RISE

Yesterday started with a juicy 4 hour practice then went right into pizza in the sunshine ☀️ Taking at *least* one day a week to fully unplug and just be IN my life is my favorite restorative practice. Did you get any time off the grid this weekend?

You can use the body to transform the mind. HOWEVER.

This involves 💫 Trusting Your Body

Your body holds great wisdom. But if you don’t trust it, you won’t be able to listen.

And we live in a fairly disembodied society. The body is seen as something to control and manipulate. Something we have to force to look a certain way.

It’s a total disconnection from the body’s innate wisdom. It teaches us to just stay at the surface - that our bodies are visual, and that’s that.

This was my experience for decades. I fought my body daily - so how could I trust it? I didn’t even see it as something I needed to necessarily “trust.” It was just this THING that I needed to control.

But the body holds all of our subconscious programming Our patterns, our triggers and our behavior.... they aren’t in the mind. They are deeeep, deep within. And if we don’t trust our bodies, we will never go beneath the surface to find them, and therefore, change them.

Here are a few ways you can use a Somatic approach to develop that trust, work WITH your body, and receive all it has to tell you 🙏🏼

YOGA: Spend at least 20 seconds in your pose. Giving yourself TIME allows you to refine your body awareness and notice more subtle sensations. It also works beneath the surface layer of your muscles, impacting the energetic body and releasing stagnant blocks. No more flowing through or using a pose as a transition into the next. Slow down.

MEDITATION: Focus your awareness on your breath. Drop into your body, and watch your breath as it moves. Notice - what happens physically when you inhale, and exhale?

JOURNAL: Write down your goals, your deepest desires, in GREAT detail. Get really specific — your dream job, how much money you make, your environment, what your home looks like, who is around you, how do you feel every day. As you write it all out, notice when mental OR physical resistance comes in. Do any thoughts tell you that’s not realistic? Does any tension in your body come up? Write that down too, and explore the resistance.

Be open. Be curious! Everything you need is already within. You do not need to control, manipulate, or force anything to access it. You just need to trust ✨