Embark on a transformative journey with Embodied Relational Presence resources tailored for Extinction Rebellion advocates. Discover and foster inner resilience and focus through guided practices, aligning mind and purpose. These resources offer a sanctuary for XR activists, fostering mental well-being amidst the challenges of environmental advocacy. Elevate your commitment to the planet by grounding yourself in the power of these Presence related practices.

Extinction Rebellion Meditations & Reflections - Support, Resource & Renew

Become the flower, become available through Beauty and attract all you need in a natural and organic way.
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When the Flower Opens the Bee Comes Invitation

Rest in your Still Centre Focusing Attunement

Rest in Your Still CENTRE For Equanimity In Movement Focusing Attunement

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How does change REALLY happen? Find relief from STUCK Fear Anxiety Sadness Anger Hurt etc

The Body is invited to reclaim it's own sovereign nature of Being, from its own perspective.  A rich journey of resourcing and resilience creating safety and creatively meeting challenges and learning to rest deeply in the storm as well as meeting your needs for safety, balance and wellbeing whatever the conditions.
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Deep Cool Waters Of Healing The Sovereign Nature of the Body Reclaims itself Meditation

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”   Rainer Maria Rilke

Meet frightened, anxious, angry etc parts of yourself tenderly with kindness and care.  

All inner critics and emotional patterns have a positive intention.  How are they permitted to let themselves go into a new fresh edge and shift into their newness. Every part within us has its own healing mechanism, all we need to do is offer relationship on the basis of ‘letting be the way it wants to be’ rather than reject or attack so they can morph into their fresh edge and wellness.

Limitless Mindfulness Meditation.  Something can be constricted, cramped, raw, tender, vulnerable – in and of themselves they are fine, the question is how do we relate to them?  Are we held hostage or are we in relationship with them so they can express themselves fully for being fully received.  We are not trying to force change or fix something, it’s a bit like pouring water onto a seed, its an organically flourishing process which just takes care of itself within the context of Presence. Perhaps you have a place where resting is easy, sunbathing on a beach, a forest perhaps or somewhere else where an exquisite sense of safety makes itself known to you.  Inviting a sense of care and warmth in the body.

Inner Critic Relationship for Self Tenderness Kindness and Care for Raw Vulnerable Meditation

We can bathe and cloak ourself in presence. My sense is once you're in presence nothing can really harm you. It is very protective, nothing can really harm you, it is very protective. It brings safety, even in the storm.
 We can create the conditions for stability, balance, even with unsafe parts within us. So, presence can actually cloak, wrap itself around overwhelm. It can hold intense feelings. It can offer space - all this in the service of relationship.
I just want to read you something from gene Gendlin, as he talks about and introduces, really the premise for Focusing.
‘What matters is to be a human being with another human being, to recognize the other person as another being in there... the first thing you have to know is that there is somebody in there, and that you have to wait for that "person," that being in there, to be in contact with you. That seems to me to be the most important thing.
...I am just here, with my eyes, and there is this other being. If they happen to look into my eyes, they will see that I am just a shaky being. I have to tolerate that. They may not look. But if they do, they will see that. They will see the slightly shy, slightly withdrawing, insecure existence that I am.’ 
Not being present, in a way is being hostage to the dead and feelings and thoughts, to judgements, to blaming, to analysis and to evaluating. Anything that kind of gets in the way of connection with ourselves, connection with another.  Thoughts, feelings are not problem, if they are held in presence. Parts of us can be shaky, vulnerable, raw or even confident, spacious and open - we can hold that too. So a core quality of presence is embodiment., a visceral sense of being. This solid, spacious sense selves, in a way, is the first port call. 
To be summoned by the earth - the earth is always calling, always inviting us to feast at her table. Sensing where the body meets the earth, resting with these sensations of contact, touch. Very tangible. And often for me it brings a sense of relief. And often a deep sigh. Happy. To be once again at home. Not this body ever left, of course. Contact, from rom this contact the body can emerge. into a sense which will shape. Just being available to the fullness of its contours, to the surfaces to the life of the body. Like a kaleidoscope full of different colours, hues, textures - one little shift and the whole thing changes. Being available to the fullness of the breathing body. Inviting a kindness and a warm awareness to rest here too. And the fullness of this body of course, includes a spatial awareness. That is also an element of the sensing body. Sensing outwards. Into the constellations of astral bodies teeming with jewels. the night sky is alive, just as is the day sky.  Something in us can sense the fullness of this open dimension. This portal is always available at all times. This spatial awareness also breathes us -breathing in and out into the rich Inner world and into the universe within, so to speak, every bit as infinite as the outer.
 The breathing like a revolving door - the inner and the outer universe united. Just making room for all the riches within and perhaps something shaky? Something solid. Perhaps a mixture? But like the external universe, unfathomable, unknowable. It's a place of exploration.  Making room, perhaps saying hello to whatever is here. Summoning and inviting the support of the universe. To keep it company too. Just letting the whole of this rest in itself. 
Grounded, aware, spacious, compassionate presence.

