Phoenix Rising: Returning to What My Body Already Knew
Welp, true to me... it has taken me 3 months to come back and write again and as always too much has happened to even know where to being. I didn’t plan to wait three months before writing again — but maybe my body did. I think it knew I needed space to live the lessons before I could write about them. Now, sitting in silence at the Kalama Meditation Center at my first ever Meditation retreat , I can feel how much of that first week is still alive in me. This is my return to what my body already knew. I still think going back and remembering what happened during that 8 week program will be helpful for me so that is what I plan to do! So here it goes! Week 1 was about returning to the body. It started off slow by listening to some meditations , affirmations and doing body scans , setting up a sacred space , getting outside into the earth, taking detox baths and making an herbal tea I drank in the AM and in the PM every day. The meditations didn't f...