Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Vol. I, Issue 1
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Welcome to my inaugural ezine!
This week I am writing to the sounds of the children joyfully playing outside in the schoolyard of our Gold Hill elementary school.
Balls bouncing, children calling out, and now the old fashion bell rings to bring us all back inside to refocus.
I am so excited to share with each of you observations, insights, and tools to assist you with refocusing and aligning your intuitive self within your everyday lives.
Teresa
Walking In Beauty
Many of you who have listened through to the end of my voice mail outgoing message have heard my simple blessing of “and may you walk in beauty.”
For this, my inaugural ezine, I wanted to share the entire Navajo prayer from where this blessing originates.
As many of you may know, I have spent time working with the Navajo women as both a labor and delivery RN and as a Certified Nurse Midwife. I have spent most of my Navajo time in the heart of the reservation, in Chinle, the town adjacent to the Canyon de Chelly, home of spider women. In the Navajo cosmology, spider women is the creator who creates the world. From her center of intent, she weaves our lives and our world. The Canyon de Chelly is considered by many to be a sacred power spot.
Anyone of you who have traveled to Navajo land have witnessed its stark, raw beauty and power juxtaposed with its desolation and overwhelming poverty. It is a landscape teeming with inspiration, power, intensity and miracles.
The beauty prayer reminds and gives me a simple, concrete tool I can use to calm my mind -especially during times of fear and hardship. It provides a starting place that if I surround and infuse myself with thoughts and intentions of beauty from the inside out, life will be filled with beauty. I remember, or, in some instances, I am reminded that I am not alone and that life is good.
By this refocusing on the beauty around me, my life recalibrates to beauty. And like a domino. my day and life starts to click click click, shifts and falls into its new order.
Recently I shared this prayer in a blessingway I attended while in Telluride. I will share more on blessingways in a future ezine.
Below I have included several versions of the prayer.
Try these as a walking meditation.
Below in the Resources section are renditions from two different artists of the prayer as a song/chant.
Beauty Prayer
NAVAJO WALK IN BEAUTY PRAYER
I will be happy forever
Nothing will hinder me
I will walk with beauty before me
I will walk with beauty behind me
I will walk with beauty below me
I will walk with beauty above me
I will walk with beauty above me
I will walk with beauty around me
My words will be beautiful
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Navajo Blessing Way Prayer
In beauty may I walk.
All day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
With dew about my feet may I walk.
With beauty may I walk.
With beauty before me, may I walk.
With beauty behind me, may I walk.
With beauty above me, may I walk.
With beauty below me, may I walk.
With beauty all around me, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
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O you who dwell In the house made of the dawn,
In the house made of the evening twilight . . .
Where the dark mist curtains the doorway,
The path to which is on the rainbow . . .
I have made your sacrifice.
I have prepared a smoke for you.
My feet restore for me.
My limbs restore for me.
My body restore for me.
My mind restore for me.
My voice restore for me.
Today, take away your spell from me.
Away from me you have taken it.
Far Off from me you have taken it.
Happily I recover.
Happily my interior becomes cool.
Happily my eyes regain their power.
Happily my head becomes cool.
Happily my limbs regain their power.
Happily I hear again.
Happily for me the spell is taken Off.
Happily I walk.
Impervious to pain, I walk.
Feeling light within, I walk . . .
In beauty I walk.
With beauty before me, I walk.
With beauty behind me, I walk.
With beauty below me, I walk.
With beauty all around me, I walk.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
A new office home!
As of September 1st, Teresa is seeing all of her Boulder clients at:
The Marine Street Wellness Center
2825 Marine St # 106
Boulder, CO 80303This new office has a fireplace with lots of sunlight and with closer accessibility to I-36 for her Denver clients. For directions, click here.
September 1st: The Family Groove Basic Instinct article – Part 2 http://www.thefamilygroove.com/sep08_BasicInstinct2.htm
September 5th: Connect with Teresa at the Belly Bliss open house in Cherry Creek. Check it out at http://www.bellybliss.org
October 3rd: Trusting Your Intuition
Register for the 5th Annual Nurse-Midwife Symposium!
Friday, 10/3/08, 7:30am-4:15pm
St. Joseph’s Hospital Russell Pavilion
https://www.acteva.com/go/5thannual
October 2008: Cultivating Your Intuition Class
Limited to 6 participants
Beginning in Boulder
To register, contact Teresa at 303-258-3904 or teresa@BirthIntuitive.com
Here are two different song renditions of the Beauty Prayer
Path of Beauty (World)
Path of Beauty by Joanne Shenandoah on Peace & Power
www.sacreddream.com/
Lisa Thiel
Trail of Beauty on Her first album Songs of the Spirit (cassette only)
Teresa Robertson RN,MSN,Certified Nurse Midwife, has been involved in the realms of women’s health, birth, and alternative healing for the past 29 years. During the past 12 years, she has shared these integrative tools of healing and knowing with numerous groups of clients and professionals.
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