My Offerings to the Sisterhood
My intention is to live my life in gratitude aware that every moment is sacred. My passion is encouraging and helping women discover their innate beauty, light and power, and to find and share the secrets of self healing, wholeness and joy.
My goal is to be authentic, compassionate and kind while having lots of fun! I love all the gifts of Mother Nature, including the healing arts. I offer friendship, sisterhood, ritual and healing energy through affirmations, art, color, conscious healing™, crystals & gemstones, EFT, handwriting, hiking, laying on of hands, massage, meditation, MotherPeace readings, polarity, Reiki, scents, sound, visualization, wisdom teachings and yoga. See below for more details.
My goal is to be authentic, compassionate and kind while having lots of fun! I love all the gifts of Mother Nature, including the healing arts. I offer friendship, sisterhood, ritual and healing energy through affirmations, art, color, conscious healing™, crystals & gemstones, EFT, handwriting, hiking, laying on of hands, massage, meditation, MotherPeace readings, polarity, Reiki, scents, sound, visualization, wisdom teachings and yoga. See below for more details.
Twin Lotus Center
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Antara Davis and I sat in Sacred Circle together many times since we founded Sisters of the Sacred Circle in 1989. From the beginning we had a shared vision of opening a healing center together. After 30+ years in the Santa Cruz legal community, in 2009 I retired as a paralegal to pursue our calling. Antara and I had been educating ourselves and acquiring life and healing skills. Now we were ready to devote ourselves to sharing what we learned.
We opened Twin Lotus Center in 2010 on Antara's property where we offered healing energy and wisdom teachings. TLC became a beacon to the women we served and our clientele increased every year. When we outgrew The Lotus Temple (which was a separate building from their home), Brian added onto the house to create a larger venue, The Crystal Room, for our events.
I led a weekly meditation group for five years called Outstanding Morning Meditations (affectionately known as OMM). Themes varied but we spent a lot of time on animal totems, chakras, gemstones, goddesses and the violet flame. See testimonials.
In the Healing Center we provided vibrational healing through sound, visualization, touch and energy exchange. We shared teachings in the Wisdom School with classes about a myriad of subjects including altar making, aboriginal art, angels, belly dancing, chakras, crystals, dreaming, drum making, EFT, elements, fairies, gemstones, goddesses, handwriting as a spiritual practice, herbs, intuitive art, jewelry making, Kwan Yin, mandala making, meditation, pendulums, rattle making, the Violet Flame, wand making, wing making, wild mind writing and yoga. Enjoy additional pictures here.
Sound Healing
OMM in The Lotus Temple
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Crystal Healing
One of the many beautiful altars.
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Rattle Making Workshop
Meditation Group in
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The Davises’ lives suddenly changed when their grandchild was born in 2015. As Antara became Donny's part-time caretaker, the family wanted and needed more privacy and time to spend with him. The Davises were host and hostess to Twin Lotus Center in their home, so after five years our "cottage business" was closed to make room for this child to bless their lives.
We continued OMM at Temple House and the Apple Lane Cottage until my husband retired in 2017. A few months later, we moved to Edgewood, just north of Mt. Shasta.
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Healing Energy with Stones & Tones™
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I was certified in massage therapy through Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts in 1991; Reiki 1 & 2 in the Usui Shiki Ryoho method by Reiki Master Norma Cordova in 1996 & 2000; Energy Medicine through Lighten Your Way with Rev. Jeanine Sande in 2000 and Chi-Aura Integration with Timothy Dunphy in 2015.
I use my personal studies and professional training in ancient and modern natural healing, but I also rely on intuition and a method I call Conscious Healing™ . A combination of relaxation, visualization and energy, Conscious Healing™ is a technique similar to hypnotherapy or psychic healing to help you discover what needs healing within you and how to heal. My Aqua Aura Crystal Bowl, aka The Dolphin Bowl, is available along with other Sound Healing tools.
Each session is different, but typically draws from Conscious Healing™, sound, energy and my beautiful collection of healing stones and crystals. Hand, foot and scalp massage are often part of a session. See my slideshows of Crystal & Gemstone Layouts here. $75 per hour.
I use my personal studies and professional training in ancient and modern natural healing, but I also rely on intuition and a method I call Conscious Healing™ . A combination of relaxation, visualization and energy, Conscious Healing™ is a technique similar to hypnotherapy or psychic healing to help you discover what needs healing within you and how to heal. My Aqua Aura Crystal Bowl, aka The Dolphin Bowl, is available along with other Sound Healing tools.
Each session is different, but typically draws from Conscious Healing™, sound, energy and my beautiful collection of healing stones and crystals. Hand, foot and scalp massage are often part of a session. See my slideshows of Crystal & Gemstone Layouts here. $75 per hour.
Sister Circle Facilitator
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As mentioned in My Storybook Life, I was a founding member of the Sisters of the Sacred Circle in Santa Cruz County, California, back in 1989. At one time we met on New Moons for Crafts, Full Moons for Healing and Holy Days for rituals and magic, not to mention hikes and field trips in between! This amazing circle of women was a huge part of my life for almost 30 years, and I thank each and every one of my sisters from the bottom of my heart. My life is richer for knowing each of you. Girlfriends Save Lives!
When we started our circle, we learned from books, and we experimented. We started with the premise that we would share leading the circle, and each sister would lead it "Her Way." We had no rules at first, but after a year began to record our "Understandings." to avoid (wait for it) misunderstandings. Annually, we would review the Understandings together and make agreed upon changes. This worked fairly well as it gave us a way to keep the circle alive and meaningful to all the participants.
