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Finding Your Passion Shamanically

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Mara

I’m getting ready for drumming circle tomorrow and thinking about how we find joy in life. Meaningful joy. Sometimes the requirements of daily life, the beliefs we carry with us from childhood, and the messages from society can distract or … Continue reading →

Posted in Classes and Events, Thoughts and Insights | Tagged drumming circle, finding your passion, joy, Reawaken Your Brilliance, shamanic, thrive series | Leave a comment

Can Nature Help Us Heal? Forest bathing, a room with a view, and new studies about nature, stress and brain function.

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Mara

With the burst of extraordinary weather we’ve been experiencing here in Durham, many of us are turning our thoughts to the outside (if you can brave the pine pollen that’s drifting down like snow!). Whether it’s planting a garden or … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged British Journal of Sports Medicine, ecotherapy, EEG monitoring, forest bathing, How Nature Resets Our MInds, New York Times, shinrin-yoku, The Atlantic Monthly | 1 Comment

Going Dark, Pregnant Opossums, Easter, & Personal Evolution

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Mara

On Sunday we participated in the Pledge to Go Dark for the Earth and turned our lights off for an hour. It was a symbolic gesture, a display of universal commitment to protect the planet. We sat and talked in … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged Ancestors, baby birds, Beltane, fertility, hatching new ideas, Hope, Light and Dark, passover, Personal Evolution, pledge to go dark for the earth, seder, Spiritual Healing, Spring, spring cleaning, winter, wwf | Leave a comment

Spiritual Art on Display at Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Mara

Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill is currently showing my paintings. They will be on display until June. I’m very happy to have them there. Since I paint from a spiritual perspective it’s always nice for me to have … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights, Uncategorized | Tagged Art, art show, chapel hill, creativity, marabishop.com, paintings, spiritual art, Unity Center of Peace, unity church chapel hill | Leave a comment

Are you Stuck in the Muck? Are Cliffs of all kinds Looming? Read this.

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Mara

Every once and a while I peruse old posts for new insights. Sometimes I find something that is quite timely for what my clients or I (often there is an overlap) could use a refresher on. This has been an … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged Cliff, Conscious Stillness, Deliberate Action, Focused Observation, Mara Bishop, Personal Evolution, shamanic healing, silence, soul retrieval, stuck in the muck, Wu Wei | Leave a comment

Facing Global Collapse? Prince Charles, Nature, and Home Organizing

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Mara

I read this headline in a newsletter called The Future put out by John L. Petersen the Arlington Institute. Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilization – (Inter Press Service – January 11, 2013) Horrified, but not surprised, I read Petersen’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged Anne Ehrlich, Center for Conservation Biology, embedded in Nature, Global Collapse, InterPress Service, Jocelyn Kenner, Paul Ehrlich, Personal Evolution Counseling, Planet Under Pressure, Prince Charles, Proceedings of the Royal Society., recycle, See Your Way Clear, Stanford University, State of the Planet, The Arlington Insitute, The Future | Leave a comment

Thank you CNN! Love, Healing & Nonsearch.

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Mara

Last night I started to look around for some research on the ways that love affects our ability to heal. It was a relatively broad search, motivated by my continuing movement toward a practice that focuses on generating a particular … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged 10 things you might not know about love, Amazing Grace, Barbara L. Fredrickson, CNN, compassion, happiness, Healing, health, left brain, love, Mara Bishop, micro-moments of love, nonsearch, Personal Evolution Counseling, right brain, synchronicities, UNC Chapel Hill, wholespirit | Leave a comment

Core Shamanic Drumming Circle ~ January 28, 2013

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Mara

In 2012 I started a second core shamanic drumming circle as more people asked about joining a circle that met regularly to share shamanic work. I’ve been delighted with the groups that have evolved over this past year. I say … Continue reading →

Posted in Classes and Events, Thoughts and Insights | Tagged drumming circle, journey, Shamanic Journeying, Shamanism, sonic driving, spiritual community, WholeSpirit Center | Leave a comment

Personal Evolution for 2013

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Mara

Happy New Year! I hope you are having peaceful holidays with a good balance of rest and play, solitude and companionship. It seems that this year in particular is offering us powerful opportunities to shed what isn’t serving us and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged anxiety, birthing, calm, Energy Healing, Energy personality, Evolution, extraction, healing with spiritual light, Holidays, intuitive guidance, New Years, Personal Evolution Counseling, play, rest, wholespirit | Leave a comment

Gratitude and Appreciation

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Mara

An excerpt from my book Inner Divinity was posted as an article on Innerchange Magazine online. The article was on Gratitude. I’m feeling a sense of gratitude and appreciation most profoundly these days. I hope that there can be some … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts and Insights | Tagged appreciation, gratitude, holiday, Inner Divinity, Inner Divinity: Crafting Your Life with Sacred Intelligence, innerchange magazine | Leave a comment

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