nourish, mineralize and fuel
our breath. Spikenard oil for the soles.
Root reverence is the bloodline to earth, drawing in the fuel of
our dawn dance. This is the second spiral of energy, the life
line of infinite earth energy. Roots grow branches of ecstasy
to all living things. Vetiver to the root of spine.
Sacral is the spiral of relation: sacred unions of inhalations and
exhalations, pulses and impulses. Passionate living catches fire
in fertile communion. Unifying breaths fortify your cradle of
creation. Anoint Rockrose to bless belly and womb.
Solar is strength, the of jewel noon. The apex blazing upon all
unions with equanimity, the solar plexus is the golden core to
charge life with the breath of your being. A spiral of solar rays
delivers creative juices to the field of blessed in the chest.
Consecrate Cardamom oil to solar plexus.
Heart, a spiral of breeze dancing thru leaves a valley of
merging streams, a mountain of heathered peaks. This is the
centre of every direction. Mysterious vast freedom lives here.
Come in. Longing lifts and lifts to knock on the doors of
expression, sight and inspiration. GoldenChampa Attar to
anoint thymus, lungs and chest.
Throat, the portal of inner-outer space, swirling feelings, visions
and inspirations, is the treasury of trust is a true threshold for full
fearless expression. The throat is a well-spring for sipping the
currents of the heart‟s mind. Thyme linalool anoints the thyroid
and a droplet of frankincense for anointing tongue and
throat.
Brow spirals to see to the crown and upside down. This clear
attunement alights the eyes. Rays of intuitive wisdom
abandon veils of illusion. Inner vision follows the notes of
mysterious spiraling melodies that drip the honey of the
moon-crown all the way down. Elemi oil bestowed to brow.
Crown, a summons to Source; going out of your head, to hear
with your spirit ear trumpets of inspiration, songs of your
relation to creation. Leave the lights on. The crown spirals
open to embrace fragrant celestial smiles. Ordain Laurel‟s
oracle to crown.
Celestial spirals to rise to the occasion. Moonlights and
sunlights beam orbs of auric invitations; spirals from the
cosmos showering gifts of grace. Breathe All in. Ylang to light
the aura.
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Knitting a natural mix, playing
with the delicate essences born
from soil, sunshine and rain, is one
of the earth„s most elegant gifts. To
mix is to dance, to weave, a
smelling harmony between the
known and the unknown. The craft
involves a precision and a
translation of plant breath, yet
there are no mistakes, all melodies
are accepted.
To prepare, fine tune your sense of smell with a dose of
curiosity. The creation of perfumes is a pathless land, and your
curiosity will take you on adventures of long wooded rambles,
short summer jaunts, September meadow spins, wet desert
walks, and a solar trance dance. You never know where
you‟ll end up. Use these suggestions as a guide, then
abandon them as you splash and dash.
When fragrance vaporizes and intermingles with life,
different nuances of the scent become apparent.
Throughout time, these nuances have been placed on a
scent scale and called notes. This scale is divided into three
categories that describe the depth of smell: top, middle and
base notes. Berries, citrus and some flowers, smells with
brightness, clarity and sparkle are top notes: the first aromainvitation to tingle your nose and the first to evaporate. The
middle notes awaken the more receptive elements of the
heavier base aromas, and push forth the delicate strands of
the top scents. Leaves, seeds, grasses, flowers and herbs can
be found in this group. The tenacious aromas come from the
base notes, which ground the bouquet. These long lasting
chords can be found in oils from resins, woods, roots, beans
and flowers. Each essential oil, perfection in its own creation,
has elements of all the notes, which take turns playing hide
and seek with your nose. Some try to memorize which
essential oil “belongs” to which note, or are dismayed to read
that different books put rose, for instance, in different
categories. Concern yourselves not with such parameters.
Discover with your nose where rose goes. Observe the aroma
- you will know where it flows, and where it resonates on the
scent scale. When creating with such lively plant matter that
beholds diverse nuances of soil, harvest and distillation, allow
for a flexible mind and nostrils.
Begin the mix with an empty vessel. Let your nose dive
into the unknown. Blend essential oils straight up, then dilute,
or, the other way around. Dilution widens and expands the
weave. Concentrations are a tight knit of leaves. Add the
nectar one by one, drop by drop, mixing, soma dripping,
smelling each shift of intermingled drops. Mix, by rolling
capped bottle between the hands, infusing heat and energy.
Record each drop, for the recreation of masterpieces, to
discover when your blend got too spicy, or completely
harmonized with that last droplet of hyssop. There will be
communion and constant change as you blend, as the oils
blend over an hour, a dawn, or three moons.
While blending, a meditation may dance in your mind.
This is where your keen sense of smell and sensory translation
come in. Blending silent stitches of simplicity: Hear with your
aromatic ear the drop as it splashes in the fragrant oceans.
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This constant communion of molecule meditation to your
inner eye may spark questions. What does one see? Colors?
Shapes? Light? What is the movement of the blend? Narrow,
or sharp? The movement of breath? Are there spirals surging
up and out? Is the color muddy, do the pinks need
highlighting, the violets and greens need widening? Would
silver fir alight the interior? Would more lime heighten the
rooted spikenard? Would a flower present a sweetness to
mystify the earthy tone? Smell, inhale, add adjust, tune.
Swiftly, slowly and so on. Until the perfume is released, ready
to have a unique union upon adornment. Uncontained the
whole aroma unfolds, flowers. Let your perfume bloom
because it is the fragrance it loves.
