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Celebrated as the first harvest August 1-2, Lughnasadh {pronounced LOO-na-sah} is halfway between the summer solstice {Litha} and the fall equinox {Mabon} and is a time to give gratitude for the first fruits of the earth, and traditionally, grains. Lughnasadh is named after the Celtic god Lugh who also held the title ‘Artful Hands’ and was known as a warrior, poet, sorcerer, crafter, and blacksmith.

Lugh was known as the ‘many skilled’, a master of many talents. As the god of oaths, he held domain over rulers and nobility, enacting justice.

How to celebrate :

Give gratitude for abundance : start a daily ritual writing down what you are thankful for on slips of paper, placing them in a jar or bowl, and in adding to this collection, watching that when you reflect on gratitude, your ability to see blessings multiplies! Honoring Lugh, contemplate the fruits of your labor, appreciating your hard work, favorite qualities, talents, and reflecting on what you’ve accomplished.

Show off your skills :

Celebrate the ‘many skilled’ Lugh by hosting a games night. You can hold board, tabletop, or classic games such as chess as well as more modern variants such as charades or bean bags. Athletic outdoor games can include races, tag, and other team sports or friendly sporting competitions {you can create unique silly contests as well!}.

Talent show :

Share what has come to fruition : bring and present your crafts, art, writings, instrument playing, baked goods. Host a fashion show and model your flower crowns.

Collect + reflect on seeds :

Collect seeds for next planting season. Make a corn husk, grass, or plant doll, and next year when planting the next season’s garden bury it as a symbolic offering to the Earth, returning what the Earth has provided back to the Earth. Reflect on how to nourish that which nourishes you, that to let something go means to plant the seeds of new beginnings, and meditate on the cycles of nature, life, and decomposition.

Honorable Harvest :

Robin Wall Kimmerer shares how to harvest in right relation : Ask permission of the ones whose lives you seek. Abide by the answer. Never take the first. Never take the last. Harvest in a way that minimizes harm. Take only what you need and leave some for others. Use everything that you take. Take only that which is given to you. Share it, as the Earth has shared with you. Be grateful. Reciprocate the gift. Sustain the ones who sustain you, and the Earth will last forever.

Decorate your altar with :

Symbols of the harvest such as : Cornucopia, wicker baskets, sheaves of grain, corn husks, sunflowers, scythe, garden shears, the Tarot cards the Sun and Strength, and symbols of your skills / talents.

Colors : tones of a field ready for harvest such as yellow, gold, bronze, brown and green.

Incense and herbs : rosemary, basil parsley, mint, rose, frankincense, sandalwood.

May you have an abundant honorable harvest.

Transformative Therapeutic Touch-stones :

Are you seeking reparative attachment experiences? Were you adultified and never got to be cared for aš a child?

If so, your inner child/teenage parts are probably grabbing the steering wheel of your life in order to get their needs met or protect you from a projection of past harm transposed into the present.

I would like to support you in applying my hypersensitive autistic pattern recognition to bring clarity to your inner landscape.

This week I was the guardian angel to a journeyer with the intention of receiving a reparative nourishing mother experience of feeling safe and joyful.

I combined my knowledge of transpersonal somatic therapy with bodywork and for 12 hours alternated between utilizing my studied intellect to identify patterns in their constellations of relating, while concurrently employing my embodied empathy in excavating deep tissue release of stored trauma, and also smoothing out the waves of catharsis through weaving in more integrative soothing light touches of petting / combing / scalp massaging the head.

I call this somatic window of tolerance work, where we pendulate between naming, releasing, and reassigning long standing bound up patterns with the soothing gentleness of head caresses, a body-wide tidal breathing that integrates intensity.

This high touch work provides a reference point for feeling safe in the body, a Somatic anchor. This physical pattern of feeling loved can then be a touchstone compass that creates the capacity for you to know when you are moving towards or away from this healthy Nourishment. Thus, we create your unique map, orienting towards accurate calibration with your body as an instrument of the subconscious, speaking it’s native tactile tongue.

Emancipatory embodiment can completely transform entrenched patterns, and I am honored to work with you at the evolving edge of therapeutic touch. Please reach out for support or send beloveds who would be helped by an ally this way.

