Anam Cara Somatics

06/18/2025

Awareness of the nervous system’s state is key in bringing choice to how we show up in relation to our surroundings, to others. Compassion is born through a regulated nervous system. Kindness comes through compassion ❤️

04/27/2025

The old threads are unraveling,
Get your needles ready.
We are stitching a new quilt
of Humanity.

Bring your old t-shirts,
worn out jeans, scarves,
antique gowns, aprons,
old pockets of plenty
who have held Earth’s treasures,
stones, feathers, leaves,
love notes on paper.

Each stitch
A mindful meditation.
Each piece of material
A story.

The more colour the better,
so call in the Tribes.
Threads of browns, whites,
reds, oranges
Women from all nations
start stitching.

Let’s recycle the hate, the abuse,
the fear, the judgment.
Turn it over, wash it clean,
ring it out to dry.
It’s a revolution
of recycled wears.

Threads of greens, blues, purples
Colourful threads
of peace, kindness,
respect, compassion
are being stitched
from one continent to the next
over forests, oceans, mountains.

The work is hard
Your fingers may bleed.
But each cloth stitched together
Brings together a community.
A world, our future world
Under one colourful quilt.
The new quilt of humanity.

~Julia Myers

Artist: Paula Nicho Cumez

01/21/2025

In these turbulent and uncertain times, remember your ground, remember your breath, remember your body and your energetic container, remember your centre and your internal balance—remember.

11/05/2024

Sending cozy November greetings! 💗🍵🔥 It’s sure been a hot minute since I’ve last posted, but I’m still here for you 💞 Welcoming new and existing clients online—as well as in person at my new location in the beautiful Creston Valley ✨💝✨ Also, for established clients, I travel to Nelson once every 4 weeks for in-person sessions at the warm and welcoming KABA Wellness space, pictured here. Upcoming Nelson dates are December 1/2 and December 29/30. Message me to book or use website link to access. Sending love 💕

08/07/2024

Such beauty and grace in allowing ourselves to soften 💔❤️‍🩹🦋🌀

I want to age like sea glass.
Smoothed by tides, not broken.
I want the currents of life to toss me around, shake me up and leave me feeling washed clean.
I want my hard edges to soften as the years pass , made not weak but supple.
I want to ride the waves, go with the flow, feel the impact of the surging tides rolling in and out.
When I am thrown against the shore and caught between the rocks and a hard place, I want to rest there until I can find the strength to do what is next. Not stuck . just waiting, pondering, feeling what it feels like to pause.
And when I am ready, I will catch a wave and let it carry me along to the next place that I am supposed to be.
I want to be picked up on occasion by an unsuspected soul and carried along , just for the connection, just for the sake of appreciation and wonder.
And with each encounter, new possibilities of collaboration are presented, and new ideas are born.
I want to age like sea glass so that when people see the old woman I’ll become, they’ll embrace all that I am. They’ll marvel at my exquisite nature, hold me gently in their hands and be awed by my well-earned patina.
Neither flashy nor dull, just a perfect lustre.
And they’ll wonder, if just for a second, what it is exactly I am made of and how I got to this very here and now.
And we’ll both feel lucky to be in that perfectly right place at that profoundly right time.
I want to age like sea glass. I want to enjoy the journey and let my preciousness be, not in spite of the impacts of life, but because of them ..

~ Bernadette Noll ~

Artist Credit : Essoldo Design

06/12/2024

My co-facilitator 💞

06/01/2024

Love. Period. Reclaim the parts of you that live in the shadows; bring love to those parts; expand your capacity to love the biodiversity in yourself; let that vibrate out to others 🌈💞

05/18/2024

Become the parent you needed 💞Practice bringing consciousness to your thoughts, actions, language, boundaries—relating to yourself and others. Remind yourself to choose what would have supported you to feel valued, secure, safe, and authentic as a child.

05/03/2024

In early life, you may have adapted and formed certain ways of relating to your boundaries that are no longer serving you—and—you have the power within you to create healthier pathways in the present. Somatic therapy can help you access a felt sense of yourself as a container, be in touch with the energetics of your boundaries, and help shift how you relate to your boundaries ongoing 💝

04/23/2024

Instead of belittling yourself, practice offering compassion to your adaptive patterns. Offer love 💗

04/19/2024

May you feel gratitude towards yourself and your journey ✨💝✨

04/10/2024

As you are growing your capacity to regulate your nervous system, remember over and over again this simple and fundamental practice—pause, breathe, connect to your body, allow yourself to feel what is happening inside. Cultivate space inside yourself 💗