A Solid Foundation ~ Powering up from Within
A solid foundation isn’t static, it is more like roots moving more deeply into the Earth so as to support, provide nutrients and water for the expanding branches as they reach for the sky - unseen yet vital for the whole organism. Such trees even when toppled by great storms continue to grow, their branches now becoming trees - for they always seek a harmony that benefits the whole.
In this photograph is such a tree - a great Oak - who has 9 branches becoming trees, while in it’s exposed rootplate other trees, birches and rowans, are thriving - a living testimony of great and deep medicine.
And this is legacy.
During the years before I discovered Thich Nhat Hahns (Thây’s) community, I spent much time searching for a spiritual practice - one that would ‘take me all the way’, as I would say at the time, while encompassing my lifestyle and family commitments. Though I benefited from all those I explored, they seemed to diminish over time or reach a dead end after a few months - 18 months being the longest. Thây’s style of Buddhism was a breath of fresh air.
All I had to do was sit … and breathe … it was the simplest thing … and it was the hardest thing.
I promised myself that if this practice stayed with me for more than 2 years I would engage with the community … and it did … it became my sole practice for over 16 years. The first retreat I went on was a family retreat, my daughter came too, and we all took turns helping with child-care. This was part of our practice, we were not missing out on anything - it was reciprocation in action.
This practice has been foundational. As I turned more deeply to the Earth and shamanism it has brought me much stability. The practice of Touching the Earth and a chant that refers to Inner Earth were two treasures within the practices that always had a deep palpable effect on me, and over the years my understanding of the deeper wisdom underlying them constantly brought new revelations.
Such is the way of a true spiritual path, a lineage and a legacy.
When like the great trees we focus on foundationing ourselves we become an anchor for those who are following the path we leave behind. Questions we may ask ourselves are does it fade out? Or does it continue offering support, nourishment and breathing life for those who follow? Time spent deepening roots may not be seen or even witnessed, though the storms we withstand continue to provide more than we may ever know for other travellers.
When we are anchored within ourselves and don’t reach out for external validation, we are seeking a harmony within that aligns with our authentic self - we become our own authority and this courage bolsters others.
In my 6 week course Powering up from Within - Creating Inner Resilience for a Robust Energy Field, I share wisdom, techniques, tools and other resources that support harmonising the paradox many of us find ourselves living within. The one where we feel pulled between aligning with our inner knowing and external influences that are activating us. Drawing on my varied experience these practices have gifted me with stability and resilience through much challenging lived experience, within both the physical and spiritual realms - for these often reflect and hold much wisdom and information for the other.
Curious? Lean in and take a look.
with much Love
from my Heart to yours,
Tania Aurora White Crow
A 6 week online course
Thursdays 8pm UK time
We start: Thursday 5th June
1hr 15mins per session
This course has now started. If you would like to join us and receive the earlier recordings and material please email me
Building a robust energy field comes from within. One where we can remain stable, calm and centred even when the waves of external chaos are pulling at us. This stability enables us to respond, or not, from where we are healed rather than where our wounding may still be activated - it gifts us a clear choice free from old patterns.
This course offers structures and processes to hone your inner and outer energy tracking skills, facilitate yourself in the moment, ground and integrate your intuition, connect with and realign energy system guardians, maintain current frequency, while adapting to the subtleties of new ones.
Building a robust energy field doesn’t mean that we don’t get activated, it means that we recognise where we are, honoring and protecting those places that need it. We then move from a place of authentic wholeness which doesn’t pathologise or perpetuate the wounding we’re still healing, a place of paradox that doesn’t bypass our human experience or deny our divine essence.
In this course I will share simple techniques that help develop and maintain such an in the moment awareness. These will be both experiential and meditative exercises with follow up material to support you replicating them at home.