This is a bit of my manifesto when I sat with why am I being called to re-launch Sit in Your Center now. May it welcome you in & may it invite you to investigate what gifts you are here to share.
With love, Kate
When I first created Sit In Your Center—7 seven years ago—it was to educate women on the potential and power within as I had learned apprenticing a holistic, lineal healing art. I had to let my mind be reorganized to perceive the philosophies and lifestyles that held keys to body harmony and healing. When I was germinating on the class and talking with a good friend on on a backroad next to a mountain range on O’ahu, I said “I have to share what I learned with the people I grew up with.” That’s how I felt. I had an obligation to share what had helped me.
My archetype in every human esoteric system—human design, Vedic or Western astrology, enneagram and on—is teacher. I had someone look at my chart Vedically once and compare the constellation to a very famous Indian poet. The astrologer said, “That is simply what the stars say. You are here to share what you learn through living and gaining wisdom. Luckily, you get better at life the longer you live it and that is not always a guarantee.”
I was in my thirties then, and on the cusp of a very big change on every level of my life. So I read that very optimistically, and a bit naively as I was a high school teacher at the time.
My late thirties brought SIt in Your Center.
My early forties brought motherhood.
My middle forties are brining a bit of – Rebirth.
You know, the year I wrote the book was probably one of the hardest most humbling of my life, and I was rather furious that I was forced to write [my own] Rebirth.
But now, as a mother I can see, the birth process is one thing. Then there is the growth after the birth. The orientation to life and parents, to a body, to bone pushing through gums and to realizing that all you knew before this moment feels very far away and you are left with the only choice of surrendering to what is.
And that is one of the absolutely intoxicating allures of being in the presence of a new born child. The sheer magnificence of their heavenly arrival; their perfection; their trust; their still palpable cloak of God’s love. They feel like a miracle and as a mother you are shocked they lived within, and as a human you cannot truly explain that this once was you — this still is you, a miraculous arrival of the divine.
After birth are the sleepless nights, the throw up, the pee, the exhaustion, the confusion—and the growth. There is so much growth. As my mom says, “You can sometimes watch them grow as they sleep.”
Nature repeats her patterns because they are miraculous and they work. Giraffes and humans have the same number of cervical vertebrae—they present differently, but come from the same pattern.
So if the years of your own rebirthing are tough, look to the way a baby is born of growth and surrender. They come in with everything they need, and with the joyful amazing path of learning what is necessary to become what they are here to share.
Same with you.
Again and again.
As, I was sitting (yup) with what is different about Sit in Your Center now, and why I am sharing it a friend, who took the class, then brought it to her own yoga community texted me a photo of the flyer she had made 7 years ago. Which, took as quite a confirmation in timing. Incidentally, at the time, our sons were not born, but they would eventually go to the same school for a bit.
I say that because if you are here reading this, I’d like to remind you that absolutely nothing in your life is a coincidence and the more you walk in comfort with your body, your purpose and your power the more the inter-connected golden thread that winds though the cosmos reveals itself, if only in hindsight via text.
So this mastermind of Sit is a call from educate to repair. The last few years have stripped many of us bare, and what remains is indefatigable (even if you feel exhausted.)
We humans build.
We create.
We as women were born with the power to birth from the void: children, projects, songs, love, farms, books…hope. It matters not what you birth, yet it is important to acknowledge that you are designed to create and where you place your attention is what is formed.
I’m tired of the fear. I am tired of the isolation and the lies that we are not miraculous. How about you?
Do you feel the pulse to create but are not sure what?
Do you have so much to share but not a community to share it in?
Or feel silenced by some of the current expectations of the world’s culture?
Then join us in Sit In Your Center. Come gather with other mission-led women to create the world they want to live in and believe that children have the tight to inherit. You do not have to be a mother, only the belief in the inter-conenctedness of one human family with the divine right to live in our own unique celebration of life with the freedom we were gifted at birth.
Time and time again, as a teacher, as a overwhelmed solo-preneur, and as a woman, I have witnessed and been catapulted by the power of supportive community. A container, as I call it in all my online classes, gifts you a sanctified space to grow and rearrange to make your intentions a daily reality, one step at a time.
I finally know why Sit in Your Center was waiting for now to welcome all of you. It is not about the growth that comes in lines and seasons, it is about the certainty and freedom that spirals out from the valleys and peaks of living, it is about the “beauty of broken things” as Terry Tempest Williams writes.Because the world is trying to tell us we are broken, but we know we are only being broken open to share a beauty that we brought with us from the stars.
It’s time we took back the power of creating and place it in universal alignment so we can rest knowing that what we did with this one precious life we were given – is that we lived it.
With clarity and faith,
Kate
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