What is Fire walking ? Firewalking is just what it says it is, we build and light a fire made purely of wood, packed with paper and doused in vegetable oil, the fire is lovingly tended with care and intent. As charcoals form, the fire tender gently taps them to create small coals. The fire is then raked into a shallow path with excess coals resting along the side to be raked over at intervals throughout the walk. Before the walking begins, the fire is “opened” giving blessings and thanks to this most beautiful element of change and healing. Song and drums continue the celebration of fire and when the fire “calls” you, you walk. Walk in confidence and joy along the path of transformation and ability that lays before you. Achieve what you deemed unachievable. It is with one foot in front of the other we move from one state to the next and it is this way too that we walk the fire and experience transformation. How is fire walking possible ? Fire walking IS possible, it is real and there are no metaphysical or chemical changes that make your system different and enable you to walk, there is no hypnosis or mind washing, no trick nor illusion, the person who arrives to walk is in every sense the same person who walks. There is no actual definition of how, but my understanding through my experience of fire and other trainings I have had would best explain the how as Chi. In fire walking we call chi by it’s African sound translated as Num. The workings of chi, ki, num, life force, energy, call it what you will, is the understanding of vibration, that all matter can be broken down to atoms, and atoms can be broken further and further down.   All atoms of any size are simply energy and all energies have a frequency and a vibration. When the vibration of one energy is equal to or greater than the vibration of another there is no resistance. As human beings I believe our greatest vibration is that of heart, what the heart is willing to achieve the body will achieve. The human thought is a very powerful vibration, thought comes before every action and word, most of our thought is within our subconscious and often we do not understand why we think the things we do. When the heart desires and the mind resists we have conflict and dis-ease How many possibilities did you imagine or think when you were younger, and who was it that told you, that’s not possible, or it can’t be achieved, and what gave them the right to tell you it is so. At my fire walking seminar we discuss both heart and mind, we learn to think beyond our limitations and we connect to our heart, decreasing the resistance we hold so strongly through fear and doubt. This increases our num, chi, energy, we begin to allow the num to flow through all parts of or conscience and subconscience, by removing resistance and increasing num. Fire is a vibration, we are a vibration, when our num is equal with the fire’s num, we have no resistance to the fire and we can walk it’s glowing hot coals safely and with joy. Why would we firewalk The most outstanding achievers in our world, who dare to become more, only do so because they think they can. Here is enough reason for the bold, for others it is to remove old patterns which are holding them from becoming more, removing the thought limitations in order to fulfill their hearts desires, for others it is a way to connect to their higher self, fire is pure energy and our higher self is pure energy. Purification, fire’s most healing effect, so many will walk for health and healing. There are more reasons to walk than to not walk, you bring your own focus and intent, and the fire will transform whatever it receives. This is real. Because it is real, we can cognitively read, observe and listen to experience, and we have the amazing mental ability to make any of it fit with our beliefs, of self, our world and creation. We can justify our own doubts and fears by reassimilating any of what we witness, but what we do with our physical selves is real, you cannot bullshit fire, you cannot make excuses for the experience when you have had the experience. It is with our physical bodies that the truth occurs and it is this way too that we learn. When you have had a real physical experience, you know, with every cell of your body. You understand. So when we are focused with intent and humbled by the raw power of a fire, we cannot have doubt in our mind and walk, we can not have ego in our heart and feel safe, we can not have bravado and pretense to step out onto the coals, it is you, your heart and your intentions alone that take you along the burning coals of truth.   TENDING THE FIRE.