Hello and welcome to this practice. My name is Renee and I will be guiding this movement exploration, this somatic meditation, and a somatic

meditation or movement exploration is meditative and exploratory.

There is no right way to do it.

I'd like to offer this practice to myself

and to any of you who find benefit in it, like many professions, therapists, teachers, astrologers, people who

facilitate some kind of healing process.

I do this work because I need it.

So what I'm offering is my own approach to thinking about the ways that I can heal and embodying those ideas.

And this is a time in my life when I've been really aware of the ways that I get

shut down internally in response to fear and insecurity, often experiences that are coming in from the outside.

So there are plenty of things that any of us can be scared of in the world and so much of what we

experience in our lives is unchosen so we are born into these bodies we get

the conditions that we get and pretty much everything is outside the realm of

our conscious control and it can be really easy I don't know if you felt this I certainly

have felt this a lot in my life, really easy to shut down in some

kind of doubt or in response to what feel like restrictions or rules or impositions or oppressions.

And while those circumstances might not change,

we can at least work with our internal state. And working with the internal state can do a lot for the ways that we might perceive opportunity

within the conditions that we have for the ways that we might be able to

relate with ourselves and with others and with our circumstances and as our internal state shifts

then we might find that we have a greater sense of ease with the external conditions,

or at least the external conditions

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