Welcome to July, babe. This month is all about body as sanctuary, co-creating with our bodies through a lens of reverence. Get cozy and ready to dive into treating your physical vessel as a sacred site of magic ✨

Your body deserves care, tenderness, and adoration. How are you creating a loving space for the vessel of your body that holds you through life's multitudes? Approach this month as an invitation to come back into your first and final sanctuary with renewed softness and appreciation. The ways in which we treat our uniquely beautiful forms have deep and lasting effects on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. To accept this as true is to welcome change where it's needed and to make space for healing. Both are necessary when sitting with the ancestral wisdom echoing within your blood, your bones.

What would it look like to consider your body as a flourishing root system? A center of connection that has tendrils gently reaching out to embrace all that makes you feel whole. All that calls in deep and impactful pleasure, which creates a sanctuary worthy of our magic. What do your roots reach for, babe? What energies are being cultivated in the soil surrounding you? This month is about finding your inner radiance. Draw from the nutrients around you and create a light within, both for yourself and to share with your communities.

Take the time this month to witness how your personal sanctuary operates. How does it guide the way? What messages are available to help you create more pleasure? More space for yourself to shine? Those sparkles ahead tell us that we still have a distance to travel but that we deserve rest as the journey unfolds. You are on the right path, babe, and we're here with all the magical tools at our disposal to help guide you.

Did you know that Portland celebrates Pride in July? We are taking this as a chance to further honor the magic and radiance that is queer existence and are doing things a little differently this month! We'll be sending out a weekly newsletter, starting next week, to offer glimmers of queer joy. Our hope is that you will take these glimmers and remember that even though the world is a vastly scary place to exist in sometimes, your existence is a gift and we are so grateful to you. 

• Grounding  into the Altar of Your Body

• Build your altar on this beautiful cloth and devote it to tending to the relationship you have with your body.
• Books that make you feel curious and gentle as you learn