Alena Natalia Offerings

27/02/2024

TRUTH/Hard Pills to Swallow

Something I’ve learned again and again is that most people think they want the real thing, but really they don’t.

This is probably because most people would never know the real thing when they see it. Because Truth is a feeling, it’s a frequency, it’s not a visual or an idea.

And most people who are looking for something, touch Truth and they recoil.

Because Truth is uncomfortable. It’s Real. It’s uncompromising. It just is.

Truth doesn’t need to prove itself. It doesn’t need fancy words, decorations, or anything else. It really just is.

Truth is an undercurrent we tap into. Or we don’t. It’s a frequency we embody and let move through us. Or we don’t.

Most people think they are looking for Truth, or the real thing, the real deal. But what they’re actually looking for is the crumbs Truth leaves when it’s passing through.

They are looking for the expression of, the reflection, or the illusion of Truth. But most people are not actually looking for the real thing. For Truth itself.

Why? Because it’s hard. Because Truth, obviously, never lies. It never bends to your whims or ideas or comforts or preferences. It never arrives in the package you want it to.

Most want something convenient and comfortable. Something digestible and extractable. Truth isn’t convenient nor comfortable.

But Truth also isn’t digestible, nor easily assimilated. We must arrive to Truth ready for Truth, prepared. Otherwise we can’t digest, we can’t assimilate, and instead it may ruin us. Because Truth doesn’t arrive in feathers, it arrives as a Sword.

And most of all, no one wants Truth because it’s the biggest responsibility of your life. To see, hold, breathe, and live Truth.

Most people don’t want to take responsibility. At least not to the degree that Truth demands. As long as we’re unwilling to take responsibility, we cannot pass further. Everything else is untethered to reality.

It’s much easier to chase the illusion of Truth, the trail of crumbs, than to meet it. Eyes wide open.

Because Truth will destroy your world. It will destroy your life. It will ask everything, but it will also give you everything.

Continued below 👇🏽

22/02/2024

Resistance & the Soul’s Path 🌀

The weight of our resistance is equal to the gravity of power and medicine available to us on the otherside of the resistance.

The density of resistance is equal to the brilliance of the light waiting for us.

To me it’s like the quantum physics of the Soul’s Path. And the paradox is that resistance is the feeling or thought that often arises when we are going the right way.

Like nature, the soul is always seeking its own evolution and self realisation. It is that which tethers us to Life itself.

But we live in a world that teaches us that anything uncomfortable, is bad, to be avoided.

We are so far removed as a society from the intelligence of the soul.

So most spend their entire lives saying no to the call to adventure of soul seeking its highest possibility. And will make every excuse in the world to avoid it.

The next level of your spiritual journey will always be on the other side of a spiritual death. It will always be on the otherside of resistance and fear.

But the truth is, very often it’s the friction and obstacles that let us know that we’re going the right way. That there’s something there for us on the otherside.

Resistance, when met as an ally, actually invites us to lean in. Not to go the other way, not to make excuses.

When we can lay down in the field of resistance and allow ourselves to root to the layers of reality that lie below it, we find ourselves rooting more deeply into trust in the divine guidance of our soul tethered to life. Our inner knowing.

But we have to lean in, we have to say yes. We have to dive in. Even if it feels uncomfortable. Even if it feels like we might die doing it.

To avoid moving through resistance would be to avoid the calling of the soul’s deeper intelligence and its interwovenness with life. It would be to avoid meeting the magic on the otherside.

The cave we fear to enter always holds the medicine we seek.

Can we begin to see our resistance as a membrane to move through, as an invitation to our own evolution and next layer of initiation.

Are you ready to say yes?

Join us Into the Wild: a Yoga, Shamanism & Feminine Mysteries Retreat

Link in Bio ❤️‍🔥

20/02/2024

Me in one of my natural habitats 🌬️✨🏜️📸

08/02/2024

Alignment vs Convenience

This has been coming up in the spaces I hold for women.

