This post is part of my monthly rhythm that offers Reflection, Practice, & Conversation on a collective healing theme. This month’s theme is: Connecting with your soul’s deeper knowing in trying times. Enjoying these? Then give them some love by liking, subscribing, or forwarding to a friend. Your support means a lot.
With this month’s theme being about soul connection—specifically this idea that the times we live in and all of the pain and muck they’re filled with, have the potential to bring us closer to our souls—I knew exactly who I wanted to have a conversation with.
Shawna Emerick is so many things—1000+ hour trained yoga teacher, trauma-informed and somatic integration facilitator, Thai body work therapist, Circle facilitator. But above all of this—or, better put, throughout all of this—Shawna is someone who truly lives and leads from a place of soul connection. Both in her life (with family and friends) and in how she works with community members and clients, like through her A.L.I.G.N. coaching sessions (more on that below).
So when it comes to questions like:
What does it really mean to connect with your soul in practice, in your day-to-day life?
And what does it have to do with the times we live in—the breakdown and pain we’re going through as a world?
Shawna was the perfect person to partner up with.
If you’re looking to come down into your heart space and reflect on the times we live in, grab your tissues and check out this episode. In it we explore:
What it actually means to connect with your soul
Holding humanity’s heart through your inner world and sensitivity
Transmuting guilt of privilege, safety, comfort into something generative.
Offering micro-moments of happiness, joy, peace as a dedication to others.
How to spiritually keep your eyes and heart open to the suffering in the world
Grief as a doorway and its role in opening us to that soul essence connection that’s all around us and within each one of us
The importance of compassion with awareness
I love Shawna so much, and loved our time together in this conversation. I hope you do too. Take a listen and let me know what you think. And if you know someone who would receive from this, please share it with them.
Sending you love, Liz
Learn more and connect with Shawna Emerick
Self-Compassion for Hard Days
Free resource
A series of three guided meditation practices (each under 10 minutes) to help restore some level of resilience during particularly difficult days. Along the way, she also explores some of the most persistent and often damaging myths about Self-Compassion. » Get them here
A.L.I.G.N. Coaching Sessions
Alive | Loving | Imagined | Guided | Nurtured
Through her ALIGN sessions, the client learns how to become their own guru, their own coach, their own Guide. Being better able to understand their bodies cues, their bodies emotional intelligence, their hearts deep wisdoms, their intuitive knowings, and deepening their trust within themselves as they strengthen their ability to discern the messages received from mind, body, and heart. » Learn more
Yoga Classes
Uptown NYC & online
The classes I lead become a sacred space, a sanctuary, and a home for you. Within the intentions in every class, there is a space in which to contemplate lifes curiosities, magnificence, and doubts. Spiritually infused words, quotes, texts, are used to support the contemplations as we move together. The movement is created in relationship with the intention; the two becoming a moving exploration for feeling and embodying the emotions that are stirred. » Sign up & learn more
Thai massage body work
Thai yoga is a therapeutic practice that integrates passive stretching techniques with acupressure to enhance flexibility and circulation‚ relieve tension‚ anxiety and stress‚ and detoxify the body. » Learn more
