Homecoming

And the Great Mother said:
Come my child and give me all that you are.
I am not afraid of your strength and darkness, of your fear and pain.
Give me your tears.
They will be my rushing rivers and roaring oceans.
Give me your rage.
It will erupt into my molten volcanoes and rolling thunder.
Give me your tired spirit.
I will lay it to rest in my soft meadows.
Give me your hopes and dreams.
I will plant a field of sunflowers and arch rainbows in the sky.
You are not too much for me.
My arms and heart welcome your true fullness.
There is room in my world for all of you, all that you are.
I will cradle you in the boughs of my ancient redwoods and the valleys of my gentle rolling hills.
My soft winds will sing you lullabies and soothe your burdened heart.
Release your deep pain.
You are not alone and you have never been alone.

- Linda Reuther

She is challenging me, the Great Mother.
”Put aside all of your ideas of how this should be done and listen deep within”.
I walk outside, feel the warm summer earth beneath my feet.
”Hold me. Guide me.” I ask her.
”I’m always here.” she answers.

HELD is a path towards healing and wholeness.
She is inviting you to steer away from the concrete road and explore the animal trails winding through the wilderness.
She is leading you in the direction of alignment with spirit and animal nature.

To be held is to heal.
Body knows how to heal.
Body knows how to return to wholeness.
But we haven’t been taught how to surrender and listen to her wisdom.

We have been taught to disregard the feminine, intuitive, spirit and animal nature.
The time to return, to re-remember is now.

Held is the returning to that wilderness within.
Great Mother medicine is what supports your returning, your remembering.
It is a slow, intuitive, nonlinear journey.
A journey of Self-discovery and leaning into a supportive self-relationship.

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I asked my Instagram audience what they feel more comfortable with, ‘to hold’ or ‘to be held’.
100% answered ‘to hold’.

I then asked the same audience
“What do you most long for? To hold or to be held?”
98% answered ‘to be held’.

I can recognize myself in those answers.
It has taken a lot of practice to give myself permission to be held.

To be held is to surrender.
It can feel deeply vulnerable.
A moment of falling, without knowing if someone or something will catch you.
It requires courage and trust to surrender into being held.

If you have become accustomed to playing the role of the holder, the emotional caretaker, there is immense healing power in allowing yourself to be held.
To receive what you give.

You might have spent a lifetime building a protective wall between yourself and the forces that long to hold you.
Maybe there are parts of you who have never felt held.

Behind those protective walls you’ve caged your tears, your rage, your dreams, your joy, your creativity, spirit and life force, your animal body.
When you are leaning into being held the protective walls begin to soften.
Through a permeable membrane, all that has been kept in place begins to seep out.
And the sensation of being supported beings to seep in.

This is why begin held can feel so vulnerable.
All that you’ve tried to hide, from yourself and other people, is invited to the surface.
The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful.

There is nothing you’ve done wrong.
This is the culture we are living in.
The waters we swim in.
This is what many of us have been taught to do to survive.

The Great Mother spirit is here to show you that there is another way to live.
There is a way to be here, held by life.
There is a way to trust, to surrender, to release.
There is a way to rise up in your wholeness.

I want to invite you to this journey in a way that feels right and true for me.
In a way where you can feel the resonance or magnetism, the attracting and repelling force, in your bodymindsoul and from that decide if this is for you, or not.

How can you feel that?
How do you know?

I reflect on how I myself know when something is right and true for me.
In my inner landscape I travel back to moments in time when I felt, in my whole body, a clear ‘Yes’.

I used to believe that an intense rush was my true ‘Yes’.
From experience I now know that that is not always the case.
Sometimes that rush is adrenalinic animal body calling me to go in a different direction.

A soft expansion, the feeling of a butterfly landing on the first flower of summer.
My true ‘Yes’ feels restful, friendly waves lapping against sun-warmed rocks.
Large and fluffy snowflakes that land like a soft blanket over a quiet landscape.

Of course, there is also a kind of nectarian intoxication.
It tickles softly in the depths of my belly.
Heart swells and whispers Yes...

HELD is an old forest, large trees with deep and steady roots.
Branches touching the clouds.

HELD is a cocoon, a womb.
Inviting you to release the weight of your bones, your muscles, and your blood.
Release the weight of old wounds.

She is inviting you to rise up.
To unmask.
To choose yourself again and again.

I close my eyes and surrender in the arms of the Great Mother.
I ask her to speak through me.
I can sense the connection between spinal cord and brain light up.
A swelling, a pulsation of information from the depths of body moving up along my spine.

We have ventured far enough from what is natural, it is time to return now.
Lay down all of your shoulds and let yourself rest here for a moment.
Your body knows what to do and when.
Your body knows how to heal and how to return to wholeness.

You didn’t come here to be a machine.
You didn’t come here to not feel the lifegiving intelligence moving through you, as you.

You came here to live, to experience, to breath, to connect, to feel, to be, to create.
You came here to love and be loved.
Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

You are spirit in animal body.
You are unbound creativity in a divine vessel.
You are both the witness and the experiencer.

