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Before I learned to live from my Waters
by eco-spiritual artist danielea castell
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Before I learned how to live from my Waters,
I felt lost and overwhelmed in the human world. Now my life is guided by Water's ways and wisdom, and I have balance and harmony in my life. |
Before I learned how to live from my Waters,
my creativity was rationed & my voice-gift imprisoned. Now my gratitude sound flows freely, and joy scampers from me to my Water and Tree kin. |
Before I learned how to live from my Waters,
I thought myself incapable of sustaining relationships. Now I sustain not just one but many life-thriving partnerships with River Rock and Tree. |
Before I learned how to live from my Waters,
I secretly hated being on earth. Now my life is overflowing with purpose & co-creating with Humans and Nature Beings my greatest love. |
The Power of Gratitude
Gratitude is a miracle frequency. It nourishes the giver and receiver equally. It opens the doorway to greater abundance and intimacy with all life. When I first began singing my love to my River Lhtakoh I was astonished how speedily his joy rushed back at me. At the end of our first community ceremony his gratitude was so great that Water literally poured uncontrollably from my eyes. I knew that I was not 'crying', Lhtakoh was talking to me. Expressing our love and gratitude to the Waters we love is a powerful form of solidarity and stewardship.
Water, my Life Partner
It has been more than a decade since I woke up inside this precious life-giving bond that I have with Water. I remember realizing with a sinking heart that I say 'Thank You' to a perfect stranger for holding a door for me or to a friend for passing me a pencil, but in all the years that I had been alive on Earth I had not spoken directly to Water and said, "Thank You. Thank You for my life.
In the next moment I felt Water's full forgiveness and all the grief and shame I carried within flowed freely from me. I vowed to stay in conscious relationship with Water from that moment forward and I have kept this promise for 9 years. In return, I have been blessed with the love, friendship and teachings from bodies of Water around the world. I would not be who I am today without their generosity of heart. I feel deeply honoured to say that Water is my life partner
In the next moment I felt Water's full forgiveness and all the grief and shame I carried within flowed freely from me. I vowed to stay in conscious relationship with Water from that moment forward and I have kept this promise for 9 years. In return, I have been blessed with the love, friendship and teachings from bodies of Water around the world. I would not be who I am today without their generosity of heart. I feel deeply honoured to say that Water is my life partner
Water Gratitude as a Life Way
Right from the beginning the blessings I received from my Water friends were enormous. It began with my bond-mate Lhtakoh. His name means 'the waters within each other' in Lheidli T'enneh and Fraser River in english. He came home with me one summer in a mason jar. He sat in the centre of my kitchen table in the day and slept with me at night. He went with me when I offered sound healing at a local womens shelter and we co-led Water ceremonies and workshops upstream and downstream in his neighbourhood.
As the years passed my Water blessings multiplied and so did my gratitude. Each year around the middle of May the name of another River or Lake would appear in my consciousness and just stay there until I agreed to come and meet them that summer. As soon as I could I set out on a Water pilgrimage to their part of the world.
I was simultaneously humbled and uplifted by the endless love these Water ones had for me. I could not even find belonging among my own kind, and yet these wise Water elders treated me as equal kin. A river of gratitude flowed through my every thought, word and action and changed the fundamentality of my being.
As the years passed my Water blessings multiplied and so did my gratitude. Each year around the middle of May the name of another River or Lake would appear in my consciousness and just stay there until I agreed to come and meet them that summer. As soon as I could I set out on a Water pilgrimage to their part of the world.
I was simultaneously humbled and uplifted by the endless love these Water ones had for me. I could not even find belonging among my own kind, and yet these wise Water elders treated me as equal kin. A river of gratitude flowed through my every thought, word and action and changed the fundamentality of my being.
About Me and My Primary Nature Partners
I am an eco-spiritual artist, social researcher, sound weaver and planetary diplomat specializing in Water and Tree relations. I have dedicated my life to earth harmony and have known from a very young age that this begins with me and continues with my relations with all beings. I was born with the gifts of a telepath-empath and the physicality of an incarnator, who is wired into Mother Earth. This means I don't study a subject per se, I simply become it and through direct experience, deep listening and my own source connection, I learn from the inside-out.
