Caitlin: Happy Valentine’s Day y’all. Is it happy? Or are you still looking for your long lost love(s)? Maybe you’re fighting with your partner(s) or having doubts about your recent engagement. Whatever your relationship status, tonight we practice loving ourselves. Forget about showering yourself with Hallmark inspired chocolate and rose petals, (unless you’re into that). Sitting … Continued
Caitlin: How would experiencing yourself as a node in a vast network of a rich and interconnected web of life alter your sense of Self? Leaning into Bill Plotkin’s concept of the ecocentric identity, we’ll meditatively and somatically explore what it’s like to shift our centres of attention from an egocentric perspective to an ecocentric experience.
Caitlin: Mother-child relationships are notoriously fraught. Beyond the messy human dynamics though, we each have a relationship with Mother Earth. While the climate crisis signals that our collective relationship to Mother Earth is also fraught, reconnecting with nature and nurtuting that relationship holds promise for personal, global and planetary health. Ecopsychology, the combination of ecology and … Continued
Caitlin: Do you sometimes feel like your mind-body experience is a chaotic circus scene with multi-colored elephants parading around underneath clowns walking tightropes pushing screeching monkeys in wheelbarrows, all preventing you from deciphering the very important message your friend is trying to deliver – or is that just me? Focusing is a step-by-step meditative practice that … Continued
Caitlin: Concentration is the ability to focus our minds on a chosen object – however mundane or magnificent – for a chosen amount of time. In this sit, we use our sitting posture as the object of focus. Watch your back or the CEC posture police will watch it for you! In part two, wellness based dentist Dr. … Continued