Category Archives: N.America

Todo cambia….

Posted on August 30, 2017 by dawnbramadat

Waxing half-moon The end of August as the leaves begin to turn… 2017 It’s been quite the … Continue reading →

Posted in Courses, N.America, News from Heartroot, The Times They are A'Changing | Tagged new courses, School for Reclaiming the Womanly Arts | 3 Comments

NYC, December 2016

Posted on December 19, 2016 by dawnbramadat

The baseball diamonds and golf courses freckling the landscape told us we were flying over the U.S.. As the plane descended, the Hudson River, Central Park and Lady Liberty announced our arrival in NYC. Although the wind was biting, cyclamen, pansies, … Continue reading →

Posted in N.America, Uncategorized | Tagged 9-11 Memorial, Can I get a Witness, Norman Mailer, NYC, NYC as 51st state, Oculus, Rockefeller Center | Leave a comment

WINTER SOLSTICE, 2015

Posted on December 19, 2015 by dawnbramadat

HEARTROOT Approaching the Winter Solstice , 2015 Here … Continue reading →

Posted in N.America, The Times They are A'Changing, TIPS FOR TROUBLED TIMES, Uncategorized | Tagged Becoming Peace, duality and destruction., fear of the Dark, fear of the Other, Good and Evil, Heartroot celebrations, Light and Dark, Winter Solstice | Leave a comment

The Blood Moon and the Niqab

Posted on September 30, 2015 by dawnbramadat

We three women sat in rocking chairs on the balcony and watched the shadow come over the moon slowly…so slowly…. As the shadow of the Earth ate away at the luminescence of the Moon and turned her red, all of … Continue reading →

Posted in N.America, Teachings from Meditations | Tagged are we really so free?, blood as renewal and birth, blood moon 2015, energetic niqab, Malala, Nibi Wabo, niqab, niqab in Canada, Trail of Tears, Water Healing Song, what women do to feel safe, women as possessions | Leave a comment

EASTER WATER, 2015

Posted on April 7, 2015 by dawnbramadat

I am not sure that I have the words to describe the deeply-layered perfection of this Easter morning’s experience… but I will do my best…. At 3 in the morning, under the crisp, full, Easter moon, we crunched our way … Continue reading →

Posted in N.America, Teachings from Meditations, The Times They are A'Changing | Tagged carbon-based lifeforms, crystalline structures, Easter full moon, Easter morning, gathering Easter water, holy water, ice comets hitting Earth's atmosphere, Magdalene meets the risen Christ, silica-based lifeforms, we are made of mostly water, Yeshua and Magdalene | 2 Comments

Winter Solstice, Heartroot, 2014

Posted on December 27, 2014 by dawnbramadat

It was at about 3 in the morning, after changing positions several times , pulling a couple more blankets around my shoulders against the settling chill and streeeeetching my spine in every direction possible while sitting in place, that I … Continue reading →

Posted in N.America, Teachings from Meditations | Tagged Kali Yuga, medicine wheel, portals through dimensions, return of the light, slipping through space-time, Winter Solstice | Leave a comment

Canadian, huh?

Posted on November 18, 2014 by dawnbramadat

I don’t think I’ve thought of myself as a coward before. As a matter of fact, I think I scared the bejeezus out of my family more than once due to the…naive abandon?…with which I have comported myself throughout this … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings and rants, N.America | Tagged airport scans, Atlanta airport, Christians hijack Jesus, Harper Americanising Canada, North American Free Trade agreement, Stephen Harper dictatorship, waiting in line at the airport, who is American | Leave a comment

Through Megantic: The Road Home

Posted on October 23, 2014 by dawnbramadat

I had meant to be at Heartroot for sunrise the other morning, but it took me 45 minutes to get off the island of Montreal. First the bridge was blocked, then one after another alternate route…. I was relieved when … Continue reading →

Posted in N.America | Tagged crystal, disaster tourism, Heartroot, importance of art in healing, Lac-Mégantic, Megantic, MusiCafé, properties of granite, rebuilding of Megantic, special energy of Megantic area | 2 Comments

SUMMER SOLSTICE, 2014

Posted on June 21, 2014 by dawnbramadat

A Blessèd Solstice to All…. I have noticed that for the past 3 years, people arriving for the Summer Solstice celebrations at HeartRoot have been bone-tired – exhausted in a deep, structural way. The frayed and patched belief systems that … Continue reading →

Posted in Courses, N.America, Teachings from Meditations, TIPS FOR TROUBLED TIMES, Uncategorized | Tagged absent fathers, healing masculine energy, humans developing super-powers, misogynist psychology, present evolutionary shift, smothering mothers, south gate of the medicine wheel, summersolstice | 6 Comments

WHERE THERE’S SMOKE… (English translation of ‘OU IL Y A DE LA BOUCANE…’)

Posted on October 24, 2013 by dawnbramadat

(Translation of French text) To my friends and neighbours in the Lac- Megantic area: The first time I wrote about what I saw happening here I did so in English, because my French isn’t perfect. I didn’t want to open … Continue reading →

Posted in Caribbean, Musings and rants, N.America | Tagged corruption in the Quebec construction industry, Genivar and Pomerleau in Trinidad and Quebec, John Calder Hart, links between Quebec and Trinidad, reconstruction of Lac-Mégantic | 2 Comments