01/12/2025
Here’s to a New Year in our Valley. Deep gratitude for this collection of bodyworkers and therapists. As our Valley absorbs those escaping from the fires, and emotions churn and rise, let’s keep the ground intimate beneath our feet, let’s keep gravity as an ally to our bones, let’s keep our shoulders soft and our faces free of tension so we can speak truthfully and hold, with great expanse and relaxation, the myriad of emotions we are all feeling right now.
Here’s David Whyte reminding us of the intimate reciprocity between I and Other, inside and out, known and unknown.
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions.
To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you courage.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness
and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
We are offering discounted sessions to those displaced by fire. Please let your friends in need know ❤️
