“This is the education I’ve always longed for - a space where I can explore my own wild and unique being, where my sensitivity is a gift, where the subtle is honored. It is a conversation with mystery and possibility. Working with Liv and Kontomblé has opened a door to new ways of seeing, listening and expressing. It has healed a loneliness that I’ve lived with for longer than I remember. It has connected me to a deep well of nourishment that continues to feed my creativity, loosen limitations and bring awe and curiosity into my life. Most of all, it has sparked my light and encouraged me to grow. Now I can boldly live in a way that my magical 5-year-old self would be so proud of. I will forever be grateful for these teachings that go far beyond words to seep like the sweetest honey into your body and bones until you remember yourself home.”
-Dorothée
Individual Session Testimonials
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Kyoko Kato
“I have never met anyone who truly listens to others with such powerful presence; such is Liv’s deep respect and love for life and spirits.
I am shy and rarely show my authentic-self, yet I have strong desire to be seen. Liv and the Kontomblé saw the part of me, hiding behind others all the time, in such compassionate way from the first time we met. My heart melted with love and awe by being seen as a spirit-self. It felt like I got back to my home where I am accepted. And I fell in love with Liv and the Kontomblé immediately.
The journey of finding my authentic-self is on going process for me. Each time I sit with Liv and the Kontomblé, it reveals like a flower is blooming and a tree is glowing. They pour pure water to our lights to glow.
It is such a healing to be with them.”
Mairead Kerr, musician from Scotland
My connection to Liv feels blessed with magic and deep gratitude, a reconnection made through the other realms of which she is in such respectful communion with. She has bravely and open heartedly given herself to reopening the channels of connection and through this is a powerful example to us of the possibility of remembering and healing the wounds of our broken pasts and presents. My first divination with her was mind blowing! She held the space with such integrity and skill and though we were at a physical distance I experienced us to be sharing the space as though next to one another. I was moved by how much laughter and hilarity entered the space and how freely Liv communicated all that was arising. She speaks from a place of truth and compassion and through this incredible wisdom and guidance flows.
Truly deep medicine.”
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Cliff Taylor, Poet, Writer, Sundancer, and enrolled member of The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
“Liv Wheeler has a gift that is humbling in its power, its oldness, its precision, and its results -she also happens to be a very beautiful-hearted and decent person (with a great sense of humor too!).
I'm an indian guy who's basically never left Nebraska and I was frankly surprised/stunned that the divination she did for me was as powerful and informational as any of my people's own ceremonies that I've attended. The spirits came and they came in abundance. There were ancestors, old ones, others and then there were her primary friends, her primary helpers: the Kontomblé. They were a hoot, poets, cut-ups, natural visionaries with a seemingly boundless depth of knowledge and sight. In our culture we have these little people too and they come to us like they come to Liv, in dreams, in ceremonies, in spirit to those gifted enough to communicate with them. It was an honor to receive the profound help that I did from the holy and kind of hilarious ones that Liv works with. Several months later I still find myself reflecting on the things they opened up for me, on their jokes, their knowledge, and their rich spiritual understandings.In the old days the stuff Liv lives with, practices, and shares, was like an essential light and value that everyone had regular, meaningful contact with. This world is an expression of the invisible other world or spirit world. Truths, gifts, help, healings, dreams, understandings, solutions and aid of all kinds, guidance and love, streamed out into this mysterious life from that invisible world -and through people like Liv we learned, got help, were blessed, and had our spirituality renewed…
My thoughts and prayers are with Liv and the Kontomblé and the work they are doing together. The world is in rough shape and our best hope is a return, a reconnection to the spirituality and wisdom and love that both Liv and her relatives the Kontomblé embody.
Thank you Liv. Thank you Kontomblé. I look forward to speaking to you both again sometime in the not too distant future.”
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Hannah Boakye
“I've done several personal sessions with Liv over the course of three years now. Both mentoring sessions and sessions with the Kontomblé. Literally every session contributed to my growth in very surprising ways.
