BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Hi!

Reaching out to you on a very gloomy Monday. How do you FEEL? Check in. TAKE A REAL DEEP BREATH IN and EXHALE. What do you notice in your body? I will ask the Question again, How do you FEEL? Without a story about why you FEEL ___________, can you simply name a feeling? A color? A texture? How would you describe how you feel? (DROP IN THE COMMENTS.)

There is no right or wrong/ good or bad. Just a simple inquiry. Shining a compassionate light of curiosity inward. If you can’t feel anything, I get it. I’ve been there. If you’re filled to the brim with so many feelings….I get it. I used to live in overwhelm…(now I just visit occasionally).

After faithfully practicing some version of somatic”s since 2020, I can say I have a whole new relationship with my inner world and the landscape of emotions. I now feel safe enough. I now feel anchored enough to be with the most difficult of feelings. Without getting my mind involved. Simply be with the feeling and knowing how to move it…

Are you ready to laugh?

This is a true story. Just today I woke up in a funk. The overcast outsides matched my overcast insides. I would describe my felt sense as heavy, pressure downwards and fog like…thick fog. DENSITY. I kept noticing my mind looking for a reason why…going into some old patterning of hypervigilantly looking for they thing that caused this…but quickly my practice kicked in and I reminded myself to drop the story and go into the body. So, I did… I did a wailing technique to move the felt sense of grief, its a loud practice and can sound like you’re dying. As I came out of the practice I realised, I forgot that I had just let the a guy in to install our drapes…I had to laugh.

But all that to show, I don’t even think about it anymore. I feel, I express. It’s pretty natural now.

Because I know:

Feelings are not FACTS.

Feelings want to be felt and moved through the body.

The Law of Impermanence.

Feelings come and go pretty fast when you feel them.

Feeling gives us CLARITY.

If I want deeper JOY and LOVE and PEACE… I have to be willing feel deeper GREIF, HOPELESSNESS, SHAME, ANGER, etc.

Anyway…

This is my call to action:

COME PRACTICE WITH ME and see for yourself. My BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IS: I AM TEACHING LIVE, IN PERSON AT FULL CIRCLE STUDIO. The live classes are Thursday nights at 7pm. The class is one hour. Click the link and you can sign up there! The other way to practice with me is via zoom. Zoom classes are Sundays at 11 EST. (Sign up on my website.)

Would love to see you IN PERSON and practice.

Meet me there.

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