Being alive is sometimes a lot to manage.  The most powerful tool that is mine to share with you is rolling around on the ground.  I have seen it offer healing in the face of physical, psychological, and even spiritual imbalances.  Its pretty much as simple as it sounds, and there are also innumerable layers of greater complexity that can deepen the effects.  My practice arose through the lineage of modern dance–an art form that I now frame as medicine.  Some of you reading this take this practice for granted, and surely a number of you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about.  Why didn’t we learn the significance of this in grade school?  Perhaps it degrades authority…I’ll let you decide on that.

I’ve created the above video to share the simplest and most profound experience of this work with you.  It may or may not feel profound at first, but I promise that in time it will bring you gifts…perhaps during heartbreak, after hurting your back, or while tripping on mushrooms (legally in Oregon of course).  I like to call it Somatic Flow Meditation, or Moving in Sensation–surely there are at least as many names for it as there are people teaching it.  There are a number of us; the technology of this work is as ancient as our bodies and inherent to them too.  

There’s another piece that I share first in the video, and that is Heart Center Meditation.  This is another universal and profoundly powerful practice.  It’s much newer to me, and my initiation into it has brought new wholeness to my life equal to what I have gained through Somatic Flow.  I begin this video with Heart Center Meditation because I believe through it you can hold yourself safely through the experience of feeling in new ways.  Given that I can’t hold space for you to explore in person (not in this video anyway), the Heart Center Meditation will help you hold yourself in the Somatic Flow. 

In BraveSpace we engage with both of these activities on day one.  Then we go deeper, layer by layer, relating with each other from the ability to feel ourselves.  There’s still 5 spots and housing available if you’d like to join May 6th-8th.  Apply here.

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