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Reflection Journal – Cultivating Steadiness and Calm

Published by Sally Steele on December 28, 2022December 28, 2022

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It is universally known that the full moon in is a time to rest, rejuvenate and replenish.

The full moon tomorrow is related to Sagittarius and it’s an opportunity to let your energies flow in alignment with your hopes, dreams and goals.

As an intellectual sign, Sagittarius is extremely curious to learn and this full moon means finding out more about yourself, as well as reflecting on where your life is headed.

What are you reading lately? What are you noticing about yourself?

I’m slowing down, noticing some old patterns that no longer serve and loving letting them go..

Sending you all lots of Love 💕

This message about JOY came through this morning, and I just wanted to share it with you from my messy desk. Happy Friday people! Sending you all so much love xox

There are so many challenges and moments of beauty in all of our lives👎

Life is so wonderful and at times, and also it can be really hard.

One thing that facilitating circles where people can come together and talk authentically has taught me ..

Is that we are never entirely alone in our experiences..

& this is how I face a ‘new light’ during the dark days..

- my spiritual practice - it is so important, because I can connect with that part of myself that’s always whole and always at rest and always there, no matter what is going on in the outside world..

- nature.

- Loved ones..

Please remember, there is always that opportunity to find our strength..

Change when we need to..

And re-orient ourselves toward a new light.

Please drop a heart if this resonates. 💜

#dailyreminder #Littlemoments #Strongwomen #Innerstrength

This is your reminder that 👎

It’s ok to

Slow down, to take time to notice and to breathe

Photo @danieljschwarz
#slowingdown #dailyreminder

Thanks to everyone who attended the event yesterday. It was such a nourishing and wonderful experience!
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It is so easy to get stressed out given what we are carrying in our personal lives as well as the various poly crises of our time..
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and we naturally as humans retreat to either fight, fight or freeze, and that really takes us out of that capacity to roll up our sleeves and find hope and keep engaging in the important work or in our personal lives.
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I know that I struggle with this in my work as an ecologist and I know I’m not alone.
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So having practises like Yoga Nidra and also a community to share it all with can really bring us back to more equilibrium
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& we also feel a little less alone and alot more connected.
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Really enjoyed co-facilitating with @tara_in_vermont and spending time with you all. Looking forward to another event in the new year! #yoganidra #communitymatters

Did you know that the heart contains a little brain in its own right and that it is possible to tune into this wisdom?
Yes, the human heart, in addition to its other functions, actually possesses a heart-brain composed of about 40,000 neurons that can sense, feel, learn and remember. The heart brain sends messages to the head brain about how the body feels and more.

Although the heart and brain are in constant communication, we can intentionally direct our heart to communicate to our brain and body in beneficial ways..

We will be exploring the topic of our wisdom holding hearts this Saturday, as well as enjoying practises that help us tune into this inner knowing..

Only only three spaces left! Link in bio.

We do hope you can join us for this Saturday for a nourishing afternoon of connection, reflection, and deep relaxation.
We would also love you to join us for a fun potluck afterwards.

@tara_in_vermont and I do hope you’ll be there!
Just a few spaces left!
Link in bio

Seeking out those little edges of beauty in an otherwise challenging weekend. Feeling grateful for the love and support of people around me. Glad for the learning and the mentorship that I’m receiving (including from the most unexpected places), as well as the quiet moments of joy.. let’s stay brave and kind. Xoxo

“There lies the longing to know and be known by another fully and humanly, and that beneath that there lies a longing, closer to the heart of the matter still, which is the longing to be at long last where you fully belong.”
– Frederick Buechner, The Longing for Home

Jerry Collona of reboot.io writes, “listening to and for each other's longing to be known, while important, good, and necessary, isn’t enough. For as Buechner also notes, there’s a longing that lies yet closer to the heart. This is the longing to fully, wholly, and completely belong.

In a world riven by the endless suffering of division and dehumanization, the challenge to each of us is to go beyond knowing who we are, who each of us is, and to whom we each belong.

The task, then, isn’t merely to ask with deep empathy how we each are, how broken our hearts may be, but to inquire deeply, compassionately, and fully into the other’s longing to belong.”

Where are the spaces and places and people with whom you feel that deep empathy and belonging?

Seek them out, cherish them, love them hard.. find out about their longing to belong. perhaps this is how we truly find our way back toward each other.

Sending you so much love xo
Photography by @naviphotography_ #belongingmatters #rebootio #dailypoetry

Do you have people and causes that you care about?

What if the most effective way to guide change is to first attune to where the people involved are actually at?

What if this was more effective than cheerleading, ‘setting them straight’ with the facts or educating them?

It’s that simple and it’s also that hard..

and it takes an ability to notice what we are holding in our own lives, so that we can be more aware of how we are also showing up.

Whether it is in our Work lives, or in our personal lives, Im learning that our modes of "cheerleading", "righting" and "educating" others in response to an issue are really our own stress responses and that when we are coming from those modes, we arent actually being as effective as when we are simply showing up with presence, empathy & compassion. The shared solutions only truly come after we have made the personal connection.

Who could you attune to today and be present for?

Where might you be able to also show yourself some more empathy and compassion as well?

And if you need some time with me and others to tune into yourself and recharge, please join us for a gathering and circle along with yoga nidra to replenish your senses at Broad Cove community hall on the afternoon of November 18. There are still a few spaces left. Link in bio. I would love to see you there!

PS Thanks for this training I’m doing with #projectinsideout and @drreneelertzman … I’m so lucky!!!

Sending you all so much love xo #reneelertzman #innerdeveopment #guidingprinciples #sustainablebehavior

Need a little break from the everyday? Want some time to pause, rest and be with some amazing people?
Please join us on the afternoon of Sat, Nov 18 for a Yoga Nidra and Circle of Trust mini-retreat at Broad Cove.
Spaces are filling up-
Register soon!
We’d love to see you there! #ourlittlecommunity #yoganidra #courageandrenewal

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

I love this quote about the possibility of healing, and of reciprocity between us and earth.

May you be gently ushered into this Friday and I hope you may discover one small life transforming action that is meaningful to you. (Deep slow breaths count). Sending you love xo #braidingsweetgrass #onesmallthing #lovetheearth #breathbybreath

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