Kerry and I taught our Unstuck workshop for the first time on Saturday. I say for the first time because there is another at the end of the month.
Now, here’s a confession. We knew this stuff worked, because it worked on us, and as we were developing the sequences of yoga and acupressure and the languaging, we both had big shifts and found our stuff coming up to the surface then clearing.
But.
Here’s the thing. We didn’t KNOW. For certain, that it would affect other people in the same way. So we were kinda flying blind on Saturday, despite our long, long, thorough preparations. Expectations were high – read what Svasti wrote before the workshop.
And so, it was, you know, scary!
I was a little underprepared for how powerfully the new language I used in the yoga practice brought people’s stuff up for clearing. Granted, that was what was meant to happen. But it was pretty full on for all of us.
Fortunately Kerry, the good cop, stepped in and helped everyone clear the blockages in their meridians with acupressure. Now that we could see what they were.
So the energy in the room settled.
I’m still finding it hard to express, coherently, what happened, and I am not alone. People had big shifts, lots of emotions came to the surface. By the end, most people really needed to go home. Like, immediately, do not pass begin.
What feedback we have had so far has been overwhelmingly positive, and very interesting. One woman said that although pigeon pose is easy for her, once I had explained what energetic/emotional stuff we were working on, she found it incredibly difficult to stay there. Echoes of coming up against yourself, eh?
Others have said that the workshop was great, fabulous. That’s awesome! And Leigh-Ann wrote a lovely post about her experience (no, we didn’t bribe her to).
Another woman says she feels she’s just touched the tip of the iceberg with this work and she can’t wait to delve deeper (!)
But many people have been quiet. I get that. This work is causing shifts in me the like of which I haven’t experienced since the first time I went to India. When I am having breakthroughs (frikkin hell am I having breakthroughs right now) I need a lot of down time to process them.
A lot of sleep.
To be quiet and alone. Reflecting. Processing.
I need to take reeeeealllly good care of myself. Eat good food. Get a massage (I did that today). Journal.
And I knit, because it’s like moving beads on a mala or a rosary, but without the dogmatic religious overtones. My favourite kind is semi-idiot knitting: really easy, but with just enough action to keep me interested. Like this: colour changes and increases*. But otherwise, just mindless manual labour. It can’t be overrated for helping overloaded brains to cool off!
*Unrelated knit-geekery: it’s Noro Silk Garden Light, and Noro Cash Iroha and this pattern.
My review is coming. But like you say, there’s a lot of processing going on. It was wonderful though. Really. Enjoy your time out, you deserve it! xo
I get the silence, I really do! xoxoxo
It sounds fabulous, and overwhelming and scary, Nadine! I need this workshop. I’ll have to read more about it! So glad all went well. Take care of yourself … you are a precious human being. Hugs…Heather
Beautiful post Nadine – amazing to see how teaching this workshop affected you as much as it did affect us. Yes, it was very powerful and is certainly still being processed..
Nadine, I needed to read this right at this moment.
I just got an email from Marcy who is at work, telling me to rest and eat and rest, and I was feeling so annoyed by this (not by Marcy but by the need for rest).
I am having huge and profound breakthroughs right now, so much so that I really don’t know how to write about it.
Yet, part of me just thinks, Okay, now that’s done — MOVE ON! Get back to work!
I can be so hard on myself. And I LOVE to skip the final component of healing.
So, thank you for the endorsement of what I knew was the right thing all along.
Now to do it…
I have been here. And one day I will go there again because it is the nature of the cycle of life.
You are doing wonderful work, on yourself and others. Take good care xx
Thank you Heather! No doubt I will be writing more about it as I process. As will Kerry.
And Angelika, no pressure hon. It’s only been a few days.
Christine, lets be quiet together, yeah?
And Rachel? It’s true. It’s a nourishing time, this, but also tiring. Can’t say I have any issues with the times where things are more settled, either! xo
I love the way you’ve used language in the title of your post. I also love the way you’ve compared knitting to moving beads on a mala or rosary. Meditative. Contemplative. These soothing, repetitive actions bring comfort and calm. Swinging in our local park is my chosen repetition at the moment. It reminds me of when Elizabeth Gilbert, in Eat Pray Love, went to the ashram and scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed. Maybe knitting is a metaphor for the shifting that’s going on..
PS. Is it a fox tail I see next to the Buddha? *)
that sounds amazing. congrats!
i knit too when i need to process. it’s the best!
Hi Nadine,
I thought i’d share a little story. When we had our short break at the ‘un-stuck’ workshop I went out to my car to put more change in the meter… but lo and behold…I didn’t have enough change. So I proceeded to move my car down the road where you didn’t need to pay. I parked the car, opened my door then BAM, the wind grabbed my door and smacked it into the next parked car! Ahh crap! I went to close my door, and what do you know…it was stuck quite firmly there. I had to get drive my car forward just slightly to release it (there was some paint damage but the car owner never contacted me about it so i think its okay!). A rather plain story but there maybe some cheeky universe symbolism there
You guys!
Leigh-Ann and Andrea, it’s true, isn’t it? Knitting really is meditative.
And Tanja, great story! Car stuff is always interesting since cars are how we get around…
I’ve felt very similarly in the past Nadine – periods of intense soul searching and discovery are so exciting and exhilarating, but you need to process everything that comes up too. Those are the times when you need to retreat and nourish yourself. It sounds like you’re doing just that! The work you are doing to help others sounds amazing – I wish I could have been there. Something for my next trip to Melbourne?
xx
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Phil, You come to Melbourne, we will be forced to hold a workshop in your honour! The work is pretty amazing. Both Kerry and I have been a little bit blown away by how BIG it was, and we’ve had more feedback this week. Amazing results.
Pretty awesome stuff.
Now, back to hiding out on my couch with my knitting. It’s a heavy schedule…
I would so very much like to do your next one! It sounds amazing and the fact that you’re still processing it all…wow.
It would be so awesome if you did!
I feel like Kerry and I have stumbled onto The Thing, our life’s calling. Pretty cool! Plus, I seem to have finally landed after this round, much integration time and journaling later!
And now, it all seems kinda worth it.
<3
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