Coming Back into our Rhythms & Visions

Inhale, exhale.

Deep breath in. Deep breath out.

Inhale, the breath moves deep into my body. Exhale, all muscles relax.

Phew, just taking a sacred pause to consciously breathe has seemed few and far in-between. I have lost a deep connection to my rhythms and sacred practices while transitioning from New Jersey to Indiana. We have been here for 5 & 1/2 weeks and are finally getting more organized and settled to be here, long-term. We have had so many logistical things to take care of, needed to adjust to RJ’s new work schedule and get acquainted with the flow of the community here. We finally feel like we turned a page and are flowing with the rhythms of our daily life. My intention is now to come back to my own unique rhythm and connect into my deep spiritual practices, which my soul is yearning for.

Although this transition has been challenging, life is still coming together beautifully. We know in our hearts that this is the right decision for our family and see the potential of what we just planted. RJ loves his new position here, on the farm. A main responsibility of RJ’s is to teach and manage the apprentices. He teaches them about farming and helps manage the whole crop operation. Seven new farm apprentices just arrived a week ago for the new season. We are really feeling the emergence of spring here on the farm and with it the buzz of new life, emanating with excitement, curiosity, and wonder.

My business has also been flourishing in the midst of such a great transition! I feel so grateful to be able to continue serving my community and for the love that ripples back into my life from these sacred connections. I love my work so much. It is a living essence of my soul. I am so filled by getting to be in the presence of such great souls. It is an honor to work with each of you. It took a while to fine-tune my offerings so that they were truly in alignment with my purpose, but when I did, I noticed that opportunities started magnetizing towards me. It doesn’t mean there isn’t hard-work involved, but I see how subtle shifts in claiming my power and worth became huge shifts in my business.

I am so filled up by everything I do. I can be completely tired, but show up for a reiki session or training and just be filled with endless energy to serve. This I know, is because I am living in alignment with my truth. I wish to support all beings in their sacred journey back to their own truth so that they may serve from a place of authentic alignment.

So in the midst of it all, RJ and I are just feeling so abundant and grateful! We are now ready to attune ourselves to the manifestation of our tiny home on wheels! I first started looking into tiny homes a year ago, after Lila was born. I was sitting for hours, breastfeeding and found myself watching tiny home videos on the YouTube channel, Living Big in a Tiny Home. We had no plans of moving into a tiny house or even trying to build our own home, at that time. As time went on and our circumstances shifted we started to really hone in on how we want to live based off of the lifestyle we want to cultivate for our family.

We wanted to avoid large amounts of debt which would have been the case if we stayed in New Jersey. Our visions kept brining us back to tiny house living which appeals to us for many reasons and I will get into later. Unfortunately, you cannot live in a tiny house on wheels in New Jersey or Massachusetts all year-long as a permanent residence. We tried to work out plans to build a small homestead on one of the properties that RJ managed in New Jersey, but it ended of shifting further away from our vision. We then decided to open up to to other possibilities and this is when the opportunity in Indiana presented itself. Here we can build our tiny house and live in it all year round, there are abundant resources to build the home, and support from the community to help us piece together the logistics of our home.

We are going to make our home as off-grid as possible. We want a home that can grow with the movement of life. We envision ourselves buying our own land and would like to be able to take our home with us. A tiny house is highly sustainable in many ways, especially making it off-grid. We will be using solar for all our electricity, a compost toilet and for now, a hook up to spring water. We may eventually move towards collecting rain water, depending on where we find ourselves in the future. Our tiny house will be on the “larger” side to support our growing family. We found plans for a tiny home, that we love, which includes two spacious lofts, a large bathroom, open living room/kitchen area and RJ and I will make a bedroom on the main floor as well.

There are specific weight requirements that we need to keep in mind when building our tiny home so it can legally travel on the road. We don’t plan on traveling with our tiny home unless we were moving to another homestead. Since we are still in the beginning stages we just have some rudimentary ideas forming! We want to have someone else build the frame, roof, walls, cabinets and closets. We will also contract out others for the electricity and plumbing. We will then be finishing the flooring, adding in any appliances, hooking up the solar and much more I haven’t even thought of yet. We envision having our tiny house completed by next Winter!

We have many visions for the future which includes buying our own land and creating a sanctuary for our family and others to come and heal with nutritious food, healing experiences and connection to nature. Life is about play. It’s not about where we are going but the journey along the way. I know that is such a cliché saying, but it has been a constant reminder for myself. There is no “end.” There is just the journey. When we meet one goal we begin to create again. This is our nature. We are creators and we live to serve, to grow, to play, and to be in joy. I am enjoying the the journey and the joy of watching our visions become a reality, over and over again.

Om, peace, Amen