Sarah Weiss of SpiritHeal Institute will be leading the Global Water Blessing on the Cuyahoga River at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19. The blessing will be synchronized with other sites around the world. For more information, visit the Global Water Blessing Web site at www.globalwaterblessing.com.

BIONEERS CLEVELAND: Why have you chosen to participate in a global water blessing?

SARAH WEISS: Our goal—and I’m working with a group of people—is to bring awareness to the planet, and everyone on the planet, to begin to appreciate the element of water. We are in a crisis with water, so many people are without healthy, clean water, and it’s hurting our hearts, even though we don’t know it.

The idea of actually having a global water blessing came about because of partnering with Bioneers. We were just thinking of having a little blessing, and we finally figured out that, with all the contacts with Bioneers, and all the contacts that we now have, that we could stretch this across the planet.

BC: How do you mean, stretch across the planet? Are you talking about Africa, Asia?

SW: Well, anywhere that we can reach. It’s really interesting, when you say to somebody, “Do you know people in other countries?” And they’ll say, “Well, yeah, I know this person in Africa, and I’ve a friend in Thailand.”

BC: Tell me about the blessing part.

SW: Ok, the water element on the physical plane is very obvious. There’s actually a living energy that’s the precursor to our physical plane. And so the elements, in most indigenous traditions, are seen as living beings. And that’s my experience as well, the living being of water. These living beings of the elements are very interested in relationships, and being in a relationship with us. In being seen, recognized, and in being in a reciprocal relationship with us. Not to be revered, not to be put on a pedestal, but to be joined with to bring about the best possible conditions on our planet for all living beings. So, my job in this is to help people reach into that more silent place within them to possibly find that more subtle relationship that can exist with the element of water.

Now, the [Great Lakes] Bioneers picked water as their focus for this year, so that really matched up.

BC: So the global water blessing will take place…? SW: On Sunday morning, on Lake Erie, on the site of the [Cuyahoga River] boat tour. It will take place as the boat tour unloads.

BC: At the same time are people going to be gathering in, say, Denmark, or other places?

SW: We’re figuring it as a 24-hour cycle around the planet. Eleven o’clock our time might be three in the morning [in] another person’s time [zone]. So we’re asking people to match it up to what works for them. The only people we’re coordinating this with time wise are the people in Detroit, at the Bioneers site there.

BC: What exactly is the blessing? SW: It’s a guided meditation. We’re planning on taking a half hour. I’ll explain to people that it’s my job to help them get quiet, and then I’ll lead people into a guided meditation to hopefully experience this relationship within.

It’s a joining with.

And that’s all it’s about—a very subtle joining with a surge that’s already in motion. The elements are here to help us all the time. It’s about joining with something that’s already good. So, I’ll lead a meditation to facilitate that.

BC: How did you get involved with water? Was it through your connection with indigenous teaching?

SW: I’ve studied with a Peruvian shaman for many years. In November 2001, we were in Peru for a couple of weeks doing a ceremony at different sacred sites, and, near the end of the trip, we were on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, near Lima. We had just done a ceremony at this beautiful ancient temple there and I was just standing gazing out at the water, appreciating the beauty, and, with my eyes open, this being rose up from the water like a beautiful goddess—beautiful. One hundred feet tall, several hundred feet above the water. Through that moment of connection, I found myself saying that I vow to help heal the waters of the planet.

BC: So what else have you been doing, aside from this connection with the Bioneers?

SW: Well, since then I’ve started having meditations out on the lake. Every year they’ve been going on, people [simply] find out about them. Sometimes we have twenty people, sometimes we have one hundred. I’ve just continuously and quietly held these meditations for seven years.

BC: I understand there also have been teleconference meditations.

SW: Right. What we decided to do, moving toward the conference date, was to have, once a month, free phone meditations. Those are on my website, and people can download those.

BC: You mention on your Web site that those who can’t make it to the Bioneers blessing can perform a blessing of their own on a stream or river they happen to walk by.

SW: And the faucets and the showers and the water you’re drinking. It’s that simple. We want it really simple. It can take five seconds for you to look at the glass of water in your hand, or the shower you’re under, and say just, “Thank you.”

BC: When you say we, whom do you mean?

SW: I have this institute, the SpiritHeal Institute, that trains people to develop their intuitive nature. It’s not based on becoming an intuitive like I am—that’s my profession. It’s about developing that part of your being to integrate it into whatever your profession or interest is.

So, the Institute is a four-year institute, and I’ve some advanced students. I said to them, “Ok, I want to teach you about spiritual leadership.” And the way to teach that is to have a project to work with. Most people think of spiritual leadership as working in the way of a teacher. That’s not what it’s about, it’s about stewardship.

So I invited the advanced students to take this on as a project. There are about eight or nine people, but we’re expanding. We’ve been working on this since March. We’ve been meditating and building the spiritual energy, which is part of spiritual leadership because we work from the energetic to the manifest. We’ve been meeting to meditate on this, listening to guidance. Not rushing. None of this is about rushing or creating something that’s not meant to be created. We’ve been very gently approaching this and aligning with the water. Over the summer we’ve been gathering some of the more practical pieces together. Someone has developed the Web site, www.spiritheal.com/english.htm. It’s going to have very succinct information. There’s been some artwork done, there’s been some writing done. We didn’t want to do anything too soon and we didn’t want to do anything that was a burden to anyone. We wanted to have enough time to let the attunement draw us into our actions. So, through this whole process, within the group, there’s been learning about not being on a pedestal, or considering yourself an important person. It’s about bringing forth the deeper messages.

BC: And is this the group that’s involved with making global contacts?

SW: Right. We’ve been building contacts. We have one person who has a spreadsheet of them. We send all our information to her, and gather new information. I write a personal note to the new people saying, “Here’s the information. Would you like to join us?”

We’re learning as we grow, but it definitely seems to me that this is just the seed of something. Over the years, having the water blessing on the lake, it was like growing the roots. Now it feels like there’s a little seedling coming up.