Today in my weekly chakra flow yoga class in Bozeman, I walked in and could just feel a thirstiness for receiving, for releasing, for not needing to make a decision or output energy.
It’s so fun teaching yoga. I honestly don’t fully plan most of my classes. I just notice what I’ve been tuning into lately, where we’re at in seasons, astrological and current events. Maybe I have a general idea, but I love just picking up on what people are feeling.
And today, people were feeling tired? Run down? I think more than anything we’re just craving a space of safety, of belonging, of trust, of quiet, of reprieve.
Even just writing that makes me feel more relaxed.
It’s so interesting, in the work I’m doing myself, and with some of my private clients, I feel like we’re finally, fully getting to the root of the problem.
Accessing the trauma that started all the other ways we’ve acted that haven’t been fulfilling, that keep perpetuating the same patterns that are often hard to notice, but creating the strife we feel in our systems and lives.
And damn, can that be a hard place to be. If you’re there – I feel you.
If you feel in the midst of any transition, feel a chapter coming to a close, want to find more faith and trust amidst an outwardly chaotic world, then read along!
And if you’re not, good on you! But read on anyways because chances are the people around you are feeling this way. And you can still use this cosmic energy to support you!
[please note: while this post does address current astrology for March 2025, the theories and themes apply universally, at any time!]
We are entering into a month of multiple eclipses & retrogrades. Have heart.
Things are here to shake shit up for a reason. The more we resist, the harsher it will feel.
Have you ever been in a bad mood, then as you go about your day so much just comes up to reinforce that mood? The person in front of you is driving like an ass. You get a bill. You trip and fall. Your phone call won’t go through, etc. Yep, same.
Once I notice this happening, I try to reset. Part of me sometimes doesn’t want to, I am in a MOOD, and I want to stay there. But I know things will just keep piling up and getting worse. So I pause, take some deep breaths, remind myself of what’s good, come back to gratitude, open up to things delighting or pleasantly surprising me. And miraculously things start shifting.
According to the godsend that is Chani Nicholas, the energy right now is the energy of wrapping up a major chapter. The tides are turning. This (whatever this is) isn’t going to exist like this much longer.
And often in order for a new way of being to take place, we have to deeply let go of what was.
ie we have to burn down our old life or way of being to make place for the new. Fires and transformative. But can feel like hell when we’re going through them.
And the nervous system, well it craves what it knows. It likes a well worn path. And anytime we try to take a new path, it will fight like hell to stay in the comfort of what it knows. Because it knows “I survived this once before, so it is familiar and this safe.” Even if the survival of it was horrible, it will seek out the same experiences.
It’s the reason why oftentimes we want something different for ourselves, or have all these goals, but never follow through on them. Why. WHY? Because the subconscious mind rules 95% of our actions (!!!!). So know matter how much we think about where we want to go (conscious – 5%), we will still be ruled by the emotions we carry and what our nervous system decides is best for us (subconscious).
How of we forge a new path then, how do we shift the subconscious? How can we feel safe, calm and relaxed even amidst some really big changes and upheaval in our lives.
Well, the subconscious speaks in emotions & imagery (which is what all memories are really). So we can’t just affirm our way out of a bad place or wish to be different (conscious mind). It’s a start! But we get into the subconscious by actually feeling into what we’re craving feeling, and practicing being in that feeling regularly.
It almost seems as if we have to be relentlessly committed to the self work right now. We need to make time for the places that evoke trust and healing and grounding. We have to get obsessed with our healing and make it a top priority.
Think about an area in your life you struggle the most. We can call these core wounds…
- Relationship (always attracting the same unfulfilling people?)
- Health (always feeling out of control and never actually following through on what you know is best for you?)
- Purpose & belonging (never really feeling like you belong anywhere or have no idea what you’re really doing with your life?)
- Connection (pushing people away when deep down you crave security and comfort in relationship?).
This is all subconscious and nervous system work.
The nervous system again, thinks of what it knows as safe. And your behaviors kept you safe in the past (closing off – freeze, running away – flight, being mad – fight, people pleasing – fawn) are what it will continue to do.
And that will continue to evoke the situations in life that reinforce all of that.
Damn. And also – HOW FREEING!!!
This is why in my yoga and offerings and retreats, we always take time to notice what FEELING we are most deeply craving. If you’re not sure – think about what you’re desiring most right now. If you were to get it, how would you feel? That’s the magic.
And we have to create space to tap into feeling that now, every day, especially when all of us wants to resist.
And when we go to take an action, we ask ‘does that bring me closer to that feeling, or further away?’ If it brings us closer, and especially if it’s a different action than we’ve taken in the past – THEN WE DO IT!
And guess what? As my mentor says: “the nervous system will say, oh this bitch is serious!!!”. And it will start to create a new path, that feels more and more comfortable and accessible. And before we know it our actions will actually be in alignment with our deepest desires.
We’ll no longer be pushing away what we most want and need, because it’s what we’ve known. We’ll be stepping into a place of power and possibility.
And that is what this eclipse season is asking of us. Because none of this is happening ’to us’.
All of this is happening FOR US.
So that we can actually use this cosmic energy to drop what’s not in alignment, and live freer, more fulfilling and actualized lives.
Now is the time. And this is your magic.
Oftentimes these past subconscious actions and beliefs have been there for decades. Changing them can be like going to a foreign country.
It can feel pretty overwhelming.
And sometimes feels so scary, we just decide to stay home.
A guide can be an instrumental way to do this work with more ease, clarity and calm. To figuratively hold your hand amidst the discomfort or unknowns. That’s what I’m here for!
I have found some pretty amazing ways to cut through all of this, and get tangible ways to retrain the subconscious!
If you’re at all curious, share your contact info below and I’ll be in touch!
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