What happens when you say YES??

It's what happens when you say Yes to that diamond that has been marinating in your deepest inner space for so long that you have almost forgotten it exists, or have almost convinced yourself it's actually just a lump of coal.

It's what happens when you see the light in your deepest moment of darkness and you choose to focus on that tiny glow, believe in it, watch it, feed it tiny twigs and dry grass until it begins to grow.

It's what happens when you actually listen to what is being asked of you and take advantage of all the cards that are stacked in your favor...

If you are like me, you have had moments of resisting the obvious, the easy road, the thing that everyone has been asking you to do, and your heart has been telling you to follow, and for some reason, you just weren't quite ready.

And if you are like me, and having a total moment of self-honesty, I can really see why I wasn't ready.

But I am now.

So, MOMENTUM is what happens the very moment the Wheel of your Destiny begins to turn, and the stars line up behind you and the ancestors prayers from generations ago begin to whisper in your ears and all of a sudden you are not "making thing happen," they are just happening...

When I said YES to the Ojai Medicine Wheel, it was in a moment when I really didn't even quite know what I was saying yes to anymore, but I knew that it was what I had to do.  It was, in a way, like taking my medicine.

Sometimes I prescribe people herbs and they don't take them...for weeks after the initial treatment.  And they come back, and things have shifted, but not much, and we do another treatment and slowly things move...but SLOWLY.  And then one day, they call me up ecstatic saying that things have really dramatically shifted and it's because they decided in a moment of desperation or surrender or illumination to take the medicine that was right in front of them the whole time.  Duh.  Ha!

So this is about taking your medicine, but first and foremost, about FINDING YOUR MEDICINE.  And as we all know, on some level, the best and truest medicine comes from within.  AND it just happens to be reflected all around you, in signs and faces and obstacles and weeds in the cracks of the sidewalk and animals in your backyard. 

It's about stepping onto your own path as a beginner.  Yes, your same path, but with raw, naked, infant eyes whose skin has just shed like the serpent, and they can barely stand the brilliance of the light so they just stare and blink and receive.  It's about vulnerability, allowing ourselves to be held, and a new level of TRUST that is authentic, not as the expert or the observer or the critic or the investigator, but as the devotee.

So then it must also be about DEVOTION.  What are you devoted to?  It goes beyond commitment and accountability and contracts to a place of complete faith…in yourself, in the Divine Mother, in the Great Spirit, and in that inner guidance on what you have come HERE to be.
 
It is with great humility and a childlike excitement that I am introducing the first module of the Medicine Wheel training program, the World of the Serpent.  The sacred Ojai valley is bursting with an early spring in celebration of my decision to say Yes, and I am eager to get out into the wild and holy places that are calling for our attention and adoration.

I am holding space for 10 brave pilgrims who are ready to begin again.  This is not about forgetting what you have learned, and I am not going to be sitting in the place of the “expert.”  This is about genuinely saying Yes to your purpose here, finding your Medicine, and unleashing your core potential so that you can move like the Serpent with the current moment..um…

I am going to be guiding you into your innermost sanctuaries, and into the Living Library of this pristine and noble valley, the “cradle of the new civilization” that the ancients blessed with the name of Ojai.   We will be accessing the divine genetic blueprint that will bring your Mission to the surface, and stoking the essential fire of transformation that will burn away all that is in the way of you living that Destiny.  And we will be learning to navigate this first direction, this first world, the place where we are most deeply rooted, and the place that will set us free:  the World of the Serpent.

This is the beginning of a journey around the Medicine Wheel, and a genuine, old-fashioned, upgraded Quest for the innermost TRUTH.

If this speaks to you, please visit the website for more information, and contact me as soon as possible for an application and to set up an interview.  (eric@ojaimedicinewheel.com)  This is an intimate training for the right group of adventurous spirits, and if you suspect you are one of them, if something inside of you is stirring, I strongly urge you to listen to that voice and take action. 

Because its all about the moment…um. 

This is an opportunity to make a fundamental choice to get out of survival mode, and Clear the Path for Right Relationship, because now more than ever, pardoxically, living our divine potential is a matter of survival...

 

"If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you" -- gnostic gospels
 
Sending you sunshine from the sacred valley, whispers of orange blossoms and the glistening rumor of rain's perfume...

It's time to make time...and time to "Find you're Medicine."