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Welcome to ADHD Gathering
Welcome to ADHD Gathering. I’m your host, Ying Deng, also known as ADHD Asian girl. I’m an award-winning ADHD coach, certified meditation teacher, and featured expert in Self Magazine. Your ADHD brain is not a problem to fix. It’s an ecosystem to understand. Let’s explore it
Meet Lisa Pedscalny
together.
[00:00:18] Ying: today I have my good friend Lisa here. Lisa Pedscalny is a mindfulness teacher rooted in nearly 20 years of the vipassana practice and a lifelong relationship with the natural world. Her teaching grows from that lived connection blending deep contemplative practice with close attention to the more than human world.
A graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, Lisa facilitates trauma-informed retreats, courses, and sangha gatherings through forest floor mindfulness and serves on the teaching team for Tara Brach’s year long program, choosing to love. Her work integrates mindfulness, embodiment, and ecological connection as pathways of healing, belonging, and sustainable engagement with the wider web of life.
She lives and practices on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, where she also is a nature photographer specializing in fungi. Time Outdoors continues to shape and inform both her life and her teaching. So welcome to my podcast, Lisa. I’m excited to have you here.
[00:01:23] Lisa: Thank you, Ying. I’m so glad to be here with you.
[00:01:26] Ying: Yeah. Just a short context, Lisa and I worked at Cloud Sanga together before, which is a startup that Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach co-founded. And we both have left the startup and we became good, good friends . One of the reason I really want to ask Lisa the question how we face this moment, as this mini series of collectively asking the question, is that Lisa always gave me the vibe I can sit by the fire and just listen to her wisdom.
That’s practically what I’m doing
Navigating This Moment
[00:02:04] Ying: here. So that’s my first question, Lisa, how are you perceiving this moment and how are you personally navigating this moment? We’re recording on February 24th, 2026. I’m located in United States. Lisa is located in Canada, so that’s the bigger context.
[00:02:14] Lisa: Thank you, Ying. It’s such a great question. I love that you’re offering a whole series of this because it is a question that I find myself curious how other people would answer this. For me. I think this moment that we are living in is really bringing into focus how important it is for me to be discerning about the types and volumes of media, that I’m taking in because the way I perceive this moment can be so shaped by those different streams.
I’ve noticed so much the difference between how I feel about the time we’re living in, depending on how I have focused my attention that day. So sometimes I’m out in the natural world and I am watching the unfolding there and all of the wisdom and sustainability and interdependence that’s on display in the natural world, and that will really flavor my perception of the time we’re living in because that’s also true.
And there are other times where I’m taking in, more human created systems and what’s happening in that part of the time we’re living in. That can really bring a different flavor. I find myself these days trying to find a balance between staying awake to what’s happening particularly in the human realm where I do see us in a time of huge transition. There are a lot of systems that seem to be in some state of decay or transition, and I don’t know that in the broadest context, that’s a horrible thing, but there’s a lot of suffering. There’s a lot of heartbreak. There’s a lot of ache for me in taking in what’s happening in our human world. Then on the other side of that, there’s a broader picture that I connect to as well. So how I’m personally perceiving or navigating the moment has a lot to do with where I’m resting my attention. I think that’s a big part of my practice is finding that right balance between taking in what’s happening, sensing into how can I be part of this time and where can I be in service. And then also being really mindful not to get burnt out or too sucked in to the painful parts. And that might feel like the whole story.
[00:04:36] Ying: I love what you said. It’s not just media intake, but more so a larger sense of where we pay attention to shapes how we experience the world and I never thought about, it’s not just the media intake, it’s also am I taking in the leaves and birds and what’s happening in the woods.
And I love what you said about sustainability and interdependence in nature. So tell me a little bit of what’s happening in the woods around you. I think that leads to the question of how your identities, whether it’s neurodivergence, culture, background, shape your experiences.
[00:05:10] Lisa: Yeah. Well, I’m a highly sensitive person, deeply sensitive. That’s kind of an orienting aspect of how I interact with the world. I definitely consider myself neurodivergent and I’m a naturalist, so I feel the most at home when I’m outside. And I’m so fortunate I live on Vancouver Island where I have really abundant access to wild nature.
I know that’s a tremendous privilege and it’s one that I try not to take for granted. What I see when I am out in the natural world these days is a beautiful way of attuning to some of the larger rhythms that I think we’re in the midst of in our human unfolding too.
