Intro- Practice modulating the love you give

• My cat Lulu is giving me the perfect example to talk about modulating the love you give.
• After practicing giving love unabashadley, the next step is figuring out how to modulate the love you give so that the being you want to give it to can receive it fully.
• Lulu came today, jumping into my lap, wanting all the love I have to give. But if I just blast out all the love I have for her, it would overwhelm her little, anxious nervous system. I had to give it fully, in a way she could handle it.
• You can modulate the love you have to give by giving it through your eyes, or softly through your fingers, or a cup of tea. 
• The problem isn't that you are too much. It isn't that you have too much love to give. It's, sometimes, that we're not conscious of the type of transmission wave we're sending out. And now we get to be conscious of it.
• Make the giving of it an art, and your Love will be a gift. 

Chiquita Brujita interview

• Chiquita Brujita is a lifeforce that came out of a cry for divination.
• What started as one night of performance art became a system of divination that included digital dancing, full moon fortunes, and marketing of handmade prayer candles that trouble the notion of what we pray for. 
• Santeria practitioner and very aware that tools presented to me as part of my Black, ancestral magic have always been co-opted in some way by Catholic imagery.
• I'm best known for the prayer candles. It was supposed to be for one day, and it just took off.
• I started working with one of the largest Latin parties in NYC, and began producing a tropical circus, and creating joy and community.
• Brought this dance floor life into public, mostly white spaces
• Community is something we need, before we need it. 
• Looking at the possibility of moving out of New York City, buying land, stocking up on money, due to the financial ramifications of COVID-19.
• Matrilineal lineage in La Regla de Ocha/Lucumi/Santeria.
• I studied the religion in college, to understand my grandmother, myself, and my mother. Through this academic lens, I learned of the things she would never say to me.
• Alice Walker "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens."
• Maternal energy of nurturing spirit happens in ritual. 
• This is about the power to assert yourself as a Divine Light, as a child of God. 
• See sacred space wherever you are.
• That's why I make prayer candles. I wanted things people could have that were self-affirming, and useful for them calling in Spirit. 
• Syncretism with Yoruba Orishas and Catholic Saints.
• A bruja's approach to COVD-19:
• • Feeling my rage and how systemic it is feeds my purpose of being joy and light.
  • How do you spark joy within yourself right now?
  • • It's not easy.
    • Joy is evolving. It is temporal. You can be present in the moment and feel joy.
    • When I spend too much time in the unknown or the nostalgic, or I wish I did, or I should have...that's what kills my joy.
    • Ground bitch, ground!
    • You have to laugh.
    • I am in deep gratitude for community
    • Basic rituals- guasha and facial oil
    • Drink hot lemon water with turmeric and black pepper
    • Walking and hiking when I can
    • Dancing
    • Zoom with friends
    • Houseparty app
• Let go to make space for the new blessings that are coming
• • That means taking the space to grieve what you're letting go
  • I find my joy by identifying my anxiety
• God never gives us more than we can handle
• It's hard to find solitude when everyone is expecting me to be reachable because I'm on lockdown. So I pull the Hermit Card, which just confirms that I need cave time.
• I'm making Zoom Boxes, and each one comes with party stuff for your face and room--to set up your Zoom Vibe.

 

Q&A : How do I do a facial cleansing ritual?

• Make a ritual out of cleansing your face.
• USE FACIAL OIL!!!!
• You can use either a Guasha or your fingertips to do lymphatic drainage facial.
• Facial oil recipe: Argan, Jamacian Castor Oil, combo of essential oils-lavender, rosemary, frankincense, and peppermint. 
• A little bit of the oil on your face
• Make sure your hands or Guasha are clean.
• Use your fingertips, quickly move your fingers in an upward motion.
• Soft, but firm, upward strokes all around your face.
• Around your eyes, use just your pinky finger.
• At least 60 seconds, in the morning and at night
• Will detox your lymph nodes in your face--imagine what that means energetically!
• • Cleansing your crown, third eye, and throat chakras!
• Write me, let me know how it's going!
• Send in your questions: [email protected]; IG and FB- 
• Online video coaching with me through BEAM+Flow "Embodied Flow Sessions" (bodywork, feelings, hormone balancing, creative coaching)- [email protected] IG and FB: 
• or @chloecofresi

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"Feast On It" by Cleo Wade