Yoga with Morgan

✨ Wednesdays from 18H30 to 20H
✨ Home Studio Schaerbeek (Plasky neighourhood)

The Rest Collective is a small & intimate weekly gathering at the intersection of individual wellbeing & collective care, a place for sensitive souls to rest, resource, dream & imagine.

Our first session is April 1st. Drop in any time or sign up for 2-month membership that gives you access to community resources, a private chat for connection and support and discounts on my private and group offerings.

More info and reservations here : https://www.morganelainelam.com/the-rest-collective

Hi everyone,

I'm reaching out with a heavy heart to ask for your help. My dear friend Shaker who lives here in Brussels, is deeply concerned about his parents, siblings and nephews in Gaza. Over the past 9 months they have faced the most terrifying and difficult circumstances, having been displaced several times, with the living conditions getting worse forced move.

They have recently been displaced yet again and are currently sheltering in tents on the beach. Both his mother and one of his sisters are sick and need medication, and all of his family is suffering greatly from the lack of fresh food which is contributing to the spread of infectious diseases, particularly his nephews who are between 2 and 6 years old.

Shaker had been very hesitant to create this GoFundMe, because for him and his family it feels like an insult to their dignity to have to ask others for financial assistance. But they no longer have a choice as the prices for food, drinking water, medication and other basic needs are exorbitant.

I'm therefore asking each of you, from the bottom of my heart, to donate anything you can to help support the Abuijlan family. Even a few dollars or euros will be greatly appreciated. We would also be grateful if you can share this post and GoFundMe as widely as possible.

Deepest thanks to each of you for your generosity and kindness. We are witnessing so much suffering and injustice, it can feel overwhelming. But please know that your contributions really do make a difference. 🙏🏻❤️

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Shaker in Gaza with his nephew Hassan
Shaker with my mom and stepdad at my home in Brussels

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shakers-family-in-gaza

I have no words today.
My heart is breaking.

Palestine has changed me forever...

One of my favourite things in the world is to gather in sacred space, to sing, to pray, to connect with others from a place of feeling and sensing rather than from an intellectual, mental space.

I often think about how before electricity, our ancestors were intimately connected to the elements, to the sun, the moon, the stars, who were the only source of light they would have had. During the New Moon, the night sky would have been dark, and therefore there would have been a shift in energy. More stillness, more calm, heightened sense of hearing and listening.

As we learn to reconnect to the natural world and the ebb and flow of its cycles, marking the phases of the moon can be a beautiful guide for us. The New Moon can be an opportunity for us to slow down, to turn inward and to take time to listen. To shift from doing and into being, from action into observation.

Gathering together in community is a powerful way to create a sacred space together where we can support one another in the art of listening to our bodies, of remembering our innate wisdom and of re weaving the fabric of community that we have largely lost in our modern world.

During these circles we will be accompanied by the subtle yet powerful medicine of ceremonial cacao, a beautiful plant ally that has been tended to by the indigenous people of South and Central America. I work with the delicious cacao from , an all women’s Mayan collective. In order to support and uplift the communities who have protected and maintained the medicine I benefit from, I give 10% of the proceeds back to the women at .

These ceremonies are held in my studio in Schaerbeek and limited to 6 people. Sign up in bio.

feel free to DM me if you have any questions 🙏🏻

I’m so excited to finally gather in ceremony again ✨🙏🏻💕

After the craziness of the past few months I am more than ready to mark the changing seasons with embodied ritual. To sit in circle and sing, dance and share from our hearts as we tune into what is shifting in our own lives as the land slowly moves from the abundant, active energy of the summer into the slower pace of the autumn.

What are we taking with us from this past season? What wants to be carried through into the fall and what is ready to be left behind?

Reconnecting with the cycles of the world around us is a beautiful and powerful way of marking the seasons of our own lives. Of tuning into what is alive for us and what is calling for our attention. It’s a potent way to remember our connection to the natural world and the ways we are deeply influenced by its ebbs and flows.

We will gather in circle to connect to our inner experience as we tune into the shifting energy of the Autumn Equinox, this midpoint between the summer and the fall.

DM for more info or to reserve your spot.

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Last week as I celebrated my 36th birthday, I felt a door closing on a most difficult year. A year that brought me to my knees, that demanded me to let go of everything I thought I needed to be and to trust that there was another way. I was catapulted to my lowest low, swimming in a darkness I had no idea how I’d gotten into or how to find my way out of.

I cried a thousands tears and felt the intensity of my fear, my anger, my sadness so fully until finally something began to shift. A small sliver of light broke through and I followed it, not knowing where it would lead me but trusting so deeply that there was hope.

That little sliver led me back to my body, to the complexity and intelligence of my female anatomy, to the wisdom of my womb and my cyclical nature. It led me back, over and over again, to the power of my voice, to the songs that wanted to move through me.

And bit by bit, as the old ways of being began to melt away, I discovered a version of myself that had been waiting to emerge for so long. A wise woman who knows deeply what she needs, what she will and won’t accept, how she wants to love and be loved, how she wants to show up and share her gifts with the world.

I know now that the descent was necessary and that I will of course be pulled down into the underworld again, as this is the path of Woman embodied. A constant descending into the darkness, down to the roots, to the world beneath, to gather what has been forgotten and draw it up towards the light.

I give deep thanks for the way 35 allowed me to grow into myself and for this next year of life that feels so full of possibility.

♥️

These past few weeks life has been asking me to meet the messiness of real life with deep devotion 🤲🏻

It’s (relatively) easy to be in reverence when we have time and space to dedicate to our spiritual practices, but the most powerful medicine comes from weaving our spirituality into the chaotic fullness of our day-to-day lives. Dropping into the divine energy present in our ordinariness.

This takes much patience and trust, but most of all it requires a softening of the rigidity we tend to hold around our “spiritual” experience and our expectations of how that should look.

When we give ourselves permission to be messy, fully embracing our humaneness, we can flow with the current of life force pulsing through our bodies, co-creating with the energy already present, instead of swimming against the current in an effort to create some ideal.

The more we lean into this, the more we see that magic and mystery live in the mundane just as much, if not more, than in the containment of our spiritual practices. Can we allow that presence to spill over into our lived experience? Seeping into every interaction, every aspect of our day?

I would love to know how this resonates with you. Let me know in the comments 👇🏻

how would it feel to trust yourself so fully that there was no room for self-doubt?

to have such deep faith in your inner wise wo/man that there’s no need to seek outside approval?

to truly trust yourself to make decisions that are in your best and highest good?

to take actions that are aligned with your truth, that support your vitality and allow you to thrive?

how would it feel to not need to justify and explain, because you validate your own feelings and experiences?

how would it feel dear one?

if you close your eyes and imagine this level of trust, what do you notice in your body?

it is becoming so clear to me that when we embody deep self-trust, we are finally free to be the creatrixes of the reality we yearn for. We are finally able to take full responsibility for our lives and move through the world with greater ease and flow.

it requires letting go of “good” or “bad”, “wrong” or “right” and tapping into what feels True.

the journey isn’t easy (nothing that matters ever is) but it is a powerful doorway to liberation and ease.

I would love to know how this resonates with you and where you are in your own relationship with self-trust👇🏻