Welcome to Expressions of Soul Healing

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EACH DAY, A NEW SECTION WILL OPEN TO INCLUDE A SHORT VIDEO (~15MINS), WRITTEN RITUAL, & AN ORACLE CARD FOR ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION / REFLECTION

 

THIS IS YOUR TIME

Even in the Chaos of our every day life, allow yourself to take this few minutes just for yourself. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed (or at the very least, set the boundary with your family and yourself that this will be your focus for the next 15 mins).

It can feel so easy to default to saying, I don't have the time ~ but starting small by claiming this time is a big step towards reclaiming YOU.

Making Me Time Sacred

In our journeys of life, love, awakening and returning home to ourselves, it is crucial that we learn to truly BE with ourselves.

That we learn how to tune out the noise, the distractions, and be able to focus on what truly matters to us, to hear our own true desires, and to help set the stage for how we show up in life.

That we learn to have reverence and respect for ourselves.

This is the foundation upon which we are able to build our roots of safety, comfort, joy, and belief in who we are, where we are, and expression our truest expression.

Bringing Sacredness to the time we make for just us, becomes the bridge to deeper and fuller awareness.

 

ME Time Sacred Ritual

Today's 10 minute ritual is very simple on the surface, but it really about how you add your unique layers on top of that so that you are able to begin to really be present with all parts of yourself.

The beauty of this simplicity is that is can vary day to do, depending upon what you are being called or wish to choose to focus on. 

And like all practices, the more you do it, the easier it is take take into other areas of your life.

The Ritual

  • Find a quiet space (at home behind a closed door or somewhere outside in nature, your bath tub)
  • Create an Intention (Where do you what to put all of your focus for these 10 mins? What might you like to gain insight on? )
  • Gather your Tools (What physical items do you have at your disposal that will help you focus? Crystals, blankets, candles, bath salts, essential oils, journal & pen)
  • Set your Timer (10 mins can fly some days and drag by on others, but staying present and consistent for the entire 10 minutes builds those muscles and honoring the time limit supports your own boundaries)
  • Make your Body Comfortable (The first thing to do is making physical body comfortable, take as long as it needs. Move, stretch, support, warmth, comfort yourself.)
  • Be Present with Everything (Notice your thoughts, emotions, sounds, urges, desires, inspiration. You can make notes in a journal or draw on a piece a paper if it feels important or relevant to your intention. And allowing your body to move or flow and if it's coming from the head or the body.)
  • Breathe. Breathe. & Breathe some more (This allows us to move through the states of discomfort, to slow our overthinking minds, to narrow in on issues with better clarity by calming our nervous system and giving a focus for our conscious mind)
  • End with Love (Expressing verbal gratitude, give yourself a hug, gently massage your arms or legs or ANYTHING that feels good, nourishing, and comes from the heart.  

Reflections:

We move through so much of life on auto-pilot. Whether it is the patterns we have created for ourselves, the beliefs that steer our decision making, getting lost to the flow or overwhelmed by structure. There is innate human nature in our brain recognizing repetition and so it creates neuropath ways to make the path smoother, easier if you will. And while helpful on some levels, in other ways it keeps us at the status quo.

Creating Rituals for ourselves like this one, and others I will share, help to teach us to get comfortable, find our center, and allow growth, change, and discord to happen for this is the natural flow of life that we have been steered away from.

These rituals allow your brain and our own natural masculine energy to have something to do, to focus on to be responsible for, to master, so that our feminine, creative energy feels comfortable to come out and play, to see and feel the natural wisdom that comes from our bodies.

Block by block, we build the foundation that allows us to see and express fully our own unique soul

Today's Card 

The Pearl Threaded

Allow your perspective to shift. Solitude is not simply being alone but learning to connect with the divine love that is all of us, that connects all of us. In this we remember that we are never truly alone on our journey of life and love.

'Heart's apart remember love And time stands still.'

