Meet Amy Martyn!

Amy Martyn

It was great to discover that Amy is offering her services in Langford. I was lucky enough to have an energy healing session with her, and it was palpable, the difference that I felt the rest of the day, with both a decrease in pain and increase in energy to do things.

I hope people find out about what she offers & give her a try – you’ll be glad you did! Blessings & light to you, Amy! (from the reviews on Amy’s Facebook page)

From Amy:

My ultimate goal is to help others find pure inner happiness and evolve their soul.  Through the remarkable power of love, anxiety can be released, pain and suffering can be diminished and joy can exude from your being.

I thoroughly enjoy working with others who have an open & allowing mindset, as this is when the magic begins! Through communication, powerful techniques, and energy treatments we can discover your root cause of pain, disease & desires and work together to set intention for a blissful outcome.

Each person is meant to live a life filled with peace & joy and through working with your inner self you can find the courage to live the life you want, filled with unconditional love for living.  Your body is so intelligent and has the incredible power to heal itself.

I look forward to getting to know you and assisting in your next evolving stepping stone.

Book: “Belonging” with Toko-pa

It’s been out for over a year…and it’s great. Belonging won the prestigious 2017 Gold Nautilus Award for its contribution to the field of Personal Growth. It’s not only been selling well, it’s been changing lives. Here’s the link (get yours today!), and here’s a little about the author:

About Toko-pa:

Toko-pa was born on a farmhouse in Devon, England by a midwife to poet-parents. Because they liked the music saying it made, they named her after the Maori deity, Toko-pa, who is the “Parent of the Mist” according to the Maori creation myth.

Toko-pa

She came to Canada at the age of four, where her grandparents settled after the war in Poland, and was raised in a Sufi community in Montreal.

Along with yoga, meditation, Sufi dancing and singing, dreaming was an every day part of her culture.  From a very young age, Toko-pa was encouraged  to share and explore her vivid dreams.

In her early twenties Toko-pa toured with a band, eventually recording her first original album. It wasn’t until her mid-twenties that she returned to the mystical teachings of Sufism and the study of dreams. She became deeply interested in Analytical Psychology and did a 3 year internship at the Jung Foundation of Ontario, while pursuing her studies in spirituality, mythology and shamanism.

In early 2001, she was awarded a scholarship to study with psychophysiologist and lucid dreaming expert, Dr. Stephen LaBerge, in Hawa’ii. She spent the following year writing a documentary series, Awake and Dreaming, which was picked up for development by Vision TV.

Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreamwork, Toko-pa founded the Dream School in 2001 from which hundreds of students have since graduated. Toko-pa has been interviewed by CNN News and BBC Radio and has a community of over 100,000 online readers. Her writing has been published worldwide, and she is currently releasing her first book Belonging, which explores the themes of exile, and the search for belonging.

Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa’s work focuses on restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, and facilitating grief and ritual practice. You can find Toko-pa on her website at toko-pa.com.

Helen’s work – on sale for Black Friday weekend!

Helen’s amazing artwork is amazing in pictures & even more amazing in person!

Here’s her note from Facebook – check in with her today!

BLACK FRIDAY/CYBER MONDAY EVENT!! Choose your favorite pillow cover and use the code: BlackFriday30 to receive 30% off from Nov 23-26. Clink the link in the bio to start shopping. If you have questions, msg me.

http://www.healinghelen.ca

Intuitive Energy Massage, with Pamela Schmitt

From Pam’s website:

Hi, it’s so great that you found me in the internet cosmos!

In my youth, I did sports such as gymnastics, swimming, and cross-country running. After a brief hiatus from sports in university, I rediscovered my athletic side. I’m grateful to live in a city with wonderful outdoor spaces to explore and plenty of athletic opportunities.

Are you an athlete, looking to get into sports, or leading an active lifestyle? Then let’s connect!

I look forward to meeting you and to see how I can add value to you and help you live your best healthy, balanced life.

More info:
http://www.spiritofvictoria.ca/canada/victoria/find-healers/intuitive-energy-massage-with-pam-schmitt

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More from Megan Edge:
Our very own Pamela Schmitt, IEM Master Healer, Mind, Body, Soul Healer, entrepreneur, Half Marathon runner, international competitive dancer and Engineer! Want to know more and meet her? Click below and be sure to share~ xo Megan Edge

 

What’s new with the Spirit of Victoria Directory!

