Learning through contrast

Was so grateful to put my feet into the medicinal waters in the East Khasi Hills region. The beauty of this place was striking. Cough and fatigue not shown.

One of my big lessons from my pilgrimage to India was how much the universe teaches me through contrast. The trip included some of the most sublime experiences of my life and some of the most intense physical discomfort I’ve experienced. To keep my heart and awareness open enough to be present with these opposite ends of the continuum seemed to be the learning the trip was offering.

Miiddle age announced itself with a hammer at the beginning of 2024. I had come off of a successful year as an entrepreneur…kept all the clients that were a match, gained a bunch of new clients, traveled 40 percent of the time and loved it, etc. etc. And though folks were reflecting to me that I was doing a lot, to me it felt like I was just finally using all of the energy I had. Like I was matching my capacity. At age 46.

And then January came and an asymptomatic shoulder issue I didn’t know I had became loudly symptomatic in the form of not being able to move my left arm. Four days before I was leaving for India for 3 weeks.

Yeesh.

Got some high dose NSAIDs and some PT exercises to do and then I was on my way. Except, the high dose NSAID made my heart beat faster than I was used to so I felt like I was constantly in a game of “Is this the med or do I have a problem?”

It took a few days but I adjusted. Then (and you might want to stop reading now if you are uncomfortable reading about women’s health) my moon came, which seemed like no big deal, until it turned into what I later learned is called “flooding,” which is heavy bleeding some women experience as they enter perimenopause. So now my heart was beating fast and something else my body was unaccustomed to was happening all the way on the other side of the world where there was often no trash can in the bathroom.

A few days later, I noticed I was kind having a reaction to both the pollution that was in the air outside and to the mosquito spray that was liberally sprayed inside the hotel. That allergy tanked what was left of my immune system so I caught the pretty bad upper respiratory infection that was going around the group, with only three doses of Day Quill and four cough drops in my bag to treat it. Followed by a giant cold sore on my face which hurt and which is now a part of every picture from that trip. Cue sad trombone.

The fast heart beat, flooding, and hacking up a lung was dragging my awareness to my body—a body that it used to feeling healthy, vibrant, and filled with energy. In contrast, I was with some of my closest spiritual friends for three weeks straight. I got to experience what caring community really was, as people shared cough medication, dramamine for long bus rides, laxatives for when things were’t moving, and tissues for the bathrooms with no toilet paper. In some instances I had some of those “relying on the kindness of (non)strangers” Blanche Devereaux moments and in other instances I got to be on the side of sharing what I had to offer. It encoded in my being how much we all are interconnected and that we don’t go through anything alone. Checking on folks and being checked on, and offering what we had to one another—that was love. The body felt trashed but the heart was overflowing with love. Big contrast.

And then there were the shrines. These are places where the felt sense of consciousness is extraordinarily powerful. And the experiences you have in there are hard to put into words because they are subtle and also deeply private. Yet. the feeling of awe that extends beyond your time in there…it’s unforgettable. And is another big contrast because those experiences are soul-filling. While the body isn’t feeling better, a more subtle part of you gets filled to overflowing.

Every day was a choice. Feeling physically challenged …was that going to win out so it was all that was in my awareness? Or was I going to open to the beauty around me and allow myself to experience both? Being open to the beauty around me…was that going to make me ignore the signs of needing to conserve energy or wanting to rest? I chose balance. Both were happening. Both aspects required attention. And focusing on one to the exclusion of the other wasn’t authentic.

I’ve been home for a few weeks (and immediately went my doctor!!). The contrast continues in some of the same but also different ways. And I come back to the basics of presencing— breath, embodied experience, connection. And deep appreciation for moments of ease and joy.

Maybe aspects of this are relatable to you. Maybe you’re experiencing a lot of contrast right now. How are you choosing what to give your attention to and how to hold these seeming opposites? If you could use some support in that area, I’m offering a class for a few weeks in May where we’ll practice tools to help us be with contrast. Here’s the info. Let’s widen our ability to be with the ups and downs of life, together.

Restoring Resourcefulness: Generating Well-being in Community

We were made for this moment.

Sometimes we lose touch with that.

If that happens, it’s a great time to turn to the tools of Restoring Resourcefulness— a set of practices that help you ride the waves of life.

