The Wisdom You Carry ~ create your own Wisdom-Keeper Book
Each one of us is carrying deeply held wisdom in our bodies and our spirits from our life experiences. As we gather together this week at the Ranch in the spirit of wisdom keeping, we invite you to the innate awareness of the wisdom that is specific to your unique path and identity. Each day of our journey, you will be invited to articulate one of your innate wisdoms. We will be working with circle, sharing, meditation, writing and watercolor as each one of you creates a page of your Wisdom- Keeper Book. If you attend all sessions, you’ll have a complete book. If you only attend individual sessions, you will have an individual page each time which is a piece of watercolor paper with your wisdom. This will be fun and illuminating and no art experience needed whatsoever, this isn’t about painting pretty pictures. Join us to share in the spirit of wisdom keeping together. Imagine leaving a week at the Ranch with your own Book of Wisdom!
The Red Thread
Have you ever heard of the red thread? It’s a symbol across many cultures throughout the world that represents interconnection. As part of our Wisdom Keepers’ Week, we will gather together and learn about the four legends of the red thread inspired by a cross-cultural history of red thread that goes back to ancient stardust. You will be given the opportunity to participate in a red thread ceremony that has been practiced around the world. The red thread helps us see the common thread throughout time, bond with one another and claim our own piece of the red thread.
Together we are gifted lineage carrying wisdom keepers. Teacher and artist Shiloh Sophia, who wrote The Way of the Red Thread will be with us to guide us in this experience.
Curate Shiloh Sophia is the Matriarchal Founder of MUSEA Center for Intentional Creativity. We are home to an inter-generational and multicultural collective of emerging and experienced creatives, healers, and leaders. Our lineage, beginning in the 1930s, is the framework for our Path of Practice in the intentional arts of every medium. Our vision is awakening consciousness through self-expression, so that we might become collaborative stewards with all of creation. Shiloh Sophia describes this work as “an ancient futuristic spiritual path for the quickening times that offers healing, devoted practice, intentional community and purpose for our lives”. Her 30 year body of work has evolved into this path for seekers and finders with self-expression as the core form of devotion and the gateway to spiritual access through flow state. She is a teacher, artist, author and mystic, guiding tens of thousands of people in accessing their inner world to awaken embodied consciousness and identity through the ecstatic disciplines of the healing arts. She teaches classes and offers circles globally via livestream TV to viewers, on location at exotic destinations, and at the Mothership campus in Sonoma, California. The Intentional Creativity Foundation, 501 (c) 3, a museum and sanctuary, offers sacred space to our global membership. We gather weekly and are always emerging into the most potent versions of ourselves as individuals, community members and in the greater collective.
You can find her most mornings have tea with her Muse among the redwood trees and grapevines, looking to solve the mysteries of the universe with a paintbrush and provocative conversation. She is a prolific painter with collectors all over the world. She was taught by her two mothers to live life as a great adventure, and indeed she has, and she calls each of us forward into the power of unreasonable love for one another and all of creation! May Love Be At The Center of All Choices!
Dr. Buser has studied and worked extensively in the field of physiotherapy since 1991, and specializes in Corrective Exercise Therapy. Dr. Buser graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Physiology and Neuroscience. He then went on to receive his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Southern California University of Health Sciences, graduating valedictorian. Dr. Buser began his career as a Corrective Exercise Therapist at The Egoscue Method Clinic where he assisted in developing their training and education programs for practitioners worldwide. He went on to work as a master trainer for Reebok where he implemented exercise therapies for weekend warriors and amateur and professional athletes. Further studying Applied Kinesiology, Functional Neurology and Functional Nutrition under such renowned clinicians as Dr. George Goodheart, Dr. Ted Carrick and Dr. Datis Kharrazian, Dr. Buser further developed what is now his own Whole Health physiotherapy model, GRIT Health & Fitness. As an Army Special Forces Green Beret himself, Dr Buser has had the opportunity to test and refine his approach to GRIT Health & Fitness on the most elite members of the military special operations community and other government agencies. Dr. Buser continues to research new discoveries in physiology and neuroscience, implementing them into his current practice with clients worldwide, both in-person and remotely.
Yazmin Ceballos is a passionate teacher and student of the Vedic sciences, such as Ayurveda, Yoga and Jyotish. She currently has an Ayurveda herbal company called Sattvica where herbal supports, digestive masalas, medicated oils, tinctures and infusions are made for health and well-being, taking into account lunations to enhance their effects. On a daily basis, Yazmin teaches hatha vinyasa yoga classes and offers consultations, panchakarma and ayurvedic treatments in Tecate and Tijuana. She currently has a podcast in Spanish called Latte de Curcuma where she shares with the public topics related to these ancient sciences of longevity, health and spirituality. Within the practice of Vedic sciences is Jyotish, well known as Vedic astrology. The study of the star map of our birth is a very valuable tool for self-knowledge. Its analysis gives us a general idea of the predominant elements in a person and their doshic constitution (prakruti). Knowing your predominant elements allows you to adapt the best doshic diet for radiant health. Balance and health must adapt to the needs of each individual and the ancient Vedic sciences support us with this knowledge.