to the Sacred through self-inquiry, indigenous spirituality, shamanic journeywork, ceremony and sacred art. Each of these tools is an available doorway to access your essential self, your Spirit. They support you in learning to use whatever arises in your life in the service of deepening your relationship to the essential beauty and truth of who you truly are, and consequently support your movement towards greater intimacy and love. These teachings nourish your spirit's natural organic movement towards healing and aliveness.

of Giving Spirit Form is to create an extended community that supports each member's unique movement out of their habitual cycles of behavior and beyond the narrow lens of personality towards love and freedom.

is to cultivate each person's ability to live from their essential self and in alignment with Spirit. This requires leaving concept, interpretation, judgment and reaction, in order to develop the capacity to more deeply meet whatever is happening in the present moment.

is to identify and soften the habitual emotional defense structures which keep us stuck in contraction and separate us from ourselves and one another. This work requires courage and a deep commitment to know the truth of who you are. It requires the courage to love.

Rick Thomas, Santee Sioux Tribe, Nebraska

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