Coming Home This Week & The Return of Cultural Embodiment!

Join me this week for some fun and feelings

Some of the cultural embodiment sessions we did in 2022

Dear Friends,

I had a dream last week and was instructed to resurrect Cultural Embodiment, the practice I co-created with Peter Limberg when he stewarded The Stoa. We came up with the idea together to host a weekly “Embodiment Hour” where we would invite community members to come together to feel our way through current events and cultural currents. This was an offering into the wisdom commons; an affective, emotionally intelligent and embodied way to sense-make collectively.

I hosted a weekly session at The Stoa for nine months. It was a big effort and also a beautiful experience. We had a small group of regulars who began to develop rapport. We sensed our way through many emotions, through tough cultural moments and trends. We learned that a group of people sensing into Truth together is deeply reassuring; that including MORE emotions is often better; and that FEELING IS HEALING. I learned a lot about myself and the world we’ve created; and I believe our little group metabolized a lot of collective suffering.

I wrote about my experience with this practice and what I took away from it here.

The dream made it clear that I need to do it again. The dream guide actually said to me when I tried to protest, “It’s going to be an election year.” I couldn’t argue with that, and so this week I will announce the first Cultural Embodiment of 2023. They won’t be happening every week, but spontaneously when something emerges that feels ripe for group sensing. The first will likely take place in early August.

If you are excited to join, put a little note in the comments!

Coming Home Meditation this week will be on Tuesday from 9-10am and Thursday from 12-1pm EST (as usual). We will try a slightly new format this week where we will source the meditation from the desires and needs of the group. We’ll spend the first 20-25 minutes in dialogue about what’s alive for us and then I’ll take us into a deep subtle state to explore those topics in the body.

CH is a pay-what-you-feel experience each week. Suggested donation is $10-20 for drop ins. Whatever you feel called to give is wonderful and appreciated. Contributions can be made here: Paypal: schuyler@artofemergence.com or Venmo: ElizabethSchuyler-Brown. Paid subscribers, you are already covered. Thank you.