Module 12: Episode 1 - All My Relations - The Sacred Work of Connection
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation
Module 12: Episode 1 - All My Relations - The Sacred Work of Connection
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation
Module 12: Episode 1 - All My Relations - The Sacred Work of Connection
with Dina Asher Kusnir
In this powerful teaching, we explore a truth that will change everything: connection is work.
The Hebrew word for "to connect" literally means taking two ropes and binding them together—it's an action, an effort, not something that just happens passively.
Many of us carry a deep wound: the baby inside who never received connection still waits for someone outside to make the effort. But here's the revelation: now we must become that mother to ourselves. We pick up our own inner baby and create the connection we've been waiting for.
The practice moves in expanding circles. We start by saying hello to our environment—literally thanking our chair, our table. Then we greet our body parts as family: "Hello, liver. Hello, lungs." The two kidneys are sisters. The two hands are sisters. Everything that comes in pairs is sisterhood within you.
From there, we expand to loved ones, then to difficult people, then to our whole town, all continents, all beings. This is "All My Relations" in shamanic wisdom—everything is family.
The truth they never told us? We are never alone. Loneliness is trauma's invention. When we come into the body, we realize: we're held by the Earth, by ancestors, by the familiar and the unfamiliar. We're not connected like the internet—we're connected like the INNER-net, through consciousness itself.
This year's intention: Become the lover you're waiting for. Not seeking love from outside, but becoming the lover to yourself first.
Because what you work on strengthens. What you don't work on disappears. And connection is the most important work there is.
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