Accessing subconscious wisdom : Dark Feminine Freedom

Emerging from my birthday chrysalis and honoring this full moon, a steady through line is highlighted – applying the depth of my capacity to delve into the subconscious and bridge these mercurial learnings back to the conscious mind.

In work as the founder of Earth Body Temple, I have been observing that the archetype of the dark feminine iš cresting in the collective consciousness. Briefly, the dark feminine is associated with the : subconscious, wild, undomesticated, instinctual, passionate, fearless, liberatory, transformative, fertile void as well as Eros, righteous rage, dissolution, and decomposition.

I describe my autism as a raw exposed nervous system that results in a mind boggling depth of detail in my sensory perception that is exponentially higher resolution than average. This often overwhelming sensitivity is a gift and a challenge and leads to an unusually intense life. 

I am unable to turn these perceptions off, and when I attempt to censor the findings I become a dysregulated canary out of alignment with my justice sensitivity, which gets tricky when the insights are related to interpersonal behavior, hierarchical systems, or the culture at large. 

While learning how to work with this ‘naked emperor’ honesty, I have run into challenges when others are not prepared to receive these vulnerable, revelatory, and life-altering insights. I am learning that I have to discover ways to provide informed consent to those around me about my tendency towards truthful transparency. I am attempting to define this role as a healer-jester or a motivational Movement Muse. I welcome novel frames on how to explain these proclivities. 

Thankfully, the unique gift of these traits can come through to you in providing a deep perspective tracking how your subconscious communicates through your body and through my acting as an ally in bringing these stirrings to your conscious awareness. This elucidation helps you redirect patterns of behavior and happenstance nervous system regulation techniques into directions that are more supportive to your wellness. I apply this somatic therapy informed attunement to provide nuanced perspective in how your subconscious translates through your soma so that you can experience greater thriving through a deepend connection to yourself, others, and the Transpersonal. 

If you are experiencing confusion, wishing to expand your access to your own embodied wisdom, or seeking subconscious support, please reply. 

On this full moon in capricorn, additional methods to connect to the dark feminine include : 

~ Reorienting away from chronos – linear clock time, and towards kairos – sacred, cyclically aligned timing. 

~ Practicing utilizing your intuition in low stakes scenarios.

~Deepening into a lucid dreaming practice {on the suggestion of a congregant I have begun meditating in my lucid dreams and this not only stabilizes dreaming, but also results in Siddhis such as levitation}

~Perceiving life from inside of your body, especially through your generative organs.

~Honoring the night and spending time in the darkness.

As a birthday gift to help me illuminate my path : what unique traits / skills / experiences have we shared that point to my purpose? If we all suddenly received UBI and you could give me a completely new job that has never before existed based on my passions, what would it be?

How does you subconscious speak to you?

There are two objective physical indicators for nervous system dysregulation : 1. Looking at the back of your throat, on either side of your uvula where your tonsils are, if one side is higher than the other, you are dysregulated. 2. If the trapezius muscles {triangle from base of spine, point of shoulder and midway down the back} are at two different tightnesses. 

How to regulate and restore balance : 

A. At the base of the skull is the emergence point of many cranial nerves. Laying on your back and providing gentle pressure and movement to the point where the spine enters the brain case can help floss nerves and create space.

B. Keeping your head still and looking to a hard right until you discharge via a yawn, sigh, or swallow. Repeating looking to the left. This variation can also be done while moving the head. 

From ‘Healing power of the Vagus Nerve’ 

How do you know you are dysregulated? 

How do you regulate your nervous system? 

If you want to become an expert at reading the signals of your body and creating healthy prosocial ways to regulate yourself so you can allow your body to enter into a self healing state and access creativity and flow, reach out. 

Currently working on a comprehensive list of easeful techniques to regulate your nervous system I will release in my museletter, share / dm your email if you’d like to be added. 

#nervoussystemregulation #nervoussystem #nervoussystemhealing #actuallyautistic #dysregulation  #somatictherapy #somatichealing #therapytiktok #therapytok #embodiment #embodimentcoach #healthcoach

❎ Attuned touch only zone ❎

If I could only teach one meta skill to every humanimal it would be attunement.

