These are my notes from today's class. 

In analyzing my one fingerprints, I have discovered that I'm a 10 whorl person.  This indicates that my school of specialization in life is service.  In fact, it appears that I'm doing some kind of a PhD in service as my life purpose and lessons are all in ... you guessed it, service. My 10-whorl pattern is a unique one that comes with an ancient Chinese name: "Lone Tree on the Plain."  Part of what makes it unique is that my particular twist on service PhD is the fact that I have to find my path to service by mastering selfishness.  This explains a lot :)

What's more is that if you examine the picture, you'll see that I actually have a tattoo on my little left pinky finger of the symbol for a whorl.

I got this tattoo in 2011 for significant reasons. This is the alchemical symbol for the sun, chosen to represent the necessity of renewing agreements and refreshing communications in relationship.  As it turns out, I discovered just a couple weeks ago that it is also the symbol for stillpoint in cranial sacral therapy which delighted me.  Today, in class as I went to the board to transcribe my own code and realized that I had a tattoo of my code on my pinky I felt a shiver and whoop of delight wave through me.  This little symbol, for me, confirms that I am right where I need to be at this very moment, learning about my life purpose of service to others and the planet being equally as important to serving myself.  Thanks hand analysis and best of all, thank you, gorgeous and hilarious Universe for sending me this awesome love note of confirmation.  Yes, I get it:  keep pursuing my allurements, no matter how funky or "unreasonable."  Life is amazing.

Thank you for sharing this gorgeous moment with me :)
With all my love,

HAH!  
Funny coincidence it is, this is one of my most favorite + resonant quotes:

What a fantastic program!  I thoroughly enjoyed learning about this super interesting therapy and as someone new to body work, I found the Langara Program to be super supportive and helpful.  Upon my program completion this past weekend I was extremely heartened to know that I had completed 125 hours of clinical work in addition to all my study and practice time.

Best of all, I had the great joy of working on two people as case studies.  These two super guinea pigs saw me for a series of treatments (5-6 sessions) over the span of two months.  It was an amazing learning process for both of us as we were all delighted to discover first hand that cranial sacral therapy was indeed an effective therapy in the case pain and decreased function secondary to suspected herniated disc and chronic fatigue exacerbated by a concussion.  For me it was very gratifying to observe effects that lasted beyond a single treatment.

I am most definitely going to continue to practice!  I plan on having a home-based, part-time practice starting late summer / early autumn.  I will be moving to a new home in mid-July to set up the space for this.  I am filled with gratitude to have a room of my own and for my live well / die awesome / celebrate headquarters :)

Hoping you yield to the magnet of your passions too,

I used to resist curiosity because it was scary to face unknowns.  Little teeny tiny experiments at a time have proven to me that this illustrated wisdom is true.

It's been a pretty phenomenal couple of weeks!

My personal update is that I had to take a huge rest :) I have been so full and bursting of creative ideas that I just went with it!  I was a creation explosion!  It's been a significant burst; the last one was in the height of my burlesque sewing mania so I just enjoyed this burst and went with it.  Alas, creative explosions are not sustainable, especially when one neglects key elements of self-care as I did.  I started dropping my morning stretches and slowed down on the prep of yummy healthy food. Boo!  Not surprisingly my body went into protest mode and climaxed with a brutal lower back pain this past weekend.

Good learning! :)

That said I was still able to get out to a couple of amazing events this past weekend in honour of Earth Day. One of these was a summit and gala dinner graciously hosted by the Tsleil Waututh Nation.  It brought together an amazing convergence of intellectual, activist and spiritual elders to dialogue.  They shared wisdom, information and inspiration in the form of real-world stories.  Highlights included:

• Paul Clements-Hunt reminding us that we have a duty to                "Free up our imaginations to explore what is possible to shift and grow" in terms of creating alternatives, particularly with respect to alternatives to oil.  He pointed to the example of the T'Sou-ke First Nation on Vancouver Island for their solar energy innovation.
• Elizabeth May for general bad-assery and reminding me that was barely a couple hundred years ago that people thought slavery could not be abolished because the economy would collapse. #perspective

My highlights in doodle form capture the fierce warrior spirit in Tsleil Waututh elder Amy George's call for all people to #WarriorUp in our work to restore Mother Earth for future generations.  Miles Richardson of the Haida Nation also had amazing wisdom that touched my heart deeply about the need to go back to our cultural roots and listen to our elders.  I adore our elders.

So that spirit, instructed by the teaching of giving away the first thing you make and in honour of tender-warrior-hope-explosions of Earth Day 2013, I would like to give away and share my Pope Francis doodle.  I will make print copies of them shortly to share;  please email me / comment if you would like me to snail mail them to you (I adore snail mail)!  Alternatively, I am posting a PDF downloadable file here for printing and sharing as anyone wishes.  All I ask is that you credit me as this feed the dream to become a professional doodler! :)

Yours in gratitude, delight and persistent hope,