Celebrate Simplicity

Scott Robinson // January 1st, 2022

An excerpt from the book, Navigation, by Scott Robinson

Creating stability has been a priority in my own life. In the past I was into drama. One of the biggest changes I’ve had to make is letting it be okay to lead a simpler life.

Simple isn’t mundane. As you play with simplicity, you create more clarity.

I like to notice when I’m creating the next level of stability for myself. I can be more present for the simple things, which are often my biggest joys.

When I’m busy, I don’t have time to stop and really experience the small things. Like a raindrop hanging from a leaf. Or the scent of a rose as I walk by. Or the quality of the air at daybreak. Or the essence of light bouncing off water.

Or the pure stillness of a quiet room.

It’s Already Here

Scott Robinson // November 30th, 2021

An excerpt from the book, Navigation, by Scott Robinson

On the spiritual path two things are simultaneously true: you need to heal and you’ve already arrived. This is not a paradox.

As you walk the path, you realize there are wounds to see and heal, but you can also tune into yourself as Spirit. As Spirit, life can be full and rich. You can choose for every moment to be complete, no matter what is happening around you.

The external doesn’t determine the internal. You are in charge of your reality. Joy and happiness are a choice.

Meditation Poem: No Strings Attached

Scott Robinson // November 30th, 2021

Clouds give earth rain

No limits

Plants give energy

 

Flow

Power

Free and clear

 

The sun gives existence itself

Burns from within

 

I am humbled by this giving

Could I ever be that abundant?

 

Giving always with grace

Always with freedom and faith

 

The balance is beyond understanding

And I revel in its sure magnificence

 

With every breath I give thanks

For the gift of life

 

No strings attached

 

Creating Balance Through Spiritual Practice

Scott Robinson // November 1st, 2021

An excerpt from the book, ‘Navigation,’ by Scott Robinson

Being in balance is a spiritual choice.

We can choose sustainability. We can choose a more holistic way of living. We can choose to be in harmony with each other and the earth. We can shift our value system.

I’m not talking about reverting to a pre-industrial society. I believe in the gifts of technology. I’m just saying to use them consciously. I’m saying be aware of the addictive quality of products, and make conscious choices about how to use them.

As a spiritual warrior, aim to bring spiritual awareness to every decision. Is it of the highest integrity for all of humanity and the planet?

Choose the path of balance.

 

Meditation Poem: You

Scott Robinson // November 1st, 2021

Dappled Light

Shimmering seas

Orange moon rises from behind mountain

Your creations sparkle all around me
And ripple through my body

It is all one

The dark the Light balance each other in an uncomfortable dance

But you are beyond this dichotomy

You appear as Light
But you are beyond Light

You are all things

Light and dark are simply two aspects of you

A framework for consciousness to arise

What is brighter than the brightest Light?

How do you describe the indescribable?

I know you so well

You are everything, out of nothing

You are every pine needle
You are every sunset
You flow as rivers
You lay as endless oceans

There is nothing that is not you

It is all just consciousness as creation

Creation as consciousness

I sigh, look to your sky
And breathe you in

You are me
And I am you

Both creating the one

 

Stability

Scott Robinson // October 1st, 2021

An excerpt from the book, ‘Navigation,’ by Scott Robinson

Stability is required on your healing journey, because you challenge your reality to the core. The process of healing is a wild internal ride, so external stability is important.

A spiritual warrior always works to create maximum stability, because this brings more ease on the path. With stability you can more readily access your knowingness and have more authority in your personal space.

A spiritual warrior with a stable reality can stand solid during intense times on the journey. This is why ongoing weekly meditation classes are recommended. It stops the debate, should I or shouldn’t I work on my healing? It’s completely clear. A routine is in place, allowing you go deep with the deprogramming process.

Stability may seem boring, but this perception can stop you from focusing on your healing. There’s a reason some monks sit in quiet spaces for years on end, outwardly doing nothing. They do this so they can work on themselves inwardly. Their manifest lives are incredibly simple.

Meditation Poem: Inward Journey

Scott Robinson // October 1st, 2021

The true awareness of self

The self that shines for eternity
It is for all of us to have

It is okay if the false self sometimes threatens

It is like a child still learning where truth resides

With time and healing
There will be no need for thunderstorms

Sacred time
Sacred space
Sacred growth
They clear the clouded sky

It all comes back to the ability to have
To have this time
To have this place
To have this lightening
To have this inward journey

 

Meditation Poem: Buoyant in the Manifest

Scott Robinson // September 3rd, 2021

After summer’s growth

Comes fall’s release

 

Leaves returning their power

To the earth and water

 

Seasons roll by

Gently caressing, decaying

 

Rebirth

 

Lifetimes flow through

Buoyant in the manifest

 

As Spirit we are still

While time is performed around us

 

The subtle dance of energy

Creating a believable story

 

But we come briefly to this place

 

May we always remember

That time is just an idea

And we swim in shimmering seas

Beyond it

Finding Answers in Walking Meditation

Scott Robinson // September 3rd, 2021

Walking meditation can help you access information. You can often find answers to questions you put out to the universe.

