The Art of Unravelling
A seasonal practice of rewilding, mourning and emergence
A practice card you can try here, not just read about. Grief and awe rarely arrive as words first. This short version moves through three points of attention, feet, breath and gut, so that what your body already knows has a moment to be noticed rather than explained.
You can see all three steps below before you begin. There is no right duration and nothing to get right.
Notice the ground beneath you. Feel the texture, the temperature, the subtle shifts underfoot. Let your weight settle into gravity, not as something to fight, but as something to lean into.
Next: notice the rhythm, without changing it.
Then: notice if your body is speaking.
You can stop at any point. Closing this page is enough.
Done: the ground beneath you.
Notice the rhythm of your breathing. There is nothing to change here, only to sense it. Notice whether the air tastes different: metallic before rain, sweet after sun, dry with heat or salt.
Next: notice if your body is speaking.
You can stop at any point. Closing this page is enough.
Done: the ground beneath you.
Done: the rhythm, unchanged.
Notice if your body is speaking. Is there a knot, a loosening, a tightening? Something does not need to be fixed or interpreted here. Just notice that it is there.
You can stop at any point. Closing this page is enough.
This was three of the five points of attention the full practice card offers. If something arose, a sensation, a memory, a grief you have been holding quietly, you are welcome to write it here.
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