Movement - We were made to move. To ebb and flow. To shift like the cycles. From our facia tissue, to our cells, all the way down to our DNA, we are always moving. When we don't move, dis-ease happens. 

We feel uncomfortable in our own skin, it becomes more challenging to move our bodies, we become sick with chronic illness and mental disorders.

All too often because, we stop the natural flow. This typically starts as a result of fear but all to quickly if let to its own devices, becomes our new normal. It's what the body expects and so it accepts this as the situation and adjusts accordingly.

This is why incorporating intentional movement into our daily rituals is crucial. 

Touch - Another way that we feel safe in our bodies is through touch. It helps reinforce conscious awareness of what our bodies are truly capable of doing. 

When we connect movement and touch, the body - brain connection begins to rewire faster. This helps retrain ourselves to feel safe in actually experiencing the sensations of touch.

Self Talk - The body hears and reflects back to us everything we say. Catching the negative auto responses about what we can and can not do in our body, as well as proactively speaking to ourselves as if we can and already are capable and safe in  our body

We are one with this human vessel. Showing it reverence and respect, by helping bring homeostasis through movement - your body will thank you 10x's over.

 

MOVEMENT RITUAL

Today's ritual is a body based movement ritual. I have recorded the sequence to guide you through the process.

Please keep in mind that any time you move your body, always be aware of your own natural limitations. We are all built a little differently and if you have any injuries, hardware, or other concerns - don't push yourself. 

I demonstrate this sequence standing but you can just as easily do seated in a chair. 

To really get the most out of this ritual, I do recommend that you still make it sacred. This means just having space to yourself that is uninterrupted. I also believe that it is necessary to be fully present, so that you can move slowly and intentionally through each movement.

Simply by going through the movements your body will loosen and you will be able to move a little easier. To take this to the next level, allowing yourself to breathe and move through sticky spots will move more layers of energetics as well. 

Energy follows intention.

And lastly, this is simply a starting point. The main purpose and intention of this ritual is to move your body, your fascia and your energy from bottom to top, slow and intentional, through all its natural movements. So the more safe you feel, the more complex the movements can become, and the more you will ultimately be able to clear space for new fresh energy to flow through

 

Today's Card

Snake Encircles the Moon

When things get chaotic in your life, you simply need to remember what you find grounding and stabilizing.

And to allow for discernment when we need to shed our old ways, making way for new perspectives.

The Joy with the Creative Process

To me, creativity is the most natural expression of the soul. It is how our bodies translate inspiration and ideas and make them reality.

There is nearly an infinite amount of ways that we can express and be creative, to be in that energy of creativity.

This journey and path of life is about find the ways with which we find our own joy in sharing that creativity.

You are a natural artisan or musician of sorts - you simply need to find the medium with which you connect, can master, and are so joyful there is a natural confidence in sharing.

You create for your own joy, not for others. If they are inspired (and often times when we find our true joy, it does), then we are feeding into the circle of life itself.

 

 

Creativity Ritual

The key to today's ritual is not to over think

 

The Ritual

  • Find a quiet space (make it sacred) where you have room to move
  • Choose from one of the following songs: ( Alchemist, Energy, Crystals)
  • Gather your supplies: Blank piece of paper, and markers, crayons, or colored pencils
  • Get Present: Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and let everything else go to the side for now
  • Play your song: Start first by allowing yourself to feel the music, the beat, the rhythm, and then let your body move however it wants to. No thinking aloud. If you catch yourself starting to think or anticipate, stop recenter and move again. We are intentionally connecting the creative life force energy that is constantly moving and flowing.
  • Once your song is over, still feeling this energy (and with no major thought), grab a colored 'pen' in each hand.
  • You are going to look, connect and be present with the color in your right hand. Write 1-5 words or a short phrase that this color makes you feel or comes to mind.
  • After that is complete set a timer for 60 secs, make yourself aware of the edges of the paper, then close your eyes and allow your pen in your left hand to flow, just as you let your body flow to the music. Don't let your pen come up off the paper if possible.
  • When your timer goes off, place your pens down, then left hand over your heart, right hand over womb, take 3 deep breaths and allow yourself to look at what you created with curiosity. What do you see?