So right now it’s getting close to spring on Vancouver Island. When I go out into the natural world, I’m starting to see and hear all those signs of spring. The birds are returning. There’s a little bit of new growth, like new buds and spring mushrooms, starting to come up. There is a lot of moisture around here this time of year we’ve had a really wet winter, so there’s an abundance of those kind of resources available to the natural environments, and so it’s a beautiful time of year. Just on the cusp of having had this season of taking in resources and resting and more quiet as far as growth and getting ready to be in that season of expansion.
So that’s something that I am able to see and feel really clearly when I’m tuning in outside.
[00:06:44] Ying: Being in nature and in this time of things are awakening. Yeah. It’s such a exciting time always for me.
Sensitivity and Self Care
[00:06:52] Lisa: It’s beautiful. To the other aspect of your question as far as how my identities shape how I’m meeting this moment, because of my sensitivity, I need to be very committed to resourcing myself and caring for myself and tending to my own heart because I am susceptible to burning out.
I really am in all the ways, and what I’ve come to see is that. I have such a deep desire to be just one part of the response to the times we’re living in. I feel that it’s an opportunity and a responsibility being alive on the planet at this time to be part of a response that can be, maybe beneficial, or at the very least, have a good dose of compassion and kindness woven into it to balance, some of the other energies that are out there. And in order for me to do that, I’m gonna use that word sustainably again. I need to care for myself and tend to my own nervous system first as a highly sensitive person and a neuro divergent person.
And so for me, that means that the practices that are part of my toolkit, my resource center need to be at the top of my priority list, not just as I have time or in between these other things that feel really important. And so that’s one way I think that my identity shapes how I’m showing up in a really big way.
That’s been a learning curve for me throughout my life, and I think now I have more clarity around that than I ever have. Being part of these times we’re living in, in the way that I want to and what I hope will be beneficial in reducing some of the suffering in the world means caring for myself, as the very first thing on my list before anything else.
[00:08:36] Ying: I love what you said about prioritizing the
Pillar Practices Toolkit
[00:08:39] Ying: practices. So tell me a bit more about what are the practices and how do you prioritize them?
[00:08:44] Lisa: I can answer that a couple ways. One is I have what I call pillar practices, and these are really foundations of wellbeing for me and I’ve come to see clearly that I can’t negotiate on these. I can explain them pretty simply. One, you’re getting the sense of this here, nature.
So time in the natural world is one of them. The other is my contemplative practices, which for me is I have a seated meditation practice. I’m also really trying to incorporate mindfulness throughout my daily life and, reflective practices. Then it’s very important for me to have nourishing sources of connection or community.
Sometimes that’s with the human world. Sometimes it’s with other than humans. But it’s really important to have that sense of connection, belonging, community. And then the last, I grouped several under this category of nourishment, which for me is food and rest and movement. So, the ways that I’m caring for this vessel that I’m housed in.
And so those are the pillars. They’re really what I don’t negotiate on and I have come to see them as the basis for any type of service or being able to show up the ways that matter to me. And I would add one more to that list, which has been really prominent for me over the past couple of years, and it’s something called Maitri practice.
So Maitri is a Buddhist word and translated it means unconditional friendliness or unconditional friendship with oneself. And so I have really been deeply immersing myself in this as a practice, because I think that’s required, at least it is for me to develop a deeply true and strong, steady friendship with myself. Just like I also see love as a practice Ying, I really see love as a practice rather than a decision or an action. It’s a practice. And so, these are things that I return to again and again in my life in various different ways, and they become that bedrock that supports anything else I might wanna create in other aspects of my life.
We will be right back. First, if today’s episode is resonating with you, I’m available for one-on-one coaching for ADHD adults who are ready to stop forcing and start building a life that actually flows with their brain. My approach is mindful, strategic, and multidimensional because you are more than a to-do list.
If you’re curious, there’s a link in the show notes to book a free discovery call. I would love to connect.
[00:11:22] Ying: I love that there’s so many good things here. One is the belonging and connection through more than just humans. I think that’s something neurodivergent folks, at least for me, it really rings true of nature and other than human being beings fulfill that need for love and belonging. And, the unconditional friendliness with oneself.
Maitri Self Friendship
[00:11:44] Ying: Can you tell me a bit more about that? I think that’s a piece my audience probably really would love to learn more. ’cause the adhd folks usually struggle with a strong sense of. Self-judgment, shame, and stories we tell ourselves. I’m really curious about how do you turn it around and to become that unconditional friendliness.