For me, Restoring Resourcefulness is personal and professional. The way I feel as I navigate some recent health stuff has been a challenge to my equilibrium. From clients, I am hearing a consistent word—overwhelm. Whether it’s in the area of work, or home, bearing witness to suffering they see in the world, this feeling is reported constantly.

While that is an uncomfortable state to be in, it’s also an opportunity to go back to basics. For years as a coach I’ve been teaching clients (and practicing myself!) foundational tools to help themselves restore their sense of resourcefulness and ability to be with and respond to what arises.

Using practices like conscious breathing, presencing, full body listening, embodied tools for matching your expression with your experience and navigating fear, and a stress-to-ease 4-point process, we make inroads toward restoring our ability to be with life rather than overwhelmed by it.

So join me for 4 weeks of Restoring Resourcefulness. In community. These tools are refined from the body of work created by Katie Hendricks of the Hendricks Institute. I hope to see you there!

Who: Anyone who wants to build or reinforce foundational tools for meeting life rather than feeling overwhelmed by it.

What: In this course you’ll expand your ability to meet challenges and create new structures that support authenticity, approaching life with wonder, and infusing your community with more care.

When: Thursdays from 6:00-7:15 PM ET with an optional 15-minute live coaching experience until 7:30 PM ET.

Dates are May 16, 23, 30, and June 6, 2024.

Where: Virtual gathering using Zoom. The skill-building part of our time together will be recorded for participants. The community sharing will be live but not recorded.

Why: Well-being is contagious so let’s build that experience together for ourselves and our community.

Logistics:

The cost is $200. Register here.

After you register, I’ll send payment instructions and a link for a free 30-minute call so we can meet each other and you can share a bit about what you’re hoping to get from the program.

If a reduced rate would allow you to join, or if you have any questions about the program, please email me at yoga.nicoletaylor@gmail.com.

Let’s create some well-being together!

Power Detox: Unlearn What Isn't Working and Step Into Choice

Stepping Into Power with Purpose

As I prepare to co-lead a retreat on power, I've been thinking a lot about my own relationship to it.  A memory keeps flashing in my mind to a time about a decade ago, when I was in the midst of some deep healing and beginning to let go of a lot of limiting beliefs. I was at yoga retreat with my spiritual teacher and the topic of power came up. We were having a group discussion about how practices like yoga and Ayurveda help you to align with your nature from a place of balance and also support having a calm and clear mind so that as you build power you choose to use it in positive ways.

I remember admitting at the time that I was scared to step into my power. My teacher asked me who I thought I would become and I blurted out the name of the megalomanic who had been in the news. It was the first time I realized I had confused claiming power with acting from a place of power over others. It was the beginning of starting to unwind conditioned narratives related to power over and power under--narratives that were floating around in my head that went unchallenged. 

What excites me the most about this retreat in Phoenix is that we'll be creating time and space for all of the participants to uncover or better understand their narratives around power, to detox from the ways of relating to power that are not working, and to write new narratives that allow us to claim our power and use it well in service of the whole. 

This is less of a “training” and more of a retreat; an opportunity to:

• Be held in a supportive container that will nudge you to live into your questions about power 

• Experience in your body how different you feel when you’re in power over, power under, and power with

• Come into greater alignment with how you wield your power and your values

• Explore power from the perspective of within yourself, within relationships, within organizations/groups, and within systems.

If this speaks to you, please consider joining us for this 2.5 day retreat and exploration from January 23 to 25, 2024 in Phoenix, AZ, as we let go of old stories about power and create new ones in community. We will start at 9:30 each day and go until 5 pm, other than on the 25th, we will end no later than 1 pm. 

Exchange includes retreat facilitation, light breakfast, and optional lunch Tuesday and Wednesday 

Early bird (on or before Jan 4) $995
After December 31st: $1095
Deadline to apply: January 17th, 2023

MORE INFO HERE.

Power of Meditation is Coming Soon!

I’m honored to be a speaker in the Power of Meditation Summit. It’s a beautiful exploration of dharma teachings and practices to help you heal trauma and sustain fortitude, resilience, and grace. Learn from a group of brilliant and renowned healers, psychotherapists, yogis, meditation teachers, and social justice activists. Discover how meditation, dharma and psychotherapy can help you tap into your capacity for compassion, and source change from the wisdom of the true Self. The summit will be available January 16-25.

