In February of twenty-ten, just after an amazing adventure to NYC, I was moving through the morning flow on my yoga mat when the phrase ‘the manifest sessions’ came to me as if through direct transmission from my guides, angels and cosmic-yogini forces. At the time, I had been mulling over ideas for a blog about working with the creative and making space for the imagination in life and work and art.
Having been a Project Manager in web development for the past 5 years, I’ve worked with many clients who have no idea what they want but know they need a website or an online marketing strategy. Not knowing what you want makes executing wonderfulness online a little precarious. In order for things to flow smoothly, it helps to know where you’re headed or where you want to end up. If there’s a clear picture of the ultimate goal, we can make a clear plan to get there. Without knowing what you want or where you’re going, every action is tangled in a cloud of unknowing and doesn’t get much distance.
I had to help clients sort this out. I felt like a life coach for websites, but I realized that the issue wasn’t with the site, per se, it went deeper than that. I had a hunch that many folks didn’t know what they wanted in life in general. They weren’t attuned to their innate spark of genius that lit them up. Or, they were floating in a sea of untethered ideas – nebulous ideas – with no idea how to ground them.
When what you do aligns with what you want and where you’re going, good things happen, as if the universe opens up to you. But all too often, I find people stuck in a fog of unknowing, often with ideas that need a place to land – or a plan for success.
“You always go for what you want. You’re so clear,” my mom would always say to me. “How do you know?” she would ask.
“I just know,” I would reply with little explanation, a shrug and a smile. The clarity was a full-bodied knowing – and a sense of the pull coming from where I was headed, bodying forth into a future that was calling me into it – even if I didn’t have a mental understanding of what that notion was.
Any artist will tell you that the impetus for creation comes from an ambiguous place and unfolds before them in the process – but it’s about trusting that first core gut intuition that creates space for great art. But you have to be listening and ready for the messages.
In the months that followed the memo I received on the mat, I developed The Manifest Sessions to help with the idea birthing process — and to tune into that intuitive sense of knowing that comes from the depths of your soul and whispers your deepest desires.
Knowing what you want requires clarity of thought and the ability to sit with yourself, to know yourself in a way that your heart’s song sings loud and clear and you can trust your your inner compass.
The Manifest Sessions sets to create space for the imagination, space for you to explore those questions, and space for ideas to take shape and take flight. Your future is waiting for you.
What are you waiting for?
You can download the whole Manifest Sessions inspiration book here. 30 pages just for you.
