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The moon is shining bright as we mark the turn into these darker days. Today’s equinox coincides with the full moon 🌕 Mother Nature prompts us to ask, where in my life do I need more balance? Are there some shadows calling for illumination? How can I honour my body in this turn of the season? 🍂🍄🕸 - 📸: @emmawandphotography
“When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, almost everything lost its footing. Houses were detached from their foundations, trees and shrubbery were uprooted, sign posts and vehicles floated down the rivers that became of the streets. But amidst the whipping winds and surging waters, the oak tree held its ground. How? Instead of digging its roots deep and solitary into the earth, the oak tree grows its roots wide and interlocks with other oak trees in the surrounding area. And you can’t bring down a hundred oak trees bound beneath the soil! How do we survive the unnatural disasters of climate change, environmental injustice, over policing, mass imprisonment, militarisation, economic inequality, corporate globalisation and displacement? We must connect in the underground my people! In this way we shall survive.” ~ Naima Penniman
Thank you Kara for retreating with us and becoming a part of the web of belonging we all wove together 🕸✨🙌 #Repost @peachbotanicals ・・・ • We are all connected • Over the weekend I spent a few days immersed in the beautiful bush land in Otford. Meditation, yoga, intention setting, forest bathing, breathing with plants, group discussions, blind folded dancing, new friends, education, yummy organic vegan food grown on the property and prepared for us for our own pleasure (how incredible). The theme was remembering and belonging. How can we be 100% authentically ourself in a society where so many of us try and fit in with what doesn’t ‘fit right’ or what doesn’t serve us. Over the weekend I heard so many inspiring stories of individuals on their own journey to finding a sense of belonging within a world where we are becoming more and more detached. Where we spend more time in the 2D world than walking around consciously, admiring and appreciating what Mother Earth offers to us every. single. day. She shows up for us every day 🙌 (it may seem ironic sharing over a 2D platform but take it all in, then go and walk/dance/sing/hop etc around outside bare foot, no need to thank me 🥰). An excerpt from an excerpt I heard this weekend - ‘What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all’ - Alan Watts. We are all on this mission to be the best versions of ourselves that we can be and we’re all doing a bloody amazing job at it ✌️. I’m excited to keep learning and growing everyday and sharing my journey 🧡
Thanks Sam for these beautiful reflections about our Remembering and Belonging retreat this weekend 🙏💕✨ #Repost @samscullinyoga ・・・ Remembering and Belonging Retreat Still soaking in my 3 day weekend in Otford surrounded by trees, sustainable gardens, flowers, wildlife, love and like-minded amazing individual humans😍 Slowly weaving my way back into reality with a shifted consciousness and heart full of love!! I sit here on this beautiful morning watching the sunrise and with the sun comes the animals, the people... life! The beauty that surrounds us is incredible and free. Over the weekend I peeled back the layers of beliefs, identification, conditioning and remembered where I truly belong.. I belong to myself, the earth🍃, the universe.. I belong to you, you belong to me🌈 we are an interconnected web of intelligent beings here to create, share and grow. There is no seperate, there is community, there is SPACE... Come back to nature, gently walk with her... unleash the wild child, come back to the forest, and realise you are never alone Brene Brown ~ ”True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.” We all belong here xxxxx #belonging #remembering #yogaretreat #yogi #connection #nature #motherearth #love #loveu4u #consciousness #openess #brenebrownquotes
🐾 Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed - Mary Oliver Thank you to everyone who brought their brave hearts, curiosity, kindness and all the good things to the Remembering and Belonging retreat this weekend. So much love! 🕸💞🌿 #untilnexttime #wildchildmoves #retreat #rememberingbelongingretreat @wildchildmoves
“Instead of being swept up in the urgency to attend to the world ‘before it’s too late’, let the way we walk be slow. Let us listen to the pleas of our surrounding thirsts. Let us acknowledge the forgetting that drifted us on to this terrifying precipice. Let the grief of it all make its encounter with us through our remembering. And may beauty come alive then under our feet. - “...Nobody knows if humans will survive this crossing. If we’ll leave anything habitable for future generations but I believe our global catastrophe is a clarion call to our highest abilities. Whether we’ll be successful or not, we must give everything we have to doing what we believe is right. We are but disappearing comets who must summon the grace to accept our fate while working to leave an elegant and contributive streak behind us as we go.” - Toko-pa Turner, Belonging
“This morning I stood on the riverbank to pray. I knew then that the ancient ones were wise to pray for peace and beauty and not for specific gifts... And I saw that if one has even a small degree of ability to take into and unto himself the peace and beauty the gods surround him with, it is not necessary to ask for more.” — Edith Warner
Whoever you are, you are invited in to the circle. The truth is you’re already a part of it, we just all need to strengthen the web of connection, to become skilful weavers. How can we weave our communities together to reflect all the diverse ways of expressing life on this earth? Homogeneity is an act of colonialism. Demanding everything express in the same way is hectares and hectares of just one plant, the waste of food because it’s not the right shape, is young and thin is the only beautiful, is white supremacy, is the dominant paradigm, is the sixth mass extinction, is weakness. - Whoever you are let’s weave our web together and become held in its strength. - “The work of undermining the barriers between things moves us from alienation to intimacy. We begin to see the partisanship in our own ideologies, the mechanisms we employ to keep others at any distance from our lives. Rather than waving our flags of belief and superiority over others through what the poet Leonard Cohen calls ‘emotional patriotism’, we are growing our capacity for ambiguity. Naturally, this inner diversity translates into outer inclusivity. - “In the practice of belonging, we are not seeking prowess or dominion over anyone else, but the ability to live into the conversation between things. This is a deepening movement into relationship with self and otherness. As we make ourselves the keepers of each other and the world around us, so too are we kept. When we invite others into the landscape of our lives, giving them influence with our secret pieces, we are better held in our own becoming.” [Toko-pa Turner, Belonging]. - Remembering and Belonging Retreat, February 15-17, Govinda Valley Retreat, Otford.
This morning I had a conversation with an older student who asked who was coming to the retreat @clarelovelace and I will hold in a month. “Is it going to be all 20-something year olds?” She asked. I said I didn’t know everyone coming but many would be in their 30s. And what else? We’ll probably mostly white women? And probably mainly cisgendered, able-bodied, neuro-typical and heterosexual. Aaah! It’s so boring! Homogeneity is dull! And it’s a retreat meant to be cultivating a sense of belonging in the world! There’s no point being frustrated (although I am). It is an opportunity though to ask why? And how can we contribute to blowing open the paradigm? Blowing it wide open so everyone feels they belong?! If you feel you don’t belong in these kinds of spaces, then know we will hold space for you. What else can we do? If you want to come but money is a problem then get in touch and let’s see if we can sort something out. If you are afraid that you will be in the minority then let’s walk in to this together, holding and taking up space as needed. Let’s have a discussion about how we contribute to people feeling like they don’t belong, but if we do that we need as many different voices as possible. Let’s call each other in to the circle and weave our webs of connection strong 💪 - Is there anything else we can do? What are the barriers you feel to entering this kind of group setting? Join us and let’s try to make this healing space reflective of the diverse beauty of what it means to be human. - Love, - Anna - 📷: by @jane_ra from a web of life meditation at a previous retreat.

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