Spaces to feel

Why communing with life is a way through the darkness

How are you ?

I’m asked this several times a day as I move from thing to thing.

It’s what we say, right.

I struggle to answer this question honestly.

Recently I try and remind myself to check into my body first.

To inhale and exhale.

How do I feel today?

In this moment ?

In my body.

I feel extremely, most days.

As I move through different realities

Online and offline.

From utter despair at the horrific violence

And human suffering in our world.

I feel it.

A foggy mental exhaustion from the binary cultural response.

Or the numbness of staying silent.

I feel it.

The indescribable love from looking into my daughter’s eyes

When she passes me in the kitchen.

The overwhelming sadness at the breaking down of climate.

I feel it.

Joyful tears for the decaying vibes of Autumn

that erupt surprisingly as I walk through the woods.

A deep gratitude for a bubbling pot of something on the hob.

I feel it all.

Grief, love, pain, joy, beauty, awe.

Strangeness, weirdness, funny.

To come into touch with how I feel in my heart, gut and body.

To learn to pay attention to these feelings.

To be curious about the intelligence of this data.

And what can emerge from that.

Exploring with words, sounds, sketches, gestures.

Taking them out into the more than human world.

Moving into communion with the world we have not made.

This is becoming an interesting practice to me,

Rather than trying to ‘make sense’ of the world, in my head.

But it’s tricky to find space and time to honour feelings.

Spaces to feel.

To be in community with the energy and mystery of life

Within us and around us.

This is really the heartbeat of Becoming Crew

Communing with life

Human and more than human.

Crews

Because we are not alone.

As we move again into darker times on this Earth,

We are offering again - Community Solo.

A 5 week online adventure to try out some new moves.

Spaces to show up with your heart intelligence

To hang your feelings out.

To listen more deeply to what’s happening within and around you.

To be in communion with fellow humans

And more than humans.

Honouring the cycle of slowing down, darkening, going in,

Crossing thresholds, mystery

Listening, silence,

Planting seeds.

I’m still drawing on intelligence I received last year

And Anne just sent us this from her experience with us …

“Last winter I was lucky enough to be among the crew members on a magical journey into the Otherworld and back.

Through a hole in the world, that led me to places I never visited before and gifted me with insights I am still working to fully comprehend. About Words and Worlds and Writing. Wayfinding and Web Weaving.

Being a crew member last winter has had a lasting impact on me.

A profound and nourishing experience generously hosted and facilitated by Evva, Mark, and Dan with beauty, insight and love.”

Come and join us