My monthly communique as to what’s happening with me and SHIFT-IT School … for October 2024.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, it is a ping pong of balmy sun and misty rain.
Very pleasant compared to the intensity that some of my clients and colleagues have weathered on the East Coast.
Ongoing prayers to those impacted!
I intentionally kept my Fall schedule relatively light. Having had a busy summer, with a lot of deep work, I needed to catch my breath and return to some stillness.
While the world is in so much turmoil and aggression, and I’m holding space for lots of varied processing, it has been a necessity for me to ground.
Elementals of the Lake
Precious Beach Day
Walking the dogs around the lake on a misty morning.
Planting my butt in the toasty sand on the last warm days.
Reading a magical book (Tantra Maat’s tales of her Vision Quests to Ireland, where she slowed things down for reconnection to the elemental realms). Yes please!
Windowsill of Green Tomatoes
Pretty Cache of Mixed Potatoes
Harvesting my little cache of potatoes and bringing the green tomatoes in, before the quail and the frosts get them. Enjoying their ripening process on the windowsill.
Spontaneously I received a last-minute request to help a local school with their Pro-D day. I’ve done lots of these over the years, carried by word of mouth.
Prepping Markers & Inks
Creating Collective Murals in the Gym.
A Principal, VP and Pro D Committee wanting some assistance with hosting a supportive, truthful and exploratory visioning day.
Presley Giving Her Stamp of Approval
It was a pleasure to literally draw them out. They created a good Vision … practical yet with true evolutionary stretch too.
Next, they’ll work on their strategic steps.
Another thing accomplished this month, with stillness in the mix too, is the expansion of my non-dual Visual Satsangs. I have been prompted by my inner guidance to do this – that much is barreling down on humanity and we need safe places like these to process together. To meet all that is, in all its shades.
The Drop-Ins have been expanded to two Sundays a month – on the 1st Sunday (10am-Noon) and on the 3rd Sunday (2-4pm).
Please feel free to drop by if it’s been a while, or you have never been. All are welcome as we take no sides and meet what exists under surface narratives, both personal and collective.
Salt Spring at Sunrise
In 2025 I’ll be hosting in-person Satsang Days here in Victoria, Canada in March, June and September (details coming next newsletter).
I also just filled a Private Visual Satsang – a small ongoing processing group to meet the months ahead with.
We are already off to a delightfully thoughtful start.
In addition, I have also set the dates for the 2025 Cohort for Visual Coach Certification (thank you to those who have patiently waited for me to announce them).
Over the next few weeks Anneke Lucas and I will also announce the Home Study Kit of Shifting the Power and the next Level 2 course too.
Finally, thank you to Carrie for the transparent processing example this month – may we all have the bravery to own our projections and find the treasure within!
Yours in SHIFTing IT,
Christina Merkley,
Visual Coaching and Satsangs
www.shift-it-coach.com
