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JoAnne Dodgson Ceremonial Healing

JoAnne Dodgson’s life is centered in the lineage of Ka Ta See and the path of the kala keh nah seh ~  medicine storyteller, weaver of webs of balance, healer, teacher, and ceremonial guide. She offers ceremonial healing, apprenticeships, and retreats to remember our belonging and weave harmony in our Relationships with ourselves, each other, our earth, and web of life.

JoAnne has been learning, living, and sharing the ways of the kala keh nah seh for over twenty years. She has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology with a specialty in Holistic Health. As a therapist and community activist, she worked in Trauma healing centers and college counseling centers. She has been on the faculty in Transpersonal Psychology, Women’s Studies, and Holistic Health programs. Earlier in her career, JoAnne was a teacher in public schools and residential programs for adolescents. She also served as the director of a women’s shelter.

To share her passion for the healing medicine of stories, JoAnne has written several books including Spirit of Chocolate: A Woman’s Journey to the Rainforest in Search of Her Dreams and UnLeashing Love. She lives in the enchanted desert mesas of New Mexico.

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Follow The Dreams &Raquo; Sunresize
Follow the Dreams

The red rock mesas towered overhead, shimmering with stardust in the brilliant light of the sun. I didn’t know where I was or exactly who else was there. Still I could feel our connectedness, the wo…

The red rock mesas t…

The red rock mesas towered overhead, shimmering with stardust in the brilliant light of the sun. I didn’t know where I was or exactly who else was there. Still I could feel our connectedness, the wonder and well-being, harmony and love, weaving everyone and everything together. This exquisite sensation was in the glistening red rocks embraced by the turquoise sky. The loving sensation was in the air, tangible and breathable, emanating from every little bit. Pure aliveness. Belonging. Togetherness. Home. As my eyes sensed the sunrise drifting through my bedroom window, the dream began fading …

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Sea Turtle Medicine &Raquo; Seaturtlebtc
Sea Turtle Medicine

Here’s Lily ~ the furry feral mama cat who came to live with me about eight years ago. I needed a mouser for my rural New Mexico home, tiring of carrying live-trapped mice down the road to other lan…

Here’s Lily ~ the …

Here’s Lily ~ the furry feral mama cat who came to live with me about eight years ago. I needed a mouser for my rural New Mexico home, tiring of carrying live-trapped mice down the road to other lands. Knowing Lily had kept two litters of kittens alive, basically on her own while living outside, convinced me she was a skillful hunter. Being more familiar with dogs, I wasn’t exactly sure how a feral mama cat would come to know me as her person and claim her belonging in our home. After hiding behind a wicker shelf for a couple days, Lily showed me her cuddly purring self, settling in my lap…

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Buffalo Medicine &Raquo; Buffalo.resize
Buffalo Medicine

Buffalo roam the prairies and live in great herds. When tending to their young, Buffalo instinctively gather themselves in a circle, facing out, surrounding the little ones. The guardian buffalo stand…

Buffalo roam the pra…

Buffalo roam the prairies and live in great herds. When tending to their young, Buffalo instinctively gather themselves in a circle, facing out, surrounding the little ones. The guardian buffalo stand vigil, holding their ground, protecting the precious new lives. The protective space made by Buffalo is not a permanent structure. Discernment is made about who may be allowed to come close and pass by. The standing circle dissolves away when other choices are ready to be made. As Buffalo graze, rest, and run through the prairies, they continue to honor and watch over the herd, the young, the lan…

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Embodying Love &Raquo; Elephantspirit 709X1024 1
Embodying Love

We are living in times when many voices are calling for less violence and hate and more acceptance and love. We are standing in a long line of generations who have been shouting these words, singing t…

We are living in tim…

We are living in times when many voices are calling for less violence and hate and more acceptance and love. We are standing in a long line of generations who have been shouting these words, singing these words, and living and Dying for these words. Is anybody listening? And who are we trying to reach?  To create a more loving world, we’ll need to aim healing attention inside. The inner landscape, our interior worlds, are not the only spaces where change and transformation take place. Yet without the inner shifts, we’ll habitually perpetuate judgments and lies about who’s superior and b…

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Embodying Love

We are living in times when many voices are calling for less violence and hate and more acceptance and love. We are standing in a long line of generations who have been shouting these words, singing t…

We are living in tim…

We are living in times when many voices are calling for less violence and hate and more acceptance and love. We are standing in a long line of generations who have been shouting these words, singing these words, and living and dying for these words. Is anybody listening? And who are we trying to reach?  To create a more loving world, we’ll need to aim healing attention inside. The inner landscape, our interior worlds, are not the only spaces where change and transformation take place. Yet without the inner shifts, we’ll habitually perpetuate judgments and lies about who’s superior and b…

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When The Worries Get Big &Raquo; Deerspirit 601X1024 1
When the Worries Get Big

We are finding our way through a transformational passage, a significant turning of the time with humanity and on our earth. We are walking with death. Cycles are completing. Endings are being crafted…

