Author: kathyyep

Lineages and Lands: Simone Harris facilitating Sunday 11/16

by kathyyep

Hello community of practice,

I am excited to share that Simone will be facilitating our collective movement practice on Sunday 11/16, 8 a.m.- 8:30 a.m. PT with possibility for reflection as a community afterwards. It will circulate around lineages and lands. Gratitude to Simone for suggesting and offering. We are so lucky to be gifted with her facilitation as she brings a range of experience, wisdoms, and practices.

WHEN: Sunday, 8 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. PT with reflection until 8:45ish

WHERE: https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/513664738

HOW: Come as you are, with humility, open-heart, and kindness.

Named “emotional recovery covenant,” Simone writes: “The Emotional Recovery journey is a community of practice. A very dynamic practice that works on cultivating deep listening, grounded safety, & a culture of connection that acknowledges our full humanity as complex humans. This journey takes a restorative approach to providing healing interventions that helps restore peace and wellbeing during times of change, loss, births, deaths, conflicts, disasters, & other emotionally intense life transitions of all kinds.

These well circles support individuals and groups to integrate experiences of trauma, recover their sovereignty, repair deep connection to self & each other, and rebuild constraining systems into ones that considers everyone’s safety. Whether you need support with your individual, family, work, or community relationships, the Emotional Recovery Covenant meets all care partners where they are, handling every experience carefully, intimately, & intentionally.

Through these culturally-affirming, communal convenings, together we can mitigate the challenging impacts of trauma on our physical, emotional, & mental health across generations mind, body, & spirit.”

Take a delightful and insightful journey on her web site Dana accepted for Simone. Deep gratitude for her teaching.

Update: No class Tu 10/14, Th 10/16, Su 10/19: Next class Tue 10/21

by kathyyep

Hello — a nourishing practice this morning. Some shares included moving as if brush painting a giant canvas; in a moment of irritation what is the lesson or pearl; and feeling multiple connections like rhizomatic roots — internal, the physical space, the qì field….

UPDATE: The next practice will be TUES 10/21. No practice Tu 10/14, Th 10/16, Su 10/19

Be well.

No class Tue 9/30, next class Thu Oct 2

by kathyyep

Thank you for this morning’s practice! There will be no class on Tuesday 9/30 due to a neurology appointment. Still struggling with cognitive fatigue and sudden drain of brain energy when reading, writing, and speaking for more than an hour. Sadly on medical leave again this Fall semester. Qì Gōng and community of practice helps! Send good energy for dialogue, deep listening, and action items by and through the HMO!

Our next practice will be Thursday October 2 and celebrating a new month and the Fall season.

Sending gratitude for our practice today — a generous sharing of a green toy car, musings over stagnation and creating an idea of letting the qi rest and restore through imagining a qi nap, playing with groundedness and stretching up and out, and pondering the interplay of nonviolent change,qì gōng, moral injury, wrathful compassion and indigenous practices of emptiness (E. Duran).