Prasad for Women

Fifth World Women Walking Upright
Who are Fifth World Women? Why we are the prasad, or holy food, of our times … you and I, exactly as we are, right now?

Women on the Verge of Their Hearts Breaking … Open
What is the difference between hearts breaking and hearts breaking open? How heartbreak can grow us. Women, wailing walls and watering holes.

Fear, the Treasured Guest
Take your fear by the hand and invite it to your table. Fear is a messenger and not the message. The power of discernment and listening to our bodies. And the Mother of all Fears … of who we really are.

The pivotal year I went to Hopi, my destination was the home of Thomas Banyacya Sr who had passed away a few years before.
He touched my heart in the 1990’s (and I talk about this in my recording, Fifth World Women Walking Upright). I felt called to drive across country to express my condolences to his family for their loss and to let them know how grateful I was to have met him. I set off on Route 40 from Asheville, NC, arriving days later at the Banyacya family door. I'd brought quart jars of honey to give them as a gift. (There was a beekeeper who lived around the corner from me.) Thomas’ daughter-in-law, whom I had never met, greeted me at the door, welcomed me in, received the jars of honey, and said, “Why I was just telling Thomas Jr. that we were out of honey and that I needed to go to the store to get some more.”

In that moment, unbeknownst to me, something bee-ish, full of grace, slipped under my radar and into the heart of my life. When people ask me when I became a beekeeper, I realized that it was in that moment. By the end of that year, I was in bee school and the bees got me, body and soul. They are some of the greatest teachers of my life and I have been at their feet ever since (all six of them).

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