#24 Kontomble + Shamanism: Lobsterbird Walking in Crestone III

Your Creative Sparks:

• Every time I LISTEN to this inner voice, MAGIC and miracles happen.
• How the SQUIGGLY PATH leads us FULL CIRCLE, and into hidden connections with ancient places, people, and art forms.
• The Kontomble help me appreciate Nature and appreciate MY OWN NATURE.

In council with the Kontomble: Sitting on a rock in a little clearing; holding crystals; being stabbed in the arm by an antler wand; and talking to little people. Sophia returns to Crestone, Colorado and the San Luis Valley. Here she tells the story of how her evolution has brought her full circle AND into magical new realms, where Shamans talk to Reindeer and Nature Spirits tell jokes and take us on journeys into environmental healing and social justice. Get in the flow of this glorious mountain space with the valley view stretching out and the aspens ablaze in fiery pink. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• The plan from the Universe is far more expansive than anything our monkey minds come up with. How I found myself talking to “little people” and going on pilgrimage to... Mongolia?  [5:25]
• Who are the Kontomble? [11:05]
• They just showed up. And they said, “We want you to talk with us, and we want you to talk to other people with us.” And I was like, wha??? But then it all made sense, starting with me in New York watching a documentary called “InnSæi” - a film of inspiring interaction between experts in consciousness and radical insights on the power of intuition. [15:50]
• A series of serendipitous events eventually landed me in Burkina Faso, West Africa. I really wanted to walk around this land in the manner of Butoh/Noguchi Taiso, to better understand my relationship with the earth. I ended up teaching a theatre workshop. I had not completed my intention to connect with the earth, but I did establish a deep relationship with my host family (of the Dagara Tribe) and a goat. [19:50]
• Time cycles on, and I end up back in New York City, listening to an interview with Liv Wheeler, a Kontomble diviner. She was talking about Burkina Faso and how the shaman culture there was still very much alive. An inner voice whispers, “Listen. Remember.” And then the voice says, “You’re going there.” Only “there” wasn’t Burkina Faso. [31:38]
• Later, on pilgrimage in Glastonbury, the Kontomble burst into my log cabin for the first time. They came right through the wood walls, insisting that I play with them and my pilgrims and hold ceremony with them in Dartmoor. And YAY! [44:50]
• The buggy connection: A memory resurfaced from when I was four. I am barefoot on this piece of land, chatting it up with trees, the light, and the animals. I was building a castle for the ants and helping them go across the moat. I had lost that connection. But Ant Medicine is one of the themes in Mongolia, and now I know who I was talking to in the woods. [49:06]
• Practicum: Get Outdoors. Go barefoot. Explore your connection and know that you are supported. Take your shoes off, walk around with your bare feet, and listen. [1:00:01]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird’s newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Lobsterbird’s first book: Phase Out: The Secret Guide to Finding Work that Frees Your Soul by Sophia Remolde
• How a serendipitous journey via magical lobster trap first landed Sophia in Crestone, her Power Spot, and one of the key places that made her the Lobsterbird she is today.
• See if you can find my “Where’s Waldo” cameo in A Place of Heart, a documentary about Crestone. For two years, I worked on the temple they show around minute [3:43].
• Episode #1: Walking in Crestone with Sophia Remolde
• Episode #3: Walking in Crestone II with Sophia Remolde
• Episode #20: Kelli Reese and Lobsterbird on Pilgrimage in Glastonbury
• Sharing ancient medicine with the modern world, Liv Wheeler is a voice for the ancestors and the “little people”. You can learn more about her work on Ancestorbridge.com.
• An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia, in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing.
• Exploring Astrology podcast with Adam Sommer.

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, adventuring along the White Oak Canyon waterfalls near Syria, Virginia. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

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