Sage Stories V : Soaking in the Solar Juices

“That gentle and amiable sage of the Himalayas had only one entrancing theme: love—for nature, love— for creatures, and love—for the Whole. The Himalayan sages taught me the gospel of nature. Then I started listening to the music coming from the blooming flowers, from the songs of the birds, and even from the smallest blade of grass and thorn of the bush. In everything lives the evidence of the beautiful. If one does not learn to listen to the music of nature and appreciate her beauty, then that which impels man to seek love at its fountain may be lost in the remotest antiquity.”

- Living with the Himalayan Masters, Swami Rama

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Dear friend,

Some months have passed since my last letter.. The summer months always enthrals me into an intense love affair with the Sun and the last place I want to be is wandering aimlessly through digital forests.

We have passed Lion’s Gate and a New Moon.. On the windowsill I am admiring this year’s harvest simmering in the rays of the morning sunbeams ~ contained in glass jars and bottles, pure magic waiting to be processed and transformed into healing remedies. The devis of Vestfold’s coastlines, kamis of Ula’s meadows and nature spirits of the Nordic forest realms are willingly coming to rest in dark containers, blended with aromas, essene light codes and crystal activations ~ eagerly waiting to bring you light and joy on your path..

When foraging in the wild, I am bursting with aliveness and dissolve into a conversation with the local ecology. Deeply rooted in my homeland, I commune with the plants and ask them for advice and teachings. The senses become bridges between the plant and human realm and allow my vision to open and my intuition to flow like the juicy, cristalline rivers of the Himalayas.. Dragonflies and bees are humming softly to the melodies of that organic summertime jazz ~ and I dance with the rhythm of the forests ‘harmony-aum’..

St. John’s Wart, Nettle, Calendula, Mugwort, Meadowsweet, Yarrow, Fireweed and friends come together to support our transition into the darker days of the year.. I whirl them all into my kundalini stream ~ bottle them and lock them safely in the wooden cabinet with the other captured essences.. My heart beats a little bit stronger knowing that sisters from near and far are opening the dialogue with the plant realm and bringing back the ancient ways.. The heat of these golden days is bound to bring forth shadows ~ and solace can be found in the continuous communion with our natural realm. Free from projections and karmic clutter, the plants bring the cleanest of messages from the waters of Source.. The remedies will take a couple of weeks to process ~ stay tuned to receive the full list of products.

If you are an empath and highly sensitive person (HSP) like me, you will probably feel the intensity of summer much stronger that ‘normal’ people. The Sun brings a power and will that can feel overwhelming at times, encouraging us to find our boundaries and keep the inner temperature balanced. Make sure to tune into your core/coeur several times a day and listen deeply to the needs of your soul.

• Spend hours soaking in the Sun, contemplating it’s qualities and how they are also alive in you.. The Sun has the ability to purify our karmic knots, it’s all about directing your awareness into the unconscious parts of your body using your breath and stay with the tension until it dissolves. Feel the heat embrace your skin and surrender with your every breath. Notice what this can teach you about warm boundaries and allowing your energy to drop from the mind and into the body and heart.

• Siestitas: Give yourself permission to rest in the shade in the middle of the day when the Sun is at its strongest. Bring your favourite blankets into the woods or sea shore coves let nature hold you in her embrace until you feel rejuvenated and ready to enter the world again!

• Seek clean water sources and be aware of how the running water and negative ions can help cleanse your emotional body..

• Eat light. Literally, eat light. Can you find your own way around this?

• Explore your local flora to find edible plants that are blooming at the peak of summer’s presence to prepare your body for the colder days. Frozen redcurrants are my favourite remedies to counter winter depression, an instant reminder of the inevitable turning of the seasons!

• And lastly, make use of the light and windy drafts to declutter and clean your spaces to easy the transition into fall..

Below you will find some articles that have inspired me this season, from Kami Mcbride on herbal oils to Asia Suler on Summertime Sadness, Akal Anand’s heart muscle meditations and self-love practices from Buddhist traditions..

In light,
Caroline Ināya

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Community Voices

Inspiration and practices from near and far that have sparked my flow this month!

• Mythic Medicine - Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wart (podcast)

• Elizabeth Meacham Ph. D. - ‘Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic EcoTherapy Practices’ (book)

• Kami McBride - Healing Herbal Oils: How to make them and use them (podcast)

• Akal Anand - Heart Muscle Meditation and activation journeys (programmes)

• Maitri: Practices for Developing Loving-Kindness for Oneself (article)

• Swami Rama - Living with the Himalayan Masters (pdf)
  
  ”…and this gospel of nature speaks its parables from the glacial streams, the valleys laden with lilies, the forests covered with flowers, and the light of stars. This gospel reveals that emphatic knowledge through which one learns truth and beholds the good in all its majesty and glory. When one learns to hear the music of nature and appreciate her beauty, then his soul moves in harmony with its entire environment. His every movement and every sound will surely then find its due place in human society.”

