Beautiful Joan Borysenko,

Magnificent Facilitator

The following pictures were taken either by me or by Paul Voelkel. I acknowledge Joan from the depths of my heart. I would say <big grin>, "I would follow her anywhere" . . . and note that I already have!!! Much love to you always, Joan!

Joan Borysenko is a magnificent, wise, and accomplished facilitator, full of compassion and grace, whose life is dedicated to empowering women. She leads numerous women's retreats throughout the world and is constantly questing to learn more, the better to share with those she meets, teaches, and loves. I personally received from her, the incalculable gift of seeing myself through her eyes, as a Healing Priestess. Thank you, Joan, from the depths of my heart. In this picture, she absorbs the beauty, the peace, and the spirituality after a prayer ceremony facilitated by a Priest of the Temples of a Private Home of the Royal Family.

One of the very powerful processes Joan facilitated for us, was a water process in the lagoon at the Hotel. We all felt truly and wondrously reborn through her.

Joan is studying Lakota Indian traditions. She was surprised and delighted to find that an altar cloth she was stitching on the airplane, was precisely the pattern inlaid on the floor at the Kuala Lumpur airport! Amazing coincidence? or One Mind? :):):)

Another amazing "coincidence" was that the Medicine Wheel drawn by our Balinese Spiritual Teacher, Healer, and Guide, Sugina, during our first lecture on Balinese Spirituality, was practically identical to the Medicine Wheel Joan had learned from her Lakota teacher. Peoples living as Spirit, close to nature, we're observing, have numerous overlaps of belief. Reminds me powerfully of Sathya Sai Baba's observation:

"There is only one religion, the religion of love;

There is only one language, the language of the heart;

There is only one race, the race of humanity;

There is only one god, and He is omnipresent."

 

Here Joan gracefully leads us through a Tai Chi exercise to honor the Spirits of the four directions. We experienced many beautiful processes and rituals, on the hotel grounds, in the lagoon, on the beach, on the bus, in the Temples.

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