Posts By: Maria Barnicoat
Moving into a New Rite of Passage for the Feminine
This feels by far like my greatest rite of passage yet. The journey to motherhood! Pregnancy! An exhilarating, intensely vulnerable roller-coaster gestation period where I have found strength and incredible support from my soul sisters around me. The world will never be the same and sometimes I am just overwhelmed by this blessing of life. I must be ready! But some days I am kicking and screaming as I wrestle with my inner pixie who just doesn’t want to grow up and claim her full power and responsibility as a woman. 38 years of only taking care of myself, and a few furry friends along the way have created and affirmed a selfishness of my life and all my own childhood nuances and fears leaping out of the cupboard to taunt me and tell me of the shadows of childhood/motherhood. Supportive, warm beings whispering in my ears of what a wonderful mother I will be only slightly lessens the fear of the harm that could come from projecting my crap onto this divine little being. I feeling the heightened sensitivity to all noises, smells, our patriarchal focused world … and again I dive into the deep dark reflective well that I know so dear, craving for a matriarchal, flourishing community of life around me. How can I bring this little being authentically into a world that I know is madness? There is nothing like this before that has shown me that now is the time to carve out the dreams that have been lingering in my heart, now is the time to plant the seeds to really create a future living integrally and in tune with nature and the ancient wise ways! Such a blessing to receive this gift!! I already feel the mama energy in me and wow … its quite incredible!
Dancing with the archetype ‘The Fool’
On ‘All Fools Day’ we are joining together for our monthly Soul Movement class to connect with and embody the archetypal energy of ‘The Fool’ within ourselves.
Known in the traditional tarot deck, the Fool represent unlimited potential in us all. He trusts blindly that he has all the tools and resources he needs for every possible encounter. His guardian, his dog is his protector and encourages him into learning the lessons he came here to learn. He is on a lifelong journey to fully express his wild and free spirit.
When we are feeling the positive energy in us, we are trusting and embracing of new beginnings. He dares to take leaps of faith to take him into higher areas of personal growth and new adventures. He lives free of worry and anxiety of what is ahead.
Within the sacred dancespace of Soul Movement we will journey and experience our inner Fool, through movement, visualisations and intentions. This is a potent space to reconnect to the innate trust in life that we came here to the earth with.
Bring: water, blanket and wear comfy layers.
Everyone is invited, the evening is facilitated clearly and newbies are very welcome as you don’t need any experience.
Cost £10 or contact Maria for reductions.
Come early, at 6:30 and join our FREE 30mins of Tai Chi and Chi Gung with Yuri Leitch!!
Beginners Raw Chocolate Making Workshop
YES! We are back with 3 workshops to teach you in a relaxed and fun environment with others how to make your own raw chocolate. We want to share the love and the skills … and you will see how easy it actually is!
Location in Jersey to be confirmed very soon.
DATES:
18th, 20th and 23rd of February 2015
Times: 6:30pm til 9:00pm
If you are interested, please email:
maria@earth-beauty.com
with your details and which dates you are available for.
Workshop cost is £35
You will walk away with a smile on your face and a box and bag of chocolates with a retail value of £15
We require £20 deposit through paypal or internet banking and then the remaining £15 can be paid on the day. Pay £20 deposit with Credit/Debit card or Paypal account via Paypal
We will also have some very pure but inexpensive cacao butter and products to purchase on the workshop too!
You only need to bring yourself and an apron!
If you want to book, please email maria@earth-beauty.com or call Maria on 07797 832400. Spaces are limited so book your place very soon!
Reflexology and Massage Offer – 20% OFF this October
Reflexology and Massage are highly underrated therapeutic treatments
and exceptionally beneficial for the mind, body and spirit.
Maria at Earth Beauty in St Helier, Jersey has 20years of experience in both these treatments and would like to offer a special reduction for the month of October, for anyone booking an hour each of both . Usually £48 for massage and £46 for reflexology, together costing £94 – you can enjoy both of these treatments for just £76 – which is a reduction of 20%
Call 07797 832400 today or email maria@earth-beauty.com to book your experience. Also available as a gift voucher.
I’m Back in Jersey with Fresh Energy!
After an amazing month away I’m back and ready to take appointments again. I look forward to hearing from you all. Much love xxx
Dancing with Intimacy
As I reflect over the awesomeness that was this weekend, I want to thank again all of you gorgeous dancing warriors that joined us for the journey … and that includes the amazing Friday night-ers that came just for one night. I am in so much gratitude for the depth of sharing and heart connections that occurred and were formed over the weekend.
