Yet, as much as I have tried to avoid, my soul pulls be back to this path. I am called to claim and embody my WEALTHY woman with the same force and intensity as I am called to the Camino. The path to claim WEALTH is actually as deeply a spiritual path, if not more so, than the Celtic Camino. Even as I type that, I know that truthfully, actually, for me, they cannot be separated. They are reflections of each other, and cannot exist without the other. As I walk one, I walk the other...they work in tandem, each reinforcing and informing the other. They are like two sides of the same coin...it is not even an issue of either/or...it only can be both/and.
In fact, I was invited into WOW ~ Women Owning Wealth, as I was preparing to leave on the first leg of the Celtic Camino. Synchronicity?! Of course. While I walked, I questioned Spirit every day about why this path, why this vehicle, why me? And every day, I worked to understand, to surrender to this path. I drank Body Balance, the product I would be sharing every day, and as I shook it in my water bottle, I demanded big answers. All I got was "Drink your Body Balance." It wasn't until I returned home, and realized how great I felt that I was willing to dive into my business. And even then it took me a little while to get why this business, this model of doing business, this community, this company - are the sides of the river, the structures and the support for my pilgrimage. (Truthfully, I am still "getting it"!)
My business, exists within this collective called WOW - Women Owning Wealth. My success and growth, both personally and professionally, is really because I am an intricate part of this amazing community of vibrant, lit up, pleasure-loving beings who believe that a planet full of healthy, alive, nutritionally sourced, and spiritually supported human beings is what we all need!
In WOW, we practice Sacred Commerce. In other words, we work together as a community, with our businesses supporting and contributing to each other in powerful ways. We work inside of a common agreement that everything we do is sacred, an offering to ourselves and each other, and in deep service of the awakening of the planet. We are partnered with Life Force International, an impeccable, family-owned company that was born out of love, integrity, and a commitment to service.
Life Force manufactures Body Balance, a 100% raw, organic, whole food liquid product made of a blend of 9 seaweeds and aloe vera juice. Body Balance is ecstasy for the cells, an elixir for the spirit, and an activator of the body’s natural, healthy state. It is like drinking chi every morning by giving your body the most potent nutritional support there is! And the most beautiful thing about it is that it is just FOOD. So we source the body the way it was designed to be sourced--with highly absorbable, nutrient dense food. In WOW, we also claim that Body Balance is "nourishment for spiritual transformation."
So how is my journey with WOW and Life Force related to the Celtic Camino pilgrimage?
This company chose to market their products using the direct (or network) marketing model, so that people could be generously compensated for sharing a product that they love. Out of the Life Force compensation plan emerges the rank attainments, or milestones that reflect the destinations of the WEALTHY Woman Pilgrimage. They are labeled with names of the precious metals - Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, and then as one progresses along the journey, one steps into Diamond, 1-Star Diamond, 2-Star Diamond, 3-Star Diamond, Crown Diamond, and ultimately, Royal Crown Diamond.
In the past year, I walked quickly through Bronze, Silver, and Gold into Platinum. I compare these rank attainments to Santiago, Leon, Burgos, and Ste. Jean Pied de Port. Going Bronze felt similar to arriving in Santiago. This was my initial demonstration of getting on the path and committing to the Pilgrimage. Walking through Silver and Gold was like walking and arriving in Leon and Burgos, beautiful cities along the Camino with stunning cathedrals of their own. Wonderful places to visit, rest for a day or two and appreciate the beauty, but not a destination in and of themselves. Ste. Jean Pied de Port is a little town just inside of France in the foothills of the Pyrenees. For most pilgrims who walk to Santiago, this is where they embark on their 800 kilometer to Santiago. As I am walking "al contrairio" or the other way up through France to Scotland, this was a destination in the middle of the first leg. To walk to Ste. Jean, I had to walk up and over the Pyrenees. The day I walked over was a very windy, dark, and challenging day. The wind would literally blow me off the path, unless I anchored down and held my ground...just like going Platinum! And just like I have been hanging out at Platinum since last June, I feel like I have been hanging out between Santiago and Toulouse in Ste. Jean Pied de Port for the past 16 months, wanting to walk on, yet waiting to claim the next leg of the journey to Toulouse.
It is a journey for me, and I believe many of us, to truly claim and own our WEALTH. We have been taught to split our spirituality from money, wealth, the material. One aspect of this journey to heal the split between these two realms, and recognize that they too are two sides of the same coin. Also, I believe that most women have been taught to separate from their divine feminine strength, wisdom and power. This is a journey to reclaim all of this.
This is a journey of initiation and embodiment. I walk to initiate the lessons and healing of the particular chakra, and then I return home to live into those lessons and embody the transformation. As I heal, transform and grow, I then attract the lessons and experiences which reflect the next chakra. Sometimes the Camino comes first. Other times the WEALTHY Woman pilgrimage is first. Right now I am being called into the second chakra through my experiences of the WEALTHY Woman pilgrimage. I am also being called back to walk the comparable leg of the Celtic Camino, from Ste. Jean to Toulouse. Even this week as I have been writing this entry, I had a conversation with a fellow peregrina, or perhaps I should say "pelerina", to explore the possibility to walk together next fall!!
As I wrote above, I walk with one foot on each path, and I cannot walk one without the other. They are seemingly parallel, but at their core, they are deeply connected and intertwined rooted in the teaching that WE ARE ALL ONE.
Suseya,
Sarah
(**I capitalize WEALTH because I see WEALTH as an acronym. Wealth can trigger a lot of reactions in people, just like money can. From my core, I believe that wealth is a powerful concept that when we expand our understanding of what it truly is, it can become one of the cornerstones in our foundations.
A WEALTHY Woman is:
Wise and intuitive
Evolutionary, Embodied
Abundant and Authentic
Loving and Luminous Leader
Trusting and Truthful; Team player
Healthy and Heart-Centered
YourSelf with outrageous and total acceptance.)
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