escuchar! Escuchar! Are you listening?

Escuchar in Spanish means to listen, to hear. Over and over, I kept hearing escuchar, escuchar, are you listening Johanna? 

This month has been both exciting and also challenging.  Our home has entertained family, our beautiful cousin Jenna, visiting from San Francisco, California, and we also hosted a five-week school, teaching Structural Integration, also known as Rolfing, lovingly nick-named after Ida Rolfe.  

My husband and I volunteered our home for the school and in return we became models for the students to practice on...lucky us! 

​The school is run by Christa J. Clark and it teaches a form of body work that is transformative,
designed to free your body from adhesions and imbalances. 

By aligning the body with gravity, this therapy helps to restore a natural, effortless posture, enhancing mobility and ease in everyday movements.    Through a set of 10 specific sessions, Structural Integration rebalances your body's left-right, front-back, and top-bottom planes, reducing resistance and optimizing how your body functions. 

Over a period of years, I have had several 10 series.  It truly does liberate, and through it my body has responded by experiencing a profound boost in energy, the releasing of the adherence of this fascia and the body work has brought to me balance in my structure, I become more grounded, I gain height, flexibility, and my favorite part is the "CLARITY".  

It's like opening a door to a whole new highway, or world, one that I didn't know existed until I received my first session, way back in 2015.  That's when the fog began to lift and a new awareness helped guide me to where I am today, living in Mexico, having realized that the beautiful American dream that I was taught to achieve, was not really what I wanted at all. 

If you are curious or want to experience this wonderful transformative body work, I have provided a link to the school. If your visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, you can sign up for and overall body session or go for the whole 10 series and be amazed!     

gravity body academy

S​O WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH LISTENING?  
EVERYTHING!
This is my story...Ernie my husband and I went for a visit to our home in Washington State, for the month of June. 

Our daughter Janelle lives in our floating home on Lake River, and just like any other home it has its list of repairs. 

We were there to replace a window and put in stair treads and risers, and of course sometimes when you do one thing, another issue is created. 

When we replaced the window, it was smaller and so then we needed to buy paint and paint around the window, which in turn led to noticing how faded and worn the paint was on that side of the house.  Yes, this led to buying more paint and getting out the ladders and paint rollers to paint that entire side of the house.  

There was a time when I actually painted houses for a living, and we had painted this whole house ourselves.  This is no easy task...as the house is floating, moving and is two stories tall.  

I'm getting up in the years now and my usual gusto and youthful I can do it attitude struggled to adjust to climbing the ladder and hold onto a tray of paint.  I could feel the fear well up in me the higher I climbed, and my knees must have known as I was using them to help hold myself steady on the ladder.  It only takes one turn incorrectly...I heard a pop in my knee. 

Makes no difference, I still had more than half of that side of the house to finish.  

Once the day was done, the house not completed, I found my way to the second-floor deck and settled into the lounge chairs with a glass of wine and some herbal medicine (pot).   Now mind you, I had let go of all these vices in Mexico and for over a year, had distanced myself from the energetic draw they seemed to have on me. 

Now the door was opened again.  My knee hurt and I still had over half a house to go.  So, until the job was done, I continued medicating each night. 

I was quite sure that once I left Washington State and returned to Mexico, I could easily return to my choices of letting go these vices and get back to my healthy lifestyle of walking daily, yoga, and juicing, and the forward journey of creating my dreams.  

Only, that is not what happened. 

Instead, once we returned, I found myself seeking out a supplier for more.  Every day, medicating, as I hobbled around, and the inner struggle began.  My desire to medicate, and my stronger desire to quit.  What I needed was a catalyst to shift the draw it had on me.  

My relationship with God is very strong, and I hear very clearly.  "It is a medicine and not to be used for recreational purposes".  This message was for me, and there is no judgement towards marijuana at all, since my near death experiences in Mexico, it has been made clear that my journey and purpose does not include alcohol or other substances.  I have a clear vision to achieve, and my focus must not be cloudy. I'm not the same woman who left Washington State almost four years prior.  

