Don’t Just Do Something, Be Here!
PRACTICE MAKES PRESENCE.
Practice does not make perfect.
Practice opens the door for more imperfect returning to ourselves, each other and the More-Than-Human fabric of All- That- Is.
I have been cultivating resources to practically support you who are seeking to weave both inner world and outer expression through daily or regular practice. This is an opus of a lifetime of discernment, experimenting, imperfectly returning, companionship of others and my own softening. I am a student of both generative discipline - and of the juicy love affair that is possible through being in such intimate relationship with ourselves. True practice emerges like a lotus from the muddy waters of self hatred and “shoulds” of why we engage in a discipline — and expands over a lifetime into curiosity, desire as a calling from soul, play and pleasure.
What if…
Discipline isn't about taming the wild within us.
How does it change everything if discipline and all that is wild within us get to be dance partners?
It's a practice.
How working beside me in creating a daily (or regular) practice can meet you:
The impact of touching base with yourself every day is profound and accumulative. Giving yourself 10, 30, 90 intentional minutes every day seeds generative self focus, love and care.
Daily practice nurtures curiosity, and creates a foundation for inspiration to be put into motion. With a little bit of structure, you and inspiration become confident dance partners.
Dicipline that originates from desire feels life-giving. Reconnecting with your core desires reconnects you with what you are here to explore, move and be moved by. Change and growth that come from curiosity and play is long lasting and effervescent.
Daily practice allows for us to drop into the inner life in more right size (rather than a deluge after long stretches of ‘yeah, yeah, later’) and be in an energy of encounter with what’s there.
Daily practice that is centered on a quality versus being tethered to a specific action tends to nurture both freedom and trust in ourselves to honor our word by following through.
Is this you?:
Your days feel like they belong to someone else. Every task is serving another and it feels like there is no time for you to drop into something just for you.
Your creative practice has gone fallow, and you’re longing to spark a love affair with your creative spirit.
You’ve wanted a daily discipline to change yourself because you’ve been conditioned to think there’s something wrong with you.
Your inner life feels too big and too abstract to approach.
Intentions to practice or repetition for the sake of it doesn’t stick.
What Don’t Just Do Something, Be Here is not:
It’s not another thing telling you what you should do.
I can’t tell you what your practice is. No one outside of you can. Nor is this a course on efficiency or time management or promoting any ideas that you need to DO something to be better. Practice is not about punishment. It doesn’t always feel good, but ultimately it cultivates only what is generative and life-giving.
Don’t Just Do Something, Be Here is a self paced collection of inquiry, invitations, thoughts and stories from my experience for you to resource as you re-connect with yourself and drop into a courtship relationship with practice. I share my story and what grounds me and what has grown for me through this long initiation of soul and the now evident gold that is beginning to substantially shine from within me through trusting this process. Though I can’t tell you what practice is for you, I can share portals inward and things to try to get some feedback for your own investigation and experimentation with practice.
Ultimately, this is an invitation to the lifelong practice of presence. Doing is part of being, and within Don’t Just Do Something, Be Here, there are invitations to try doing some things. My hope is that practicing doing while companioned by your own deep listening while bread-crumb trail wandering into your own deep woods will lead you closer to what it means for YOU to really be here more and more.
This pathway is one of alchemy, of low and slow de-conditioning from the worlds wants and stories of you, and a re-turning to your own center, your own desires, your own intuition and inner voices with just enough structure to provide feedback for you to glean and gather and evolve with.
Practice is my companion in being here, with and through my body and breath, with and as Earth, with and as a living ancestor. Practice is an active prayer to me.
