Time of Inception

On June 21st we hosted a Solstice Divine Feminine and Masculine gathering. The founders and guardians of EcoMaste Amanda and Jose Bermudez have spent the last few months patiently listening to the land that hosts EcoMaste: Healing and Learning Sanctuary. Through spirit and intuition they learned that the land had once been used for ceremonies and rituals between the divine feminine and masculine.

In many cases the microcosm is a reflection of the macrocosm. The collective has been experiencing an imbalance between the masculine and feminine for thousands of years. The masculine has domineered, and the patriarchy has forced matriarchal societies into submission. Abuse, trauma, shame, repression has been experienced and the land EcoMaste resides on is no stranger to this story.

The messages from land and the energies building up to the Solstice with a solar eclipse and the new moon in Cancer were very clear. The land had brought the imbalance into awareness and was asking to re-sanctify what had once been pure. After getting such clarity it was decided to host an event to honor and unite the masculine and feminine, the dark and light, our polarities.

World Changing Energy

The Mega Solar Eclipse was expressing a world changing energy. This energy is leaping us forward into elevating consciousness individually and globally. For the last year and a half we have had the North Node in Cancer. This has put an emphasis on cancerian themes of, opening and healing emotional wounds, relationships to mother, family, home, birthing, manifestation, and the womb. The Eclipse was at an Aries point at 0 degrees of cardinal signs; Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. The cardinal signs call in beginnings, a new chapter. The fact that each element is being represented adds a layer of potency.

Emotional Reset

The last time this alignment happened was in 2001. Many of us can remember changes that began after September 11th. We now have the opportunity to use what we have learned in the past 19 years of how the divine feminine was embraced, expressed or repressed in this lifetime and lifetimes before. This is an emotional reset and recognition. For those who have done the work it is now time to go further in understanding the root of your feelings, relating to lineage, the women in your life, values, and how you can use the knowledge to gain deeper understanding and progress further on your journey.

Transformation

Growth is a major theme with Cancer and will be over the next year and half as these energies play out. Both the divine feminine and masculine are asking to receive what they need to be fully expressed time. It is important create personal sacred space so you can honor, listen and step into these aspects completely. It may be helpful to imagine a hermit crab, taking their homes wherever they go, crabs relating to cancer. They remind us to treat our bodies as a vessel, our temple and sacred space. Giving yourself the opportunity to retreat is allowing space to recalibrate and the environment around you to do the same. This spaciousness opens us up to untangling, releasing and finding our way to certain transformation.

Unity Between Polarities

This process is just being birthed so we must be patient and kind with ourselves. Trusting our hearts and building a bridge of clarity from our hearts to our minds. The mind ruled by the masculine, having to do with decision making and action needs to be in alignment with the heart, ruled by the feminine related to feeling and nurturing. If we don't acknowledge how we feel then we can't make proper decisions. When we are overwhelmed by feelings we get stuck and are unable to decide the necessary steps to move forward. Part of the process is to give our overworked aspects time to rest. We can also engage and strengthen our under-utilized or atrophied qualities.

Surrender and Harvest Your Wholeness

We are not alone and there are much bigger things that are playing out within and around us that we can't understand fully. What we can do is trust in the universe and our ability to receive the magic and grace it offers. Cancer is related to the womb of creation. There are multiple energies coming together that can't and shouldn't be controlled. Now is a time of surrender. To welcome the full expression of your divinity so you can receive your hearts deepest desires. Allowing your aspects to work together and also asking others for help along the way. You are worthy to enjoy the harvest of your wholeness.

Embrace the Spectrum of Existence

EcoMaste is committed to encourage people to step into a loving relationship with themselves. We believe that to support this process we must acknowledge, forgive, and embrace our dark and light qualities, the spectrum of existence. It was by no accident that we choose to have a gathering on this sacred day. This was a portal to inception, growth, and receiving the heart's desire. May you take the time to listen deeply to your heart. Release the patterns of disregarding your negative aspects, and discover a new allies and teachers. Use this time wisely and land with a clear intention that resonates to you and what you ready to receive.

Foundation of Energetic Alignment

We are passionate about collaborating with ourselves, the community, and the collective. The foundation starts at an energetic level which is why we have put some much effort into listening and trusting what is being expressed to curate gatherings, workshops, and courses that are in energetic alignment with the land and ourselves.

Rotational Sustainable Gatherings

Our intention is to host conscious, ecological, and culturally impactful gatherings at EcoMaste. One of the avenues of interest is to bring awareness and balance to the divine feminine and masculine. We would like these events to have a rotational essence, meaning the circle facilitators, and event support/ volunteers get the opportunity to try on different roles.

If you have interest in facilitating circles, offering other ceremonies that can be woven into these gatherings, or would like to support/volunteer for a free ticket and accommodation (if rooms are available) we would love to connect and see how we can support one another.

Calling in Local Educators & Wisdom Holders

We are also calling in experienced community members, especially local Ticos that have specific skills, expertise or talents that they would like to share. If you have a workshop or an offering that enriches your life and know that it would enrich the communities please contact us we want to support you and collaborate with our educators and wisdom holders!!

