Small & Daily
One of the things I loved so much about Bali was their rituals and ceremonies.
Everything feels so INTENTIONAL. They take such pride in their traditional dress and how they honor their Gods, their homes and themselves. The houses even looked like temples to me, and then they even have temples inside their homes.
Everywhere in Bali, little woven baskets appear, with fresh flowers and usually an incense burning with it. You will see these on sidewalks, in doorways, on car dashboards, at temples. They are called "canang sari" and they are daily offerings of gratitude to the divine. Daily offerings to the divine!! I want to do this! I want to bring this back into my comparatively hectic life in Los Angeles.
In Bali, they offer gratitude specifically to their supreme God, as well as local spirits and ancestors. Every morning, and throughout the day, I would witness locals making offerings. I would also see priests walking throughout the villages or towns and blessing businesses. For me, an American who hasn't traveled in a Hindu country before, this was so inspiring to witness. They truly have a completely different way of life there. And people seem so content. Not only content, just happy. Happy and grateful. That's how I want to live, happy and grateful. I mean who doesn't? But who actually DOES it, is the better question. The Balinese people that I witnessed, they actually do.
We Americans say we want to be happy, but I am not sure we really want to do the work of undoing in order to really attain true happiness and contentment inside of ourselves.
This isn't meant to be judgmental. If anything, it's a challenge. For myself even. It takes a lot of work in the US to uncondition ourselves from the belief that we have been fed, the belief that more is better and more will make us happier. In fact it's quite the contrary. More seems to just distract us from ourselves and the true happiness that lives inside.
The moment I landed in Bali, well, more precisely, the moment I arrived at our modest and lovely hotel bungalow, I received a download that was loud and clear. I was standing at the cliff and looking out at the vast ocean, the play ground for so many species, and heard "You all think abundance is about money and wealth. It's not. It's SO MUCH MORE."
I already knew that, in the way you know things without having felt them yet.
I landed in my body and I embodied it. And therein lies the work for me, how do I take this new embodiment (and this was just one of many I received while in Bali) and live it out in Los Angeles and with my so very LA kids as well?
For me, the traffic and the hectic lifestyle, the being a single mom to 2 teens, it makes my spiritual work REAL. It is my very classroom. But I am up for the challenge. I am devoted to bringing more stillness, more slowness, more intention and more ritual into my daily personal and professional life.
Some mornings now, before anyone else is awake, I light candles at home and sit for meditation. It's not incense on a car dashboard, but it's mine, small and daily, made with my hands before the day takes over. And with my kids, it looks like reminding them, again and again, to do a gut check. To listen to their bodies and their own intuition before anything else gets to weigh in.
Perhaps this is why I started my Women's Circles.
In Bali, the offering isn't just about what you give, it's about being witnessed giving it. That's what I kept coming back to. Not the flowers, not the incense, but the fact that no one does it alone or in secret. It's a place where we women can be seen, heard and witnessed in a real way, an intentional way. If you're like me and been craving more intentional connection with like-minded women, come check us out.
You know those girls nights out where you leave feeling kind of dissatisfied because you all talked over each other, ate and drank too much, no one really listened or acknowledged much of what you shared or tried to share? Well, my Women's Circles are exactly the opposite of that. You'll be gently invited and guided to a more vulnerable way of sharing and a more intentional way of listening. Women supporting women. It's nothing revolutionary, its been happening across cultures for centuries, we've just gotten off track a bit. So now we are course correcting.
If this reflection resonates with you, I recently recorded a short video about something deeply personal that happened after one of my Women's Circles. It's a reflection on what it means to truly embody love and how our daily practices slowly shape who we become.
I hope it offers another gentle layer to this conversation.
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