GAIA MANDALA

Every month around the New Moon two circles gather around the Earth Treasure Vases being stewarded at this time. Elizabeth Christine and Rasul Luisa Bravo host one circle, Rick Jansen and Therese Hogan, with Nikole Rosaria stepping in occasionally, host the other. This year our support circles included: Chile (Mimi), Auschwitz (Marita), Spain (Andrea), the Salmon (Stephen), Afghanistan (Charlotte), Tibet (Rick), Palestine (Aoife and Sarah), India (Niharika), Italy (Valeria), Triple Divide Peak (Julie), Luxembourg (Yvonne), The Restoration of the Waters (Rasul), Taos, NM (Diana), Little Shell Tribe (Laurelyn), Kairos Time (Karen), Esalen Lands, CA (Leslie). Other Earth Treasure Vases that are also in process include: the Bering Strait; Southwestern Australia (Julian); the Altai Mountains in Russia; Healing Racism in the US (Holistic Resistance).

Here are some words of the participants in those groups about their experience of the Stewardship Support Circles. Following this, three stewards share briefly about their Earth Treasure Vase journeys.

As stated within the opening meditation of the stewardship support circle, written by Elizabeth Christine. “Our circle is a holy vessel. Through group coherence and dreaming, we potentize the intention and journey of each Earth Treasure Vase being stewarded.” The solidarity and courage nourished among stewards has welcomed a shared experience of the interdependent nature of the vases, and of Gaia’s dreaming through us when we offer ourselves as vessels of love and care. The power of the collective has shown through in the sheer clarity of the prayers sustained and sustaining the stewards. Prayers calling for Land Justice, Indigenous Rights, Truth and Reconciliation, Intergenerational Healing, and a deeper embodied attunement to Gaia’s pace and the aligned intelligence therein, with life itself. May all beings benefit. – Rasul Luisa Bravo (Colombia)

For me the support group is like a coming home again and again and again. It is a place to be nurtured and sharing nurturing energy…that all will go to the network around the world into these magical clay pots. – Yvonne Lanners (Luxembourg)

I have found the stewardship support group to be an invaluable part of the process of stewarding a Treasure Vase.  No one knows the joys and challenges of the process like a fellow steward.  I love the depth of sharing and caring that this circle brings both during and after the burial. – Judith Tripp (California)

For me, the support group is a sanctuary, where we gather to share our prayers, hopes, and kinship. At the centre of our circle are the vases, the dots in the universe, from which we all grow and evolve on common ground. – Wendy Dudley (Canada)

The Vase’s arrival into one’s life might sometimes be nothing short of an initiation. Not only does she want to be buried to bring healing and peace to some part of the planet in which we live, but she will often take her steward through their own internal journey into greater healing and peace. For me, the Vase’s arrival was nothing short of this. Being able to share the turns, changes and events that the Vase’s arrival has brought into my life has been nourishing and deeply supportive. The group is composed of among the most caring individuals I have met… genuine and sincere. – Niharika Sanyal (India)

Being part of the Stewardship Support Group has been invaluable. Being able to share my experiences as I steward the Chile Vase and to hear other’s experiences has helped in realizing that I am part of a great matrix of light and that a beautiful web of interconnectedness exists within all the vases. Also, everyone is so special, and their awarenesses, not just about their own journey but on my own has added such a rich, beautiful and needed level of support to my process. – Mimi Fuenzalida (Chile / California)

Like roots of the trees reaching each other under the soil, to share precious life-bringing information, nurture each other, stimulate enzymatic activations and co-creating a fertile soil together. The unseen growing root system of the thriving and ever-expanding Gaia Mandala forest. – Valeria Felsi (Italy)

We are a Circle of Sisterhood encompassing the life cycle of Earth Treasure Vase stewardship. Answering the call, overcoming the doubts and challenges, managing personal issues of health and family emergencies, getting truly stuck, mindful listening, stressing over details, the pure joy of meeting the location for burial, the sacred act of the practice, the post-burial roller coaster of emotions, and the process of becoming vessels ourselves. Our community compassionately cares for each member as we journey through this life-changing ancient practice. And with this basis for membership, we share our personal lives. We provide balm for the wounds we encounter. We celebrate the healing and the high points. My gratitude for this membership is beyond words. – Marita Sheeran (Washington)