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Mission Statement, Guidelines & Announcements
Please read the forum guidelines before posting or joining this community. Here you can also read the Anima Forums mission statement and check out our recent announcements and updates.
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:28 pm KivaRose  |
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Introductions & Greetings
Come join us around the fire - introduce yourself and get to know each other.
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Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:06 am Dana  |
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Anima Experiences, Canyon Accounts and Event Sharings
Here's the place to share your stories and feelings about your time in the Canyon, your experiences with the Anima teachings and your personal transformations from the workshops or events.
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Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:44 pm MaryAnn  |
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Reintegration: Healing as Wholeness
How can we make our personal healing less about fixing and more about wholeness? What is the difference between fixing and real healing? What are our personal journeys towards wholeness & authenticity?
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 3:52 pm Suzen  |
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The Medicine Woman Tradition
A place for women to discuss Anima's ongoing development of the Medicine Woman Tradition, an deeply rewilded and earth-based healing/shamanic tradition for women.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:35 am KivaRose  |
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Honor & Integrity
What is your personal code of honor? How is honor illustrated through Nature? What steps can we each take to further our individual integrity as well as assisting in the integrity of the whole?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:25 pm KivaRose  |
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Essential Nourishment
Nourishment is vital food for life, not just food to be eaten, but rather food for the spirit and the whole self. What nourishes us personally, and what takes away from our nourishment? How can we make nourishing ourselves a perennial priority? How can we better nourish each other and the whole?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:34 pm KivaRose  |
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Earth-based Ceremony & Ritual
In what ways can we each honor ourselves and the land we live on through ceremony inspired by place and its inhabitants? How is ritual an extension of our daily lives rather than a way of separating from it? How can we make more of our lives intentional ceremony?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:43 pm KivaRose  |
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ReWilding: A Return to Authentic Being
In what ways do you consistently shut down or cover up your wildness in order to make other people, or even yourself, more comfortable? In what ways do you daily feed that essential wildness? What actions can you take to further your personal wildness on a daily basis?
What habits, thoughts, addictions or relationships can you release in order to shed any acquired domestication? How can you further the wildness of the land and people in the place where you are?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:03 am KivaRose  |
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The Sacred Now: Practicing Presence
What practices do you have that consistently bring you back to the present moment? What are the benefits of remaining in the now? What pulls you away from the present?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:56 pm KivaRose  |
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Plants as Allies, Medicines & Teachers
A space to talk about our relationship with the plants, how to build those relationships and how to work with herbs as medicines.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:09 pm KivaRose  |
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Primal Sacrament: Real & Wild Foods
How can we make our physical nourishment a natural extension of our wholistic understandings? How can we make gathering, preserving and preparing wild foods a priority in our Anima practices? This is also the space to ask for practical tips and pointers about recognizing, finding, harvesting, preserving and preparing wild foods.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:21 pm KivaRose  |
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Inhabiting Our Animal Bodies
What practices do we have (and can we create) to help us ground ourselves in our body? What takes us out of our body, and what brings us back to it? What practices do we have to enhance our love and appreciation of our bodies?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:30 pm KivaRose  |
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Moving Mountains, Changing Lives: Everyday Activism
What actions can we take, what choices can we make that affect the world around us? While every personal decision works its way out the life spiral to affect the larger self, there are times where direct action on a local, cultural, global level is called for. How can we support each other in this work? How can we find effective venues for this kind of work?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:23 pm KivaRose  |
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Discovering Sacred Space
Where do we go to recharge and center? Whether indoors or out of doors, how do we connect to the larger self through places near us? Do you have an alter in your kitchen? A special grove in a nearby forest? An urban oasis? Let's share about these special places and support each other in creating them in our lives.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:36 am Gwendolyn  |
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This Wound is a Gift: Growing from Our Challenges
What are the challenges we're working through right now? What gifts have we received from our challenges in the past? What ways can we apply Anima teachings and practices to these challenges?
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Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:56 pm KivaRose  |
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The Bond Between Us: Creating Alliance & Tribe
What is a true ally? How can we form our community, family and tribe from allies? How do we find and connect to kindred spirits on a local and not so local basis? How to discern when relationships and communities are serving our authentic self and when they're not. Tips for starting a local Anima group where you are.
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Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:55 pm KivaRose  |
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Reunion: Connecting to Nature
What practices and ways of being do we use to connect to our greater self, earth? What are the benefits of restoring and maintaining our connection? What challenges do we face in this process?
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Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:39 pm KivaRose  |
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The Calling: Our Most Meaningful Purpose
Do we know our purpose? If not, how can we discovering? How can we support each other in this discovering, and in the fulfilling of our purpose? What holds us back from our purpose and what aids us?
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Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:49 pm KivaRose  |
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