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Harmonizing the Body Electric
Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics
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The body is a resonator; attuning to the energies of the world, it knows them.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
As I had come to reinhabit my emotions more fully, I noticed that my body also required its own loving attention and that it was not enough to see and understand or even to feel with love and compassion—I had to move further down the chakras. I learned that if I am to live a spiritual life, I must be able to embody it in every action: in the way I
... See moreJack Kornfield • A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life
TL;DR: The first step must be to calm our nervous systems; to return to center. From that grounded place, we can take longer-term actions. Second, we can cultivate resilience practices to support us amid turbulent times: taking a rest. Gardening. Spending time with nature, art, music, reading. Third: we have to build community, to invest in relatio... See more
Brian Stout • Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe
The nature of our life energy, however, is to circulate in an unbroken cycle of forming and reforming; it’s life’s impulse to continuously move through the cycles of birth, growth, fruition, completion, and renewal. In counterpoint, the culture shuts this energy down through an egregious disregard for the wisdom of the body. Our institutions have f
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