Turning In: Healing Into The End of 2022

Rest

In what ways do you find rest, in body, mind, spirit, and community? Has has your relationship to rest changed over time?

Restoration

Does your rest help to restore you effectively? What do you notice before, during, and after your periods of rest?

Resilience

How are rest and resilience connected for you? Does your renewal through rest fuel your ability to weather challenge?

Necessity

How does your need to rest manifest itself? Where does the drive to restore yourself come from?

Radical Rest

Taking rest in a capitalist society is a radical act. Reclaiming rest as a basic need, and that all beings are deserving of rest. Examining where the drive and values surrounding constant productivity come from. It is an act of resistance to rewrite narratives around our relationship to rest.

Space

Notice the conditions we have to rest in, and the spaces we can create to cultivate the rest we require. Developing spaciousness for rest in ourselves and our communities. Diversifying our sources of rest to establish new patterns, and multiple ways of resting that compliment one another.

Embodiment

Checking in with where in your body we need to send rest. Cross-communication between systems allows a quiet mentalscape to also manifest as restoration of the body, and vice versa. Can we find spaces for both active and passive rejuvenation and stillness?

Ancestral Healing

We rest for those in our lineage who could not do so. Examining what our sources of depletion are at both an individual and collective level. Rest as an act of gratitude and healing for both ourselves and our ancestors.

Depletion

Noticing cues across your systems that signify that we are depleted and how these cues function to draw our attention to your need to rest. Is it possible to learn to anticipate depletion before it becomes debilitating? Learning strategies to repopulate areas of depletion.

Safety

Rest requires safety: how can we cultivate these safe spaces, both internally and externally, particularly in such uncertain times. Granting permission and grace to ourselves and others in order to enter into vulnerable states of rest, stillness, and renewal.

Ritual

Preparation is crucial in order to move into truly restorative rest. Conscious deceleration from a fast-pace into moments of quiet and stillness, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. Creating ritual, routine, and habits around entering and leaving restful states.

Effective Rest

Developing ways to rest effectively, so that we maximize our restoration in even small moments of quietude. Intentionally cultivating acts of “micro rest”. Being fully present and mindful in our restful states. Integrating rest into our routines.