Limbic Space

Earth day everyday 🌏 As her agents of change, let’s continue to learn, love, and listen in.. to connect deeper with the Lands that we stand on, and grow with our settler responsibilities.

Medicina is our 10day community intensive to reconnect, cleanse, un/learn with our Earthly teachers.
Exciting new addition to our experience: Sound bath and Qi Gong with Venus! Venus is one of my soul siblings who has guided me, Limbic Space members in deep healing through sound and vibration.

I started preparing for this Medicina community event last Spring with my soul family in Costa Rica, and it has grown into a hub of activities, elements, energies, sensations and people that I love and have daydreamed for, for years. I can’t help feel nervous in love, humbled, in awe.
As the count down begins, I will be quieting inward for Dieta - thank you Earth. (More info on limbic.space)

Wishing you all kindness and ease into this new year of the Rabbit!

10 magical elements we get to explore when we invite our body to lead the learning. Change is revealed from the body up, not thinking down. New thinking emerges from the changes in our subconscious patterns.

Somatic practice invites us to remember our inherent body wisdom and internal sensation languages. It supports our developing new skills and competencies that lift our core values, and sense of self. Through practice and cultivating awareness over time, our skills become embodied, so that they are readily available to us even when under stress. When we grow more embodied, we start to recognize that stressors can be new areas we get to continue learning from and hone in on our response strategies.

Cheers to another resilient and expansive year ahead, 2022 💪🏽🤩

Safety is a verb, a limbic transference - shared experience, a practice. Safety is relative to each body and the community it breathes in

Safety is not a full stop, limited to preventing harm. Safety also nudges me towards places that hold and share connectedness.

As an art therapist, a big part of decolonizing, destigmatizing, de-institutionalizing therapy for my own practice and healing was to recognize “clients” as the Artists and Healers, and support them wholeheartedly through their nurturing and reparenting of these vital creative roles within.

Racism stems from our most primitive self, the limbic brain (fight flight response), much deeper than our cognitive and rational intentions. The implicit biases are embodied; centuries of domination, slavery, colonialism, separations are not of the past - they are actively here, in our bodies.
Recognizing and healing white supremacy applies to each and every body, because this very behavior is what continues to perpetuate violence within, self betrayal and self sabotage.

Alongside the potent mass media effects, I am witnessing our community face extreme changes in their work or living situations due to covid19 related budget cuts. With prayerful thoughts, I am in observation of mother earth. I am witnessing important people in my life confront their vulnerabilities and anxieties in ways I have not seen them engage before. And Reiki, shared yoga + meditation, honoring silence have stepped forward as primary tools of communication, connection this week.
I am holding silence with people mourning the sudden losses of their jobs, living situations, from which they had been suffering or seeking some form of change for a long time. Change can be overwhelming and it cracks us wide open for more potentials, pathways.
I honor silence this week, as I open my heart to my own changes coming in. I sit in silence with trust in our growth, mother earth, father sky. I welcome tears to bring movement, empathic clearing, and grounding in our bodies.

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Honoring the adaptive survival responses thru trauma sensitive yoga.

Heart opener poses are particularly difficult & telling after a period of defensiveness, feeling the need to prove myself.

Back bends allow me to release my somatic responses; my defensiveness and self criticism show up in mild nausea as I bend back, tightening chest and throat as I invite my heart to open, forward. Breath is medicine here - it genuinely feels like tiger balm.

I combine this with a split to listen in on my survival fear instinct to run, leap and hide. As I channel my flight response, Gaia roots me.

Hold.

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