A page from myPursuit of Dreamers
book (see link to read about the project premise) KARL: ‘Do you think Grand Prairie will take you towards what your dream is in life?’
DREAMER: “Yup, I think so – the woman that we are working with. She has great visions. She works with the community, especially with women, and healing and she’s also very business minded. So she and I seem to have a good synergy. She’s just acquired this spa that a friend of hers is giving up so we’re going to take it over. She’s going to keep the spa part of it but we’re going to make it a more holistic center. Yoga, dance, energy work, massage, who knows – we’ll do workshops there, weekend retreats, all sorts of fun stuff we’ll get to do there. That definitely seems to be in line with the type of work I want to do – which is just integrative healing through yoga, through dance, through circle work, ya’know? Working with the indigenous ways of healing – talking circles and drumming circles. Bringing people together and helping people connect, helping them heal, bringing them back to their authentic selves, and yeah – having fun doing it. Just reconnecting people with the beauty of life and the vibrancy of life, the humanity of life and the rhythm that people seem to be very disconnected from. And the light, and doing shadow work, because it’s really really important to help people work through their shadow stuff so that they can embrace – “
KARL: ‘What is shadow work?’
DREAMER: “Shadow work is just like working with your challenges. Working with traumas, challenges, parts of yourself that you don’t like in your character. Being able to talk about it. Doing your self work where you’re focusing on yourself and being like “Okay I’m like this. And able to talk about it, able to see it, and start being able to transform it. Because those are the places where we have blockages in our life mission. So when you start working with your shadow self you start to break down what it is and you can move further into your life path. It’s like so many therapies. I tend to focus more on shadow stuff because many people don’t like to talk about the hard stuff.
May is very like that too, she wants to bring awareness to the things that people aren’t talking about, especially with youth in Grand Prairie. Date rape drugs and all of those things. The bullying and the dark stuff that can target teens and making it a conversation. It’s just like in most families you don’t talk about abuse in the family until you start bigger conversations about it that people start to realize we have to talk about it in order to help heal. But it’s not easy because many people don’t like to talk about that kind of stuff. So you know, anything in line with that.. my dream.. it keeps evolving. I’m sure my dreams will keep evolving with it.
KARL: ‘That’s a very noble dream.’
DREAMER: “I guess it’s just what I’m drawn to. You kind of just have to follow what you’re good at and follow your passion – I’ve always tried to do that. If it works for people it works and if it helps it helps, I make sure I stay on my path.”
DREAMER: “Yup, I think so – the woman that we are working with. She has great visions. She works with the community, especially with women, and healing and she’s also very business minded. So she and I seem to have a good synergy. She’s just acquired this spa that a friend of hers is giving up so we’re going to take it over. She’s going to keep the spa part of it but we’re going to make it a more holistic center. Yoga, dance, energy work, massage, who knows – we’ll do workshops there, weekend retreats, all sorts of fun stuff we’ll get to do there. That definitely seems to be in line with the type of work I want to do – which is just integrative healing through yoga, through dance, through circle work, ya’know? Working with the indigenous ways of healing – talking circles and drumming circles. Bringing people together and helping people connect, helping them heal, bringing them back to their authentic selves, and yeah – having fun doing it. Just reconnecting people with the beauty of life and the vibrancy of life, the humanity of life and the rhythm that people seem to be very disconnected from. And the light, and doing shadow work, because it’s really really important to help people work through their shadow stuff so that they can embrace – “
KARL: ‘What is shadow work?’
DREAMER: “Shadow work is just like working with your challenges. Working with traumas, challenges, parts of yourself that you don’t like in your character. Being able to talk about it. Doing your self work where you’re focusing on yourself and being like “Okay I’m like this. And able to talk about it, able to see it, and start being able to transform it. Because those are the places where we have blockages in our life mission. So when you start working with your shadow self you start to break down what it is and you can move further into your life path. It’s like so many therapies. I tend to focus more on shadow stuff because many people don’t like to talk about the hard stuff.
May is very like that too, she wants to bring awareness to the things that people aren’t talking about, especially with youth in Grand Prairie. Date rape drugs and all of those things. The bullying and the dark stuff that can target teens and making it a conversation. It’s just like in most families you don’t talk about abuse in the family until you start bigger conversations about it that people start to realize we have to talk about it in order to help heal. But it’s not easy because many people don’t like to talk about that kind of stuff. So you know, anything in line with that.. my dream.. it keeps evolving. I’m sure my dreams will keep evolving with it.
KARL: ‘That’s a very noble dream.’
DREAMER: “I guess it’s just what I’m drawn to. You kind of just have to follow what you’re good at and follow your passion – I’ve always tried to do that. If it works for people it works and if it helps it helps, I make sure I stay on my path.”