We enter our fourth year this week! Thank you for coming along for the ride!

Since our last email a while back, a few things have changed on the site. If you can take a moment to look at the site you’ll see these three things, to start:

• On the front page of www.spiritofvictoria.ca, it’s new – so look for it: In the main menu you’ll see “Special Offers & Coupons.” Pretty clear what you’ll find there – I’m pretty sure you’ll like it!

• Next to it – on the main menu – is where we’re moving the events listings. I previously have them on a separate site & in the month of experiments I did with this, I found way more people take a peek at this than any other one part of the site.

If you’d like to go directly there, go to www.spiritofvictoria.ca/events – let me know what you think! Watch this area grow!

• Finally, we re-purposed & re-designed the responsive design of the site to work better on mobile devices, your phone, and things besides desktop computers. Check it out & use it on your phone & see if you agree.

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Do you have a listing on the Spirit of Victoria?

Now’s the time!

Log into your dashboard & add your events & special offers! While you’re at it, add reviews to your profile as well – you’ve had success, so this is a good way to share it!

Been a while since you logged in & can’t find your password or login info?

Call Brother Ian at 778-265-3014 or email at sovnews9@gmail.com & I’ll get you set up!

Medicine Nest: Grand Reopening: Free Classes, Live Music, Ceremony + More! (Sept 24-30)

IT’S TIME for our GRAND RE-OPENING! Mark it down on your calendars. We’re going to be offering discounted treatments, a week of FREE classes, sacred gatherings, events, LIVE music + more!

We’re so excited to finally be sharing our intentions for our community! We aim to become Victoria’s home of Holistic Healing & Sacred Gathering. A space of ceremony, intentional events & drop-in classes!

At the core, we’re a boutique wellness + yoga studio offering you movement medicine, plant medicine, energy medicine, and SOUL medicine all for the cultivation of our divine medicine community!

What makes us different? We’re a space built on integrity, spirit + trust, with a ceremonial and holistic understanding of life. We want you to feel at home here. A sanctuary for your healing. A space to simply be held & nurtured when life throws you challenge. In all of our yoga classes, you’ll be 1 of 7, max! Meaning you’ll get the semi-private instruction you deserve to cultivate the greatest benefit for your mind, body & soul.

For beginner to advanced students, we’re here to help you ease into, cultivate, and excel in yoga, meditation, spirituality, and well-being. Our practitioners and our teachers are living, breathing, walking examples of their services, offering you authentic, real-life, connection and wisdom in all that they do.

Karli

We’re setting ourselves up to have 6+ practitioners, upwards of 20 classes per week, weekly sacred gatherings, weekend events + more! We won’t say we’re there yet but we’re certainly on our way and want YOU to be apart of it!

Join us for the last week of September to meet our practitioners, experience our classes, and take part in some pretty incredible weekend events! Registration will be mandatory for all classes and events via our booking site.

Thank you, from the depths of our hearts for supporting our process, our unfolding, our being. We LOVE you!

With love,
Karli + the rest of the Medicine Nest team!

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/240431706643362

Website:
https://www.medicinenest.ca/

Coming up: Westshore Mind, Body & Spirit Expo

Great to hear that Allison & Geoff Gallant are running the show this month – they took over from show founders Dawn & Erica this summer, and they tell me they hope to keep the Expo as fresh & fun as it has been for the past couple of years!

Allison & Geoff

They invite you to drop by the Legion in Langford (click here for a map!):

We invite you to grow and learn with us and join in on the fun.

We have a great line up of exhibitors including Energy Healers, Tarot Readers, Crystals Gems, Aromatherapy, Colour Therapy, Healing Jewellery and much more! See you soon!

Check out our website to see who will be there – keep in mind that different vendors show up on the two different days, so you may want to come both days!

The Expo, last year

Connect With Your Spirit Guides Class, with Linda Pynaker (Sept 25)


This is an opportunity for you to learn how to connect with your spirit guides so that you may receive messages from them and develop more meaningful relationships. You will become more able to benefit from their support.

