23/06/2026
I ran my first retreat when I was pregnant with my son, in 2006. This year is the 20 year anniversary for the One Heart Retreat!
Is there anyone out there who remembers a retreat with me, over the years? What do you remember?
I am grateful to the practices of yoga and meditation that I began 35 years ago.
I am grateful to the beautiful and deepening classes and retreats of my yoga teacher and friend Paul Wooden. Who else has practised with Paul? What do you continue to live from your practice?
Embodiment is the ongoing always-there ground of my life. To rest into a ground of deep sensing, deep feeling, a radical being-with what is here, has oriented and deepened my life in profound ways. I can feel my way through the gratitude, grief and grit of life. It takes practise, whether on the yoga mat, meditation cushion or sitting with a tree or river. A return again and again, to feeling what is here, now.
What is here, now? What holds you?
Embodiment is radical, deep-feeling, being-with what is here, now. When we open to what is here now, even if it is unwanted or difficult, we step through resistance and suffering. When we truly meet what is here, we are always led onwards and through. There is a kind of softening into the flow of life, however challenging, expanding, exhilarating or scary what is arising may be.
We soften into what is arising and find ourselves returned to what is always here holding us. We return, even though we hold ourselves away, trapped in fear, tension, suffering. This softening into the flow of actual breathed life, into the wild ground of beingness, the sacredness of all life, is a form of grace. It is love. Love enacted and experienced. Love holds us.
We learn and remember this through our own practice.
Ground. Gratitude. Grief. Grit. Grace. Love holds us.
Simple practices: sitting and walking meditation, meditation in nature, resting, yoga accessible for all, yoga not primarily postures but moving and inhabiting the wondrous body.
Eating our food - our life - and truly tasting it.
Living on this earth. Loved and loving.
This is not 'taught' by me but remembered by you.
♥️ Anahat