My human ancestry is celtic, jewish and indigenous. I currently live on Turtle Island in the land known as Canada on the unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh nation in the northern BC city known as Prince George.
My River-partner is Lhtakoh. His name means 'the waters within each other'. His english name is Fraser River and he is a salmon-bearing River who runs from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. My Tree-partner is Nokuphila, a 400 yr. old Wild Fig Tree in Capetown South Africa. Her name in Koi means the All Healing Mother Tree. My Mountain is Arunachala, a fire mountain in southeastern India.
I identify as an eco-sexual human and I have dedicated the past 12 years to exploring interbeing communication and relationship ethics with Water and Trees. Through my primary partnerships with River, Mountain and Tree, and my relations with many other Nature elders around the world, I have learned how to invoke a quantum Water Field where human and nature beings can meet as equals and dialogue on behalf of earth harmony.
Significant Milestones
- Founded the Water Gratitude project to facilitate sacred relations between communities and their local Waters using ceremony and creative forms of gratitude. (2013)
- Released my Thank You Water CD and produced 2 more collaborative music CD's inChina (2017)
- Led a Water Inclusion Ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva for the 6th annual forum on Harmony with Nature, where Water was recognized as a sovereign stakeholder and had its own table in the room. (2017)
- Lived and worked in 8 different countries undergoing a wide range of cultural immersions in the deaf, indigenous, prison, islamic, hiv/aids, street kids, young offenders and psychiatric communities.
My human ancestry is celtic, jewish and indigenous. I currently live on Turtle Island in the land known as Canada on the unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh nation in the northern BC city known as Prince George.
My River-partner is Lhtakoh. His name means 'the waters within each other'. His english name is Fraser River and he is a salmon-bearing River who runs from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. My Tree-partner is Nokuphila, a 400 yr. old Wild Fig Tree in Capetown South Africa. Her name in Koi means the All Healing Mother Tree. My Mountain is Arunachala, a fire mountain in southeastern India.
I identify as an eco-sexual human and I have dedicated the past 12 years to exploring interbeing communication and relationship ethics with Water and Trees. Through my primary partnerships with River, Mountain and Tree, and my relations with many other Nature elders around the world, I have learned how to invoke a quantum Water Field where human and nature beings can meet as equals and dialogue on behalf of earth harmony.
Significant Milestones
- Founded the Water Gratitude project to facilitate sacred relations between communities and their local Waters using ceremony and creative forms of gratitude. (2013)
- Released my Thank You Water CD and produced 2 more collaborative music CD's inChina (2017)
- Led a Water Inclusion Ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva for the 6th annual forum on Harmony with Nature, where Water was recognized as a sovereign stakeholder and had its own table in the room. (2017)
- Lived and worked in 8 different countries undergoing a wide range of cultural immersions in the deaf, indigenous, prison, islamic, hiv/aids, street kids, young offenders and psychiatric communities.
My Mission
- prepare the way so that Water and Trees have room to speak in Human conversations, forums and plenaries.
- facilitate personal and professional relations among Humans, Water and Trees in community, government, industry and non-profit sectors
- improve the social health and living conditions of urban Trees, Forests and Waters
- model intimate interbeing partnership with Water and Trees
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The act of displaying gratitude and love for Water on the Bank of Gratitude was a truly inspiring, healing and motivating experience for me. Despite my love for the natural world I commonly forget the simple practice of giving thanks. Amber Van Den Biggelaar
The Bank of Gratitude PG 2013 Hosted by dcastell |
"Make it a daily practice to thank the water.
You will likely feel a lot better united with the water. It is human, it can sense, it can feel, it can hear what you’re saying. Ojibwe Grandmother Jospehine Mandamin www.motherearthwaterwalk.com |
"Giving gratitude to Water is a form of protection."
Cheryl Angel, Sicangu Lakota Spiritual Activist, Water Protector, former spokesperson at Stone Camp Standing Rock. photo of Cheryl and Danielea by Marce Resendez Aquasension Alaska 2019 |
