The Adventures of Luminessence Butterly Free

So much is activating, elevating, evolving, changing, shifting, accelerating and expanding that I am not even sure what to type. I know that it is important for me to share my experience of this amazing time in my life. I will do my best to conjoin my words and phrases into a syntax that is simple and succinct. I hope you enjoy this documentation of my adventure's, rabbit hole exploration, explosion and rapid growth.

I left St. Petersburg, FL on June 15th. After a blissful, lucrative and inspiring session with the Flow folks at Hoop Path in North Carolina, I spent an adequate amount of time in retreat with my family. My mother, grandmother, cousin and aunt all spent a full week soaking up the sun and sitting in the sparkling sands of Edisto Island, SC. This has been a tradition for the last 15 years of my life. I took this time to cook healthy foods for my family and share my knowledge, as it is my duty in Love. This sharing of information led my aunt to discover she was gluten/lactose intolerant and now she is on a path to recovery. Thank you, Source! I also took this time to sit and connect with the written word. I dedicated much of my time to writing and processing in my journal. This led to the birth of many new blogs and the beginnings of books. My most transformational time in Edisto, however, was my desire to sleep beneath the starlight and lunar light. I slept outside many nights, falling asleep under the glittering sky, listening to the ebb and flow of waves crashing in perfect rhythm. The most enchanting part of sleeping outside in the dark was rising with the sun. I awoke almost every morning to the sun shining on my face. As I opened my eyes, the first site I saw was a trawler gathering shrimp, with hundreds of seagulls above and at at least 50 dolphins behind, all joyously diving around devouring their breakfast. I hold this scene in my heart and it fills me with peace and appreciation for this amazing life I am living. My time at Edisto helped to heal and open my heart, as well as opened my third-eye to some dynamic creative downloads. I am so grateful for the amazing women in my family and for this experience that we shared together!
Shortly after my departure from Edisto, I spent a week on the magical Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia with my mother. She was there to work, I was there to be of company and work on my own projects. The Healthy Hooper was born on the new moon of July while on Jekyll! I posted my first blog for The Healthy Hooper that week, and it was the beginning of my life as a successful working artist, author, and healer. I took time to connect with my beloved mother of flesh and earth. It was a healing time. There is something very special about this place, and I am grateful I had alone time while there to allow the birth of creative and prosperous beginnings.
After leaving Jekyll I spent a significant amount of time with my parents at their house in Athens, GA. It was so healing to connect with them further. I love and honor my parents, and it is reciprocated beautifully. They are very supportive of my journey. For this, I am immensely grateful. They understand my free nature and spirit, and allow space for me to flourish. My mother and I frequented the local Farmer's Market, which inspired us both to eat more sustainably. My mom decided to become vegetarian and has given up fried chicken! Yay, Mom! This also inspired me to move forward with my project and I begin writing more blogs about the power of food, conscious consumption and healthy living. Athens is a beautiful city with many conscious choices and people.
It was a blessing to retreat to my own room to write or just be alone. It was important for me to be able to go outside and dance and be free. My parents are so accepting of who I am, and being in this space helped me to be just as accepting of myself and them. I worked through a lot of personal issues during my time with mom and dad. I enjoyed sitting on the porch in the morning sun, having coffee and theological discussions with my father. I soaked up the Divine Feminine of my Mother. I am grateful for it and am looking forward to the next time I can retreat to their sanctuary, as it is healing for my heart and childhood wounds.
I took a short trip back to St. Petersburg in July. This was a healthy challenge for me. I was really missing my Flow Family in Florida and it was wonderful to connect with them. It was bitter sweet saying goodbye again to the ones I loved, but I am grateful for my time with each of them. It was hard to leave StudioFlow and Noah, but I am trusting that the Universe will recycle the 'concept' of it all, and it will come back around my way when it is time. My heart is still a bit empty from this detachment, but where there is emptiness, there is room for miracles.
After leaving St. Pete I headed back to mom and dad's to regain my sense of feeling rooted and grounded. Once that was accomplished I set off on the big adventure across the country. My first stop: Lucedale, Mississippi.
What the heck would bring me to Mississippi, you might ask? A very close friend/sister of mine, Karen. I had not connected with Karen in years, so it was time. What a rewarding experience! It was amazing to connect with Karen, her husband Eric, and their two beautiful children (Nathan,5 and Savanah, 3). Spending time reading to Nathan and answering his curious questions reminded me to always be childlike in my approach to knowledge. Dancing and twirling with little Savanah was so phenomenally healing for my heart. She wanted to have her hair in braided pig-tails like mine, and was always SO happy to see me when I accompanied Karen in picking them up from 'school'. That sweet little girl helped me to remember that I am going to be a wonderful mother someday, and it is my duty to help raise the children of the world. Even though they are not mine, it is still my responsibility to be a shining example and help them all along the way. Connecting with Karen again was an enriching experience. We learned so much from each other! I am so grateful to her and Eric for helping me along the way! I couldn't have done it without them. Infinite Gratitude.
From there, I drove to Austin, Texas to meet up with people who run the Qi Revolution. Qi Revolution is a 4-Day Seminar that includes Qi Gong training, food healing information, breath empowerment and lecture on topics that actually matter (sacred geometry, gratitude, etc.) I was hired on to help sell music by the amazing Jami Deva who saw me for who I was at the Orlando events I previously attended. He even said to me, 'You have a pure heart. Let it guide your experience with us'. I did. He has helped me tremendously, as he hired to me to help in Austin as well as San Diego. This event was even more amazing now that I was behind the scenes as opposed to being a participant. The Qi Family is indescribably beautiful. Everyone welcomed me into this family with love, warmth, and encouragement. I re-connected with people I had met at other seminars and met so many new, lovely beings. I was able to participate in the seminar and it felt wonderful to connect deeper to the breath, qi gong, and information shared. It was good practice for my Level One Instructor training that I would be taking once I got to San Diego. Jeff Primack, the founder of the event, was happy to see me there and was very encouraging. It was a honor to connect with him further. My shining moment was one of the last nights in Austin, when I was able to share my hoops and performance with all of the Qi Family. I fire hooped and spun my fire poi, and they were all so inspired and grateful to me for sharing. It felt wonderful to be accepted and my gifts acknowledged! I taught them how to hoop and they loved it. They were all so happy to have found such a fun outlet. My experience in Austin was amazing. From there, I followed the tour to San Diego, where I am still located at present moment.

