The Shakti Shine - June 22, 2020
Shakti Love Notes
We are always growing. I love that! And the more I grow, the more I recognize how important it is for us all to share what we're going through-- even (and especially) me.
So these Love Notes are a space for me to share with you each week-- about the studio, my life, how our community is growing.
I'm writing this from the couch in Maggie's grandparents house in St. Simons, Georgia at 8am on Sunday. By the time you're reading this we'll be on our way back home to Athens.
Maggie, Emily & I took a much needed few days 'off' to recharge and recollect. To shift into input mode f
I'm thinking a lot about care in the wake of this short break-- the ways I care for myself, my friends, my community.
What does care mean?
Who is it for?
What does it offer?
As Chani Nicholas says in her write-up about the astrology of Saturday's solar eclipse, "Care is how we create safety."
By definition care is the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something; to look after and provide for the needs of.
So I've been asking myself: How do I show care?
Which in turn asks: How am I creating safety? For myself? My friends? My community?
It feels like something I'm still working to see, acknowledge, allow, and lean into for myself.
It certainly all feels interconnected, though. Like the care I give to myself allows for deeper care for others and vice versa.
There's a sense of responsibility that goes well beyond the commercialized commodification of self-care-- there's a responsibility to show up for myself as a way of showing up sustainably for the people in my life and beyond.
So I wonder what that allows, when I choose to show up, not just for output, but for the necessary input as well?
It's something to think about, review, consider, reassess, and take action on.
How are you taking care of yourself?
What does self-care look like when it's done with the intention of offering community care?
How are you taking care of each other? Your community?
What does it look like?
How do you feel? Before? During? After?
How do you see this as cultivating safety?
What's possible in a world created with care?
xx
Ruby
The Weekly Work
This is where we bring yoga off the mat together
1. Read Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop by Officer A. Cab for a first-hand account of what it means to work in the police force, what's missing, and what is possible.
2. Listen to the Revolution Playlist, compiled by Rachel Cargle. It's 7.5 hrs of historical and revolutionary speeches and songs sure to educate, refuel, and inspire.
3. Listen to this podcast with Nidhi Pandya & Katie Silcox on the Ayurvedic concept of Emotional Digestion
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