Do you see your body as a temple? In yoga and many other spiritual traditions the body is considered the temple of the soul. Yet many of us can’t begin to imagine our bodies as safe, let alone sacred. Our internal worlds might not feel safe, there might be pain, grief, and we would not…
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Guided embodied awareness meditation to check in with how your body feels now. This meditation/exploration is also designed to support you in developing internal awareness skills. After listening to the meditation take time to write or draw in your journal. Here are some reflection questions: What did you notice in your internal landscape? What where…
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Do you recognize the space within you as safe space? If it feels good to you let’s do a short awareness practice together. On your next breath follow your breath inwards. Bring your awareness inside. If you feel comfortable you can close your eyes. As you follow your breath inside, the invitation is to follow…
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Our body is an incredible resource and ally, from our gut instincts to our heart’s deepest yearnings. It is consistently trying to support us with information to keep us on track in our purpose and life journey. When we have a grounded and connected relationship to our body, it also inherently leads us to have…
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The truth is that our body is our partner in this human lifetime. We were gifted our body – to aid us in our purpose. It is our responsibility to create a divine and loving relationship with our body.
Yet for many of us we don’t have a good relationship with our body.
There can…
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I know starting the journey of coming home to our body can be challenging. Here are 3 helpful skills to build to start the process of creating a healthy relationship with your body. 1. Develop an awareness of the narratives that you hold and tell yourself about your body. This is the first step in…
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Have you ever tried to explain to a friend your experience of your body, or maybe how challenging it is for you to navigate the specific illness you live with? Your friend might be super empathetic but if they don’t have a similar lived experience they actual won’t get it. It’s not their fault, but…
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Sometimes we think that by rejecting and disconnecting from our body, that what we are feeling is going to magical go away. But the truth is it doesn’t. It usually gets worse. The sensations we get from our body are letting us know something is off, and they are just going to get louder and…
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Sometimes our emotions are buried so deep that we don’t have words to express them. Sometimes it’s too hard to feel what we are feeling straight on. Sometimes we need to get out of our head and into our body to feel what we are feeling. Sometimes we need to use our imagination and play…
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