toko-pa turner
there are those souls that are both soft and strong, wise and wide open. toko-pa is one of those souls.
when toko-pa was just 15 she ran away from a violent, destructive home life and found herself having to navigate “the system.” the next decade was a hard one as she figured out, on her own, how to become an adult in a complicated, often uncaring world. this was the beginning of her search for belonging.
this search has led her down many creative, beautiful paths and today she is the founder of dreamschool: weaving a living bridge to the otherworld as well as the author of the award-winning book belonging: remembering ourselves home. in toko-pa’s words, “in addition to tending dreams, my work focuses on restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, elevating grief, and facilitating ritual.”
join us as we explore a pathway home.
Some things we talk about…
- how to start down the path of belonging to yourself and the world
- when she lost sight of her creativity and how she came back to it
- finding your own values and your own voice
- her own creative process and how she gets to what is true
- when it’s time to commit and when it’s time to let go (and how to tell the difference)
- cultivating a vision for your life in tune with your longing
“allow yourself to penetrate those initial dismissals and invalidations and criticisms that rise up. go beyond that until some small spark comes through with its small voice. then listen to that small voice and grow it by amplifying it in some way. grow it so that voice becomes louder and louder and that voice becomes the voice of authority for you.”
“we search our whole lives for a place of belonging but actually it’s already there. it’s only when we un-hinder ourselves from the obstacles to our originality, to our being in alignment with what we truly value, what we truly love, what our true gifts are, that we realize our lives are actually a shelter of belonging for others.”
the first step in going BEYOND
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