In November of 2014, I knew that if I were to be able to move towards this release, I needed help...this is what was sent out to many friends, family, and people whom I had guided:
Dear friends and family,
This is an unprecedented moment for me….a risky and deliberate move on my part that has me unsettled, yet excited. I believe that this action and vision has the potential to heal old wounds and open up a way forward that will be rich in visionary artistry and deeply rejuvenating. In so many churches and learning institutions, those who give to the world are asked, maybe even obligated, to take a sabbatical, usually every seventh year. Traditionally in the Jewish faith, this was called “shmita” and it was seen as something for the land…releasing it of it’s "duty" to put forth food continually…to rest for a year. I ask myself why this is not in every profession…in every tradition…in every giveaway? We are all in service to the world and need a pause to replenish…to listen….to re-member what our truest dream is and how to give it forth. As I approach my 56th birthday, having made 8 cycles of seven in my life, I have never taken a sabbatical. Being self employed and single, there is no institute nor company nor partner, that will support nor suggest that….so it is up to me.
Having guided nature based, soul oriented healing work for more than a thousand people over more than 20 years, I now feel called to open myself, study, and listen deeply…everything in me and outside of me is telling me this. At this moment in time, I have three areas of study that I feel called to pursue. I am drawn to how we, as beings of evolving consciousness can learn to better attend and serve Earth, how I can better facilitate transformation through soulful embodiment, and a desire learn and expand my abilities in animal/nature communication.
This is where you come in.
And this is the humbling part for me.
You are a part of my riches, having been blessed, even for just a moment to touch into your life.
I thank you for that.
Now I need support to take time off of guiding….financial support as well as other kinds of support and encouragement. I need to just stop for a while (though I will continue mentoring as needed), AND I want to study and travel a bit, and I need help with that. My hope is to take four to seven months off of guiding programs. I will "officially" start on my birthday… Dec. 3, 2014.
I had considered using a crowdfunding tool, but couldn’t find one that felt just right, so I am appealing to you directly with my address, email, and Paypal account at hand as technological support. If you feel called to offer me a financial gift, please know any amount is HUGELY appreciated! You could give from as little as $5 to as much as ...well, the sky's the limit really!
Something has been calling me to tend it…to turn towards it…. I will need roughly between $10,000 and $12,000 in support…to make up for lost income and to pay for schooling and travel costs.
I am in utter gratitude for the privilege of considering this pause. Already, just in the walking towards this possibility, I feel the immensity of it…I will be marking it's beginning with a solo vision fast from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2014. I want to share with those interested, what I find in giving this sabbatical to myself. In a world that is crazy with speed and many are losing themselves in over-busy lives, I want to model radical action through taking space, and then have that be food and inspiration for others. That is my hope. And I will find a way to share my findings with you where there is interest.
I thank you from my deepest heart for any contribution you might offer to help me to take my sabbatical. You may donate through my paypal account by using my email address: [email protected]. There you can send it as a gift without any charge to either of us. Click here for Paypal contributions, enter your password and then click on Send & Request! SIMPLE!
Or if you prefer to mail a check, my address is:
Jade Sherer
PO Box 1519
Boulder, UT 84716
With so much gratitude, I look forward to hearing from you.
~jade
“As things speed up, you yourself should slow down.” ~Hopi Prophecy
This is an unprecedented moment for me….a risky and deliberate move on my part that has me unsettled, yet excited. I believe that this action and vision has the potential to heal old wounds and open up a way forward that will be rich in visionary artistry and deeply rejuvenating. In so many churches and learning institutions, those who give to the world are asked, maybe even obligated, to take a sabbatical, usually every seventh year. Traditionally in the Jewish faith, this was called “shmita” and it was seen as something for the land…releasing it of it’s "duty" to put forth food continually…to rest for a year. I ask myself why this is not in every profession…in every tradition…in every giveaway? We are all in service to the world and need a pause to replenish…to listen….to re-member what our truest dream is and how to give it forth. As I approach my 56th birthday, having made 8 cycles of seven in my life, I have never taken a sabbatical. Being self employed and single, there is no institute nor company nor partner, that will support nor suggest that….so it is up to me.
Having guided nature based, soul oriented healing work for more than a thousand people over more than 20 years, I now feel called to open myself, study, and listen deeply…everything in me and outside of me is telling me this. At this moment in time, I have three areas of study that I feel called to pursue. I am drawn to how we, as beings of evolving consciousness can learn to better attend and serve Earth, how I can better facilitate transformation through soulful embodiment, and a desire learn and expand my abilities in animal/nature communication.
