Spiritual Strip-Teeze

Is the world changing or is it just my little piece?

Last week I made a proclamation to shed my marketing skin. I said I was through.

I stated it to the air, to a few friends, to the whizzing hummingbirds…

What I meant was that I am through identifying myself as a marketer and through hiding from what I really want to do, which is writing.

My position is that marketing should be a university where you learn the tools, the trade and the language and you move on to create your own space.

There are many like me who have hung around the university too long. We can call ourselves teachers, but we are really students trying to find our voices. One day you take the last available class and the coaching comes to an end.

I am currently working on a study guide for the course, ‘Marketing for Daydreamers.’ I owe it to ya.

I have hit the end of the marketing trail, gone as far as I can go and have been doing nothing but dodging the inevitable draft of my days.

Here’s a short reprieve I wrote back in 2009, but it is so perfect for the situation…

Draft Dodger

Yesterday

I dodged the draft

Of my day

Left piles of clothes

In heaps

Across the yard

As I crossed the border

Of my mind -

I hung my hair

In the Sycamore tree

Left my skin

Where crows come to feed

My bones lay scattered

Amongst yellow leaves

And I sat

With my naked soul

And I was nothing

But a cricket’s song

I rode on the back

Of a hungry coyote

And dangled for a while

On a fading star

Then bounced

Light as air

From limb to limb

Like a monkey in a tree

And today

Reluctantly -

I squeeze each finger 

Back into the glove of me

And lace my boots

Of destiny

Brush the leaves

From my hair

Scrape the star dust

From my fingernails

And emerge from the woods

With nothing

But a cricket’s song

©nicole rushin / september 2009

 

Funny how when you proclaim things the old doors slam shut and new doors open. Sometimes the opportunities that we most fear stand facing us. Maybe our true art arrives.

Good art is vulnerable.

It is naked.

It is a Spiritual Strip-Teeze of the soul.

How many artists are really dancing in the moonlit room with their desires?

Desire is ruthless; it has its way with us and us with it.

This is what I have come to know; in owning my self and my truth I discard the clothing of pretension and land in the place where all spiritual practices long to take us.

I become, not a mirror, but a window thrown opened, I become the breeze and say goodbye to the sagging curtains that mourn for my leaving.

I recently formed an online kinship with Karyn Janelle Davis. Do you know Karyn? If you don’t you are sure to know her soon.

Karyn has touched deep into the inner realms of her own creation. In my opinion she embodies breath and curiosity.

In her words she says, ‘I have had enough of theory with no application.’ I am on board with that statement.

Here are few of the things Karyn has applied herself to:

She is the Director of Synergise International their website is 4sistersconnect.
The CEO and Owner of Forward Focus Ltd. a company offering online training and coaching.
Co-Developer of the DVD The HOW: Develop Your Inner Coach
Creator of The Pocket Coach
Co-Author of Questions: You are the Answer in Which you Seek.
Creator of Be Glorious
Radio Host on Motivational Radio – Karyn Janelle Davis and Change – “Masters in Action”
NLP Trainer, Master Practitioner of NLP, Coach

She’s a busy lady as you can see.

Via a conversation on Skype she asked me to join her in a movement she wants to start called Spiritual Strip-Teeze. This is the first time it has taken a breath in the world. A coming out ~ so to speak.

Life is full of irony when you discard all your baggage and finally submit to your path. Having proclaimed to leave my title as a marketer and finally own up to the validity of my pen – and then the voice of yes comes to me through Karyn. I took it as a sly nod from the universe.

Karyn is looking for a core group of artists who she believes portray the vulnerability and openness that marries art to spirituality. I am honored to help and honored that I was the first one she asked.

I have been called a naked writer. I have been told I write from the inside out and I am sure there are others out there; painters who are willing to dress simply in the sarong of their inspiration, musicians who will leave the house only in the bowler hat of e flat.

We don’t ask much, only that you continue to change the world with your art and continue your Spiritual Strip-Teeze. That you continue being vulnerable to your creativity.

Yogis, spiritual teachers, painters, musicians, writers or culinary architects…we are looking for a core group of twelve to start the dance.

There is a point at which your lower chakras merge with your heart and your head knows it is so right. This is where you need to be.

Creativity and art are paths to spirituality and spirituality can feed your creative urgings. We bare our souls when we enter the realm of non-attachment. We enter to bring back gifts; gifts that burst forth, incandescent and charged in moonlight.

I suppose it is my little piece of the world that is changing, but it is my hope to send out enough ripples to eventually make some waves.

If you are interested in helping us form the movement of Spiritual Strip-Teeze please get in touch with me or with Karyn. My e-mail address is [email protected] or simply leave a comment below. I check all of my comments, even my spam, in case you get lost in the filters.

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Nicole Rushin is a Freelance Writer and a forever student of all things dream…life begins in the dream world, not the other way around. She is the New Media Creative Director for Punch Advertising and offers private marketing consulting.

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