21/07/2022
Hello dear ones!
Beginning October 10th, 2022 I invite you to join me for:
ANIMANO - Re- Membering the Body. It is a 6-week certification training to become a body-mind healer. www.lifeartists.com/animano
SO WHAT IS ANIMANO?
Animano simply means Human-Animal.
I wish to share a story - which continually touches me. It is a description that guides my heart and inspires my actions.
In the traditions of knowledge that I learn with - the human animal is an equal part of the animal kingdom - like any other animal walking this earth. Each animal is gifting life with unique expressions of possibility. Each expresses an active role in an ever-expanding creation.
The role of the “HUMAN” Animal is to be the "caretaker" - the Gardeners of the earth.
A unique possibility of the HUMAN-ANIMAL - is the gift of our mind, in its ability to abstract - allowing us to perceive time and space and to express a particular possibility reflecting this perspective.
From this perspective, the human animals’ body-mind expression - can be used to heal – which in its origin means “to join wholeness.” To unify. To connect. It also touches on the origin of the word "creativity." To create a union between all that is - to explore and learn new connections. To join possibilities and create new expressions of reality. Amplifying the ever-expanding expression of chaos – adding to the beautiful weaving of Creation.
I must say, when I first heard this, I was pretty cynical - downright disgusted. Yeah right. Like our earth and all that lives - needs OUR care. Seems pretty arrogant and it seems like in the worst case we are making a big mess of it. I felt life would be much better off without "our" caretaking.
Over some years, and leaning into this question, again and again, I began to receive another possibility and comprehension of our human-animalness – specifically about what it means "to care for".
To “care for” means to resonate intimately with what IS - AS IT IS. It is an act of witnessing.
When we care for something, we are therefore engaged in an act of perceiving, listening, and learning what the recipient of our care needs, is expressing, and desires to manifest – we perceive what IS and love what is. In reality, there is – only what is.
Within this perspective emerges the possibility to create. To care for means to join the IS-ness of life and to harness our ACTIONS in service to what IS ALREADY PRESENT and to create further possibility by unifying what is - into new forms of expression. Caring then becomes solely ACTION within POSSIBILITY. What a relief of this simplicity.
The humility of a Gardner asks that we first simply agree to what IS. And then to use our creativity, in the form of our actions, to expand possibilities for life to express herself and to create the conditions for these expressions to emerge.
It has become clear to me - that our actions have become misdirected toward trying to solve a strange “problem.”
LIFE has become a problem to solve – inherently suggesting that what IS - is wrong. That we are wrong. And then our life energy gets trapped in the Perpetuum-mobile of trying to solve the problem of what IS NOT; not right, not good, not well, not whole, not connected…and our creation then becomes about becoming something “else” - more, better, different – all the while referring to ourselves as lacking. Why would I need to be more, better, different, if I was already whole?
A perception that is focused on what is lacking in ourselves, in each other, and in life - hurts. Instead of engaging with life, and ourselves, as whole, as enough, as well - full of endless possibilities for creation - our actions and life energy is used up in the never-ending effort of “changing, fixing, and making something better.”
In our experience, this is just hard, confusing, frustrating, and very simply – an impossibility. We cannot address something that IS NOT. We can only play with and create within what IS.
In this story, the human animal – the caretaker – knows life is already whole. Knows that we are already well, perfect in all our expressions. The Gardner, therefore, holds this vision of wholeness, and therefore, her actions support the manifestation of what IS ALREADY PRESENT to be expressed.
When we are focused on what is wrong – our actions become about what is wrong. When we are focused on what IS in all its expressions, our action becomes about connection – about joining this and that - to birth a new possibility. Our lives become about creation.
We were never meant to “fix” anything, but instead to be thrilled with the fun and power of creating and witnessing our creation adding to the beauty of life’s expression.
The role of the Gardner – the human animal – is about perceiving and getting to know life – to truly see her as she is - in all her possibilities – and in that witnessing – to love what is and to connect to this wholeness which is desiring to expand.
The gardener is not here to fix the seed. She is here to join the possibilities of earth, water, beauty, light – etc. and to create the possibility for that seed to express her full potential. And this is what ANIMANO is about. To join another human animal in accepting who they are, and all that is. To learn to relax within this abundance of possibility. To guide them to re-member the possibilities of their mind to perceive what is as already whole – and to free the power of their body to take action on the potentials they perceive as possibilities.
If I wasn’t busy with fixing what I am not – then maybe I could be busy creating the life I want – to focus on that which we perceive as possible. Which suggests – IT IS ALREADY PRESENT!
I believe life is already whole. As a body-mind healer – the word “healer” does not mean to fix anything. Instead, it names the original meaning of health – to be whole already. Our job then is simple; our job is to re-mind ourselves and our client - to re-member – to unify again - our focus towards this wholeness, so that our actions can be in service to the joy of creating new possibilities.
Beginning October 10th, 2022 I will teach ANIMANO - Re- Membering the Body. It is a 6-week certification training to become a body-mind healer. www.lifeartists.com/animano
The course is already HALF FULL! So exciting. There are only 10 spots still open - waiting perhaps for YOUR body-mind-heart to join us in this beautiful possibility! I am thrilled and so touched to be able to share this course with you and am very excited by the clear YES so many of you have chosen.
So, if you feel drawn to this opportunity to learn healing touch, gain a new career possibility, and create possibilities of wholeness in the world - one body at a time - then follow that curious, moving, alive animal instinct which is touching you - asking to be acknowledged - and possibly reminding you how joyful it can be to be in service to life. Get in touch with me and let's talk about making this course a possibility for you!
Much Love Barbara Droubay Life Artists Life Artists Creators HUB
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With love
Barbara Droubay
