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ep. #18 
Ashely and Mallika explore various pillars of wellness and how to bring them in during the winter months. Winter is not just a time of year where energy disappears, but actually there is a different kind of energy present and available to us. 
It's an energy of darkness - not like evil, but like the quiet, underbelly of life, the waters we were born from, the soft, warmth that we all need. 


Topics we cover:

• Chinese Medicine's calendar of the seasons
• Lack of relationship between capitalist economy and the need for rest
• Ways to incorporate deepening rest even when we have to keep working full-time
• Myelination of our nerves and our bodies
• Why electronics are worse for us in the winter
• Energy available for slow evening learning of craft activities
• Great time of year to practice meditating, especially if you have a hard time with it normally
• Using the landscape to prompt our psychological processes
• Dream journaling
• Movement practice in the dark
• Foods that nourish and foods that deplete

Ashely's Chinese Medicine teacher Bronwyn Ayla
Jessica Prentice's cookbook Full Moon Feast

Ashley's website
Ashley's Instagram
Ashley's Parent Prayer Circle

Mallika's website
Mallika's Instagram
Mallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art Process

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