The animals have once again tapped me on the shoulder telling me then have PSA that needs to be delivered NOW!  Their pleading has been so great that I left the delicious embrace of my garden to be of service to them. 

Here is the weekend PSA from the animals:

Hello my favorite human,

I observe that on weekends you are able to rest and relax.  You become much more present in your body and you are more intune with the flow of energy and listening to what your body really wants to do.  This seems to well deserved break for that grueling activity you call WORK.   

I  invite you to think of  weekend R&R as a training session for work. Just like when you are training me and I do the desired behavior you heap the praise and treats  on me. Now as you rest and listen to your body and make choices that promote staying connected to yourself I want you to imagine me saying in a loving, approving voice “Good job!  That’s right, good listening! You are so smart. That’s what I want more of.”  


My intention for this training is that you can find a balance in your life where all your days can be in a good flow and you are tuned to your needs and approving of yourself and treat yourself kindly.  Because as this day starts to draw to a close I feel your attention start to shift out of the present and orient to this thing called WORK.  And all the training progress we made goes out the window.  Like when I pee outside the litter box or lunge at the annoying dog passing by and you are frustrated - I feel the same bewilderment of "Wait what just happened?  "

So now we need to talk about this thing you call WORK?  Here is my observation of work. 
This WORK energy feels out of balance.  It feels there is an urgency, a push, a demand that this WORK thing is more important than you and the connection to yourself.  After these two days of being present in your body and allowing your body to direct the flow, you engage WORK and you drop the connection to yourself as if you dropped my leash.  And you seem to jump into that energy with your mind without taking your body along.    


You sit in front of those boxes that light up and tippytap on those boards.  Those boxes and screens mesmerize your attention. Your breathing gets really shallow and your body, your poor body is forgotten, it is as if you vacated the building.  


I am trying to do my part of being a good Trainer and  redirect your attention back to your body - by sitting on the keyboard, by barking or by coming in and out or by staring intently at you. Instead of yelling at me, and being annoyed with me for god sakes, people thank me.  It's a celebration!  You just moved, you came back to your body, your home.

Take a moment before going back into that WORK energy and wiggle those toes, run your hands along your legs, swing your arms around.   YOU HAVE A BODY.  BE IN IT! BE PRESENT!
Here are some questions I have about this WORK thing and I am seeking clarity about. Please take time to think about them and tell me the answers before tomorrow's WORK thing starts.  Literally, talk out loud, trust that we are connected and communicating.   
With all of your answers see if you can talk to me from you belly and see if you can feel the answers for example if you say “Yes it brings me joy.”  Let me feel the joy it brings you. ( Here’s my loving training voice “You are so good. I know you can do this. Just be in your body, trust you body.”)
Do you like  your WORK?  Please tell me from your body not your head what you like about it.  I need to feel it. 
I see you talking to people and doing stuff on your computer. What does your WORK do? (Besides disengage you from your body.).
Neave's translation here is to tell them the name of company you work for and literally tell them about the company, what they do,  why they do it and what your role is. 

Are you happy? 
Observing you at your computer where you are in your head, not breathing or moving that does not look happy to me - just saying. Convince me with your body.  OR if you are not happy - let those feelings be felt as well and tell me about them.

Why don’t you move around?  What ways can you think of to be more present in your whole body at this WORK thing? 


Thank you for telling me about this WORK thing and going through the questions.  It helps me understand what’s up with you and how to be a better companion and trainer for you.  
You are a HUMAN BEING.
Not a Human Doing - so BE  a HUMAN Being in your body.


Please observe and join me often, I  have got this presence thing down - I AM a MASTER TEACHER.  
Lie in the sun with me for a while till your bones feel as if they are going to melt.  Take delight in the birds flitting about . Bark at the delivery man- we have to let him know we are watching him.  Pause and groom yourself clean off the energy.  
All of above suggestion moves the energy and lets me know you are alive!  
Each time you do something to bring yourself back to your body and back to the present moment! Remember I am praising you and saying "Yes, More of that behavior, more of that!"
I am looking forward to relaxing and a more present WORK week with you.

Much love my sweet person!


As I say often we are the lucky ones to have share our lives with these wise beings

The Intuitive Playground with the Animals intention is to awaken people to their innate intuitive abilities through communicating with the animals.  Your body knows how to communicate with animals and all of nature.  Intuition is  the first the universal language  spoken and you were well versed in it before you had words.   At the Intuitive Playground for an hour and a half we connect with animals allowing your body to remember how easy it is to be open and receptive to converse with the animals.  