The Kontomblé - oh, how I love them -, they just say it how it is. They are so truthful, like for real, full of truth. And they are so profound. I mean, the messages that come through in divinations are really deep and they go to the core. I was touched in the depths of my being by every session. There was a feeling of finally being seen for who I am and that made me cry because it made me feel as if I found home. Also, some things I heard in my very first divination, I discovered afterwards myself in my own life, in again - surprising ways.
And dear Liv, she is in a way the same like the Kontomblé, meaning she can see through you, see YOU. She sees passed the layers, beliefs and words you say. She sees the energy, which can be confronting because she just says what she sees (which can be something you are not totally aware of or don't want to see). But for me, that's the kind of mentoring I need, straightforward and honest. Because I am very good in talking and finding words for everything, so it's needed that someone catches me there, in those words, and brings me to my heart and my feelings. And Liv does that beautifully, with a lot of love, respect and care. Sometimes when I was talking in a session, Liv would see one of my ancestors coming through. I still cherish these moments.
What I truly love about Liv (& I know my ancestors do too) is that she has so much respect for who a person is, where people come from or who their ancestors and their ways are. She doesn't impose, she guides so that you become the best version of yourself! She sees the uniqueness of every person, she sees their medicine and she wants the person to connect with her/his medicine so that it can blossom. I find that so beautiful. I value that. I am super grateful.”
“In this day and age there is no guarantee that a person may meet someone like Liv even once in their lifetime. I consider it a great piece of luck/grace to have crossed paths with her and experienced her gift.”
-Cliff Taylor, Poet, Writer, Sundancer, and enrolled member of The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
“My spirit is alive! It’s the power within that cures the world. I see this now. My ancestors thank you, Liv.”
-Jose
“From the first moment I met Liv, I felt her genuine desire to support me and help me grow into myself. Over the past three years, she has provided a unique expression of supportive presence in my life that has helped me access profound parts of my being, realize my true gifts, and heal from lifelong psychological wounds. Liv is a gifted teacher and healer, and her connection to Spirit will help you transform and grow in the ways that you need most.”
-Dr. Katherine Coder, PhD., Community & Transpersonal Psychologist
Certification Program Testimonials
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Tui Honey
“I have experienced Earth's Amulet to be a true interdimensional Mystery School. I have so much gratitude for the alchemical process that my human spirit has ventured through, and for the soul magics and medicines that I found within along the way. Liv and the Kontomblé carry such a humble and ancient wisdom, encouraging one’s own unique process to blossom and expand. I felt a soulful and kind support not only from Liv and the Kontomblé, but also in the fine weaving of care from Sylvie and the support team. Earth's Amulet, to me, has been a sacred passage; a return to the glowing heart of Mother Earth. It is a journey that keeps going, and for which my soul will always cherish warmly, with honour, wonder and growth. Thank you, all of you, with love.”
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Sophie Eve Allan
“It has been such a profound, humbling, and deep honour to be a student in Òran an Rìbhinn. Thank you so much for inspiring devotion to spirit with authenticity, integrity, and so much courage. I am deeply humbled and heartened/encouraged to lean into the thresholds, which I am also preparing to transcend towards the sun for growth and healing. Thank you all for your heart-centred support, guidance, authenticity and wisdom you all share as we all find the courage to grow and glow!! I love you all so much, and feel so grateful for all the sacred medicines you tend to, share, and help humanity remember in these important times on Earth. Blessings and love.”
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Jenny
“I just wanted to send a little note to say thank you from the depths of my heart and soul for this amazing program I am blessed to be in with you all. I am absolutely giddy about tomorrow's ceremony and I have been overflowing with emotion about how incredibly lucky and thankful I am to be able to be in this circle. I have dreamt of and longed for these teachings since I was a little girl!! Being in this space with all of you is not only a dream come true, but has also exceeded my expectations in every way… it’s such an honor and gift! I love you all deeply and truly. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
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Allison Wilner
“Liv is a loving, generous and compassionate teacher and guide. She is incredibly gifted at sensing, mirroring, validating and honoring one’s own unique soul expression and medicine that each of us offer the world. Her sensitivity and capacity for space-holding is deep and attuned. Her medicine, as I experience it, powerfully catalyzes healing and deep transformation. Her ability to kindle, tend to, and weave soul medicine in community potentiates shifts that re-center and honor the wisdom of the heart. Liv offers a deeply nourishing, generative medicine and perspective that is so needed at this time
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Lindsay H.
