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This course is designed to support you in embracing your personal nuance.
In other words, your wholeness. “Everything counts” is a phrase I picked up along my personal journey of holistic healing, and I often use it throughout my teachings on Wellspringwords®. Everything counts. This means no emotion is suppressed, no experience wasted, no expression qualified. Everything counts. And why does everything count? Does it mean we’re holding onto everything that we’ve ever thought or felt, every experience that has ever happened to us? Well, conceptually, no, not exactly. But in embodied truth, yes, we are holding onto everything. Through our cellular and somatic memory, through the patterning of our nervous system, the body remembers everything. The conceptual mind typically makes sense of one or two or a few selective pieces of information at a time. But the body, the heart, the womb, are capaciously processing what the mind may not (or may not choose to) see. This course invites us to integrate the body and its diverse consciousnesses with the consciousness of the mind to experience our wholeness and account for everything in our sacred storytelling.
What is the role of embodiment in our sacred practice of writing?
And more than simply putting words to paper, here, we’re practicing interior-world cultivation and authentic expression through the written form. With this approach, we move more slowly than the rapid pace of the mind. And because we move more slowly, naturally, we can feel what isn’t possible to feel at the rapid pace of the mind.
The body comes online.
And what a wonder the body is with all its memory, desire, and sensation — all its consciousness. After years of engaging my own body in my writing processes for healing, art-making, sense-making, and experimentation, I’ve come to see the body as the purest consciousness available to us as humans. Yes, the purest — because all energy must be processed through the body to become available for use through the body. So the body is a home and meeting place for all our versions of self; our multidimensionality. Topic 1 of Rhythm 1 is called “Living Through the Body”, and there, we’ll deep dive into what I mean by presence and energy being available through the body. Because at first, it seems obvious. But as we peer through the sinews of language and meaning, as we sit with our own bodies and bring breath to bone, perhaps we learn how we are a little more over here and our body a little more over there in a given moment of presence.
Whenever we feel the body is alive, through any layer of our embodied being, visceral or subtle, it’s our opportunity to engage it, empower it, and experience the unique story that exists through the sundry realms of living ancestry, which is the body itself. This is our principal practice in this course.
Beginning this course, and any learning journey, is all about embodying inquiry.
I’m going to pose a series of questions. You can take a moment and write down your instinctive responses; keep those responses somewhere safe — we’ll return to them later. For now, all you need is presence and honesty, trust and your awareness.
On a scale of 1-10…
…how open are you to your depths?
…how open are you to seeing yourself in a new way?
…how open are you to seeing life through alternate lenses?
…how much do you trust your body?
Allow honesty to guide you here.
With the body, honesty is all there is — better start calibrating to that. ;)
What does this course contain?
Within this unique writing and storytelling course, you’ll move through 3 Rhythms within the sacred dance of self-discovery.
Rhythm 1 | The Power & Necessity of Embodiment in Writing
Rhythm 2 | The Wisdom of the Heart & Womb
Rhythm 3 | Engaging the Erotic Body
We take a heart-and-womb-conscious orientation to our creative processes, centralizing our sensual intelligence, and restoring genuine pleasure as a way of being. At this stage, Wellspringwords® is here to support the restoration of Divine Feminine intelligence in us humans and on Earth, so this course feels very feminine in nature. I invite you to engage with each element of this course with curiosity and personal creative authority. There may be some elements that you resonate with right away; and there may be some that you “don’t get”. Be curious anyway — curious about yourself as a learner, as an ethnographer of your own body and soul, your own unique storytelling.
How can you use what is offered here to support you in your life’s journey?
How can your writerly experience be enhanced through your openness and curiosity?
Each Rhythm contains some combination of the elements below:
Teachings + Transmissions
Written and audio guidance on the topic of the section, or Rhythm, you are engaged with. Sink into these informative and inspiring musings channeled from my experience, expertise, intuition, and passion.
Video Immersions
Immersive workshops designed to support your learning experience in a class-or-coaching-like environment. Enjoy these immersions complete with meditation, visualization, detailed writing instruction, and learning from other writers + artists.
Guided Meditations
Powerful guidance along your journey of self-discovery and wholeness to regulate your nervous system, de-stress the mind and body, practice visualization, and attune to the authentic Self.
Guided Writing Explorations
Step-by-step guidance on building out a piece (or pieces!) of writing. Perfect for a quiet day of intentional solitude, slow living, and embracing the beauty, wonder, and magic within and around you.