Sacred Simplicity & Business Lessons from The Land
I write this to you from the lands of Sorelle at “The Mother’s Temple”, just West of the Seven Sisters volcano range on the Atherton Tablelands, in Far North Queensland Australia.
A sacred place coded in Matriarchal wisdom and ritual.
Where birth-keeper, Tanya Pensini of Our Matriarch, seeded a vision back in 2008… a vision that stretched her from the moment she purchased the land and saw the work ahead of her. A vision that was forged through the fire of an abrupt end to her nursing career during the pandemic, and the dissolving of her marriage leaving her with five children, no income and a property to tend to.
Trusting the Vision: Awakening Feminine Wisdom
In this time of uncertainty staying on the land felt heavy, impossible and too much; Tanya knelt on the earth with her bare feet and hands pressed to the ground and asked, “What do you want? Want do you need?” And the answer was resoundingly clear.
“Bring the women here” And with that voice of the land she began to follow its instructions to create a nourishing place for women to come to reclaim their inherent power.
She toiled the land with her bare hands to physically clear dense, stagnant energy, honouring the elements, tending to her own healing & through intentional prayer & ritual, she connected the crystalline grids of the land to encode Matriarchal templates and reclaim her purpose to offer the healing of her hands to women.
I was recently blessed to receive the healing medicine of this land and hear Tanya’s story during my visit.
A Weekend Woman’s Retreat
I take myself on creative retreat in nature often. Sometimes solo and sometimes with the women who I weave with in business and life.
The creative process is sacred. And although big tech would like you to believe that all of the answers lie within Chat GPT, the answers that we truly seek can only be found in space & stillness.
In Sacred Simplicity.
And so for 48 hours, with my business partner & creative ally Emily Hazel, we offered ourselves to these sacred lands, with no other agenda than to tune to the intelligence of the The Mother, our bodies and the body of work that is birthing through us both.
Dissolving Complexity & Chaos on the path to Sacred Simplicity
Complexity is choking our vitality.
It’s stirring up mental debris, overdriving our systems and we’re finding it overwhelming to sift through the noise.
I talk to women nearly daily who are deferring their dreams, distracted in the weeds and dimming themselves to uphold an expired aspect of their lives. It makes me think, why are we creating so much complexity around something so simple?
Following formulas instead of intuition.
Over-thinking strategy instead of tuning into the truth of the moment.
Over-focusing on future timelines and goals instead of savouring & moving now.
Measuring our worth with external metrics, instead of the depth and resonance of our soul.
We are in-tranced in a culture that fuels building our businesses and dreams in this chasing/fixing energy. The core wound of unworthiness keeping us tethered to “never enough”.
The solution that our industries feed is more – more productivity, more accreditations, more money … no wonder our consciousness is wired for chaos and complexity. This is unnatural to our soul. To find something outside of ourselves to make our inner state feel better. The paradox is the more we accumulate, the emptier we feel. I think many of us are now realizing this.
The needs of our soul are simple and sacred. That’s why it feels empty to tick the boxes of externally prescribed to-dos . That’s why deep down you long for authenticity, depth and truth. It’s this deep yearning inside that is keeping you up at night. That’s whispering you home. That’s not letting you settle for less.
The Acceleration of AI & Technology (and the Atrophy of Simplicity)
This drive away from simplicity is being exponentially advanced by the acceleration of AI and technology.
Our brains our changing. AI tools improve productivity by assisting with cognitive tasks, but they also promote cognitive offloading—where reliance on AI reduces our engagement in critical thinking and memory work. This can lead to cognitive atrophy, diminishing independent thought and brain function over time.
Many humans will lose the ability to access depth in thinking and deep peace within.
And what a shame that would be to forget the very nature of ourselves.
The quiet potency of simplicity requires us to slow down and tune in.
It won’t jump up and down for our attention.
It doesn’t polish itself to be more engaging.
It doesn’t give us a framework to work with.
It involves nothing but space and presence. And with our tense shoulders up around our ears, our awareness hovering above the surface of our body, and our nervous systems and buttholes clenched, most humans have simply forgotten how to access this state.
So simplicity stays as an abstract concept.
A “wouldn’t that be nice” wish…
A “way it use to be”…
A “maybe when”…
This is why places like Tanya’s are so important, and why those whose voices are here to remind our human-family of what is real and true are needed more than ever. We must protect this natural way within our human being-ness, or we risk losing ourselves forever.
Safety as The Pre-Requisite to Simplicity
Simplicity requires us to feel safe. This is nervous system work fundamentally.
Many people I know are deeply uncomfortable with stillness. Their minds flip out, their bodies fight/flight/freeze. They will busy themselves with mindless fluff, endless drama and cheap distraction to avoid themselves naked, still, exposed.
So unwinding our busy-ness and embracing simplicity requires us to re-wire our internal circuitry… and this is a practice and a healing journey. We must re-train ourselves on how to slow down, breath deeper, and access the part of us that remembers the delicious texture, of sacred simplicity.
In the work I do with women, many of whom identify as being “high performers” re-installing the coding for simplicity requires an entire upgraded operating system. A somatic reframe. A stripping away of all the clutter, logic, and cob-webs of story keeping them separate from the simple truth of the moment, and all the opportunity that lies in the present.
This is the most powerful work we can do within our Body of Work. It’s not the sales funnels, or the copy, or the stacked offer suite. It’s somatic safety, nervous system regulation, and being the woman who can fully receive the beauty of simplicity, and take powerful aligned action towards what is true.
Cultivating Simplicity as a Way of Being – a Sacred Rebellion
The more we access sacred simplicity… whether it’s by slowly cultivating a beautiful meal for our family, getting outside in nature, or starting the day with a sacred practice, our body begins to register this “rightness”.
A softening & opening occurs.
We get an embodied glimpse into how we know it should be.
The world slows down.
The mental noise disperses.
What truly matters rises to the surface.
We breathe again.
We remember.
When we begin to anchor this way of being into our Body of Work, all of a sudden, we see the 99% of noise & distraction we’ve been clinging to as strategy. We face all the things that “aren’t working” and instead of pushing harder, we surrender. We anchor into something deeper, truer, richer.
This is a right of passage for any woman on the planet doing her soul’s work.
Sacred simplicity sees the results we already have.
The brilliance and value we already are.
The simple, natural opportunities right here in this present moment. This was my biggest remembrance on Tanya’s land. There is no need to push. When we claim our brilliance and value, we can fully receive all the blessings right in front of our face.
And suddenly we’re not in a rush. We become one with divine timing & the creative process.
Now it’s your turn…
Contemplation prompts:
Where am I overcomplicating my next steps?
What does the medicine of sacred simplicity want me to know about my Body of Work?
What is my highest next step?
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By Meghan Zuvelek, founder of Presence Media + Marketing Director & Curator at Head + Heart. Meghan helps businesses define and bring forward their body of work in the world, with marketing and visioning that’s soul-aligned. Connect with Meghan here.