“I did want to make sure to send this message acknowledging how truly grateful and in awe I am to be a part of this journey with you all. I'm already seeing so much healing, growth and potential coming into my being and all around me since our first few gatherings. I'm also so truly grateful to be a part of a community that sees, shares and holds each other's hearts, Spirit and humanness in such a loving, kind and open way. The tenderness, strength, courage, vulnerability and magick (among many other amazing qualities!) I see in everyone is just so truly inspiring. I can't wait to experience how the rest of this all unfolds! Please pass my deepest gratitude and love to Liv… I just continue to be so inspired and grateful for all of her teachings, perspectives and wisdom that she guides us to seed and grow within ourselves. It is such an honor to experience this with you, Liv and all the other humans + souls + beings that have gathered us all together! With so much love and gratitude.”
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Chrystal
“I grew up hearing stories and folklore about the Duende, the Little People of the Philippines. I would share these stories with friends disguised as ghost stories to prove that the unseen might be real. So, when I first heard of Liv’s work with the Kontomblé, I got chills. I’ve never heard of a space where my childhood fairy tales were not only real, but where they were also honored and sacred as well.
I'm so grateful to Liv, Kontomblé, and the EA community who have taught me so much! It’s hard to put it into words. The way I experience Kontomblé medicine is that they are ancient, honest, and dynamic. It was truly an honor to be able to study with them. The teachings went beyond the gatherings and into the regular happenings of daily life. I would come to circle and be able to make connections and understand the signs and lessons that I was being shown between our gatherings. Signs that I didn’t realize were signs until I heard each vulnerable, heart-centered share from community or teaching from Liv or message from Spirit. Through continuing to show up and practicing vulnerability myself, I learned that I too am lovable even with all of my imperfections. Together, I felt loved and seen on a soul level.”
“We live in a confusing time. I know I’m confused. Since I was young, I have sought clarity through a return to something I cannot name. Over the past twenty years, I have studied and practiced dozens of spiritual traditions and paths trying to name it, and every name I find seems to point me towards something ancient, something human, something beyond traditions and “isms.” We have no good name for this ancient wisdom in our culture, so for lack of better words, we can call it “animistic shamanism,” which is found all over the world, dating back to the beginning of human culture. This ancient spirituality, our human inheritance, has survived in the traditional cultures around the world, but these cultures are disappearing fast. The elements of shamanism that found their way into modern religions such as Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Tantra are slim in their surviving, and they too are disappearing in their original form, adapting for better or worse to the values of modern consumer culture.
In my eyes, our confusion as a species is largely due to being severed from our ancient human roots, from the earth, from our food, from our history, and from our Ancestors. We wander the earth like floating heads, unaware of our connection to the natural world and to the cycles of time and life, lost in a conceptual trance brought on by gadgets and gizwidgets, social media and entertainment.
Thankfully, many people today are waking up to their pain and confusion and are seeking a return to natural wisdom. To do this, we need authentic guides, especially here in America. And thankfully, there are authentic guides among us who have begun to make the journey back to our ancient human spirituality. Liv Wheeler is such a person.
There are many “new-age,” “woo-woo” guides out there who attempt to help people without grounding or training in tradition. Many naïve people claim to be spirit mediums and do not have a clue as to whom or what they are “channeling.” As someone with years of background in many wisdom traditions, I am immediately skeptical of most “new age” people. As soon as I checked out Liv, however, my skepticism fell away because it was clear to me that she was not one of these people, and that she is connected to a living tradition of ancient wisdom with authentic roots. In my past, I studied the works of Malidome Some, someone I know to be an authentic shaman, and after learning that Liv trained with him, I knew that I was encountering something real and alive with wisdom.