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Seasonal Offerings

I am here to serve your highest evolution and the soft unfolding of your human essence. With experience from both western and eastern healing traditions, I offer a wide range of therapies to soothe and inspire your current energetic needs. Below are some of the tools and formulas that have helped me on my own path to wholeness.

• Pathfinding - Oslo and online

• Forest Therapy Sessions - Oslo and online

• Reiki and Nordic Touch Therapy - Oslo

• Gene Key Readings - Oslo and online

• Retreat: Inner Mountain Yoga Retreat at Mjølfjell with Vana Yoga 2-5 September

• Retreat: Nat:Urkraft Wim Hof and Elemental Alchemy at Finnskogen 14-17 October

• Cycledelics: The Journey - scheduled for October 2021

• Expressive Art Therapy and Art Commissions - on request

• Guided Medicine Journeys / Rites of Passage - on request

Join the group Norwegian Sage ༓･ Healing Arts for a community of fellow seekers - or book a session of your own if you would like to venture deeper into the forests of your inner nature..

Sage Stories IV : The Way of Water

“A new spirituality is arising, one that upholds the self, the heart and the body. It is both a very ancient and very evolutionary spirituality. It is a spirituality that calls on us not to denigrate, transcend or reject who we are as a self, but rather to embody it and ennoble it in service of mankind and the Earth. It is a spirituality of freedom and of service, in other words, of authenticity and solidarity.”

— Chris Saade

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Dear Friend,

I woke up this morning having experienced the most potent dreams in a long time 〜 full of energy to share. One of winter’s many gifts was the space to cultivate a practice of Earth Dreaming, connecting to the dreams of Mother Earth herself - finding that my dream journeys are taking new depth and form.. Under my bare feet, I can feel her waking up too - as the green life force is slowly emerging from the soil.. Another emerging practice is a deep surrender to the Way of Water 〜 of honouring the water in my inner and outer nature and a surrender to the dew drops, rivers and waterfalls of my dharma. For me, last year was all about fire - and 2021 I am dedicating to water in all its forms..

As put by Richard Rudd:

“When you see the world through the Water Eye your primary awareness rests with your breath, your body and its gentle rhythms and with the movement of life all round you … all of life sees with you and all of life comes towards you. The Fire Eye is the seeker inside you that led you here … the inquirer, the seeker, the knower. It leads you on a dance through life as you leap from one experience to another … in the ever changing landscape of dreams.

Rare is the human being who can give their life over to the Water Eye. It is the subtlest of the subtle. It is the softest, most paradoxical, most mysterious presence inside you. The Water Eye is a power without force, without emotion, without warmth. If you allow the lens of the Water Eye to open inside your being, you will begin to view your life and the world in a completely new way..”

Ripples Waves of Venus
When I dip my finger in the collective waters to tune into the temperature our shared heart-mind, I sense a feeling of relief and joy for the times that are now coming. For me, winter has been about deep shadow work and wrapping myself in new silken veils of self-respect and self-love. I have had strong emotional releases, tears streaming, channels bursting open as a result of the work put down in The Venus Sequence, a Gene Keys programme where we follow the Pathways of Love, using our daily lives and our relationships to fuel of our spiritual transformation.

Working with the Gene Keys, we are able to de-program the low frequencies in our DNA and release stagnant vibrations and old programming which prevent us from living from our highest soul expression. If you are interested in receiving a Venus Reading, I would love to receive you. We will be looking into themes such as patterns of co-dependency, emotional maturity, spiritual realization, our wounding mechanisms and techniques for de-armouring our core wound. On the other side, I feel rejuvenated, as if my human being has been put through an energetic upgrade, allowing more rainbows to burst forward with clarity and colour!

As Chris Saade so finely puts it - a new spirituality is emerging - a practice opening us to freedom and service. To our sacred selves, each other, our waters and the earth. Restoring the balance and harmony to the world again 〜 with each step and breath.

Let it flow,
Caroline Ināya

*This work arises from a dedication to serving the divine flow. If you would like to make a donation to keep the river alive, please do this here. May these words leave you refresh and rejuvenated as if you were drinking from a hidden natural spring in the wild woods of the north!

Cycledelics : The Journey
Since I began writing the Sage Stories, I intended to publish a newsletter each month, but I found myself enveloped in the tight cocoon of the seed, and was not even able to write a single word for several of the darker months. Resting in the presence of yin, immersed in the emotional waters and the silent metamorphosis of the dragonfly. In early February however, I felt an immense force throbbing in my third eye, and was not able to sleep for several nights 〜 resulting in the birth of the ‘Cycledelics’ programme.

