Dee and I have met on Zoom, nearly monthly, since December 2020.
Over the course of these last 4 years we’ve developed the most incredible friendship and working partnership.
We initially met and bonded over dōTERRA essential oils through our mutual oils mentor, Elena Brower. And during our first Zoom meeting we realized we were a match made in heaven, sharing additional overlapping interests and expertise in…
yoga (we both hold multiple teaching credentials!)
mental health (Dee’s yoga therapy credential, my master’s degree)
mothering (Dee with two young adult sons, me with a 12 year old daughter)
breath work and meditation (both significant components of “yoga”)
yoga philosophy (love for the founding tenants of yoga - the yamas and niyamas)
creativity (we’re learning this is critical to survive and thrive in the world today)
tarot (like personalized inkblot images, inducing a connection to the divine and a way forward)
While themes of yoga and mental health were our initial focus during our Zooms, we’ve found ourselves becoming more involved, invested, invigorated, and inspired by working intuitively with the Tarot.
Works we reference in this Zoom sampling
“You couldn’t find the divinity in yourself if you couldn’t see it in action in the world in front of you.”
~ Wald Amberstone
The Tarot School ~ Tarot Salon Workshop
We both enrolled in the course, TAROT'S HIDDEN NAMES OF POWER
An Esoteric Titles Class, hosted by The Tarot School founders, Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone. These two gentle souls, in my opinion, are tarot royalty! Their book Unlocking the Secret Language of Tarot is so easy to work with, clear, encouraging, and creatively invigorating!
Mystic Mondays Podcast
Dee found this podcast episode by Grace with Mystic Mondays titled, TOWER Tarot Card: Tarot Journey, Occult Esotericism, & Eastern Spirituality with Robert Ryan. In the podcast the Tower card is discussed as it relates to chaos, not needing proof of the divine when one has faith, and faith as feeling.
“Only pure consciousness can stop the dance.”
~ Robert Ryan
Topics - Themes We Covered
The Amberstones’ offered an exercise, which we completed together on Zoom.
THE TAROT SCHOOL EXERCISE
Gather together the Minor Arcana cards, numbers two through 10, and choose one card you feel offers you a positive sensation, and another card that offers you the opposite, a negative or not-so-good sensation. Review the cards and their esoteric titles (handout shared with the class), and describe what you see in each card, detailing how you feel, what you intuitively know or understand…
Through this exercise we discussed X of Cups (see image of family below), V of Cups, and separately…the Queen of Cups.
And boy did we go deep, especially with the Queen!
We never noticed the shape of the Queen’s feet and how they actually appear as a mermaid tail or how the pebbles on the beach are replicated on her crown and at the top of the chalice…perhaps symbolizing ideas, thoughts left behind from the stream of consciousness…)
WORKING WITH OPPOSITES
In both the workshop and podcast the speakers talk about polarity, opposites…a topic Dee and I talk and teach about…because opposites are everywhere.
Shifting seasons - cold winter to hot summer - and mindsets - “I am anxious” to “I am calm”…from the sun and the moon to war and peace…
We are surrounded by opposites, and if we weren’t, life could not go on. No matter how much we dislike one pole or the other…opposites are critical to our human experience.
The good thing about feeling extreme sadness or anger is that you know you are alive. Yes, the feelings are incredibly uncomfortable…but by living through them, you then know and can appreciate their opposites…joy and peace.
~ Michelle Crider
Pictured below is our working project, simply called, for now, The Quadrant. It includes the other themes that inspired our meeting together.
Let’s join together in a creativity collective!
Last October we hosted ~ Moving Through - An Inner Journey Workshop. In the workshop we share these tools with you…
Gentle, seated movement
Breath
Stillness of mind
Energy bodies
Intentions
Sacred, unconscious symbols
Journaling, free writing
This Inner Journey Workshop is…
A 1.25 hour workshop on the connections
between yoga, breath, energy, tarot,
and journaling!
Plus 6 bonuses to help you make
deeper connections with your
intuition and creativity!
When you register, you’ll have instant access to
the 1.25 hour workshop
9 audio meditations you can listen to right from your phone
free access to our signature course Essence of Breath, Essence of Life
3 free months access to Michelle’s Substack The Elk Mountain Well
our top 10 books list
access to us through the course portal (from your desktop or phone!)
a unique feature of the course…a guided journaling journey - something you won’t find anywhere else!
2025-26 Opportunities
We are in the process of developing our 2026 offerings which will include open enrollment for our year-long and quarterly programs that will launch this fall.
Interested?
Add your name to the waitlist…here
Final thoughts…
The wildest part of our relationship…we’ve never even met in person! Dee is in London and I’m in Orlando! (And I really look forward to the day I can give her a huge hug!)
Our greatest shared desire of finding meaning through our work together…to share the worlds of yoga, mindfulness, breath work, art and creativity, and tarot with you in our own unique, grounded, heart-shifting, mindset-centering way!
Have questions or want to schedule a complimentary 30-minute “Looking Session” with Michelle? Schedule here!
We look forward to serving and sharing with you!
xoxo
Dee & Michelle
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