Convenience is something that often limits us to our comfort zone or conditioning.

Alignment is that which connects us to the flow of Life around us.

One is isolating. The other returns us to a natural state of interconnectedness.

The paradox here is, that once we decide to step into alignment, it won’t feel comfortable or convenient. But once we arrive to the state of alignment, everything actually begins to feel comfortable and convenient. It flows.

It’s the getting there, the choice, the dive, that people find uncomfortable.

The truth is, convenience is an idea and an illusion sold to us by capitalism. Do this, and you will enjoy the ease and convenience of a life where you never have to change, never have to fully feel, and never have to go anywhere that brings friction. This was something sold to numb us to our fullest potential.

Because the other truth is, friction is fertile.

The only way to deeply grow, change, heal, evolve, and embody our soul’s gifts is through the friction of letting go of everything we think we are, the convenience to stay the same, so that we can actually become who we were born to be.

Many people want to be on a path of service/medicine/spirit, but still cling to convenience at the expense of our deepest and highest alignments with Life, the forces of nature, the spirit in all.

The other truth is, this path of service, is just that. Service. It’s actually not about you in the sense of our comforts and identity, it’s about YOU in reciprocal relationship to LIFE.

This doesn’t mean we don’t tend to our own needs. It means that when life calls us, when we want this path, when we ask to be of greater service to the whole, we show up. We say YES.

Even if it’s scary. Or uncomfortable. Or inconvenient to our ideas of what life is. Even if it asks us to let things go or do things we never thought we could do.

Because it will always ask, Life will always ask us to step out of what is comfortable in service of what is necessary for our own evolution and self realisation. For Life. That is alignment. That is service. It’s bigger than us.

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28/01/2024

25/01/2024

Into the Wild

Wild is our original impulse for life.
It is what brought us here.
It holds the why of why we are here.
It is our own evolution.

Wild is who we are.
It is our truest nature.

Our wildness is always reflected back to us
In the wildness of nature around us.
How a seedling bursts through the wet cold dark soil in spring.
How water still runs, even beneath the ice of winter.
How the trees know when to let their leaves return to the earth.
How life is always seeking itself, even through the cracks of rock and cement.

Our wildness is who we are, it is our impulse for creation, evolution, balance, and self realisation.

Into the Wild is a gathering of women following their impulse to reclaim their wild within.

This container, this portal, is one of the most stunning creations that has ever been woven through me.

I am forever in awe of the women who came from all walks of life and corners of this world to the raw untouched lands of Ometepe Island to dive into the wild.

To remember their roots. Reclaim their forgotten places. And to rebirth themselves, through Gaia’s intelligence, reconnected to their wild impulse for life.

When we realign with nature’s currents, when we let our wild nature move through us, we remember who we are. What we are. Why we are here.

It’s almost funny because, how could we have ever even forgotten?

I love you all, wild women. Thank you for making this journey, this dream, come true.

Do you hear the call of the wild?

Our next portal of initiation is March 8-17 2024
We never know when and if these portals will align for us, so if you feel the call, the moment to say yes is now.

Send me a message 🙏🏽🌱
❤️‍🔥🌋🦋🌈⚡️🌚🌺🐾🐆

19/01/2024

I haven’t written too much on here recently. Truth be told, I haven’t been that inspired. I’ve been at the bottom of the well of inspiration, swimming in the waters, rather than drawing them up.

The chaos of the world has also drawn me down. Into the roots. Underground. In the well waters. And the earth beneath.

My teacher called me one day and said “Alena, there is something for you in the Ukupacha (the Underworld). You must go there.” And so that’s where I went.

Into the underbelly of the collective. Into the Underworld. That’s my service. To see in the dark. See into the tangled roots. To know what’s there. The root, the source. To touch the pain. To find the pieces that got lost somehow from love. That’s how we begin to alchemise. That’s how we heal.