Linda Pynaker

Get to know who your spirit guides are and find out the following:
• what they look like
• their individual personalities
• any past relationships you have shared
• what their purpose is in your life

Registration is limited to 6 people.

To register by e-transfer, send an e-transfer to linda@lindapynaker.com with the name and date of the class, using the answer “intuition” to the security question.

To register by phone, call Linda to provide credit card information.

For more information, please contact Linda.

Details:
https://www.lindapynaker.com/calendar/connect-with-your-spirit-guides-class/

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Click here for more info:

Workshop: Metaphysics of Pure Non-Duality ~ Course In Miracles ~ Julia Day (Sept 15)

Julia Day

A Course In Miracles …
is a transpersonal, psychological, radical teaching in pure non-dual Oneness that uses quantum ‘forgiveness’ to undo our dualistic split mind.
The Course guides us through a mystical journey of awakening
to the awareness of pure Love’s Presence.

The alchemy of awakening occurs through joining our thoughts and perceptions with our inner Teacher, Self, Source ~ and learning to trust our Wholeness and Oneness; the pure Goodness that remains unchanged throughout all our stories, through all worlds.

For information & to register, check my website at:https://www.juliaday.ca/juliaday-acim-pure-non-duality

I love helping people understand the simple METAPHYSICS of the Course, because it makes the entire holographic teaching much easier to digest.

Here’s more (click here):

Thoughts: Sitting with her, sitting with him, with Brené Brown

Gotta say I like this little bit of writing from Brené Brown:

“I’ve come to this belief that,
if you show me a woman who can sit with a man
in his real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it,
I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work
and, B, does not derive her power from that man.

“And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman
in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it,
but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it,
I’ll show you a guy who’s done his work
and a man who doesn’t derive his power
from controlling and fixing everything.”

~ Brené Brown

Putting your best foot forward…

Jim Thorpe

This is Jim Thorpe.
Look closely at the photo, you can see that he’s wearing different socks and shoes. This wasn’t a fashion statement. It was the 1912 Olympics, and Jim, an American Indian from Oklahoma represented the U.S. in track and field. On the morning of his competitions, his shoes were stolen.

Luckily, Jim ended up finding two shoes in a garbage can. That’s the pair that he’s wearing in the photo. But one of the shoes was too big, so he had to wear an extra sock. Wearing these shoes, Jim won two gold medals that day.

This is a perfect reminder that you don’t have to resign to the excuses that have held you back. So what if life hasn’t been fair? What are you going to do about it today? Whatever you woke up with this morning; stolen shoes, ill health, failed relationships, don’t let it stop you from running your race. You can experience more in life if you’ll get over the excuses and get on with living.

You can have reasons or you can have results and you can’t have both. (thank you to those that shared this with us to post)

– from ProActive Coaching

 

Food for thought, with Teal Swan

What is thought? Where does thought come from?
In this video, Teal Swan discusses how thought is actually a sense. That it is not something within us but a tool to be used by us and a tool that can be used in positive or negative ways. Teal Swan is an International Spiritual Leader. She offers perspective on a wide range of topics including relationships, anxiety, meditation, shadow work, the law of attraction, The Completion Process, healing, PTSD, emotions and spirituality.

let it go, let it go

let it go – the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise – let it go it
was sworn to
go
let them go – the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers – you must let them go they
were born
to go
let all go – the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things – let all go
dear
so comes love
~e. e. cummings

Astaria’s light shines bright…

A couple of weeks ago, Astaria Light (http://www.lightofsound.ca/) offered a cacao ceremony in Sooke which included the gift of her sacred sounds. My friend Stephanie Woods was there that night as part of the sold-out event – I asked her how it went, and how the evening felt. She told me she would like me to share her response with you:

Astaria Light

Nestled in blackberry and rose thickets, within a traditional style tipi, received from a First Nations tribe in the prairies, whose inside came alive with a warm fire and tender hearts, Astaria Light opened a sacred cacao ceremony, and the journey of a Sound of the Heart ignited.

The enchanting cacao bubbled to life as it was honoured in each person’s favourite mug and began to work magic with its aroma, alluring tenderness and soothing richness in spirit. Intentions of release and renewal echoed within the chambers of the tipi as sharing and honouring of each other’s journey was embraced.

