By Lian Brook-Tyler















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By Lian Brook-Tyler
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By Lian Brook-Tyler
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By Lian Brook-Tyler
Iām undeniably open, bubbly, bouncy, full of joy and laughter, sprinkling rainbows and rose petals wherever I go.
If someone were to think the work we do matches my energy, theyād be in for a real shock.
This is one of the reasons we make extra extra sure that anyone joining any of Waking The Wildās offerings knows it wonāt be all sweetness and light.
And this is why I was delighted to have permission to share this comment from a current WTW Medicine participantĀ Vanessa BroersĀ during a conversation about how itās been so far compares to expectations.
āI think it’s exactly on par with what my SOUL knew I was signing up for.
it’s also better than I could have ever imagined.
More magical than I could have dreamed.
SO incredibly what my soul was craving but could have never known to look for.
Also deeper and more intense, triggering, confusing and disorienting than I would have guessed…and I would have guessed that it would be REALLY – all those things.
And more rewarding than one could ever describe.
And we’re in month 3.ā
If youāve been feeling the call to a WTW crucible I highly recommend re-reading this line and letting it sink right in, āā¦more intense, triggering, confusing and disorienting than I would have guessedā¦ā
The work we do is intentionally initiatory and creates entropy in order to alchemise wounds into gold.
Itās really not pretty.
But I suspect your soul, like Vanessaās, knows that anyway even if your human was deceived by my smileā¦Ā
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By Lian Brook-Tyler
I rarely talk directly about the importance of feeding Spirit, especially the spirits of the land around us.
The reason for this is heartbreaking, it goes directly to the disconnection humans in this modern culture have to themselves, let alone to other humans, other beings, the land around them and Spirit.
I know that most people, having been trained to maintain this disconnection from the moment they took their first breath, just wonāt understand, let alone feel motivated to feed the spirits of their land.
It will sound like not only nonsense but an utter waste of their precious time and energy⦠time and energy much better put to use in paddling furiously to keep their head above the water of competition, demands, and drains.
I know that for most, the way to begin to understand will need to be selfish at first.
They might hear me speaking about my special tree and all the gifts of presence, love, guidance that itās provided me for years, and think āI would love that too!ā
And that desire for connection, true connection, is their first precious step on the path to reclaim it.
The beautiful thing about this kind of connection is that it is emergent and generative, it teaches us how to be whole humans, how to be reciprocal without transaction, and then little by little, how to devote to something greater than ourselves.
I know that when people get even a taste of that connection, I only need to drop in a mention or two of the offerings I make to my tree, for them to recognise how natural it feels for them to make offerings too.
They come back from visiting their special tree and tell me of the songs theyāve sung to it, the gifts of wine, blood, herbs and coins theyāve laid at its feet, and most of all the praise, so much praise⦠words of gratitude bubbling out of their mouths and tears falling down their cheeks, like a language they knew in another lifetime and which has now magically returned to them, word perfect.
Then I know theyāve learned to feed the spirits of their lands, and that the spirits of the land have taken them into their bosom, forgiven the generations that forgot, and have welcomed them back home to themselves like the precious children of Earth they are.
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By Lian Brook-Tyler
The topic of āspiritual bypassingā comes up fairly often in the work we do, particularly as we have students with two different world views which bring polar perspectives on this matterā¦
Thereās those who come to us from a background of traditional therapy, inner child or somatic work who will have understandable resistance to the notion there could be something beyond their experience of themselves as separate beings suffering a painful existence.
And then thereās the folk who have come to us from a spiritual ascension background, often the Three Principles, who feel understandably attached to their sense of themselves as having no separate self to even have a painful existence.
This apparent divide shows up most often and most controversially when it comes to trauma.
What Iāve found is helpful is understanding this through the lens of a shadow poleā¦
On one end of that pole, thereās a materialist view of āTrauma is a real thing, people are permanently wounded by it, healing is a necessary, slow and arduous task.ā
On the other end, thereās a spiritual view of āTrauma doesnāt exist, no-one is ever wounded, nothing needs to be healed.ā
Both views have efficacy, *and* if we cling fearfully to either end of the pole, both are limiting.
My own experience, personally and with our students, is that the truth (or at least a powerfully useful, even magical, way of working with trauma) lies *beyond* this shadow pole and looks like thisā¦
1. Trauma often creates patterns of beliefs, thought, behaviour, and feelings that limit, contort and distort humans into living lives that are painful or at best, a pale imitation of what they deeply desire.
2. Seeing the nature of our eternal non-separation and wholeness can liberate us from many of those patterns (that happened for me personally to a nigh on miraculous level.)
3. And the remaining patterns (often the most entrenched and unseen) if we choose to descend into becoming fully intimate with them, can be alchemised into becoming our greatest gifts and potent medicine for ourselves and the world.
We can only do that when weāre able to stop spiritually bypassing those patterns, as hard as that can be when weāve experienced great freedom and relief at #2, itās a place that many will understandably want to cling to.
And when our soul is ready, we will move into the deep work of #3 to become who we came here to be.
If thatās what youāre ready for, we have just one space becoming available in the upcoming round of Waking The Wild Sovereign. Click the link for more details, register your interest and weāll reach out to arrange a call to explore if itās aligned for you to join this circle of Kings and Queens. ā„ļø
Art: Julie Bell
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