Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness - Coming Home to Embodied Presence (2017-06-28)

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🗓️ 30 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness - Coming Home to Embodied Presence (2017-06-28) - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our senses, and the sacred presence that underlies all lived experience.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.2	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.3	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:14.1	Namaste and welcome.
0:19.9	I got an email from a friend of mine in the community here in Washington.
0:26.0	She's a social activist, she's done a lot of wonderful anti-racism work and also a teacher
0:32.7	in a healer.
0:34.5	She described in her email how she was reconnecting with her senses, her sensuality, her body,
0:42.4	her aliveness, and that this was the heart of her practice of self-care for the season.
0:48.4	She writes,
0:49.4	My showers are hotter and longer, my foods are made slower in our heartier, my sleep
0:55.4	is extended and deeper.
0:57.6	I'm also trying to touch my own body more with scrubs, butters, and oils.
1:02.3	I'm much more responsive to my body's needs than I have been in a long time.
1:10.9	We need to be awake in our bodies, to be awake in our hearts, to really take care of
1:18.0	ourselves and others, and really to celebrate life.
1:22.1	We need to be here in our senses.
1:24.9	One woman describes who's teaching art at a college campus, her daughter asked her what
1:31.3	she did, and seven-year-old daughter, and she said,
1:34.0	Well, I teach art.
1:35.9	And her daughter looked at her incredulously, and she said, you know, you mean they don't
1:40.2	know how to draw?
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