Reflections:

Creating isn't about right or wrong. And while this may not be the medium that sparks the most joy within you, opening yourself up and practicing being in that creative energy allows you to be more open when you are presented with your true joyful expression of creativity.

Today's Card 

 Sunstone

'Don't just stop and smell the roses, make a bouquet.'

Joy and creativity are all around you. You can choose to bring it into any and all areas of your life. 

Learning to take delight in the small things and the unexpected, makes life more fun.

What is self-sourced power and how do tap into? Where does this come from?

Self-sourced means that we look within. We learn to quiet the noise so that we are able to tap into our own deep knowing and within that there is this energy and sense of will that exists.

This can be very tricky to actually tap into as we are bombarded since birth with external stimuli that are all meant to teach us how to navigate the world. In the past, many, many generations ago, when people still worked, moved, and lived in communion with the land and community, we were shown and taught how to truly manage these external influences, how to work with our own intuition and how to be ourselves in the midst of all that exists around us.

In today’s society, there are so many pieces that are missing or fumbled. Often times from nothing more than ignorance and the lack of self-awareness to even know that one is ignorant. Compounded over generations and centuries, we are now living in a world where the external influences are amplified, turned up to match the shift and raising of the planetary and conscious vibration. So you can not leave you home, turn on the tv, or engage in conversation in most modern day societies where you are not impressed with opinions, stifled with choices that are handed to you, or some major chaotic event happening somewhere in the world.

This goes beyond having an awareness of the world outside of ourselves. This goes beyond egotistical ideology, that one is at the center of the world. This is a pull, a drain on your energy and your focus. It is a slow chipping away at your will and your belief in the world and humanity. It is right there ready and waiting to take the reigns of your life force energy, to direct it, to channel it and use it for its own intentions. If we are not consciously aware of how we are choosing to use our energy, it will be used nonetheless.

The beautiful thing about this moment in time, is that for most people we recognize or are becoming aware that this is truly a choice we have. That we do have some control over our lives. And we get to be an active participant in all areas.

The tricky part of this, as we are learning to navigate this new idea and terrain, is to be able to discern and truly know the difference between self-sourced and draining other people. Because this too is a side effect of how we have been moving through the world. We have been ignoring our basic human nature. The more natural thing to our being. It’s like the breath in our bodies. This connection to energy (something different wants to be said here . Add later)

The satisfaction we feel when we are truly connected to our own life force energy and are able to interact, to co-create, to direct our actions towards our desires, this is true bliss. This is what makes us shine. And each and every time we take action from this place it only amplifies until you are able to truly stand tall and true in your own energy. You do not seek from outside you what is always within you. You hold and protect your boundaries, remaining sure is what is right for you.  You do not ask for permission to exist. You always have, but now - now you know your worth because your entire essence is infused with your energy.

This is true confidence. That deep knowing that you have your own back. That you can trust yourself to follow through, to stand up for yourself, and that you are capable to doing what you truly desire.

This also stems from the fact that you are not trying to spend all of your energy pleasing others and fulfilling their desires trying to earn some of that self-worth. When you do something for others now it stems from the desire to share joy, to be in their presence, to see them smile, not  to fill your cup.

This natural power that lies within us can be very overwhelming and can trigger fear to our nervous system when we try to go to far too fast, so like every other practice we are going to work in small steps that build upon itself and builds up your capacity to hold this energy so that you are confident in it. There is no quick fix, but if you continue to work with it you will wake up one day in awe of what that power feels like.

The Ritual 

Breathwork

  • The most effective way to build capacity to hold energy and life force energy is to work with intentional breath work. When we consciously connect to not just the inhalations and exhalations but the pauses in between, something magical shifts within us.

