by Laura Valenti | Dec 19, 2023 | General
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That’s why it loves perfectionists—it’s so easy to keep us quiet. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we’ve basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates...
by Laura Valenti | Aug 1, 2023 | Blog Posts
“The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”...
by Laura Valenti | Jul 25, 2023 | Blog Posts
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu I invite you to watch this video. It is only 10 minutes long. It is about the radical practice of ‘doing nothing’. I also share some ideas about the nervous system and the...
by Laura Valenti | Jul 18, 2023 | General
“The body always leads us home, if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough for it to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight, or feeling.” – Pat Ogden I’m going to share a straightforward somatic centering...
by Laura Valenti | Jul 11, 2023 | Blog Posts
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will...
