This book was written in the spirit of communion. It’s meant to be taken out and shared with others when the reader feels moved. You, dear reader, are the inspiration for this sweet collection, because of your love of prayer, of ritual, of ceremony, and of the hundreds of SouLodge sisters and their families who have come to prayer in your own language, in your own time, in dialogue with the Source of All Life as you understand it.Among its pages are twenty-eight prayers of gratitude and support for new beginnings, vision, purpose, freedom, community, movement, forgiveness, transitions, surrender, descent, rites of passage, releasing, completion, wisdom, leadership, balance, connection, oneness, and peace.Grounding, uplifting, and inspiring, the purpose of this portable collection is to access the reader’s open heart space to the divine light which lives in us through the Great Mystery, and provide connection to the bountiful Earth upon which we live.It’s been said that the Earth and Sky are mirrors for our human experiences. The words presented in Prayers of Honoring create context for experiencing the elements and the seasons as we travel lightly and soft-footed on our soul’s journeys.

Prayers of Honoring

Self-Help

Lighthorse, Pixie

Happiness

SouLodge Ranch

The throat, located just one energy center north of the heart and one jump south of the mind, is in a precarious position in the body. Play with me for a moment: if you were to consider the mind a machine, say, a telegraph in service to the heart, then the heart gives the first dictation. The mind then translates vital information in the form of language to the speaker system of voice, which will hopefully transmit the communications as the heart intended, if that is the priority. It is a good time to ask yourself what your priorities of communication are. What is motivating you?A short journey from heart to mind and back down to the throat takes mere seconds, but a mighty many detours are taken en route. This may be because the fear residing in the mind is like a highwayman, waylaying our genuine matters of the heart and causing havoc as it tries to make its simple way out of the human body. There are other desperados who lure the vulnerable traveler off-path: insecurity, anxiety, self-consciousness, the fragile ego—but nearly all are unmasked first cousins to fear when flushed out of the shadows. Some fears are linked to primal traumas which may yet be unearthed. These deserve special attention when working with voice.I think the greatest of all distractions between heart and throat might be faithlessness, because reigning religious institutions have effectively redirected the focus from faith to matters of righteousness, wrongness and “policies”. Faith in love, and what it can do, has taken a particularly destructive back seat to the priorities of massive organizations with other things in mind than loving kindness, peaceful communication, fair resolutions, wellness and the expressive voices of living, breathing people.For today’s spiritually traumatized, broken-hearted and soul-wounded, the process of revealing what rests on the heart can be a paralyzing challenge. To clear the path of negative imprint, one must declare the intention to speak to what matters most and set about the task of discerning what that is. One can make a choice now to stand up to the fears that mangle the truth into expressions more palatable for others, cause explosions of rage, freezing up, or cut-and-run behavior.To love the truth more than anything else is a tall order.

Prayers of Honoring Voice

Religion & Spirituality

This book is motivated by love and infused with magic—the magic that comes from understanding the profound laws of nature. It is derived from my personal and professional work with boundaries as a self-care practice. It is inspired by powerful conversations, healing shamanic journeys, and adventures in broken relationships. My personal journey with boundaries practice has been companioned by my faithful spirit helper and queen, Mountain Lion. The book began as a three-time, best-selling e-course called Boundaries Boot Camp, which has helped many people put their relationships back on track. My dream is that Boundaries &amp; Protection will be a companion to those who carry it and that it’s medicine will be integrated with application.The contents of Boundaries &amp; Protection are not the clinical opinions of a certified expert on the subject of human psychology and behavior, but of an experience-backed, intuitive healer and teacher who loves people, life, and the gifts of Spirit as they express themselves subtly in nature. My experience with thousands of women, and professional consult have been robust teachers.Reading it, you may become aware of instances where you have violated someone’s boundaries. Don’t let it stop you from carrying on. Don’t let it send you into a spiral of shame. You can make amends for mistakes and use this book to set things right again. The empowerment that comes from a boundaries practice lies in allowing mistakes and trusting that we have everything we need to make repairs.This book is my offering to you of golden protection through your own murky territories where clarity is desired. It is intended to help you take responsibility for how your relationships are handled, and to enjoy the process of cultivating deep intimacy.Boundaries and Protection is for healers and wise people of all traditions for great energetic boundaries and balanced relationships.

