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Blogs By Christian Bonvin

Blogs By Christian Bonvin

Move it to Intent

Move it to Intent. If you had asked me what the cornerstone of the maker tradition is, I would say that, at this point, it is your intent—not mine, not even the intent of the tradition itself. Our intent is what matters most, and that is very different from many other traditions. So your path is shaped by who you are and who you intend to become in the world. In that sense it isn’t a belief system; it is a living, breathing system that emanates from your intent. This makes the expression of your
Christian Bonvin

On Seeing

On Seeing As I continue my personal work, I’m shifting toward more “seeing” practice this fall. I’m still working with the same thread, and this morning I began to recap its seeing. It was a very expansive recap—traversing the movement of death, erasing myself completely until my energy could connect with and perceive everything around me. What does the tree see? What does the dirt see? What does the earth see? You have to disappear entirely for true seeing to occur—a difficult movement for me,
Blogs By Christian Bonvin

Healing moves from an old maker

This morning I started recapping with a view of the top of a wooden cupboard. It was beautiful wood, an antique for sure—very tall, and at the top, there were some papers, some rolled together. I did not try to look at them or read them; I didn’t think about doing that until just now, but there might be some information in them that could be useful. The room was on the second floor; there was grass outside, and a donkey was eating it. The space was very poorly lit—no electricity for sure. It was
Blogs By Christian Bonvin

Self-Healing and Pain

My name is Christian Bonvin, and I am a teacher at the CaveShamans school. I have been teaching for a while now and would like to address something I’ve observed throughout my teaching and personal practice. This might be useful for you, the blog reader, or it might not, but shamans are accustomed to seeing patterns in people’s energy. Our job is to understand those patterns to help create a different path out of them. Think of most lives as living the same day over and over (at least mine was).

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