ROPES!

8:45 We met in Lehi to begin our Ropes Course Challenge. I was on staff, and chad was there for the first time as a student. We met and circled up at the beginning of the path into the ten acre woods. Cam is the main facilitator for the ropes course along with his two helpers Ken and Mark. Cam started with telling us about the land, the herd of deer that live there and the owls too. Then we got into some good stuff... He talked about perception! We will all perceive what we experience differently! And we will all have our own unique experience. Most of the morning was filled with this kind of discussion, plus a challenge with the group as a whole. Finally they all split up into three groups. And the staff were assigned to an event. Chad's group came to my event first. The challenge I was in charge of was to climb a rope ladder into a tree, and climb the tree about 40 feet to a little standing block. (6"X6") From there you leap for a ring! At the beginning of each challenge you decided or imagined what was in the ring for you. Some said "Success", others "better relationships", one said a "husband"! Climbing the tree and then letting go and simple standing freely on the block is symbolic of letting go of old patterns of living and the way things use to be. And jumping for the ring is symbolic of stepping outside your comfort zone to receive your new gift!
This isn't the only high event; known as "The Perch" is a higher often more challenging event for people. But it is usually the favorite. I am proud to say that Chad completed every event... over

coming all of the fears. He even did a trust fall where eight girls (including me) and Laine, the only boy, caught him and rocked him in our arms! sweet huh! he stood on a platform that was about shoulder high to me... so it wasn't a small fall. :)

The last two videos are of Laine Wilkins jumping for the ring... jumping for better relationships!

Toward the end of the day, we had one group that only had a couple people decide to try the event. Alan Wilkins asked if we had sent anyone up blindfolded yet. My eyes got big and I expressed how awesome that would be to experience that. (figuring I was safe being "staff" and all) Five minutes later they were strapping me into a harness and I was blindly climbing this tree! up.. up ... up... Everyone was instructed to be silent as I climbed. I didn't realize this until I was in the tree but I had a sinus infection that made me really dizzy while blindfolded. Still though, It was amazing! I got to the top and just stood! ... so free the breeze was soft and I could hear the leaves in the trees around me applauding me! I pointed straight ahead to make sure that I was jumping in the right direction of the ring. from the ground I heard "it's right in front of you" I leaped! soaring through the air... I missed the ring but I knew that I had still accomplished the challenge!.. It was still a very successful climb! I would do it again in a heartbeat... such an Amazing feeling. I challenge YOU to attend this ropes course... you will be glad you did. http://www.iwalkedonfire.com/

Medicine Woman Bowers

Chad and I have been going about the business of getting an official 'business license' for 'Chrysalis Healing'. We soon learned that this is a complicated process and we are both amazed that they make it so difficult... it seems like they do it on PURPOSE! grr.. anyways! :) We started talking with our friends about the topic and they proposed that we don't get a license until we are making a few grand a month (seeing how we still have our day jobs). We thought that to be a good idea, and the more people we talk to, the more we learn that many people do it that way.
But I am still one who likes to do things the "right way" and I wanted to be more bonified!! So what's a girl to do?! Well, life has a way of giving me a Third option just when I think I have to make a choice between only two... and usually the thrid option is "Just Right" (as goldilocks found out.) Third option is to become a Medicine Woman! The government can't touch me because the native american's have their very own 'government'!! That means that I can practice my healing with out paying taxes and without having to have a 'business licesne'!!! Plus I am given the title of "Medicine Woman" which in itself is pretty darn AWESOME! The more I think about it the more I am just leaping with joy that I have found a way to do my business without having to deal with government laws. Hiphip Horray! Now I don't know when all of this is going to happen but I am sure glad that this option is open to me! xoxo! much love to the universe!

Lesa Bowers!

Neutrality

So Chad is reading this book called "Transcending levels of Consciousness"; and one of the levels is called "Neutrality".
So lately I've been so wrapped up in the political world; I've been mad at the News for being so liberal, and just over all upset about the way that we think is "politically correct". It is almost like we are changing the foundation that we were built on so that the minority will feel comfortable living here... While the rest of us are to deal with it. For example on the new dollar coin the words "In God We Trust" has been removed. Homosexuality is being pushed on us as acceptable by movies, the news, and all the attention they get... You can get a scholarship for being gay.! But if you are white, straight, right-handed, and your parents are both alive the chances of you getting a scholarship are a lot slimmer. weird. Besides all of this there is a greater Law... I'm not sure what the Law is called but it is greater than this. Of course when something goes against what you believe to be right you should put forth good effort to state your beliefs. But do not let this consume your life and poison your joy. If after all that you can do, things are still not going your way, go on with your life and look to all the good things. Be that light that still says that "I believe..." Neutrality is saying that I'm not going to allow conflict to rule my life any more. And just let it go. Even with Gay marriage... If after all that we can do there is still an abundance of gay people getting married than we will retreat into the mountains and leave the gays to be alone in their gayness. Up there we can be neutral in what is going on and know that God will love them in the ways they need... whether it be tough-love or not. Every great civilization in history has fallen after homosexuality was in abundance. These are the last days. Be the Light. xoxo
Lesa Bowers

What Have We Been Up To?!

Today was the first snow for this winter. It is already melted but it was fun while it lasted. I believe that it is suppose to snow again tonight, but it was fun to wake up and see little white snow flakes falling all around. I hung a wreath on our door and gave it a harvest look... I'm not too big on decorating for halloween... I just don't feel that it is good Feng Shui to have skeletons, RIP tombstones, and spider webs around the house. So I will have to find alternative ways to decorate. Pumpkins are good!! And the Candy is good too... it brings lots of kids around!

Knowing that the snow is just around the corner. We have been trying to get out and enjoy the good weather while it is still here. I really shouldn't get too excited about winter... it always stays way too long.
<---- this picture was taken while hiking around Kamas. There were all kinds of little animals gathering food and getting ready for hybernation. We followed deer tracks around and enjoyed the veiw of the mountains. Chad and I talked about what it must have been like for the early ancestors who simply lived off the land. I think they probably had great "root chakras". They worked hard and probably took great pride in being able to provide for themselves. How would that be to be nearly immune to cold like the indians? We talked a lot about the last days and how we may need to learn all over again how to simply live from mother earth.

A couple days before this hike we took Zack (One of the boys I nanny) to Bridal Veil Falls. He had never been there before and so we decided to go on a little adventure. We all had a lot of fun and was a change from my normal routine as their nanny. :)

Chad Bought Zack Doughnuts... he was so happy.
That bandaid on his head isn't from me!... he ran into an eletric fence. :(

He's doing a rap or something.

The Boys!

"Aaahh... I'm spiderman!"

My Home Decore Wish List!

So being a wife, you get to dream about what you want your home to look like someday. I do this a lot!! I wander around my favorite home decore stores for hours (if chad lets me) picking out what I like and dislike... I don't usually take anything home with me, but I do get a decoritive 'high' from doing this. :) yeah!
<----- This hutch is close to the one that I dream about having. Only, Instead of the wood grain, I would like mine to be painted white, slightly disstressed and the 'sanded down' look around the edges. I love painting plates, and someday I plan to have a whole set of non-matching hand painted plates! Imagine how awesome those bright-colored plates will look in that described hutch! My kitchen will be roomy and bright. Someday... but until then I will enjoy the journey and enjoy my dreaming!

Chad is pretty into simplicity!! He love the Japanese style of a simple home. So our bedroom will probably have an asain feel to it... I'll post pictures soon. xoxo