Boundaries & Protection

Reference

Prayers of Honoring Grief

Prayers of Honoring Grief is the third book of prayers by Earth Medicine Educator, Pixie Lighthorse.Prayer is a means of connecting to our elevated natures during times of transition. It is during hardship that we can look both deep within and to the cosmic outskirts for guidance and wisdom. Prayer can connect us immediately and intimately to what we feel, what is current, and where the challenges are. It allows us the secure and quiet space to be able to honor what we value.To honor is to acknowledge and celebrate. While it may feel counter-intuitive to celebrate pain, what you can celebrate is your ability to access your feelings. Your feelings function is a sense that is like a muscle, asking you to consciously exercise it. The brain is a complex, plastic organ, and it is becoming ever more apparent how it can become hyper-vigilant, triggered by trauma, confused, disorganized, and overwhelmed. To thicken the plot even more, our nervous systems are operating at warp speed, and we are not yet fully equipped with the tools being modern requires in order to navigate through the obstacles of life.Numbing out feelings due to overwhelm turns them off, and we become accustomed to moving through the world unconsciously, detached, and dissociated from them. As natural feelings of suffering and pain are acknowledged, your body will rejoice at its ability to be in the world as it is. The body is a magnificent thing. When its systems come back online, it can bring a feeling of relief as it begins again to do its job as nature intended. The task is to create space for the deeper processes to take place.We are routinely cultured to “get on with it” from an early age, instructed not to waste time lingering in negativity. When the alternative is avoidance we actually become more fragile, though we are taught to believe the opposite. Grief remains in the systems of the body, informing our lives in subtle and subversive ways in the form of fear, anxiety, and depression. The whole map of our lives changes when grief is stored away silently. It directs our decisions, impairs or inflates our willingness to take risks, and continues to have its way with us. Toxic, amputated, dishonest, denied, neglected, mutated grief causes disharmony in the body and spirit.Grief doesn’t bite. It is a natural and normal way of dispersing energy through the body’s systems. It is not dangerous unless it is acted out in harmful and neglectful ways. Our thoughts around what grief should look like are the most surprising thing of all. How could it possibly be harmful to be honest about how one is feeling? It is simply the confession of what it was really like then and what it feels like now. It is not the plague of darkness it is made out to be. What a relief!Prayers of Honoring Grief walks the reader around the compass of life through 28 distinctive modes of suffering to help the reader gracefully navigate the inner territory of what life is really like, rather than what it is idealized to be.The book includes:
<ul>
<li>Foreword written by Jennifer Houston</li>
<li>Suggestions for how to use the book as a personal companion for healing grief as well as ways to bring it into your classes and curriculum</li>
<li>An introduction to each of the Four Directions and properties associated with grief</li>
<li>28 prayers, 7 for each of the Four Directions</li>
<li>Blank pages on the left side of each prayer for note-taking, collaging, and making the book your own</li>
<li>One page of journal questions for each section</li>
<li>Lined pages at the end of each section for recording your thoughts, personal prayers, and notes about your own spiritual awakenings</li>
</ul>

Parenting & Relationships

Pain is something we can all relate to. We have grown socially accustomed to looking for a magic pill to mask it, and all other symptoms of deeper unrest. Yet becoming intimate with pain, but not possessed by it, enables us to feel, sense, and hear the wise teachings held within it. Emotional, physical, mental, sexual, and psychic pain, as well as collective pain carried for Earth during this time of great transition, contains valuable wisdom.Shadow is a term for the discarded within ourselves that informs our lives. It offers the potential to reveal what we previously thought was unsuitable, so unsuitable that we imprisoned it and forgot it. The aim is to know the shadow well, appreciate it, seek to integrate it—not leave it neglected to rot in a cell beneath the surface, where it is inevitably clanging its tin cup against the bars asking for acknowledgement and honoring—to make a place for it as part of your life story, but not let it be the operating manual.In this book, we'll explore:The keys to working with your shadowsHow to engage your shadow to heal generational patternsThe acts of liberation for individuals and all members of society and cultureWhat it would look like to break the repetitive loop of sufferingLanguage prompts to help navigate the shadowsShadow work is one of many keys to breaking the cycles of suffering. It prioritizes healing and offers empathy for one another.

Goldmining the Shadows

Earth Is Holding You is an all-ages illustrated book by author Pixie Lighthorse and painter Flora Bowley. This lovely, free-flowing book offers gentle guidance to develop our relationship with the earth in order to help us handle the big feelings that arise as we live life and pursue our dreams. It is about holding on to inspiration, allowing feelings to move through us, facing our fears, persevering through hardship, learning to trust, and valuing our creativity and wellness. With dozens of colorful, dreamlike paintings adding to the magic of the poetic text, this is a timeless book that will delight readers of all ages. Earth’s rivers, animals, plants and minerals demonstrate support for young readers. Complex concepts dealing with emotions are made easy to help children self-regulate through their interaction with nature. Connection to nature is illustrated in Flora Bowley’s intuitive style, showing examples of the peace and calm that can be found in quiet places. Energizing, inspiring and motivating, the rhythmic prose offers calls to action that finds readers jumping up to experience the joys of feeling all there is to feel in the human experience. Adults and children alike are invited to sink into the pages while feeling cradled and held by Earth and art. Promotes deep experience, contemplation and care for the environment, such as noticing the resonance between the weather and our emotions and paying attention to the activities of plants and animals. Introduces even young readers to the concept of emotional self-regulation and natural self-calming gestures. Combines the supportive language and elements of Lighthorse’s previous books on prayer and self-healing with the exquisite palette and linework of Flora Bowley’s intuitive painting process teachings and books, making terms and concepts accessible.

Earth Is Holding You

Children's Books

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the SouLodge Ranch publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.