The Nourish Practice is a somato-poetic, deep meditation, qi gong experience that delivers a profound sense of rejuvenation, relaxation, stress release, groundedness, enjoyment, and flow. Best of all—in a sense—it requires no movement. In fact, you don’t even have to get out of bed to enjoy its benefits! It’s practiced lying down, and you can do it anywhere. It’s an invaluable self-care tool that can travel with you and gives you the power to inhabit your body and connect with the natural world inside yourself and “out there.”
The Nourish Practice is specifically for those who are burned out, overwhelmed, and feel too tense and driven, unable to settle peacefully into themselves. It is also for those who are too much in their in heads and want to inhabit their bodies more.
The Nourish Practice provides a life-changing, body-centered experience for learning how to receive and feel fulfilled—so you don’t have to try to fill yourself with the consumer goods and things that can never fulfill, which only lead to addiction and further numbing to the inherent beauty and simple gifts of life. In this respect, the Practice is a radical form of activism, which I call inner activism. The Nourish Practice is also a practice in self-sovereignty that allows us to feel less needy of others and allows us to give more to our relationships. You can read here some testimonials about it.
In our outward-oriented, assertion-focused lifestyles, we forget how to receive what we need to re-fuel and re-charge. The Nourish Practice allows this to happen physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We forget that many forms of nourishment cannot be grasped and taken; they must be merely be received to a nervous system able to appreciate and receive. This is especially true of intangible forms of nourishment such as love, appreciation, awe, and beauty. In the Nourish Practice we work with the breath in a unique way, what I call “being breathed by the breath” as a vehicle for nourishing our core selves with these psycho-spiritual qualities.
We can eat well and do all the “right” things, but unless we know how to receive these benefits, we tend simply to employ more compulsive doing and consumption, without really receiving the core nourishment from good habits. We never really become fulfilled or know peace and ease in our bodies or be comfortable in our own skin.
The Nourish Practice therefore creates a deep psychic template for receiving and for gratitude, which allows us to begin to gain perspective on everything lumped onto our lives, which we can then to begin to more easily let go, allowing us to unburden and simplify. This is also how the Practice fosters sustainability.
As a form of “Inner Activism,” The Nourish Practice leads to what I call “Inner Sustainability,” which allows us to become people capable of caring about the world and living without the many unsustainable comforts that are contributing to the pollution and destruction of our world and the numbing of ourselves. As an environmental act of justice and compassion, the Nourish Practice allows us to become friendly and intimate with the amazing physical, energetic, and surprisingly wise terrain of our deep bodies. As we become more integrated, honest, and kinder to ourselves, we can more easily treat others and the planet in the same way. The Nourish Practice provides an inner template for all these qualities.
What Does the Practice Involve?
Series I is the foundation of the Nourish Practice, which is primarily a physically-oriented practice. Level I profoundly integrates mind with body through sustained, intimate, focused attention deep in the belly, or “dan tien.” By activating the parasympathetic nervous system, known as the “rest, digest and restore” aspect of our psyches, it creates a template or “energetic patterning” for receiving tenderness, goodness, patience, attention, and vital energy deep in our core. Level I has several parts, all of which build upon the foundational experience of “being breathed by the breath” taught in Part I. Combining the benefits of many body-mind disciplines, The Nourish Practice is an easy, evolutionary, Earth-based, felt-sense meditative and ultra-gentle breathwork process that dissolves stress and fosters a deep sense of fulfillment, calm, connection, and rejuvenation.
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Series II utilizes the body-mind integration of Series I to learn how to contact with one’s core emotional wounds through body-centered emotional work. On the emotional level, healing and nourishment happens paradoxically—by embracing and welcoming our hurts with open arms, the loving presence of our self-care. Level II employs deep cognitive-emotional intimacy, image-work, and what I call “Body-truth” via an array of dispositions and healing tools to help feel and work through the hurts stored in our bodies. Level II is a nourishing process via the clearing of pain, simultaneous with the recovery of inner resources I call our “Finer Jewels of Being Human” (such as patience, courage vitality, passion, love, wisdom, empathy, and compassion) through our own abiding courage and loving care. Grief work is the heart of Level II work. The more we love, the more can grieve, and the more we can grieve, the more we can love.
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