San Diego has been a blast! I have learned so much about myself though my amazing Qi Fmaily. The 4-Day Qi Revolution seminar was powerful, and this is a statement considering it was my fourth one. It keeps getting better and better. I focused in on learning Level One, as I wanted to prepare for the teacher training. I was focusing my Qi towards my dream of Maui, and loe and behold, the second day of the seminar I received a phone call from the farm I applied to back in June delivering the news that I had been accepted! I will be living and working on the magical island of Maui for six full months starting in February. This is the power of the Qi! The timing of this call was a synchronicity indeed, as I began to manifest this dream during my first Qi Revolution in 2008. I have come a long way since then, and I am now a certified instructor for this amazing practice! I studied and practiced and passed my test with ease. It feels so good to be on this adventure, while still educating myself and creating more and more opportunities for me to expand, grow and share. Incorporating Qi Gong into my life has improved it in all areas, especially the areas of TRUST and CREATIVITY. By immersing myself in the practice of harnessing Qi (life-force energy) I have opened up and activated areas of my heart and mind that were previously sleeping. My Qi Family is full of people who are Masters of Qi and have lots of wisdom to share so I have been soaking it all up. I am humbled to be a student. After the seminar I was blessed to be able to continue my training. I took a workshop on Tantra, which strengthened my ability to cultivate the Kundalini energy that flows through us all. My education continued as I was able to assist and participate in a two-day Food Healing seminar, as well. I am so grateful for ALL of these opportunities and give thanks to the Source for opening the Way. Source has been providing opportunities for me to sell hoops and give massages, which is how I have been able to continue on with this amazing adventure. I ended up connecting with a friend that I knew 10 years ago in high school out here. His name is Guy. He is a vendor and goes to local markets everyday to sell sunglasses and Rasta clothing and gear. We connected and I was able to sell hoops with him! I am amazed at how this has all fallen into place.
I made friends with a beautiful soul sister named Ann. Ann has been such an angel, and I am staying with her at present moment. She lives with beekeepers who are self-sustained on their own land. It is so wonderful to experience all of this. I am learning more than I can type!

I am realizing that I am very adaptable and can thrive anywhere. Everywhere I have been opportunity has been all around me. I spent my last two dollars in cash on a cup of coffee the other morning, and by the evening sold enough hoops to have $175 in my wallet. I love Source, and Source loves me. It is clear that I am on the right path.

