A butterfly lands on a thousand flowers
and never leaves a single bruise.
Touch your heart like that.
Do you feel deeply? Then that must be what the world needs from you. Don’t shallow water yourself. Plunge. Not into despair. Into the sweet communion of what lives and Loves and learns and laughs and lights in the deeper waters of the soul. Whale song is a glorious chorus. Join them in the ecstasy. Give thanks for feeling life this vibrantly. Your sensitivity is called being deeply alive. You gather meaning through feeling. Soul wealth is measured this way. Feel deeply. Touch your wealth. If you feel part of the way, you heal part of the way. Feel all the way. You will be all the way alive.
The tender places in your heart are soil for your seeds of healing. Garden there. Touch, address your tenderness. That’s all it ever wanted. Hardness breaks. Softness surrenders to its seasons. Love not harder, but softer. Be soil for beautiful things. A soft heart lets healing seeds bed down. And peace come to sprout.
Your body is a lake holding all your energy. A fine-tuned water. Your immune system cannot bear chronic imbalance, ripples in the water. Disease in your body is a warning flower. You cannot afford to harbor negative, violent ripples. Release them. Heal your water.
Softness. Not because you are a woman. But because it is the nature of living things. And you are a living thing. Seeds. Soil. Surrender. Softness is a ceremony. A true Loving of you. Your soul is a soil. Countless seeds and flowers. Work your soil. Deep feeling souls must be gardened. Your heart is a tender land. Sing to it like a Lover. You can never have too much tenderness.
The way a leaf lands on lake water. Feel like that. You can feel gently and still send ripples all the way to your shore. You can be gentle with your heart through anything. Learn how to hold your heart. It is a vital art. Start.
Touch today gently. With caring and Love. It will touch you back. Easy does it. Gentleness is a power and a medicine all at once. More gentleness. Start with you. Gentleness is a gentle nest for tenderness. Invest in the suppleness of your innerness.
Snow does not navigate sky on its way down to earth. It surrenders. Its reward is a softness in life, a silence of being that could be called the sound of glory.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water:
A Book of Sacred Love
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2024 LUNA VORTEX ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. MARCH 9 TICKETS.
My heart is honored and excited to be the first artist in residence for the Luna Vortex, a healing space to reclaim our ancestral wisdom and creativity, under every phase of the Moon.
Throughout this 2024 residency, I will be offering monthly poetry reading ceremonies and book collection signings, and maybe some creative writing playshops as well.
The Luna Vortex is a studio located in Los Angeles, California, birthed into being by the luminous Luna herself. You may visit her website through the button below.
MARCH 9 TICKETS AND DETAILS:
I will be reading from Daughter Drink This Water in celebration of Women's History Month and Women's Day.
A NOTE FROM LUNA VORTEX:
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JAIYA JOHN'S
THE GATHERING.
A WORLD TOUR.
a poetry reading ceremony and
book collection sales and signing
I am excited to join you in your community to read from my collection of published and unpublished work, bringing to life the spirit of the medicine words. I say reading, though incantation and prayer are truer. Thematically, these readings are on collective freedom, and take on the flavor of each audience from gathering to gathering. A rich weaving of cultural fabric. These gatherings are remembrance songs, bringing us back to our Indigenous ancestral ways of gathering and being together. As this tour is part of my global Soul Water Rising rehumanizing mission, we stir the soul to remember itself as we garden our collective liberation and the end of oppressive systems and ways of life.
I am also honored to include, at some of the gatherings, live Sacred Conversations with revolutionary souls who inspire me. During these gatherings, I also commune with the audience in questions and conversation. And we build into this healing experience what we are calling Aftercare. Before the afterparty, and after the reading, we care for each other as I make myself available for sacred listening, tears and laughter, sacred embraces, selfies, and book collection signing.
And as a part of Soul Water Rising's Book Angel Project, whether or not you attend a particular gathering, you have the opportunity to purchase books that we then gift to vulnerable souls with whom we gather along the tour.
The Gathering is a people's freedom movement. The tour is happening in cafés, libraries, prisons, hospitals, shelters, community centers, women's centers, campuses, HBCU's, Indigenous reservations, art galleries, art studios, museums, parks, amphitheaters, auditoriums, theaters, and stadiums. Call us to North and West Africa, the Levantine, Southeast Asia, South and Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond. We go where we are called.
You play an organic role in this. If you desire for the tour to come your way, email us through our tour page at jaiyajohn.com. You can help us identify aligned venues, communities, and audiences.
Tour dates and locations are announced on a rolling calendar as sites are secured. This tour is a culmination, crystallizing, and new season of my life's journey, work, and calling. I am awed and enchanted to read for you and embrace you in a healing way.
We will see each other soon, in Love, at The Gathering.
Big Love,
Jaiya
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My books are available at booksellers worldwide and directly from the author at jaiyajohn.com (eBooks are exclusively at my site). Thank you for posting your copies, readings, and creative images and videos, and for sharing online reviews. It all breathes life into a book's life. I hope you will gift these books to your people.
Also at jaiyajohn.com, enjoy my books, eBooks, audiobooks, talks, sleep stories, and piano music. I also offer creative writing support phone sessions, keynote speaking, talks, and book/poetry readings.
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