[00:12:05] Lisa: Well the reason that this has become such a foundational practice for me is because I’m right there with what you described, and I spent so much of my life with a really harsh inner critic, a lot of shame. I would go to war with aspects of myself, my sensitivity.
When I first heard about this practice close to 20 years ago, and actually initially my response was that I was suspicious and a little angry at this idea. It sounded so out of touch. It sounded so unrealistic to develop an unconditional friendship with myself and I think I confused it with maybe self-indulgence, the idea of not having any kind of standards or desire for growth with myself. And so I’ve had to come to understand friendship in a very different way than that. This is not being nice to myself all the time, and so it allowed me to reflect on. What does it mean to be the friend I most need in each moment?
And this is my guiding inquiry. So I’m asking myself this question on an ongoing basis. What does it mean to be the friend that I most need in this moment? And sometimes that is a friend who offers tenderness, kindness. Sometimes it’s a friend that offers the willingness to tell me like it is, with love. It’s the kind of friend who’s willing to sit with me in those really dark moments where shame is present because that’s gonna come up. Befriending myself unconditionally does not mean that I no longer deal with emotions like shame or that I don’t have the inner critic arise, but it’s being willing to stay with myself in those moments and not turn away.
It’s being willing to not abandon myself when I am reactive or I have shame come up and this leaves a lot of room for growth and for the evolution that I used to believe only would come from being really hard on myself. So I see this as this kind of daily responsive orientation to what’s here.
Asking myself what does it mean to be the friend I most need in this moment. And over time, I’ve built a lot of trust in my inner environment that I can in an unconditional way. I never would’ve thought that would be the case, especially with how I reacted to even the idea of it all those years ago.
At least for me, this is such a practice, like it’s an ongoing daily commitment choice in a moment by moment way. And it’s imperfect of course, but I have a lot of confidence now in this as a really important part of my overall wellbeing and I see way more love in the world now that I am able to, in a sincere way, reflect and offer that to myself, and it has only grown my capacity for compassion and kindness for other people too.
[00:15:07] Ying: I love that it’s like it’s staying with oneself and not abandoning ourselves through it all. Through those hard moments, through those shame and asking ourselves what it would be like to be a good friend to us in that moment. And it actually really reminds me of how I finally warmed up to having routines as somebody with adhd.
’cause I used to be like, oh my God, I hate routines. Why would anybody do the same thing over and over again? That sounds so boring and so restrictive. I linked it with building secure attachment with myself.
[00:15:43] Lisa: Yeah. Beautiful.
[00:15:44] Ying: If I show up to my routines or show up in some sort of way for myself, that’s how I show love to myself.
’cause that’s how you show love and build secure attachment to other people. So that was the only way I somehow rerouted in my brain. I was like, oh, routines don’t have to be this boring thing. Actually, it’s the same of the unconditional friendliness to myself.
Tending the Soil Metaphor
[00:16:07] Lisa: I love that. Something that was coming up for me. I often think like, what are examples of this in nature? I think of mitri really as tending the soil because if I’m harsh with myself, if I’m constantly braced, if I’m withholding resources from myself, nothing sustainable is gonna grow from that kind of ground.
But when I stay in compassionate, honest relationship with my own heart over time, that really enriches the soil and then my actions in the world grow from that steadiness rather than from this place of depletion. It reminds me of this way of just a little at a time, nourishing the soil that we have.
That is what everything else in our life grows from. And I’d love that you were able to see routines as loving yourself because loving ourself can look a lot of ways. It’s not only bubble baths and chocolate, although I love both of those things and they are part of my life too.
That and mochi. Yes. And bubble tea. Yes. We have to bring that in.
[00:17:02] Ying: Love that the prepping the soil. The reason why I’ve been getting so into wine is I probably will record a podcast later about how I feel like wine making is such a perfect analogy for cultivating oneself and especially around the new year, I was thinking everybody’s talking about New year resolution of what’s your goal?
How do you wanna get there? And nobody is asking the question of how do you prep your soil. If you don’t prep your soil? Why do we expect that the same crop will have high yield year after year. In nature, we know that’s not possible ’cause the soil will be depleted of nutrients and the plants won’t grow very well.
But we don’t seem to pause and ask that question about our own lives how do we prep the soil for this year?