Why not laugh like a rose? Why not spread perfume? Rumi
The way to the spring is a pathless land and everything
will take you here, there. Everything is for everything. All,
everything, is in relationship. In the asking which way to the
spring, the infinite unknown is invited in. The bloom of the
moment brings hidden mysteries from all living things. A
found smile shares love‟s ease, greeting friends of birds and
trees, merry cherries burst to please. This is the meeting of life,
the spark of commune. All relation is creation: a generation of
magnetic and electrical currents mixing with intuition and
sensory union. The sacred nature of our togetherness here is
everything - to all, to lover, to child, to tree, root, river, rock.
So we may say there is no separation from creation. In
the moment of this sentence, one may nod yes, yes. Yet, is it
possible in all one‟s waking moments for this to be the shape
of your lips, this to be the song rhythming in your heart, and
this to be the utterance of your thoughts. This is the great
adventure, there is no separation. Simple, vast, intricate. This is
the spiraling union of everything. Grow branches of ecstasy to
all living things.
Is it possible for all loving, free-falling trust to guide the
day, a cosmic game of truth-dare-double-dare. This is the
only venture; gamble your life in living. Stretch, go into it, the
flower yearns to live. Trust Living. Shed suspicion. Delight into
Dissolve.
Dissolve in each other. Dissolve other. Other, often
separation, bother, unwelcome sounds and sights taking us
away from our comfort. Every sound, gesture, touch, sight, All
presents itself to revivify your being. Remember the tears, the
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fears, the thunder, the skies so clear, that‟s what these were
for. Everything culminating, kaleidoscoping in a web wider
than your vision; trust the breath, the breeze that moves you.
Live as deliberately and effortlessly as nature.
What presents itself is always beyond imagination.
Imagine not knowing. Every moment gifts are sent, a loss or a
stranger, a knock at the door, or a butterfly in your chest. Be
present for this nourishment, quit your knowing about what to
expect, and you are free. Everything is the serum, all
presence is pure medicine. Might a scraped knee be celestial
shiatsu, acceptance angelic acupuncture, a bruised apple
homeopathy for bruises. Inhale without reaction, open the
amour of immune, let adrenals rest, take a moment to digest.
Trust in the harmony of life, trust not knowing what harmony is.
Our relation to all living things is; is beyond separation; is
wider than the limitations of duality, the illusions of habit.
Beyond what was and what will be is a field that communes
with the cosmos. Where widening helixes of being spiral as
the seasons. A meadow of moments, dawns, moons where all
love is the breeze, the passion of rustling leaves, the musing
song to please. Dance in these ever-widening waves of
being, playfully and freely be the astonishing invitation of
grace. Without knowing, join in, join in. Everything is
everything. What it is. Deeply inhale is. Such wonder in
meeting life again and again.
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Secret Land of Is
The Tree Exhales and We Live!
So with great thanks to the Friend, they attuned to the gift from this
veritable wonderland. And as the story goes, from this day forward,
they lived wildly awake: the pair dared their desires to unfold, they
gambled their life on living, they lived on the ledge of the leading
edge, they lived in the question in lieu of the answer, they lived on the
cusp of revolutionary trust, they inhaled Is, they played easy in the
deep. Seeped in serious joy, laughter seeds were sown, they
adventured as deliberately as nature, they dove into the unknown,
and boundless arrays continued to conjure their days.
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Living Libations is the alchemy of Nadine and Ron's
cosmic communion pours the levity of life into the sacred~secular
essence of their Living Libations products. Out of their play with plantpure wonders Nadine and Ron offer a rare and amazing array of
creations, including the naturally luxurious Renegade Beauty Line,
formulas for the Healthiest Gums Ever, Restorative Wild-Crafted
Essences, and Pure Source Chocolate. In the veritable wonderland of
Living Libations, our senses are connected to the adventure of living, a
bliss that is caught rather than sought.
Ron Obadia
After teaching for many years in downward dog, Ron realized that
breathing came naturally to him... so he set off to India looking for
mantras in mythical yogi-caves, only to realize that meditation is
anytime, anywhere, and that the Guru is you! Teaching Yoga, gave
Ron the desire to create an amazing medicinal-herbal-fulfilling food
that people could eat before, during or after Yoga: Chocolate. Ron
got the rocks to grind every cacao-bean he could find with maca,
p‟au d‟arco and camu, and Living Libations Pure Source Chocolate
was born. Ron tapped into a very unique method of stone grinding the
chocolate with superfood herbs without cacao-butter or powder. Ron
and his chocolate will be featured in an upcoming TVO documentary.
Ron retired his teaching, and went to the woods to embody a life of
longevity, co-create vibrant family health, practice edible-forestgardening and to enliven his entire reality by living on the wild-ledge
of the leading edge.
Nadine Artemis is the creator of Living Libations, an
exquisite line of serums, elixirs and essentials oils for those seeking the
purest of the pure botanical health and beauty products on the
planet. She is a frequent commentator on health and beauty
for media outlets and her products have received rave reviews in The
New York Times, The National Post and The Hollywood Reporter.
Described by Alanis Morissette as "a true-sense visionary", Nadine has
formulated a stunning collection of rare and special botanical
compounds. An innovative aromacologist, Nadine develops immune
enhancing formulas and medicinal blends for health and wellness:
her potent dental serums are used worldwide and provide the
purest oral care available. Her healing creations, along with her
concept of “Renegade Beauty”, encourage effortlessness, eschew
regimes and inspire people to rethink conventional notions of beauty
and wellness. Nadine's fresh paradigm for beauty and her natural
approach to health presents a revolutionary vision: it allows the lifeforce of flowers, dewdrops, plants, sun, and water to be the
ingredients of healthy living and lets everything unessential, contrived,
and artificial fall away.
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