What the Body is Noticing and Letting it Rest In Itself

The open and connected dimension of Being.
Something can sense the intimacy of connecting right now. Like the tree is available to all the birds that land on it—available to the sky above, and the clouds that float by, to the rain, to the wind that dances the leaves. That tree is firmly rooted and grounded, just like us in Presence.

The felt sense then runs through the whole of this—it’s life connecting everything up, as it is. And the nexus of the felt sense could be in the heart, tummy, or chest somewhere, or more amorphous. Just sensing what is alive here—how is it living through the sensing?

And maybe, making room for the timelessness in Presence, the infiniteness in Presence, and the life that runs through it!

The felt sensing does not belong to anyone in particular—it just seems to course through us. But that shared sense of the felt sensing—if we just pause right now, and just be quietly available in a very ordinary way, to each other—it’s as if there is a shared felt sensing going on. It does not belong to you or me exclusively. Something in us knows there is a bit more going on here, and it seems to be shared.

So I am inviting your body to sense how it is for it—its living experience in the sharedness. This felt sensing, this field, this matrix, this mutuality, this dance, this correspondence, this unity—it can rest in itself. As it does so, something can just be with it, and notice the quality of it from its own perspective.

We are just playing with the mystery of intimacy, of connection.

Often we are not receptive to this shared quality. And here, we invite permission for availability to come forward—to open the gates, to open the portals to this sharing, into the mutuality of sharing that creates its own portal. Resting with this, to sense how it is.

If you like, something in you can open to the portal to all of those around you, to all the sentience beyond—into a felt sensing of all that. Subtle, yes, it can invite itself to know itself more fully from availability in Presence, letting it rest in itself.

And as it does, you might notice the qualities of it—at least a sense of something here. What are the qualities of this sharedness? Perhaps more owned by itself—a sense of sharedness. What’s this like, this shared element? What’s it like in itself, even?

My sense of all this, from a felt sense perspective, is that this—the shared intimate felt sense—brings true wellbeing and healing, and is a portal into the mystery itself that knows its own truth, whatever that means!

And you could say that there is a lot of rest and peace in this sharedness, this mutuality, this mystery. There’s a lot of rest—something can rest deeply here—a lot of nourishment. And if I dare push the boat out, it’s almost timeless, infinite, limitless in its own way.

Of course, there will be parts that may shrink or contract. However, this shrinking and contraction can take place in the breadth of it all.

Timelessness and Infiniteness In Presence Focusing Attunement

Finding Oneself 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB
Meditatio Talks Series 2017 D Oct-Dec
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Finding Oneself 2

The Experience of Being Known

XR activity can be demanding and stressful - often with times of anxiety, fear, overwhelm etc being a result. Here are some ready and available resources to meet needs for Resilience, Deep Rest, Grounding, Presence, Balance, Restoration, Sustainability, Connection, Respite, Ease, Peace, Resources for times of action and inaction.

XR Organic Body Grounded Awareness For Soothing

Life and front line interactions can be demanding and stressful - often with times of anxiety, fear, overwhelm etc being a result. Here are some ready and available resources to meet needs for Resilience, Deep Rest, Grounding, Presence, Balance, Restoration, Sustainability, Connection, Respite, Ease, Peace, Resources for times of action and inaction. 
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Two Kinds Of Intelligence

Access your STILL POINT and  live from tranquility and calm amidst the chaos and overwhelm of your inner and outer life.

Find & rest in your STILL POINT for tranquility through this Mindfulness Meditation

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What the Body is Noticing and Letting it Rest In Itself

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