    In addition, when we look at the anatomy of our bodies, we are working with the diaphragm. We are retraining our diaphragms to relax, as well as toning the vagus nerve that runs through the diaphragm. All of those main components that connect the two hemisphere’s of our body.

    We are gonna break this ritual down into 2 parts as well. The first five minutes we are going to do 1 minute rotations of 3 different breath styles. Box breath, Circular Breath, Breath of Fire, Circular Breath, and ending back with Box breath.

    For the second half, you will do stream of conscious writing. You can pick from one of the prompts below and write for 5 minutes. It is important to remember that in this type of exercise that you write for the entire time. Even if you don't know what to write, put something on the paper. This allows you to tap into the subconscious allowing thoughts, reflections, inspirations or insights to come to the surface. But this often requires both time and/or openness. 

    I am confident in my ability to…

    When I am confident, I notice that in my body I feel ….

    I notice that when I am confident, I…

    Confidence is built, so I am choosing to create more confidence by…

    I consciously allow my confidence to shine through my….

    Today’s Affirmation (Speak this out loud to yourself after your stream of consciousness)

    I have no fear of being egotistical or judgmental, when I am standing in true confidence.

Reflections:

Your glow is there. For some, it might be proud, at the surface and shines like the sun. Others have to polish themselves a bit, but it is there.

When it present, it is felt and you know it. People are draw to you like a magnet. You will receive comments or compliments. If it is something you are not used to experiencing it will be a little uncomfortable at first but allow yourself to receive the compliment and say thank you. You don't have to make it mean anything more than the reflection back, the reminder that all this 'work' you have been doing isn't for nothing.

 

Today's Card 

 Vision Quest

"When we feel stagnant, a vision quest brings our lives into perspective.'

It may take your own unique version of a vision quest to allow you to deeply connect and feel the depths of what you are truly understand just what you are capable of. 

To truly glow from the truest understanding of who you are, this is real confidence.

Love is the driving force of our heart.

We can learn to fear love or embrace it.

The so many things that happen in our lives, the traumas (big and small), the lack of faith and hope in other people, the desperation around climate change - it's no wonder so many people walk around with their hearts closed.

However, when we walk around living from this state, we are so disconnected from ourselves, from the people in our lives, and the world itself that we only compound the problem. 

The journey to love is learning to transverse the abyss filled with so much discomfort and fear so that we reach a place where we are constantly amazed at the true depths of love that exist within us and in the world.

In today's video, I explore this concept more and how our heart is our compass. 

 

The Ritual 

Connecting to the Heart

 In order to be able to truly live a heart centered life, we must learn to create space and connect to our heart.

  • Get present ~ We always start with bring our awareness to the present moment and our bodies.
  • Movement  ~ Upper back and chest stretches combined with breathe to open up the heart space
  • Connecting to your Heart Beat ~ Spending time feeling and syncing to the energy of the heart that comes through each natural beat, creates a natural sense of peace that opens us to love
  • Guided Visualization ~ We explore the energetics of the heart and feelings of love through the vehicle of our imagination. There is an ease and a flow that comes since we are already dropped down out of our thinking brain. 
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Reflections:

 Opening up to our heart like this in small increments melts aware the fear and allows us to be begin to experience the feelings where we are at. The more we can meet ourselves honestly where we are at, the more effective the process.

We are still also very human, so some days it will be easier to connect to the heart than others. Still committing to practices like this even on the days you don't 'feel' something still cultivates safety in the body.

In addition, it's important to learn to disconnect from what you think this should feel like, and allow yourself to notice what you do feel. When you do, this is a true expression of the heart and soul connection.

 

Today's Card 

 'My heart is the doorway to Truth and to Love'

With your hands over your heart, speak this affirmation to yourself out loud three times.

Allow yourself to feel your voice vibrate down into your heart.

