A Note from Sara
In all my years of coaching, and in my personal life, I have come to believe that nothing is more important than cultivating one's contemplative life. If you don't have a practice, currently, I urge you to adopt one now. I'm convinced that nothing in the world changes your lived experience, or the lives of those around you, so dramatically.
The world needs you and your work. ​
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Having crashed utterly and completely (such that I was housebound for a time), I have come to believe that it is imperative for change-makers to put their own well-being at the top of the priority list. I can tell you from experience that sustained change-making and/or caretaking is not possible once one's nervous system is sufficiently dysregulated.
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As an activist and issues-oriented artist, I have learned (after years of trial and error) that it is indeed possible experience deep peace and robust health in spite of it all. By leaning into the contemplative life and learning to map my own nervous system I found deep, abiding joy after a profound, personal shattering coming on the heels of many years of front-line activism. Using a trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice, along with specific tools to bring my hypersensitive system into balance, I have recovered from a debilitating case of ME/CFS and am again able to contribute fully and energetically.
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STILL/WILD offers tools as opposed to techniques, all of which are designed to help you:
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1. Regulate your system, if necessary. Recover from burnout and/or constant stress and the reduced quality of life that is often the default for activists and care-givers.
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2. Enter into the mystical dimension – or the “holy Mystery,” as mirable starr writes (see below). If you are neither religious nor spiritual, think instead of accessing a place of profound peace, despite it all.​
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Here at STILL/WILD, we are evangelical about two things: The need to regularly enter into the contemplative dimension of our lives, and the immense power of women to effect much-needed change in the world. We begin with Silence (STILL) & then we LIVE OUT LOUD (WILD).
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In unprecedented numbers the world over, women are initiating a cultural (r)Evolution - quietly at home, loudly in the public arena, or both. They are doing so with a growing realization that one's commitment to interior transformation informs and sustains one's commitment to global transformation.
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"And this is why you cultivate contemplative practice. The more you intentionally turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. When you sit in silence and turn your gaze toward the Holy Mystery ... the Mystery follows you back out into the world. "
mirabai starr
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