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Loving the Journey: New Moon Movement Ritual

This New Moon is an invitation to see the grace and beauty in the dance of separation as it leads us back together. Through lived experience, day by day, we get initiated into this evolution of consciousness that is happening in us and all around us, and on some special days, like at a wedding, or on a New Moon in Libra, the divine whispers into our soul ear and says, "There is one thing to which there is no opposite. Do you remember what it is?"

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Patience Prays: Full Moon Movement Ritual

Dear Dreamers and Doers,

You know the saying...Patience pays.

I just made up another one...Patience PRAYS.

What do you do when you want something, not indulgently but from a place of needing it SO badly. The perfect home. The perfect partner. The perfect job. The perfect a/b/c/x/y/z. We know that honoring everything has it's fair share of challenges or imperfections, but still, we yearn for the things that are puzzle piece perfect for us.

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Take Your Star Seat: Qoya Full Moon Movement Ritual

You are a star. Together we are a constellation. We each shine a unique luminescence of the same light, and when we gather together, we embody archetypes that magnify and mirror our human experiences so that we can see them more clearly.

We are at a crossroads in our individual and collective experience that requires us to know our true essence, embody it, shine it and SHARE it. The antidote to destruction is creation. The elixir to pain is love. The cure for hopelessness is faith. The remedy for isolation is community. The healing from fear-based existence comes by remembering who we are and why we came here.

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Where Do You Live? Qoya New Moon Movement Ritual

Dear Dancer,

I'm on the road again. Everything is in storage, and my boyfriend and I have decided to drive across the United States in the shape of an infinity loop. I'm teaching Qoya classes, retreats, and teacher trainings, and together we are having conversations with people about the evolution of consciousness that is happening at this time in a project we are calling the Infinity Migration, which you can check out here.

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Summer Solstice Blessings and Movement Ritual to Feel Your Truth and Follow It

Dear Love,

The day with the most light approaches as we honor the Summer Solstice. While there is never a bad time for ceremony, ritual, movement, community, or pilgrimage, if there is one thing you take from this newsletter, know that today and this week is an exceptionally supportive time for anything that brings you to the center of the center, to the brightest part of your own sun, which is your heart.

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Love + Lemonade: New Moon in Gemini Movement Ritual

I’m a big fan of this new moon in Gemini. I’m also a big fan of Beyonce’s visual album, Lemonade (more on that later).

Being a Gemini myself, I’m getting ready for my birthday on June 11th and find myself reflecting on all that has happened in the past year of my life.  

Maybe it’s somewhat similar to the past year for you…

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Qoya and Shamanic Astrology

On June 9th, I'm leading a co-ed Evolutionary Integration Workshop in Sedona, Arizona with Shamanic Astrologer Sao! I asked Sao to write about the intersection of Qoya and Shamanic Astrology to share with you whether you can attend this workshop or not. Enjoy his vision of creating a global hospice for the old paradigms of fear as we midwife a new paradigm of love in our individual lives and in the collective.

xo,
Rochelle

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Activation! Full Moon Movement Ritual

Resident Qoya Astrologer Virginia Rosenberg shares that:

"The Full Moon in Sagittarius May 21 (5:13pm EST) is an activation. For the last three weeks, the skies encouraged us to harness our core values and make investments to support their long-term growth in our lives. Now, we are inspired to take what we’ve consolidated and widen our sphere. What we nourished at the root is entering pollination. We enter a season of change, adaptation, and flexibility. Curiosity is peaked. Spread words and share ideas. Disseminate information. Explore a global, multicultural, multidimensional perspective. Network, adventure, and connect with people. Duality dances; opportunities arise to unite opposites. Look for the rainbow threads of commonality and expansion. Synthesize. Polarities and extremes, when harmonized and braided, create art. Enter into a conversation with life and your world. The desire to learn, understand, and grow motivates. This full moon is energetic. Feeling spurred? Anger, frustration, and heat can arise. Let them be clarifying! Let them facilitate right action. Tame rash impulse, yet firmly protect your boundaries. If conflict emerges, listen to it. Tension can stir to facilitate healthy expressions of sexuality and the masculine-feminine balance in each of us. Hear the struggle and be definitive in your movements. What fires you up? What are you passionate about defending? What action must you absolutely take now? What is your mission to contribute to the health of the globe? Get moving. Act in favor of the passions in your heart and spirit. Tend to the fire within, and keep growing."