To bring the light into those deep dark places we must be willing to see it. We must be willing to hold it. We must be willing to love it. And that’s what I do. Walk with the light and the dark, one in each hand. Harmonising their dance.

There is a lot that I don’t have the words for quite yet. There are many layers moving these days. Ancestral pain gassing to the surface to burn off. If we can let it go, if we can let it transform, we’ll find an abundance of our own ancestral magic and memory. But so many people always seem to prefer to keep their pain for themselves rather than give it back to Earth.

But beneath this, we have an even deeper older pain. Deep deep deep into the roots I’ve been witnessing a pain I’ve always known to be there, that I’ve swam in before.

The root of all the suffering, fear, violence, anger, hatred, depravity, and madness in the world comes from this pain.

Our original wound. Which is that we have forgotten who we are: children of Mother Earth. We have collectively severed ourselves from our belonging to Life. This is our original wound, our original trauma, the root of all pain.

We have forgotten our interconnectedness and belonging to Earth, Life, one another, ourselves, and with the Spirit in all things.

I do the work that I do because I have a hope, a prayer and a vision that one day we will remember. That we will slowly begin to heal these deep ancient wounds.CONT👇🏽

02/01/2024

We were not created to live out mediocre lives of noise and distraction, but rather to give birth to the Divine.

We are vessels of Creation and Destruction for the Divine.

Whether we know it or not, we do a great disservice to ourselves, to our ancestors, and to the divinity we claim to serve by proclaiming to love them, yet not stepping into the fortitude and gritty honesty that strengthens our roots and that allow us to step forth as the unique, authentic artists, prophets, and lovers we truly are.

When we turn away from the alchemy of dissolution and creative rebirth, in alignment to God/dess given values, that power doesn’t go away.

It turns on us as slow poison to the soul and in our relating. And towards the planet as mindless, heartless consumption that seeks to satisfy a hunger that can only be satiated by the love of the Divine.

Life sucking and human asphyxiating energies depend on our lack of follow through in the realisation and embodiment of our life affirming principles and divine endeavours.

When we step into our soul’s purpose in love and devotion to earth and divine, we nourish ourselves and the world.

🦋Feel the call of the soul and the readiness to reclaim our inherent power and creative nature?❤️‍🔥

🌋Join us on the raw untamed volcanic land of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua for the Into the Wild Immersion + Initiation March 8 - 17, 2024 .🌿

We are halfway booked. Curious? Send me a message or click the link in my bio.

With love and blessings ❤️‍🔥🙏🏽

04/12/2023

Women grow things in darkness, not in light.

— Ursula LeGuinn

23/11/2023

“If immaculate silence is the placenta that nourishes us, then solitude is the secret womb that wraps around us and holds us in our place.”

Desert is the bearer of spiritual renewal.

What appears at first as barren isolated landscape is in reality an otherworldly oasis that slowly reveals its splendours in the refuge of solitude.

09/11/2023

Times of chaos call us to go deeper.
To be deeper.

I lay my soul on the desert landscapes,
Listening to the wind and the silence.

The desert cleans the mind, and washes the soul.

Hard on the body, healing for the heart.

Desert blues and endless dust. The harshest landscapes, and the softest touch.

I lay my soul on the body of the desert.
Listening to the wind and the voice of silence.

Go deeper.
Be deeper.
You are deeper.

16/10/2023

Sirenas🧜🏼‍♀️✨

Voices of the ancient songs
Keepers of the old magic
Guardians of the unconscious dream worlds

Embodiment of sacred dualities
With scaly tails and silky skin
Beautiful as you are hideous
Terrifying are you are loving

Guides into our deepest self
Our darkest waters
Our primordial wombs
And all realms that await our awakening.

Swimming and glittering
Weaving nets of shimmering mermaid hair around our precious hearts

Whispering and singing
“May all that is ill intended be caught in this net.
May all of life flow through you and out of you.
May you feel everything and keep nothing.
May that which does not belong to you never stick to you.
May pure love be all that lives and stays in your heart.”💙

Mermaid medicine musings 🧜🏼‍♀️✨

03/10/2023

My body is an Oracle,
And I listen.

