Coming Home Embodied Meditation Practice Tomorrow at 9am EST ~ Stuck and Unstuck
Learning to get unstuck and taking that beyond our lives into a culture that needs it...
Dear Friends,
I want to work tomorrow, and maybe for a couple of weeks, with stuckness. If you attended my event with David Sauvage tonight (more on that tomorrow) then you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say “stuckness.” All of us have places in our lives where there seems to be no movement. Maybe it’s in your job or work. Maybe it’s a persistent pattern or tension in a primary relationship. Maybe it’s in a way you’re relating to yourself or your circumstances.
I certainly know what stuckness is like. There have been years of my life when I felt absolutely stuck—in a job, in a marriage, in a role. One thing I notice in working with my own trauma and with clients is that stuckness is not just a state of mind. It’s in the body. It is a sensation…or more accurately, a constellation of sensations. And it can often be characterized by a lack of movement, a feeling of being blocked, frozen, or extremely contracted. My questions are…What is the movement underneath the stuckness? How does it want to move? What does it hold? And how can we restore it?
I believe stuckness is a strong resistance to acknowledging or feeling the difficult emotions that would arise if you actually fully turned towards them (became unstuck). We need support to do this. We need to feel safe enough to go there. And we need to trust that whatever happens, our community has our back. This is hard for many of us to do because this has not been our experience. Emotional vulnerability and honesty have not always (or ever?) been met with genuine compassion, patience, spaciousness, and unconditional presence. This needs to change.
Tomorrow I want to talk about stuckness in life and begin to work with stuckness and movement in the body. We will work gently to begin to recognize the stuck patterns in our system. And eventually, we will bring in some of our own personal issues to work through the stuckness to some kind of movement. Healing is the restoration of the original movement. We can do this — especially if we do it together. And when we learn to do it personally we begin to shift things in the collective. Goodness knows, there is a lot of stuckness and stalemating happening at the moment. We can unstick things by learning to make more space for the feelings that want to move through us—personally and collectively.
Join me tomorrow from 9-10:15a EST for a meditation on Stuckness and Getting Unstuck.
Coming Home is a pay-what-you-feel event with a recommended donation of $10-20. Please join us! You can Venmo me @ElizabethSchuyler-Brown or send a donation via PayPal to schuyler@artofemergence.com. Paid subscribers are already covered, thank you!