peel back 🍌
peel back 🍌
Hi sweet humans! How have you been integrating rest and digest into your lives? I am in a big moment of pause right now. We just wrapped on the third round of GoodBodyFeel’s teaching training, I am planning new works, lots of in-betweens. I am in a moment before creation, before the next round of teacher training, before a launch. I am doing lots of planning and thinking and with that for me also comes learning, research, parts of my process that are not easily shareable (nor do I think they need to be shared). I always feel this hum of anxiety as I start to work on new things, I spend a lot of time perfecting and staying in the nitty-gritty details. Spending time in the details isn’t something pleasurable for myself, it is full of lots of second-guessing, research, planning to the point where I am getting in my own way.
I am working on peeling back the layers, to stop getting in my own way. When I am caught with my scissors in my hands and googling what I am supposed to be doing mid snip, I have to catch myself. I have to remind myself that I know where I need to snip a seam, that I DO know what I am doing (and honestly if I don’t, who fucking cares?). I have to catch myself mid scroll, mid I-am-not-enough spiral, before I let chaos be my guide. I peel back the layers.
Peeling back the layers is a cue I use a lot in class. In the middle of a super sweaty dance sequence when we’re all lost in sweat and dance and our own rhythms, I ask my class “can we use this to peel back the layers to get to ourselves?”. Moving is one way I do that, to get past my to-do list and hum of my minds eye, and get clear on how I am doing. When we peel back the layers, we get to the nugget of the thing, we get to intention, and mindfulness, so we can move and do things with purpose and integrity.
So as I sort out my plans for a digital break, launch of a new thing, and get more clear on my intentions, I am peeling back the layers. I am finding intention, I am finding clarity.
What are the steps, tools, and mechanisms you have to get clear with yourself and your mission on earth?
What tools do you use to peel back the layers and get to the nugget of thing? The mission?
Peel back the layers with me
In movement
In creation
And find intuition
I love you all,
xx
phoebe
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