“It’s not happiness that makes us grateful but gratefulness that makes us happy.” – Br. David Steindl Rast
A note from Carl: Friends, We hope this note finds you well in this very interesting world of 2020. Before I get into this week’s writing, I want to mention some of our upcoming offerings that can be helpful for meeting these intensive times and digesting and integrating the ride we’ve all been on these last 6 months.…
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A note from Erin: Hi friends, How’s the strange new world going for you?? Personally, I’ve been feeling rather disoriented – not quite sure how to make plans when everything is so uncertain. Will my son go to school? Stay home for who-knows-how-long? How can I plan my work schedule not knowing what kind (or if…
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A note from Carl: Greetings dear friends, May this find you well. Before I dive into today’s writing, a few announcements: We have a new podcast with our friend, teacher, and binary-busting, amazing human being, Bayo Akomolafe. You can listen here. Today is the last day to join Erin’s Living The Questions online course. This Friday I begin my…
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Greetings, friends. I’d love to share a beloved poem to begin this week’s newsletter: A Thousand Years of Healing From whence my hope, I cannot say, except it grows in the cells of my skin, in my envelope of mysteries it hums. In this sheath so akin to the surface of the earth it whispers.…
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A note from Carl: Greetings friends, I hope you are well, healthy, and being generous with your care and compassion in these times. Before I get into today’s writing, I wanted to share that we have a beautiful new podcast with Francis Weller, “In the Absence Of the Ordinary” exploring themes from his latest collection of essays…
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A note from Erin: Greetings old and new friends! A warm welcome to the many folks who are newly joining our mailing list and community after the Move Better Feel Better summit. And warm hugs to the many of you who’ve been with us for years. We’re so grateful to be connected to such an…
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A note from Carl Dear Friends, We find ourselves in such unprecedented times. We dearly hope you are healthy and well as you read this note. I’ve got some reflections to share and want to let you know that you’ll find information further down on a few upcoming offerings, all free or by donation: On the…
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A note from Erin: Dear tenderhearted friends, Carl and I are sending so much love your way, and as we often say (because it’s true true true) we are so grateful to be in it together. We hope you’re staying safe and well during this wild time. We have a few humble offerings to share.…
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Hello, dear ones! We’d love to share some resources with you from our recent free/by-donation online classes we’ve hosted. They’ve been wonderful!!! In case you missed them live, here are recordings for your use at home. First – Embodied Support for Trying Times with Erin was recorded 3/15/20. You can access the recording here. …
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A note from Carl Greetings friends, First, I just want to say, we love you! Thank you for being a part of our lives. We are so grateful for community in these challenging times. For those of us living in Salt Lake City, Utah, today, we woke up to the rumbling shakiness of a 5.7 earthquake. Several hours and…
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A note from Erin Dear brilliant heart friends, I’m thinking of you all with each breath, sending love and care your way. Above is a photo of a little shrine I made with a stone representing each woman in my local group, Women Embodied. We’ve each made one in our own unique ways, holding each other…
Read MoreThe Somatics of Self-Compassion
A note from Carl: Greetings Friends, I hope this note finds you well in the new year. As we can never be reminded too often, especially when we are looking at a phone or computer, could you feel the support of the Earth under your butt or under your feet at you read this? Is…
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A note from Erin: Hello, beautiful human, We’re on that slippery slope and sliding right into the new year AND a new decade! I wonder what this round of the Roaring Twenties will be like? When you consider 2020, is there a sacred something you’d like to put at the center? I’m contemplating this deep question…
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A note from Erin: Hello, beautiful human, 14 years ago, I flew home from our Feldenkrais training in Santa Fe to support a dear friend who was giving birth at home. The labor was more than 50 hours. She chose not to transfer to a hospital, bone-tired as she was. Along with her husband, I was honored to hold…
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A note from Erin: Hello, beautiful human, Have you ever played the game “Whack-a-Mole?” I loved it when I was a kid – to stand there with a giant mallet – every time a mechanical mole stuck its head out of a hole, the aim was to whack it down as quickly as possible.…
