What has made a real difference in your life?

What has made a real difference in your life?

Was it money, the perfect relationship, the right job, the family, home, life you have always wanted?

For me, it has been this: to give up waiting for the perfect situation and instead, to show up with my experience, as they say in Zen, not picking or choosing, or asking for favors. 

In other words, in unconditional presence. (Some call it self-love.)

Easy to say, but it took some two decades of practice to grok this. 

That was relatively fast, but only thanks to the fact that from the very beginning, I was introduced to conscious movement and body process as shortcuts to awake presence.

Okay – it’s almost absurd that we have to work at being present, but that’s the reality of our culture, designed to keep us disconnected from our bodies, unaware of our true needs and desires, easily manipulated by advertising and (more recently) the allure of the next psychedelic breakthrough.

But, after the ecstasy, the laundry.

… i.e. work, relationships, aging, illness, death, taxes, the full gamut of human dilemmas.

Having witnessed the profound impact the simple practice of (embodied) presence has had on my own life and the lives of hundreds of people I have worked with, I am a true believer in the power of this approach, integrating movement and direct experience of life, to make possible profound and lasting shifts in how we experience ourselves, each other, the world, and God. With no side effects, except aliveness, alignment, and happiness beyond reason.

Are you intrigued?

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💙 Practice making space for your present-moment experience, rather than trying to manipulate or avoid it.
💙 Learn to open to the full spectrum of life. 
💙 Experience a rare opportunity to repeatedly break free from the cycle of avoidance and distraction toward a fully expressed existence.
💙 With the support of a committed community and the practice of embodiment, heal the disconnection from body and heart, the isolation from each other, the longing to be seen, held and accepted in … well… radical presence!

A new circle is forming for the 2024–2025 edition of the Integrative Yearlong Training: Wake Up into Belonging. 

I will not rescue you for you are not powerless. I will not fix you for you are not broken. I will not heal you for I see you in your wholeness. I will walk with you through the darkness as you remember your light. 

––A Medicine Woman’s Prayer