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It’s so human of us to crave safe and trusting connection, even when it feels a little scary or awkward. It’s how we’re wired (thanks neuroscience :) Yoga this week: 🔹Monday, 5pm @gatherencinitas . 🔹Sunday, 9:30 @indigodragoncenter (monthly grief+yoga class 🌱register at the link in my profile) ________________ #gatherencinitas #socialengagementsystem #polyvagaltheory
I first heard this therapy-fund idea from therapist Jen Padilla (aka @nicegirluprising ) who said, “Just start a therapy fund for your kids when they’re born.” . my somatic therapy ain’t covered by insurance. and it’s the best thing I’ve gifted myself in 43 years (besides the pelvic floor therapist I spent six weeks seeing... yeah, you’re not supposed to pee when you laugh humans/mamas!) . the back story is I spent 10 years on antidepressants and years in talk therapy in my 20s and I was still suicidal. I went off antidepressants cold turkey at 30 and have functioned/healed pretty well for the last 13 years. yoga and surfing kept me regulated and growing. on the surface there is nothing wrong. I just knew there was more to life than regulating and maintaining and I was right. finally I have a capacity and space to fall apart again in all the right ways with connection and love and hope. . so start a therapy fund already. your own or your kid’s. . (and don’t mind me while I go underground and reconstruct my soul for a while.) come to my yoga classes or call me if you want to connect xox
Yes, there’s yoga tomorrow! Come burn things down or light them up🔥5pm, Monday @gatherencinitas
I keep coming back to these words I jotted down the other day. I started doing somatic therapy. It is hands down the bravest thing I do each week. I feel like I am learning to love for the first time ever. To stop othering myself, which means I can stop othering everyone else so much too. Boundaries feel strong and kind. Loving feels spacious and tender. Opening feels invited and respectful. What a difference from being broken open.
“Yoga includes all our therapies: mindfulness, compassion-based therapies, acceptance and commitment therapy, somatic therapy.” -Dr. Shailla Vaidya . Get your daily dose today, 5pm @gatherencinitas ____________ #gatherencinitas #bewellencinitas
today I found those giggles (the ones I hid between each of my ribs and behind my heart until it was safe to be a child on chantry drive with those bars on the windows that kept violence out and kept violence in) . they flooded out of my wrinkled body as fresh as the day I hid them three or four decades ago at the most inappropriate time (in a quiet room with bells chiming and a sacred silence descending) . they rushed out one after the other, prisoners finally set free my brain trying to reign them in and my body laughing at their raucous escape . another part of me I never thought I would find free at last
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