Still Lake Listening

11/22/2025

Have you noticed how often people apologize for weeping? Or how, angrily brushing their tears away, they'll say something like, "Geez. I'm such a GIRL. I'm crying like a little b****!" Male-identifying. Female-identifying. Both are quick to judge their own vulnerability. How do you feel about yourself when your emotions go big and your thoughts get stormy? Do you experience tears as weakness? Some of the time, the language of the body-heart-mind-soul is tears. We begin from openness: you are as you are for reasons that are good enough for you. We begin with the understanding that beneath every big feeling-struggle-joy-celebration-fear-rage-etc. there is a need. A longing. And longings can be reeeeeally uncomfortable -- maybe more uncomfortable than the big feeling that is masking them. Our response to that discomfort? We align with compassion (which, at its heart, means "to suffer together") and non-judgment. Could it be time to get curious about what your one wild life might be saying through whatever vulnerability has arrived?

11/18/2025

There's a place for you in the circle Wednesday, November 19th, at Cochrane Public Library | (10:30am - 12:00pm), and Tuesday, November 25th, at Cremona FCSS (noon - 1:30pm). Unstuck grief circles are spaces for conversation about the griefs we carry -- new loss, or wearying and old; the loss of someone we love; the loss of identity-job-relationship-health; the longing for Something More. However grief may be visiting you right now, you and your story are welcome. No registration or cost. 💙

11/17/2025

We're growing our community connections!
Something wonderful is on the way to make it easier for Cochrane to find the supports and programs they love.

11/17/2025

Our Annual "REMEMBRANCE TREE" celebration is Sunday, November 30th 12pm-2pm. We have a wonderful new location this year at St. Peters Lutheran Church on George Fox Trail. Please join us in remembering our loved ones. For more Information please contact us: info@cochranehospicesociety.ca

11/16/2025

11/14/2025

A big, squeezy-heart thank you for those of you letting others know that there is a real-deal, show-up-just-as-you-are listening space here. We listen together for what is already alive in you; we listen together for the longings of Deepest You. To those of you sharing about that spacious Hope, thank you for allowing others to borrow courage from your own vulnerability.💙🩵💙

11/14/2025

Somatic Movement invites us to begin to notice subtle movement patterns — how we adapt to stress, how we brace or hold ourselves against the pull of life’s seasons, and how we can learn to soften and let go. By bringing awareness to our soma — the full experience of our physical, mental, and emotional selves — and the ways we move through change, we create space to release old tension, reconnect with a sense of natural rhythm and ease, and soothe our nervous system.

Somatic Movement classes offer an opportunity to explore these connections. Even when we focus on a specific area — like the torso, hips, or legs — the effects ripple through the whole soma, showing how our physical, mental, and emotional patterns are deeply interconnected.
Because we are whole, synergistic beings:

* A gentle release in your hips can soften tension in your shoulders.
* Reconnecting with your torso can bring balance to your shoulders and hips.
* Supporting one area can create ease throughout your entire soma - body, breath, mind and spirit as you regulate your nervous system.

Saturday, November 15th
1:00-2:30 pm
$35
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Includes audio recording and typed pdf of all movements explored in each class for developing your home practice.
Please dm to register or learn more.

11/09/2025

The dark of the earth cradling the seed through winter.
The dark of the room when you hit the power-off button on all of your electronics.
The dark of a proper hiding spot in a game of Hide & Seek.
Sometimes the dark offers promise, generativity, relief, playful safety.

11/06/2025

...Now if I hear the sound of the genuine in me, and if you hear the sound of the genuine in you, it is possible for me to go down in me and come up in you. So that when I look at myself through your eyes having made that pilgrimage, I see in me what you see in me and the wall that separates and divides will disappear... ~ H. Thurman

11/04/2025

If you want a safer world
save something, anything
If you want a loving world
love someone, anyone
If you want a peaceful world
make peace somewhere, anywhere

ripples reach
to be is to teach
~ Donna Ashworth