Naturally Prosperous Woman
Hosted by Tara Preston, an Authentic, Feminine, Spiritual Leadership Mentor for rising women from around the globe for over a decade. The Naturally Prosperous Woman is a platform for women leaders who want to cultivate a deep rooted connection to their inner authority, feminine power & innate ability to flourish in their creative power. It's for women who are on the journey of remembering that they are born to create wildly free, & wealthy lives through the vehicle of business.
Naturally Prosperous Woman
The Art of Creating Sacred Space: A Path to Inner Wisdom
Welcome to a new episode of the Naturally Prosperous Woman Podcast.
Have you ever felt the weight of disconnection, burnout, or the unending hustle of life pressing down on you?
Join me, Tara Preston, Founder of the Akashic Women’s School, as I share my personal story of finding solace through the creation of sacred space, a journey that led me from the bustling city, while on the brink of burn-out, to tranquil countryside and a new way of being that supported my true feminine nature.
Weaving my story of personal transformation, I'll take you through the key elements that constitute the creation of sacred safe space - intention, love, and beauty, along with the significant roles played by rituals, prayers, and sacred objects.
Let me guide you into the realm of the sacred, where you can take a breather from life's worries and tap into your subconscious.
Here, we can connect with a higher level of awareness, open more deeply to the feminine path and rediscover our true essence.
I'll throw light on how creating a sacred space can help access distinct layers of wisdom and provide a sanctuary for your soul.
If you're a novice or a seasoned traveler in this journey towards self-discovery and spiritual growth, this episode provides you with valuable insights and resources to aid you.
Moreover, for those fascinated by the concept of sacred space holding, don't forget to check out the Advanced Akashic Women's Guide Certification.
Together, let's rekindle our inner flame and cultivate a life that nourishes us on all levels.
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Welcome to the Naturally Prosperous Woman podcast. I'm your host, tara Preston, founder of the Akashic Women's School, mentor to new paradigm leaders for over a decade and teacher of divine prosperity consciousness. This podcast is dedicated to empowering women leaders around the world who desire to tap into their authentic feminine power for more money, magnetism and course impact. It's a platform for women leaders wanting to embrace their natural abilities to create, lead and flow, unlocking their inherent potential for prosperity and living in alignment with their truest selves, because it's your birthright to flourish in the naturalness of the woman you were born to be. Thanks so much for being here. Let's dive in. Hello. Oh my gosh, I am so excited to be here with you.
Speaker 1:Summer is flying by. I hope that you have taken time to drink it all up. I'm just getting back from a three week hiatus, so to speak. Took a trip overseas to Portugal. We've been family camping. It's been so nourishing and I am so grateful to have had this time with family. Really, I know if you're like me. I was just so grateful to get out and move around and experience some travel, especially after isolation, you know, with COVID over the last few years. So, wherever you are, hope you're enjoying the summer months, and today I wanted to talk a bit about the art of sacred space.
Speaker 1:This is actually a topic that's really near and dear to my heart. I toggled a little bit over whether to feature this on the podcast because I sometimes wonder, as I was feeling into this topic around, whether it's deemed as important or not, because we hear a lot about it. I think we hear a lot more about it. But as I sat with it I was like no, this is important. This is important because it's been such a foundation for my own journey. So, as some of you know, I would consider myself to have fully stepped onto my sacred path. You know, my daughter turns 14 next week and she's always been a bit of like a marker of time, because she was about a year and a half old when we had moved from the city, from a lot of like the hustle, I was really feeling burnt out, and we made that move into the country, finding this acreage that really no one had lived on for quite a while, and made that journey to the country. So that's where I really fully stepped onto my sacred path, like really listening to my soul's calling. And so here we go.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna start talking about the art of sacred space, because there is an art to it, and the art of sacred feminine space even if you will takes this a layer deeper. So you know, whether you're looking at this through the lens of your own personal practice or you're looking at this through the lens of, maybe, retreats or group settings, right, or whether you're creating sacred space to facilitate transformation, maybe it's through a single session, which I often talk about when I am teaching on the Flower of Life, akasha healing method. So there's like it's important and it's powerful, right, and I think we sometimes forget that something so simple, when we have the right ingredients and we really set the stage, can be so powerful. And so, just to bring it back to my own story, because everyone is in a different place in their journey, right, of course, but one of the first things, when I made this move from the city and I can't, you know, I think I've shared bits and pieces of my story on the podcast, for sure, but you know I left my old life Things were just feeling tight, confined, heavy, outdated.
Speaker 1:I really wanted something deeper. I was feeling that call to really understand what my purpose was. I was feeling the initiation of motherhood and feeling burnt out. Feeling burnt out from like, a lot of pushing going, just the hustle right, just like the grind of, you know, especially living in a city. For me, that was a lot for my system. So we finally did make this move and I was a new mom experiencing burnout. You know my husband at that time too. He had something going on viral. He had traveled down to Central America and actually got bit by a tick and it had made him sick for quite a while. So, you know, I was also playing caregiver to a degree, he was doing his masters and there was a lot, a lot going on. But we had decided to make this big move and we knew we were called to something different, a different quality of life, a life that just felt a lot more connected, a lot more sustainable and a life that really nourished us on multiple levels.
