“Yesterday morning I feel like I went on a mini-journey - and with no drugs! What a gift, to experience my own body and mind shift so readily and palpably. The combination of the three modalities brought me to a place of sparkling aliveness, and deep, calm grounded safety, and tender availability, one after the other, like an expertly crafted meal with perfectly complementary flavors. Your presence makes it all flow. You brought me in and down and up and out all in an hour and a half.”

This was the feedback I received after giving my first experimental fusion Sacrum Belly Breath offering a couple days ago, combining active breathwork, craniosacral, and abdominal massage in a three-part session.

ICYMI (in case you missed it), I wrote about the concept and origin story for the new offering in last week’s email.

I feel so lit up by this offering!! These three modalities are some of my favorite things to receive personally (hence why I’ve trained in them)…and bringing them into concert with one another feels so right. as if they were longing for each other and are now getting to rejoice in gathering in ceremony together.

“An Expertly Crafted Meal With Perfectly Complementary Flavors”

These words really stuck out to me from the testimonial above, because they really nail it.

The alchemical magic of bringing ingredients together that enhance and support one another…

Listen, active breathwork practice is…intense. It’s not suited for every moment, but when it’s good, daaaaaaamn what was thaaaat!? — it’s… strikingly powerful.

and you know what I like to do after a really intense powerful experience??? Take my time, letting it settle.

…but with support.

I remember the first time I ever did active breathwork — it was a breathwork + soundbath thing — so after 45 min of breathwork I had a full 45 min to rest back into the sound washing over me…the sound and spaciousness were both so supportive to my system recalibrating after all the movement of the breathwork.

In this Sacrum Belly Breath session — after about 20 min of amplified breath, you are invited to settle into the support of a 20 min sacral hold, something we experienced a lot as babies as we were tenderly cradled in the arms of our caregivers…

After some sweet settling and digesting, we move into belly work. This may happen through the blanket, or hands on skin if that feels right for you in the moment.

Have you ever received belly massage? I want to say something like “it goes straight to the heart” but it’s not quite right for obvious anatomical reasons…but as my Chi Nei Tsang (ancient taoist abdominal massage) teacher said…the belly is the seat of the emotions.

The Belly Is The Seat Of The Emotions

and Oh my goodness, can somebody PLEASE directly massage my emotions because FOR HEAVENS SAKE BEING HUMAN!!! (***faints dramatically***)

So.

If you’re curious, jump in, I will meet you at the altar with a perfect temperature cup of tea and a warm invitation to try something new.

Book a Sacrum Belly Breath session here. It’s not listed on my site so this email is your key to this particular magic castle ;)

I’m leaving LA August 1 so don’t wait. ♡

deep breaths and LOTS of love,

your mari mu ♡

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