Tag: resistance

A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Beautiful fall colours on Saltspring Island. Bright yellows and oranges along a still lake with moody grey clouded sky. Rainforests of Vancouver Island

Late fall here on the misty coast of western Canada. My dentist is on Salt Spring Island. Takes 4 hours each way to get there … the highway, the parking lot, the ferry, then the road to his office … then the return. It’s a pain in the butt, as it eats up a whole… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Misty morning in the Pacific Northwest. Christina Merkley walks her chocolate lab who is stopped on a log overlooking a pond with the back drop of the evergreen forests and low lying mist.

The season is shifting here in the western rainforest of Canada. Sunny days are more frequently giving way to fall mists. I’ve been harvesting the last of the veggies from my garden, and laying in some flower bulbs for spring. Putting the container beds to sleep with a blanket of maple leafs, incrementally gathered from… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

A note from Christina banner of puppy Presley running on the beach with the clouds and olympic mountains as a backdrop for the water and waves on a sunny day.

Thunder is rolling in as I type. An oddity for these parts. The sky is going gray and the wind is picking up. Rain is dumping. Summer of 2023 is being a smidge dramatic here in British Columbia as it closes out. August has flown by. I was intending on taking the month off. Which… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

A note from christina banner against Christina Merkley's vibrant hot pink peonies.

My current Visual Coaching season is coming to a close. Several processing groups are wrapping up, as well as the 2023 cohort of Visual Coach Certification. Over July my website will be refreshed with the specifics for this Fall and 2024. A newly revised Fundamentals of Visual Coaching is coming. More Visual Satsangs. Another Shifting the… Read more »


ALL SHE DOES IS WIN!

Every few weeks I offer a drop-in, where we visually process the ups and downs of life, during these intense transformational times. Here’s Public Visual Satsang #57, hosted on Saturday, March 4, 2023 – All She Does Is Win! How wonderful to process a loving Mother and Daughter duo! One in the midst of navigating… Read more »


BREATHE INTO THE FIRE

Public Visual Satsang of December 28, 2022 Cohort of 3 attendees and their visual maps

Every few weeks I offer a non-dual (oneness) gathering, where we process the good, bad and ugly of our times. Here’s the follow-up on Public Visual Satsang #54, hosted on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 – Breathe into the Fire. See below for video, timestamps, summary, visual maps and date of next Satsang – all welcome!… Read more »


SOFTEN CONTROL

May’s Public Visual Satsang from Thursday, May 5, 2022. 00:00 Welcome and Meditation 17:00 Inquiry: Go with the Flow 36:47 Inquiry: Children in the Stars 1:04:38 Inquiry: Lighter and Brighter 1:35:18 Date of Next Satsang & Close Summary: Three inquiries in a row, all with themes of softening control … in order to lighten, brighten… Read more »


[VISUAL COACHING] WE SIT WITH CRAZY

Sometimes the smaller the Process Popup the deeper the depths. Also, fascinating synchronicities and piggybacking can occur … which was the case here. Theme is ‘CRAZY’ descendants of wounded women and the RISE TO A BIGGER HEARTED SELF.


FUTURE SELF TELLS GALA HARD TRUTHS

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – 2020 #19].  As a transgender woman, Gala works deeply internally and externally. Her primary question now is what is her role and service?  At 25 she abandoned a promising musical career for the corporate path. As 50 looms her multi-creativity beckons. Future Self commands an end to mind games… Read more »


POLARITY SQUARE: DIVISION AND UNITY

Process Group #11 – 2020 Shifts (June 14, 2020 – Visual Coaching).  We are in the midst of intense times.  Our planetary collective is wrestling with hugely important topics of power, privilege, race, restructuring, etc. As a small group sprinkled across North America, we processed the Division/Unity polarity via a Polarity Square. Triggers galore with… Read more »