SOUL Nourishment: Becoming the Body’s Wisdom
I invite you to pause, slow down, and take a moment for reflection and soul care.
Grief was a great teacher this past week in my practice, reminding us to slow down and offer ourselves our own medicine. You may be wondering, What is my medicine?
Your medicine is your love and attention—it is your care.
How do we give ourselves our own medicine?
We honor our shadows—the loneliness, sadness, rage, and heavy, grief-filled emotions we’ve been taught to store rather than express and release in meaningful ways. We feel into them and create space for them. We allow ourselves to drop into the body and feel the emotion.
Our medicine—our focus, attention, and love—slows us down, grounds us, and reconnects us to our wisdom and the stories held within our bodies.
How do we “surrender” (feel the shadows, experience them) to the wisdom of the body when the body feels unsafe, disconnected, and afraid?
We practice.
We create practices that help us practice. We ritualize and move—we dance, sing, write, paint, draw, talk, laugh, cry.
We practice until we arrive (and then continue to practice to honor our journeys, exhibitions, and stories).
We commit to our process and our practice. We commit to our journey of becoming the body—becoming our wisdom.
Ritual Practice:
What brings you back to yourself? How can you add intention to this act and make it a practice?
Soul Nourishment:
When are you scheduling reflection time this week? Put it on your calendar. Show up for yourself.
What does your soul need this week to feel cared for? Another way of asking this question is, what are you longing for deep in your heart? Love? Partnership? Attention? Validation? Comfort? Stability? Name it, and then ask yourself- how can I invite this into my life? Allow yourself to be moved by the question.
With Love,
Dariela <3
