Jo-Anne Suriel Jo-Anne Suriel

The seed-berry continuum

While simplicity often asks us to compartmentalize and define “this or that,” the truth is that most everything exist on a continuum.

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A conscious, woman-owned gift guide

This path of remembering reinforces a knowing that you get what you give. When you put energy (often in the form of money) toward things that are made with love and healing, you in-turn generate more love and healing.

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Courageous community

Right now, I’m sitting in a café in midtown while my kid is in an after-school activity. It’s packed in here and yet, it’s so quiet—too quiet.

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Pre-holiday peace

I spent last week at Disney World in Orlando for a beautiful extended family reunion. The impeccable planning of this trip was met by gorgeous weather and an abundance of blessings. And yet, there were moments when I felt my patience fraying at the seams.

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November’s energy

On this day, you may want to gather together to delight in the spooky, celebrate your ancestors, and honor those who support you from the unseen realms.

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May your tears cleanse you

Many of us have grown up believing that emotions make us weak and unstable.

But the more I’ve journeyed on a path of human understanding, the more I realize that your emotions are a gift to deepen your inner knowing.

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Jo-Anne Suriel Jo-Anne Suriel

Healing the world, together

I’ve been leading group healing ceremonies every month for over four years.

While every gathering is so unique, time and again I’m reminded of the profound medicine that awakens within each of us when we come together for the purpose of healing.

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Nestle In

The message that's come up for October is: NESTLE IN

We often tend to think that expansion happens from pushing outward when, in actuality, journeying deep within—with compassion and non-judgement—is what sows the seeds for your most fertile and abundant growth.

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Equinox blessings

This time around the Autumnal Equinox is a powerful portal that can help us return to greater balance.

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Behind my album creation

I’ve never really thought of myself as being particularly musical and never imagined that I was “good at it” by any means.

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Why plan?

Why do we get so caught up in planning when ultimately the Universe is the one in charge?

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Really big news

Never would I ever have dreamed that I’d be announcing the release of my debut album. But it seems that Spirit has been asking me to dream bigger lately…

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Back to school—reiki style

I’m feeling deeply renewed back home in NYC after spending sacred time in Italy on a transformative spiritual retreat and on holiday with my family.

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Unlock the lion’s roar

When you embark on a path of healing, usually it’s not because your life is completely hunky dory.

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Roar into balance

I used to work 2 blocks from where a tragic shooting took place on Monday here in NYC. Telling my kid about it—I figured there might be talk at camp—I said that it was an “isolated incident.” Reflecting back, I see that this is both true and not true…

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Crashing into the collective consciousness

Our car got rear-ended on the July 4th holiday weekend in our neighborhood in Queens, New York City. Fortunately, we were all fine and the car will be ok… but it made me wonder, why this crash from the rear would happen so forcefully while we were stopped at a red light? What does it mean energetically?

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Are you really free?

We’ve arrived at the heart of Cancer season, the watery astrological archetype that governs the emotions and memory, which leads us to our channeled energetic theme for July…

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Nurturing peace

How is it possible to nurture peace and harmony when the world feels so full of tumultuousness and discord? I don’t have all the answers… but I’ve received one.

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Solstice magic

Throughout the globe, our pre-Gregorian calendar ancestors used the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, to mark the timing of their harvest cycles and to gather in ceremony and celebration.

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