If you’re struggling to engage with others from the wisdom of your whole Self or having a hard time staying present and curious in an endlessly changing world—You’re not alone! 

We’ll be speaking to these concerns and more. Join in here!

New Episode: A Joyful Pause with Katie Hong

On the new season of A Joyful Pause Podcast, I get to have a wonderful conversation with Katie Hong, my co-facilitator for the upcoming retreat Power Detox: Releasing Power Stories & Claiming A New Narrative. We discuss power, awareness of our narratives, conditioned tendencies and how we shift them, and the practices we'll do at the workshop to step into choice.

Learn more about Power Detox: Releasing Power Stories & Claiming A New Narrative here. Katie Hong, Julie Colwell, Becky Margiotta, and I are holding this workshop in Phoenix 1/23-1/25.

More about Katie: With 25+ years of experience in the philanthropic, nonprofit and government sectors, Katie is excited to focus her full attention on supporting leaders and organizations who are working to advance equity and social justice.

Prior to consulting and coaching, Katie served in multiple roles at the Raikes Foundation including as Program Director, where she supported local, state and national communities to equitably prevent and end homelessness for unaccompanied youth and young adults; and expand educational and employment opportunities for youth ages 16-24 who are not currently working or in school. Before her work at the Raikes Foundation, Katie led the Pacific Northwest Initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the public sector, Katie held a number of key positions including Director for the City of Seattle’s Office of Housing, Senior Policy Advisor to Washington State Governor Gary Locke and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, and as a Program Examiner in the Office of Management and Budget for President Bill Clinton. Katie also served as a White House Fellow in the White House Chief of Staff’s Office from 2000-2001.

Join in our conversation by listening with the player above or find us on Spotify or Audible. After you listen, please subscribe and rate the podcast to help spread the word.

And if you want to read my book A Joyful Pause, click here. You will be invited to explore what brings you joy and how can you make time to pause and enjoy those meaningful moments.

If you have thoughts or ideas you’d like to share, email me at nicole@ajoyfulpause.com. Be well!

Cultivating Collective Well-Being and Creative Action

We held our third gathering for folks who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Philadelphia from November 11-12. Twelve amazing souls signed up to allow Arawana Hayashi and me to guide them through a weekend exploration of cultivating collective well-being and creative action. The methodology was Social Presencing Theater (SPT). “Social presencing” is another way of saying collective awareness. “Theater” in this sense is a place where something significant can be seen by a community; a place where the community can see itself enacted – what it is to be a human being with other human beings. So for these three SPT for BIPOC gatherings we have come together to create a social body that is unique in that it is all people of color, we have sensed into the present moment and our individual and shared experiences, and we have made our inner experience visible to ourselves and each other. 

Our intentions for the weekend were high. We sought to celebrate the rich and diverse brilliance of each of us individually and collectively; use the healing priorities of the arts and movement as a way of celebrating our strengths, leaning into our shared experiences/acknowledging our different experiences as BIPOC, and using the creativity of the body to become “unstuck;”  create a network of leaders using movement as a catalyst for conversations about race and well-being; and explore the present moment as a healing and creative space. 

In this, our third gathering, we again began with celebration. To me, it is foundational to any gathering that will bring in the hundreds of years of charge of race in America that we begin with celebration–allowing each person to touch a place in them that is well-resourced and to acknowledge (and perhaps rejoice) that whatever has come before this moment, we made it through and we are here. Years ago, I learned a wonderful perspective from Dr. Ruby Gibson, creator of Somatic Archaeology, which says that we are at the apex of the seven generations before us and the seven generations to come. Our choices toward healing ripple both forward and back. And so we began by acknowledging that our ancestors were resilient, and we know that because we are here. They survived and we are here. 

Our opening reflection and storytelling explored the question, “What is an element of resiliency that is alive in you that you can trace through your line (whether that’s your familial line or the larger family of your people)?” Folks worked first in pairs and then shared in the large group. It’s interesting to feel the beginning of the weave…a former group of seemingly separate beings beginning to weave a fabric of connectedness between them. And one by one as we shared, you could feel the 12 souls multiply into something much more–beyond the bodies you could see in the room. The air quivered with our ancestors, many of whom were not from here and arrived here in different ways from different countries, often against their will and sometimes by choice. And so the container was created.