This is where you come in.
And this is the humbling part for me.
You are a part of my riches, having been blessed, even for just a moment to touch into your life.
I thank you for that.
Now I need support to take time off of guiding….financial support as well as other kinds of support and encouragement. I need to just stop for a while (though I will continue mentoring as needed), AND I want to study and travel a bit, and I need help with that. My hope is to take four to seven months off of guiding programs. I will "officially" start on my birthday… Dec. 3, 2014.
I had considered using a crowdfunding tool, but couldn’t find one that felt just right, so I am appealing to you directly with my address, email, and Paypal account at hand as technological support. If you feel called to offer me a financial gift, please know any amount is HUGELY appreciated! You could give from as little as $5 to as much as ...well, the sky's the limit really!
Something has been calling me to tend it…to turn towards it…. I will need roughly between $10,000 and $12,000 in support…to make up for lost income and to pay for schooling and travel costs.
I am in utter gratitude for the privilege of considering this pause. Already, just in the walking towards this possibility, I feel the immensity of it…I will be marking it's beginning with a solo vision fast from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2014. I want to share with those interested, what I find in giving this sabbatical to myself. In a world that is crazy with speed and many are losing themselves in over-busy lives, I want to model radical action through taking space, and then have that be food and inspiration for others. That is my hope. And I will find a way to share my findings with you where there is interest.
I thank you from my deepest heart for any contribution you might offer to help me to take my sabbatical. You may donate through my paypal account by using my email address: [email protected]. There you can send it as a gift without any charge to either of us. Click here for Paypal contributions, enter your password and then click on Send & Request! SIMPLE!
Or if you prefer to mail a check, my address is:
Jade Sherer
PO Box 1519
Boulder, UT 84716
With so much gratitude, I look forward to hearing from you.
~jade
“As things speed up, you yourself should slow down.” ~Hopi Prophecy
Dear community of my heart,
This morning, in the dark hours before dawn, I felt myself held as in a net of stars…jewels holding a dark net of extraordinary beauty…the visible and invisible uniting to create a constellated field of support. I felt my body begin to relax.
I am humbled as I turn to you to offer my immense gratitude for the wave of responses I have received to my request for support for my pause. I had a hunch that this process would be healing for me…even just in sending a request for support, but I had no idea what a tide of love would wash over me and hold me, suspended, in a feeling of being supported and living in a magical world.
Over the weeks your notes and dollars and wonderfully imaginative offers of support have floated in and this has so lifted me and given me a never before seen sense of being held in the arms of others….in a Loving community.
Thank you is not a big enough expression!!!
I have now officially launched myself into my “shmita”/sabbatical, and my 3 day solo was the perfect threshold to ceremonially offer myself to the world…liberated and available to be reshaped…remade.
I guided my last program in Arizona on the edge of the Superstition Mnts. and then walked into it’s wilds…well, to the edge of it’s wilds, and sat in a reverential and gratitude-filled solo to initiate me into this longer pause. As with most gaps, it had it’s moments of doubt, question, anxiety, and fear, but what was much more prevalent was the way that I experienced myself as a seed poised in dark fertile, moist earth. Now I must continue to embody that vision, as it feels extremely relevant to this process…being Seed and waiting…. patiently… for the swelling of vision in me.
There is something extraordinary in what so many of you are offering me…I feel community in a new way that I didn’t even know was there for me.
You are healing me and opening me to sprout in unimaginable ways.
And I believe this is much bigger than me…something else is showing itself here already, that potentially offers us all something about what it is to be in true soulful community.
'UBUNTU'
This is no modern day way of sabbatical...I am not focused to produce or research..I will be waiting for mystery to infuse me with what is next.
To all of you who've felt called to make financial donations to me, I thank you again for your important part in this process. I want you to know that I have changed my financial goal a bit in order to support some new invitations to travel and thanks to all of you, I am coming closer to that goal, but not there yet.
Thank you too, to you who’ve responded with simply a note of encouragement....this too is meaningful and real.
May your days be Holy and bright.
Unending Gratitude to you,
Jade ~ Seed.
801-300-0126
PO Box 1519
Boulder, UT 84716
If any of you would still like to make an offering, please
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And as a parting gift, please feel free to imbibe in this short video and enjoy!
