Chop Wood Carry Water
Kambo Practioner training with Kambo International was one of the most life changing experiences of my adult life.
I found Kambo in November of 2021, my first few experiences with the medicine I didn’t enjoy or appreciate what it is. As a matter of fact I remember telling my dear friend after my first ceremony, “that is not medicine.” Thinking about that statement now makes me chuckle, in the past year I’ve taken a complete 360. I live and breath this medicine now and feel like it is slowly becoming a part of me and my whole reason for being here. Life is ironic in how we can show up with such opposition to things that we don’t understand. It is so easy to say nope, not for me, without fully comprehending what it is we are eliminating from our path.
I truly believe everything comes into our existence, path, field for a reason. We have the opportunity to sit with it, be open to it, allow it to come in for tea or dive deep and immerse yourself in the understanding of why it’s in your orbit. There are no mistakes or coincidences. We are shown things for a reason, it can be there for your soul’s evolution or not, but how will you know if you are putting up resistance without even understanding what it is. This is the lesson I’ve been getting a lot lately and I see others around me getting the same lesson.
Life really opens up its beauty and treasures to you when you allow, surrender and trust. It is revealing itself to you in divine time. The more we can lean into the divinity that is happening, the more fine tuned our frequency will be to receive. Isn’t it such a beautiful place to be to just trust in the all knowing goodness of this divine existence.
These reoccurring lessons that are showing up start to become more apparent with the work with Kambo. I notice as I’ve deepen my relationship with this medicine, it is more than just the “vaccine de Floresta” it is a new level of consciousness. You shed layers of lower vibrational states and it shows you yourself. Its an awareness to your patterns and almost like a pause button to see your thoughts.
I sat with Kambo on Monday, we did the grief meridian points and a chakra treatment, Root, Sacral and Solar Plexus. It was the most challenging sit I’ve had to date, it was coming out both ends, violently. It slaughtered me in the best way. I felt incredible afterwards and couldn’t wait to test out my new level of work at the gym. The next day after I went to a 7am intense workout, sauna and subsequently did that everyday last week with very little rest and integration of the work. I got to serve Kambo to 12 beautiful souls last week and I couldn’t be happier about that.
Well after 4 days of ignoring integration my soul called in a sickness, I had a sore throat, runny nose, headache, that forced me to cancel all my plans this weekend. I was so devastated, was so looking forward to service with the Santo Daime church and serving my soul sista Kambo today. Anyways, my being was crying out for rest, which is another lesson I get over and over again. I really struggle with this, self care, integration, allowing, surrending. I share this because I want my mistake to be your reminder, take care of yourself. Us people pleasers put ourselves last and end up running ourselves into the ground.
The good news is I don’t have covid and feel much better today, I am fasting for the full moon today, it feels interesting, lots of ups and downs. This is the first time I’ve tried fasting and as of right now I really look forward to eating! If you read this far thank you for following my stream of conciousness, its is so liberating doing this.
Oh and I wanted to tell y’all about Chop Wood Carry Water, my incredible teacher from Kambo International, Ginny Rutherford taught us this motto. Her teacher, Yuan Tze, the enlightened founder of Ren Xue, always says even the most enlightened people still have to “chop wood and carry water.” I really appreciate this sediment, as I keep getting the same lessons over and over. Instead of the old programming of beating myself up for the mistakes, I tell myself chop wood, carry water, we are still on the path.
Happy Full Moon in Leo & Blessings!