Please email info@ecomaste.com for more information.

We are Medicine

Last Friday EcoMaste, members from Finca Morpho, ambassadors from NuMundo, and the local community organized a community gathering. We brought many heart-earth centered beings together. Honestly as the stewards of the land we felt some trepidation about holding this gathering. In the wake of Covid19, there is a collective feeling of fear, which some can feel more than others. We felt that it was important to acknowledge that both humanity and Mother Earth are going through a time of deep change.

We gathered under the Full Moon in Scorpio bringing the energies of life, death, unseen, and transformation to the surface. This Full Moon known as the Buddha Moon because it is said that he was born, enlightened, and died during this time. This aspect invoking an air of reincarnation and regeneration. We began our opening ceremony acknowledging these energies, honoring the four directions, elements, our ancestors, those indigenous to this land, and to Mother Earth herself.

Something amazing happens when a group of people gather with a clear intention especially when its aligned with respect, love, and gratitude to whatever land you that is holding you. Acknowledgment that the land is ultimately hosting us, we are the guests. So as conscious guests facilitating an experience we offered many things and one of great importance was our intent to co-create a space of joy, love, safety, and healing.

After two months of little interactions with loved ones, friends, and even strangers many of us have felt a huge ache for physical and energetic connection. The event we held on Friday reminded us of how important it is for everyone to connect in those ways.

The value of touch was honored and I realized all the times I've taken for granted touching and being touched. The times I've embraced someone because I felt obligated some how. When I've felt the urge to reach out but have repressed that desire. Continuing to teach me about how important it is to listen deeply to your body's intelligence. Cultivating kindness by making boundaries with others. Using discernment, embracing only from a place of authenticity not obligation.

This event was a peak experience for many who attended. The Full Moon energies Scorpio transmutes; intensity and unseen divine feminine presence was received and expressed in many forms. It was as if we were all Daturas (Moonflower) opening to the reflection of the Sun the Moon embodies. Going into our depths, shaking, moving, singing, dancing, touching, and simply being together.

Peak experiences are woven throughout our lives. Some more meaningful than others. There has been an enormous wave of people seeking out plant medicine for healing, but many receive a peak experience instead. These peak experiences is were revelations are experiences but integration is where true healing happens.

Two months prior or two Full Moons ago EcoMaste and other organizers attempted to hold a community gathering as some of you may know. However that was not possible because we were recommended by Shaman Mamo Hatilio from the Teyuna Collective that the land was sick and not ready for visitors.

We took Mamo Hatilo's advice to heart and spent the last couple of months listening, observing, meditating, and loving the land. Cultivating this relationship moment by moment a subtle transformation began to unfold. We realized that the land's state of being "sick" was yet another reflection of humanity's sickness. During this time we were able to hold space for the land to rest and rebuild herself. What we didn't take into consideration was that by us offering a time of convalescence we were actually healing each other in the process.

Many of us think of terms of how we can express and project ourselves in this world. But another valid, perhaps under-utilized perspective is how our environment shapes us. Here at EcoMaste there is always a song in the air, a smell of earth, fruits, and flowers, a dancing of leaves in the wind, and so many other seen and unseen expressions which are ultimately affecting every being in this ecosystem. Each day there is a gift that emerges from the land, and from within us.

How can we best offer our gifts to the land, ourselves, and our community? How can we distill and extract the medicinal properties of our beings? What is the most effective way of taking in this medicine and for how long? At EcoMaste we are reflecting on these questions during our time of integration. We need to acknowledge that we are all individuals parts of an inseparable community. Our individual gifts and flaws must be honored and utilized. If correctly nurtured, cut back, harvested and extracted we make potent medicine just like our plant brothers and sisters.

This event was an activation for us to realize and embody our own unique medicinal properties. We are hosting events like this to collaborate together to create ecological, intentional communities, and enterprises so we can have the most potent, sustaining impact on healing ourselves and bringing back balance to the planet from our roots.

Invitation to distill your medicine and share it with the World

Weinvite you to give yourself the time to integrate what your experience has been wherever you are over the last few months. Take your time, slow down, ask yourself, what are your medicinal properties? How can you nourish them and make them available for the collective?

If what we are co-creating with Finca Morpho, NuMundo and the local community (Tinamaste) is of interest please directly reach out at: info@ecomaste.com

May we trust and reclaim the power we have in any situation and

be the medicine we seek and is seeking us.

Finding Order in Chaos

My experience with the indigenous tribe from Colombia the Aruacos who are part of the Collective Teyuna was one of the most powerful of my life. We traveled the South Pacific of Costa Rica from the March 4th-12th. I was blessed to spend the entire journey with them because my husband, was one of the main coordinators. I really had no idea what I was in for. I packed enough clothes for two days and five days later I found myself in the middle of our journey. We met with tribes indigenous to Costa Rica and offered pagamentos or offerings with specific intentions to designated areas. This was the first time that the Teyuna and many of these tribes had met. It was so important to for these tribes to come together because it was a potent reminder that they are not alone as guardians of their land.

