For those on a wildish path each season brings a new world of lessons, contemplations, gifts, challenges & support.
Spring is blossoming all around us. Greenish new life abounds. Flowers open to reveal their soft centers. Bees buzz. Rain comes fast and leaves faster. More and more people feel called to be outside…
In the school of nature there are many teachers. Who better suited to teach us in spring than the flowers?
Not so long ago, these colorful creatures were under ground in a tiny seed. And now? The flowers stand tall, bringing color & an open-hegmarted exuberance into our lives.
Listening to Flowers: A Practice
A note for those of you who may be rolling your eyes: If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would be writing a post with instructions on speaking to, or dare I say, communing with plants, I would have laughed, become extremely worried about the mental well being of my future self, and then asked…wait, what’s a post? However, here I am, a little wiser & sincerely offering up this practice for you with faith in its power.
Breathing well throughout this practice will really help.
- Find a flower you feel drawn to. It can be outside in the ground or even a potted or cut flower.
- Make an intention to have a 2-5 minute session with this flower.
- Feel your breath coming in and out of your body.
- Gaze at the flower as if you were looking into the eyes of a beloved.
- Soften the organ of your skin so you can physically and energetically open to what the flower is communicating.
- Listen deeply. You may receive the flower’s message in the form of a feeling, an image, or maybe even a phrase.
- When you are ready, send some gratitude and love to the flower for sharing itself with you.
I recommend taking some time to write down or draw any messages you received from the flower.
Doing this practice often will keep you connected to the wisdom of the natural world & perhaps, your own heart.
Enjoy, dear one.
For the Love of Flowers
What others have said about flowers.
The earth laughs in flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must have flowers, always, and always.
~Claude Monet
A weed is but an unloved flower.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~Tennessee Williams
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
~Oscar Wilde
If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Terri Guillemets
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.
~Georgia O’Keeffe
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
~Gérard de Nerval
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
~Lady Bird Johnson
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~Henri Matisse
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
~Pablo Neruda
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
~Christian Dior
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
~Anne Lamott
On the Horizon…
WILD WOMAN FEST ’15
Early Registration Ends June 9th. Reserve Your Spot!
“It was so much more than I could have imagined. I feel deeply connected to everyone whom was there.”
~Elizabeth C.
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On the Horizon
Join an international, intergeneration group of weird and wonderful wild-hearted Women in our online Cave (which lives on an app)!
We meet weekly in Circles, Workshops, Practices to keep our wild spirits lit!
Upcoming Weekly Gatherings:
Join us for an hour-long New Moon Meditation Adventure on May 7th!
Online, from anywhere.
Using a dynamic meditation journey, we will tune into the New Moon, to your own Inner Guidance, synced up with wild-hearted women from around the world. This offering will include music, storytelling, meditation, journaling prompts & intention-setting.
Can’t make it live? No worries. All participants will receive a copy of the recording with 24 hours of the session.
We have Wild Woman Project-trained Circle facilitators is 26 countries, and 44 out of the 50 United States.
Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the organizer & facilitator of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.
An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.
