Hello and I'm the host of the Embodied Astrology Podcast, and I'm a Somatic Movement

Educator.

In today's episode, I wanted to share a practice that I led a little while ago at a live workshop and this was a workshop for the

astrology of 2020 and I was thinking a lot about everything that's happening in Capricorn with the eclipses this year

and really how much stress there is in the world and how much misalignment there is

for so many of us in our lives.

The kind of basic misalignment that so many of us feel with the way that the world is going,

the misalignment that we feel with the Earth and that the Earth obviously feels with us.

And a lot of my focus in the workshop was on exploring somatic tools in relationship to astrology to think into and to feel into getting more aligned and working through inner body awareness, felt sense awareness, subtle awareness, to be more aligned.

And so alignment for me means steadiness and it means ease.

It is the feeling of continuity and integration

in my being and between myself and the earth and others.

When I feel aligned, I feel like I'm in flow.

I feel relaxed and I also feel strong.

And my hope is that that's what this practice does for anybody who engages with it.

I know that it's how I feel when I do it.

I experience a lot of chronic pain and inflammation in my joints and the movements in this practice are things that I've done for a long time to help my joints relax and also to nourish my joints.

A lot of the movements that I'm offering are movements that

increase synovial production and that helps the kind of long-term health of your

joints and helps retain mobility and health and padding within your joints.

And I also find that this practice does a lot for assisting me and releasing accumulated and residual stress that I tend to gather in my joints and specific joints in particular, especially the occipital joints, the base of my skull, and down into my neck and shoulders,

and the joints around my low back and pelvis.

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