From Living the New Story – Series 4

Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organiser of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing.

She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalisation.

Questions for ongoing reflection and dialogue

The answers to these questions will begin to inform the unfolding of your personal myth. Towards the end of our 8-month journey, we will be inviting you to look back at your answers to harvest the learning and wisdom, and to see how much you have grown and expanded. So do take the time and care to respond deeply and be sure to record your insights in your ‘Myth, Magic & Miracles’ journal.

1-What creation stories or cultural myths are you aware of in your lineage that provide the blueprint for how to be a human on the planet and for how to overcome adversity? Trace this as far back as possible, pre-dating Christianity, pre-dating colonisation. What effect have these stories or myths had on your personal life and on society?

2-Where do you see the energy of Coyote – the Trickster (or the shadow) – operating in your life, obscuring your ability to surrender to and enter into sacred relationship with The Great Mystery, with Spirit?

3-Think of a time in your life when you saw yourself only through the eyes of your suffering or trauma. How did you feel and how did this affect your relationship to self, others and the world around you?

How would you describe yourself if you were truly seeing yourself through the eyes of God, Spirit or Creator? How does it feel to begin to embody this version of yourself? How does this affect your relationship to self, others and the world around you?

4-Lyla emphasised the importance of gratitude in response to the magic and miracle of our every breath. Take time to open to the magical and the miraculous in everyday life. What are you grateful for in your life that perhaps you have previously taken for granted or not fully appreciated?

5-Review your ‘Myth, Magic & Miracles’ Journal. What have you written so far about your own personal myth? Does your myth, as it is written currently, reflect who you truly are and what your purpose is going forward into the coming year? Make any changes needed to integrate what has opened to you through contemplation of our Session 5 questions. Allow the reclaiming of your truth and the new telling of your myth to be informed by your deepening relationship to Spirit and all of creation.