Speaker 1:So feeling disconnected is often like a symptom, right when we push, go, do, when we're in the gridlock of hustle, which is, you know, I would describe as kind of like more of the wounded masculine or toxic masculine quality that we experience in the patriarchal framework of most of society. So how do we reverse that right Like how do we reverse that? How do we find our way back into a place of fullness, into a place of flow, into a place of sustainability, into a place of connection, into a place of realigning our lives to our deeper truth, values, needs, wants, vision, right? Well, it happens through claiming space. Right, we have to claim space. And I can't tell you how many women have come to me over the years and they are like I just feel like there's no space for me, I just feel like I'm so tired all the time. I just feel like I'm going and doing, like, how do I even create change? And over the years, it's always been to claim space. We claim space and we do that by creating, by the art of creating sacred space.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to walk you around the walk you through some of the core ingredients of this and I'll give you a couple of ways to go deeper with this. So some of you may or may not notice too, the know this the Advanced to Cashick Women's Guide certification, the doors to the early savings opens this week with a really beautiful special bonus, limited time. But I'm going to give you some other kind of micro ways that are really powerful to deepen into what I'm sharing here today as well. All right, so claiming space, so for myself, in that, in the midst of that journey, in that place, this is a while, you know, a long time ago now, but this is how I learned and a lot of this was through self-discovery. Some of this was a little bit, you know, maybe reading an article there, reading an article here. I mean, this was 14, 13 years ago and there was really not a lot online around a lot of this.
Speaker 1:But with my curiosity and my connection to the moon cycles, that had been something that I had connected to and explored since my early 20s. And now I was 30, had my first child, and so on the new moon and on the full moon, I would set up sacred space and I would weave journaling, maybe art, into it. Those were often my two practices, maybe a little bit of, you know, meditation or things like that. But I was starting to claim space and still to this day, if you're someone who's really, really busy and this idea of like claiming space, these ingredients for the art of sacred space, and it feels uncomfortable and foreign to do this as like a daily practice or a few times a week, starting with the new moon and the full moon is beautiful. It starts to seed in a new way of being and it actually starts to help us build a little bit of rhythm. Quite naturally, if you do this for a few months, you're gonna it's gonna build a muscle, there's gonna be some deepening and some connection. There's gonna be some clarity and some awareness right when you can start to take the connection and the essence of that back out into the world a little bit, right, but it can be a beautiful start.
Speaker 1:So, way back then, right, I would often, you know, light a candle, have some beautiful sacred objects, and I would journal, right, I would really journal out and I'm gonna, and I would journal out. You know, I would journal out what wasn't working for me, right, what my frustrations were, what was angering me or upsetting me, and I would kind of follow the layers a little bit more deeply too and really start to clarify, well, where do I want to create change and what would change look like. And I would often use that space to integrate some creativity. And at that time I was like obsessed with mandalas. That was like a big thing for me and I would draw mandalas and paint mandalas and Maybe sometimes I would color mandalas, but there was something very centering about it and I really wanted to work on opening up creative flow in my sacred space.
Speaker 1:So let's talk a little bit about the art of sacred space. This is a very. The art of sacred space is what takes us out of the mundane, what takes us out of the ordinary. We can bend time and space. When we can create sacred space, we can actually alter it. We move into a different energy, a different level of awareness. We gain access to our subconscious when we drop into sacred space.
Speaker 1:So the ingredients of sacred space is often that there is an element of intention, right, like an element of intention. What is the intention behind the sacred space? Is it healing? Is it activation? Is it to invigorate? Is it self-connection, is it inspiration? We can start to look at what is the intention of creating and claiming sacred space. We also want it to feel safe, we want it to feel beautiful, we want to weave in sacred objects and you want to have a candle. The candle is everything and the candle intrinsically represents the four elements. It's one of the easiest ways to weave in the four elements.
Speaker 1:So there's this sense of intention, of ritual, of weaving in these sacred objects and then this element of, often, prayer. So, whatever prayer looks like to you and I have a lot of really beautiful, simple prayers you can write out your own prayer. There's prayers that I often work with that are very, very simple, right, and prayer is such a beautiful way, like the actual act of ritual Every time you sit down in this space. That is just for you, the actual act of like lighting a candle. It actually signals to the subconscious that you're shifting from more of a linear view, a linear way of interpreting your experience, right To tapping into more of that subconscious, right brain part of you that starts to access a different layer of your wisdom.
Speaker 1:So this idea of working with intention lighting a candle, prayer, having sacred objects, objects from nature, crystals, whatever connects you to sacredness, to holiness, to beauty, right, and you take those objects and you arrange them in front of you, right, and it's through this energy of intention, of prayer, of sacred objects and weaving in elements of beauty that we start to drop in right, we start to open up space for this connection to essence and spirit. Right, where the holiness and the sacredness of our essence can dance and mingle with something so much deeper and also something so much higher. Right, it's such a key foundation, or even like a portal to accessing our soul, and so, if it feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable, again, a beautiful place to start is the new moon and the full moon right it's. We want to be able to start to become familiar with this sense of connection to our self, to spirit, and when we have these ingredients for sacred space, there's an element of safety. All of a sudden, we've set the space that allows us to let go, that allows us to detach for just a little bit right, it allows us to drop in. It allows us to feel held right With all of these magical ingredients. Right, and then we can, we can let go, we can let go, our essence can drop in, we can listen a little bit more deeply.