In our session, it was clear to me that Liv was a lucid medium. She communicated personal and transformational wisdom. Our session affirmed my spiritual path and offered me great insight into my ancestral roots. It is reassuring to know that I am connected to something deeper than I am able to perceive in my waking life. The session was accurate in a way beyond words, for it touched into a truth much bigger than “poor little me.”
Our culture is hungry for a return to natural wisdom. Liv provides many ways to connect with our wisdom roots through hosting ritual, through connecting to ancestors, and through communicating the wisdom of nature. Human beings are not alone on this planet. When we begin to wake up, we realize that we are in a vast interconnected universe, full of beings. Some of these beings may even be looking out for us, and Liv’s work proves this.
If you are looking for a return to natural wisdom and want to connect to your authentic humanity, I highly recommend Liv Wheeler as a guide.”
-Gregory Done, Chinese Astrologer, Writer
“This is a message meant for Liv and yet if others see it too, then I trust there is a gem in its energy in it for you too.
For a few days now I have been deeply thinking about Liv. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading her book… The reason matters less than the deep call to offer my appreciation for Liv’s work. While reading her book I was brought to tears a few times and with an explanation that I miss her!
I know that sometimes my energy could be off or at times my heart is guarded. We all have a choice to work through our demons. I’m grateful for Liv as I am aware of her soul's dedication to this work. Including the amount of internal work that such a position requires in order to maintain an open heart.
Wow! Liv! The Kontomblé! Hahaha they have been so strongly coming in the last few days and I was reunited with the village of Kontomblé that I met after the mentoring session I had with you. I became so grateful because you showed me this door. I realized how extending this to others is so important and wow how much they benefit from being connected with the Kontomblé. It was the first time I was shown that I am a piece, a bridge, in that connection. I am so thankful that I’m more actively working with them. Which is in part, LARGELY, due to you!
I drafted a thank you letter. Today as I offer my thank you as email I’m grateful for the symbol of a paper airplane and email! I wanted to express gratitude. We are all doing work. I’m thankful for yours.
Thank you to whoever else reads this, Sylvie, if there is anything I can do to extend to your spirit energetically with love, I will. To the other staff who may read this, I apologize I am not familiar but I wish you good health and a joyful heart amongst those who also love and support you.
Thank you to the whole team and thank you for sharing this with Liv.
With love, to all of you and the Kontomblé.”
-Rebecca
Group Ceremony Testimonials
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Lyndsay
“Thank you...! I’m so grateful to you, Liv, Kontomblé and community for this past weekend. This work has been deeply healing, transformative and heart opening for me and my family…
I’m so grateful to be able to sit with you all and receive the rich wisdom, compassion and reverence of this work.
I am so grateful to able to gather with you all and weave together our hearts and lights.
I am so grateful for the wisdom that was shared with us and the medicine from the Kontomblé. I really appreciate the call to stretch, expand, deepen into our clarity of purpose and more closely examine any energies that are not aligned with our true nature. As always, so many little (and big!) nuggets of gold to both sit with and anchor into my being and physical dimensions... It is always appreciated that they share with us what is on their hearts and what is so important for us to know in these times…
I will cherish this so much. ️
Sending love until we connect again :). With love and gratitude.”
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Jenny
“I am writing this morning to express my infinite gratitude to you all and the beloved Kontomblé village for the absolutely amazing, gorgeous, powerful and life affirming divination training we experienced together! I am in awe of all that came through this incredible divination form and spread we have created and the ways that Spirit and Nature are communicating with us through it… the weaving feels sooo luminous and the connection feels sooo strong! I’m getting filled with waves of emotion as I write this because I just feel so honored and blessed to have had the opportunity to be with you all, to receive this beautiful gift, to be able to expand into this way of loving life, of life as ceremony and to be offered this healing and activation and initiation so i can offer support to others in such meaningful and important ways! I can feel how my connection with this sacred offering and form is potent and that it will continue to develop and expand each time I connect with it. I am filled with joy to be with the unfurling and blossoming of it’s wisdom and gnowledge.”
