For the privilege to serve and witness, I am eternally grateful. In serving, a person’s process is sacred and preserved in the sky with all of the mystery of the stars. This discretion only changes if the person grants the gift of their metamorphosis to the world’s knowing. Sera, whose name has been changed for the purpose of sharing has granted the world permission to witness her metamorphosis. And so here is the path that has heart. Here is the whispering of the mystery of all the stars. When you are done, you are not just wiser. You are transformed by insight. When you dare let the full blast of light move through you, your identity shifts. Your beliefs, habits, outcomes, and capacity all change. Nukini Hapé is a powerful plant ally, known to clear stagnant energy and ground you.Sera self-administered for the first time as she trains to work in this healing space. Hapé sharpens the senses and primes the body’s physiological state. It has accompanied ceremony and great hunts for thousands of years, held by some of the most skilled hunters on the planet. She was ready. Sage and palo santo smoke filled the air. She took the plant of the evening and sat to meditate on her intention. The candle glowed and crackled, painting the room with sound and color. Soon after, Sera lay curled, beginning to groan quietly. Her soul protested an emotional turmoil that language has not yet evolved to describe. But from the guttural tremble in her body, you knew what was happening—even if you knew nothing about her story. Sera is a powerful human. Her energy is powerful, and energy is already intelligent. Intuitively, she began creating space in her body for her spirit to move. This meant decluttering corners of the body where stubborn memories had lodged themselves, waiting for resolve. That low frequency rattles the bones and turns the stomach of anyone near. This is the beginning of a quantum leap. Her intention was to expand energetically and step into her power. The plants have a way of clearing the path for what you want. They do not necessarily give you your intention; they show you what is in the way.

We all need pick-me-ups….below is a pick me up letter that I wrote to myself about a year ago. Write your own and share! kind of Man I am the kind of man whose actions are aligned with his desires. I am the kind of man whose desires are aligned with his values. I am like an arrow that always finds its mark because I am a man whose values are aligned with his heart. Matthew J. Adkins

How are you expanding today? What will you be working to pick up from the university of silence? What are you working to leave behind?

I’ve been reflecting A LOT on my Odyssey experience…and wanted to put words to it… I arrived with this quiet expectation that whatever was stirring inside me would somehow be settled. And because of the way Matthew facilitated our journey, and the way the community held each other, I left feeling clearer, softer, more expansive, and more connected to myself than ever before. I’ve been to therapy, and therapy supported me in grounded, meaningful ways. I’ll always be a proponent of it. But my Odyssey experience, was…different. Therapy is like a steady, slow walk; Odyssey is like stepping through a portal, like finding a light switch or a hidden door in myself I didn’t even know existed until I was already on the other side of it. Nothing rushed, nothing forced, just a gentle, powerful shift into another plane that I didn’t know existed. Almost two months later, I’m still in awe that words like transformation, healing, and community can feel so accurate and yet, insufficient. They fit, but only in their IMAX, full-color, high-definition versions (if that makes sense, lol). My Odyssey experience didn’t change me as much as it created the conditions for me to remember who I am beneath the noise, the clinging, and the stories I had outgrown.

Sometimes you gotta allow the earth to just hold you up!