The Great Shift Into Our Hearts

THE GREAT SHIFT – 12.12.2012 to 21.12.2012 from Sri'ama Qala on Vimeo.

OM MAYA MA
KITA RAKU
ANA PEYA NAMU

In oneness with the universe I am the holy vessel
Receiving God's love and wisdom
In divine service to all beings

Cosmic Alignment

This is the other side of my piece ''Cosmic Alignment'' that I did for Burning Man, and is now standing in front of Solar Culture. Recently I was working on it a bit more, bringing it to another level. It's time for me to move on, to release my vision and prayer to the universe..
It is about the alignment that we are approaching, and it symbolizes soul's unfoldment to the inherent divine creative potentiality, return to the ancient remembering, of who we truly are. It represents to me the vibrational ascension, opening of the heart, activation, and the rise of the kundalini.. It is a divine vessel growing in the center of the universe, the light emerging from the darkness, a channel for the cosmic energy descending, blessing and uplifting all life, being at the same time grounded and nourished by the energy coming from below, from the heart of the Earth.. it's the dance of creation..

Template Portal

Template Portal from Jiva & Juliet Carter on Vimeo.

The Ancient Sacred Sites Quest

Journey through the magical natural sites of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah..

Surreality

This is our home base ~ the sacred temple space ~ Solar Culture Gallery ;;) The constant stream of art, music, inspiration flows through here..

At one moment when I was dancing at Burning Man it came to me the vision of this our piece being displayed up front of our building, and for the new art show opening last Saturday, for the Full Moon, this came into manifestation;)

Awakened Heart

Burning Man 2012

Over a month ago after seeing how slowly and inefficiently sometimes I seem to work, I had an intensified deep desire to transform it into the higher ideals. I asked the Universe to give me an opportunity to experience myself being pushed beyond of the all old limitations, and the ideas of what I think is possible. I expressed my intention of expanding of my creation, and deepening of my focus.

Here I got my wish!;) Our friend offered for us tickets to Burning Man festival, and we felt like because of this gift, and as it is our second attendance, we are obligated to come up with a collaborative installation piece, an art offering for the playa. When we started working on it we had something about 4 weeks left, and I got the challenge of creating in the shortest time ever two of the biggest pieces ever!! ..painting on the both sides of a 4x8 sheet of plywood. I ended up painting sometimes even 13 hours a day, pushing myself totally beyond, and getting so much deeper into my flow!! My partner created this hand cut wooden sculpture around it, and our friend created a metal frame with the base, so the whole piece spins, and dances with the wind!

I felt a deep calling to magnify this vision that came through me many years ago.. Here in symbolic ways I expressed the representation of my higher dimensional self, my cosmic mirror, spirit opened to the full divine creative potentials. This piece has been very powerful to me, acting as a bridge, showing the way. It marked the shift in my whole reality, from the need of constant facing of my shadow for healing, to tapping more into the highest capacities of my soul.

Literally we've spent a week on another planet, a very surreal dream reality, and nothing seems real after that!;) Our minds were blown away and inspired in the new unexpected ways. We were really happy to share with our first art offering for the playa, to represent our creativity. We like to think that is just a seed for something much bigger, and there is already the new grant vision emerging! We were also honored to contribute with our other arts in the Fractal Nation Gallery.

I had plans to paint live, to attend to many lectures, but my passion to dance took over a lot of my attention;) I've spent three nights following the Robot Heart bus deep into the playa, dancing until the sunrise. As we were traversing through the cosmic space, we were merging deeper with the land, traveling with the sound in surrender, visiting the other dimensions, translating the cosmic energies moving through our bodies.. It was deeply magical, healing and transcendental experience, opening me up to the crystalline core essence!!

Cosmic Dance

I am dancing all my life through the free flow movement, surrendering for my intuition, merging with the sound into one, and through this ~ learning how to express my Spirit freely, and how to work with the life force energy, shapeshifting into many different forms. I am being called now to expand in the new directions, and to commit to a regular practice, learning of the foundations, to expand my vocabulary, and to step up to the new levels. I was just blessed with a really wonderful teacher, and a nice small group is forming, consisting of four women representing four directions. Yesterday I was filming her first ever solo performance that was really beautiful, I am very excited to share with it soon!;) Recently I came across this video with Aradia Julia Sunseri..I would say that she expresses quite well my ideals, my higher vision of where I want to take my dance;)..