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Rachel Jonte
“Ojai, land of beauty, energy, transformation, sacredness, grief, pain, and memory. Thank you for holding me. For holding US in ceremony as we made offerings to the land, the mountain, the Chumash people. As we learned how to listen, how to feel. Thank you to the Kontomblé and their partner Liv Mokai for their devotion to this world and humanity, for guiding us in how to reconcile with reality, to really feel grief and pain, feel the destruction and violence and thoughtless waste, and know we can simultaneously hold those feelings and make beauty of our lives... It was such a deep honor to sit in ceremony with so many incredible souls, and to humbly offer our love and receive so much inspiration, healing, and strength together. I bow to you all and to my ancestors who brought me to this moment and got me to this gathering... I feel so much hope, and I know we are all so strong and capable. I commit to remembering what was shared in this most sacred of rituals. Blessings to all of my new/old friends.”
“We come into this world with very few glimmers of the path we are meant to walk and by the time we grow up they are but speckles of dust in the corner of our vision until we are ready to become what we were always meant to be and do what we came back to complete in this lifetime.
The first time I met Liv was like walking into a child's laughter playing free in the sunshine, those specks of dust began to form rays of light and dance in an energetic rhythm of something ancient but familiar to my soul.
I’ve had the joy of communing with the Liv and the Kontomble a number of times in the last 6 months and I can only give praise to the authenticity of this woman and her divine feminine embrace, she’s wise, honest & playful with a compassionate & kind heart.
Liv translates for the Kontomble, once they have spoken through her in their Native Language.
They are an extension of energy supported by her & she has mastered this art by using her own body as a tool for healing, lending her voice to these soulful big hearted Little People.
They work magic together and the messages come through undiluted and expressive.
You can feel the love they share and a bond that's lifetimes strong.
Never underestimate the power of the realms to bring us together at the right time for the right reasons, with the gentle guidance and reassuring etheric hugs of this team I’ve healed and expanded me in ways that would take years on my own.
If you are looking for truth, a genuine history lesson about yourself and an energetic nudge on what paths are available to engage with on your journey then I can whole heartedly say you will get all of it.
As with all creatures human and Fae the decisions are up to you, natural law is never messed with and beautifully honoured reminding us of how things should be in this world.
The most surprising and enlightening part of it all is the laughter, real belly joyful laughter & a smile that hurts after each session. It’s the way we are meant to feel when we are with the soul family we have been longing to find.
I look forward to working with Liv and her team more in the future & recommend anyone who is interested in the real deal to book with her.
Lastly a great Big Thank You to Liv and the Kontomble for coming into my life again.
I love you dearly and am honoured to walk beside you for The Good of All.
With Love, Glynn”
Glynnis Harris Rowe
Screenwriter, Producer & Entrepreneur
South Africa
www.glynnis.co.za
More Love…
“It was a blessing to be in ceremony with you all this weekend. Thank you for this beautiful work.”
-Lina
“Hi Liv and Komtomble. With shaky hands (all the energies) I wanted to take a moment before I left the spot that I was sitting during this ceremony.
May love be with you, may love be with you, may love be with you.
I am deeply grateful for being part of tonight. With these people and with every word spoken. Words that from each I found myself. Summarizing my year, feeling very much the energy Liv was talking about. With every word thinking I could speak up to release these energies - being now very grateful for the ones who spoke up, sharing and creating at the same time for all of us a space to heal, to especially let go.
I have found myself asking about this year, what is normal - letting go a lot of things I thought I needed. I am asking what is distracting - leaving Instagram, coming in many ways from big to small. Facing my inner ugliness, what I have been avoiding, where being conditional and not unconditional and so on - and finding space in that not to judge myself or others being right or wrong. Facing extremes of my environment - learning to be in this conflict, while being so grateful to see. See more, to listen more. Crying cries that are fully mine, yet part of the product of where I was born, culture, land.