Dancing brings up stuff, some bitter, some sweet, it bring us together, it brings us into our power, it brings us into our vulnerability and it brings us into our joy, truth and our true potential. When you combine that with a facilitator who carries with him his own gifts and intentions of breaking down barriers in humankind, you get an extremely heart warming and healing time for anyone there.
Tim Broughton created a very safe and loving space for us all this weekend, using exercise structures, the 5Rhythms, and our sacred dance space to bring us more into our hearts, truth and vulnerability. Our theme ‘Intimacy, Innocence and Connection’ had even made a few of our long-term ‘Soul Movement’ dancers feel the pangs of resistance in coming to this weekend but many just chose to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’. Its scary to be open, showing our tenderness and vulnerability but wow does the world need it right now! Most people I meet are aching to feel at home in themselves again and aching to feel better connected to those around them. If we just do nothing about it, then nothing happens and we remain aching and longing, but this weekend really showed us that our power lies in our hearts … and to hear our hearts we need to let go of those conflicting thoughts and beliefs and make a few courageous innocent moves in the direction of what we want in our life and how we want to live. Thank you Tim and everyone for being a part of something that has recharged me, given me new tools and left me excited about how I can saturate these important qualities into my life.
Maria xx
Jersey Full Moon Ceremony in June
Message rom Nikki Grierson:
Inspired by Little Grandmother Kiesha and her fabulous message and practical steps we can all take to heal our very own Mother Earth……..this is the first Crystal Ceremony of 12 (12 Parishes, 12 or more crystals, 12 Full Moon’s), taking place in Jersey, this first one being held on the Full Moon 13th June, 7pm.
I will be bringing my children, anyone’s children more than welcome. If you are interested in joining me on this journey to assist in healing the island, healing Mother Earth, deleting radiation from the waters around and within the island, then please join us. Finer details of exact meeting place will be posted on this event page once I have explored the area of Egypt/Trinity.
Each month on the Full Moon I will allow intuition to guide me to the next parish/venue/water source. Any ideas more than welcome. We have an amazing community here in Jersey so if you wish to ‘feel as one’ then please join this event.
You will need to do the following:
1. Cleanse your own crystal by placing outdoors throughout the nights leading up to the full moon (take indoors during the day to keep out of the sun), or any other cleansing technique you may already use (do not cleanse in salt water), purchase a small tumble stone if you do not have one you wish to give to the water (it does not have to be a big crystal). Bring the crystal with you if you are coming.
Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet because of its unique helical spiral crystalline form. At a spiritual level, this crystal raises energy to the highest possible level, clear quartz works on all levels of being. You do not have to use clear quartz specifically, although this is the most powerful, there are many other types of quartz so listen to your own intuition and chose accordingly.
2. I will have a sage stick for the ceremony, if you wish to bring your own or tobacco then feel free (tobacco is a sacred part of the ceremony, blowing the element of fire on the crystal you have said your prayer into)….again be guided by your intuition.
3.Watch this space for specific meet place/time.
4. Come with an open loving heart :o)
5. Any suggestions welcome.
I have been waiting to do this for 3 years, holding onto the 12 clear quartz crystals I bought back from Australia, the time is right for us to give each crystal back to Mother Earth surrounding the island from the points of each parish, helping to raise the islands frequency from Ego Consciousness to Love Consciousness, helping to delete and heal the planet from all the radiation in our waters, earth and atmosphere. Little Grandmother Kiesha has shown us a practical way forward……if you attended the Sunday workshop or have heard her message, we can no longer live in ignorance and do nothing.
If joining this Crystal Full Moon Ceremony does not resonate with you, but you wish to do something similar then please feel free to set up your own gathering…..giving some of your own crystals back to Mother Earth :o)
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Ancient Wisdom for Jersey by Little Grandmother
Jersey was blessed to have Little Grandmother, aka Keisha Crowther over this past weekend to teach and deliver an important message to us all.
Her message was clear – for us to be living in the power, beauty and sustenance that is Love and Heart consciousness, instead of the EGO consciousness that generates so much fear and suppression in ourselves.
THE POWER OF THE HEART
The energy of the heart is incredibly powerful – and the highest and most healing emotional state is gratitude (even more beneficial than LOVE). And we can CHOOSE to live in that state by just putting our focus there. Letting go of ego consciousness and moving into the heart also means letting go of the need for status, the fear of judgment, the need for more and more money, fame or approval from others and all the negative states that attach themselves to this way of living so we can instead be living and expressing our passions in a way that SUPPORTS all of life by loving each other and working together to stay awake, aware and active in our pursuits to care for each other, and care for and heal the Earth. When we bring our hearts together we are even more magical and powerful … we are not meant to stand alone.