🧜🏼‍♀️🐚💦✨💙🌀🌺

A portal exists within our bodies that connects us to the body of earth.

A portal exists within the body of earth that opens to the cosmos.

It is through our bodies and the earth that we awaken into our cosmic gnosis.

This umbilical cord of connection to source allows us to receive frequencies of information and birth creation through our own bodies from the earth and cosmos.

Like Gaia, like the great Cosmic Void, we are sacred vessels of creation, transformation, and dissolution.

Our bodies are vessels of truth. It is our womb that opens the portals between worlds.

My body is an oracle, and I listen.

26/09/2023

As the wheel of the seasons turn, we begin to make our descent into the darkness, underworlds, and other worlds.

It is during these times that we are called to come face to face with the magic, medicine, and Ultimate Mystery of Death.

Most people spend their entire lives running from Death. Our entire modern society is an attempt to ignore the ultimate reality that is Death.

But the paradox is that it is only when we stop to look Death in the eye that we fully arrive here, on Earth, in our Life.

It is only when we meet her face to face, that we remember the power within our life. That which brought us here.

It is only when we accept and honour Death, are we able to fully Live.

There is no Life without Death, just as there can be no death without life.

Most live with one foot in and one foot out. We are terrified of our Life as much as we are terrified of our Death. And so we choose the comfortable grey space in between. Where we never have to fully live and thus we are somewhat safe from feeling of inevitability of dying.

One that cannot accommodate death, cannot accommodate life either.

The truth is, our Death is our greatest ally in this Life.

She is there to guide us unwaveringly to the very end. She is our shadowy reflection of the path we were born to walk. She is our brutally honest confidant. Death never lies.

Our Death offers us the power in this life to fully live the Life we were born to live. Walking this earth full force, as if every moment may be our last.

This is a part of her greatest mysteries… she gives us everything, and yet lets us keep nothing.

And so it is.

“A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death… He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.”

— Don Juan Matus

24/09/2023

Equinox is a cosmic portal where day and night hang in perfect balance.🌚🌞

It is a potent time to contemplate the sacred dualities of light and dark.🌚🌓🌝

In the north we begin to make our journey into the dark underworld of winter. Where our gravity begins to shift: to dim, to contract, to sink, to descend.

As we return to the wild truth of who we are, we return to living in cyclical harmony with the forces of light and dark in this beautiful earth plane we call home.

Some spirituality will tell us that we must strive for non duality, ascension, and light.

Non duality, however, can only be truly met by fully holding each sacred other, one in each hand. The light and the dark.

The way of non duality is not to rise above it all and extract ourselves from the pulsing matrix of life, her light and her dark.

It is only through complete union may we experience true non duality.

And union is only possible through embodiment.

And embodiment can only happen when we decide to be fully here.

On earth. Wild and alive. Not above it all.

We must meet, experience, and become each sacred opposite, before even dreaming of transcending duality.

We exist in a dimension of this universe where sacred dualities, such as light and dark, are the sacred union that manifest all life and creation.

Sacred union and its magic are not possible without first fully meeting and embodying each sacred other.

Non duality and ascension-light-centred spiritual paths encourage us to step out and not step fully into our place in this cosmic web of life.

They give us a way out of fully embodying the gifts, magic, medicine, and power that our own light and dark have to offer.

True ascension is only possible when we have dwelled and rooted deep in the dark womb of the earth and cosmos.

True light is only revealed as it pierces through the velvety darkness that we have found our Belonging within.

On this equinox the sacred dualities of light and dark come into balance.

Can we hold both, each in one hand, fully. Can we behold them, see them, honour them, love them.

And can we allow for them to find their own dance of union through our bodies and into our lives.

20/09/2023

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable.

My interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time.

I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while.

In fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

- Don Juan Matus