Loving Through Everything with Victoria Guidi: Recent Episodes
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A shorter episode in which I share, during this coronavirus time, a little bit of what I’ve been up to these past weeks. And what I keep forgetting which can (though I really want to say will) truly make this life experience so much more freeing and less crazy.
In the rejuvenation phase of my seasonal Ayurvedic cleanse. In this episode I share about my cleanse and a bit of what it looks like.
This virus is not to blame. This virus is not the enemy. All of this that we are experiencing now has been our creation. And this virus - which is consciousness, as we are - is offering us a massive gift that we can open or not.
What if we changed our language around this virus? From “fighting” it to “tending” to it, say. What if we stopped with the war mentality talk that promotes fear and control and separation, and did something radically different?
This is such a powerful practice for me. It strengthens mind-body-breath integration. Has me noticing what I’m doing, from the very moment of waking after being asleep through the night. Strengthens my already-in-place practices. Opens more awareness. Invites in something new and let’s something old go, perhaps. No need to rush, to fix, to try. No need to know, to hold on to. You won’t lose it. Trust me.
I used to see and treat my menstrual cycle as an inconvenience. Then I developed dysmenorrhea and even further neglected my precious womb space. Now, thanks to the healing path I am on, I am reconnecting to this most powerful center and finding my way back home in the most beautiful way.
Went into the woods the other night to sleep, away from everything going on in the world today. Powerful medicine, as always. And what I talk about from this time in Nature: Drop the thinking mind. Feel through the identification of things into their Beingness. Connect to ancestors. Yoga is Union-Communion-CommunicatingUnion with All That Is.
In trauma therapy, I reconnected with my young self. My younger that got lost when my father died. A beautiful meeting - soft, strong, happy.
My first time doing brainspotting in trauma therapy. A powerful experience - very subtle, very healing. A subtle rewiring of pathways.
Took a couple of Kundalini classes with a beautiful teacher, Jai Dev Singh, who was in town guest teaching. He spoke about how difficult it is to just exist in this body! Resonates deeply with me. With you, too?
Realizing that I carry childhood trauma has been transformative in the most beautiful way. It has changed my interior, my way of relating. It has relaxed and opened something within me. Trauma therapy, breath work, and sound have been huge.
I’ve been carrying shock from trauma since I was 13 years old. And taught to bypassing the anger and pain - by what I came to realize was spiritual bypassing. Upon realizing this after so many years, I am coming face to face with the anger and pain in my body - this vessel carrying me through this lifetime - using Ayurveda, Hatha Yoga, trauma therapy, and chakra/energy work. This personal work informs and guides my professional work out into the world, as a Whole Body Health Counselor.
The importance of strengthening, stretching, growing one’s container for the personal healing work to happen in.
I speak about the death of my father in this episode. And the surfacing of what I’d been running away from all these years. And being a no in my body to children, but a yes in my heart.
The healing power of asking for help, for calling upon my sisters. The healing power of speaking from the tender heart. The healing power of quieting down and feeling into the immediacy of the body, for the true answers.
I recorded this morning’s public yoga class that I taught, to give you a taste of what it’s like to practice with me! Roll out a mat if you’d like to join! (And please excuse any sound quality shortcomings, especially the air that came on periodically, to keep us from freezing!)
Sharing what I’m passionate about and why I really do when working with people and their health.
Reverence to the Sun is part of my practice. Not only the physical Sun that is at the center of this universe, but also the Sun that is within me. Oh, man, and it’s such good medicine!
Have you ever watched someone take their breath? I have. My mother’s. And this story is about what that experience gave me.
I get fixated on the same ol’ thing. The same old patterns. And then I remember, and do something different. And how good it feels! And then I remember, and there’s a uniting, a something that unravels and softens and brightens.
Ayurveda is living in sacred balance and harmony with nature, while using nature as guide and medicine for our own healing and health.
I carry a gene mutation that puts me at high risk of cancer. What this gene means to me, how I perceive it, and what I am doing to tend to it’s health and well-being.
Yoga asana is a heart-will practice, where I learn to fall in love with everything. By loving through the intensity, something happens that ripples through my life - off the mat.