 I was on the table of my Acupuncturist 4 years ago deepening into my experience and I found myself journeying into the most vivid past life experience of being a young woman surrounded by a group of women of all different nationalities as they sang, lay their hands on me, held me and healed me from the terrible trauma of losing my husband and children. It was night time, there was a fire in the centre that was so, so big and by morning it had reduced to a pile of ash and I saw myself walking out of the centre of that ash, reborn and renewed to then go on and become a leader of women’s circles for the rest of my days.
I left the Acupuncture clinic that day and knew that I had to find out more about women’s circles because I also knew deep within my soul that this was a mission I needed to fulfil in this lifetime - the thing was I had never sat in a circle let alone lead one. The other really BIG thing was that I was totally scared of women, I had grown to distrust women through being bullied at school, in the workplace and betrayed devastatingly by my two closest friends. But I trusted the vision I had received and I knew that I wanted desperately to heal this wound so that I could experience the true connection of sisterhood. So I sat, I meditated and I asked the universe to guide me. One month later I found myself sitting in virtual circle with Tanya Lynn of Sistership Circle and learning how to lead circles. It was one of the most transformational 6 months of my life, I flew to the US from Australia for a week and actually sat in circle with my beautiful sisters to experience a retreat of circle - it was magical. Never had I felt more seen, loved, heard, accepted and celebrated by other women. I remember being so blown away that these women actually really did love me and I loved them. From there I began to heal my sisterhood wound in this lifetime - I knew I had found my tribe and my calling. In circle I am free to be the real me, I am soft, I am fierce, I am messy, I am playful, I am big, I am equal, I am a mother, I am a sister, I am divine, I am gentle, I am a woman, I am a leader, I am ALL of me. Circle is my sweet spot, it allows me to soften and fall into the arms of my truth. Everything in me is activated and alive as I am able to fully embody the Divine Feminine and see it reflected in the women that sit with me. I fall in love with circle more and more each time. Circle is medicine, it is home, it is powerful and it is so very necessary. The reverence I hold for circle is deep and the gratitude I feel when creating the sacred space of circle for others makes my heart expand and open wider each and every time. Feminine Collaborative Leadership is so needed and vital to our humanity and the future of our planet and so I continue the collective work of healing the sisterhood wound, bringing women home to their truth and uniting with other women to create a new world of Divine Feminine Leadership. The Divine Feminine has risen and she is calling out to us - it is time to answer that call and step fully into our power as creators of this new world. Through circle, I am answering this call. Today, I'd love to talk about how a movie about Menstruation won an Oscar..... Period. End of Sentence This is a documentary about how girls in different parts of the world are unable to continue going to school once they get their period because they have no access to pads, tampons, hence they are deemed 'dirty' and pulled out of school. Some cultures send their girls and women away to live in a shed when they bleed. Most have no education around their menstruation being a natural part of a females life. It breaks my heart. Days for Girls is a charity that supports the education and provision of reusable cloth pads around the world and I am so proud that dōTERRA's Healing Hands Foundation support this charity. We have Days for Girls here in Australia supporting women in rural indigenous communities. Just by purchasing bottles of essential oil and other doTERRA Products we are giving back to the world and humanity. Next month, in fact next week we have International Women's Day and I can't wait to share more with you on how we can all be Unstoppable Women! In the meantime here is a video about doTERRA and Days for Girls...and below you'll find a beautiful Aromatic Dressing especially for women xx aromatic dressing Lots of love,  positive changeWelcome to another edition of Wisdom Wednesday. Today I would love to share with you an Essential Oil Reading I have done for you on this Full Moon in Virgo. I don't know about you but February has been feeling a little funky and heavy. Like I have been so slowwwww and needing lots of sleep. So I took a took a look at where I may have been slipping in my self care routines and yep - it was pretty bloody obvious actually! No wonder I was feeling heavy and dense...my nutrition has been great, but my meditation had slipped because I've accidentally been watching too much TV of crazy shows that really don't do anything to uplift me. It might sound harmless, and yeah I thought so too, (just something mindless to have a laugh at) but here's the thing, the shows I have been watching really don't resonate that highly on an energetic level - what do I mean by that? Well they are out of alignment with my personal beliefs and integrity of Love, Kindness and Honesty. So by me spending my evenings watching this shit I had lowered my own vibrational energy down to that kind of level - hence feeling soooooo sluggish and dense, not my usual passionate inspired self. I'd be better off doing some gentle yoga or watching an inspiring documentary or reading a book. I'm not saying I wont watch mindless rubbish on TV again - but I wont make a HABIT of it every night. So if you've been feeling a bit blahhh, then this blend below will assist you to create Positive Change in your life too xx  
The recipes I share at the end are courtesy of Anastasia Borserio and Bonnie Donahue - two wonderful doTERRA Leader who shared these recipes with us.