New cover artwork collaborations

I feel deeply blessed and honored to contribute with my art in these two truly beautiful and masterful fresh releases..

Sacred Chants of Shakti

Pandora

Accelerated Flow

I am not the best writer in these days..yet always having an intention of sharing this way more often..there is so much happening all the time, so much learning that would be worthy of sharing..sharing with the experience..with the inspiration.. immortalizing the wisdom learnt in the structures of words..speaking straight from the heart..It is my desire to be able to express myself freely, with the words holding the great light, with the power to inspire and awaken.. Yet sometimes just dance is enough..just being..expression of Spirit through the vision, and going into the silence speaking more than thousands of words.. explaining everything..

Ever since I appeared here for the last time, we went through the change of the new exposition in our gallery, with the record of 170 of local artists showing their work! Even if it's always such an intense and draining time, dealing with all the people, art hanging, making labels, cleaning all the building until the very end before the opening reception, it is also so deeply rewarding, and I love doing it!! It is a pretty powerful experience each time to put everything into the whole..all the pieces of the gigantic puzzle.. pictures coming together creating the new stories, amplifying themselves. It is greatly stimulating creatively for me to see it all.. always inspiring. I think that as a community coming this way together we are all accelerating our growth.

Then we had here a very busy time with the shows..there were weeks with something happening almost every night. Sometimes music bringing to an ecstatic bliss, the other times bringing on frustration. I became incredibly picky with my taste, but it's all for my own safety, as I go through so much.. it's like a natural filtering system;)

The recent two weeks we spend traveling. At first I felt like I would rather stay home, and dive deeply within, and into my creation and studies, but I had to flow with it, and it turned out to be a very great and refreshing experience that I actually enjoyed. I totally needed to revisit all the ancient arts in the museums of New York, with the new awareness, and listening to Chante Ista on my iPod;)! I felt truly ecstatic and overflowing with the new inspirations. The experience of Philadelphia's downtown was well balanced with going for the few days to the ocean. Yet even this was holding so much treasures, and so much of deep cultural experience. This journey was a great opportunity to break through some of the patterns of our daily reality, and naturally it expanded our gratitude, for the place where we live in..for the vibration of the people here..for the open skies, and the monsoon time! A book that I took with me to read it was "The Myth Of Freedom" by Chogyam Trungpa. I feel like I learnt a great deal from it, and I resonate with his ways of teaching. Two more of his books already lined up in the mysterious ways~;)..

In between I am going through so much of healing, transformation, and mind expansion.. it is hard to contain it in the words indeed. I died so many times, and I am born again. The layers of consciousness peeling off, are uncovering the essence of the true self. Going deeper into the resonance, and into the flow, I learn how to navigate through the infinite space, traveling back to the Center..

Our closest plans are attending to the art and music festivals like Firefly and Burning Man. Meantime I have to ride the wave, and to catch up with learning of some of the new programs for digital art, and work with the sound..I need to balance some of my realities and practices..also expanding time spent on the traditional arts..there is so much to develop.. One of my main intentions is to explore the infinite creative potentials.

