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Yuletide Pukulpa Nyinama

Tony Searl · NYC Zephyr "Part of listening, learning, and living in respectful relationship with one another involves seeking to understand Indigenous spirituality, which is fundamental to many Indigenous people’s identity and worldview.  Aboriginal spirituality is defined as at the core of Aboriginal being, their very identity. It gives meaning to all aspects of life including relationships with one another and the environment. All objects are living and share the same soul and spirit as Aboriginals. There is a kinship with the environment. Aboriginal spirituality can be expressed visually, musically and ceremonially." (Grant, 2004)

Tarkine

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"The Tarkine region of northwest Tasmania contains the largest expanse of temperate rainforest in the southern hemisphere. Here, hidden deep in river valleys and wild uplands, huge myrtle trees are festooned with epiphytes and mosses, and in their cool shade thrive an understory of tree ferns. These forests are ancient - they once covered much of Australia, and date as far back as the time of the dinosaurs and the primordial supercontinent of Gondwana. Our recording begins at daybreak , with birdsong drifting between the trees. Moving deeper into the forest, we pause by a rippling stream, and encounter Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos calling as they fly overhead. But there is much more to the Tarkine region than the rainforests - vast areas of it are actually open heathlands and buttongrass plains. We hear the vibrant song of Crescent Honeyeaters and Flame Robins drifting over these open landscapes. Finally we come down the wild coast, where the roaring 40s gust in off the open ocea...

Braving Our Inner Wilderness Creates Space For It All.

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I never want you to stop prioritizing you. Speak Your Needs. Kindly, Potently, Gracefully, Simply, Directly. Come From Your Deep Centre, Come From Your Own Spacious Wilderness, Come From Your Wild Untamed Calm Place That You Get To Call Home. From Moment To Moment, in each and every One.  And No One But You  Gets To Choose and Create and  Be Response Able For That Vast Infinite Inner Space.  Come With Me, Harmonize, Normalise The In The Out The Pause,  Come With Me, Dance, Our Still Point,  I lead By Following Another Overflowing Whole  Allow Me, Let Me, Trust Me  To Always Choose My Sovereign Response. It Will Be Kind, It Will Be Fierce, It Will Be Whole,  It Is Now.  Then Simply The Next Now,  and then the next.  Rest Rise Repeat, Come Again,  Welcome To Eternity as The Flow Of Minute Moments infinitesimally stitched together And To Be OK With Whatever Comes ...  Know Your True Self,  Trust Your True Self, Whol...