This past weekend I drove to Santa Barbara with my dear friend, Iris, to celebrate the birthday of my heroine, Anne Van de Water. Anne is simply amazing. She is a steadfast soul family sister!
What I love about Anne is how gracefully she holds the dynamic tension of so many opposites at once: she is an awakened avatar, disco queen, rocker, kirtan singer, yogini, powerful goddess harnessing both the divine masculine and feminine in balance, not to mention a sexual powerhouse. She has an incredible drive to inhabit her divine nature and evolve, evolve, evolve, while cheering on everyone in her community. She is a generator of LOVELIGHTBLISS and she steps into that role whole-heartedly.
Anne's energy is ferociously loving, her smile transmits oceans of compassion, her thong 80's leotard and polyester legwarmers conveys gutsy playfulness and savage joy. When she speaks, she uses tasty, powerful phrases with potent gems of insight. Her laugh is deep and real. She has a timeless elegance, as if she was from another era, but she can get down like the best of them. She is transparent about her humanity and challenges. She looks for the best in people and affirms their wholeness. She is ruthless about prioritizing the divine truth above all else. It is not everyday you meet a cosmic babe like Anne! She is truly on the leading edge of female evolutionaries!
I love how Anne takes such fantastic care of her body. She is the one who inspired me to forget "waiting till one day when I had a home" and get a sauna now! (She has a sauna in her garage she swears by). She also nurtures her body with lots of raw foods, an at-home elliptical machine, an Athena water purifier, an amythyst Bio Mat, and much, much more. Anne is surrounded by an amazing fleet of guides and cosmic emmisarries which help the energy in her aura to sparkle and shine. She attracts a phenomenal array of visionaries and spiritual luminaries to her side who glow with knowingness and contagious glee.
In celebration of her big 4-0, Anne threw herself the mack mama of all mack mama parties, which she playfully dubbed, "The Immortality Festival". Having dreamed of running a retreat center for many years, she decided to stop waiting and start doing with what she has now. She cleared up some spaces in her home and repurposed them, purchased 15 yoga mats and cushions and voila, a retreat center right in the comfort of her home. Next, she invited each attendee to offer a 25 minute workshop about their current passion to uplift and energize the group. The day and night consisted of a lineup of Chi-Gung, a Mary Poppins Playshop, Yoga, Acro-Yoga, Chinese Medicine, Gemstone channelling, Divine feminine playshops, energetic matchmaking, money management skills, Feng Shui, Flower Essence Saturation, Ancient Eqyptian High Priestess Annointing, 80's aerobics, kirtan singing, world music performances, a beautiful shamanic fireside ceremony, Dr. Megavot, firedancing and much, much more! She had her friend Trish monitor the time and progression. Meanwhile, people wandered in and out and spent time chatting over the beautiful raw food spread, in the backyard overlooking the city and ocean, or browsing the adornments available in the market created by attendees with gemstones, necklaces, goddess clothing, hair pieces and more.
It was a strict invite only event in the interests of maintaining a super high frequency of intention. Everyone was invited to attend dressed up as their favorite immortal being. Anne had 6 costume changes throughout the day and it was exciting to watch her continually emerge in new and unexpected ensembles, often complete with matching wigs and heels! All the attendees were amazing people, exceptional in their presence and ability to vessel joy. I knew some from my years in Santa Barbara, and some were new to me, but there was an instant feeling of family which was wonderful. The day was full of laughter, a-has, fun and adventure. I taught my first Goddess Blossom playshop and it was so much fun, and I left feeling overwhelmed with inspiration, courage and focus.
What I've taken from this experience is the desire to deepen my divine presence, my anchoring of divine energy, my community of cosmic feminine luminaries, my spiritual practice and commitment to moving to the next level of my life mission. My mind has also been opened to leading co-ed workshops as there was men in the playshop I led and it was beautiful to behold the divine masculine in honor of the divine feminine...Im am also inspired to approach and celebrate my upcoming birthday in a whole new way, gathering together people in a shared intention to create forward momentum and inspiration for all of us. It is beautiful to think of growing older in years as an opportunity to celebrate becoming more eternally youthful and immortal at the same time! I am so thankful for the beauty, bliss, play, wonder, love and bright light! I feel so lucky! Thank you!
I love you, Anne!
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