The New Art Show - ANCIENT UPLIFT - A Community Re-Membering

Lightning In a Bottle

We are back from our first Lightning In a Bottle festival experience. That's a very nice unfoldment of the journey after the last Burning Man, that impacted our lives so profoundly. As we did set our camp next to the lake shore, a first sight that we saw it was a dead decaying vulture, laying down on the ground straight across from us..I find it as a very powerful and actually positive symbolism of renewal, and my deepest desire and intention it was to die to my old limited self, to be born again, more fully healed and empowered, more powerfully shining my light. My little conscious mind was blown away again in many different ways, expanding beyond, into the unknown. What a great blessing to have this opportunity for an accelerated growth, to find myself amongst the whole community of very liberated people from all over, who are also serious about their creativity, spiritual growth and expansion. I did choose to not paint live this time, but rather to explore more freely, to get the ideas..and surely I did. I am feeling very humbled, even more inspired, and highly motivated through watching other artists, attending to the great performances, different lectures, workshops, guided meditations, and dancing myself into the ecstatic states of bliss. There is so much for me to manifest, to co-create.. wondering how this all will reflect through my work..
We already brought LIB experience back home in the same day of our return, inviting one of the main musical acts of this festival - Sorne, to perform in our venue. It's music very tribalistic in nature, and the main vocalist Morgan has some of the most incredible voices..he moved some people to tears through his very energetic, and free creative expression.

Know Thyself

Uaravayra

Cosmic Mother

O Cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration! Soften the ground of our being and carve us a space within us where Your Presence can abide. Fill us with Your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of Your mission. Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire. Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish. Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us, As we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes. Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true Purpose, But illuminate the opportunities of the present moment. For You are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth-power and fulfillment, as all is gathered and made whole once again. *** (Lord's Prayer translated from Aramaic into English)

Super Full Moon Activations

The second time in a row the queen of the night, Cereus, blooms for the Full Moon, in a synchronicity with my menstrual flow. Each cycle it is like a deeper unfoldment into the divine nature. As the petals of the soul are opening, to form a vessel for the cosmic energy, they reveal a radiant glowing center. On this very auspicious Wesak Moon sharing the sacred space with the two other women..I am asking the Spirit of how I can give, heal and share with the light more fully at the moment, channeling the universal love.. I am guided to sound the crystal bowls, and my voice resonating surrenders for the higher intelligence beyond my conscious mind, the Great Spirit moving through my body. The sacred sound opens the gates of my heart, and I am again overflowing.. Each in-breath, and out-breath is a Blessing..I give and I receive..restoring a balance. The brilliant light touches every cell, rearranging the molecules, realigning, and fine-tuning.. There is a return to an ancient remembering, the hidden wisdom encoded in sound..the awareness of our true divine self..that creates all this reality from the deepest love..(((AUM)))

25th anniversary of Solar Culture

DREAM CRAFT

So nice that I will dance into my thirties!!;p a way to go!

This is a flyer design done by me;)

Skywalking

Original Innocence

Yesterday I was intuitionally guided to experience deeper on myself this video. A truly wonderful tool it is, for our ascension, liberation, shift in consciousness. I've been doing healing and forgiving work with my own parents for years, and I thought that I did already a lot in this direction. Yesterday I was able to go even deeper into this process of really letting go.. My soul was soaring into the heavens, freed from the heavy weights! Through fuller forgiving for my earthly parents, I've found myself as an innocent child again, also in union with my true divine parents. This reflected into my relationships with my brothers and sisters. It is like a beginning of the very new cycle, of my deeper empowerment, and I am deeply excited about it!;)
Yesterdays shift brought to me back a very vivid experience from my childhood. I woke up in the middle of the night, and I was starring into a ceiling above my bed. There appeared a vision made of light of Christ and Mary, they were looking down at me with the eyes of love and compassion. Paradoxically church through distorting of their images, put me in a deep disconnection with them..until I tasted in later years what Christ Consciousness really means;-)
Today I was guided to be part of the Mandala workshop, and it was really positive and inspiring, also for me to return to this art form, a prayer, a way to travel back to the center..


As a result of the genetic modification of the Human DNA, almost all of our foundation circuits are in a state of disconnection, creating a distorted sense of self that has led to fear, shame, guilt and disease.

The disruption of the bio-circuitry relating to our primal resonant relationships with our mothers and fathers affects our ability to engage unconditionally in relationships. However, it is no longer necessary or ultimately effective to engage in lengthy post-mortems of childhood, casting ourselves into the trauma-vortex of past tragedies and injustices, reinforcing identities anchored in disempowering scenarios. By reconnecting the vital circuits that relate to conception, gestation, birth and childhood, healing is integrated on the DNA level.

