Live ZOOM Conversation with David Sauvage on Monday at 6pm EST
Empaths unite! Join me and David as we feel our way into the Truth ✨💎
Dear Friends,
This Monday, May 9, I will be launching a series of live ZOOM conversations with remarkable people called The Art of Embodied Conversations. It will “air” from 6:00-7:30pm EST. You are welcome to attend and paid subscribers will have access to recordings. My first guest is my dear friend and deeply embodied collaborator, David Sauvage. More on David in a minute.
The series will explore the healing power of embodied conversations—when two (or more) people are fully present to themselves, each other, and the field of arising. I have these conversations frequently in private with friends. They tend to be intimate, unexpected, honest, raw, and sometimes awkward. They also surface shadow, lead to profound insight, and are occasionally alchemical as what was unknown or unspoken is named, owned, and felt completely. It feels timely to bring them into a public forum where more people can benefit from the medicine they generate and perhaps more of these conversations can be sparked!
It is fitting that David is my first guest. I’m sure he will also be a frequent one. Our friendship is, in fact, one beautiful ongoing embodied conversation. Last year, he and I hosted a weekly event on the Clubhouse app that was loosely called “Schuyler & David talk about (fill in the blank).” The format was emergent—we’d check in with each other that morning to determine the topic. Some weeks were transcendent and unforgettable. Some weeks we moved in and out of coherence. It was always worthwhile and alive as we both love being at the knife’s edge of awareness.
Towards the end of our time on Clubhouse, we opened an exploration into the dynamics of the masculine and the feminine. Specifically, we set out to “complete the circuit” of energy that arises when the activated poles of masculine and feminine unite into a complete, psychoactive field of awareness. This is an experience I’ve known through sacred sexuality and David’s known through his shamanic work with plant medicines. We were both curious to see if we could find our way to the subtle dimensions without the use of the substances/practices they are usually associated with—just two friends completely surrendering into a shared state of extreme intimacy. You know…no big deal.
Only, it is a big deal. In the end, we put the experiment on hold. I found the Clubhouse app to be a weak container for such potent magic. But the conversation is still alive for us and indeed, we are planning to host a retreat upstate this summer to try again with a live support circle (Save the Date: July 9 in Rhinebeck, NY).
On Monday, we will pick up the conversation where we left off and check in with each other about our felt sense—as a man and a woman—of what is currently happening in the collective experience of the masculine and feminine. We will then open the floor for comments and do our best to hold space for what’s arising as we navigate Roe v. Wade, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s dirty laundry, and the fall of patriarchal systems of oppression. We probably will not go all the way towards our desire to “complete the circuit,” but we’ll talk about that, too. I can promise an embodied conversation for sure.
Join us and feel free to invite anyone you know who is thinking about such things. We welcome you.