[00:17:46] Lisa: Yeah. We’re such a harvest focused society, right. We focus so much on harvest and it’s like, well, there was a lot that went into that harvest time, including seasons where it looked like nothing was really going on in compost and all kinds of things that often humans aren’t as excited about putting our
What’s Mine to Do
[00:18:05] Lisa: attention on.
[00:18:06] Ying: And I think this leads to what engaged practice or value-driven action looks like for you right now?
[00:18:12] Lisa: I feel it’s so important to tend to my own nervous system and care for myself as like a baseline, so that that has to come first. And then from there, I love the question. I’ve heard several people ask a question like this of some version of what’s mine to do?
And I think asking some kind of question like that is really important because if I look out into the world. Just from the sense of what is needed, there’s so many needs that it can quickly become just paralyzing. Like I don’t know where to begin serving all the different needs or being engaged in the actions that feel necessary right now.
I think first there’s this step of refining what matters most to me or where do I see opportunities for me to be in service that are aligned with my values and my availability and my energy and all of that, taking that resource calculation first. But for me, because I believe so strongly in everything we’ve been talking about, that in order for anyone to be in service in a sustainable way, we need to care for our nervous systems first. I am very committed to creating and holding spaces that support folks in these same practices. So offering spaces for connection and refuge and the chance to build this opportunity to befriend themselves and resource themselves so that they are able to give in whatever ways or serve in whatever ways are important.
A little more specifically what that looks like in my life, I lead sanghas, which are small practice communities where folks come together and connect and get to practice with others. I share teachings and reflections that I hope will serve as resources for people through my YouTube channel.
I’m part of Tara Brach’s year long program Choosing to Love, and this is an incredible global community of folks who are coming together with this shared intention of choosing love right now in the midst of it. In these times that we’re living in right now. I’m so inspired by that.
I really believe that that’s incredibly active, engaged practice and way of showing up right now is choosing to love, and the other engaged action as we spoke about is I think it’s really important to widen my view, to get out in the natural world, to see all the ways that nature is thriving in these times, and not to get too hyper-focused on where things seem broken or like they’re not going right. So it’s like finding that balance. I think that’s part of engaged action too, is doing kind of revolutionary things like choosing to rest, choosing joy, finding moments for fun because it’s that other side of the coin that makes it possible to be in service in a wholehearted sustainable way.
So that’s what it looks like for me. And I’ve been really inspired seeing a lot of beautiful other examples in the world as well as how other people are showing up and meeting these times.
We will be right back. First, if today’s episode is resonating with you, I’m available for one-on-one coaching for ADHD adults who are ready to stop forcing and start building a life that actually flows with their brain. My approach is mindful, strategic, and multidimensional because you are more than a to-do list.
If you’re curious, there’s a link in the show notes to book a free discovery call. I would love to connect.
[00:21:36] Ying: I love of figuring out what’s mine to do and then asking that sincere questions of what matters to oneself and what our energy level can
Love as a Verb
[00:21:48] Ying: sustain. And when I heard about the choosing to love question, one question popped up was, what does love mean for you?
[00:21:55] Lisa: I’m so glad you asked that question. Obviously I think we could have a many hour long conversation in response to that question, but similarly to how I reflected earlier on that term of friendship. I do not perceive love as a feeling alone. When I think about love, it’s not only, an emotion or a feeling that I have inside myself, I very much see love as a verb.
It’s an action word. And depending on, it’s a response depending on the conditions that we’re facing in that moment, and so sometimes what feels like love to me is being, really willing to courageously lean in and name things that feel like they need to be named in a moment. And it might be very uncomfortable.
I don’t think love always feels really warm and fuzzy. I’ve had a lot of moments where what feels like the most loving response for me is actually tremendously uncomfortable for me and potentially for the others involved. And so it’s really a moment by moment response to what’s happening. Staying connected to this idea of like a highest good, that broadest kind of vision of what’s really needed here. So it can be everything from what you might easily associate with love, compassion, kindness, care, protection, when I can offer those things. And sometimes it’s being willing to have difficult conversations to name and stand up for what feels right or true in that moment.
To stand alone sometimes is what’s needed, because that can be a really hard thing to do. And so again, I think love is so much a practice, a responsive practice of sensing into what’s needed from that really broad, highest, good perspective. And that’s how I think about love. So it can look a lot of different ways.
[00:23:57] Ying: That’s beautiful. Again I think it’s coming back to the unconditional friendliness. I’m hearing similarities, the moment to moment response. And I’m really curious about, as I know you, you have a full life, you, have a lot of, things you want to do. How did you shift from a habitual way of doing things and habitual way of, I got all these things I wanna accomplish.