Speaker 1:Our system experiences this sense of being soothed, and so I want to invite you. If this is something that's new to you, then I would love to invite you to explore what this might look like to you. I'm going to give you a couple of resources, and, you know, this is the kind of space when we understand how to work with the magical ingredients of creating sacred space right, we can lean back, we can start to understand the importance of being right over just doing and hustle. Right, we can start to tap into deeper clarity. Right, and then the way to a different experience of ourselves or divinity and our lives can open from that place. Right, because it begins to come through that deeper connection to essence. And the way that we do that is by creating by this art of sacred space.
Speaker 1:And again, it's very feminine in nature because it allows us to drop in, to go within. Right, to travel the spiral within, to lean back, to receive, even if it's, you know, receiving wisdom from your heart self or your higher self, or receiving wisdom from spirit to guide your path. Right, it's a beautiful, clear space of connection and it's one of the most powerful ways to begin to carve our own authentic path and to actually start to do a deeper journey into intimacy, our relationship with ourselves, and into sovereignty. Right, when we start to go deeper and deeper into the root system of who we are, by coming home to ourselves, over and over and over again, we get to define and redefine our relationship to ourselves, the creative power that we have within to create life on our terms, and also we get to define and redefine how we exist within our relationships, so it is very, very powerful.
Speaker 1:So, again, whether this is something that you're doing for yourself, right, this is something that often I talk about as a facilitator how to create sacred space on behalf of our clients, right, so they feel held, so they can go deeper, so that they can feel held. There is an importance to it, there is a power to it. It should be simple, and often the most challenging aspect is giving ourselves permission to feel held in this way, whether it's by a facilitator who is holding that sacred space on our behalf, or whether it's the sacred space that we're creating for ourselves. Right, it's a permission to claim that space, to take the time to honor you. Right, to listen more deeply, to allow your spirit and spirit to work through you. Right To bring your life into alignment with your deeper divinity and authentic self.
Speaker 1:So, if this is speaking to you right now, we have the 21-day Akashic Journaling Challenge just started. You can hop in, though, and get started. Wherever you're at. I'm going to keep the group open and we're going to keep it going. You can jump in now and start your 21-day journey whenever you're ready. We've got weekly activations happening in there. Now you get a beautiful Akashic opening prayer audio as well as a 21-day journal. So there's that. I'm going to post the link below for the landing page if you want to explore that.
Speaker 1:It's like such a beautiful, beautiful life-changing way of creating daily sacred space while working with the Akashic field to receive deep body wisdom, insights, spirit insights, essence insights. While working in the Akashic field to realign your life right To a deeper truth, to a deeper calling. The free gift is the Radiant Morning Power Hour. That's a really simple way to start creating sacred space and this is more of a daily morning practice. So, as I was saying, for me I started during the new moon and the full moon, but over time I took that practice and I deepened into it and I used to go Monday, wednesday, friday and now it's like Monday to Friday. Even if it's a short interval of time, I'm still taking time to create that sacred space, to come home to myself, to listen, to drop into beauty, to stay connected.
Speaker 1:So you know this, just the essence of ritual and self devotion and self connection and listening and receptivity and being are all very, very beautiful, feminine, energetic qualities that allow us to start to shape our life in alignment with a much more sustainable way of being right, where we can really start to untangle and dismantle a lot of those patriarchal push go do hustle patterns that can be really challenging to unravel, but it can be done right. The soul is so, so powerful. And finally, if you're interested in the art of sacred space holding from more of a feminine lens, you might wanna check out the Advanced to Kesheck Women's Guide certification. The early savings, the doors to the early savings are opening soon we don't begin until September 21st with a beautiful opening ceremony. This Advanced to Kesheck Women's certification pathway is both for personal transformation right and a certification pathway that will definitely support the next evolution of how you facilitate soul level embodied transformation on behalf of your clients as well. This is a six month pathway, this program's four years running, and I would love to connect with you. If this feels like something that's speaking to your heart and your soul, I'm gonna leave the link for the landing page below as well, and if you wanna reach out, you can absolutely do that, tera at terra Prestoncom, or book a 30 minute consult, free consult, on the landing page, and we can deepen into whether this pathway is right for you at this time.
Speaker 1:I'm sending you all so much love. Thanks for being here and, as always, take care and I'll see you next time. Bye for now. Hello friend, thanks for joining us this week. If you'd like to stay in touch, head on over to the Kesheck Women's Community on Facebook group. Come, share your takeaways, your insights, your reflections. I would absolutely love to hear. If you'd like to deepen into any part of this work. Head on over to theakashicwomenschoolcom. Slash free, dash gift and grab the Akashic radiant womb awakening and clearing morning practice to start to sink into your feminine power. I'll talk to you soon. Bye for now.