2018 Somatic Summit
Theme: Connecting to Animals
http://www.somaticsummit.com
My Topic: An Invitation to Be
While online the recording sound of this one video kept breaking and the music is so beautiful (to me) that I am offering it separately for your viewing/listening pleasure
Photo Courtesy of Berenika Bratny
mesmerizing
chills in truth expressed
layers revealing
wisdom of light in shadow
divine understanding
connected within
by essence and form
to both
land and ancestry
the known and
unknown
intertwined
unwinding
unfolding
finding strength
to know
life’s centre
guided
through and by
the mystery of life
we meet
our selves
and each other”
Ruth Roberts
inspired by the movie Legends of Cambria
https://legendofcambria.cambriausa.com/the-film/
In starting from somewhere
be it
weighted failure
breaking until we collapse
seemingly unbearable defeat
we surrender to rest
breathing in to let go
giving space for a moment’s reprieve
and then we rise
lifting our eyes
we reach
turning
extending
our kinaesthetic sensing
met by
meeting
ground
knowing life
as it shapes and
moulds us
our hope
sculpted from the inside
like a marble’s artist
with intuitive wisdom
exposing its innate shape
being made ready
for the next passage
encountering
what feels to be
an unending valley
maybe a mountain
to unimaginable to climb
yet in reaching its peak
a multifold glory
a basking in the warmth
of all that is
before
being thrust back
into chaos’ storm
challenged yet again
to shake off that binds us
unravelling our mind’s restrictions
in the mystery of this unwinding
we discover a pristine lake
in the middle
of everywhere and nowhere
diving in
our body and soul
tingles with aliveness
a moment of being
a sacred cleansing
We Rise
Ruth Roberts
know that you carry the wounds
of our ancestors within
speaking for those who have left us
their voices beaten down
discredited and destroyed
by this world
have gratitude and
be empowered young women
now you
have a voice being heard
feel the strength of
acknowledgement and community
reverberate in everyone’s right
to be seen and believed
we are all with you
Ruth Roberts
Ruth Roberts
Ruth Roberts
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My heart pounding
my survival fear activated
remembering
the environmental powerlessness
where any choice may not be the right one
relationships repeatedly misconstrued
by societies imperial conditioning
having experienced
abuse by numerous systems
the unchanged resurfaces
a re-traumatizing trigger
reminds me again of
my own humanness
horror
shock
disbelief
vulnerability
momentarily overriding
my thought processes
confused by
interpretations
reactions
my cognitive brain kicks in
recognizing
how
in these unfiltered layers
there creates
a perceived need for self defence
both real and imagined
the ensuing
results
deem differences
as the dominating focus
can We
step back
pause
an essential prerequisite
to sort through and revise
our accepted patterns
of conscious and unconscious
behaviours and judgements
are We willing to
uncover
shed old beliefs
casting off righteousness
to recognize each person’s
inherent value
innocence
an ongoing challenge to
becoming more present
to find the centre of each storm
the reality
that We are all made of
flesh and blood
sharing equal rights
to know
love
to be in life’s fullness of breath
trusting the song within
led by our
gentle heartbeat
simultaneously
returning to
arising out
of life’s beginning
undefended
choose “Oui”
Ruth Roberts
This poem is in response to Trevor Noah’s response to: http://www.ctv.ca/The-Daily-Show-with-Trevor-Noah/Video/S2E123-Wednesday-June-21-2017-vid1148316