Becoming able to have this moment to moment response of love and friendliness, whether it’s to you, to yourself, or to the greater
Begin Again Practice
[00:24:30] Ying: world.
[00:24:31] Lisa: Well, the first thing I can say is, it’s a work in progress, my friend, and it’s a practice. And I have been practicing in various different ways for, half my life now, 20 years I have invested in this. And so it was not any kind of quick fix thing that I had some intellectual understanding of this being what I wanted to do, and then I just checked the box and there we go. So I would say it’s absolutely a practice and it’s imperfect and some things that really. Have been important to developing that practice have been consistency. So when it comes to things like practice, I think something that gets in the way sometimes is folks, including myself, having an idea that it needs to look a certain way.
So there’s this idea that practice needs to be X, it needs to be meditating or getting on a yoga mat for this many times a week for this many moments. Getting kind of rigid about this idea of what a practice should be. And I have a very different perspective when it comes to practice, so I think practice is being willing to stay awake to what’s happening.
And that itself is a learned skill and. Bringing compassion in the moments when it doesn’t go well or when it feels like I’ve really got pulled off track, or maybe I didn’t stay in alignment with my intention to be kind to myself or to someone else. Because what can happen, I think, is we have really high standards for ourselves.
As soon as we see like, oh, we’re off track. There can be this thing. Well, I’ve already messed it all up. Like, what’s the point? Throw in the towel. And so I think it’s that willingness to just begin again and begin again. And begin again, and begin again. I believe a Chinese proverb fall down seven times, stand up eight. I think that is at the basis of what I have found to be really effective in developing these kind of practices is taking them on sincerely and not feeling like I’ve messed it all up in the moments when I’m not able to embody what I wish and intend and aspire to embody in life, and instead just returning to it again and again. In mindfulness, we talk about the moment I realize that I’ve been swept away, not awake, lost in a story. That’s it. That’s the practice. It’s that moment of recognizing. So rather than seeing that as a failure, seeing it as that’s the whole thing, okay, I see it now and let’s begin again.
[00:27:08] Ying: Yeah, to start again, having genuine intention and have compassion of, yes, we will definitely get off track and then
[00:27:17] Lisa: yeah.
Resistance and Hope Stories
[00:27:17] Ying: Start again. I love that. And one question I have is what are you seeing in your community, of examples of resistance, and sources of hope? Just whatever is inspiring you now.
[00:27:31] Lisa: There’s so many sources of inspiration. When I look into the human world, me, like millions of others, I was so inspired by the monks and their walk for peace. I was just so inspired. This simple action of walking and I think it ties into what we were talking about, just the consistency.
Day after day, not trying to take responsibility for the whole world or make anything magical happen, but getting out and, and walking and staying with it and one foot in front of the other, that was so inspiring to me. And all the peaceful protests. You know, I really believe it’s an important thing and I recognize it’s taken a good dose of courage.
I’m in Canada, so I am not facing, for example, what the folks in Minnesota have been facing, and I have found very heartening to see people willing to, in a peaceful way, continue to gather and make their voices heard and be willing to name the things they see that do not feel in alignment with the world that they wanna be part of or create.
This amazing cohort of folks in this Choosing to Love program. Just hearing their stories and seeing them show up and be willing to be doing this work actively in their own lives and communities. I find that very inspiring. And in my own sanghas, same thing. When it comes down to it, I have this sense that this large scale change that so many of us are hoping for and wanting to be part of, it happens in small moments. It happens in little individual moments, small choices and changes and quiet moments often. And so seeing folks in all the different ways, choose what’s important to them and contribute that into the whole, I think it really matters because. I don’t believe it’s possible for any of us individually to change the whole world, but our individual contributions become part of that whole, and when there’s enough people who are contributing from places of care and compassion and love within themselves. I think that eventually becomes the dominant kind of energy in a way that doesn’t require domination.
It’s just the energy that becomes more prevalent in our shared field. I’m really inspired by that and all the ways that looks for many different folks. It can look so many ways and the other than human world, you don’t have to look far. I just see endless examples of hope and resilience.