In giving bodywork I am attuning to the impact of my touch on the receiver. When you are using significant weight, this becomes even more crucial. Only move at the speed and depth of being able to sense your impact on the other person{s}. Start low, go slow. In bodywork someone’s attunement level is not falsifiable, unlike potentially empty words.

As an AFAB autistic raised in an intergenerational war refugee trauma / emotional abuse context I was trained to turn my hyper sensitivity to tracking the wellbeing of those around me to survive as a helpless child dependant on my caregivers. As I process from the bottom up, I am taking in an enormous set of data and forming a perspective {40 per cent more sensory stimuli then allistics at minimum, and much likely more}. This makes me unparalleled for not putting you in a box preemptively, which is much more labor and recovery for me, but results in a high definition experience of being felt and seen for you. Feeling feeling felt for the first time in your life seperate from typical knee jerk assumptions/ judgments is an experience that most have when working with me. This externally enforced sensing can cause a paradigm shift in your perspective of yourself and your ability to pursue a new pattern seperate from what has been entrenched in your experience, as there is now another being who holds the new viewpoint and is seeking data to support this.

When you share what you are working towards and how you want to be perceived I will shift my comprehensive data collection drive to finding moments where this new frame is true, and opportunities to choose a new fork in your thought or action even when the pre existing pattern is dominant. The transformation occurs in the pause, assisted by a compassionate witness who holds the vision of your preferred path.

I give what I wish to recieve, attunement.

Curious? More at Raz.ma

📹 By yoni

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Do you crave complete somatic surrender?

Do you want to feel your body played like a professional instrument?

Do you long to be holistically taken care of, body, mind, and spirit, by an attuned nourishing presence that holds your wellness as their motivating force?

Then body domming is your dream come true.

What is a body dom?

A body dom specializes in the art of professionally conducting the orchestra of sensation in your body as their beloved instrument. Body domming draws from diverse disciplines : massage, contact improvisation, body handling, corporeal consent, somatic therapy, sensual wrestling, surgical bodywork, psychedelic / trance state navigation, and sensation play. Body domming creates a generous, compassionate contact container of high access to an exquisitely attuned embodiment expert’s physicality. Within this corporeal container, an expansive playtonic permissionary perspective encourages you to fully inhabit your intuition through emancipating expression without reservation – catalyzing a co-creative space of fluid, free improvisation.

Body domming is a revelatory rapturous release if you spend most of your time trapped in your head, intellect, future, or past, for this perceptive penetration is forced presence via pressure—a movement meditation squeezing out all other stimuli to focus on the present moment at the point of contact – giving weight and waiting for you, the receiver, to relax. The immediacy-inspiring intensity of sensation is a forcing function for increasing interoception, dilating internal sensations that were previously able to be numbed or ignored, and surfacing subconscious communications to be sorted by sentient awareness through compassionate cathARTic witnessing and freedom forward facilitation.

Lest you consider this punative, body domming also can feel like you are being lovingly mothered. Through transpersonal tactile transmutations, you receive reparative experiences of rebirth, being held in a welcoming womb, cradled, feeling cared for and nourished as an adored baby. This radical reference allows you to repattern your attachment system towards uncomplicated caregiving, encouraging courage in expressing your needs and desires, and recalibration towards how ecstatically expansive you can feel in your body, empowering new prosocial perspectives for overall orientation.

This modality is also flexible enough to encompass experiences of pushing against, away, and being felt in embodied strength, anger, and other disowned emotions, sheparding you into somatic sovereignty. Through high-resolution attunement, your nervous system can finally feel the trust necessary to discharge frozen survival responses and liberate that energy that had been previously padlocked into patrolling triggers and traumas toward a greater depth of immersion in and authentic response to life as it presents in the moment.

If your nervous system is chronically in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn state, proximity to peace via a nearby regulated nervous system through touch and breath are the only reliable ways to communicate safety to pre-verbal parts. Through body domming you can bypass the wordy quagmire of social misinterpretation with a direct line to the humanimal nervous system – finally entering into a restorative parasympathetic state – the rest and digest, tend and befriend, and mate and relate mode that is the foundation for creativity, flow, and connection to self and other. If you are working on a convoluted issue that you are unable to solve through top-down processing, entering into this bottom-up sensate state allows access to the full wisdom and data processing capabilities of your subconscious as it speaks through the body, and can result in revelations around the solution you are seeking through feeling and freeing the foundations of your form.

