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A daily practice to bring relief to those exposed to distress and/or trauma as part of their work or related to the current COVID-19 pandemic. What a truly lovely gift, from a generous mental health practitioner skilled at guiding others after disaster scenarios. Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/
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"Sensations are the language of the body. Listen to your own body’s story as if hearing a friend confide secrets she’s never shared before. Tune to the parts of your body that are crying out to be heard—and also to those areas that may have been numbed into silence. Move from feeling—and allow your movements, in turn, to bring more feeling to areas that may be invisible to your awareness. Fully inhabit your body—opening locked rooms, exploring hidden crannies, flinging open the shutters in airless garrets. Practice your yoga as a way of opening the boxes you have put yourself inside, not jamming yourself into more of them. What other shapes have you forced yourself into in your life? Where else might your perception of how freely you can move be constrained by other people’s conventions? Along the way, you’ll uncover parts of your body that are stuck, injured, or vulnerable. Be with them with particular tenderness—not as obstacles to success, but as gifts to be unwrapped. Ask them how they want to be healed or released. By being with yourself in this way, you are expanding your capacity to attend your inner world with kindness and sensitivity —a capacity that will serve you well as you turn your attention to more and more subtle aspects of your experience. Remember, it’s not just structures and alignment that you are feeling into. Yes, you are tuning in to your proprioception of bones and organs and muscles and skin, and their optimum relationship and function. But as you go deeper, such anatomical distinctions begin to dissolve. Your body emerges in your awareness as a shimmering field of sensations—arising and disappearing like bats swooping under a streetlamp. What you think of as hand breaks down into a pixellated field of dancing detail, just as an impressionist’s painting of a lake is composed of thousands of tiny dots of color. Use the conventions of the yoga asanas as chisels to open your range of movement, build your strength, and awaken your body’s intelligence. But then move through them and beyond them. They are a trail map helping you navigate a majestic wilderness. But don’t confuse them with the silver river flowing between granite cliffs, or the red-tailed hawk soaring over them, clutching a fish in its talons. Don’t just tramp down the well-traveled fire-roads of a familiar pose. Instead, meander down all the deer trails. Stop at a hidden beach for a picnic. Sit on the sand and listen to sea gulls call, and take a bite of an apple you pluck off an overhanging branch—sweet and crisp and tasting of rain and eternity." - Anne Cushman, in "Yoga from the Inside Out" Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/  Image / Michael Heim
My darling child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart. You stop feeding on the love which is the wellspring of your vitality. The time has come - your time - to live, to celebrate, and see the goodness that you are. Let no one, no thing, no idea or ideal obstruct you. If one comes, even in the name of truth, forgive it for its unknowing. Do not fight. Let go, and breathe into the goodness that you are. - Babuji Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/ The first day of the 2018 Resilience Summit has arrived, and the topic is Strengthening Your Body Against Stress with the incredible Elissa Epel, Ph.D. This is a rich topic that can serve anyone living in a body, and I hope you'll check this out! Learn more about the effects of stress on your body, and walk away with tools you can use now to strengthen your body against the stressors you're going to encounter, and ways to repair the damage that previous stressors have done. Watch it all here. Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well http://www.danawyss.com/  Image / Jarungthip Jarin
Welcome back! This brief series has explored the history of fat, some varied ways of viewing bodyfat, including appreciating the information and support we receive from the adipose tissues within us. Today's offering focuses on the varied personal and social experiences that several individual storytellers have had around bodyfat, or being fat. This episode of This American Life really caught my attention earlier this year, challenged some of my assumptions, and gave me an honest view into some experiences I'd not considered previously. I found it to be an excellent, artfully told, and thought-provoking piece, and I hope it gets you thinking and feeling into your own ideas and assumptions more deeply. The episode is called Tell Me I'm Fat and you can listen to it here. Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well http://www.danawyss.com/ |
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