April 25, 2024: The New York Times Headline: Chaos and Oppression
We are connected through our lived experience, our fears and our collective trauma. We are victims, witnesses and in some cases, sadly, accomplices of culture chaos, racial, gender, economic and religious oppression.
We are also coming out of a global pandemic and constantly navigating real and perceived threats, we are in a collective, chronic state of fear and anxiety: ‘fight, flight, freeze’. The constant signals for the body to fight, the chronic fighting causes chronic illness.
A regular practice of rest and meditation focusing on hope is a form of self-care. It is known to increase self-compassion, body awareness and sensation. It also fosters feelings of gratitude, appreciation, and turns cynicism to agency. This is a meditation practice to deepen your relationship to self, others and community.
Explore an idea of wellness that embraces rest as a resistance to the grind and chaos culture. Learn tools that cultivate setting healthy boundaries, holding one with self-compassion, honoring one’s core identity and believing in the power to create personal and social change.
Notice how you feel after unwinding for thirty-minutes in a safe virtual collective respite. Feel a self-love practice that is rooted in healing grounded in hope.
This meditation is inspired by the book, Rest is Resistance A Manifesto, by founder of the Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey. Her work comes at a moment we need it more than ever. A recent NPR article 4/16/2024 entitled Rise and Grind? Working late, lack of sleep, the pull of social media and volatile hours lead to feelings of isolation, depression, and illness by 50.
4CYW practices and sessions are intentional. We use language and movement to relieve feelings of anxiety and depression. A regular meditation practice allows one to become aware of breath as vehicle to calm the mind, body and spirit. We practice to manifest hope in self and our community. It is rooted in rest as a resistance to – an oppressive grind and chaos culture
Teachers are available for virtual and in-person fee-for service sessions. Book Teacher.)
Our practices are based on data and influenced by: Real Self-Care A Transformation Program For Redefining Wellness, by Dr. Pooja Lakshmin and Rest as a Resistance, a Manifesto, by Tricia Hersey, a regular, hope practice creates resiliency.
The frame work was originally designed to support people with illness, loss, and chronic pain. It helps to activate one or more of four different types of coping skills:
Problem Solving- defining a task to move you forward.
Emotion Regulation - identifying and managing stressful moments.
Activating Core Identity - connecting with a deeper sense of self.
Relational Coping - engaging with mentors and important people in your life.
A 30 minute hope meditation is rooted in Tricia Hersey’s call to rest as a resistance to the grind culture, anxiety + exhaustion. Join us you deserve rest!
I am not a machine
I am a divine human being
“Begin to grieve the ways in which grind culture has tricked you into thinking you are a machine. Grieving is a gift and a scared act. Grind culture has a pushed you to a pace of living that is unsustainable. The sooner you push back against this, the sooner your rest journey begins. Rest for the journey.
- Tricia Hersey, Founder of the Nap Ministry
A Complimentary
Virtual 30 Minute Self-Care Practice
A Meditation of Hope
We are available to conduct in-person + virtual sessions.
Book a Teacher
Planting Seeds
Hope is Mandatory
Wed/Fri 6:30AM
Do you have 30 minutes for self-care?
We are offering an introductory complimentary 30 minute meditation.
It is grounded in hope, as a self- care, and community wellness practice.
When we resist the
grind culture,
unplug from the disruption, the
distraction and pull of social media,
we resist
the culture wars, toxic systems, and a profit over people ethos that divides us.
We intentionally are planting seeds of hope, healing and community.
Self-care
A daily practice seeds coping skills to
connect to self
problem-solve
self-regulate emotions
own core values
replace cynicism with agency
take ownership of self
from system(s) that hold us down.
Create a daily practice
what’s true about me.
I’m happiest when__________.
I feel most like myself when I am__________.
I am bound to fail when not __________.
I know that I can not do _______and be_______.
Claim self!