All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.

{Hafiz}

March Retreat Facilitators 

Pixie Campbell

 ...accesses nature's symbolic teachings for everything she creates: mixed-media artwork, written word, online coursework, and live circles. She celebrates each woman's ability to integrate her family, spiritual practice, creative expression and commerce into her exquisitely connected lifestyle. Her mission is to spread seeds of love, growth, humor and health for traveling this awakened, healing path. Her life's work is about releasing her grasp and allowing flow. She thrills at the simplest things in life, and she really does howl at the moon.

Visit www.pixiecampbell.com to follow Pixie's wild wanderings.

"I am showing up in this community as a sacred space holder - as a midwife for the deep and labor-like releasing required to clear the pathway to Spirit. I am here to open up communications between you and your spiritkin - the guides and helpers who are ready and waiting to meet you in between dimensions, where your more mystical insights can be found. I bring a deep trust of women, infinite compassion for authentic process & an unwillingness to validate the loitering darkness. I carry to the fire tremendous faith that the Guides always come when called."

Melody Ross

...is an Artist, Writer and Seeker. She started Brave Girls Club in 2009, which has evolved into a worldwide organization that combines art with life skills to help women create the lives they want to live. Melody also now licenses several product lines in arts and crafts, books and now home decor including an extensive gift line with Demdaco and a new fabric line with Blend. She recently launched The Truth Card Exchange in partnership with Full Circle Exchange, an innovative non-profit social enterprise brand dedicated to empowering women to rise above poverty through design partnerships and economic opportunities that are sustainable, holistic and dignified.

Stay on top of Melody's amazing work in the world at the Brave Girl's Club website.

"I believe in the goodness of others and of life, and in seeking beauty and truth and fun and unity and extreme bravery, and when I can't find it...I believe in going out and creating it. I believe in doing difficult things as joyfully as possible. I believe everything we need most and will bring the most joy into our lives is usually right in front of our faces. I believe in family. I believe in unconditional true love. I believe that East or West, home is best. I believe in sharing anything and everything that may be of value to someone else. I believe in creating the things that I seek but cannot find. I believe in goodness. It is everywhere."


Christine Mason Miller

...is a Santa Monica based writer and artist who has been creating, writing and exploring ever since she was a little girl.  Her mission to inspire has provided the foundation for all of her creative work; the desire to encourage others to pursue their passions and create a meaningful life is the common thread throughout an expansive body of work that includes mixed media collage, commercial illustration, photography, writing, teaching and speaking.

Keep up with Christine's musings and adventures at www.christinemasonmiller.com.

I am someone who believes in the greatest of all possibilities. I believe each and every one of us has all that we need to create a meaningful life for ourselves, and that we can find our way by tapping into our intuition, building a relationship with our dreams, trusting our own wisdom and taking full responsibility for ourselves. I am here to encourage and support all of this - to whisper directly to your heart, "You can do it."