Once we used voice and storytelling as a form of connection, we pulsed back into noticing our own experience by doing 20-Minute Dance, a practice of mindfulness where we notice the body’s impulses for movement and follow them. Based on some prompts from Arawana’s book, Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move, we invited participants an inquiry of how the practice, done daily, might support a sort of whole-being check in: 

• Wholeness–Taking the time and space to notice how we feel. We may notice physical, mental, emotional states of being. And the invitation in this practice is to allow our noticing to be friendly and non-aggressive. 

• Presence–Taking the time and space to notice how we are attending to the present moment. Tuning into the quality of our presence and the sense of being okay exactly as we are.

• Creativity–Noticing how the gestures we make arise from the body of their own accord–from the innate wellspring of creativity in us. Movement comes and movement goes. We release the need to move in any specific way and instead allow creativity to flow through. 

No matter how many times I do this practice, I am delighted by how it returns me to myself in different ways. Even after meditation, 20-minute Dance offers the opportunity to give yourself loving attention and to give your body the experience of its impulses being listened and responded to, followed by the pause which initiates the felt sense of integrating the energy of the movement. It’s like a loving conversion with yourself. 

As Arawana framed a practice called Dance of Five, she shared that it’s a practice of caring for the whole. With body awareness, we move through the room with a soft gaze, making spatial choices – level, proximity, direction. It’s a powerful way to explore how we co-create social fields. I found myself reflecting on continuum of connecting and healthy separation, caregiving and caretaking, attention to self and attention to others, attention to group, and habits of interaction. 

Our debrief gave us the opportunity to explore, what does each of us contribute? What did we end up co-creating?  It was fascinating to see that although we were split into two groups, the social skin between each group was quite porous. More often than not, the two groups mixed and mingled. We talked about how and if the participants all being people of color impacted our choices and got curious about the felt sense of belonging and its role in what we co-created. 

There is a delight in not knowing what’s going to happen next. That was the felt sense, for some participants, of a practice called Field Dance, a practice of standing, walking, and offering gaze and gesture to a semi-circle of people who are sitting. I found more awareness of transitions between being seen and seeing others, of letting the gesture arise from the space between myself and the “sitters,” and also the pause to let a gesture be received and to receive the nonverbal response from the sitters. 

It reminded me of how we actually never know what is going to happen next in life (even if we make up that we do), but this practice is structured to give us the experience of touching that place of creativity where anything could happen. Whether you are sitting or standing, there’s an awareness that arises of both roles being a creative act of presence. Some participants noted their patterns of presence with the present moment and the social field and moments where they were less aware of the connection.

If what we are creating in this group generalizes, I notice I’m learning that in spaces for people of color, it’s easier to drop stories. The history of race in the US carries with it a ton of narrative. I noticed in myself that with the dropping of internalized narratives there was less to mentally defend against. I found more ease in my body in the space being purposefully for bodies of culture. I wondered into the internal work of accessing that ease in any space in which I exist. And I wondered about the collective work of creating social fields in which all people can experience that ease.

Over these three gatherings, we got tons of feedback from participants about how dropping the narrative allowed for a higher level of attunement internally and to our shared humanity and belonging. That attunement to shared belonging has healing properties, is calming to the nervous system, sparks new ways of being, and creates the conditions for increased creativity. 

This felt sense of each of us having a place here is available to us at all times, and, participants noted that these qualities felt more immediately accessible in a retreat specifically for people of color. I leave this series with a renewed appreciation for spaces specifically for BIPOC folks. And I leave this series with more awareness of the power of dropping narratives in service of increased well-being and access to creativity. 

A Joyful Pause with Julie Colwell

On this episode of A Joyful Pause Podcast, Nicole and Julie Colwell, PhD, founder of Evolutionary Power Institute, discuss power dynamics, the body's intelligence, and a practice for shifting from being reactive to accessing our creativity.

Learn more about Julie's SEW process here.

