Dispatch—Issue No. 03

Sweet Soul,

Deep breath in and out. Heart swelling, mind acutely aware, body relaxed.

Check in with yourself—how’s your mind? how’s your heart? how does your body feel?

Stop, pause, close your eyes and notice where the air around you meet your face, your skin, your hands and feet.

Take a deeper breath. Breathe in peace, exhale heaviness.

It all starts with you, within you, within the field that emanates outside of and around you.

Everything you touch, listen to, read, and engage with is sacred.

Your energy is sacred—you are sacred.

WHAT’S MOST ALIVE FOR ME THIS WEEK?

Rest.

Working more than usual has left my body calling for more softness and rest—and where I used to push myself until burnout, I’m finding it easier to honor and respect what the intelligence of my body is communicating to me.

As I am posting lessons within the Living Curriculum each week, I am also moving through them myself and this week slow movement and containment exercises have been nothing short of essential.

The feeling of tuning into your body after a long day and feeling all of the spaces where you’ve tightened, where tense residue still resides within your fascia and muscles to then slowly release it from the body through movement is the most exquisite experience.

The moment where you’re tending to a particularly tight or tense area and you feel your body in the pose finally surrender, relax, and melt—to place your hands on your heart and womb while sitting still to just listen.

Hugging yourself and realizing, hey, this is actually kind of nice—rocking back and forth, self-soothing.

During busy weeks this is where my attention turns in the small moments of pause.

When the line lulls at work leaning into a forward fold and allowing my spine to stretch and neck to fully relax and release.

Closing my eyes during a break and taking 3-5 mins. to just breathe. Intentionally. Gratefully. Slowly.

Knowing that peace is available to me in any given moment—that I don’t have to accomplish x, y, z, reach a certain level of productivity, or get to a certain point in life to experience safety, peace, and sweet stillness within my being.

And that you don’t either.

That’s what’s most alive for me this week and the gift I’m ever grateful for.

WHAT’S BLOOMING?

• 🎙️ New on the Podcast: Gene Key 2: Returning to the One—From Dislocation to Unity)
  

• 🌲 Download Podcast Companion Workbook
  

• 🌸 Project Void Update: I’ve been out of the loop with tending to Project Void and have been more focused on my Podcast and Course as of late—I’m setting the intention to return back to my daily writing practice softly, no matter how much or little I write. I’m leaving this here so that I can create some accountability and carry intentional devotion into this coming week.
  

• ✨ Latest Living Curriculum Lesson: Module 1 (Somatic Practice), Part I (Your Nervous System)
  

WITHIN MY FIELD—

• 📚 I’m currently reading Nectar of the Wicked by Ella Fields, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt and The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh.

• 🍵 My go-to drink this week has for sure been a Raspberry Peach Celsius.

• 🎧 I’ve been listening to Disney Channel Original movie songs all week and my inner teenager has never been happier—When the Rain Falls from Pixel Perfect? Perfection.

• ✨ Quote of the Week: “The question we need to put to any writer must be does she or he augment our consciousness, and how is it done? I find this a rough but effectual test; however I have been entertained has my awareness been intensified, my consciousness widened and clarified? If not, I have encountered talent not genius—what is best and oldest in myself has not been activated.”
  
  — Harold Bloom, Genius

WHAT’S STIRRING?
 
I have created a free ‘Elemental Creation Companion’ just for you.

I’ve been leaning more into seasonal, elemental, and cyclical creation and this has helped me enter into the flow of creation that feels right for me each day.

Think of this companion like a creative flow menu—catering to your energy levels, schedule, projects, designed to fit whatever mold your soul and creations are shifting into.

That being said, I’m dreaming up a free 7-day email mini course that consists of daily ‘Gentle Creative Invitations’.

If this would be something you’d be interested in, stay tuned…

May your week unfold like the most beautiful of petals. 

An invitation to write back if something here speaks to you, is always open—I will respond.
 
In Devotion,
Kayla S. Graham