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A Qoya Mother's Story

I’m honored and excited to introduce you to one of my closest friends, Rachel Schipper, who writes to us this week about Qoya and her journey through motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 8th. Whether you are a mother or just have mothers in your life, her honest story sheds some light on our culture’s unrealistic expectations of motherhood. We’re honored to feature her incredible program, New Mom Dream Team, on Lifestyle of Reverence as an essential resource for new moms everywhere (tip: If you are a new mom or have a new mom in your life, it makes a WONDERFUL Mother’s Day gift!)

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It's All About Experience: New Moon Movement Ritual

There is a medicine that comes only from lived experience - specifically, your lived experience. Many of us have been raised, encouraged, and rewarded to focus on what we think about things; however, the task for those looking to embody more of their feminine intuitive wisdom is to focus on how you feel about things. I sometimes offer, "Instead of figuring it out, let's feel it out."
 

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Anchoring the Sacred

Dear Spirit Infused into Form,

Do you like being addressed like that? As a Spirit infused into form?

Infusing spirit into form isn't only the basis of the human experience, it's also what inspired the creation of Lifestyle of Reverence.  

I love asking the question, "How do you infuse the sacred into form and make it tangible?"

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You are a Light Point! New Moon in Aries Movement Ritual

Dear Soul on the other Side of the Screen,

YOU ARE A LIGHT POINT!

Of course, you already knew this, but sometimes when we look into a murky mirror, we see a murky version of ourselves. It's important to do the practices that clear the mirror of our consciousness to see our essence. As we say in Qoya, to remember.

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Finding Meaning in the Darkness

Dear Sisters and Brothers Walking/Dancing Alongside One Another On This Forever Road,

After three weeks of Qoya retreats in Hawaii, it was an honor to witness each woman being initiated into the beauty and magnificence of the island as a mirrored invitation to wake up to Her own inner beauty and cosmic magnificence, embodying that universal energy that every person expresses in their own individually unique way. Every woman there also was invited into deep healing like a riptide that comes under the surface of the sea and pulls you out from shore. In those tender trying times, we practice not to panic in the immensity of feeling a touch of the infinite, and learn how to trust our small and eternal self/Self swimming together in the sea of all creation. 

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Creating Structure for Flow: New Moon Movement Ritual

Qoya's resident astrologer, Virginia Rosenberg, shares that the New Moon in Pisces March 8, 2016 (8:54pmEST) is also a Total Solar Eclipse. Eclipses are like reset buttons: the big lights in the sky (Sun and Moon) temporarily go out as our Earth passes between them. When they come back on again, something has changed. Listen quietly; sometimes the deepest shifts are the most subtle. Close your eyes. Turn your senses within. What is there, beyond the story? Underneath all form? Beyond your past and potential future, what lies eternal? Something permeating. Something shared by all of us. Something like the ocean. The ocean is a wide expanse that makes us big and small at once. The ocean effortlessly and constantly churns stone and bone into minuscule pieces of sand. The ocean is the oldest thing, refreshing and humbling all it touches. There are things in life beyond our control. Life includes loss. It includes disappointment, failure, and grief. Life brings tears and joy and things that help us to surrender. Life is always healing us. When I heal, you heal. When you heal, your family heals. When your family heals, our community heals. When our community heals, our world heals. We are healing. We are love. Together, we heal our collective past so that we may know and live unconditional love. The world is love. Believe it, allow it, and it is so.

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Virgo Full Moon Movement Ritual: Feel Deeply to Heal Deeply

I love this quote by Anaïs Nin:
 

“We do not see things as they are, but as we are.”


This philosophy is not another way to judge or feel bad about yourself, nor does it imply that the things that are challenging in your life are your fault. It is empowering, because if you have the courage to look inside and sense where the external disturbance lives within you, there is an opportunity for healing.

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The New Is Now. Happy New Moon, Chinese New Year and Potential New World.

Dr. Anne Davin, a pivotal thought leader on the evolution of consciousness integrating indigenous wisdom into the modern day psychological landscape with a PhD in Depth Psychology and decades of experience in service to psyche and spirit (also the author of the forward to my book!), once said to me:

"The old paradigm of leadership is where a leader takes up all the space and inspires others to emulate themselves. The new paradigm of leadership is where a leader doesn't take up all the space, but creates space for others to rise."  

This deeply impacted me.

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