Moving in, Moving on

Summer time Retreats

 “ She’s an explorer,

unafraid to travel

within her own heart and mind,

ready to discover new spaces

to heal – releasing burdens

and planting wisdom wherever

her awareness takes her ”

~ excerpt quoted from ‘Inward’ by Yung Pueblo

Moving within, turning our attention and direction inwards, takes courage.

It also requires time, unplugged with ourselves, in a spacious and safe space.

More so, it takes a great deal of self-love to open up to oneself, and have those honest and real conversations we so often push aside as we work on other pressing priorities in daily life.

Self-love, when we remember this, is an action of great worth –of making and investing in the time and creating space for you. A time to rest, unwind, reset and replenish your being.

A time of allowing the healing of body, mind, often from over-doing, over-thinking, pushing and striving to achieve and gain in the outer world. Like Yin and Yang, the body and mind needs time to heal from all this.

To reset and free up energy in ourselves, we need to move inwards, to recognize the unwanted parts of ourselves we may unwittingly, or purposefully, be ignoring, suppressing, blocking, avoiding, and shutting away.

It is when we can honestly see these parts of self, look at them, allow them their place under the sun, and do the work to accept them, that we heal and accrue the benefits from self-love in action.

By moving in, we can fully realise the power self-love alone has in playing its’ role in our healing, creating inner peace, and setting us free on our paths to move on.

When we open the doors inwards to ourselves, we create a space, a particular kind of intimate space, that invites us to be awake, allowing us to feel, all of what is needing and calling us to feel. Both body and mind are given this open invitation to experience themselves in our expanded conscious awareness.

It can mean that layers of pain, sadness, grief, or other strong emotions surface. The pain of opening to these, is a good pain – as it is the ticket towards moving towards our healing and more freedom.

And as we allow this process to be, to move in and through and out of us, we are able to move through it, with skillful, careful navigation and support – and move on.

It takes courage, it requires self-love, and a safe space.