March and April 2021
Change is the only Constant!
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News about the changes coming for our online classes and offerings via Blackcoyote Medicine have filtered through the current practitioners via email, and on the Zoom screen and now it is time to make the grand announcement to the larger Mailchimp audience. It has been a pleasure in this chapter of our years together. The Pandemic time will be forever embedded as a memory and how we maneuvered, how we got sick, those we lost, the changes we made, Adaptation is very real. Change, however brings new growth!
We grew this together! So community is the key, find a place where you feel good, and drive that to its borders and then reach further. Remember health is more than just exercising, it is what you eat, what you think, the air you breath, the trees you spend time with. Friends, family even through a computer screen can bring comfort and belonging. Reach out!
Now for the class changes: Due to the waning of participants in our Monday and Wednesday classes, they will no longer be offered via Zoom. This leaves Friday Yoga at 8am PT and Saturday Qigong at 8amPT. I do hope that you find these classes as your time to come together and find the teacher, which is very different than a youtube video or repetitive sequenced class. The teacher is a guide that can sense what is both coming in and out, that steps into a place completely empty, as a vessel to allow magic and medicine to come through. We could never retain everything we take in to our lives, the greatest lessons is to let them flow through. My wisdom comes both from experience and education. Having the fortune along my path for very inspiring teachers in both my Yoga and Qigong worlds, held me together when my marriage broke, stepping into my first Yoga class on New Years Day with tears and a broken heart, but making a daily practice since 2005. The Qigong came to me as an extension of the medicine of acupuncture was introduced during my malaria illness and brought me back from near death. What I have taken viscerally into my body shows up with me as your guide, to offer experience, and the dedicated training sometimes 4-6 hours a day for years, has honed my gift of teaching these somatic healing practices. My one big desire is that the medicine has found its way into your tissues even if you dont' know it, and the seeds planted will lead you to what you need.
For the months of March and April I wiill continue to offer the Friday and Saturday classes and then the Zoom classes will end as we know them. I will find a way to offer special classes in the future and will reach out via this format to you. I have been offered once again my job with Mesa Verde NP, and after last year's hire, delays and unhiring it is a bit of dejavu. But I think it will be a go, and a job with less hustling so I can pay the rent is very welcome. I also welcome anyone that may come to the park to let me know and I will be most thrilled to offer as your Interpretive Guide/Park Ranger tours into the ruins. Maybe one of the more fantastic adventures to come is that I have been offered a hogan built by Chief Jack to reside in during my 6 months at the park. It was built of stone in the 1930s and sits near Spruce Canyon where an amazing puma lives. I cannot wait for the silence of nature to return and give me a break from the city that drives daily, sometimes with great madness into my world.
I am most grateful that there was a great forest waitng for me here in Portland when I arrived in August 2020. Besides the shutdowns, the riots, the closure of most of the city, the stealing of my truck, the wiildfires and 500 AQI for weeks, there is a great forest right out of my window. I have come to know this place well, and the trees have taught me much about medicine. I will close this note with some of that tree medicine for you.
Thank you everyone, be very well, take great care, see you in the Zoom room. Make sure to send email if you haven't attended lately so that you will have access codes. The best way to reach any of my links is through LinkTree, it gets you to my Paypal and Square so you purchase classes, tinctures, and more. It also has links to my website which will keep class schedule, and the Medicine Letters (bimonthly) contained and updated. https://linktr.ee/candacegossen. And if you want to just buy me a coffee this great link for small tips helps www.buymeacoffee/candacetrees
With Big Love, Thank you, Candace
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Upcoming Events:
New Moon March 13 - time for planting seeds
Daylight Saving Time March 13 - Spring Forward One Hour
Spring Equinox March 20 - Day and Night are Balanced
Full Moon March 28
Class Schedule all at 8am PT, 3/12-4/24
Fridays Forrest Yoga
Saturdays Daoist Qigong
Youtube videos Free to you Lily Vega Qigong
The Archives for all of the Newsletters with loads of medicine, practice sheets, and so much more is here
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Tardegrades, water bears live in the moss of the trees! They are incredibly adaptive having been up in space and go dormant for 50 years, and boiled and frozen. They survive!
We have much to learn. The trees on the right is called Osculation, means "small mouth" "the Kiss". These trees choose to come together. Not because they landed together, or were grafted, but these Maple and Doug Fir trees one the volcano core at Mt. Tabor have chose to merge their trunks together creating a mutual stem cell sharing, helping each other, protecting each other, A Kiss of Life! The most amazing thing that I discovered on Mt. Tabor.
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Trees may look like solitary earth beings, but they are part of a living community, just like us, humans need each other and the trees! And like the fireplace, the fire within, the warming of home, JiaRen is Family
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