We are finding our w…

We are finding our way through a transformational passage, a significant turning of the time with humanity and on our earth. We are walking with death. Cycles are completing. Endings are being crafted. Leavings are taking place. Changes are being made. In the thresholds between what has been and what is being envisioned, designed, and built, we’ll inevitably encounter mystery and unknowns. In the time between worlds, we may feel curious and excited, lost and unsettled, numbed and overwhelmed. How is your heart? A couple weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a pit in my stomach…

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Where Rivers Meet &Raquo; Raccoon
Where Rivers Meet

As we enter new cycles in our lives and on our earth, we may find ourselves searching for guidance to find our way in our changing world. Here is what we were shown in a community ceremony about these…

As we enter new cycl…

As we enter new cycles in our lives and on our earth, we may find ourselves searching for guidance to find our way in our changing world. Here is what we were shown in a community ceremony about these significant Turning of the Times… The Spirits describe this time in our lives, personally and collectively, as a confluence of rivers. On the body of our earth, confluences are places where rivers meet up. Their waters mix. Sediments swirl around. Colors change. Ecosystems rearrange. Prevailing currents shift. New riverbeds and watery pathways eventually form. Much mystery still remains in the …

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Stories In The Stars &Raquo; Sunresize
Stories in the Stars

Have you heard about the mysterious comet traveling toward earth? Astronomers have labelled this celestial being the 3i-Atlas. There are questions about whether this interstellar traveller can officia…

Have you heard about…

Have you heard about the mysterious comet traveling toward earth? Astronomers have labelled this celestial being the 3i-Atlas. There are questions about whether this interstellar traveller can officially be classified as a comet. This celestial body is structurally unique and moving differently than would be expected of a comet (from western-science points of view). What seems certain is that the comet originates from outside our solar system. On December 19th, the comet will be passing close by our earth (as measured in galactic concepts of close proximity). This fly-by connection with our pl…

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Fly, Little Dragonfly &Raquo; Dragonfly
Fly, Little Dragonfly

She floated in the rippling waters of the hot springsher delicate wings reaching for airunable to lift up to fly I tiptoed slowly toward hercareful not to create waves of turbulenceand scooped her up …

She floated in the r…

She floated in the rippling waters of the hot springsher delicate wings reaching for airunable to lift up to fly I tiptoed slowly toward hercareful not to create waves of turbulenceand scooped her up in my cupped handswater drained out between my fingerssix dragonfly feet touched down on my open palm Setting her on dry ground in a sunbeamI stepped away to give her ample roomto heal and rest and take a breathwhile she assessed the changing situationwith the brilliance of her dragonfly eyes and mind From across the steamy watersI watched her open and close her wingssparkling in the sunlightsetti…

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Spirit Medicine: Grandmother Corn &Raquo; Grandmothercornbsb
Spirit Medicine: Grandmother Corn

Grandmother Corn is an Ancient Onewho shares the medicinesof abundancelush nourishmentand generositythat flowwithout any conditionswith no strings attached Everyone’s included in the bountiful shari…

Grandmother Corn is …

Grandmother Corn is an Ancient Onewho shares the medicinesof abundancelush nourishmentand generositythat flowwithout any conditionswith no strings attached Everyone’s included in the bountiful sharingnobody’s left out of the beauty and richnesswalls aren’t built to separate the haves from have-notsthere is nothing you must do to receive her gifts In her eyesthe web of lifeis not chopped apartinto deserving||undeservingsuperior||inferiorgood||badright||wrongbetter than||less There are no words in her languageto evaluate who is worthy ofhaving more than enough and plenty oflovefreedomshelt…

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Eagle Medicine: Expand Your Vision &Raquo; Eaglebsb
Eagle Medicine: Expand Your Vision

Eagles have extraordinary gifts of vision. They gather up the long view, seeing for miles, while attentive to the details in life nearby. Eagles’ vision is expansive, wide and deep and clear, while …

Eagles have extraord…

Eagles have extraordinary gifts of vision. They gather up the long view, seeing for miles, while attentive to the details in life nearby. Eagles’ vision is expansive, wide and deep and clear, while they soar with the winds, hunt to feed their eaglets, perch steadily in the stillness, and pause to have a look around. Eagles’ vision guides their travels through all kinds of dimensions with ease and natural grace. They roost in towering pines, coast on the air, touch down on the earth, collect branches and build ingeniously designed nests, and reach their talons into rushing river currents to…

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Holders Of Stories &Raquo; Img 2914
Holders of Stories

Rocks are great holders of stories. Boulders and mountains, pebbles and stones, hold the stories of their own existence and the ecosystems in which they’ve lived. Rock People are physical bodies of …

Rocks are great hold…

Rocks are great holders of stories. Boulders and mountains, pebbles and stones, hold the stories of their own existence and the ecosystems in which they’ve lived. Rock People are physical bodies of knowledge, living libraries who chronicle stories through the spiraling flow of time. Rocks hold all of their stories without any judgments. No blaming and shaming the wildly diverse beings who’ve crossed their paths. No resentment and regrets. No shoulds or not-supposed-tos disrupting natural cycles. Imagine the countless generations, the centuries of shifting seasons, the steady flow of migrat…

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