moonwork missive: full moon 🌕

welcome to a new moonwork mini format! instead of offering you a tiny practice as i was, i'll be sending short missives most mondays sharing a little about what i'm practicing that day & recently. substacks are for parasocial access, right? let's give the people what they want!

i'm coming out of a weekend intensive training with shannon cooney, which i'm delighted to continue next weekend. though i've completed a full 700-hour training in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, it was very fragmented in the second half by the lockdown era as the pandemic began & revisiting foundational concepts from a very different lens with a very different teacher has really reinvigorated my practice. you might wanna book in while i'm feeling all sharp & fresh; i have openings this week ;)

one of my guiding practices as a practitioner is always turning towards pleasure, desire & ease with my work whenever possible; for this reason, i am doing all cranio sessions PWYC at least through march as a winter survival measure for y'all & also for me.

another of my overarching approaches to practice is not being rigid about a singular modality, but understanding all modalities that serve my resourcing, digestion, integration, and physical tending as collaborators that share purpose. this nourishes "my practice" significantly more than when i used to try to do the same singular practice consistently every day for months or years on end––a strategy that always failed, if the measure of success was that rigid repetition forever.

here are some of today's practice highlights:

i wore my toddler in our new big kid carrier for a walk with my mom to get familiar with the fit & start breaking it in––babywearing has been one of my parenthood special interests & surprise! this is mostly because it's excellent somatics for babies & parents.

moonwork's MOON MANNA ritual with m'kali-hashiki (erotic insurgency) was this evening & to be honest i did not want to go at all. i have been extremely deep in despair for both personal & broader global horrors reasons. but, we can bring despair into our ritual space & our erotic breathwork practice & today my main goddess brìd (whose feast day just passed) came for a visit wearing a new face & facet of herself than i've seen when visiting with her before & gave me some wisdom i'll keep pondering this week.

y'all who know Her ever see her dressed as a warrior in mail with a sword across her back? gotta check that unverified personal gnosis against the lineage of the collective right?

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