Dancing Up the Moon: A Woman's Guide to Creating Traditions That Bring Sacredness to Daily Life
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Most of us have very little tradition in our lives yet crave a stronger feeling of connection and meaning. This guidebook builds on the knowledge that women already possess in celebrating events and inspires them to commemorate other life-changing passages as well.
(Living a Sacred Life offers an affirmation for each day o...)
Living a Sacred Life offers an affirmation for each day of the year and includes hundreds of simple ceremonies, suggestions, meditations, and holiday celebrations that can make the ordinary extraordinary.
Robin Lopez Heerens Lysne is an American counselor, writer, and artist. She is also a highly skilled energy medicine practitioner as well as a radio show host.
Background
Ethnicity:
Robin is of Norwegian, Danish and Scottish ancestry.
Robin Lopez Heerens Lysne was born on January 3, 1953, in Rockford, Illinois, United States, to Robert Edward Heerens, a family physician, and Martha Virginia (Lysne) Heerens, an artist and homemaker.
Education
In 1975, Robin received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1998, she also received a Master of Arts in Spirituality and Psychology from Holy Names College, Oakland, California, and numerous certificates in various healing modalities.
In 2012 Robin earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing-Poetry from Mills College, Oakland, California, and in 2013 she finished her doctorate in Energy Medicine from the University of Natural Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her dissertation was turned into the book: Heart Path Handbook, available on Books and CD’s page.
Robin worked as a curator of exhibits and education at Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, and was a self-employed practitioner of “energy medicine,” Boulder Creek, California. Robin also was a certified massage therapist and worked as a massage therapist in and around San Francisco and in Michigan.
Robin Lysne offers keynote addresses, sermons, discussions, workshops, retreats and classes in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and around the country. She has spoken at Unity, Science of Mind, and Religious Science Churches and has also offered hundreds of workshops, seminars, and talks at dozens of bookstores across the country as well as in a Santa Cruz Mountains Retreat Center.
Robin has appeared on Radio, Shows in: Monterrey, Santa Barbara, Rockford, Beloit, KEST, KNRY, WNIU, WREN, WROK, and Northern Lights Public Radio and many others.
Achievements
Robin Lysne is known as a prolific writer, creator of taped recordings of poetry and contributor to collections and periodicals. In addition, Robin has exhibited her paintings and drawings widely, published numerous poems in publications, anthologies and two books, and authored eight books in total.
She received two grants for her work on Dancing Up The Moon, and three for her work on cultural change.
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Politics
Robin is Liberal by her party affiliation.
Views
Robin believes that benevolent, omnipresent spirits are spirits of light who are accessible to all people. She also believes it is both her privilege and her responsibility to use the skills she was given at birth and has developed healing tools for the highest and wisest good of all beings and the planet.
Quotations:
"My work in this world is to awaken souls who want to step into their radiance to do the work they were born to do. I help get you in touch with your light, your unconditionally loving self. As a coach/mentor, intuitive/medium, artist/author, gentle healer and inspirational speaker, I support you to live and express your best most authentic life."
"One thing I’ve noticed is that everyone has several things blocking them from achieving their optimal health, goals, and dreams. These blocks live in their energy systems. The first thing I’d like to help you with is to clear what stops you. To get started, I invite you to download my complimentary.“
Personality
Since birth, Robin has been able to see energy fields and spiritual presences that live among us. She has been given intuitive, mediumistic, and healing abilities to use for your empowerment, growth, physical and emotional health. She is led to do this work by her own spiritual guidance. Her training with other healers and practitioners honed her work with her intuitive processes to balance and repair chakras, heal and revitalize energy fields, and help individuals explore their archetypes, issues and challenges.
For over 25 years Robin was involved in Native American (Lakota, and Annishnabe) earth-based traditions where she received her spiritual name, colors, and clan.
Her name “White Turtle Woman” came to her through a Native American ceremony she committed to dancing in several years ago. She is a Sundancer and an Ogitchidaah Equa (Woman of the Ogitchidaah).Recently she has been guided to begin to use the name publicly as a spiritual teacher and intuitive. She has also studied Umbanda, an Afro-Brazilian tradition both in the U.S. and in Brasil.
In addition, she has meditated for over 45 years in a variety of traditions starting with Transcendental Meditation (T.M.). She has received darshan many times and meditated with many spiritual teachers, including Tibetian Buddhist Teachers at Land of Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA, Jack Kornfield, Da Free John (Adi Da), Amma, Guru Mai, Leonard Jacobson, Adiyashanti, Brenda Morgan, Ph.D., and Michael Silverman. Today, she is a devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda and a member of Ananda, a spiritual community based on his teachings.
Interests
Chaos theory, science, energy
Sport & Clubs
swimming, shelling, walking
Connections
On November 1, 1976, Robin married Carter Blocksma, but they divorced on January 18, 1985. On July 26, 1998, she married Ernesto Lopez- Molina. Robin had a daughter, Mari Luna del Sol, but she deceased, and two stepchildren: Chris Lopez and Matt Lopez.