Along the walk, if you stay aware in present time, something will trigger answers. Do not let your focus be pulled away. Stay inward and stay grounded. The key is not to be actively looking. You need to let go and just notice what turns up along the way, allowing your awareness to go to whatever seems significant.

Everything in your awareness has a piece of spiritual information for you. Ask yourself how can you use this information for your healing journey.

Remember, there is no such thing as an insignificant event. There is no such thing as an accident. Everything on your path happens for a reason. The only challenge is uncovering what that reason is.

Meditation Poem: Vibrating Brilliance

Scott Robinson // July 29th, 2021

Moon cycles pulse in your heart
Stars burn in your seeing
Earth caresses your every step
Sun gives you pure power

 

You stand in vibrating brilliance
With truth beaming from every part of you
You lay in fields of fire
With cool soothing all around

 

Your love affair with Source
Fuels internal passion
Your love affair with your Soul
Creates freedom of Spirit

 

These are the markings of the worker of Light

 

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Scott Robinson

Scott Robinson is the founder and spiritual director of Lightwork Spiritual Development, based on Gambier Island, B.C. For more than 30 years, Scott’s spiritual evolution has been his life focus, along with helping others discover themselves as spiritual beings.

Even in earlier stages of his life Scott lived outside the confines of mainstream society as a hippie kid, musician, video artist, photographer, poet and world traveller. Spiritually aware from childhood, he could see energy, and he knew there was a bigger picture than the material pursuits of life.

His spiritual purpose took shape in his early twenties when he discovered a meditation style that was an immediate fit. He dove deeply into spiritual studies, deepening his clairvoyant abilities and learning the art of self-healing.

Scott is constantly pushing the boundaries of spiritual knowledge. Through teaching, writing and photography, he empowers others to become conscious, bright spiritual beings on the path to freedom.

Scott is also Chair of the Board, chief visionary, and manager of the Lightwork Ecovillage, the Gambier Island sacred site that is home to the Lightwork practice.

Alison Cretney

Alison has been practicing Lightwork meditation since 2007. As a certified Lightwork teacher, she offers classes suitable to first-time meditators or anyone who has practiced other meditation styles. You can attend her classes in beautiful Nelson, BC, or by phone or Skype.

Alison has found Lightwork's clarity, ease and potency to be transformative in all aspects of her life including parenting, work, relationships and stress.

She has a Masters in Strategic Leadership Toward Sustainability which she applies in collaborative projects seeking solutions for climate change.

Julia Watson

Julia offers meditation and consulting services for organizations and individuals.

She started her conscious spiritual journey in her mid-twenties but it wasn’t until she came across Lightwork in 2002 that she found a meditation practice that really worked for her.

Julia completed Lightwork’s seven levels of training in 2010. She has been joyfully teaching meditation classes and offering private energy readings since then.

She was previously the Program Director at Hollyhock (Canada’s leading educational retreat centre) and is now a self-employed bookkeeper.

Julia received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in 1994. She received a permaculture design certificate in 2000.

Julia Thiessen

Julia started taking Lightwork classes by phone from Winnipeg in 2004. The classes rocked her world so thoroughly she moved to Vancouver to continue her meditation studies, eventually graduating from Lightwork's most advanced program, 'Level 7: The Apprenticeship' in 2012.

Her move to the West Coast allowed her to become involved in the Lightwork Ecovillage, where she continues to deepen her meditation practice and learn life lessons (like...you really can grow kale year round!).

Julia is a certified Lightwork Teacher. She offers Lightwork Level 1 and Level 2 classes for beginners, as well as private energy reading sessions.

She brings creativity to the Lightwork administration team, and manages two annual meditation retreats: the summer '9-Day Dharma Healing', and 'Winter Light Week'.

She has an intuitive and studied understanding of all things green, arising from her work in therapeutic gardening at BC Children's Hospital and other locations around Vancouver.

Cathy Belgrave

When Cathy signed up for her first Lightwork class, she entered brand new territory. Coming from a scientific background, meditation was well outside her normal repertoire but she felt compelled to try it.

Without even being able to describe how, she shifted perceptions in all parts of her life and began making decisions that decreased stress. Encouraged, she thought she would keep meditating until it no longer felt like a fit. That day never came. She’s now a committed Lightwork practitioner and teacher.

Cathy offers Lightwork Level 1, Level 2, private classes and energy reading-healings. She blends her passions for writing, teaching and meditation by offering creative writing workshops for children and adults.

