Contact
You can email us at the Anima Sanctuary at mail@animcenter.org
Please use the comment form in each post for remarking on any of the individual topics. We love to hear from you, and prefer that whenever possible they be posted as comments so others can enjoy and benefit by them as well.
Thank you!
~Wolf, Kiva, Loba & Rhiannon
Dana Wood
The personal story and words sent by Wolf were EXACTLY what I needed to hear. Not just once though, so I am finding that information and messages are coming from more and more self imposed corners of my reality…..But this personal entry is just so right on what I’m thinking every other minute…regret/relationships gone / living with my actions….thank you thank you thank you
Susun Weed
Loba,
Susun Weed would like to interview you for her radio show the Wise Woman Way. Interviews are 30 minutes, pre-recorded, by telephone, and aired on womensradio.com
To schedule an interview, please send email to Justine at wisewoman@herbshealing.com
Green Blessings.
Susun Weed
Kiva & Loba,
Susun would be glad to offer each of you a 30 minute interview.
For Kiva, the topic will be “Medicine Woman Magic”. Also including wisdom of the grandmothers and practical ways of teaching people to work with the plants themselves rather than being dependent on experts.
For Loba, the topic will be “Re-Wilding Women”. Also including the joy of homesteading and your expression through voice and “The Enchantment”.
Each of you please send ten questions you would like Susun to ask of you, a bio she can use to introduce you to the audience, websites to promote, and the phone number where she can call you on the interview date.
Dates available for interview include,
January 11 – 6pm eastern time
January 18 – 8pm eastern time
January 21 – 4pm eastern time
January 28 – 5pm eastern time
Sending love,
Justine
Hardy
Hi there,how you doiin?
I’m from South Africa and stumbled onto your site recently,Wow is All I can say,thank you for the messages I’m reading it and sharing it with friends an family.
I really would like to do the correspondance course,and think we need something like Anima in S.A.
I’ve been looking for something like this,I’m working in a bushlodge guiding,exct,and think thats a awsome Way to share with people and bring them closer to their Souls.
I’m gonna try to transfer funds over to you asap.its just a bit tight at the moment.
I would like to do the whole Anima course with the idea to start a affiliated org. with you at a later stage.
Thanx yet again for opening a door and make me see what can be done,and also that i dont need to reinvent the wheel…;-)
I think the Anima concept can easilly be transfered in a African cloak.
Take care and WILL be in contact.
Lotsa love
Hardy
Dave
I went for a walk up Tillamook Head. The path was not conducive to family trekking.
There was mud, it was slippery and rugged and I had to stop because a huge tree, at least 4 feet in diameter had fallen across the path due to a 2007 storm with 120 mph sustained winds for three days.
All the way I was thinking of the ‘Tao’. The empty bowl from which all we see is derived. It humbled me thinking how I am part of this.
(I’m waiting for income tax papers now and it seems so irrelevant to what I have seen today.)
I came back from my short walk of two hours, ( it was aborted because of the tree) with a hundred or so pictures and videos I would be glad to share with you via you tube.
I feel we are kindred spirits. I see possibility in things categorized as calamity. As in the Tao I see death as life becoming.
I am making a video, non commercial for philosophical and personal purposes only, of this short trek ( it took me less than two hours) involving commentary of some sort or another.
When I get it done would you want to see it?
I know what a shaman is, I am one in my own mind. I see the world…..
Maybe I’m nuts, I don’t know.
If you are interested in this amateur video and photographic essay let me know. I need to put a lot of work into it.
My philosophy is from the ‘Tao’, ‘Zen’ and ‘Hinduism’ with other thought forms that correspond with each other. I am always looking and I am an old man trying to find a way to die at peace with himself.
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Judi Sillifant
Animá Blog Reader Survey
1. Your name – Judi Sillifant
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2. Email address (private, and optional) – jsillifant@gmail.com
3. What is your work, path or purpose? – Weekdays I am an administrator in a call centre that deals with customer complaints for an IT company In the UK. Otherwise I paint in watercolours, read anything with words, knit, love walking the countryside flat and fill my time with crystals, meditation and writing.