I watched a robin. Singing after a long winter this morning, just like singing with all its heart. And I thought, wow, there’s such hope in that there’s such resilience that after this season of maybe disconnection and limited resources winter entails this. Robin found its way to stand up on the top of this tree and share its voice and its song out into the world. That’s not hopeful. I don’t know what is, and we all have our song to sing is how I think of it. So it was such a beautiful thing. And nature has a way of reminding me that even what might seem heartbreaking or wrong in moments can be part of larger cycles of renewal. So compost, that decay like that yuckiness, that is absolutely necessary to lead to fertile soil and the growth that you’re talking about, the harvest that we can be so focused on. So it’s recognizing all of this. What’s happening is not necessarily something that’s going wrong, but it’s in a part of a larger cycle, and that we can really contribute to the shape of these cycles through our own individual contributions.
[00:31:11] Ying: Oh, I love that. I love that you included both human and more than human examples. As i’m listening to you, I’m really being reminded again of the interconnection piece. If we are looking at what’s needed in the world, I personally definitely sometimes gets overwhelmed, but to remember that like you said, the bigger change happen in smaller moments and the fact that we’re all interconnected and those small moments all have some ripple effects out to the world. And then hopefully cumulatively and over time, love become the more accessible energy.
[00:31:47] Lisa: Yeah.
[00:31:48] Ying: Love that. As we come to an end, I would love to see if you have any practice or collective well wishes for the world.
Embodiment: Coming to Senses
[00:31:57] Lisa: We’ve talked a lot about caring for our nervous systems today. So I’d love to close with a short embodiment practice and, and I call this a practice for quite literally coming to our senses. You’ve probably heard that phrase before. We need to come to our senses in moments of confusion, overwhelm.
So I like this practice because it really makes that very practical. I will guide us through it. And I will say that the steps of this practice can be done in just a few breaths anytime, anywhere. So this is a big one that I have in my toolkit out in the world, and I’ll offer a little more guidance today, just so I hope that you and anyone listening can get a felt sense experience of it.
I’ll invite you and anyone who’s listening, we might just begin by arriving here together through a few deeper fuller breaths. We’re gonna begin this practice eyes open, and I’ll invite you just to take a few breaths. Notice that the body is breathing, first of all, and you might just fill the lungs and the belly with breath on the inhale. So a nice, deep, full. And then on the exhale, sometimes it feels good to let it go with a bit of a sigh, and we’ll start with the eyes open by noticing what’s here in this moment visually. So perhaps bringing some softness to the eyes, not straining to see, and just looking around a bit, taking in your environment. If you can let go of labeling what you’re seeing and instead take in your surroundings as though for the very first time, so just noticing color and light, shape and shadow, and texture. So just for a few breaths here, experiencing this moment through the doorway of the eyes. What’s it like and now if it feels comfortable and if it’s safe, if you’re not driving or walking, you might invite the eyes to close and shifting the attention to open to sound. So listening as though your ears were microphones. So not searching for sound, but receiving it. Maybe close sounds, distant sounds. And again, rather than labeling them, see if you can receive the sounds as sensations. Just letting them come and go. And now bringing the awareness to the sense of smell, perhaps breathing slightly deeper through the nose. Experiencing the sense of smell with curiosity. What is the scent of this moment, and then shifting the attention to taste. Noticing whatever subtle taste there may be inside the mouth, maybe taking a few breaths through an open mouth and seeing if this changes the experience of taste. And then bringing the attention to the felt sense of the body. So feeling maybe your feet on the ground or the support of the surface beneath you. Noticing the sensation at those contact points. Maybe your seat in the chair, your hands in your lap, and inviting the body to rest. Into whatever support you are standing or seated, or lying down on.
So relaxing into that support and letting yourself be held, letting the body be heavy, soft.
And finally broadening the attention now to take in this whole body symphony of sensations.
Recognizing yourself as resting between earth and sky,
and acknowledging that the same elements in earth and water and stone are present in your own body.
Every breath you take was once the exhale of trees, plants, algae.
So connecting to the truth of your belonging within the larger web of life, and taking a moment just to rest in that.
It’s one unique part of the living whole.
And then when you’re ready, just gently coming back. You might open the eyes really slowly, so taking your time, inviting a little movement in your fingers or toes. Mm-hmm. Thank you for your practice. .
[00:39:25] Ying: Thank
Closing Thanks and Farewell
[00:39:25] Ying: you. Thank you for leading us through the practice, Lisa, and thank you for being here.
[00:39:32] Lisa: Yeah, it’s been joyful to get to have this conversation with you, my friend. Thank you for having me.
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