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I Am FullSaturday January 26, 2013I am full, not only from well prepared nutritious international meals I’ve shared in Halifax restaurants. And warm, not just from being snug in the cozy Victorian bed and breakfast, the Fresh Start, run by sisters, Innis and Sheila, not far from the bridge on North Street and the sights of the Maritimes harbor front.
The January weather of Nova Scotia has gone from a balmy mild wind to snow and frigid cold, so sharp it makes my lungs take notice. Inside at the Fresh Start, our group, led happily by me, delved deeply into gaining expertise in therapeutic skills using Full Body Presence: Grounding and Healthy Boundaries.Full Body Presence is like the glue that holds the pieces together for both client and practitioner or caregiver, when layers of trauma begin to unwrap or when strength and stamina are challenged in situations of sudden injury or loss. In reality we need this glue, that I call mother duck grease to handle the grind of ordinary daily stressors, and to open our eyes to our emergent truth: that we each have the capacity to live enormously compassionate, expressive, satisfying, creative lives.Seven women from across Canada met in the Victorian parlor of the Fresh Start, with huge bay windows looking over naval academy property and supervised by an enormous yellow cat named Tigger.
Much to the chagrin of our hosts, Tigger greeted us, midmorning, proudly with a yowl that announced his present, a live mouse, who promptly ran for cover under the drapes of our center table. The mouse was rescued and escorted to his or her fate outside, while Tigger sniffed and smelled under the table and between our chairs, searching for his lost treasure. Reassured that this was extremely rare, I thanked the big amber fellow for his efforts on behalf of the physiotherapists, nurse, day care owner, and skilled Craniosacral practitioners gathered in his domain.Some people have a natural gift for settling into Full Body Presence, but lose it when another’s trauma is activated. Others can hold a steady presence for others, but are not so skilled in being home for themselves. We are all different. I love sharing this four day class with groups, especially the mother duck grease story.
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Feathery goslings pass under the mother duck’s wings to be coated with oil, waterproofed by the mother, until their own waterproof feathers grow in.In our group, we settled into listening to the internal parts of ourselves that have a healthy dose of mother duck grease: where we rest easy, and feel spacious and open. And we listened and observed where the grease was missing or incomplete: the empty, knotted, painful swirls inside our skin. Most importantly, we sunk our awareness into the connection that is always present between ourselves and the Earth beneath us, choosing to recognize ourselves as subjects in communion with our environment, not objects apart from it or each other.This is the tenth year that I’ve led these groups, and the men and women, mostly women, who come aren’t satisfied with status quo lives. They, like Leo in the Matrix trilogy, choose the red pill, taking courage in hand to brave the hazards and obstacles that block truthful living and to reveal unknown talents.In following the principles of Full Body Presence we set our feet firmly rooted on the path so aptly described by Thomas Berry in his poem, It Takes a Universe:We awaken to the Universe,Our minds to a world of wonder,Our imaginations to a world of beauty,Our emotions to a world of intimacy.I’m finishing this up in the aircraft somewhere between Halifax and my US connection to the warmer weather in North Carolina. I heard the daffodils have bloomed. I can hardly wait to see them, my family, including Bettie, the dog, and Star Button, the kitten.-Full Body Presence information at Berry: recommended-a new memoir by Carolyn Toben: Recovering A Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry at Wisdom of Women, a popular volume of The Ecozoic Reader, with articles by Joanna and Suzanne Scurlock Durana, developer of Full Body Presence can be found at: www.ecozoicstudies.org/the-ecozoic-reader/vol-5-no-1.My source for the poem was from a collection of his poetry given to me by Thomas. It has been often quoted and can be found, I just can’t tell you where at this moment.
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The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message. E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item atEarthworks Underground OrchestraAuthor: Bill Bruford; Tim Garland; Iain Ballamy; Jon Owens; Alex Sipiagin; Rock Ciccarone; Robin Eubanks; Chris Karlic; Steve Wilson, (Saxophonist); Henry Hey; Mike Pope, (Bassist); Earthworks Underground Orchestra (Musical group)Publisher: Place of publication not identified: Summerfold Records, 2006.OCLC:156499389.