Notice how you and your energy shifts with each repetition. 

How we express our true self 

Is based on every part of our being. This is also one of the greatest gifts we have in being able to see back in real time how we shift and move through life. 

Our expression is like a barometer for how our body, brain, and being process everything it comes into contact with. So the more we shift and change what we interact and ingest, the greater the change in our expression.

Don't like the way you are expressing, you also have the choice to change it. 

Today, I invite you to begin looking at your expression with curiosity instead of judgement. 

 

The Ritual

Our throat is a narrow channel of the body that houses our vocal cords, the tubes through which we breathe and eat, and our thyroid gland.

In today's ritual, we focus on this channel to begin to bring intentional awareness to what in happening here, create space in this channel and expel excess energy through breath.

 

Today's Card

Timing

Creativity is another extension of your expression and can show up in all areas of life.

Where is that creative flow guiding you? Let this be the divine wink to follow that intuitive nudge.

How we choose to Perceive ourselves

The images that we carry in our head - what we see - becomes reality if we hold on to it. Because the balance here is what we see in our minds eye and what we see with our actual eyes as happening in the world around us match up. When they don’t they describe this as trauma. 

What we perceive is neither good nor bad in the ways with we we have been taught to think of it. There isn’t a ‘right’ way to imagine a future or how we see ourselves when we look in the mirror.  However, it is what it is. And so when what we perceive in entrenched in negativity - how do you think things will be unfolding in our life around us or what about our external environments will be jumping out. On the flip side, the more positive perceptions the more everything arounds us with seem happier. The goal isn’t one or the other. The goal is to learn to be present with all of it but not to get lost to any of it. 

Perception like everything else in life was given to us as a gift, a tool with which we can enhance the way we are able to navigate this life.

Seeing is Vision. And we open our eyes and ‘see’ the world around us. We see the people, places, and things that are in our line of sight. But seeing is also about the visions we can create. What we can see happening in our future, the dreams we see for ourselves. This vision is what gives meaning to our actions. This vision happens through our ‘third eye’. The internal organ (just like our actual eyes), that uses imagination, intuition, and other types of imagery to compile a visual for our vision.

 

The Ritual

Today, through the Flower of Life Akashic Meditation and Prayer*, we began to allow ourselves to open up our awareness and what it feels like to see beyond seeing through our own unique lens.

 

*The Flower of Life Akashic Meditation & Prayer was created by Tara Preston, Founder of the Akashic Woman's School.

 

Today's Card

THE LUNAR QUEEN

Flow is the Feminine. It is creative energy in its purest form. Our ability to see beyond seeing comes not through control or force but learning to release and be open to what flows in and through.

With each cycle of death and rebirth, we can choose to be more in tune and open to the flow. What will you choose this time around?

Divine Inspiration

 There is a channel that comes into the top of our head through what is know as the crown of our head and is also home to our crown chakra.

When we tend to this channel ensuring that is is open to flow but not so open that we let everything in, we are open to that which will guide us towards our highest potential in this life.

It is that direct channel to both our higher self and the greater creative force. Regardless of who that is or how you experience the divine. It is path to which our soul connects to where it is from and allows us to truly live sovereignly from our own mind and space.

 

The Ritual

Bringing our awareness to the channel through which we receive divine intervention, and opening, clearing and balancing through simple movements, we allow Divine Inspiration to flow.  

 

Today's Card

FREEDOM

Allow yourself to break free of the shoulda, coulda, woulda aspects of your thoughts. 

Freedom comes from choosing what is in alignment for you in this moment.  And from this place those that are truly a part of your community will be right there supporting you.

Our Connection to All that Is

Our gateway to deepening our sense of how the past, present and future are always working together to create our reality.

We are taught time in a very linear construct. And it does it’s job in keeping us in this sequential sequence of time. Seconds tick by to create minutes, hours, days, months, years and before you know it lifetimes. But it is a very limited concept. It is based on the assumption that time only moves in one direction and that we can only affect the future.

