Practicing Being Human Together
Hello, friend.
There’s something I didn’t say directly in last Sunday’s podcast episode that I’ve been sitting with this week.
In that episode, I shared a story about a recent small gathering of clergy in my studio—how we are slowly, carefully tending something across lines of difference, and how I was noticing fear arise in my own body as I sat in that space.
What I keep returning to is this:
We were practicing being human together.
Not performing leadership.
Not solving the problem.
Not getting it right.
Just being human together, and letting that be enough for a moment.
And I notice how rare that is—especially in spaces where we are trying to talk about race, justice, and community.
So often, we tighten.
We try to think our way through.
We try to say the right thing.
We move quickly, sometimes without realizing it.
But what if the work begins somewhere else?
What if it begins in the body…
In noticing what’s here.
In softening it.
In making a little more room for our own humanity,
and one another’s too.
That’s what I was practicing with the kidney flow as I recorded the episode.
And it’s what I find myself returning to again this week.
If you haven’t listened yet, you can find the episode here:
Episode 6: Softening Fear, Building Beloved Community
And if you do listen, you might try the simple practice along with me—or just notice what happens in your body as you hear the story.
There’s no right way.
Just an invitation.
P.S. Want to try another amazing Jin shin jyutsu flow for calming and grounding the mind and body? In my other more occasional newsletter, Body Temple Time, I just published this guided Double Stomach Flow.