On acknowledging yourself & closeness ~ December Newsletter & Audio journey

a moment of being with yourself ::: a little journey for the end of the year ::: touching on closeness with yourself

This Newsletter turned actually out to be a little accompanied journey in support of slowing down and reconnecting with yourself - so I recorded it! I would actually recommend listening to it. While sitting, lying down, getting to sleep … taking a break …

Dear You

I'm wondering ... can this  - yet another article! - become an invitation for reconnecting with yourself and tuning into a sense of slowing down ... ?


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What kind of deeper invitation might be waiting for you here ~ in this moment ... not from me, but from yourself, or from life ..?

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Let's take this moment to pause ... breathing is available. Hearing is available. There's nothing you need to do for that to happen ... 

Where am I meeting you with these words? How is this particular moment on this day unfolding for you. What's the taste of this moment ... what's the sensational texture within your body ... ? How is it - to be you ... just now?

You as part of the beauty, the complexity and the mystery of this world. And also ... maybe within a certain simplicity …   

I would like to invite you to inquire into the possibility of slowing ... again …  

Allowing the ground underneath you to reveal itself to you ... maybe like an ancient ally ... noticing the support of that, which is already here and ... available to you. Breathing is available ... the support of the floor is here ... 

And within and around this moment of you, being (with) yourself, breathing, seeing, hearing ... there is also the beginning of the last month of this year happening.


When I think about this year ... I'm wondering about your story ... wondering ... what was your experience of being alive during this year, these times? What did unfold for you and what didn't? I'm imagining all those individual stories ... threads ... all interwoven ... in one fabric ... interwoven with the stories of Earth herself, other humans and the other-than-humans ...


I'm wondering: what's your relationship to your experiences ... do you feel seen, acknowledged - by yourself and maybe by others? For the crucial moments during this year ... 

Were there many moments, where you gave presence to what was alive within you? For the grief and the joy? Or was there such overwhelm, that you were carried away from even the possibility of being present with what's alive within you? And were there allies, friends, elders with you - who were supporting you in giving presence and bearing witness to your experiences?  

For myself I can say, there was a very big bandwidth of experiences happening this year. Luckily I had the internal and external support to again and again acknowledge, look at and integrate those experiences. But there were also certainly times of serious overwhelm. 

Back to you and your story. Maybe this - here now - could be a potential moment of acknowledgement. Acknowledging yourself. Maybe one particular beautiful or difficult moment. Acknowledgement for you. As you. As you are. Where you were, where you are now. And for everything you went through. And also to remember and acknowledge the moments of celebration during this year ... the moments of beauty. 

And now ... to ... for a moment ... to be close ... very close with yourself ... and at the same ... to see yourself.

And if you want to go deeper now ... 

There are more questions that I want to offer ... What is it, that you felt the deepest connection with during this year? Was there an essential thread that kept you going, when things got difficult? What kind of thread was that? Do you have a sense of that "something" and do you feel you can rely on it? Something ... within yourself? And if not that ... maybe it's the bare ground - that you can rely on. And if you want to take a moment to let this question really sink in: What is it, that you're feeling the most closeness and intimate connection with - just now? 

And as this question is sinking in ... offering itself to you ... still ... breathing is available ... the floor is here ...

There is a line of a song that pops into my head: "I am closer ... to you ... than your heartbeat" ... I'll leave it here. I'll leave you with your own exploration ... with this intimate conversation that only you can have with yourself and life.


Much Love
Susanne

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I'm acknowledging the ground on which I stand. And I want to acknowledge the very fun and inspiring daily morning Alexander Technique group which I'm happy to be a guest in : ) “Breathing is available ... seeing is available” is maybe the most often repeated sentence there. Thanks for the inspiration and support, Chris and Ben!

>>> if you’re looking for online Alexander Technique session I can recommend those two from my own experience:
Chris McKay (website)
Ben Lobley (contact)

Q&A & Audios for Coming home to the Fire

Why a whole year?

• space to breathe

• space to deepen

• time to build trust

• no rush - and at the same time consistency

• journeying with the different phases and atmospheres of the seasons

• time to digest, integrate and recognize the gold within your experiences

• inviting the possibility for the experience that this group and this space is there for you, with you - while you’re going through whatever part of your journey - easy or difficult

Why is it not yet another self help online program?

• Actually it’s not meant to be a “program”: the journey wants to be integrated as a natural and real part of your life. Your little global village.

