From http://standingwomen.org

“In 2007, Standing Women launched its campaign inspired by Sharon Mehdi’s story to her granddaughter about the Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. They asked that women stand together in silence for a better world at 1 pm on the second Sunday in May, which is Mothers’ Day in the United States. Almost 4000 “standing locations” were listed from 81 nations, including 876 organizations.

Every year since then, Standing Women has issued its invitation to stand together. The world seems more and more at crisis, and many of us have included the moment of standing in our Mothers’ Day celebrations, holding strong our intention that the crisis will bring us all together to create new systems that serve everyone.

Once again Standing Women, now partnered with Gather the Women Global Matrix and LightPages, is inviting us to stand together for a better world for the mothers, children, and families of the world. The invitation is to participate in a global moment affirming the unity of the world’s women on May 9 at 1 pm.

Please take a moment and go to http://www.standingwomen.org
Register the place where you will stand for a better world. Others in your area will be able to find you.
On May 9, 1pm, stand together in silence for five minutes. Consider reading a declaration for a better world following your standing.

Send in pictures, audios, videos of your standing!”

I’m going to be standing at Fred Gingell Park in Tsawwassen at 1 pm on May 9th, come and join me!

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey – founding hippy ceo of hippy grandma

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I recently read “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother Daughter Story” by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. This book is “a wise and engrossing book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and the relationship between mothers and daughters” and I loved it!

The sections by the mom, Sue explore many facets of aging and deepening spirituality, while Ann’s chapters are lighter, exuberant and achingly truthful.

Being the mom of three daughters and personally going through many of the mid-life questioning and questing that Sue is doing, I am savoring this book as one would savor a big, round ripe pomegranate! I am finding a deepening and an enriching of my spirituality emerging with the reading. It also gives me distinct pleasure to be reading this book in an area of the western world that has welcomed Eastern spirituality and religious freedoms. Vancouver, with it’s partner city San Francisco, spawned the hippie movement, which provided a gateway for the emerging Eastern spirituality and the furthering of a differentiation between religion and spirituality

First, here are some definitions from Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org ):

“Religion: A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience. The term “religion” refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.”

“Spiritual: Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more deities. Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind’s ultimate nature and purpose, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings with a unique relationship to that which is perceived to be beyond both time and the material world. Spirituality also implies the mind-body dichotomy, which indicates a separation between the body and soul.

As such, the spiritual is traditionally contrasted with the material, the temporal and the worldly. A perceived sense of connection forms a central defining characteristic of spirituality — connection to a metaphysical reality greater than oneself, which may include an emotional experience of religious awe and reverence, or such states as satori or nirvana. Equally importantly, spirituality relates to matters of sanity and of psychological health. Spirituality is the personal, subjective dimension of religion, particularly that which pertains to liberation or salvation.”

So, while spirituality may be connected to religion for some, it can also be the subjective sense of “a power greater than oneself, a sense of expansiveness, connection and awe” that is experienced outside the realm of organized religion. It is this sense of expansiveness and connection that guides hippy grandma to keep the hippy love flowing for generations so our children and our grandchildren and on and on, may also catch some star dust!

“The true harvest of my life is intangible – a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched” – Henry David Thoreau

Enjoy your day.

peace, namaste & hippy love for generations,

Zoey – founding hippy & ceo (chief enthusiasm officer) at hippy grandma & life & biz coach for women

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The 13 Days of Green & Groovy Christmas Shopping From Hippy Grandma: A Fair Trade, Earth Friendly Eco-Boutique. Hippy Love for generations!

Day 11

On the eleventh day of on-line shopping for a green & groovy Christmas, hippy grandma said to me:

* The “Mama Spice Love Bundle” with the Mystic Masala natural source massage oil and soap from a women’s fair trade co-op in Nepal and ayurvedic aromatherapy soy tea light candles would be a lovely gift for a hippy mama who wants to feel pampered and lively!

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Enjoy your heart centered and soul filled shopping! Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul brothers & sisters. www.hippygrandma.com

peace & namaste,

Zoey – founding hippy at hippy grandma

Zoey Ryan
life, business & leadership coach for women
inspiration * clarity * wisdom * enchantment
www.shaktisage.com
604-323-3700

“Coaching for your heart & soul and the heart & soul of your business”

Prices are in Canadian dollars. We ship internationally, order before Dec 4th to ensure a “before Christmas” arrival. For your on-line security, we use 2checkout a secure e-commerce system. 2CheckOut.com Inc.(Ohio, USA) is an authorized retailer for goods and services provided by Hippy Grandma.

Jill Culver, a doula, post-partum doula, childbirth educator, and breastfeeding counsellor from Vancouver Infant Massage says that “infant massage is a powerful, simple and ancient tool for enhancing the lives of families with new babies.” She trained in this ancient art through through the amazing work of the Liddle Kidz Foundation in Vancouver.

If you wish to learn more about Infant Massage, Jill is starting a new series of classes in November in Vancouver for parents, grandparents, health practitioners and caregivers. To learn more about Jill and the classes, check out www.vancouverinfantmassage.com.

Look forward to our next installment with more info about the history of infant massage and more benefits.

namaste,

Zoey – founding hippy at hippy grandma

Zoey Ryan
life, business & leadership coach for women
inspiration * clarity * wisdom * enchantment
www.shaktisage.com
604-323-3700

“Coaching for your heart & soul and the heart & soul of your business”

Are you a heart-centered and “soulful shopper”? Know of a new baby arriving? Keep the heart, soul & hippy love flowing for generations with purchases from Hippy Grandma: an Eco-Boutique selling fair trade, earth friendly treasures.

Through your purchases, you help local artisans, hand-crafting grandmas on a pension, women’s fair trade co-ops and programs designed to support vulnerable mamas & babies. Please share Hippy Grandma widely and wildly with your soul sisters. www.hippygrandma.com

My love of chocolate (organic of course) started early!  Here is me in 1958 enjoying some homemade chocolate pudding!

namaste,

Zoey

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OK, so I am a very proud mama showing off my darling daughters, Savanna, Delaney and Kaitlin.  The “angels” are all wearing flannel “jammies” made by their grandma, my mom, Renata, who has since passed on.  Renata was an amazing seamstress and it is my memory of her wonderful creations that connected me with Joyce and the wonderful vintage chenille baby jackets that she lovingly creates in her home studio!

namaste,

Zoey

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