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Wonders, Wanderings & Writings

My “Burning Woman Festival” TALK is coming up

I am so delighted to announce that I will be a speaker at the awesome Burning Woman Festival alongside loads of brilliant guests ✨
I will be talking about my book ‘Letters from the Wound’, reading from it, sharing with you some of the concepts, life philosophies, spiritual insights, experiences that are behind it, as well as leading a guided meditation with voice and drum to help us come back home and reconnect to our inner flame and fire.
It is the weekend of the 4 & 5th of July. 
My session is on Saturday at 4pm (British time).
Do check out the programme with the link below. 
I am an affiliate so if you book and do it from this particular link, I get some pennies. Cheers. 
(there is a suggested price but you can also give what you can afford)
So looking forward to sharing this experience with you ??☀️???❤️More details in a later post.
https://www.burningwoman.co.uk/?ref=18

Here is a little taster of the various sessions…

And the description of my offering:

Come and journey back to source, back to you, back to your inner flame and creative fire with Natacha Dauphin, author of 

Letters from the Wound.

Do you remember becoming aware of having abandoned yourself? Or perhaps you hadn’t realised that this was happening until now?

Natacha became aware of this, which changed everything, enabling her to step into a fuller and truer version of herself.

This abandoning can happen slowly, subtly and over time or fiercely and suddenly. Either way, it causes us to disconnect; from ourselves, our gifts and the world around us.

In this talk/workshop, you will be reminded that it is OK to feel ALL that you are feeling. You will be encouraged to acknowledge and thank your wound for her gifts and you will be given tools to stop feeding her and start living from a place of presence and gratitude for the wondrous gift that is your life.

Whether you experienced or are experiencing grief, betrayal, depression, anxiety, shame, loss of self-worth and motivation, you have the right to start feeling magic, inspiration and intuition flow through you again. You are deserving and worthy of being you, of embracing your time here on Earth and of sharing your gifts.

The workshop will address these themes, give you concepts and exercises to dive deeper after the session and help you pivot back to your authentic self.
You will be supported by readings from Natacha’s newly published book ‘Letters from the Wound’ and a LIVE exploratory guided sound meditation with voice and medicine drum.

Do come and join me and the rest of the wonderful guests.

With much love, as always,

Natacha

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Wonders, Wanderings & Writings

Beautiful Spring

“Perhaps, I can collect the seeds, once the flower has wilted…”

‘Letters from the Wound’, Natacha Dauphin

As we are mostly cooped up inside, the world outside is bursting with colour, vibrancy and fragrance. Mother Nature is doing her thing in the most ordinary and yet in the most extraordinary ways. I will never cease to be in complete awe of her talents, wisdom, courage and generosity.

For many, this lockdown and virus provide a newly acquired lens through which to look at oneself and one’s life. It is an opportunity to reevaluate what really matters, to experience how things can be different if we do not get caught in the hamster wheel, if we become more aware, and brave enough to live the life we want to live and are deserving of living.

In quietness and spaciousness there is room for expansion, recalibration and of course rebirth. Despite the difficulties, inconveniences and genuine losses a lot of us are experiencing, I do believe that if we can rise to see all this from a higher perspective and wider lens, we will observe and trust that there is a bigger shift and gift orchestrated by life itself taking place.

We could not have carried on much longer sleepwalking the way we were as a human race.

My wish is for this time to plant the seeds inside each one of us to rekindle our hearts and awaken the infinite callings of our souls.

My prayer is that we can, at last, grasp the true meaning of connection – to self, to the other, to Mother Earth, to the universe and take inspired action from a place of love, respect, honouring and celebration.

When my book ‘Letters from the Wound’ came out at the end of February, I could not foresee what was about to manifest on this planet and yet the entire book is an invitation to retune, to reestablish a connection to all that is.’Letters from the Wound’ is about coming back to what really matters and the importance of not abandoning oneself. It reminds us that we are “Divine beings having a human experience”, as a very wise person once said.

The Earth is sacred and we definitely do not own her. She is allowing us to be here. Let’s not forget and let’s start walking with more care, humility, gratitude and integrity.

We all have an active part to play. We all have our own medicine to sprinkle around with love.

It takes courage to show up in all that we are. Yet, there is no time left to pretend, there is no time left to play small.

You can be bold and gentle at the same time.

What will you do today to honour life and all that you are?

With much love, Natacha ?

PS: I took this picture by the river Ouse in York a couple of days ago.

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Songs videos Wonders, Wanderings & Writings

‘Sweet Fear’ – original song and video

“I sit with you sweet fear
I sit with all you hold dear
The labels, the threats appear
To support and fund your life here

But I won’t stand in fear my dear
Those days are gone 
Let’s make it clear

Sit with me sweet fear
Have a glass and disappear
There’s no one to save here
No one to trap inside your sphere….”

Today, I saw my first butterfly. It was beautiful and despite one of its wings being damaged, it gracefully flew away after a few minutes blessing me with its presence.

The transition between winter and spring seems to have been playing ping pong but one thing is for sure, the days are getting longer, the daffodils are dancing in the wind and the cherry blossoms are displaying their breathtaking elegance.

The song and video above are a little reminder to not try and escape fear; for when we do that, we give it the power we so long to have over it. Instead, this is an invitation to befriend it, to thank it for its concern and wish to protect us, to reassure it that we are fine, to wave it goodbye and to step into the arena of our life-whatever that means for each one of us.

Stepping out of our comfort zone is one of the best ways to show life that we trust it, it is one of the most worthwhile contracts we can sign with our soul and the most terrifying but exciting way we can encourage our heart to grow. Just like snow drops pierce their way through the snow, we can show up for ourselves, for our dreams, visions and life at any given moment. Start NOW.

The new moon is approaching, ready to bless your new intentions, projects, wishes and commitments.

I send you much love and I am cheering you on ?

Natacha x