I feel deep gratitude that Komtomble allowed me to be in the presence of this ceremony, even though I was quietly crying. And again I am happy the people who talked got to talk and express. Being a gift for them and to everyone.
In the end I felt laughter coming through, integrating how much emotionally I have survived to go through.
I wanted to speak, but didn't know where to start or how. And yet I feel that just listening to others, silent witnessing was a blessing of a medicine. Leaving me with a smile.
With a smile for the question, what am I here for? I have to answer "I don't know." But for a brief moment I have seen the first golden step to step. And this ceremony truly helped me integrate the color of this beautiful first step.
Thank you to Liv for sensing and hearing me… that I got to be part of it as me, far from perfect. To Liv, all the protection, light and love needed whenever sharing your medicine. You inspire me…
Thank you Komtomble for speaking for us and from a place of being direct and honoring the truth. To let me sit in space with your presence. It takes time to integrate this gift, to have been in the same space again with Komtomble and all of you. Thank you, dearly.
While soon giving the offerings of ceremony to my garden, I will make it to honor this night and knowing how blessed I was that I got to be part of this even though I was silent. I hope my few songs shared, brought the support of mama earth and helped even a little bit to let go, bringing light, in behalf of not speaking up - bringing light where it is needed. And again I am very happy that exactly the people who spoke did it.
I guess all I try to say is thank you. Thank you Sylvie. Thank you Liv. Thank you Kontomblé. I can only try to understand how blessed I am being able to attend in blessings like this one.
I have so much to learn, so many reasons to just listen and stay humble for what I experienced today, and everyday.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
-Mira
“Our ceremony was so touching! All the synchronicities spun together so effortlessly, it was truly magic in motion. I feel very honoured to be connecting with others in this sacred way.”
-Zohie
“Blink 1: I see a little person running across the circle with a spherical leather cup of bright water.
Blink 2: I dance slowly like I'm in the Sundance, feeling the energy, sinking, surrendering.
Blink 3: I wonder, "What would Grandpa Sammy do?", and then hear loudly, "Dance! Dance, man! Dance!"
Blink 4: a whole team of raggedy heyokas enter the circle and I break out into a laughing tear, trying to keep my eyes closed, laughing so hard that I can barely dance.
Blink 5: I dance across the country to where my tribe is having our powwow, joining them in the arena, a proud brown-haired starman, and then they join us all in their regalia in Ojai; I think, on the verge of tears, "I am dancing with my people."
Blink 6: I dance and feel how true this is in both places, in Niobrara and Ojai.
Blink 7: I suddenly realize that we're doing an iteration of Wovoka's Ghost Dance, all of us dancing as a prayer to bring back all of the immeasurable life that the modern world is hellbent on decimating and enslaving.
Blink 8: ornate, sweet, free-spirited Tasmanian Devils of revolutionary bell-ringing and rattle-shaking JOY spirit around the center where a hole is dug for the offerings of ocean water, cornmeal, and heirloom corn that we are going to give to the Chumash Indians of this land and I am all smiling, toothy bliss.
Blink 9: when the needle-nosed (literally) opposition shows up we all dance them and their so-called authority right on out into the nighttime desert where the mountains, cacti, and sprinting lizards all melt them away, again, into the ancient mists.
Blink 10: the threshold of grief appears and Chumash relatives uncountable begin to walk and dance and pray among us; their faces mournful, tickled, happy, knowing.
Blink 11: I dance over the earth hole crying with my seeds of ancestral Ponca corn upraised in my hand, merging with all the Chumash spirits; seeds of miracles, seeds of the impossible; feeling the healing power like a shockwave standing still, designing its own path into the kernel-sized aperture.
Blink 12: dancing beyond the point of collapse and then taking off skyward along with everyone else, dragons of every kind, soaring, shimmering, roaring with tearful, ineffable ecstasy.
