earth and body

“Primary among these disciplines is the practice of deep listening, which acknowledges the wisdom in others and in dreaming Earth. When we listen deeply, we begin to uncover what wants to be brought into awareness. We become receptive and permeable to sources of wisdom that lie beyond the purely human. Listening is the art of reverence.”

Trauma As Initiation

Francis Wellner

Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and

western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.

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EMBODIMENT ꩜ For Gil “the Grid” Gomes Leal, the body is more than a vessel. It is memory, a compass, and a teacher. Movement is meditation, dance a dialogue, each step an invitation to integrate our discarded elements into wholeness. His work reminds us that... See more

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sometimes your body is asking for wood, for water, for the kindness of round things——this is a nervous system remembering what safe feels like.

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