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R A D I C A L A C T S I N A T H E N S
Well.. we did it! magic came over to Greece with the best teacher we could ask for! thank you for accepting my invitation and thank you for opening your space for us.
It was a magical weekend with the best possible group.
.pa thank you all for coming and connecting!
It was just the start! Next we go for a 30hr 🤘🏻

W I N T E R P R A C T I C E S

In winter, nature teaches us a quieter wisdom.
The days shorten, sap withdraws into roots, animals burrow, waters slow and deepen.
Nothing is rushed.
Nothing is wasted.
This is the season of rest as intelligence, not as absence.
In TCM, winter belongs to the Water element, and water knows how to conserve.
It sinks, stores, listens.
The Kidney–Bladder meridians govern this season, holding our deepest reserves: vitality, memory, will, and ancestral strength. When we rest, we are not stopping life, we are rather returning energy to its source.
Kidneys store Jing, the essence that fuels growth, healing, and longevity.
Jing is not replenished by effort, but by stillness. Sleep, silence, warmth, and reflection are its nourishment.
The Bladder, paired with the Kidneys, teaches release—letting go of what no longer serves so the waters remain clear.
Rest is the dialogue between holding and releasing.
Even our bodies have pathways that echo this seasonal rhythm. Along the back body and the inner chain of the lower limbs, the fascia follows the course of the Bladder and Kidney meridians—long rivers of connective tissue that respond best to slow, attentive care.
Gentle fascia flossing, especially along the spine, sacrum, calves, and inner legs, can feel like wringing out winter waters: not forcing, but rhythmically compressing and releasing, inviting circulation where stagnation has settled.
In this way, movement becomes a form of rest, and rest becomes a form of listening.
True rest is not collapse—it is underground work.
It is the time when the nervous system softens, the kidneys refill, and the psyche reorganizes itself.
Ideas compost.
Grief decomposes.
Wisdom ferments.
Winter rest asks us to trust the dark.
To value depth over display.
To believe that what is quiet is still alive.
When you honor rest, you align with water.
When you align with water, you protect your essence.
When you protect your essence, growth becomes inevitable.
Sink, store, and wait.

BodyA practice this week 18.12 Thursday @20:00
Online + recording
Second to last before we pause for Christmas

L U N G S + B O W E L S || P U R G E

In the middle of the Metal season, nature invites us into the sacred work of letting go. 🍂✨
This is the time of purging — of clearing the inner clutter, releasing what no longer carries truth, and honoring the refinement that happens before the quiet death of winter.
In TCM, Metal teaches us discernment. It helps us separate what is essential from what is merely weighing on our spirit. Just as the trees surrender their leaves, we are asked to trust that letting go is not loss, but liberation — a return to clarity, purity, and breath.
This season reminds us that every ending is a form of alchemy. The shedding, the grief, the emptying… it all prepares the ground for deeper wisdom to rise when winter arrives with its stillness.
So I am here to allow the purge.
Honor the emotions that surface. Breathe deeply into the spaces becoming free.
Metal season is not here to take from us — it’s here to shape us, sharpen us, and make us whole again. ✨🍂

On a more personal note this year becoming a mother and stepping into this new creative path has revealed a great deal. People I considered friends and creative comrades, people I held in high esteem, have shown their true colours. I discovered that these people’s path diverged entirely from my values, and they move through the world driven purely by opportunism, approaching life and fellow humans in a self-serving manner. It came as a shock, the fact that I was essentially being ghosted, as I became aware most painfully and shockingly that these people’s new venture weaves together a shortcut of every single teaching and practice that has shaped BodyA throughout the years.
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