Holding the heavy and difficult content of this course requires your body to be nourished, tuned and rhythmically balanced. The basic practices below are recommendations that can help you de-center (the ego), disarm (affective landmines), declutter (your gut, heart and headspace) and disinvest in harmful patterns. The practices may feel very different each time you do them so we suggest that you commit to repeating them more than once (ideally on a daily basis through this period). You may want to stick to only one of the practices and/or try them all, and repeat at least one of them consistently. 

Food:

We invite you to develop a practice of fasting that is healthy for you. This can vary from person to person from skipping a meal, to eating only after sunset, to a whole day without food. Many different cultures fast for different reasons, including recalibrating their relationship and respect for food and water, offering hunger as sacrifice, or as a way to remember that food affordances are temporary. Our future ancestors remind us to learn to fast while it is still optional. As you do this exercise keep in mind that if fasting can be a choice for you, the fact that you have this choice comes at the expense of people/species who do not have access to food as a result of the violent and unsustainable systems in place that have so far protected you from experiencing hunger.

Sound:

For the length of this unit you are invited to tap into the tactile rhythm of your vital internal waters as well as the metabolic collective waters.  If possible, go to a body of water (it can be a small stream, a lake, the ocean, or a river; if you do not have access to any of these, you can open your tap slightly so that only a few drops come out). Once you are here, connect with your sense of hearing. Try to listen with more attention than you normally would: invite the sound of moving water to resonate inside your body. After a few minutes of listening, place two of your fingertips on the inside part of your opposite wrist to find your pulse. Stay with it for at least 5 minutes feeling and listening to the waters inside of you. 

Movement: 

During the length of this unit you are invited to dance freely with to this song. The invitation is to borrow any movements from the previous exercises and trust the bio-inteligence of your own body to move in any way it needs to. There are two ways to go about this invitation: on your own or in company. If you choose to do it on your own you must find yourself in a private space where no one else can see you, in order to avoid the desire to perform for others (but watch-out, you might still be performing to yourself!). If you chose to do it in company you are all invited to close your eyes for the entire duration of the song.  Song: Satchita (Brazilian + Hindi)