WE HAVE NO MORE TIME
The message was so beautiful and simple, we ARE caretakers of Mother Earth, we all have a responsibility to act NOW to make the right choices to change ourselves and to save our beautiful planet because she’s being destroyed beyond repair and tipping over the edge rapidly. We aren’t going to hear about this in our news … but the scientists are telling us that there’s absolutely no time left. The poles have begun to shift and soon things will change dramatically for us all.
THE MAGIC OF CRYSTALS AND WATER
She stressed to us how we can also help our Mother Earth using the power of crystals to heal the radiation around us … pretty much everything is already contaminated with it now thanks to Fukushima and its continual daily release of radiation into the earth and sea …. we can put our intentions and prayers into crystals and release them back to the earth and the waters of our planet. Apparently quartz is the best for this. Even add them to your water jugs and fridges to cleanse your food of radiation (this has been proven to work!). It was really good to be reminded of the power of words and prayer upon crystals and water (and OURSELVES as we are mostly water!!) as already researched and proven by Dr Masaru Emoto and the famous ‘Hidden Messages in Water’. Every thought, wish, word we express, are literally creating imprints, moment by moment upon our emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing and those around us. It is insane to choose to live from a lower vibration of being now that we know this.
CREATE YOUR PERSONAL PRAYER
My personal prayer for Jersey is that we slow down and listen to ourselves, to nature, the animals and the trees, and hear what is being said. That we look to support each other and care for each other and learn to express ourselves and our own needs and true passions. Is it really so important to keep on having to acquire more and more, each day working harder and harder mindlessly without respite or time to just BE? Will this all matter in the final analysis of what our lives have meant to be living here on Earth today when we leave our bodies as we all inevitably will do? Listen to your heart closely, what would your heart say right now if you quietened your mind and let your heart speak and act for you? Who would you Be if you let go of the importance of serving yourSELF?
Thanks to the Isis Centre for organising this great day!
Maria x
Soul Movement – MIRRORS
“Everything you experience in life mirrors a part of you”
We are surrounded by mirrors in our lives and our Soul Movement practice of exhilarating movement combined with presence, meditation and mindfulness can clearly show you what you are resisting against in yourself. Once we can ‘see’ these parts of ourselves that we reject, we can better embrace acceptance of ourselves and with that let our energies flow and move into love consciousness and living from our hearts. The key to transformation in our lives and our experiences is acceptance … this brings the changes we perhaps have longed for to organically happen without us needing to push.
THE JOURNEY: Soul Movement uses an inner/outer journey of moving meditation which develops a direct body-mind-spirit connection, letting your body and inner guide be your teachers and healers. In our own dance, we learn to cultivate presence with our own energy, and upon discovering our own dance within, we use the movement that comes and the energetic experience to release stuck patterns in our body, emotions, mind and spirit. When we learn to really trust our body and the wisdom that moves through the LIFE in our bodies – not just in this class but in all aspects of our life – we see that all of life is an improvised creative dance and we become empowered to live from a place of truth and soul integrity, where spontaneity resides.
RELEASING BLOCKS: When we feel stuck, depressed, held back, and frustrated when our energy is not flowing freely, SOUL MOVEMENT unlocks these restrictions and opens us up to the possibilities of discovering and allowing our true creative, joyful nature to emerge.
JUST FOR YOU: No dance experience or partner is necessary. It’s a perfect outlet for those who think they “can’t dance” and for experienced dancers alike. It is free-form, not a structured dance. It is also not a social dance. It is an environment without observers or conversation, where you can feel safe to try new things and push your comfort zone. It is also an open dance floor for you to explore different rhythms, patterns of movement and your inner spiritual journey.
MOVEMENT is KEY TO HAPPINESS: There is much evidence to suggest that creative movement and dance is a key ingredient in a happy, healthy and fulfilled life. These classes are extremely encouraging, non-judgmental, well facilitated and the soft and subdued environment supports each individual. All walks of life are welcomed, and whilst there is no religious aspect connected to the dance, they do support our spiritual journey in life, whatever inclination or beliefs that we may each sway to.
Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance, Soul Motion and Movement Medicine, the classes are facilitated by Maria Barnicoat, and long term SOUL MOVERS often proclaim that these sessions have proved life changing for them.
Join us at First Tower school.
Cost £10 or £8 concessions.
Doors open at 7:15pm for early arrivals.
Bring a blanket and water.
See you there xxx