At this weeks Intuitive Playground with the Animals. we connected with wild animals that have been repeatedly showing up for people.  The intention was to let them know the delight that is felt in being in their presence as well as to ask if they had a message for the person. 

We started with a Cooper's Hawk who often is seen in Maple trees of a backyard.  We were all able to connect to that particular bird by having the person whose yard it visits visualize the bird .  Each of us felt the strong presence and his willingness to engage with us.  We shared the delight in connecting with him and how she enjoyed his visits. He sent a reciprocal pleasure in being acknowledged.  We learned he lives in the woods a little ways away from her - by seeing pictures he sent us. The message he share with us was a message of love and connection to the web of life.  We asked him to show us what it feels like to fly.  Each of us experienced it differently -  some people visually saw through his eyes navigating through trees and felt him soaring as well as pulling up and  landing on a branch.  Others felt the movement in their chest of the beating wings. And another felt the wind caress feathers.  We then  let him know that the Chihuahuas are not on the menu.   He let us know he doesn't eat them anyway.  Aahhh to the marvelous web of connection.

We then connected with a flock of bushtits that visit my garden daily and there is one particular bushtit that seeks me out.  She comes to find me what every room I am in my house and clings to the screen and flaps her wings to get my attention.  I held a picture of my garden in my mind's eye and called to the bushtits.  We were able to connect with them and felt their lightness and flutterly presence.  We shared my delight with sharing the garden with them and then we asked "Why are you seeking Neave out?"  Immediately we both heard "We are friends."   I let that fill my heart.  The next day when I heard their chitter chat I went out on my deck and the bushtit flew to a nearby tree and I felt a deeper connection as we greeted each other with a "HI friend." 

You are invited to join us Neave and the Animals at the Intuitive Playground  every Tuesday evening from 7-8:30 PST.  It is donation based.  For more details and to register 

​The following is a Public Service Announcement from the animals:
My sweet human please become aware of what you are paying attention to.  When you listen to the news, spend time on your computer or your smartphone and surround yourself with so much negative fear based energy it starts seeping into our home, into your mind and then I can’t feel you or my connection to your heart.   You are no longer present in the moment and I start acting out to bring your attention back to the moment.  

I can teach you about being present in the moment right now, and again right now in this moment. 
First shake off that energy by doing what I do, shaking my whole body like when I am wet, or sweeping you hands over all parts of your body imagining your hands are cleaning off the energy like I do when I groom myself. I think this would be good for you because I often do this after being stressed, excited or anxious  to regain a sense of balance or peace.
Now, come sit with me!  Feel your body touching the furniture - listen to my breathing, see if you can match your breathing to mine.   Look at my fur, scales or skin. What do you notice about it that you have never noticed before? Breath be here now with me. Please don’t go to your thoughts, because we lose connection. Stay in your feeling body.   Feel my fur, scales or skin - pause and really feel it see if you can let the information come up through your fingertips. Breathe.  
Tell me anything about your day, tell me what weighs on your heart, tell me your fears, tell me your wins, tell me your plans.  I can feel it all, all that you aren’t saying and it confuses me because it runs like a river in the background and there is a lot more energy in this river of suppression than the words you say that don’t match it.  When you speak it aloud it helps keep the energy flowing. Say what you want to say, let the words fall out and keep breathing.  Feel my fur. Feel my presence. Feel my love!  Right here, right now.

Please keep doing this till your breathing is normal, till you can feel your body.  I invite you, actual I implore you to do this practice  numerous times throughout the day. Even when we are apart, pause and breathe, call me to you and feel our heart connection. Breath I love you! Anytime we are together please practice being with me in the moment!
Now my sweet person let me tell you the energy that comes into the house through the tv, the videos, the phone, the computer it can get trapped in our  house and is making me crazy and unhealthy. You have the ability to leave and come back - I am here a lot in this house and I feel the energy.  Please start doing energetic hygiene around the house by clearing this energy and tuning the house to what your intention is for this house and our family.  I want you to make sure your intention includes presence, love, and harmony. Let’s have our living space support us in being healthy and well. Thank you for reading this and doing what I have requested.  I love you! 
 
 The animals have spoken! 
Now it's up to you,

Each of us come into this lifetime with a whole circle of spiritual resources which include guides, guardian angels, spirit animals and so on.  This circle of resources is your own personal posse that is always listening to you.  They like to help you as often as possible , daily if you allow them by providing  protection, guidance and healing. 

