RISE IN LOVE: Workshop in Maui
How do you RISE in love?
It’s completely normal for people to use the term “fall in love”, but what does that really mean? And is it in our highest to perpetuate that dynamic just because it’s the norm?
We titled our pre-Valentine’s Day workshop in Maui (the heart chakra of the world) “Rise In Love: Writing a New Relationship Story” to inspire people to become even more aware in choosing how they want to show up in love.
As in all WESOURCE events, the workshop was very participatory with multiple councils, a time-traveling visualization and journal exercise, partner work, and meditations to maximize our connection to self and other.
Themes from the field…
When we tap into the collective consciousness through practices like council, there are always themes that emerge from the field helping us to see universal patterns of our shared human story.
Some of the key themes that emerged were:
Focusing on gratitude, patience and trust in the process of cultivating relationships that will inevitably help us to grow and being willing to show up through the hard parts to be in integrity with ourselves and others
Having discernment and coming from a place of honesty and authenticity, feeling empowered in our voice to communicate what we need and know that we are worthy of the kind of love we want/need
Needing to love ourselves first and foremost, and seeing how disconnection with others is often a mirror for us to look at something we are needing to provide for ourselves
Expanding love to be universal through practices like “singing for god” and not necessarily needing love to look like a 1 on 1 romantic relationship while navigating how to make time for special people in our lives
How intimacy 1 on 1 with people helps us be able to know ourselves and show up even more deeply in larger social contexts
A shared dream for resonant community culture where we co-create through conscious communication and communion with each other and the land, planting fruit trees in intergenerational joy and celebration
This workshop was a beautiful prototype of the kind of cocreative offerings WESOURCE will be expanding to communities across the world. In and of itself, it was an opportunity for people to deepen their sense of connection, meet people, and gain insights and skills for continuing to cultivate this conscious way of relating.
It was also facilitated by a brand new team of collaborators some of whom hadn’t even met before coming together for this event, but who each brought their unique medicine to this offering in a dynamic way that modeled the potential for synergy in weaving together different offerings and cross-pollinating different segments of communities.
WESOURCE will be continuing to partner with other leaders in Maui, Kauai, and on workshop tours across the US in 2019, and internationally in 2020, so reach out if you’re interested in being a part of a future event.
Maui’s RISE IN LOVE event included co-facilitation by Lotus Sattva, TamRa Wich’ma, and Victoria Angel Heart.
TamRa Wich’ma is host of Love in the 21st Century, a radio show based in Chico, California as well as a regular guest host on Monoa radio in Maui. She has studied with Council Facilitators, Spiritual teachers and counselors and has expertise in child development, human psychology, and sociology. TamRa has worked extensively in marginalized communities. She leads workshops at festivals, and is available for virtual coaching with individuals wanting to attract and improve deeply fulfilling loving relationships. Find her on Facebook
Victoria Angel Heart is a UCLA-trained mindfulness meditation teacher and intuitive guide. Her life’s work is empowering clients to let go of fear-based beliefs, calm their minds and open their hearts to be centered in love. She leads weekly mindfulness groups in Maui called “Calm Mind Open Heart”. Find her on Facebook
Lotus Sattva is a certified coach and facilitator with a masters in Leadership, and 15 years of experience supporting mission-driven clients. She is a social innovator who has delivered innovative relational trainings across the US from board rooms, to schools, to festivals, yoga studios and churches.
Lotus's mission is to support the embodiment of unity consciousness as the key solution to solving the world's problems which she sees being rooted in separation consciousness. Lotus believes that if all people were living in alignment with their true self and in harmonious connection with one another and all of creation, we would co-create heaven on earth.
Lotus is the founder of WESOURCE and lead facilitator for all events. She is available for 1-on-1 coaching, couples counseling, and holistic development consulting with in-person offerings in Hawaii and on tour around the world. Find her on Facebook