Wind Down Wednesdays

In Episode 154 we discuss finding pleasure after trauma. What does pleasure really mean? And how do the after effects of trauma interfere with feeling pleasure? This meditation is a directed journey to find something neutral, pleasant or pleasing within our body and/or environment in order to begin retraining our nervous system to focus on these sensations.

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Enjoy a short bonus episode about the energy activations we are/will be receiving in 2024 along with a bit of a soapbox rant about judgment in the spiritual community.

The full episode mentioned in this bonus episode is Episode 153: Embodiment and Decision Making

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In Episode 153 we discuss how being fully present in our body supports intuitive decision making, and how bringing our awareness deep into the lower belly can help us find our intuitive "yes" or "no." This meditation is a guided exercise to come into the low belly and begin to connect with your body's intuitive yes and no.

The song used in this meditation is from Pain Release Kirtan by Paula Taylor Energy. Find it on your favorite streaming platform here.

Learn more about Equinimity here.

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In Episode 152 we discuss how we end up holding shame around using our voice and how important it is to release that shame in order to reclaim the power of our unique vibration. This meditation is a stripped down kirtan (repetitive singing) practice to invite you to release judgment and shame and to begin to reconnect with the power of your own voice.

The song in this practice is an excerpt from It's In Every One of Us by David Pomeranz.

It's in every one of us

To be wise.

Find your heart,

Open up up both your eyes.

We can all know everything

Without ever knowing why.

It's in every one of us

By and by.

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In Episode 151 I tell the story of my recent encounter with releasing shame, and we discuss how sneaky it can be, often hiding under layers of anger and hurt or grief. This meditation is a gentle invitation to locate shame in your body and invite it to release.

***Please reach out for help with any deep traumatic events like abuse. These should be excavated with the help of a licensed mental health professional, somatic experiencing therapist and/or other trauma-informed bodyworker

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In Episode 150 we discuss how denial begins as protection but at a certain point no longer serves to protect. We talk about the freedom we can achieve by confronting and releasing the energetic holding and stagnation in the body that is denial. This meditation is a gentle invitation to scan through your body to look for the spaces where denial/protection lives and to bring love to these areas.

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In Episode 149 we discuss how trauma healing is often the beginning of our spiritual awakening journey. I give a recent example of how trauma healing, energy work and spiritual awakening interact in my own life. This meditation is a journey into the belly to invite the release of dense energy and to call in unconditional love and light.

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In Episode 148 we discuss the connection between embodiment and physical health. What are the ways that we get disembodied? How does that tie in to the fact that most of us have an adversarial relationship with our body? This meditation is a gentle walk through the body to bring appreciation for all it does for us and to soften some of the long-standing feelings of judgment we carry toward our bodies.

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In Episode 147 we talk about my favorite movie, American Beauty (1999), and a how a recent experience of rewatching it led me to a realization about the link between embodiment and empowerment. This meditation is an invitation to reconnect to and re-embody within your solar plexus and sacral chakras (or "the cave," as I call this larger belly region) to reawaken the fire of your personal power.

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In Episode 146 we discuss the idea of energetic density. What is the energetic anatomy of density? How can we shift it to make more room in our field for fresh, flowing energy? Plus, story time is back! I share a recent experience of shifting some personal and ancestral density in my own body. This meditation is a gentle invitation to explore density in your body and energetic field with a mantra to help begin to loosen this density for shift.

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