To AWAKEN you to the truth: it's not about what happens without, it's about the choices you make within.  

Sometimes, what's broken needs to crumble to dust so that you can create something new and beautiful.  

There is a way, a path within you, a beautiful and light filled path, where you feel so held and cherished...a path where you don't have to figure it out anymore, where you can let go of control and allow yourself to be gently guided in love.  

What happens, when you don't listen?  There are many stages of listening.  There is the one where you are nodding your head, saying yes, I hear you. You're getting instructions, but really your saying...I will, just not now.  That is where I was.  

I was hearing and experiencing "STOP, GO BACK, YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!"  "BAD IDEA...GO BACK...YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY NOW!"  Instead of listening with immediate action, stopping cold turkey, I was trying to reason my way into the incremental process of just slowly lessoning my usage. 

The power some of these vices have over me is like a very strong magnetic pull, that sends me into a continuous looping program, where even though I may enjoy the experience of receiving the freedom of expanded creativity from the medicine, I also at the same time go into a place of judgement of myself.  A continuous loop.  

I have seen my path forward...pleasure ahead, this way to where you should go.  

I have found that everything is a blessing, yes even the things you may view as a not so good experience, usually allowed, to bring you an opportunity to have a new perspective, but seriously, every blessing isn't always comfortable.

Enter my catalyst...I was asking for something to break my energetic pull to these vices I had re-opened the door to. 

Our company, and school starting was just what I asked for, only I was being stubborn and ignoring all the signs I was being given.  

First, I got a scratchy throat.  Then I started losing my voice.  Still stubborn, and ignorant to my still quiet voice. 

Even though the signs were obvious...I still wasn't listening...things in life are sometimes allowed, to help shift the direction you have chosen.  

Within days, I was fully emersed in a horrendous head cold. I have not had a serious cold since before 2015, and forgotten how miserable one could be.  Headaches, lost 75% of my hearing, congestion, fever, loss of appetite, lack of energy.  OH MY.   Over and over, I kept hearing the words ESCUCHAR, ESCUCHAR....ARE YOU LISTENING NOW?  

A friend asked me but why did you lose your voice, and I replied, "You can't listen if you're talking".

The good news... remember there is always a blessing if you're grateful and looking for one, my blessings were that the energetic pull was broken.  

We are entering a completely new reality.  The aquarian age is a reality where truth resonates, and everything else sticks out like a sore thumb.  This higher frequency energy is the PATH to feeling great and in alignment.  Part of the path is RELEASING what is not a match for the higher frequencies.   

After my experience of near death, I had said "YES" to this new path.  I had said "Yes, I want to live God". 

I had been asked to release the dreams of the past to make space for the dreams of my soul's blueprint.    

Cycles are completing and everyone's frequency, awareness and consciousness are upgrading. 

Are you listening? 

Has a small still voice been calling you to maybe let go of what you usually do, or how you live and pick up a new mantle...one that gives you permission to lead from your heart and soul? 

One that is calling you to trust that you are supported and protected as you let go of the old, to allow the emergence of "A New Way, A New Path, one that is full of Ease and Grace, your Soul's Blueprint.

Even if your dreams are simple, even if they are huge, we are being given the chance to LISTEN and EXPAND WITH JOY.

My dreams include bringing to life my experiences, dreams and visions after experiencing near death, these events have given me a story to tell the world.  One about how you are the 'Light of Love".  

I have only just begun to create my dreams...follow me as it unfolds, become my support team.  You can sign up for my Newsletter, and as I grow and learn and create, you will be the first to know and share my journey and receive special discounts and drawings for prints as I am led to create them. 

​This is all new for me...a huge learning curve, and I have said yes to learning and leaning into this new way before me.  Many changes are coming, including the re-working of my website, which is in the works, so please have grace for me as I grow into this dream.  
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