Happy Summertime!
Welcome July in all its glory and abundance!
This year is already flying by!
I'm imagining that, although you may have learned a lot in these last 15+ months-about yourself, your relationships, and the world, things that would otherwise have remained unknown,
you may also be finding it surprisingly easy to return to auto pilot. 😩
Maybe before you get back to the old familiar busy-ness, you could spare a moment to pause, just for a breath or 2, to ponder how this newfound knowledge, this once-in-a -lifetime experience has changed you, me and ALL of us and the world as we knew it.
How will it affect your life choices going forward...
or will it change anything at all??
Are you setting forth now with clear, fresh eyes, new priorities and clarity about what and who really matters to you and how you wish to spend the rest of this precious life?
Or are you slipping with ease back into the old, familiar, unconscious patterns of auto pilot?
You have a choice.
I invite you to stay awake.
Thomas Merton said:
"The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything,
is to succumb to violence".
I remember when I was in my Mindfulness training many years ago with Jon Kabat-Zinn, he said something very similar to me that changed everything :
"Denying the experience you are having is a
form of violence to yourself"
(...and I would add that denying someone else's experience is a form of violence to them...)
How did I not know this?? All we get in this life are our experiences and they are meant to be savored and learned from, not denied....and yet...
It is tempting to underestimate the trauma of the last year, to deny the pain of it all, to put all the complex feelings of loss and fear and despair away, ignored and unprocessed. They WILL come back, though, sooner or later, in one way or another, if not acknowledged and healed.
To save yourself having to revisit this, isn't it best to face it head on-with whatever help, support and guidance you may need NOW?
To learn from it, gather strength and understanding to add to your resilience tool kit, ready for the inevitable next time life knocks us out of our respective comfort zones?
For the first time perhaps EVER, we have, as a collective, as a global human family, lived AT THE SAME TIME in at least some degree of fear, and huge uncertainty for over a year. It continues for many of us. Alhough it may be a a new experience for many, it is a sadly familiar one for way too many others.
Now that we know what it is like to feel so alone and afraid, how can we NOT take solace in remembering that we are all connected??
How can we NOT be kind and care and love our neighbors?
Chronic, unremitting stress and fear ( I've heard it called "Chronic Well-Armored Hopelessness") negatively impacts our mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health and physiology-including the health of the immune system, digestion, hormone balance and cardiovascular health.
I'm inviting you to not ignore the toll, whether you currently acknowledge and recognize it or not, and to make self care and deep healing a priority. This has been a life changing time.
Healing and tending yourself is NOT just for you, but for all of us.
Energy medicine has been a great healing balm for me, a much needed addition to all my other practices. It takes the "static" out of the energy system and creates space and flow for inner rebalancing, repatterning old habits and offering deep and lasting healing.
It is also an amazing opportunity to learn to understand and speak the language of the body, perhaps for the first time. AND it is fun and can bring unexpected joy and new vitality as it shifts you out of your very busy mind into this moment in your own skin, which is your home for this lifetime!
Here is a 17 minute Daily energy routine to try.
It is based on my training in Eden Energy Medicine and Donna Eden's Daily Energy Routine. I do it nearly every day!
Enjoy💫
Daily Energy Routine short practice
heal yourself, but don't rush
help people, but have boundaries
love others, but don't let them harm you
love yourself, but don't become egotistical
stay informed, but don't overwhelm yourself
embrace change, but keep pursuing your goals
~Yung Pueblo
from Clarity and Connection
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There are plenty of things you can do to enhance your health and well-being above and beyond medicines and vaccines: eating a healthy diet-one that YOU can digest, getting enough RESTORATIVE rest, doing less rather than more, reducing stress, spending time with loved ones and lots of time and immersion in the beauty and wisdom of nature...
Remember:
Stress is a RESPONSE to a change in the environment!
The stress of this last year has NOT been the pandemic-it has been your RESPONSE to it.
The good news is that your response is the only thing that you have control of, though most of us remain unaware of this, and live instead by reacting to, or trying to deny or escape change or blame someone or something else. It just doesn't work. As Jon Kabat-Zinn said: "wherever you go, there you are"...
To respond requires your nonjudgmental attention to what is already so by actively accepting what is, and agreeing to work with it as best you can, using present moment information.
Training the mind to stay in the present moment rather than catastrophizing or living in the past or future is a worthy practice to take on daily.
Most of us need lots of practice here.
I am happy to guide you in individual work if this resonates with you.
Although there are many ways to help yourself stay well and optimize your health, in my humble opinion,Yoga Nidra is still the BEST medicine😍
It resets the autonomic nervous system and reallocates resources for deep and lasting healing AND has the effect of 2-6 hours of DEEP restorative sleep!
Despite my reverence and love for yoga nidra, though, the classes have not been filling so I will take a break for the summer with the hope of resuming classes in the fall, provided there is interest
☀️ Until then,
Visit my store for full length yoga nidra recordings💕🙏
There is one Virtual Yoga Nidra offering for July
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July Yoga Nidra
Community Based Yoga Nidra for Razz Yoga
Friday July 9 at 7pm EST
🌻Individual Guidance Via Zoom🌻
I've been honored by the many who have chosen to work with me in this sacred healing space. We have done some powerful work together.
Using my unique skillset and life experience, I'll help you navigate to your truest most authentic self.
My goal is to empower you, to be a mirror so that you can see your beauty, to help you find your sacred medicine.
If this speaks to you, or you'd like more information about me and my work, please click the button below
💜Here's my most recent interview💜
with Jodi Geline from Global Conscious Health Summit 2.0
which aired June 2021
Foundational Healing:Creating Space For Flow And Transformation :
Earthly beings...
You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.~~
~ Aubrey Marcus
Wishing you a peaceful re-entry and an honest re-membering.
I hope you choose to NOT go back to the old ways without careful consideration of what truly nourishes you in your life's path, and I hope you know that whatever makes you more fully and authentically YOU, benefits all of us.
Find your sacred medicine and share it. The whole world awaits the gift of YOU!
Take gentle care of yourself-and extend that same care to everybody, everywhere, with absolutely no exception.
We are all related.
"Peace is just a thought away"
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
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Love
gina🙏💕