Spirit Animals are guides from your circle of resources that come in animal form to teach or deliver a message.  They are often referred to as power animals, animal guides and they are all one in the same.   It is believed that animals are receivers of energy and become mirrors for you to learn about yourself.  The spirit animal that appears for you is bringing your their sweet "medicine" in the form of guidance, wisdom, teachings, power or protection.   ​

The animals offer many teachings about presence and being in this season of fullness and the dance of life.  Simply by finding the silence within and observing them the teachings are available whether its a domesticated animal or a wild animal or insect.   Slow down and be in the moment and allow your whole body to be receptive listening and observing with your ears, eyes, smell, feelings. This is a place of remembering - remembering that your body already knows how to connect with nature and the animals you did it as a kid.  

Listen from this place and observe what stirs within you.    What sensations or thoughts or emotions bubble up? How does their wildness speak to your wildness?   Curiously ask a question and see if you can receive a response. Either a general question about being that particular animal.  Or perhaps a question about what is coming up for you. Then listen with your whole body - Animal Communication happens really quickly so be open and receptive to whatever you get.    It may be a taste, a feeling, a sensation, a word, a smell, an image.​

Today I lead an Animal Experience to the Heron Rookery.  This is an opportunity to observe animals in their natural habitat while holding an intention or a curiosity of learning about life from them.  

While researching  Herons as a totem I listened to my body to feel what resonated with me and then  formulated it into an intention - a curiosity to learn from the Herons.  Here is what resonated:

Humans express their love to their animal companions in so many ways.  Getting the best food possible, walking them, playing with them, brushing them, taking them to the vet, snuggling with them, training them, cleaning up after them,  making sure they have enough mental stimulation  and the list goes on and on.  Why do we put so much time, effort, attention and love into these furry beings? 

I believe its the unconditional loving presence that they hold for us. 
No matter which way you show up they are there to just be with you. You! You just as you are! They meet you where you are at:

• in your grumpy after work attitude
• in your pity party victim mode
• in your frenzy of trying to get everything on the todo list completed
• in your life is great
• in relaxing and chilling out mode
• or in your the struggle is real mode

They are not asking you to shake it off or change your attitude and yet being around them your energy may shift.  Scientifically this is because they are releasing oxytocin the bonding hormone.   

Animals are excellent teachers of being present.
They are present in the moment not thinking about the squirrel at the park that outsmarted them, or the hiss the neighbor cat threw their way.  They are in the moment.  Seeing you, being with you, loving your for being you in whichever way you show up.  Gifting you with a great template to love and accept yourself.

Since animals are teachers of being present and embodied.  I invite you to take a moment to allow your sweet one to show you how much he/she loves you. 
Pause... breathe.... settle into you body... taking a few deep breaths to connect with your heart.  Then gently imagine a beautiful river of love flowing from your heart to their heart.
Then ask them how much they love you? 
​Animal communication happens really quickly so be open and aware of the first feeling, thought, sensation, smell, image or emotion that appears. 
Allow that to be the answer without much thought. 
Sit with the sensation for a few breathes. 
Acknowledge your body for the great job listening and then you can send love back to them.

Enjoy being present and allowing in the expressions of unconditional love.

​Learning from the Salmon in a group lead experience this past Sunday the salmon provided many meaningful takeaways for each participant.  Witnessing the salmon in the final cycle of their life we gleaned a lot about how to navigate our own lives no matter what phase of life we are in.  The creek offers great viewing of the salmon in many stages of the spawning  drive to go up the river, in the slow pools resting and acclimating,  to flowing 3-inch water where the majority of the fish body is out of the water, to fallen logs that create channels for rushing water  and the salmon must jump over to continue the journey.
The day was clear and crisp with many people out to view the salmon as we wound our way along the bank we could hear cheers, like at a football game,  for a salmon that had just navigated a treacherous part of the creek.  This led to a reflection to celebrate our own steps toward a goal as well as to allow the resting and the acclimation for where you are at after expending that energy.   A reorientation and an acknowledgment of the journey.
Also, the vigor and determination with which these salmon move to complete this cycle of life to ensure future generations offered a different reflection then how the majority of humans meet the last years of life.
The bank of the creek is littered with salmon who have completed the mission and now lay decomposing feeding the forest with their nutrients.  One particular female salmon had her belly slit open and thousands of eggs lay exposed.  This brought tears to my eyes for the unfilled potential for having come so far and not be able to complete her mission.  For me, it was a good reflection of how in the past during a project I would just give up mid-project turning away from what I truly wanted because the path seemed too hard.  Seeing the eggs exposed and wasted really hit home on the loss of the possibility of creation with each of those eggs representing for me an idea, a connection, a missed opportunity when I gave up and therefore perpetuating my own struggle with life.
The salmon returning home offers insight into the interconnection of life.