PHOENIX RISING: A SUMMIT FOR FIREWALK INSTRUCTORS

Thursday, September 30th our Associate and Professional members (Tier 2 and 3) are invited to join our upcoming special event - Phoenix Rising - especially for Firewalk Instructors. Our goal is to ignite purpose, positivity and power for Firewalking teachers to go out into the world post pandemic with vision and clarity for how each of us can best serve others in this re awakening. For Global Firewalking Association members only (Associate or Professional)! If you are not a member make sure to upgrade below.

ASSOCIATE AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS: LOOK FOR THE PHOENIX RISING INVITE IN YOUR INBOX WITH THE ZOOM LINK

Phoenix Rising Thursday, September 30th

9 am to noon Los Angeles (PT)
noon to 3 pm New York (ET)
5 pm to 8 pm London (BT)

INTERESTING TIMES

Sufism is the mystical branch of Islam. I have been told there is a Sufi prayer which goes something like this: please let me be born in interesting times. I think we all must have excelled at that prayer sometime in the past as we are living in times that are full of change, and can be challenging and frightening; most interesting times, indeed!

Humans like predictable. We like seasons that act like seasons - the flu at flu season is OK, but this COVID stuff, intolerable; and storms are fine, but these storms that wash away whole towns, terrifying! The world is changing and is unpredictable and we humans don’t like it.

It’s in moments like these that the phoenix is reborn, when challenging times demand the utmost from every one of us. Someone famous once said that people live lives of quiet desperation. That may have been true in the past, but nowadays I see people living lives of self-indulgence and self-soothing, often obnoxiously loudly. Most humans have never faced their fears consciously, examined the composition of what stops them in life and then taken action to move past that fear. Due to this they are left desperately grasping at different ways to try and make themselves feel better.

The firewalk teaches us that when we take decisive action toward a clear goal, even one that seems impossible, life conspires to support us.

As firewalkers we have stood in front of those coals and, in fear and a certain amount of disbelief at our audacity, stepped forward and crossed them. In doing so we felt the elation of overcoming that fear and succeeding, and sometimes also a certain affirmation of the benevolence of creation. That act, hopefully repeated over and over again, has built within us an inner knowledge about the composition of our fear and what it takes to move past it to well-being. I call firewalking a clinic for life. Now is the time to put those clinical lessons learned to work in real life. The firewalk teaches us that when we take decisive action toward a clear goal, even one that seems impossible, life conspires to support us.

The phoenix is reborn in thousands of actions, each beautiful feather in that fiery plumage a conscious act toward an inspiring future. Every time you meet people’s aggression with kindness, their fear with hope and their confusion with inspiration you give life to the phoenix. Every time you offer care when people despair and meet obtuseness with humor and do the practices you know work to create a sense of well-being for yourself, you are nurturing the vision of a world reborn. This is the time to put into action that which has been theoretical, walk those fires of life, and step into the lessons learned from the fire. It is time to step into that elation of having overcome our own fears and knowing, deeply, deeply knowing, with absolute certainty, that this amazing creation at its heart is truly benevolent.

The phoenix is reborn in thousands of actions, each   
          beautiful feather in that fiery plumage a conscious  
          act toward an inspiring future.

Peggy Dylan, GFA president

WHISPERINGS FROM THE EARTH

As a dedicated and committed Firewalking Instructor, I’ve always known we would use a lot of wood and so we committed to an ongoing programme of tree-planting to provide a greater than simple compensation for the carbon  emissions in our firewalks.

We would like to encourage our members to actively join the commitment to creating an ongoing tree-planting policy within their practices.

This is something we have committed to here in the UK, where we have planted over 800 trees, some of which now provide beautiful cover and enrich the surroundings.  This, as well as helping us to offset the carbon footprint of our courses.

We would like to encourage our members to register as a GFA Tree Planting Ambassador, someone who plants or pays to plant 5 trees or more for every firewalk they facilitate.

This needn’t require money to do.  Here in the UK, The Woodland Trust (https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/) will provide trees for planting free of charge. You just need to dig the holes.

Here at the GFA, we are looking to provide links to organisations that provide trees to people at low or no cost, so that replenishing the wood from earth with trees can be as accessible to everyone as possible.

Please help!

If you’d like to register as an Ambassador or Supporter, please let us know. We think that many of you will want to support it although some members may not be able to plant trees themselves.

And we’d like to know of all the free or inexpensive tree preservation and promotion organisations in every country we have instructors, so please send us links and the countries that the organisation is in.

Please send your ideas to admin@gfateam.com

Gratitude! Steve Consalvez, GFA Board Member

LEVELS OF MEMBERSHIP OVERVIEW

We offer three levels of membership: Firewalker, Associate Firewalking Instructor, and Professional Firewalking Instructor.

Firewalkers: For all people who love Firewalking; anyone can join for free.
Associate Firewalking Instructors: For certified Firewalk Instructors and Masters (including fire tenders).

Professional Firewalking Instructors: At our highest level, Professional members are certified Firewalking Instructors and Masters who are leading their own events. Professional members get access to our largest array of articles, support and marketing.

We still have special rates for our Associate and Professional members, so if you want to upgrade now is a great time.

This is just the beginning; now that our foundation is laid we will bring more energy and resources to fire up your life, your teachings, and your vision. Imagine what we can do together, connected by our love of the fire.