We’ll begin here if:

 

• you’ve reached burnout

• big anxiety and feeling ‘stuck’

• you are coming from a long period of healing/changing processes that meant a big emotional energy investment

• before and after facing past resistances and future creations, we return to the empty canvas — the space that holds both life and our work together.

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Rest and digest: Savasana

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Those who practice yoga know this moment: all effort is dropped, and you give time to stop — to let what just happened in your body and mind integrate. The fascia, that living web that links muscles and joints, reconfigures. Tension redistributes so no single part carries too much.

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A dancer friend told me that much of her training wasn’t about only strengthening muscles or rehearsing steps, but about learning to release tension and relax into present awareness. That was the real work: when the body lets go, muscles can grow and movement is truly learned.

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Richard Rudd calls these two modes the “eye of fire” and the “eye of water.” The fire eye wants and can never have enough - dopamine-driven, always wanting more. It keeps us alive and driven, but without pauses it burns us out, disconnecting us from heart and others - like an ambitious businessperson who runs everyone over. The water eye wants nothing; it is enough with the here and now - serotonin-led. In this mode our vital energy leads, free from the narrow rational mind. We connect to something bigger that holds us. Things come toward you rather than being chased.

 

Even in spirituality we can accidentally activate the fire eye - trying to “fix” everything. Timing matters: what’s ready will transmute; what isn’t is like yanking fruit before it ripens - the sweetness is gone, and that part of us struggles to grow, like a child expelled before it’s ready to stand alone.

 

Pausing is the silence in the music; without it, life would be unbearable. In that pause we let go - of wanting, analyzing, even “fixing” or forced healing. And yes - surprise: rooted in the present, the past finds its place, energy releases, and new visions of the future naturally arise.

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These are my two super-powerful tools for rest and integration…