‘Cycledelics’ is an online experience, designed to nurture your relationship to your inner teacher and carve out a deeper space for the art of contemplation to unfold in your life. It feels like the aromatic essence of all my favourite connection practices thus far on my own path, and I am so excited to share it with you!

The course lasts for eight weeks, which a combination of lectures and sharing circles - from venturing into our the caves of our inner mystery school to taking the practice into the heart of nature, learning about the glowing flames of the creative principle, and coming together in ceremony to celebrate the cosmos and life itself!

We begin on Wednesday the 14th of April - and the deadline for signing up is this week! Let’s make the unconscious conscious, reconnect to our natural intelligence and heal humanity in the process!

*If you have already signed up, you will receive the welcome letter, community invitation and material at the end of this week.

Seasonal Offerings

I am here to serve your highest evolution and the soft unfolding of your human essence. With experience from both western and eastern healing traditions, I offer a wide range of therapies to soothe and inspire your current energetic state. Below are some of the tools and formulas that have helped me on my own path, and that I would love to share with you.

• Cycledelics: The Journey - April 14th

• Gathering: Wim Hof og Elementenes Alkymi - Finnskogen, Norge - April 18-22

• Pathfinding / Solar Transmissions - Oslo and online

• Forest Therapy Sessions - Oslo + virtual experiences

• Reiki / Conscious Touch Therapy - Oslo

• Gene Key Readings - Oslo and online

• Women’s Circles - on request

• Expressive Art Therapy and Art Commissions - on request

• Rites of Passage / Guided Medicine Walks - on request

Join the group Norwegian Sage ༓･ Healing Arts for a community of fellow seekers and pathfinders - or book a session of your own if you would like to venture deeper into your own mystery school gardens..

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Poems and Prayers

cerebral streams

discern
define
your pathways

discern again
now listen
to the
air - earth - fire - water
and ether
of your channels

structure the direction
adjust
the compass of what works

navigate
practice
new currents
new depths
open these valves
and hold. hold. hold the space

for how long
can you remain in - and maintain
the field between the inhale and the exhale

feel it expand
where time does not exist
and the circle is resting
in a point of eternal non-duality

shifting, circulation, recycling
the fluctuation of the cerebral energy

your very own cycledelic remedy

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Sage Stories II: A Surrender to Self-Love

“Dive deeply into yourself and you'll uncover the Divine, but along the way you'll meet your shadow, your wounds, your purpose, and your sacred path.”
- Paramahansa Yogananda 

Dear Friend,

Today’s spirit whispers are written in the old growth forests of Ådalen, Norway. We have walked through the blazing fires of Vetrnaetr and rekindled the dialogue with our ancestors.. My morning began with a barefoot walk in the fresh moss.. The deep contact with the frozen ground moves attention from the head into the body, helps optimise and regulate the nervous system and the mist carries the healing aroma and immune boosting showers from the pine trees. For any turmoil or tension, especially in these turbulent times, I keep returning to the forests - to clear the inner and outer air and purify my channels of perception so I can better tune into where I am needed and what is needed for my own balance and joy.

The past weeks of autumns’ composting matters has brought a deep dive into the shadows of the collective and individual psyche in both waking and dreaming life. And sometimes it can get so dark, the only option left is surrender - giving it all up. In every surrender there is an opportunity for complete dissolution and at the bottom of the well glimmers the reflections of our deepest wounding. In most schools of self-illumination, this core wound represents our most constricted patterns of separation from Source, which through contemplation and care, we can begin untangling..

With increased self-acceptance, self-responsibility and self-forgiveness, we slowly begin learning how to open our hearts again after a lifetime of protection and armouring. This can be a gradual process that takes many years to complete, but for some it can also happen overnight, emphasising the need for tools and methods of integration so we can learn to uphold the soft tenderness of our heart-born lotus in bloom. 

Life continues to unravel as a mad, flourishing flow between the fertile darkness of the Earth and the celestial realms of Heaven. The more time we spend in the Heart Cave between the two, the more sensitive we become, and the deeper we can experience the sacred wound of my human existence and that of humanity as a whole. The pain brought forth by this connection is my greatest zen teacher, and each time we chose to embalm it with love, we open vaster fields of compassion and empathy for my surroundings. We learn to create space for my emotions, find ways to channel and transmute the aches of suffering, wrap ourselves in healthy boundaries to protect the harmony of our ecology, conserve prana/life force, and seek the most potent of nutrients for mind, body and soul.