Body is not an object.
Body is a living breathing alive intelligence.

Mind is not an object.
Mind is a creative force coming into to form.

Everything you need to thrive, to love, to feel supported is inside of you.
In the folds of bodymindspirit are your deepest dreams, your needs, your rhythm.
The umbilical cord that connects you to all that is, all the wisdom past, present, future is right there inside of you.

I settle deep in the pelvic bowl.
Immerse myself in the creative power of womb.
The inner well-spring of vitality, truth, and earth power.

I surrender the weightiness of my body to the seat of the chair.
Underneath, mother earth is waiting to catch me.

I relax and receive her life-giving pulse as it tickles the soles of my feet.
Yes…

A portal opens that leads me deeper into my inner landscape.
An invitation to get closer to myself, my true nature.
To grow in courage to live from that source.

My animal body, my instincts, and spirit, intuition, meet.
Embrace and merge.
Body, mind, soul weaved together.
Waves of life energy bring body-mind-soul into a swirling dance.

The subconscious communicates with colors, shapes, images, symbols, words.
I am embraced by the air around me, I let it caress my skin.
I listen, receive, know without having to explain.

Explorations

Week 1 - Opening circle | Connecting to the Great Mother spirit

We call in the Great Mother. She who births and nurtures all that is.
You are invited to explore and discover your own relationship with her, and if needed renegotiate your relationship to the concept of mother. During the opening circle you will be guided to set an intention, or receive an intention, for this journey.

Week 2 - Touch ground

In manifest form the Great Mother is the holding force of space and earth. Isn't it amazing how we humans, and other animals and plants, can walk on this earth. Stay in relationship to earth and at the same time move seamlessly. We are both bound and free at the same time. It is the boundedness that gives rise to the freedom. Without the boundedness, or groundedness, we would be floating around aimlessly with little capacity to make choices of where we want to go and how we want to move. When we deepen our relationship with ground and the support that it offers us, it not only changes how we move our physical body, it reshapes our psyche, our nervous system responses, our thought patterns.

Week 3 - Immerse

During Immerse sessions you will get a chance to check-in, journal, ask questions and share insights and reflections. We will revisit what we've been exploring for the past two weeks and I will offer entry points to deeper exploration through journaling and self-inquiry

Week 4 - Animal Body

You live in an animal body. An animal that is both a predator and prey. Your body knows where to go, what to do. If you experience yourself as sensitive, and/or as woman, it is highly likely that the prey side of your animal body is more alive than the predator side. You need your inner predator awake and alive and ready to roar (if needed), but remember that the predator isn't always on the hunt. Predators are also masters on relaxing, on harnessing their energy, of being playful.
Your inner landscape can be like the waterhole, where predator and prey can co-exist and even support each other.

An unexpressed predator energy easily turns itself inwards, attacks itself and the inner prey. All that unexpressed predatory energy will turn inwards and become self-destructive behaviors, negative self-talk etc. Like the predator eating itself. Once you begin to express it, the charge is released from your body and without the bound up charge the energy can be channeled towards what you truly want and need.

Week 5 - Needs & Rhythm

Why do we start with the animal body and then go to needs? Because the predatory energy is often what we are most afraid of in ourselves and it can be difficult to feel the unmet need underneath it. First we find a way to release charge, to rehabilitate and mobilize our inner animal. When you begin to feel what you need, what support you need, and what your natural rhythm is - your life will begin to change. When you follow your own pulse you will begin to create a life that supports you, a life that holds you. Your needs come first and the rest will be structured around it. Rhythm comes first, structure second. Many of us have been taught this the other way around. We are offered a structure and then it's up to us to try to fit into that structure. Our natural rhythm is suffocated. It is time to change that, it is time to create a life the holds you in your wholeness.

Week 6 - Immerse

During Immerse sessions you will get a chance to check-in, journal, ask questions and share insights and reflections. We will revisit what we've been exploring for the past two weeks and I will offer entry points through journaling and self-inquiry

Week 7 - Capacity to feel good

To navigate towards what feels good, towards pleasure is an radical act. First you are invited to begin to notice what feels good, to linger there, and then to notice your capacity to feel good. To navigate towards what feels good is not to deny the pain of life, it is to grow in capacity to feel more of life. To pendulate between what feels good and what is painful or uncomfortable. To feel good is to soften, to open, to trust.

Week 8 - Closing circle

Linda Nenne

Embodied Flow™ teacher, Somatic self-discovery & self-relationship educator, coach and mentor

Since 2010 Linda Nenne has guided, supported and helped women rediscover a deep and loving relationship to their physical body, psyche, inner parts, emotional body and to feel at home in themselves. She has supported them to gain clarity and self-awareness in who they are, what they want and how to live a life aligned with their inner purpose.

She specializes in supporting soulful and sensitive people to feel empowered to show up for themselves and in the world with confidence, vulnerability and authenticity.