Kenya Journey Outreach Tour 2009
Post date: Feb 22, 2010 9:50:15 AM
An excerpt by Naraya Urban-Winbterfeldt - read the full story on
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It is the evening of Dec. 09th 2009 and my family and I are packed and ready for departure back to the UK. And this is what has happened during the last 3 1/2 months:
More than 8000 road kilometres covered for Journey Outreach,
in excess of 1500 people facilitated with hugely transformative Journey work,
a 6" stack of thank-you letters and overwhelmingly positive feedback in our bags,
a 2010 follow-up programme in place enabling over 30 schools and community groups to access regular monthly Journey work,
the launch of the world's first Journey school, Junior Journey Academy, in the making,
a foundation coming up that is ready and willing to fund further work in the country and employ local Journey Practitoners,
more Journey seminars and training opportunities being drawn to the country,
the universe lined up in support of the Kenyan Trainees easily and effortlessly completing their Journey Practitioners Programme ...
And most importantly, being bathed in the love and dedication of a Kenyan Journey Outreach Team, more a family by now, that knows no bounds, is absloutely unconditional, selfless, devoted to truth and healing, a team that will not rest until we see this world a better place, starting with ourselves, each and everyone, and being contagious in the awakening and deepening that our souls find by opening to and engaging with the liberating spirit of The Journey.
Last weekend saw us, the entire Outreach team plus the Urban-Winterfeldt family, 15 people age 11 to 54, heading to the foothills of snow capped Mt.Kenya, rising 5199m above sea level, for a joyous farewell Journey re-treat. And a treat it was, with time for meditation, satsang, Journey process work, sacred song, prayer circle, elephant tracking in the cool early morning hours, a celebratory dinner party, yoga by Fazilah, acrobatics for fun, hugely amusing stand-up performances by some of our Kenyan guys, fireworks by Elia, and, and, and ... A feast of love and gratitude that brought tears to many eyes and will have a place in my heart forever.
I can't possibly express in words what it means to me to be part of this unstoppable movement of healing, forgiveness and profound social transformation in a country where 58% of the population lives below the 1$ per day threshold - and most of our Trainee Practitoners undoubtedly fall into this category - where political intrigue, corruption, HIV/AIDS, sexual promiscuity and ignorance, abuse, violent crime, unbelievable environmental pollution and ethnic strife is daily bread for the vast majority of people. And yet, despite all these "negatives", I just can't stop myself from deeply loving Kenya and her most exquisite people. I call it home now and I live from here ... Though body moves back to the UK and here and there and everywhere, home, if there is such place, is here in the heart of Africa and nowhere else. Family here, twin soul here, godson here ... What else could one possibly ask for!?