Meditation at The Well

01/27/2023

Hope you can make it!

01/26/2023

After 14 years, Sophia's Well is closing its doors. This Saturday and Sunday, we will have a closing sale. Come by on Saturday from 11am - 3pm or Sunday from 12-3pm. Find your "treasures" - make an offer - write a check made out to the Interfaith Food Bank. All proceeds will go the the Amador County Interfaith Food Bank. Help us out and do a good deed!

10/31/2022

THE WOUND IS THE DOORWAY

You are pure Awareness
with very human wounds.

You are indestructible Light,
untouchable and infinite, yes,
but you are also deeply sensitive, fragile,
a human being with a tender heart
and unspeakable longings,
and more questions than answers.

Do not abandon yourself for the Absolute, friend,
but do not lose yourself in the relative either.
Just see them as One. God taking shape.
Non-duality dancing as duality,
as the deep mystery of the belly,
the throat, the ge****ls, the hot blood
and the yearning for home
and the search for union,
and the restlessness and the rest,
and the boredom and the joy of this ordinary life.

All form is sacred here,
since all form is formless here.
The relative is absolute in its holiness here.
Your pain is not an error here but a call to home.
Your sorrow is not a mistake but a movement of divinity.
And even your sense of incompleteness is complete, and your feeling of unworthiness has endless worth.

The old dream of perfection has crumbled.
The old myth of spiritual enlightenment has turned to dust.
The untouchable gurus with all the answers and no human flaws have been swept away.

Certainty has been destroyed by fire.

What is left to trust now
but the belly and the throat, the whistle of the kettle and the pitter-patter of rain hitting the roof, and the laughter of children, and the pressure between the eyes and the loneliness of evening, and the yearning for God and the simplicity of breathing.

The spiritual patriarchy is collapsing under its own weight.
The fear-based notions of how you “should” be.
The sad ideal of bliss and light and only positive vibes.
It has destroyed souls for too long.

A new spirituality is dawning.
One that allows for imperfection.
Healthy shame. Flaws. Not knowing.
Allows us to doubt. To feel sad. To break.
To be groundless yet know our ground.
To be Light yet love our darkness too.
To be Awareness yet maintain our humanity.

A spirituality not of opposites but of inclusion.
A spirituality of the feminine and the masculine working in harmony.
A spirituality of the breath, the dirt, the erotic, the taboo and the inconvenient, the impure and the unfinished and the unknowable.

A spirituality of you, as you are.

- Jeff Foster

09/30/2022

A reminder 💝

M A N T R A S 🕉 
 
A mantra is a phrase, it could be a sound or a phrase. It is a phrase that you repeat over and over and over again... 
 ..When a mantra is done sufficiently it gets into a certain kind of vibration or harmony with the universe in a certain way which is its own thing. The conscious beings who evolve certain languages such as Sanskrit specifically evolve the sounds of these languages to be connected with various states of consciousness – unlike the English language - so that a Sanskrit mantra, if you do it over and over again, will take you to a certain state of consciousness. 
 
The idea of a mantra is that it just sits there, and all that stuff goes by. It’s like a bridge on which you stand, looking down into the water in which you see your own life going by. It’s a training device to break you out of your attachments. When I’m driving and doing mantra I’m not attached to my driving. I’m doing mantra, and driving is just happening. So in other words, the mantra is a technique for bringing me into a place in myself which would be called the eternal present; that is, a place where nothing is literally happening at all. It’s a device for calming my mind. 
 
– Ram Dass, 1973

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08/04/2022

Deep Listening allows for the growth of a sustainable human at any age.

05/16/2022

Wonderful!

A short follow-along video led by Damo Mitchell. This is a simple Kidney-nourishing Qigong form used by alchemists to consolidate the essence. There are sequ...

05/12/2022

The Reiki Healing Circle is now held on the second Thursday of each month at Sophia's Well in Sutter Creek It starts at 10:30 am with Reiki Meditation, a Reiki Activation, and a Reiki Share. Please text Patsy at 209-418-9003 if you plan to attend or need more information. Tomorrow is the RHC for May!

08/02/2021

Interesting information about 5the vertebra of Lumbar!

An epiphany: Getting down in forward bend without rounding the shoulder has a lot to do with fifth sacral vertebrae.