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{Lamia's Newsletter} The PORTAL - Fall for freedom
Published 12 days ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader,
The brilliant sun still rises, the full moon glows and red-tailed hawks make timely appearances. As our global reality continues to unfold horror, we have decisions to make and natures beauty to sustain us.
I act for the people, community and freedom.
With Joy as a resource, we can challenge our phenomenal survival instincts to self-deceive by practicing awareness, presence and care with courage.
A prayer for the murdered
Freedom stolen
cages only the tyrants soul
with this awareness
may freedom reign
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
Joy, constant as a heartbeat, buried beneath lost leaves.
Meet joy wherever possible, not to cover over agony, but to nurture the Heart, our emotions ocean.
Fall is Metal energy, with seasonal attributes...
Organs - Lungs and Large Intestine, taking in and letting go.
Colour - white, all colours in one.
Taste - pungent, opens the nose.
Sound - "Ssssssss", frees up the Po, Spirit of the Lungs.
Sense organ - Nose, keep covered to prevent illness.
Tissue - Skin, keep covered and hydrated.
Emotion - Grief, offer tenderness for the pain.
Behavioural tendency - desire to control, make sense of, organize.
Practice - speaking your truth.
Fall invites introspection even when we can't slow down. Watching leaves change colour, held by gravity as they fall to the Earth, we can attempt to be with complexity.
Nothing will live forever and horrific deaths are tragedies. Pain is inevitable and suffering is not. All life requires other life for life to live.
"it's not so much about letting go, as it is about realizing you can't hold on."
The contemplation that began in Late Summer continues, as grief arises and passes away in Fall. Resisting, embracing or accepting release is all grieving. Fall will usher us to rest and earlier nights, nudging us toward inner worlds.
One hour of reflection from now to Winter Solstice will uplift your health as you attune with the season. This Fall, I dare you to set your sights on thriving.
Season change is vibrant and connective. In Spring we reunite and welcome the emergence of buds. In Fall we gather, support each other and prepare for winter.
Survival requires community. Thrival is life's essence.
So far this year you have received help for a wide variety of concerns. Sinusitis, burnout, impacts of long covid, recovery from illness, routine maintenance, endometriosis, cptsd, grief, addiction, pain, distress from genocide, fear of climate change, PMS and more.
You keep coming back, establishing care routines, dropping in randomly and referring your people. Treatments and referrals are making a world of well being.
Our potential for care is evolving.
Read on for The PORTAL resources, a free Community health action, benefits reminder, recap from training, fee increases coming and Rumi for your soul.
This past Spring I offered clients and community RENEW: a food program that aligns with Spring to renew you from within.
This Fall I will offer another Community Health Action → RELEASE
We will prepare, eat whole foods, pungent/sour flavours, neutral/warm temperatures and lots of soup. Over one week of shifting food habits you will RELEASE stagnations, leveraging the naturally occurring abscission of Fall.
Dates:
Oct 22: Registration closes
Oct 23: Program info sent out
Oct 23-29: email me questions, prep meals and snacks
Oct 30: Meeting #1 - Welcome and prep
Nov 1-7: RELEASE - A week of whole foods, guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine and your body's wants.
Nov 6: Meeting #2 - RELEASE week
Nov 13: Meeting # 3 - Integration week
Time:
All meetings are on Wednesdays from 7-8pm et, online
Cost:
Free (or by donation)
Reviews from Spring 2024 RENEW participants:
" I wanted to renew my commitments to myself and loved the structure of the program with its focus on harm reduction, easing in and easing out of it, the community calls, the body-based movement, and the FB page filled with inspiration."
and
"I didn’t have a ton of cravings for coffee, oat milk, peanut/sunflower butter which are all on the daily rotation. I did really miss raw foods + fermented things. I learned that I love lentils! and raisins! and lemon roasted beets! It is pretty cool that a new normal can be created through community care, commitment, and inspiration ❤"
I got to super nerd out with one of my main teachers last weekend and it is immediately enhancing my practice!
I learned a lot. We have channels that extend from points on the primary channels where we store experiences and emotions that can not be felt in the moment. To release them and take the load off of the body/nervous system/channels we can bleed them!
I am gonna be practicing on my self for a few weeks, and then I'll be asking to poke your ankles! (I love a good no of course!)
After this training, I inspired a potential new way to create access for healing with acupuncture & Karuna (Compassion).
Stay tuned for developments on acupuncture·community; an 8 or 10 week program for 5 people at a time, offering lower rates, self compassion practice, effective acupuncture, care and community.
Fee increase coming in November
I would happily work for soup, chocolate and a comfy bed, but here we are.
As of Nov 15 I will raise most treatment fees by $5 or $10.
This info will be sent in a separate email next week.
Between our commitments to care and creative treatment plans, my hope is that this will work for all. I will not raise rates again next year.
See you again mid month with
Keeping Company With Grief
click image to learn more about Keeping Company With Grief
For anyone grieving anyone or anything.
Using principals of Traditional East Asian Medicine, Buddhist Meditation, movement, breath and presence I accompany you as you learn how to heal, deal, feel and mourn.
This online course is self paced.
We individuals, are connected.
Wishing you ease, and connection, everywhere possible. 🙏🏼
A little more on tragedy...
When my mum was dying, and I had a new baby, my life was strained to say the least. I posted "The Guest House" by the change table and would read it a few times, most days. This poem and Meditation grew to be main supports during that year between birth and death.
I don't think this Rumi poem is about external horror and devastation. It is more about the feelings that greet us at the doors of tragedy.
New delights could be revolution, a world of caring, living water is life, commitments to evolve and fight without war.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
The PORTAL is a treatment delivered direct to your inbox. So much of what I offer my clients is information about food, exercise, Traditional East Asian Medicines and practice. You will receive resources twice a month, connecting you to healing all year round.
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