Astaria’s timeless and galactic voice tickled the cacao to life within the veins, combining the sound of the elements, the rainbow of vibration-shifting instruments, with ethereal feminine beauty of voice, guiding the voyage to the internal planes within, into the deepest chambers of the heart.

The sound of the heart gently and powerfully encouraged the shutters to swing open, bringing in fresh vibrating breath, a joyous sigh of relief in reconnection, while letting out the stale and stagnant frequencies. Brought back down to earth by the surrounding chorus of birds and soft summer breezes, the glow of cacao remained in all.

What a heart-filled joy to experience the love of Astaria Light, her relationship to the sacred plant medicine of cacao, and most importantly the gift of the internal journey to the heart that was offered around a warm fire with tender hearts.

Drop by The Divine Gem in Oak Bay!

Have you been by Victoria’s newest gem & crystal store? The Divine Gem opened last month & is off to a great start! Swing by the store at 2033 Oak Bay Avenue & check ’em out! Here’s more from Anoush:

Hi all! It is a beautiful day in Victoria. Sun is out and shining. We are open till 6pm today. Remember we are still offering 20% off on everything in the store. This also applies on Instagram products.
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Also – Ruby products are all 30% off as Ruby is the July birthstone.
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Enjoy this beautiful day!

And so…we are loved


“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves & even loved in spite of ourselves.”
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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The answers within, with Teresa Cameron

Teresa Cameron

One of my favourite people in the world is Teresa Cameron, who is both a reader & teacher who opens to Pure Source as a beginning to the healing she offers. (You can find out more about her, here). She wrote this, which I think you might find of use, on your path:

All this searching, searching, searching and all of the answers are within each individual.

People on the spiritual (life) journey are searching for understanding, solutions, and the way….but it indeed is the act of STOPPING all of it, including the thoughts around Pure Consciousness because even our views of what it should be stop us from understanding what it indeed is.

The space of Pure Consciousness is absolutely fantastic because it is so apparent that all of the answers are within ourselves and everything is accessible from there. We just have to get out of our own way to be able to hear and understand it! We have to quit fighting what IS for what we want or expect life to be.

The community people are searching for is already here….the entire human race (and so much more) is that community….we are all connected and doing exactly what needs doing…and have been since the beginning of creation…we are progressing and growing even when it appears we are stuck or going backward or suffering the greatest.

As each person discovers the Pure Light within, the rest of the stories start falling away. It indeed is a beautiful dance, even (or maybe most especially) the struggles. The struggling is what opens the doors to growth and expansion if we choose to take it that way.

Many people are accepting that path …that is indeed the path of an awakening consciousness for the planet. More and more people are moving in that direct….some getting lost along the way (all part of the humanness) because more or deeper understanding is stripping the false ego away.

Any time we are not purely in the present moment we are in our ego (creating our stories, living in fear, justifying our point of view, fighting to be seen, heard or relevant). We are so very human and even when you KNOW all of this the false ego can slip in!!

All writings and teaching regarding the spiritual journey are filtered through someone else’s ego…..so we have to be aware not to grab hold of their STORY in our own search. I genuinely believe that, in itself, keeps us from reaching Pure Consciousness for ourselves.
We get fascinated with someone else’s journey/experience and strive for that experience for ourselves….but we are all unique, and my experience will never be like anyone else’s and so on.

But, people sharing their experiences, as purely as possible, allow others to understand that it is indeed possible (opening up to a space that has previously been inaccessible).
Once someone experiences healing, an awakening, deeper understanding it opens up the room for others to experience their own unique version of this expanded place.

We do go through levels or layers, and we can move around, slip back or be much stronger in one area over another….we tend to stay where we are the strongest when actually it is working with our weaknesses that produce real results.

The problem with this is that none of us like to see (or we can’t see) our own faults.

Our own weaknesses or faults are what we should be searching for.

In finding and working on our own weaknesses, we automatically strip the false ego away….leading to Pure Consciousness.

Look for your triggers and be willing to poke at the tender spots, will help you find those answer for yourself.

Then own it all!! Be OK with it all! Allow yourself to be human!

No one else can do this for you!!
And please remember TO HAVE FUN!!!!!

Teresa