More about our guest: Dr. Julie Colwell a psychologist. She founded and directs the Evolutionary Power Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She is fascinated by relationship dynamics (including how we relate to ourselves) and endlessly muses on new ways to move out of the suffering of struggle back into creativity, flow, and aliveness. She is the author of the Relationship Ride, the Relationship Skills Workbook, and the Inner Map. After completing graduate school, she directed a treatment program for adolescents and started a private practice. She began training with Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks in 1995 and went on to develop her own body of work that is grounded in their principles (as well as in neuropsychology, systems theory, and energy work). She lives in Boulder with her wife of 35 years and their two adopted canines.

Join in our conversation by listening with the player above or find us on Spotify or Audible. After you listen, please subscribe and rate the podcast to help spread the word.

And if you want to read my book A Joyful Pause, click here. You will be invited to explore what brings you joy and how can you make time to pause and enjoy those meaningful moments.

If you have thoughts or ideas you’d like to share, email me at nicole@ajoyfulpause.com. Be well!

A Joyful Pause with Arawana Hayashi

On the new episode of A Joyful Pause Podcast, Nicole and Arawana Hayashi, who heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute, discuss the intersection of contemplative and embodiment practices, social fields and how SPT can positively influence them, and how the practices can support deep presence and healing.

More about our guest: Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues, Arawana Hayashi brings her background in the arts, meditation, and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities for individuals and groups.

Arawana’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. Her dance career ranges from directing an interracial street dance company formed by the Boston Mayor’s Office for Cultural Affairs in the aftermath of the 1968 murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to being one of the foremost performers of Japanese Court Dance, bugaku, in the US. She has been Co-Director of the Dance Program at Naropa University, Boulder, CO; and founder-director of two contemporary dance companies in Cambridge, MA.

She is currently on the core faculty of the Presencing Institute.

Learn more about her work here.

Join in our conversation by listening with the player above or find us on Spotify or Audible. After you listen, please subscribe and rate the podcast to help spread the word.

And if you want to read my book A Joyful Pause, click here. You will be invited to explore what brings you joy and how can you make time to pause and enjoy those meaningful moments.

If you have thoughts or ideas you’d like to share, email me at nicole@ajoyfulpause.com. Be well!

Expanding Our Capacity for Curiosity, Courage, and Compassion

Thirteen souls gathered July 16-17 at the Shambala Center in Philadelphia, Pa., to explore their experience of race and ethnicity in the US through the practice of Social Presencing Theater (SPT). Many had met online at the virtual offering of Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage back in January, some were new, and all came ready to learn about how these contemplative embodiment practices could be a force for deeper awareness, healing, and community building. 

Arawana Hayashi, Creator of Social Presencing Theater, was joined by facilitators Grace Shim and Nicole Taylor. They kicked off the gathering by sharing the intentions, which included exploring the present moment as a healing space and a space beyond story. 

The facilitators also named a few tensions the weekend would hold: 

• The way contemplative practices help us to release identity so we can more deeply access our true nature, while at the same time living in the US in a BIPOC body creates the conditions for us to cleave to our racial identity more strongly. 

• The use of the word BIPOC puts a variety of different lived experiences in one group, and while we have the shared experience of being in bodies of culture, we are not a monolith.

• Part of the power of SPT is letting the body express rather than using words, but in the context of building capacity and community, we would need to lean into vulnerable communication and shared inquiry. 

The gathering then turned toward celebration of our heritage and our ancestry. Grace led a space where each person was invited to share an artifact that represented something they love or that evokes joy in relation to their culture and the ancestors whose shoulder we stand on. This deeply personal sharing and generative listening helped create a container of authenticity and trust that allowed participants to go deep with the practices.  One participant shared that they had not  felt such a high level of trust before with a group of people they barely knew. 

After setting a foundation of connection and celebration, the participants began to explore the practices.

20-minute dance is a mindfulness of body practice where they were invited to get curious and perhaps even delight in listening and responding to what the body wanted to do. Nicole shared that the intention is to reacquaint yourself with your body and allow for the enrichment of the body experience and it’s also an opportunity to make friends with the body and extend kindness. In the debrief some themes arose around self-trust, returning to bodily awareness when mind wanted to take over, moving in ways that felt liberatory, letting go of “shoulds” that sometimes arise in mixed groups, and allowing rest. 