Antara also started a newsletter, The Circle's Web, which name changed from time to time but was a key tool in keeping us connected. I later took over the duties of writing the newsletter and eventually, the website.
Antara also started a newsletter, The Circle's Web, which name changed from time to time but was a key tool in keeping us connected. I later took over the duties of writing the newsletter and eventually, the website.
Licensed Ceremonialist
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I am a licensed minister & priestess through Universal Life Church (1992) and have written and performed over 40 weddings and countless other ceremonies since 1989. I love creating rituals , and I’d love to help you create one that truly reflects you.
Please contact me if you need a Ceremonial Leader for weddings, memorials, seasonal celebrations or other rites of passage such as House Clearing/Blessing, Blessing Way for New Mothers, Menarche, Crowning, Croning, etc.
My specialty is rituals celebrating the Turning of the Wheel of the Year: the equinoxes, solstices and cross-quarter days. Fee for weddings is $333. Former Sisters of the Sacred Circle receive a discount. Fee for other ceremonies is by agreement and sometimes barter.
Please contact me if you need a Ceremonial Leader for weddings, memorials, seasonal celebrations or other rites of passage such as House Clearing/Blessing, Blessing Way for New Mothers, Menarche, Crowning, Croning, etc.
My specialty is rituals celebrating the Turning of the Wheel of the Year: the equinoxes, solstices and cross-quarter days. Fee for weddings is $333. Former Sisters of the Sacred Circle receive a discount. Fee for other ceremonies is by agreement and sometimes barter.
Yoga Teacher
Me with Kaliji, founder of TriYoga, at TriYoga Center, Santa Cruz, CA, taken shortly after I became certified to teach TriYoga Basics.
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Students in class at TriYoga Center, Santa Cruz, CA.
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Level 2 Teacher Training Class
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One of my greatest joys in life was teaching yoga at the TriYoga Center in Santa Cruz. I've been practicing yoga over 30 years, and this is the style I first learned at Spa Fitness. It wasn't until I retired as a paralegal that I found the TriYoga Center, a hidden jewel of a sanctuary in one of the older neighborhoods behind the Pacific Garden Mall. I taught TriYoga Basics and Level 1 there from 2010-2017. I also had classes at Live Oak Senior Center, Corralitos Cultural Center, Twin Lotus Center and Watsonville Community Hospital. I now substitute teaching at the Weed Community Center.
Meditation and Wisdom Teacher
Amazing transformations occurred in the women who came to OMM at Twin Lotus Center! The meditators tapped into the deepest part of themselves for the beautiful visions that occurred as we sat together. (see testimonials here). Themes of past meditation series include Chakras, Goddesses, Mudras, Mantras, Violet Flame, Gemstones, Angels and most recently, Power Animals.
Some other classes & workshops I led and/or co-led with Antara for the Twin Lotus Community include Creating Sacred Space, Rattle Making, Sacred Handwriting, Crystal Healing, Pendulums, TriYoga Basics, Prana Vidya Basics (a breath practice) and the Fairies Series (Feast of the Fairies, Fairy Art, Fairy Wing Making and Fairy Wand Making). Any current workshops or classes will be advertised on this website when scheduled.
Some other classes & workshops I led and/or co-led with Antara for the Twin Lotus Community include Creating Sacred Space, Rattle Making, Sacred Handwriting, Crystal Healing, Pendulums, TriYoga Basics, Prana Vidya Basics (a breath practice) and the Fairies Series (Feast of the Fairies, Fairy Art, Fairy Wing Making and Fairy Wand Making). Any current workshops or classes will be advertised on this website when scheduled.
Web Mistress
I enjoyed my self-imposed “soul responsibility” for the newsletter and website of the Sisters of the Sacred Circle, and shared responsibility for the websites of Twin Lotus Center and Triple Gems (www.triplegems.net). I am now working on several new websites and Facebook offerings.
I am self-taught and not credentialed in any way but happy to share what I know to empower other women to put themselves “out there” on the internet by way of setting up a website using Weebly. Assistance in setting up a website or assisting with your website is offered at $35 per hour.
I am self-taught and not credentialed in any way but happy to share what I know to empower other women to put themselves “out there” on the internet by way of setting up a website using Weebly. Assistance in setting up a website or assisting with your website is offered at $35 per hour.
Photographer
I'm also an amateur photographer, privileged to be a friend and student of Master Photographer Seraphina Landgrebe. I plan to post a variety of photos on this website that you can buy if you like. Greeting cards are my specialty and some can be found at the Sacred Well in Dunsmuir and The Gallery in Mt. Shasta. This website is an ongoing project and new photos, slideshows and videos will be added regularly.
Writer and Artist
I am planning to keep a steady stream of words coming from the tips of my fingers to your screen so I will list “Writer” as one of the labels of my Self. Some of my art will be on display on this site as well so I humbly accept that title as well.
I spend my time camping, hiking, traveling, photographing, writing, practicing yoga, meditating, reading, hanging out with my family (husband of 50 years, two adult children and five grandchildren); creating art (especially mandalas and Zentangles™) and on the computer tending to Circle correspondence (or political activism), researching one of the classes I am teaching, a ritual I am preparing for or working on a website. And then there’s Facebook – a habit I am trying to break!
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