The Chrysalis: A Container for Transformation
Six-minute wisdom teachings for moving through change
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Designed for creative types, this online work provides a "chrysalis," or container for growth, to accompany and guide you into change. There's very little help in our light-speed culture for the internal reflection and very real labor required to grow ourselves. Research has shown the power of regular dips into mindfulness to catalyze major mental shifts. So if you intuit some shift is imminent, or you are primed for expansion, this course provides a concrete, efficient structure. 6-minute video teachings offer practical gems from different wisdom traditions, prompts for reflection, snippets of poetry, guided meditations, self-care tips, and fresh techniques to export into everyday life. The progression is carefully designed to move from the internal cocoon in which to connect with your center, to the proverbial wing-strengthening required to take new patterns and skills out into the world, to breaking out as new. You have the freedom to choose your own pace, with the option to add the companion course, a grab-bag of meditation techniques. Check out the introductory video today!
Illustrations by Emily Goldman (@esgoldman), a writer, musician, and illustrator based in New York. All images copyright 2018 Emily Goldman
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Katy Hawkins, PhD, is a somatics teacher based in Philadelphia. This course is an experiment she undertook during the pandemic, a romp through what she calls "Moving Poetics," exploring poems somatically. In her teaching, Katy uses poems as spells, whose magic holds change-making capacity to alter our reality. In bypassing the rational brain, poetic language drops deeper into our beings, where more subtle transformation can happen. These classes provided fodder for her recent book, called Thinking Feelingly: Somatic Approaches to Poetry. For more on Katy, check out katyhawkins.com and movingpoetics.com.