This practice is expanding and could include you! If you are curious for more detailed left brain logistix or are ready to apply please email x @ Raz. Ma

NYE Habit Change Help

Integration is the incarnate implementation of an intention.

Sharing the harvest from my work aiding people with life-changing Integrations, the following frames build upon psychological research into rewards and motivation.

These ‘power ups’ help you bridge the gap between intention and implementation – helping you stick with your habit changes.
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How are your daily habits leading you towards the life you dream of?
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Change your identity :

Psych research demonstrates that the most sustained changes in habit stem directly from a change in your identity / narrative.

For example ~ I am a healthy person who prioritizes physical wellness.

Instead of ~ ‘I can’t eat junk food’ or ‘I need to get in shape’.

This identity change creates congruences across a variety of choices, such as whether to go for a walk, whether to engage in binge eating, and what to get at the grocery store.

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Don’t > Can’t :

‘Don’t’ points to a change in identity and leans on character congruency, ‘can’t’ requires more novel willpower, which you can quickly exhaust, as you only have a certain amount per day.
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Small wins fuel the engine of change :

Break down big goals into small pieces and projects. Create a calendar where you have a visual acknowledgment of success in adding one more link to the ‘chain’ – this creates a lot of inertia to not want to break the ‘streak’.

These little wins keep giving a much-needed motivational dopamine reward boost to keep you going, and don’t end up taking much from the large overall ‘pile’ of dopamine you will receive when you accomplish your big goal.

These little wins keep giving a much-needed motivational dopamine reward boost to keep you going, and don’t end up taking much from the large overall ‘pile’ of dopamine you will receive when you accomplish your big goal.

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Tip jar for good behavior:

Putting a small amount of money into an account when you engage in a healthy habit, such as preparing a good meal, that you can then put towards a related support splurge, like going out to a nice healthy restaurant, helps create a sustaining dopamine reward trickle.

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Take small bites :

Try to make a 1% improvement daily – something manageable, but when in aggregate will add up to a lot.

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Consistency :

If you slip up one day on a habit {such as exercise}, forgive yourself, but ensure you will engage the pattern the next day, so that missing your chosen habit does not become the new pattern! Aka, one day is ok, but double your effort to return to the desired habit the next day.
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Create an easy on-ramp :

If you engage in the behavior you are attempting to move away from, such as having an unhealthy snack, see it as an isolated incident rather than a reason to give up completely. Consider that you may have set your challenge bar too high and see how you can create more intermediate steps to make the change closer to a smooth ramp and less like lunging up a huge step or climbing a steep ladder.
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Increase intertia :
Friction breaks Addiction.

Make the habits you want to increase easier and those that you want to discourage harder. Create space from satisfying your impulses immediately – even if only momentary – like needing to click through a separate folder to access your social media apps, not saving your passwords, or taking the batteries out of the remote and having a book close at hand when you sit down in your ‘relaxing’ spot.
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Pleasurable Physical Triggers / Reminders

Create common pleasurable physical triggers you will come across to encourage your desired behavior. For example, if you would like to drink more water, acquire a vessel you love to touch that is pleasing to you and always have this vessel with you. Tie drinking water with a color such as blue {eg. getting a vessel that is blue} and place blue cups and imagery of water in prominent places, set a timer to go off every hour with a waterfall sound – to encourage you to get out of your chair, stretch and have some water, etc. If there is a negative stimulus affecting your water consumption, such as not enjoying the taste of tap water, gather spring water, or get mineral drops or a healthy electrolyte solution to add to your water.
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Accountabilibuddy :

Someone you check in with that you are externally accountable to often makes the biggest difference, as you are motivated to not disappoint them.
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Reach out if you’d like to explore me being an accountabilibuddy or want help creating supportive structures for change in your life.

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#habitchange #habits #changeyourlife #integration #integrationcoach #lifechange #dopamineboost #willpower #resolutions #motivation #dopamine #goalsetting #rewards

Miraculous healing : “My shoulder/chest is still so loose, and there’s no pain or stiffness anymore…it’s crazy! I just can’t get over how much intense change came from a hug. I’m so grateful that I encountered you and your work – it felt like the most kismet ending to my year.”

Jessica M

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Healing can be immediate and complete, even from lifelong conditions.

