Embodiment returns us to our natural state. When we engage in communion with the organic life around us, we remember who and what we are. Below is a short video of me and dahlia. I'd love to see and hear how you are communing with our natural world.

Community and connection has saved my life. I believe honesty and respect builds trust and from trust anything can flourish. I doubt my doubts.

1. In this moment, where is the first place that I find gratitude? 2. What in my past am I grateful for that brought me to the gratitude that is present now? Gratitude is not something that can be forced or manufactured. We put ourselves in position to receive it by cultivating present moment awareness, and attitudes of compassion, kindness, and humility. This practice asks you to choose any moment (perhaps right now) to seek gratitude. When it arrives and you feel the expansion in your body (maybe in your heart space or your whole torso), or the warmth in your limbs, trace the moment backwards to find gratitude for choices or happenstances that led to the current moment of gratitude.

Our breath is the way in, the way back to our humanity. Try this meditation and practice until it feels natural and organic.