After being super devoted to practicing Qi Gong and being around such high vibrational people for weeks I was feeling the need to sleep on the earth to ground and decompress. I asked a friend where to go and they gave me directions to the perfect spot. I hiked down into a canyon in the middle of the night. I took my flashlight and followed the sounds of the ocean. I found a cozy nook and threw down my sleeping bag and fell asleep under the stars to the sound of the Pacific. This was a first. I woke up the the magnificent site of cliffs and canyon walls framing the powerful Pacific and her crashing waves. It was my first site of the actual Pacific Ocean. When in Oregon and certain parts of San Diego I saw the bay, but not the actual ocean. It was glorious to begin my day meditating on the view of the water and earth. I sat in silence and then practiced Qi Gong. I plan on sleeping in that spot many more times before I leave this place. It feels good to be able to just say 'I'm going to sleep outside tonight', and then go do it. I am liberated, strong and capable of living out ALL OF MY DREAMS!

I was invited by a cool guy I met named Jesse to attend my first ever dub-step rave. What an insanely cool experience! I don't do any crazy drugs anymore, so I took my LED hoop and was ready to blow the minds of a bunch of tripped out candy-ravers. The music moved me, plus I had a bunch of cultivated Qi flowing through my veins. I hooped so freaking hard, had hundreds of people watching, and was totally vibing high! My new friends that I made named me 'Luminessnce'. It felt like Truth. It felt so good to dance without any limitations to some of my favorite DJ's (RUSKO) that I never thought I would see live. Jesse was super cool and let me do my thing. I really needed to let it all Flow out. Here is the interesting part. I had my hoops in my hand on the way into the concert. No one checked my ticket, no one patted me down at security, no one told me not to bring in my hoops. They were telling other girls they could not bring in hoops, but somehow I was invisible and entered with ease. I could have gotten in for free, but Jesse had already purchased my ticket. It was really crazy, actually. Perhaps they thought I was a performer? Or, perhaps I am now existing at a vibration where those who are not at an equal vibration do not even see me? Who knows! I am just grateful that I was able to express myself freely while setting the good example of raging out at a rave without being all f****d up on drugs. I met a lot of people and passed out my business cards left and right. It felt so good to be respected for the artist that I am!

My favorite thing about San Diego is the awesome Flow Family I am connecting with here. I met a great friend named Jason and we do fun things together like acro-yoga and Dance Jam. Dance Jam is put on by one of my hoop heroes, Patrick of Psi Hoops. It was so neat my first time at Dance Jam to look over and recognize Patrick from photos. He is prominent in the hoop community and I feel honored to be hooping and learning with him. My first night at Dance Jam the group put me in the middle of the circle and they all 'Om'd and then lifted me up and carried me around the room making fun noised and raising my vibration even higher! They told me they loved me for being there and called me 'Butterfly Free'. I am living in heaven :) I met a beautiful couple (Kyle and Jessica) and they invited me to their home, which is a communal home and a perfect sanctuary. Kyle and Jessica are changing the world by expressing themselves fully and freely to others and each other. I am very inspired by their relationship. It made me miss Noah, but I am holding space for the perfect relationship to reveal itself to me when I am truly ready. All is well, and my heart is healing and happy.

I am headed to LA next where I plan on meeting up with some blood family and Qi Family. I would also like to attend a church service at Agape where Dr. Rev. Michael Beckwith speaks of love and truth. I admire that man so much! His life is deeply inspiring. I am doing my best to take a purposeful trip to Miami to obtain my Level 2 teacher training in Qi Gong. From there I headed to Santa Cruz, CA where I will connect with my Flow Family at Hoop Camp! I am so excited to take classes and see my loved ones. I am also very blessed that is a working experience for me, as I am one of two massage therapists on duty there. I am enjoying integrating my healing into my hooping, my hooping to the Qi, my Qi into all areas of my life and my life into the Divine Web of The All. It is all coming together in a flawless, fluid stream. From Hoop Camp I will travel north where I will be camping and working until it is time for me to go to Maui. I will use this time to retreat inward and empty my vessel in preparation for the island.

I appreciate all of you taking such interest in my journey and I am so honored to be able to share my experience. So much artistic expression has been flowing out of me, so stay tuned to my youtube for new videos and my blog for new stories, poems and random reflections. I love each of you. So much, actually, that you are part of the reason I am doing this. I desire to be successful and have an enlightening experience so that you know it is possible to do it, too. I am feeling very blessed to be on this adventure, and I am immensely grateful to all of the earth angels being put in path to assist me on my way! I am totally trusting in this moment, and I encourage you to feel the same. Blessings abound <3