Meditating with 150+ Filipinas
Living in a dream and jumping timelines, because I was just a mere lil mentee with this community!
March Recap:
Fly Pinays Leadership Summit
Your Visual Blueprint Masterclass recap
Free Creative Mentorship opportunity
New podcast episode
I Got Me, You Got You, We Got Us
Community is at the heart of who I am, how I move, and how I cultivate experiences.
My ancestors come from villages, come from compounds of tall cement built right up against each other so that you know your neighbors’ business, come from provincial neighborhoods by the ocean.
LEAD Filipino’s Fly Pinays Leadership Summit was one of the transformative communities that guided me as I was floundering “the real world” outside of my college bubble.
There are many lessons threaded through this years-long experience, but one I’ll extract is the practice of asking my community with openness and love.
As I’m growing my mentorship and consulting business, I wanted to lean on my existing support systems and connections I’ve cultivated over the years when I organized events and volunteered.
I felt it was late in the year, but something still prodded me to ask the founder of LEAD Filipino if they were in need of workshop speakers.
She said they were full, but would add me to the list for next year. That was already a big step in using my voice and opening up a door for possibility. Then not too long after, she personally texted me if I might be interested in guiding the meditation.
This was an easy hell yes!
And I didn’t realize it, but this also put my in front of every attendee as I would be on stage, instead of a smaller group in a classroom if I hosted a workshop.
So it was an honor to be thought of to lead the opening Guided Meditation for the full-day summit.
To go from:
a clueless mentee at the inaugural summit
to being invited to join the organizing committee and loving the opportunity to shape the next several years’ events up until the pandemic
to now going on stage to guide folks into their body and breath, wow.
There is courage to put your requests out into the Universe—and experience surprise and delight with what comes back.
This past year has been a year of courageously using my voice and daring to be visible and seen by my community.
If I continued to shrink, I would have gone down a heavy path of resentment, creative frustration, lack of fulfillment, and a plateau of financial income.
Imagine if I stayed hidden, uncertain of my capabilities. I wouldn’t have this happen at the summit:
After the meditation, a few people came up to me to share their gratitude for the calm and grounding they experienced.
Even when I introduced myself to the keynote speaker, we locked eyes, and she said “thank you” to ME!
One attendee even connected on Instagram and shared how she didn’t realize meditation could be so helpful, and we have a 1:1 this month!
Back in 2017 it was empowering to step foot into a large crowd where I got to see Filipina American woman old enough to be my Ates or older sisters, aunties, grandmas. Being badass leaders, professionals, and executives across a variety of industries.
I saw the world open up to what was possible.
Safety, empowerment, creativity, inclusion, and collective liberation are important facets I look for when I enter spaces, and are goals for when I dream up spaces for you.
Constant gratitude to all the community spaces that have shaped me, and am excited to continue taking those lessons of love and activism, safety and courage in all the spaces I create in the future.
Your Visual Blueprint Masterclass
One of the attendees so beautifully articulated my biggest priority for every space I open. I can float away to the clouds happy now, I did my job~
"My biggest takeaway or what really landed for me was honestly just the felt sense of containment, energetic boundaries and generosity that I felt just being in the space.
The piece about embodying energetics is huge for me and I could feel that embodied in the space. It makes such a difference.
The way people were lifting each other up and you in the chat and after the call just is a true testament to that work.
This is something that I want to learn to cultivate and also to VALUE within myself because I can often put so much emphasis on creating the perfect offer and all the details and "getting it right" and all those capitalist expectations of proving my worth."Monica Climaco, another attendee, quickly integrated the teachings so quickly for their own offering!
Free Creative Mentorship until Friday April 5
Click the post to learn more! Open to as many of your questions as you have.
New Podcast Episode with Improviding Life
Had a beautifully soulful chat with Lori Crawford, and ya’ll are in for such a cozy, playful, deep experience! All on Resting to Receive for your ultimate creative power.
Let’s Get Activated!
Resources and invitations for getting activated, to move us closer to collective liberation.
Have suggestions you believe should be featured in the next blog? Drop them down in the comments!
Culturally relevant resources, recommendations, and inspiration intuitively curated for you.
🥑 Nuggets of Nourishment: Spell for anytime you’re overwhelmed, off your center or in need of an anchor that’s soul deep.
Rachael Maddox’s spell, originally from ReBloom: 7 archetypes for personal & collective post-traumatic growth. A tome of wisdom for both facilitators & individuals here to heal & reclaim the more beautiful world.
Currently in Rachael’s Business Witchery cohort and after week 1, very excited to continue playing in this expansive, radical, inclusive container!
🌻 Community Spotlight: Monica Climaco’s first ffridays
Free to join, donations welcome. “an experimental, experiential virtual third place* for convening, communing, connecting for exploring and engaging via discussions and activities, like somatic practices, journaling, and therapeutic art using a framework of rest and play…So for the next few first ffridays, I’ll be facilitating a discussion series around each of the 5 neurodivergent love languages/locutions”
Monica was my roommate and co-regulation buddy in the Ritual Retreat hosted in Costa Rica last November—dear friend and peer! Highly recommend Monica’s offerings of safety and joy!
⟡ Ready for confident creative clarity?
Apply to Vessel for VIP Visionaries: 4-month 1:1 mentorship for heart-led creatives and changemakers
Apply to Unearthing Creative Wisdom: 6 week group program to establish foundations for rest, creative habits, and inner child joy (CLOSES APRIL 22, 2024)
Creativity Lab: Intimate one-off support to navigate your blocks and uncover what will guide you back to creative ease
Listen to my podcast episodes: Cozy up to various chats I have with changemakers on creativity, wellness, and everything in between
Filipinxs succeeding and healing in 2024! HERE FOR IT!