Getting personal

Reader,

I'm going to let you in on a little Mythosomatic Sanctuary secret today.

I've been STRUGGLING with it.

Not with enrollments, not with content, not with any of the things I expected to come up while creating and opening this space.

No, I'm struggling to hold the gates open.

Something in the energy of this season and this program is saying "Shut the gates! It's cold outside!" and here I am, leaning up against them with all of my might for the remaining people who are curious to make it through.

I stepped back from actively promoting the Sanctuary and did some work in my body last week because I could feel the strain in my thoracic spine, ribs, and collarbones. This usually indicates to me that I have some capacity work to do, but I genuinely think I was just feeling the strain of keeping the gates wide open.

So this morning I sat with the Sanctuary and asked it, "what would it feel like to close the gates and just open them when people knock?" Instead of keeping it wide open for a steady flow of energy to come in and out of, what if people approached instead? What if when a purchase was made, I opened the gates to allow in just that person?

I felt the container relax and my whole body soften. We weren't at odds anymore.

The Mythosomatic Sanctuary is a group program, but at its core, it's a personal one. It's not one-on-one work, but also...it is.

I think this is what the Sanctuary space was trying to get me to see. I was treating it like a concert venue; the doors are wide open until they're not. Meanwhile, it wanted to be treated like a speakeasy. You approach and knock, and someone will let you in.

Your experience in the Sanctuary is yours. The work you do on the calls, what your body uncovers for you and with you, and what you share is individual. But it happens in community.

So I'm changing my approach to an individual one.

You're invited to grab a 15-minute call with me to talk about the Mythosomatic Sanctuary.

  • You can ask any questions you might have.
  • I can help you feel into your body if this is the right season for you, or even the right space.
  • I can show you behind-the-scenes in the digital spaces we'll share.
  • You can feel into what themes and guidance are waiting for you, or what you're stepping into through the Sanctuary.

If you're one of the people I've been painstakingly holding this gate open for, this invitation is for you.

Dates are available through Friday the 19th, Sanctuary doors close for the season on December 22nd.

Talk soon!
Ash

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Ashley Stinson

Welcome to a place for embodied processing. Here, I share is personal stories and the energetics of what is going on behind what we feel in our bodies. There's humor, love, holding, frankness, and inquiry for when you need it as you journey through life in a body you weren’t given a manual for…until now. If Miss Frizzle and her school bus could see the spiritual nature of your body, that would be me!