If you are curious to know more about essential oils and have yet to open a dōTERRA wholesale account please visit my website page "Where Do You Start" for further info or simply email hello@petabastian.com  Welcome to the month of LOVE! This is also my birthday month so I kind love it even more! OK I want to try something different with you xx Let's face it - I haven't been a very consistent communicator with you have I? So rather than ad-hoc, I'd like to stretch myself (I'm giggling as I write this cos it shouldn't be this hard but it is to a passionate creative who likes to create when her juices are flowing and this can be in ebbs and flows!!!) Imma gonna give this consistency thing a go! Again! So Ta-Da!!! Here's Wisdom Wednesday coming at you each Wednesday. What will be showing up in these fandangled posts you ask? Welllll..... Essential Oils and Women's Circles are two of favourite things and more and more I am being drawn to incorporate and blend the two so I will be sharing inspiration on both of these topics in a way that offers you everyday value and shares my stories with you (cos you know I love a bit of wisdom storytelling) as well as invite you to upcoming gatherings and special offers - cos I really can't keep these to myself - it would be really selfish of me!! Let's try it - Last month we had a glorious Full Moon Gathering saying goodbye to 2018 as we laid down our intentions for 2019...It had been ages since I had facilitated an in-person circle and it was so fulfilling (check out the "What's On Next Month" below for upcoming circles), I made some beautiful Aura Sprays up for the women attending infused with essential oils and we used Copaiba which is The Oil of Unveiling - so fitting because our theme was "Unveiling HerVision". What was unveiled to me was my deep desire to step back into owning my voice more fully - I don't know about you but last year felt as though I had slipped back into some old habits of playing small. I knew with absolute clarity that CIRCLE was going to be my answer, that facilitating circles is like a calling for me, I am my most real and true self when I do this and I realised I had pushed that to the side in order to "focus on my dōTERRA Business", but I've come full circle now (pun totally intended) and believe that I cannot have one without the other. They feed each other and they feed me. It's about collaboration and co-creation. There can't be that separation anymore, it feels too discombobulating (great word) like somehow I have to hide one part of me in order to do and be the other part. But look the reason I joined dōTERRA in the first place was for the business opportunity it gave women to be financially free in a feminine model of collaborative leadership ie in a Circle of Leadership. The extra gift was the powerful emotional and physical health benefits I receive from the oils. So it seems so clear to me now that as hard as I tried to keep these two things seperate last year - I was really just kidding myself. I want to leave you with a New Moon Reading I did this month along with a diffuser blend you can use to tune in to the energy available - it's only just past us so you'll still find this useful xx New Moon Reading “You are here for a reason” and Spearmint - “The Oil of Confident Speech” On this New Moon in Aquarius which also happens to be my birth sign, these cards are reminding us to speak our truth. Where in your life right now have you forgotten that your presence on this earth is so very important? What you have to say is important. Are you afraid of what people will think? Are you afraid of upsetting the apple cart? Are you afraid no-one will care? Are you afraid that you may be wrong? The wisdom you have gained in your life is yours to share, the world needs to hear it. Will everyone listen? No, but those who need to hear it will be drawn to your message through more than your words alone so be present with the power of your words, are they coming from an authentic voice? Aquarian energy is futuristic and as an air sign quite visionary. So what is the vision for your future and are you articulating this to yourself and to others honestly? Take some time today to sit quietly and listen to your inner voice, as a woman your true voice and power comes from your womb space and your pussy, so try sitting with one hand on your sacral chakra (your lower belly) and one hand on your throat chakra and begin to pass energy or warmth or tingling or light (whatever works for you) between the two. Open up this feminine pathway and listen to what your body is speaking to you, is she tired, is she excited, is she numb, is she impatient, is she scared, is she in love, notice the feelings in your body that come up for you, notice the images and words that pop into your head. Then take a pen and paper and just free write whatever wants to come out, don’t judge it, just listen. Be courageous and compassionate my beauty-full friends as you start to lay down the intentions for sharing your authentic message and speaking your truth.
