Sophia Bonnie Wodin

A few weeks ago I wrote that I would begin teaching on line. There are those who have been encouraging me to do this for some time but I felt reluctant. I believe(d) that my effectiveness as a teacher is in the presence of the moment. But life, and COVID-19, conspired to send me on a journey seeking new ways to connect over distances. So I have taken the plunge. Or perhaps it ’ s more accurate to say, I have taken to Zoom. And let me tell you, it ’ s a steep learning curve. It turns out that teaching on line is a whole different critter than teaching in person. For one thing I notice how expressive my face has become. I find myself using visual expression like something out of psychodrama. As though I am giving permission for feelings-to-be-felt through my pantomime.  I didn ’ t know that about myself. I am more physically/facially more expressive than I realized. Maybe I have always been like this but, because I couldn ’ t see myself, I just didn ’ t notice. You learn

  Early on in the Priestessing Your Life training, my 13- month course in spiritual and personal empowerment, I invite the participants to do automatic writing about their relationship with  change . It has always proved to be illuminating. I offer automatic writing exercises to uncover the meaning underneath the words we use; what our unconscious mind is telling us; how the language we use serves us, or perhaps doesn’t . If we believe that our language creates our reality, we need to know what our words actually mean to us, personally. Sometimes I ask the participants to do the exercise again later to see if their understandings have changed.  When I introduce the writing exercise about  change  I frequently give examples including: Some of us face change head on; Some of us back into change; Other go kicking and screaming; Still others set an intention and move towards it; Some of us float in the winds of change, arriving where the wind takes us and then