4. How did you find this blog, and what causes you to keep reading (or stay subscribed)? – I synchronistically discovered a copy of Gaia Eros with which I fell head over heels in love. Since then it has become my daily bread. Every word I read on this blog describes in someway something I have thought or experienced and not yet put in words.
5. How has this blog influenced how you think or act? Can you describe any particular instances of something you read here affecting the quality, tenor, depth and meaning of your day to day life? – This question Is too difficult. This blog and every article infuses my day and I often use it as a compass.
6. Are you a subscriber? – Yes, I am, as of two moments ago
7. Which of the categories do you enjoy posts from the most (see the Archives category list on the left side of this blog page)? – I really have no preferences as they are each filled with magic and leave me in wonder.
8. What topics might you like to see written about from an Animá/nature perspective, that haven’t appeared here already? – I cannot think of any at the moment but will let you know if something comes to mind.
9. What else might you like to see more of here? – photos. Anything else that you’d like to tell us? – It is a dream that one day I may be able to visit. Through the blog I feel I know the spirit of place quite well already but perhaps this is to assume too much. It is all in my head and I would love to have it all in my body.
10. Do we have your permission to excerpt from your responses, for printing on the blog (by first name only, without your address)?- absolutely, you do.
matt
im am thrilled to finally find a website with exactly the information i am looking for. the ideals you promote and the good works you are doing are invaluable to neccesary healing of humanity and the world. i look forward to exploring more about you guys and the learning that you offer. all i can say is that i wish more of the world could wake up to the truth of who and what we really are as humanity. thank you and never stop what your doing. the world needs people like you guys now more than ever in history.
Isabel
I’ve been thinking about something for a while now, observing our culture, and I’m wondering Wolf, if you have any thoughts.
It pertains to men in our culture as they age-say over about 53, and how so many of them seem to really lose their way.
The catalyst for this was a conversation with my Nephew, when he said there was NO ONE (male) in his life that he respected.
It seems to me that a lot of aging men don’t want to do the work they need to (finally) do to move forward into Wise Grandfather-hood, and to be whole until they die…It seems they get lost in who they were, and in old ways of being (sexuality and work mostly) and it just seem like it’s an epidemic and terribly SAD to me that as we Women (and you have two fabulous examples in your life!) grow strong and powerful, the men seem to be diminishing. (That’s no reflection on you.)
I realize none of us are perfect, but everyone has had their trials, and well, when I look around, you are probably the closest thing to a fulfilled, whole Male over the age of 50 something that I know of!
Any comments?
Much love to your family!
Isabel
Anima Lifeways & Herbal School
Dear Isabel-
It seems women often ache to be themselves and live their dreams the older they get, while men tend to harden and fossilize. The reasons? Women’s obstacle to change is generally not feeling able or worthy enough, as well as feeling afraid. These can very hard obstacles to help them get past (as the strong women in my life proved), but not impossible. When men won’t change, it is more often because they truly don’t want to, and their sense of self, ego, value, masculinity hinges on them appearing to already be doing the right things, appearing to already know what they need to know. For both genders, years of experience would be better leading to new, more whole, brave and evolved ways of being, and the fewer remaining years should be inspiring ever more adventurous embrace of true self and purpose. If life were a concert, one would surely want to try out a new dance during the sweet hours of the night’s final act.
Ask much of the people in your life, while expecting nothing. That way they have an opportunity to awaken, deepen, broaden, and you have no worry about being disappointed.
I hope I have been of some help to you. And now on to another project to rattle cages, open minds and stir hearts! The more impossible the mission, the more exciting the efforts.
Adelante!
Wolf
Anima Lifeways & Herbal School
Ethan, figure out what you want to do with your herbal knowledge, then you can decide if you need any accreditation or degrees. Many folks are best off attending an herbals school, reading and apprenticing, and practice to build experience. Define your dreams and needs, then figure out how to best make it happen. The current issue of Plant Healer Magazine has an entire section on Herbal Education, and the Winter edition discussed the pros and cons of going professional or not. Blessings, Wolf (and Kiva)
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