“To my People”
I bow,
Jade
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Jade Sherer <[email protected]> wrote:
Something is undeniably being birthed, but it is still a mystery...it requires time and warmth and a cracking open...and maybe a mama bird to turn it now and then. It is fragile and precious and is lying quietly in it's nest now...dreaming of flight.
Dearest Friends and Family....
I write to you now, from a warm and moist and wild place. It is my first day here and because I promised myself that I would begin a blog to share some of my experience with you, I decided I must get this news to you NOW, before I go deeper in.
It is important to me that you know how deeply grateful I am for all the ways that the many of you are supporting me. Sacred Economics offers possibilities that we haven't even imagined yet and I'm stunned and teary that I get to breathe life into one new/ancient way. And YOU are giving me that chance. Already my pause is becoming something fertile for others and I pray that my blog will offer more up. This makes me smile. I am finding that as I share some of what I'm learning to friends, and with friends that I mentor, they are beginning to make different choices too. It's really so wondrous. Perhaps we can slow the world's velocity together! I invite those conversations with you and am happy to support you there!
My big news is that I've birthed an Aquarian baby and she is tiny and innocent and will hopefully grow in wisdom. She wants to be seen and known by you, so we invite you, if you have interest, to visit this new baby blog site. You will find me at http://jadepaws.weebly.com
Do touch in and oogle at the baby and leave me a comment if you like. At this time I am making no promises for how often I will put up new words, but much is coming through, so I will try to share often.
And....at the risk of seeming too much like a baby bird in a nest with my beak stretched open wide for nourishment, I want to remind you that if you'd like to begin or make an addition to your support of me and this pause, I would gladly still receive you. I was asked by a couple of people to send a reminder, so I am here humbly...again, and again with trepidation. It's very strange finding the one in me that can do that, as I've not known her before...the one that will ask for support. I ask in part because I am feeling like there is a good chance that I may need more than my 7 months, so I will keep you advised as to how quickly my next gestation goes and how the funds hold out! My Paypal Account is still happy to receive through my email address.
This "sabbatical" is already a far more substantial gift that I imagined it could be. I am changed and changing and praying for change. And I am living in SUCH gratitude.
And Love.
Thank you ...I kiss your feet.
~Jade being Seed
The same stream of life
that runs through the world
runs through my veins.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Something is undeniably being birthed, but it is still a mystery...it requires time and warmth and a cracking open...and maybe a mama bird to turn it now and then. It is fragile and precious and is lying quietly in it's nest now...dreaming of flight.
Dearest Friends and Family....
I write to you now, from a warm and moist and wild place. It is my first day here and because I promised myself that I would begin a blog to share some of my experience with you, I decided I must get this news to you NOW, before I go deeper in.
It is important to me that you know how deeply grateful I am for all the ways that the many of you are supporting me. Sacred Economics offers possibilities that we haven't even imagined yet and I'm stunned and teary that I get to breathe life into one new/ancient way. And YOU are giving me that chance. Already my pause is becoming something fertile for others and I pray that my blog will offer more up. This makes me smile. I am finding that as I share some of what I'm learning to friends, and with friends that I mentor, they are beginning to make different choices too. It's really so wondrous. Perhaps we can slow the world's velocity together! I invite those conversations with you and am happy to support you there!
My big news is that I've birthed an Aquarian baby and she is tiny and innocent and will hopefully grow in wisdom. She wants to be seen and known by you, so we invite you, if you have interest, to visit this new baby blog site. You will find me at http://jadepaws.weebly.com
Do touch in and oogle at the baby and leave me a comment if you like. At this time I am making no promises for how often I will put up new words, but much is coming through, so I will try to share often.
And....at the risk of seeming too much like a baby bird in a nest with my beak stretched open wide for nourishment, I want to remind you that if you'd like to begin or make an addition to your support of me and this pause, I would gladly still receive you. I was asked by a couple of people to send a reminder, so I am here humbly...again, and again with trepidation. It's very strange finding the one in me that can do that, as I've not known her before...the one that will ask for support. I ask in part because I am feeling like there is a good chance that I may need more than my 7 months, so I will keep you advised as to how quickly my next gestation goes and how the funds hold out! My Paypal Account is still happy to receive through my email address.
This "sabbatical" is already a far more substantial gift that I imagined it could be. I am changed and changing and praying for change. And I am living in SUCH gratitude.
And Love.
Thank you ...I kiss your feet.
~Jade being Seed
The same stream of life
that runs through the world
runs through my veins.
~Rabindranath Tagore