23/2/2018 OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 16,17,18 actually I can’t really remember what day I’m up to!Read Now  OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 16,17,18 actually I can’t really remember what day I’m up to! But isn’t that great? I haven’t felt this deeply relaxed in a long time…I start to ‘do’ something and then my whole body just says NUP we are not done relaxing yet kid, so just stop what you’re doing. OK For the first Xmas in ages I wasn’t on Facebook, Insta, Voxer, Email, nuthin….it felt a little bit weird I must say, but kinda good too, actually reeeeaal good and guess what? The world did not stop turning because Peta Bastian took some time off! . Todays oily bff is: Aromatouch I love you - you amazingly nourishing soothing calming relaxing essential oil you! Just a couple of drops mixed with my massage oil and lovingly rubbed on the back of my neck and shoulders each morning, afternoon and evening - yummmmm. Thank you! . Wanna learn more about how to live.love.lead with essential oils? Send me a PM or if you haven't done so already join me on Insta! . If you are already chatting with another gorgeous dōTERRA Legend then please go back and ask them about this - they'll be so happy to help you out xx #liveloveleadwithessentialoils #fuckperfect #yoganidra #lovingpeta  OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 12,13,14,&15 Update: RELAXING is definitely good for this woman, so relaxed that I haven’t felt compelled to be on social, which gives me more time to be with my small people💖 . But I just wanted to let you know that - yes I’m doing yoga nidra, no not everyday, yes I’m loving myself and I have this new inner voice that is so much kinder, more gentle, she congratulates me, she sees me and loves me as I am - which is pretty awesome really. . Bffs with essential oils - Clary Calm & Passion, feminine, earthy, spicey, beautiful🌸🧚♀️💜 . Wanna learn more about how to live.love.lead with essential oils? Send me a PM or if you haven't done so already join me on Insta! . If you are already chatting with another gorgeous dōTERRA Legend then please go back and ask them about this - they'll be so happy to help you out xx #liveloveleadwithessentialoils #fuckperfect #yoganidra #lovingpeta  OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 15 (I’ve decided this is the day I am up to) Not gonna lie....I came home yesterday after being away staying at my Mum and Dads in an idyllic REST-haven of a glorious house on the river, with a pantry full of food, clean floors, tidy lounge, comfy couches, bright sunlit indoor courtyard to eat lazy lunches in, a clean shower that throws the water at you in soft full drenching drops, a Mum that cooks all of your favourite food and is nearly as funny as I am, a Dad that fills my car up with petrol and my winny-wiper water with a dash of detergent (that empty light has been on my dashboard staring at me for weeks!), magnificent sunsets, walks along one of the best beaches in the world, happy kids jetty jumping and playing with their cousins, great food, coffee, lying in bed till midday reading books.... Then I walked into my house and I could fell all of my good joo-joo drain out of me as my heart sank....UGH! . It was the smell that hit me first - stale with a distant hint of old bin that should have been emptied a week ago mixed with the musty scent of dog and cat. . Then it was the darkness, the house we rent is an old one that is naturally dark with wooden floors and fuck-awful velvet peach drapes on the lounge window. . Next I see all of the dust on the shelves, the dirt and scraps and fuck-knows what else on the floor mixed with cushions, beam bags and empty cracker packets and pop-sticks scattered and strewn about. . Nec minute as I’m surrounded by 5 suitcases that are not unpacked yet, full of 20 hundred zillion loads of washing for me to do - I hear kids complaining that they are hungry, tired and ‘where’s my iPod charger?’ . So I move through into the bedrooms part of our not-so-cute-little-house feeling more and more claustrophobic as even they are full of scattered toys, un-made beds and a new aroma of stale/damp towel and I realise that I am not breathing and I am THIS CLOSE TO LOSING MY SHIT!!!!! . I walk into the kitchen (thankfully this is at least clean) and try to collect myself as the rising panic has me gripped by the throat with wide wild eyes searching around for the best next step to take as I feel a distant screaming in my head, so I absently start to move about picking up cushions, opening suitcases, sweeping up the worst pile of debris in the lounge, opening windows, putting on every diffuser I own with an uplifting deodorising citrus blend and my mind is racing from this point to that part to this way and to that with thoughts of ‘OMFG we have to move house immediately’ to ‘maybe if I just chuck out everything and start again’ to ‘don’t be stupid you can’t afford a whole new house of furniture’ to then getting on gumtree to find a second hand couch that at least isn’t ripped, with great chasms that once you sit in you can’t get out of... ‘Right found one, so now where am I gonna get a trailer from to go pick it up and take all this other stuff to the dump....’ at this point I step outside to get some fresh air to be greeted by 3 chooks who’ve escaped and consequently shat everywhere, dead pot plants, leaves piled high, old boxes that we tried to grow herbs in, old broken chairs and I feel the stinging of tears trying to burst out of my eyes and I walk into the kitchen where my wonderful husband is making pizzas to feed hungry kids and I announce in a voice that’s a little too high with an edge of manic “just popping down to grab a bottle of bubbles - can I get you anything?” . I get in the car and start driving with clenched jaw, stalk into the grog shop, pluck out my drug of choice (a nice Pinot Noir Rosè) jump back in the car grab my phone ready to ring someone to cry and complain to when I suddenly stopped myself took some deep breaths and fully stepped into the place of being a ‘witness’ of myself in that moment, no judgement, just noticing all that was going on within myself, and instead of my inner critic chiming in with ‘you are such a shit house wife, what a fucking loser’, my new #lovingpeta compassionate voice began to softly speak soothing words to me ‘oh I see what your doing, I recognise this, that’s ok hunny, you’re ok babe, you don’t need to go down this rabbit hole do you, no, ok so it’s absolutely ok to feel this way and I get it - your environment is important to you, a beautiful environment is relaxing for you, soothing for you, supportive for your inner being to be in a place of clam, creative flow. What if, just what if you could give yourself two weeks to do a bit of a tidy up and spring clean or hey why not even the whole month of January to potter around and slowly but surely create a beautiful environment for yourself, pot some new plants, take down those fuck-awful curtains and yeah you’re right those hazardess couches have got to go but everything doesn’t have to happen in the next 48 hours does it?’ . I felt myself come back to my centre and I even had a smile to myself, phew! Crisis averted and as I drive back home and walked back inside the filth-hut I was filled instead with hope, possibility, calm, reassurance and I could suddenly see and feel what the next best thing to do was - sit down with my huz and a nice glass of wine to chat about how his day was and slowly begin a plan of attack (albeit a casual soul-supportive plan of attack) on how I was going to start loving my house and my environment by cleaning it, revitalising it and caring for it - much the same as I’ve been doing for myself. . ps I only had two glasses of wine not the whole bottle . pss I’m going to pick up that couch from gumtree this afternoon!! . Oil that I used in my diffuser - Arise - a beautiful new blend from the Yoga Range. |
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