This also puts us into this hyper aware state of time that creates the sense of missing out on things or that we don’t have enough time to do the things we want to do.

How often have you heard or said, ‘There aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything.’

And yes, this is true. There are not enough hours in the day to do everything. In that statement alone we begin to put the pressure on that we ‘have’ to do everything. It puts us in that the state of scarcity and this very forceful energy.

What if instead you began telling yourself you have all the time in the world?

What would shift then?

Because we all know our perception of the tasks we are performing or engaging in shape the speed at which we think time passes. When we are faced with hard and challenging tasks that we have no excitement or buy in, the time can drag. Put a deadline on that same task and those dragging hours fly by. 

Or a night out with friends can seem to go by in a blur. Full of laughing and that sense that you never want it to end. Or those evenings, where you agree to something because at one time you wanted to, but now you just want to be at home in your bed watching tv and geese does it not feel like the longest night ever.

When it comes to healing the work that we do in the now, impacts the past and the future, just not in this linear fashion with which we have lived a large part of our life.

 

The Ritual

Today we spend some intentional time learning a simple way of learning to connect to our ancestors and the wisdom unbiased by our brain, they have to share.

When we spend time connecting to our ancestors in a variety of ways, we further dismantle the concept of time and how information is passed and shared through generations.

 

Today's Card

Ancestor Fire : Earth 

Our ancestors are truly our allies. Regardless of your current connection, this is your invitation to dive deeper.

Spend some time learning how where your people are from, who they were as individuals as well as in communitity, and what medicine is carried through your lineage

The Endless Circle of Life

We have been living in a world that is so centered around self. Even in our approach to our self healing.

There are ways in which healing our selves and the waves this makes is beneficial for the collective. We must take the time to care for us, so that we have the energy, bandwidth and capacity to fully show up in life and be a contributor in this lifetime.

And as with everything, when the scales tip too far in one direction than the other side falls short. It is very obvious if you step out and walk throughout the world, that people are with drawn and live inside their heads. Most of us have been guilty of this a time or two at least.

 But now we are really being called forth to contribute to the collective. To bring and share our gifts. To sit side by side in circle - all equal in heart and love, as we celebrate what makes us unique and special - from person to person, community to community, and culture to culture. 

When we embrace and live our lives consciously from a place of love, then we are all truly ONE.

 

The Ritual

Nothing really connects us back to love or the sense of oneness than nature.

So the best and most simplistic ritual of all is simply spending time in nature - doing NOTHING.

That's right! No phone, no electronics, no running around. 

Today, for 10 minutes, slowing down and taking intentional time to BE in nature. Open yourself up to what it feels like. Watch and notice how all parts of your being respond.

 

Today's Card

Ivory Swan Goddess

'Release guilt, shame, judgement, or fear that you are not enough in any way, so that you may realize your beauty, be more of yourself and shine your divine essence into the world.'

What heals the world is not carbon copies, it is people coming together with different skill sets to create something truly beautiful. The world needs you stepping full into all of yourself.

Your Guide

I am Heather Travis, The Body Shaman and I am on a Soul Healing Mission. 

Every soul deserves to feel at home within their human vessel, in their energies, and to speak through their thoughts and words with love for themselves.

I help facilitate by creating spaces that allow you to feel safe, to spark inspiration, and expand what you know or believe to be possible, so that you are able to live the fullest expression of your soul, balanced in your health, your wealth, your passions, and your purpose in this life. 

Ways to Work Deeper with Me

If this work speaks to you, here are few options to continue the journey to reconnecting with yourself and healing your soul.

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Signature Session

$222.00 USD

6 week 1:1 Journey

$1,111.00 USD

Journey to the Records (90 min)

A single session catalyst to begin the process of accelerated healing by breaking down the pieces that have been keeping you stuck and giving you tangible real world practices to create forward momentum in your life.

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