February: Ocean Breathing - Ocean Belonging
RESOURCES: Listen and Breathe!
Remember everything below is OPTIONAL and only to be used to support your practice and study. No need to do any of it if it is not supportive.
Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbis - Read the intro, forward, preface and Chapter 1 and 2. Or as Alexis suggests jump around a little! in that area.
Consider your practice as reconnecting to our water kith and kin, and ecology. What is your relationship to the sea, aquatic mammals, your interior ocean? Do you echo-locate?!
Explore the patterns of flow and breath suggested in our practice.
Listening - What does it really mean to listen?
Breathing - Where/how can my oceanic being and mentors assist me in my breathing?
Recordings and References for 2/4:
Practice:
Discussion:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/t514hXIrvHXByTZtVaoCoba0BVAul1RyxkFeDCETlA2EdmEloT_R4JTppLxlelFT.61siH0Xd6Ef21c57
References:
Orcas sinking Yachts! Audio 24mins
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/jul/10/payback-or-play-the-orcas-sinking-yachts-podcast
The Whale that went Awol Audio 44mins - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/podcasts/the-daily/hvaldimir-whale.html
Listening Meditation - 25 mins - MP
Breathing Underwater by Carol Bialock
Mapping the Worlds Oceans from the podcast Women Who Travel