Gisela Wendling's Blog

Rites of Passage and Wisdom Emerging

A couple of months ago I participated in the Wisdom Emerging retreat at IONS with Alan Briskin, Lauren Artress and Angeles...

Hunting for Honey Ants

During one of my visits to the Central Desert to participate in the women’s ceremonies, several Aboriginal women went...

Altered States or Altered Realities

When I first became introduced into indigenous spiritual healing traditions, I began to experience things that were out of the...

Ceremony As A Collective Healing Response

A few posts ago I shared my perception that ceremonies are a collective healing response to the existential experiences of...

That Old Man

In only a few minutes, this video conveys in powerful images and simple language how the Aboriginal people and...

Women’s Business, Women’s Ceremony – Two

Women’s Business is sacred business and it is secret business. During the ceremony...

Women’s Business, Women’s Ceremony – One

Ceremonies are a collective healing response to the elemental and existential experiences of being human. As we dance, pray,...

Rites of Passage: Pivoting at the Edge with Spirit

Please feel free to download Understanding Rites of Passages. for a more conceptual overview, its traditional use and...

Dreamtime or Time for Dreaming – Two

Sometime after the painting Incubation: Lizard Dreaming was done, I looked online to find any references to animal...

Dreamtime or Time for Dreaming – One

I made the painting, Incubation: Lizard Dreaming, two months after I arrived in Australia. Making this painting was my first...

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