Water Ways

When I said yes to an invitation to sail in the Pacific Northwest, I did not realize I was saying yes to celebrate and liberate myself, the feminine and mama earth through my relationship to water. 

Saying yes has cleared water ways within my heart and womb and has opened channels of opportunities to connect to water ceremony, including my first year dancing at Moondance.

This water journey began along the Chama river in New Mexico, to the towering glacier streams in Glacier Ntl park, flowing to the lakes of Idaho for Moondance; dancing praying, purifying, re-membering and celebrating the earth, the moon, Venus, sisterhood and the divine feminine. Now, settling along the San Juan Islands WA preparing to set sail!

What is your first memory of water?

We started in our mother’s womb, surrounded by her waters. Our bodies are mostly made of water.

Like the ocean, our emotions and bodies ebb and flow by the moons cycles. Liberating the waters is  liberating ourselves. Communicating with the waters of the earth is creating direct relationship to our emotions, bodies and mothers.

Living the last decade in the desert lands of NM, I am soaking up every bit of water I can. Finding and strengthening my sea legs amongst big e-motion, transition and change. Allowing water to seep into parched spaces within. Learning to let my waters of pleasure and grief flow together as one... holding steady and anchored in life’s wild currents. Learning to lean back into receptivity. To be in the gentleness, grace and fierce embrace of the feminine. 

Through water, I am learning to be in presence, devotion and celebration. Liberation requires this delicate concoction. Liberation and joy is not felt or created through force or control. It arrives and lingers through consistent sips of awakened presence and surrendered devotion to receptivity. In this way, we respond to the wholeness of life instead of a fragmented reaction.

It takes time for a drop of libation to seep into our awareness. It is not immediacy, although it has the ability to impact us in this way also. Like our dreams and visions, a wake in the ocean takes time to ripple to the shore.

This year I have a special opportunity to paddle and support the annual Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey along the Salish Sea and Snoqualmie River, July 22-31st, ending at the Elwha Reservation. The annual paddle is a way of honoring the traditions of the Salish people and continuing to deepen their relationship to the water ways.

Stay connected to the journey and learn more by clicking the link to the live map below!

In 2012, the largest dam in U.S. history, stretching across the Elwha River, was removed! www.nps.gov/olym/learn/nature/elwha-ecosystem-restoration.htm

I pray the levees break free within you, within me, within Her.

So we are all set free 🌊🐚🤍🌝🦭

Wildly,

Hannah