Festivals and the Fragile Edge of Contact
I rarely go to festivals. The sheer amount of stimulation, sounds, colours, conversations, performances, invitations, feels like too much for the rhythm my body naturally moves with. There’s rarely enough space to pause, to sense, to truly taste life as it comes. This past weekend, I found myself at a family festival. It wasn’t a […]
Awakening Tenderness in Times of Mass Atrocity
Something in me is tired. Tired of the guilt-ridden messages that scream we are complicit, that declare atrocities are happening in our name, and that shame us into silence or frantic reaction. These statements circulate with urgency and grief, I know. But I also know they can shut people down. They can awaken a sense […]
Fireflies in my hair
The path of the Sensing Being Retreat There are moments in life when the ordinary transforms into the mystical, where the mundane turns into a profound experience that resonates deeply within us. As I sit down to write about the “Sensing Being Retreat” that took place at the end of April in Olympus, Turkey, I […]
Sensed Ecology
Recovering the Green Breath as Nature Beingsby Marta Fabregat Sensed Ecology has been growing quietly inside me for many years, like moss, like roots finding their way through the soil. It’s not something I set out to define, but something I’ve lived into slowly, through listening, walking, grieving, and tending the land. This work arises […]
Friendly Listening – Part 1
The beginning of this article is inspired by a conversation with a friend sharing implied knowing, invisible smiles, and time without a chronometer. This friend told me…”I have friends who are in the club who tell me to do this…and to do it now, and I have other friends who are in the club that […]
shame and how to notice how it lives in me
Accompanying Shame in our everyday life is not an easy task. Shame lives within the edges of our experience. Most of the time is there somewhere in between me and something else that thinks and lives my experience from an idea of how I am. The reality is that shame is a process, not a […]
Inner Relationship: from feelings to the felt sense
One of the most important contributions of Marshall Rosenberg’s work on Nonviolent Communication is the realization that our feelings are merely indicators, letting us know when our Life-Needs are being met, and when they are unmet. Eugene Gendlin from all his work on Focusing and the Implicit intricacy brings a new characteristic to the world […]