General Updates!

Play this song by Anju while you read my newsletter for the full heart opening somatic experience. I am a pisces, and by god, I’ll make you cry you once a week with me.

It’s freezing outside. I had a spiritual moment with some beautiful deer at Bdote. I’ve been reading a lot. People in our community are doing such cool things. Also, Nell told me a few of you signed up for their class after reading the newsletter and that makes me happy. The private practice life and life in general continues to move and shake.

Actions Speak Louder Than… Ideas and Plans

Is anyone actually receiving bodywork these days? This sassy headline is to encourage you to sign-up for some services with moi! Click it baby! I’m seeing some folks for somatic coaching, which is awesome. I’m taking new clients for somatic coaching, massage, cranio, OT consults etc.. If everyone I know signed-up for one session or gifted bodywork to a friend, I’d be booked all week, which would be fun. Help me reach my goal to be fully employed in my private practice. Make my day. I do all sorts of sliding scale since I don’t take insurance, so don’t be nervous to talk money with me if that’s an issue.

Action Alleviates Anxiety, AKA Get out of Limbo/Negative Pattern Recognition

OTs do specialize in helping people take action in their lives. If you need help on taking action on something specific in your life, it’s something I nerd out on. Here’s a short video that tickled the OT centers in my brain. Yes, being in limbo is not only stressful for humans, but tends to bring out the parts of our fearful brain. Chris Lee says, “Pattern recognition in an uncertain time does not allow your system to look at opportunity in a positive way, it only looks at pessimistic or dangerous or scarce, or fearful based things.” Taking action doesn’t mean rushing things, but it does mean using your life force to approach the things that may scare or immobilize you, and generating enough resource for you to look at, touch into, and move with/work with a thing to move more towards the life you want.

Flirting With Beige, Room 206, XOXO

She’s pretty right? Sneak peak, currently a lot of beige and gray neutrals. Sun Yung and I know it’s a bit boring, but we WILL spice it up with our demonic/heathen/unhinged art and energy. Promise. We finished painting and I think I will finally be able to move out of Anam Cara and into Sabathani this week! Just need to decorate and get the rest of our furniture in. Before and after photos will be provided next week. YES! I know a lot of BIPOC folks are looking forward to seeing me in a more affirming BIPOC owned and operated space. I got you!

Ricardo’s First Book is OUT! $24

When I’m feeling stuck, I often shyly go to Ricardo for some perspective. It always helps. I used to show his videos on hope and navigating change to clients when I worked in the Day Treatment Program at HCMC. Now we have a paper portal, this book, to lend a hand and a heart to help us grow the collective intuitive compass we need to create and sustain the world of our dreams. I started it and am savoring the way it makes me feel safe, connected, and empowered at this time. Book club anyone?

“There’s no map with our route marked out for us. Maps are useful instruments. They are like a snapshot of the lay of the land at a moment in time. But in a landscape constantly shifting, they are not enough. Effective strategies do not emerge from certainties, but from attentiveness. We need to be able to read the land—in its natural, social, and historical dimensions—sense changes in wind direction, identify opportunities and spot hidden dangers.”

Olivia’s Mosaic Mural at Hosmer Library

Olivia, is so talented. She and Juliette have been making a mosaic that will be at Hosmer Library. I think about how it will likely be a legacy piece, probably remaining in that old library long after my own little spirit crosses over. The unveiling and celebration for this majestic piece is on February 8th, 12p-3p at Hosmer Library. I’ll be there and I hope you come too. The piece nods to the Black Business district that is and was Central neighborhood. Native plants with mycelial relations, radical books/movements, and a special “library book with wings” reference from our beloved friend Anju who wrote Garden Prayer, the song I played when I proposed to Olivia. I cry every time I hear this song.

With love and in solidarity,

Eiko