The Teyuna think of themselves as the guardians of the World. They are on a mission to bring order back to the planet. This order they speak of isn't conforming to a strict dogma written by man. It is one of simplicity, ancient knowledge, written by nature. Something that the modern world has gotten further, and further away from since colonialism, the industrial age, and the era of capitalism. We have gotten so wrapped up in the matrix. We work so we can afford our cars, houses, toys, vacations, etc. But what happens to the living part of life? Who takes care of our bodies; physically, emotionally, spiritually, energetically? Who takes care of our children; teaching them by example and experiences? Who takes care of the land that we live on? As we ponder these questions and come to honest answers more often than not there is a feeling of abandonment.

The deep ache in the human psyche is something swept under our conscious awareness but it is deeply ingrained into societies who have distanced themselves from living in union with nature. It explains much of the mental ailments that so much of our population suffers from. Understanding this ache can also give rise to compassion for all because we all feel this pain on a collective level even if its subconsciously.

For those of us who have awoken or accepted our reality it is also an opportunity to be tactful and teachers to those who are still living in the illusion of materialism. Instead of judging them for mindless consumption we can ask questions, we can tell them how we understand why they feel the need to act in this way. We can relate to others by speaking of this collective void we all feel. Once we have built a bridge to others whom live differently then ourselves we can begin share what are practices have made us remember our wholeness. But imposing our ideas, separating ourselves from people who live their lives differently is trying to solve a problem from the same kind of energy which the problem was created, disconnection.

The time I spent with Teyuna and other indigenous tribes gave me the chance to create some space around my unconscious patterns that perpetuate this deep ache. I was taken out of my convenient life in the States. I tell myself, "my life is so easy, I have everything I want."

But why do I want a life that is so easy? How much of what I consume is something I truly "want" and how much is what I've been "programmed" to want? What value can we gain by living an existence that isn't "easy" but that has its challenges that encourage growth and innovation. Being with those who live in a more simplistic lifestyle you see how little you really need to have a purpose and fulfillment. Not to say that you have to live in a hut without electricity or running water. We can have the things that serve a purpose which allow us to be the most productive and vibrant people in accordance with nature. We just have to get curious and seek out those who are living the reality that we aspire too.

We have lost the value of creating a loving and respectful relationship with ourselves. Instead we look to others and society to tell us we are enough, worthy, and capable. This builds a foundation of disorder because all of our relationships are built off of being validated by something outside of ourselves. This encourages egocentric behavior that pollutes all aspects of our lives. We create our own chaos and always turn to someone else to blame.

So how does one live a life of order? I believe the Coronavirus is an opportunity for us to re-order and transform the disorder in our lives. The fact that there is some much pandemonium over this Virus in itself speaks volumes. Yes people are sick, yes people are dying. But we live in a world where there is more any enough resources to feed everyone yet 9 million people die each year from hunger. That's almost 25,000 people a day!! (click for reference) Why isn't this on mainstream news everyday? How could something so substantial be so overlooked. As of today, March 21st 13,000 people have died, and there are 304,493 cases globally confirmed. (click for reference) The reason why there is so much fear around this is because we feel the immediacy of it happening to us. Why don't we care about the millions of people who die from preventive ailments everyday? Because of disorder and disconnection.

The media has blown this virus into a machine of fear. Why are we so easily swayed into a state of chaos and scarcity? Because the people who are in power know that our power relies on us rebuilding a healthy relationship with ourselves, our communities, and the land. We are now all called back from the places we've traveled to our places origin. Then, instead of coming together we are being separated for preventive measures. Yes these measures will help lower your chances of contracting the virus. But we must use this time of separation very carefully. We are dancing on a fine line of scarcity, fear, and isolation. All of these create more disease, more disorder. This is a time to reflect on how, what, whom and why you expend and consume energy? What are the implications? What are the wastes? What could you release? What is a priority? How are you making those things a priority each day?

What do we need to survive? Clean water, air, food, land, shelter, community.

To the indigenous land is the most sacred. It is not a commodity, a resource, or something that we have to protect or heal. The land is our mother she is one to be honored and respected. The Mamo explained that putting a sign do not liter is out of order. The fact that we need to put signs up stating the obvious illustrates the sickness of humanity. We are out of order and so is the planet.

We must now take the time to bring our attention back home, and by home I mean our bodies. When was the last time you said, "I love you to yourself?" The last time you massaged your feet? The last time you held yourself and fell into your own embrace. Whatever the answer there is no judgement, just an awareness. Now right, right now is the time to rebuild a relationship to yourself like you never have before. Our borders, schools, grocery stores, restaurants, churches, community centers are closing. So we have to create these centers of nourishment within ourselves. We have to communicate to each other more than ever before on how we can utilize our skills and resources so no one is left behind`, no one, no land, no body is abandoned. We already have everything we need to thrive but we can only do this together listening and following the natural order.