We often blame our surroundings for the way we react to suffering and fear, whether it is our parents, childhood traumas or situations of adult life. By choosing love as our remedy, we begin walking the path of the ‘wounded healer’, where each step into softness brings another spell or formula we can share with others so we can walk each other home. For many, this realisation can be a life-changing experience, as our focus shifts from craving something from the outside and falling a victim to our shadows, to finding our inner source of power and opening to emit our own frequency of light and healing. 

My most powerful of teaching on the journey towards self-love has been to carefully follow the quality of each and every present moment, so I can stay aware of my multifaceted needs and better serve my surroundings. When I learned how to care for my moment and speak its truth was when my life began falling into place with a great magnetic force. Our moment is our most precious of jewels - Our Golden Child. The still lake of the present moment is also where the Heart resides, and from where we can move closer into our Dharma, the path towards manifesting our higher purpose in our local and global community. To me, the journey of surrendering to self-love has become my true calling, responsibility - and the carving-out of a practice I call pathfinding. 

The following are some of the living brush-strokes that have helped me colour the darkened canvas of November’s melancholic currents..

• Begin softly by re-routing your life force into more natural currents - closeness to the elements (fire, air, earth, water, ether), natural fabrics, organic foods, soulful relationships - leading the way to more conscious choices and natural living.

• Abhyangya self-massage with warm oils, an Ayurvedic practice leaving you feeling nurtured, cared for and blissful.

• Finding your place of inner stillness. I can recommend the meditation teachings of the Self-Realization Fellowship and The Art of Inner Tracking/ Sit Spot in Nature.

• Frequent Forest Therapy immersions to cleanse your senses and stabilise your nervous system. This will also help you to attune the Earth’s natural cycles, circadian bio-rhythms, and support the balance of your hormones, menstrual flow, sleep patterns and other bodily functions.

• Exposure to polar opposite natural forces with hot/cold showers, sauna, and outdoor swims to clear emotional stagnancy and boost the immune system.

• Collect drinking water from wild, natural sources, which is still high in negative ions and qi/life force.

• Find a good supplier of organic CBD-oil to easy anxiety and activate the endocannabinoid system, which help us open to receive deeper love from your immediate ecology and relations.

• Build healthy boundaries to nurture your present moment. Learn to practice the 'whole-hearted yes’ and ‘wholesome no’ so you can learn to play with the mature masculine and feminine forces of manifestation.

• Cultivate nourishing social circles to help ease the edges of a square reality, such as song circles, sister/brotherhood gatherings and movement practices.

• Allow yourself longer periods of silence and personal retreat to clear the noise and clutter from your mind and surroundings. Purify your space with sage or local herbs. This will also open to more frequent visits from the Holy Spirit/Creativity and that feeling of flow we never seem to get enough of..

This work arises from a dedication to serving the divine flow of Her will. If you would like to make a donation to keep the river alive, please do this here. May these words leave you refresh and rejuvenated as if you were drinking from a hidden natural spring in the wild woods of the north!

ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ - in peace,
Caroline Ināya

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Seasonal Offerings

I am here to serve your highest evolution and the soft unfolding of your human essence. With experience from both western and eastern healing traditions, I offer a wide range of therapies to soothe and inspire your current energetic state. Below are some of the tools and formulas that have helped me on my own path, and that I would love to share with you.

• Pathfinding / Solar Transmissions

• Forest Therapy Sessions

• Reiki / Conscious Touch Therapy

• Gene Key Readings

• Women’s Circles

• Expressive Art Therapy and Art Commissions

• Rites of Passage / Guided Medicine Walks

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Wisdom Library

A collection of voices that are continuing to support me navigating the samsaric waters with their clarity and direction. Each journal entry will contain new and inspiring readings, podcasts, music and poetry from around our planet.

• Hologenesis and the Sacred Wound - Richard Rudd

• Audio: Love, Sex and Awakening with Margot Anand

• Lars Muhl - The Law of Light: The Secret Teachings of Jesus

• Audio: To See Life with Soft Eyes  - Richard Rudd

• The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing by Julia Plevin

• Audio: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path on Tim Ferris

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Seeds of Liberation

Surrender..
glowing on my tongue like ember
to the deepest of the depths of the darkest oceans
resting in the soothing waves
of conscious-enough-ness

Surrender..
to the dance of the Earthen flower
innascently enjoying her Father's Shower
releasing fragrances of HUM
and dawning days of loving fun!

Surrender..
and be rendered free..
until the very last thread of the weave has come undone.
and you can bow to the feet of the Holy One
to the unfolding, expanded presence..
a field of self-sufficient evanescence...

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Illustration: Nicholas Roerich - She Who Leads (1943)