The Ceremony of Original Innocence takes us back to our first choice, prior to our first breath, reminding us of our true identity - creators rather than victims.

The key to this shift in perception is forgiveness, the bedrock of the shamanic journey. To embrace forgiveness is to embody the living mandala of love, upon which is based the fundamental Human ethic, acknowledging your “response-ability” within the interconnectedness of all creation.

Although it is possible to be born with the Water Circuits connected they are almost always disrupted by guilt, regret and anger. Reconnecting these circuits clears these negative emotions, liberating relationships from destructive patterns.

The reconnection of the Thymus Circuit activates the T-cells of the immune system. This has a powerful effect on health.

With the reconnection of the Air Circuits, the pineal-hypothalamus-pituitary complex is revitalised, as the pineal is now enabled to receive the full spectrum of the geometric language of light.

Sacred Sound

My todays journeys with the sacred sound..a great medicine..

I am familar with those musicians from years, however I am quite new into this particular piece..
Experiencing it deeply on myself I am connecting deeper with the highest aspects of myself, expanding in light..
Through the other experiences in this day I am also gaining a lot of new insight about the different ways of working with this force, and I am inspired to photograph the rainbow light visions, and reflections..

I know Craig's music from many years, continuously returning to it, listening to hundreds of times..it is like a divine tuning, a very powerful medicine for the soul, connecting to the Divine Feminine.
Craig found me recently through my art, and I am deeply honored and blessed to have as a task to channel The Great Cosmic Mother for the artwork cover of his new album "The Sacred Chants Of Shakti". My job is to unite with Her, to become this sound..

Heaven On Earth

The Crown of Destiny

Light Will someday split you open, even if your life is now a cage.
Little by little, You will turn into stars.
Little by little, You will turn into the whole sweet, amorous Universe.
Love will surely burst you wide open into an unfettered, booming new galaxy.
You will become so free in a wonderful secret, and pure Love that flows from a conscious, One-pointed, Infinite Light.
Even then, my dear, The Beloved will have fulfilled just a fraction, JUST A FRACTION of a promise He wrote upon your heart.
For a divine seed, the crown of destiny is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain you hold the title to.
O look again within yourself, for I know you were once the elegant host to all the marvels in creation.
When your soul begins to ever bloom and laugh and spin in Eternal Ecstasy-
O little by little, You will turn into God.
~Hafiz

Solar Culture Virtual Tour

http://www.virtualventura.net/solarculture/
Finally it is possible to have an insight into our gallery/home through a virtual tour! Funny that I am sharing with it exactly today, as we just finished hanging the whole new art show!;)

Resonance - a community attunement

Dream Craft

One of the biggest influences of me going for the first time to Burning Man, it is my mind expansion in direction of electronic music dance scene;) I was dancing since I can remember, doing free flow dance following my intuition, and it became a very important part of my daily creative sessions..but it was always very hard for me to dance with other people because of my musical taste, that was always so very different. We went to BM with people that are very into dancing to house music, so I was kind of horrified on thought alone, of how I will be able to have fun with this kind of music!! I was never into this kind of beat, but always open to explore the new. However being there in the present moment, and flowing with it, merging with the sound, and the crowd, I absolutely loved it, and I had so much fun!! It is like a completely new language evolving, I am exploring sound in a very new ways with my whole Being.
After our return it is like this kind of dance scene came back home with us, and came along this woman that started up monthly dance events called Dream Craft. Tomorrow it is happening the fourth one, and I feel so deeply hooked, and excited about it! I am usually pushing myself beyond my limits, dancing for many hours, until it is hard for me to even walk in the next day;))
At the beginning I am usually focusing on doing a lot of healing work, looking within, connecting deeper with my body and spirit. After a while I am in a deep trance state, in a full presence, and with my light body fully activated..I am bathing myself in light, connecting with my higher self, exploring the new patterns. My belly dance and qigong background are deeply enriching my whole experience. In my dance I love to tap into the snake medicine, and to shape-shift beyond my body. We have here all different kinds of DJ's..a little bit of everything..some psy trance, dub step, electro, progressive, and house..
We come together to celebrate life, to pray, to worship the Goddess, and to dream a New Earth into being!

