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April 2007
Sunrise Ceremony
Standing
Here in the risen place
The confluence of creek and tree and birdsong
Becoming
The morning light
Hollowed and filled
Unfolding
Remembering
Formlessness
Remembering
Love.
Kate DeChard
April 10, 2007
A little over one week ago, a circle was created in my living
room. Something extraordinary happened as we gathered for Triz
Remedios’ Sacred Sound Experience. Swept away on the powerful
current of the experience, my words left. I had no need to analyze or
explain. It was enough for me to simply be held within the lingering
sounds of the drums and the call of the vessels. I know that I am not
the same woman as I was and I am profoundly grateful to all of you
who came and shared your hearts with me.
Since November, it has been my privilege to work with Triz as an
apprentice. When I first asked her, I was responding to an inner
call. I had no expectations of what it would be like, or what I would
gain. I simply knew without hesitation, that sitting across from me
was a woman who would help me put the missing pieces of my healing
practice together. I will be eternally grateful that I did.
To work with Triz Remedios is to engage in a dialogue with a master.
Her learning curve is wide, deep and very human. Her awareness and
consciousness is vast. She brings an intelligence and curiosity to
her healing work that goes well beyond anything that I can attempt to
put to words. In a few short months, I have shifted in fundamental
and profound ways. It is as though working with Triz has allowed all
of my years of personal work to come to a stage of blossoming. The
deep awareness and expanded consciousness that I previously glimpsed
have become a constant verifiable reality. Working with Triz, I am
aware that I am working with a true master; my visions are clearer,
my healing rapid and my consciousness expanded.
My healing work to date has been from my heart. She frequently tells
me that she has no heart. I believe that she has become all heart. I
watched her work, creating ceremony, creating a sacred space for each
and every participant in The Sacred Sound Experience. I heard her
heart in her drum, her heart in her crystal bowls, her heart in the
gong. Triz Remedios has become the embodiment of the heart. She has
become the vibration of Love.
As an apprentice, I am familiar with her ability to be fully present
with me individually. Watching her work with the group I was blown
away by her ability to focus, to concentrate and to be present for
each individual, giving them what they most needed. Being an
apprentice to a master? Sometimes I just shake my head, how did this
happen to me? Then something happens and I realize how important this
work is not just for me but for all of those whose lives intersect
with mine.
This morning, I took a long walk in the woods with Iris. I followed
her, climbing to the top of a ridge where I keep a couple of chairs.
I sat there for a while enjoying the bird song when I heard a voice
telling me to stand up. I did. As I stood, I remembered Triz
explaining the sunrise ceremony to me and I drank in the light of the
sun, really took in the energy. As this happened, I found myself in
an expanded state, becoming so large that I could not determine the
boundaries of myself. As I stood in that space of expansion, I felt a
tremendous heat emanating from and hands and the back of my heart. My
hands rose and I pulled the energy into my heart and felt my crown
open. It became a huge funnel going straight down into the earth
beneath my feet. There was no resistance, no block, no effort. It
just happened. I stood there like that for a while. My senses were so
acute. I could hear the plants beneath the ground moving toward the
sunlight, I could smell the myriad of woods scents on the wind, I
could hear the leaves opening, the frost melting. When I opened
my eyes, Iris was lying on the ground near me staring at me as if she
wasn’t sure who I was. It wasn’t until I spoke that she
moved and came toward me with a leap, her tail wagging.
As I walked back home, every tree, every rock, every thought seemed
so clear, suffused with a brilliant inner light.
One of my sons was in the kitchen waiting for me before he went back
to school. He told me that he decided to forgive a friend. What had
happened between them had hurt him deeply. He said that he didn’t
want to hold onto that anymore. This son has resisted receiving a
healing from me and as he drove away, I realized that it doesn’t
matter if he does or not because when we change, when we do the work
of transcendence, we create a path bringing our loved ones with us.
I hope that you all enjoyed your Sacred Sound Experience and I
congratulate you for what I imagine might have been your first
slumber party since High School. You were all wonderfully
accommodating. I’m working on manifesting a barn that can better
facilitate future workshops. Triz is beginning to bring her work into
a wider audience. In June she will be doing an important workshop
with the Anna Mitchell Hedges Crystal Skull at the Gossamer Woods
Healing and Retreat Center in Canandaigua, NY, June 2-3.
She is offering to form an apprenticeship program and is willing to
travel here to Rhinebeck if there is enough interest. If you
have any questions about life as her apprentice please feel free to
contact me, or if you know anyone who you think might be interested
I’d be happy to speak with them.
Thank you all for finding your way up my driveway. I hope that you
left enriched by your experience at The Soul Sanctuary.
Namaste,
Kate
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