Breathing in the Sacred World

By Ashanna Solaris

Experiencing breathwork in sacred places around the world helps to further our acceleration, broaden our perspective, and recall ancient memories of connection and reverence for all of life. We are healed by the energies that come through certain portals in the earth, and we in turn can help to heal and cleanse these areas.

What happens when we visit different power places around the world with the intention of healing and awakening? We have an opportunity to leave behind our old identities. We set off for a new culture, perhaps a new language, new ways of being. We are opened in ways that our habitual lives don't always allow us to. We can open to the magical realms, to synchronicities, to learning from ancient cultures more simple ways to live.

In January, I was called to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala to lead a women's retreat called "Woman on Fire." Surrounded by volcanoes, the Mayans consider the lake the center of the Universe and the place where humanity evolves. Breathing in this vortex creates a quality of stillness and being, helping one to direct all outer longing back to what is already held in the Self.

Next I will go to Maui where we breathe in ancient birthing pools along the ocean and receive the teachings of Hawaiian elders. Perhaps the whales will still be visible or audible under the surface of the water. People emerge transformed, reconnected to the primal womb of the Mother. We meet the Aloha Spirit in Hawaii, aloha meaning "I greet you with the breath of life."

From here we journey to Mt. Shasta, an ancient holy mountain for spiritual pilgrimage and purification. This will be our 19th year. Every year we experience deep and lasting miracles. Several people have emerged from the water sessions in the rushing river without the cancer they went in with.

Each place has its own medicine, its own unique essence of healing. Yet, pervading all these places and all the faces of different cultures and peoples, is an unmistakable presence of pure consciousness, awareness shining through all of our unique and curious forms inviting us to come back home to remember who we really are. From this place, we are guided to what we are here for— to give our love and gifts and to receive the love and gifts of others.

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