Is it just me or does it not ding your patriarchal shame bell when people say “woo-woo.” I have no shame in this game, this is all woo-woo af. Woo-woo down into the dirt. Woo-woo softening you into the wise marrow of your ancestors bones. Woo-woo that wakes you up to the worth within you. Woo-woo that not only welcomes the paradox of grief and awe, but lives for it.
What if there is no quick fix?
I recorded this talk on cultivating choice–as a way to learn how to grieve, how to pray with potency and how to channel our rage into creative solutions and offerings that give back, as opposed to take, while in India.
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Trauma robs us of choice and imagination which are both required to take action rooted in love in this heavy world.
We can't change something in our minds, in our thoughts from the same state of consciousness that it was created in. So we have to learn how to access different states and fields of consciousness.
And that is an intersection with our soul, the waters of our human being and the states that are autonomic nervous system.
So most of us know of freeze, flight, fight, fawn and appease by now.
But there's also beautiful states we enter, what we call in somatic work “ventral vagal tone” and what in the mystical traditions we call flow or in it’s most amplified, samadhi.
There are states of like when we go into experiencing ourselves as Divine Light, as Love itself, of profound courage,stenrth, clarity, in-SPIRIT-ation, and comPASSION right? That's a real living energy and state in our experience of being human.
That's not separate from us.
But we must shout NO from our guts to free that patriarchal religious shame, and NO the denial of the climate crisis and Genocides. We must speak truth to power, as leaders of the feminine which means we get fuckin’ down and we also don’t deny the wild richness that God has places in each of our hearts.
We’re used to playing out and living out these protective responses because it's scary to live in so much love to the parts parts of us designed to keep us safe in the old. It's scary to live in so much liberation because it rubs against so many systems that we're surrounded by and that we live inside.
We need other humans and nature to help us access the ancestral realms,
access to the realms of Spirit,
angels,
guides,
masters,
this is why we practice.
This is why we sing and meditate.
This is why we move our bodies in Body Temple Dance.
This is why we do fire ceremonies.
This is why we do water and Earth based rituals.
This is why we access the power inside of our own wounds, both with our intuition and our breath and our energy, and also with our own consensual touch, because it gives us a greater experience of what is True underneath what is being presented.
It takes us to the grief, awe, rage and aliveness that we carry. Your womb has nerves, the vagus nerve goes all the way into your womb. This is what we access in Tantric meditation and in our sacred womb work.
These nerves transmit information throughout your whole body.
The vagus nerves transmit information to your brain.So you can teach your brain something new through accessing and through slowing down and working with your body.
But we need support.
What if you had everything you need already inside you, and, like all of us, also need good support and community to draw it out?
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