Biophilia—The Nature Within

​I have of a ton of different things to write about today. A song journey I am on to find my voice and sing aloud.  Another Anima show I am in where nature and humanness combine in harmony.  The work I’m doing that has migrated from Executive Coaching to Somatic Practitioning and back again. That it’s warm again now and I can feel the heat on the soles of my feet when I stand on our deck.  That I can feel the soles of my feet because I am caring for my back.  That I love my children and their children and their partners.  And my husband.  And my dogs.  Always my dogs.
 
I was thinking about all this and then a short video popped up on my Instagram feed which I visit to see what my kids have posted as I only follow my kids.  
 
So I only follow my kids. 
 
I used to follow a ton of people and the input was too great for my nervous system to handle.  So I now only follow these few humans. And videos pop up because if they like snow and snowboarding, I get snow and snowboarding videos.  Nervous system regulation information videos regularly appear. Movement and art, yup. Musical Theater, yup got that too. I’ve got me some Legos most recently. And quiet sound tones that supplement massage.  Oh, and cat videos. A ton show up.  And dogs.  
 
And often these inspirational nuggets that land in the moment. This is one of these.
 
This short video popped up and I was like, oh, I have to share about this today, too.
 
Let’s do this first. And then just the bit about the Anima show. And that’s it. Just these two. And let’s do this first.
 
I am quoting Matthew Hussey, as these are his words. I have expanded on these a bit--
 
Ok, go!
 
Imagine at the beginning of your life you were given a human and you were told you have one job for the rest of your life. You have to take care of this. 
 
That we are our soul settled into this body to journey down this human experience. And our job is to take care of this living and breathing and complicated vessel we are in.
 
Most of us have not realized that this is our job. We finish being parented and we go out into the world, and we start looking for someone else to show up for us. To care for us.
 
But we are our human. 
 
The only person who is truly here to take care of our self is ourselves. We are in our own custody and when we wake up in the morning, what if our first thought was, “what should I do today to take care of my human.” 
 
Our job is to take care of our self.
 
We are our human.
 
So cool, right!
 
Ok, Anima, Ritual Theater of the Feminine.
 
We did a performance back in February.  Well, I did.  They, as in Anima, they have been doing ritual theater for many more years before this and just this past February I participated in my first foray into this ritual modality.
 
And now I am participating in another. 
 
We are holding a ritual theater experience on May 16 & 17 (with a preview on May 15) entitled Biofilia, The Nature Within, in Santa Barbara, at the Art & Soul Gallery, (1323 State Street, SB)
 
We’ve been in the ritual for weeks now as the ritual starts with the intention of the ritual. And then, at the end we get to invite you all into this container, too.  And for weeks now we have been in this ritual together and just a few weeks ago we went to the Douglas Preserve, to capture the art of our bodies in nature.  First in a spiral amid the grass, and then in this tree pictured here—bodies on branches.
 
We captured the art of our selves interspersed in nature as this ritual theater experience we are creating is the process of examining our relationship to this earth. To Mother Nature. To each of us and how we show up in the continuum of life and death and rebirth and the integration of all that we are with all that the earth has to offer us.
 
This is what this Anima Ritual Theater performance is about. And more. There is more.  
 
If you live in or near enough to Santa Barbara, I invite you to enter this ritual with us.  

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