Blink 13: I sit down on my dance spot and look across the circle at Aislinn, feel all sorts of giggly little people, and think, "Is anything ever truly over?" '
-Cliff Taylor
“Liv Mokai, I am honored to have had a chance to experience your medicine from which I grew to feel deeper into my soul's purpose and my truth, no words can match my gratefulness! Thank you for your work... your visit meant sooo much to me. I am deeply moved forever, you will have a special place in my heart.”
-Milica Cosic
“Forever grateful for this weekend. It was one of the most beautiful and transformative experiences I have ever had. I am so thankful for all of the love, kindness, strength, and courage that I witnessed. I came home with an overflowing heart. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
-Mikayla
“Deep bows and gratitude for the medicine you shared with all of us and to the feminine that was rattled and awoken. I drove away in silence to listen to nature around me. With an overflowing heart, thank you thank you thank you.”
-Kristy
“This past weekend, I had the honor of being part of the Elemental Reverence 精霊への畏敬 with Liv Mokai Wheeler as a translator. Everything was soooo beautiful and magical. Liv, Sylvie, Emmy, Cliff, AshEL, Natalie, Christianne, Lindsey, Aislinn… every moment, I was in awe of their authenticity and beauty. The energy and transformation that they have brought upon Japan is huge. Their presence, the Kontomblé ceremony, the amazing film "The Remembering'' by Emmy Wu, the beautiful shrines by Lindsey and music by AshEL ...reconnected us Japanese to our ancient ancestors, spirits of nature, and our true authentic selves. I feel that it is truly a remembering and a new beginning for all of us. With deep appreciation and respect, thank you Liv and Kontomblé for bringing us all together.”
-KAE MIYAZAWA
“I just wanted to say how beautiful and heart nourishing it was to be with our Tiny, Shiny Wings of Fire group on Saturday. It really does just make my heart sing to be in circle with you all!... Please feel free to share my heartfelt gratitude to Liv as well - I'm so grateful for these sacred waters of community we are in together and for this space to honor the heart and soul. It means so much to gather in these ways, always, and especially during these times. Thank you to the entire EA team for all that you are tending and cultivating!”
-Lindsay
“Last weekend, I attended the Kontomblé ceremony in Tokyo, which honors Mt. Fuji, whales, and Nipsey Hussle. And I came out from the ceremony full of love and hope in my heart. It took so long to turn my eyes back to the country that I was born and raised. At one point, I was pretty hopeless at the future of Japan and ashamed of being Japanese. And then I connected with my soul family, who are truly willing to honor Japan and the Earth, through the ceremony. I can see the beauty of the country and its culture again. Is there anything more precious than this?
I’d like to refer to Barack Obama’s tribute for my new hero, Nipsey Hussle; 'While most folks look at the Crenshaw neighborhood where he grew up and see only gangs, bullets, and despair, Nipsey saw potential. He saw hope. He saw a community that, even through its flaws, taught him to always keep going. His choice to invest in that community rather than ignore it ... is a legacy worthy of celebration.’ The ceremony surely showed me the hope for our future. Thank you, Liv. And thank you for all who shared the experience together. I feel so lucky to be part of the community.”
-KYOKO KATO
What is it that connects us?
With an Ear to the Great Mystery · August, 2019
I participated this time and reconsidered the role of the community. I felt that it was very healthy that people could gather, share stories, share pain and feel bonds...I feel that sharing vibrations and experiencing greater healing and liberation by moving the body together is a function deeply rooted in the essence of life's energy beyond the cultural context... It is rare that everyone dances in a circle and dances barefoot or screams. Instead, they wear shoes, wear clothes, speak with the wording in mind, and behave so that they can be seen as decent people...
What Liv was saying to us was... “Don't think you're a stranger.”
When did we start to think of ourselves as strangers?
Actually, since the beginning, everyone has been a child of the same earth.”
Ryoko Sekino of Metaphysics Tsushin shares about her experience at With an Ear to the Great Mystery · August 2019
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