Sacred Spirit

I haven't been able to write here in a while, and my intention is to come back to this practice..
I need to focus more of my attention on making my website a better working tool, so in better ways I can share with what I came here to offer..with my Being, the true expression of the light of my Spirit through my arts, my stories, journey guided by the sound, and the wisdom from the experience.. so hopefully you can drink an inspiration infinitely from this well.. and benefit from my ways to heal and transform.
We are all such a great storehouses of information..through sharing we can assist each other in our growth and development, in our very unique journeys, yet being united as One.
I have a very simple, and short, yet profound dream one night, where I am gifted with a blooming white flower from Mother Gaia!
The other day I traveled to the very dark realms, to bring back the light of my true voice, that was repressed over the ages through the catastrophic events, and other dramas. I realized more clearly how powerful force it is, and I saw my further path of working with this medicine. I could just surrender fully, and let the voices of the ancient ones to speak through me. Also in my dreams at that time there was surfacing something as I perceive as the old repressed memories. At first I was witnessing the splashes of a rainbow over the horizon..then through the sky there were moving very fast white-blueish lights, and I saw something like a very unusual storm raging, and the view clearing up into something like a massive globe approaching the Earth. After this I was sucked into the ocean, yet staying on the surface, I was riding the waves.
Very shortly afterwards I participated in a Medicine Song Ceremony being led by Phillip Cash Cash aka Piitamyanon MaqsMags ("Yellow Hawk"). He was born and raised on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon and is a Weyíiletpuu (Cayuse) and Nuumíipuu (Nez Perce) person. Phillip is a younger speaker of Nez Perce, a severely endangered language. Whenever I heard him speaking before, I had always shimmers traveling through my body, and this gathering impacted me to the core of my being. By a long time we were singing, drumming, rattling, waking up the Earth with the staff, and asking the Eagle Spirit about an assistance in our own healing, and healing of humanity, sending out our prayers..
I thought that I am already so spiritual, and very awake..a very well experienced cosmic traveler to the inner realms, yet the great healing, and radiance I was opened to in the next full moon day, made me realize how still very asleep I was!
I was following my intuition with all my actions.. and I see that coming across this footage with an opening to the inner Earth, and having chance to hear the sound from within, had also a great impact on me, and it expanded my awareness..

I did my private full moon ceremony, going within. My intention was to see the truth, and I had to break through so many layers of illusion! The crust was very thick, on the way to the core, and I had to pass through a serious testing. Work with my voice, the crystal bowls, and drum was of a great assistance with passing through all the layers, and darkness that I had to face at this given time. It came to me a deeper acknowledgment of all living beings, visible and invisible, and this awakened spontaneously even deeper feelings of compassion, a need of my honoring, and being more giving.
I could See my molecular structures rearranging, like I am transforming into a very new Being. Looking at anything, the highest vision was given to me, and I was in touch with my divine guidance. My art studio is underground, across the street from where there was before a very old cemetery, but with bodies moved to the other location. I could see so many spirits moving through my wall, and from the underground! However at this point, they were not scary for me at all, as I was centered in my heart space. Intuition guided me to find my place of power in this room, where there is an opening to the earth! A hidden portal got fully activated, and in a shaft of light I sat, meditating for a very long time..working with my breath, opening myself to the stream of information flowing through me, getting an access to an Earth's library. Ahh..how I love these states of all knowing=)!!
Soon I was truly blessed by a visit of the radiant Eagle Spirit, together with company of other winged ones!! I could feel strongly an assistance in my healing, and I felt like the light of my Spirit is back, and I am again fully empowered. I was so fully present, so awake, discovering myself like for the very first time. Looking on my life's journey I cried from happiness. The great Eagle Spirit truly received our prayers, bringing them even higher, and gave me an insight into the New Earth, what brought a lot of inner peace, and bliss into my heart. We are re-membering and dancing again as One, celebrating life! We have so much light to share! We are overflowing with this great abundance!