Transition...

I feel so completely heartbroken by the world at the moment that it keeps stopping me in my tracks.

And I feel like we’re at the edge of enormous change, which also keeps stopping me in my tracks.

How to witness the atrocities without turning away; how to process the grief; how to act in ways which bring healing? And how to allow something new to be born?

It struck me today that the closest thing I remember to this feeling is during transition, when giving birth. That time when the cervix is fully dilated, but the whole body is reorganising itself for something new… shifting gears into the unknown…

It’s a time when women often go back into their minds and start to panic, or try to escape, or pick a fight (“I can’t do this any more!”, “I’ve changed my mind!”, “Leave me alone!”)

Maybe it’s a bit like a chrysalis too. That space in between worlds, when the caterpillar doesn’t know who it is any more. It can’t use the tools it once had, and doesn’t yet realise that something unimaginably new is already growing.

So as I continue to practise connecting to truth and acting from love in large or small ways - I’m giving myself permission to do less and be still as well.

Permission to feel, and perhaps most importantly, space to release.

This is a time of releasing the stories, beliefs and patterns which no longer serve. Because the actions arising from those stories, beliefs and patterns are the very ones which stop me in my tracks, filling me with horror.

They no longer fit who many of us are.

They no longer fit who all of us can be.

It feels important to remember that so many of us are ready for something new.

So while we fight to protect integrity, beauty and truth, let’s remember simple kindness. Let’s create a space for letting go.

Birthing is hard, and this one is big: we’re preparing to birth a new world.

🕊️♥️🕊

️Join me…

My next few offerings are in support of release, renewal and kindness.

From February 9-13, I’m offering meditations and reflections each morning online with Sangha Live on the theme of “Embodied Release; Effortless Renewal”.

On March 14th, I’m offering a ceremonial space of yin yoga, meditation, cacao, live music and chanting with Lucidia and Rafael on the theme of “Be Kind To Yourself”.

(The booking links for both these events are now live!)

And tomorrow, booking opens for this year’s silent yoga and meditation retreat in France in September, where a deep magic happens, which ripples out everywhere in mysterious ways. Register your interest here.

Release. Be kind to yourself. Trust in the birthing already here beneath the chaos.