Darci Rosalie

Darci discovered Lightwork meditation in her last month of nursing school. She realized she wanted a totally new way of coping with stress.

So she turned down a fancy job in California with a big signing bonus and season’s tickets to her favourite football team. Instead she registered for Lightwork's beginners class and never looked back.

Throughout her healing journey Darci has witnessed how meditation has the power to shift tough situations and heal what needs healing.

Her favorite thing about being a Lightwork teacher is the simplicity and presence of being in the moment. The big and small of the universe come into focus and make room for significant awareness and healing.

Darci graduated from the Lightwork Apprenticeship program in March 2014. She offers energy reading sessions and meditation classes in a loving, supportive environment.

Tiffany Robinson

Tiffany Robinson has 18 years of experience in the social services sector, a B.A. in psychology, and over 15 years experience developing and facilitating dynamic wellness programs for youth and adults. She is a full-time instructor of Lightwork’s Level 1 – 3 meditation courses and Teacher Training program, and has been studying meditation for over 15 years, completing Lightwork’s two-year meditation teacher training in 2012, and a three-year apprenticeship in 2015. She is also Lightwork's Director of Operations.

As the Wellness Programs Specialist for the Crisis Centre of B.C., Tiffany co-developed and facilitated hundreds of workshops, webinars and wellness programs designed to enhance well-being, resilience and mental health. Over 13 years, she championed the centre’s first mindfulness training programs and was instrumental in establishing key contracts to deliver large-scale mindfulness programs to 1,500+ employee organizations, such as the Vancouver School Board.

Tiffany lives at the Lightwork Ecovillage on Gambier Island, an off-grid permaculture farm-meets-meditation-centre set on 80 acres overlooking Howe Sound.

Jacqueline Voci

Jacqueline first learned to meditate as an antidote to stress and a crazy-busy lifestyle in the tech and PR industries. As she gradually made it part of her daily routine, an entirely new way of experiencing life emerged.

In March 2014, she completed Lightwork’s two-year meditation teacher program and began its most immersive course, a three-year apprenticeship to founder, Scott Robinson.

Jacqueline teaches Lightwork's beginner classes (Levels 1 & 2) and offers meditation workshops for companies and organizations. She has hosted workshops for the Dalai Lama Center for Peace & Education, UBC Faculty of Medicine, BC Cancer Research Centre and BCIT Student Association.

She is also a writer and communications consultant.

Elizabeth Stevenson

Elizabeth decided to give Lightwork a try in 2010, after observing a friend's Lightwork journey. Deciding it was a fit, she took classes from her hometown of Victoria by phone for six years. She then packed up and moved to Vancouver to continue her studies, completing Lightwork's Level 6 Teacher Training Program in 2017.

Meditation has helped Elizabeth let go of fears and embrace all aspects of herself. She's excited that teaching now gives her the chance to offer the Lightwork techniques to other people.

Prior to Lightwork, Elizabeth completed a B.A. in anthropology, and certifications in community counselling and permaculture. Music has always been an important part of her life. She enjoys singing opera and jazz, and offering vocal improv classes.

Leslie Dickout

Leslie took her first Lightwork meditation class by phone in 2012 while living in the busy city of New York. She was awestruck by the simplicity of the tools she learned, and how they helped her let go of old patterns. She knew she wanted to learn more.

Now settled in Vancouver and enjoying a much simpler life, Leslie offers Lightwork Level 1 and Level 2 classes, as well as private energy reading-healings. She completed the Level 7 Apprenticeship program at Lightwork in 2021.

She also works in communications at BC Recreation & Parks Association.

Zhenya Andriyash

Zhenya started taking Lightwork meditation classes in the fall of 2012 while living in New York City and working for a bank. Meditation was his way of dealing with stress-filled workplace and hectic city life.

While taking Lightwork's Next Step program, he moved to Vancouver to lead a quieter, healthier life with a focus on his spiritual development.

Zhenya completed the Apprenticeship program at Lightwork in 2021 and now he offers beginner Lightwork classes (Level 1 and 2), as well as reading-healing sessions.

Having a job in the tech sector, Zhenya finds his meditation practice to be essential for having wellness and balance in his life.

Bogdan Serban

Bogdan Serban is a certified Lightwork teacher and a soccer-playing dad of two boys.

He started studying Lightwork in 2015 after many years of interest in spirituality and energy work. He considers the Lightwork practice to be life-changing, improving his relationships at home and work, and instilling a deeper self-confidence. He uses the Lightwork techniques every day to support his parenting, marriage and work life.

Bogdan originally hails from the picturesque, mountainside city of Brasov, Romania. He’s lived in Vancouver since 2005 and works in the telecom sector. In his down time, you’ll usually find Bogdan hanging out with his family or on a soccer pitch.

Bogdan completed his Lightwork teaching certificate in 2020. He also holds a degree in business management.