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Miracle healings are uncommon because they require deep trust and resonance with the practitioner. This is a subconscious process, as your nervous system chooses on an involuntary wetware level that a practitioner can hold you compassionately in a transformational experience.

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Miracle healings are rare because your nervous system has to become vulnerable enough to be repatterned, when all of it’s past survival wisdom experience is based on that pattern. In essence your ego is {abstractly} trusting your life with the practitioner.

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You have to trust a practitioner enough to protect you while you become the former-caterpillar-not-yet-butterfly structureless goo inside the cocoon to experience the complete liberation from the old subconscious structural scaffolding to rapidly crystallizing a new aš yet untested form. This is a high bar and rightfully and wisely so, as there are those who would prey upon your vulnerability instead of honoring your soft sovereignty.

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May we all find fun facilitators to flourish into our inherent wholeness.

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Grateful to be a corporeal creator + incarnate innovator on the evolving edge of therapeutic touch.

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Reach out if you feel resonance.

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X in @imbodhi.co cocoon

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#miraclehealing #healingmiracles #healing #healer #somatichealing #somatichealer #somatictherapy #somatictherapist #bodywork #bodyworker #contactimprovisation #contactimprov #physicaltherapy #physicalintelligence #healingtouch #touchtherapy #touch

Comedy Alchemy : Curative Clowning

In the jester’s path to peace, those around you are invited to join in the belly laughs of a humorous harvest from previously heavy harm – Comedy Alchemy.
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In aiding patients to integrating inner harmony, health, and values alignment, I often utilize an internal family systems // parts work frame to bring out the characters that are ‘driving the bus’ of your life.
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If you find that your bus driver is steering you somewhere suspect, try to turn them into a vivid character, find out the wisdom they are trying to convey {often something they are protecting you from, or a misguided attempt to get a need met}, and find a more prosocial way to give them the support or acknowledgement they crave.
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Here is a technique I invented employing this frame that has helped many patients understand who is driving your bus and regain control of the wheel in a fun way :
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Trauma drama :
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What if your parts // character{s} were in a Broadway production // reality TV show // soap opera?
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On stage, you must amplify all aspects of your expression – so the audience in the back can see + sense your character.
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How can you turn up the dial to 11 – ridiculously out of proportion? Act as if you are on a reality TV show and the producers are pushing for higher drama for ratings. .

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Caricature your character – leaning into lampooning. This expansion allows the nuances of the issue to inflate, and this increase in size allows the details of your character and context to be fully seen, felt, and expressed.
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When the previously entangled energy is egregiously expanded, you gain the neutrality of spacious distance through not personally over-identifying with this overblown character.

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Describe this part : what is their name ? what are they wearing? what are their catchphrases {to know when it is their voice speaking to you}? how can you tell when they are driving your bus?
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Ariel Dubov
of X in IMBŌDHI Activewear
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#internalfamilysystems#ifs#partswork#ifstherapy#therapy#therapymemes#traumahealing#traumatherapy#traumawork#therapytools#psychologicalsupport#arttherapy#traumatherapy#dramatherapy#traumadrama #comedytherapy

Character change via clothing

Actualizing aspiration via authoring an avatar & adorning accordingly .

In therapeutic spaceholding & incarnate integration work aiding patients in creating a character to step into supports personality // pattern change.

Conceptualizing your desired future self as a character creates the required reflective psychological distance to disentangle from your past narrative so that a new story has spaciousness to be spun.

Aka multisensory future forward narrative therapy.

This deep habit change work is most immediately integrated with repetition as ‘neurons that fire together wire together’.

Thus linking change to clothing creates a material multiplier effect via frequent physical reminders {eg. color, form, movement memories}.

Additionally, when we externalize our aspirations via our enrobed expression we exponentially expand our pool of allies to include all those we come across who witness our adornment and are altered in the manner they interact with us, or when they ask about the significance of dress and we get to verbalize our values.

This is a throwback video of my creativity doula meta character :: the movement muse.

As a Movement Muse I inspire and support you in motivational movement, magnetizing you towards your goals via embodied empowerment.

Call it body based physipsychological counseling // corporeal coaching

How has your clothing helped you create change in your life?

.Video by Liliana Astiz & Kenny Hoff