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A note from Erin: Helloooo! This season is so utterly glorious where we are. Are you loving the season? Friends, how are you? Could your upper back use some lovin’? Some gentle movements to liberate stiffness? I’m inspired to offer an Awareness Through Movement Lesson as a gift to you, our readers, this week because I just keep…
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A note from Carl: Greetings friends! Before today’s writing, I want to share a bit of the bounty of our offerings coming in the next months. Next week, we will open our second month of the online Embodiment Lab, Growing Hara, Embodying Your Pelvis, Belly, and Back. This is one of our favorite topics to dive into and…
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A note from Erin & Carl: Dear friends, travelers, and mindful embodiment aficionados… We’re thrilled to invite you to join us for a nourishing retreat in one of our favorite places on earth – Finca Mia Retreat Center & Organic Farm in the Cloud Forest of Costa Rica, at the base of Mount Chirripo, during the perfect…
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A note from Erin Hi friends, Oh, the freshness of the season. The tenderness of this impermanent, beautiful display. This month, our offerings are almost as abundant as the fall harvest around here! So today, I’d love to share a few poems and then tell you all about the juicy opportunities we’ve got going on in October.…
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A note from Erin Hi friends, I’m writing from the spectacularly beautiful Casa del Sol at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. In just a few hours, we’ll begin welcoming the participants for The Way of Tenderness retreat. the heart-shaped labyrinth at Casa del Sol During my spacious almost 12-hour drive here on Monday, I…
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A note from Carl: Hello friends! I wanted to begin this morning with this piece from Fred Lamotte, who is such a beautiful embodiment of a contemporary mystic poet. This poem has been rocking my world all week: “May all beings be happy, and know the cause of happiness.” ~Sutra on the Four Immeasurables What is the…
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Why Do Feldenkrais? I’m so looking forward to teaching a course this fall of 2023 based on the themes in this article. The first four lessons are free. Sign up to join me! by Erin Geesaman Rabke Age gracefully I’m so inspired by my Feldenkrais teachers in their 80s. They continue to improve their…
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Hello, dear human being, reading these words, wherever you might be… Are you comfortable in your skin? Before you read, can I invite you to take 30 seconds to feel your whole self, notice any tiny shifts you could make that might increase pleasure and decrease tension? Toes, neck, face, hands, shoulders, belly, posture? How about…
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A note from Erin: It’s hard to know what to write these days when there are kids in cages, families experiencing such unimaginable tragedy. And when it’s so tempting to numb out because it’s all just so heavy and too much to take. Yesterday’s announcement about Trump planning to roll back the Endangered Species act just slayed me.…
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A note from Erin: Hi friends, Thank you, from my heart, for being a part of our community! There’s a line in a song by Rising Appalachia that I love: “Good people all around me, acting kindly, acting wisely… open your eyes, what do you see?” I’m grateful to see, in addition to heartbreaking news, that…
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I am, as always, so grateful for the poets. Today, for Rainer Maria Rilke, Denise Levertov, Brooke McNamara, Fred LaMotte. And for bells. And for seeds. And for you. xo Erin
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A note from Carl and Erin: We’re thrilled to share with you that our dear friend and mentor Francis Weller is coming to Salt Lake City in November to offer a weekend Grief Ritual as well as a free talk. Our lives and work have been so deeply enriched by the learning we’ve done with…
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A note from Carl: Good day! Because we cannot be reminded too often to pause and return to our direct, embodied, sensory experience, as you are reading this, could you take a moment to feel the support of the ground beneath you? Could you open to receive the sounds around you? What are the smells that…
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A note from Erin: I had such a laugh when a dear friend told me how much this favorite quote I shared pissed her off a few years ago: My yoga mentor Donna Farhi writes,”The degree to which you do not believe you have time to spend even ten minutes sitting quietly is the degree to which you desperately need to spend ten minutes sitting quietly.…
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A note from Erin: Good day, friends! May I offer some living questions? How might you make yourself a wee bit more comfortable right now? Is there some way you could make what you’re doing less effortful and more pleasurable? Are you feeling the support of the ground, this beautiful, living Earth under each of us,…
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