Arawana led Dance of Fives, a practice where participants play with proximity, direction, and level of closeness to the ground as they form a social field and are responsive to their inner condition and the choices those in the field are making. Themes arose around the power of mindfully choosing rather than going along with habitual patterns, differing emotional and somatic experiences of villagers pushing the physical boundaries of the social field, and explorations of diverse comfort levels with innovating, following, letting go, and letting come. 

In the Stuck practice, participants chose a recent experience of a stuck place in their life related to their racial experience and used it for the activity. Through the body, they explored emerging shifts to the stuck place. In the debrief, many were surprised that the body had so much wisdom to offer what had felt like an intractable situation. 

Day two focused mainly on the social field and the ecosystems in which we exist. The participants did a practice called Field Dance, where they walked before a seated audience and had a nonverbal experience of seeing and being seen within the social field. Themes in the debrief were around the surprising number of  stories that went in and out of the mind about self and other, navigating emotions like fear and anxiety, and noticing when awareness felt seated in the present moment and when it didn’t.

The afternoon was centered on 4D-mapping–an embodied practice of exploring how the highest aspirations of an ecosystem might come forward. Using a case of expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion at an organization, participants nonverbally took on the role of stakeholders and moved from the current state to the emerging future, noticing what happened in them and in the system as they moved. 

The closing conversation centered much on integrating the learnings. Participants shared that they loved the BIPOC container and how they’d co-created such a deep level of trust, connection, and safety, but they wondered how to show up the same way back out in the world. We create these experiences of healing and wholeness and getting in touch with our and others’ basic goodness, and then fear arises about whether we can feel that outside of the container where it arose. The discussion surfaced some of what those in the gathering did in order to create such a healing social field–slowing down, coming into present moment awareness, dropping narratives and being with what is, listening and responding to the body, letting things be as they were, and acknowledging the body as a source of wisdom. All were invited to recall the body awareness of that healing social field as they went out into the worlds they inhabit. 

The group expressed a desire to keep the exploration going. A new gathering is being designed for November 11-12. It will be open to new BIPOC participants as well. Look for more information as the facilitators firm up program design and location. 

Mini-Practice: Sense Appreciation Embodiment

woman immersed in the clouds and nature

This morning I was taking an exercise walk and a spontaneous embodiment practice arose. I wrote it out as a practice below. I invite you to give it a try!

As I was walking I noticed the scent of freshly mowed grass. It was pleasurable so I let my full attention shift to the scent as I was walking, and a wave of appreciation arose in me for the scent and for the person who was mowing the field. As I breathed the scent in deeply, I began to notice my experience of my body. The left side of my body felt alive and aware and the right side felt a bit dull. I let my attention be both on the scent and the sensations in my body. As I breathed in, I allowed the scent to fill the right side of my body where I felt less sensation. Feeling the right side of the body filled with scent increased my awareness of the color green, so I let green fill the right side of my body as well. Now both sides of my body felt alive, vital, and filled with scent and color. As I kept walking I let my awareness expand to feel the physical ease, scent, color, and appreciation for the experience. A huge wave of joy spread across my body, mind, and spirit. I felt grateful for the chance to feel deeply connected to nature. I finished my walk and am ready to move into the day!

This experience reminds me of the quote “What we seek is seeking us.” There are many opportunities for us to make contact with and be contacted by nature. Our appreciation gives Her energy and her beauty brings us joy. What a beautiful symbiotic relationship.

Sense appreciation embodiment practice

Take a walk in a green space. Notice a scent that is pleasurable to you or a sight that is pleasurable to you (like a color or an aspect of nature). Stay with that and see if a wave of appreciation naturally arises. Let that happen.

As you breathe and walk, bring your attention to your experience of your body. Where do you feel the most alive? Are there any places that feel dense or heavy or cloudy? Let those come into your awareness in a nonjudgmental way, noticing the quality but not making up a negative story.

As you let the scent or color (or both!) infuse your experience, allow your breath to bring the scent or color more deeply into the parts of your body that feel less alive or in touch with vitality. As these places get “filled,” notice your experience of your body, breath, mind and emotions, higher knowing, and your spirit. Let whatever arises from this deeper noticing just be however it is.

When you feel complete, open to a sense of appreciation for this connection with nature. And move into the rest of your day!