• nothing that is separate from life - as this special place that it is (my vision is that this way of coming together will be natural and not that special anymore. But for now I guess those ways of coming together and journeying alongside each other are still special)

• not too much input - and input that inspires your own further explorations

• phases of digesting and integrating ~ allowing for everything to unfold in its organic way

• a place for your own journey of individuation and as part of a group - in a relational field

• being heard, seen, witnessed - and giving this gift to the others too

Why only 8 people?

• for the possibility to drop more easily into a place of honest sharing and togetherness

• seeing and recognizing each other more deeply

• recognizing our connectedness

• to stay real and intimate (and not get drawn into th atmosphere of a big anonymus online program)

• for me to be able to work with all of you individually as well as in the group

Coming home (2021) ~ Is this journey for you?

Dear You.

Welcome in the preparation phase of our journey of “Coming home”. I’m preparing the space and you can read along and see if this way of journeying would be the right thing for you during these times … Here are different points of what might draw you to this one year of “Coming home ~ to yourself and the world”:

If you’re longing for a deeper connection with others, for deeper intimacy with life and for a deeper connection with yourself and your unique place in the world and within the natural laws and cycles - then this journey could be for you …

Maybe you are longing for a little tribe, a group of people whom you can build trust with. To be part of a group and a setting where you can feel safe to be who you are, as you are - and where you can explore the more hidden places within you. Where all of you is welcome. A group with whom you can deepen and explore - in your own rhythm - and over this one year cycle. Seeing and being seen. Listening and being heard. Where - while you’re deepening into the relationship with your very own soul, path, ways of being and places of belonging - there is the support of the circle and the fire - to come home to. As well as the individual sessions.

This might also be something for you … if there is a longing for yourself, your heart (even if you don't know yet what that could mean) and to deepen into your own two feet, walking the Earth. A longing for your unique place in the world, your place of belonging. Maybe there is also this wish to deepen into your natural and right relationship with Earth, Humanity and with the many many other non humans: the plants, the animals, insects, the oceans, mountains, … and to find out what togetherness truly means for you.

Maybe you're hearing a call to descend more deeply into the realms of soul, into the fruitful darkness of your own inner caves and oceans. You might have lived a spiritual life which is more connected with the “upper realms” of light, space, nonduality … - and now it's time to reconnect back with body, soul, earth … the roots ... and to become more whole and full and grounded. And to allow the integration of all these different layers of you to happen. This journey will be an Earth-based, Nature-based exploration. While we gather online - we will have our emphasis on the connection with the non-digital world. Which is always also already happening - even while being online, here and now.

This might also be for you, if you are willing and have the desire to commit to yourself and your "home coming" for a full one year cycle - in this accompanied way. And with still enough space to wander off into your own explorations. Having your time on your own. It’s not about commiting to “yet another program” - your commitment is one to yourself and your precious life. To this unique being that you are - in this, in our world: now.

And then it’s also for you if you are feeling challenged by this raw and real life's journey especially during these times. If you are challenged by the nature of change, the transformational and transient nature of life. This is support for you to navigate change while being deeply present. Connecting with the intelligence within you which knows your next step and action. While we also have meet in this beautiful, natural and human way of sitting in circle, being in community. A way that is rooted in togetherness and how many thousands of years of sitting by the fire and sharing story, celebrating, learning, being together.

And it is also a place of support to uncover where we put our roots into soil that might not be the right one … in other words: to see where we support systems (inside and outside ourselves) that are not based on reciprocity, love, truth, respect, equality (or the values that are closest to your core being). And to discover what living in integrity really means - for you and each of us.

Be it in our choices how and what we consume, how we live and how we give back and in what kind of spirit we walk the Earth. Finding back into the qualities, which are in integrity with all layers of you in symphony with the world. How to live them and how to be lived by this underlying current of truth within you.

So … if you have the longing to find your integrity with all of you and with all of us and the Earth, Nature, come home. Because you already know there is a particular way - that you have and which is already within you and that also includes your particular medicine that you are bringing to the world, by being you. I’m here to co-create spaces in support for all of that which is true within you - to unfold …

If you're feeling inspired or have any questions - get in touch here. And let’s make a time for a conversation to see if we want to journey together. With no strings attached. Looking forward to meeting you!

With Love
Susanne

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… and I think at some point we all also need to face that we are born into a society and into a world and even into spiritual beliefs that can keep us in systems that are actually doing harm (to ourselves, to others, no matter which kind). And it’s a choice - and we need to make that choice, I believe - wether we want to feed into the harm bringing systems or into something different, something that has to do with the vision seated within your true heart and soul.. So to align ourselves again and again with the vision we are born with and which - very likely is a Yes! to Life and Love - and to the deep knowing of the interconnectedness of all life. How ever this Yes! and your unique soul power looks like in your case.