SCHOOL OF SACRED EMBODIMENT

“Compassion, complexity, and curiosity – when we can hold these things and continuously return back to them with each other, we can really go places. Places within ourselves and places together.”

“As many people know, when we toss around the word safety, I always like to make sure to be clear about something. People are too diverse to promise complete safety to everyone all the time. That’s not possible. But inclusivity and having an ethic of care, where compassion, curiosity, and willingness to dig in and do the work together when things come up – that is liberating for everybody involved.”

“It’s liberatory to get on the same team as your body instead of constantly abandoning it, ignoring it, and denying it what it needs or what it’s really, truly calling for.”

“We’re all interconnected, what we choose for ourselves is going to impact other people in some way…there’s also just the powerful, loving and compassionate intention that whatever we do for ourselves is considerate towards others, and also contributes to collective healing and liberation. When we use the word contribute…it isn’t about giving the most or doing the most or being super productive or perfect, or getting it right or doing it right. It’s just this really responsible awareness. It’s this emotionally mature spiritually, and energetically responsible awareness, that the work that you’re doing on yourself and your own life is having ripple effects.”

“We don’t set boundaries with people we’re not trying to keep around. We set boundaries when we’re actually hoping to continue connecting with people, but make it a better connection.”

“You’re not a better, more valuable, lovable person when you’re feeling good than when you’re feeling like shit. You’re still the same lovable, miraculous being here on this earth that absolutely deserves the same amount of care and respect as everybody else.”

“It’s liberatory to treat your body like you would any loved one in your life, with curiosity, compassion, and care. My invitation to you is always going to be to approach your body like it’s the complex and miraculous thing it is. Acknowledge all that it does for you every single day and work on your ability to hold these truths, along with any honest frustrations that you have with your body and learn to do that without making yourself wrong, bad, less than, unworthy, unlovable, broken, or any other stories that you might tell yourself or maybe that you have believed in the past, or maybe that you believe about other people…we’re talking about our relationships to our own bodies, but a big part of how we relate to our own bodies is how we relate to judge and perceive other people’s bodies as well.”