📚 Book recommendation for The Rooted One 🌳

As we move into exploring The Rooted One, the first of the Five States of Rest (LIVE experience with

this week) I’ve been thinking about a book that found me at a time when I was learning that rootedness and belonging were relationships to rebuild with myself.

The book is: 📖 If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie 📖

This isn’t an easy book to summarize because it moves like myth, memoir, nature writing, and philosophy all at once. It weaves together Celtic mythology, the Heroine’s Journey, ecology, women’s stories, grief, identity, and the question:

What happens when we become disconnected from ourselves, our bodies, our communities, and the land? And perhaps more importantly… What becomes possible when we return?

The book suggests that rootedness is in fact a relationship.

To place, community and our ancestry.

To the natural world and her cycles.

To the abandoned parts of ourselves.

One line from the book that really 'took root' (hehe):

“To change the world, we women need first to change ourselves – and then we need to change the stories we tell about who we are.”— Sharon Blackie

It really reminded me of this Yoga Nidra journey we're all on and I thought I would share!

Who is joining us on Thursday?🌳🌳🌳

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