The Embody Podcast | Alignment + Loving Yourself

187: [Reverie] : Mystery & the Moon [A Poem]

When love forces its way and you surrender to the Mystery of what life brings you, the dance of the unknown and the present moment of delight. A poem for lovers who want to control… where Love cannot be tamed.About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual SucculentsThe sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty.[Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear.As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST.Enjoy in your own way.TranscriptionThe moon3.16.22The moon nearly full As big as the heart you stoleYou took it and hid She knew what you didGive it back She screamed But Love still beamedPeeking out uncertain A tender kiss behind the curtainMystery and Moon whisper a fate Whilst they await her shapeNo matter, let’s not waste this wane As she makes a round againMy darling, my heart and the Moon I’ll see you all until soonLinks, Articles, and Resources:All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/reverie13Podcast Homepage 🎧 https://CandiceWu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community 💌 https://CandiceWu.com/embodyDonations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝 https://CandiceWu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook 👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram 📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureSponsored BySupport The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support.🎧 Show Notes:0:00 Intro 0:52 Poem

186: Support and Soothing Experiential

We underestimate the amount of support and soothing our bodies need. Jump into a brief experiential to ease your body to soothe and comfort your nervous system, heart and body.Links, Articles, and Resources:All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/SupportAndSoothingPodcast Homepage 🎧 https://CandiceWu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community 💌 https://CandiceWu.com/embodyDonations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝 https://CandiceWu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook 👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram 📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureSponsored ByAre you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported - that someone’s got your back - and that’s you! Find both online workshops here where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time they are pay what you can/want at a sliding scale.🎧 Show Notes:0:00 Intro 1:16 Opening 2:29 Experiential

185: [Reverie] : I Can’t Miss [A Poem for the Lost]

I wrote this poem in the midst of a falling apart, lost, dissembling kind of moment — the moment of dark before the sun… feeling that the sun was coming but not knowing when!About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual SucculentsThe sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty.[Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear.As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST.Enjoy in your own way.TranscriptionHere I go Through the tunnel again I don’t know who I’ll be On the other endLet go, dissemble Crumble, I sigh How many times In this life Must I dieTo be The pheonix I must unknow I must get bare To Let me GrowThere’s only one flow That is mine So I get in Oh please, be DivineBittersweet Surrender I give in to the abyss I’m reminded It’s a given …I can’t missLinks, Articles, and Resources:All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/reverie12Podcast Homepage 🎧 https://CandiceWu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community 💌 https://CandiceWu.com/embodyDonations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝 https://CandiceWu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook 👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram 📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureSponsored BySupport The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support.🎧 Show Notes:0:00 Intro 0:57 Poem

184: Honor the Mothers & The Expansion That Created Your Foundation

Join me in this episode to honor the mothers and women of your ancestral lines along with a discussion around how to handle parts of our lineage we reject. The ways of being that may be limitations for us might have been expansion for previous generations. Turn rejection into resource and shift into your own uncharted expansion!Links, Articles, and Resources:All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/mothersPodcast Homepage 🎧 https://CandiceWu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community 💌 https://CandiceWu.com/embodyDonations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝 https://CandiceWu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook 👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram 📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureRachael McKee created this beautiful 44-card oracle deck:Messages From Her on Kickstarter. In this episode, Rachael speaks about her deck and pulls a card for me for my birthday month, which also is International Women’s Month! As you’ll hear in the episode, each card comes with a lovely description of each modern woman’s message for daily inspiration. The Kickstarter for the deck and book runs from March 8th to March 31st. The Kickstarter funds go to printing the first print run of the book :) Rachael McKee rachael@messagesfromher.com Website: messagesfromher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/her_messages Please feel free to share with anyone that you think might like to purchase/fund the project! MESSAGES FROM HER ORACLE DECK and Kickstarter🎧 Show Notes:0:00 Intro 1:15 A Card From Rachel 5:06 International Women’s Month 8:13 How to Get in Touch with Our Ancestry 15:43 How You Can Shift Into Your Own Energy 20:33 The Fabric of Your Being 25:27 Our Expansion Is Uniquely Ours 29:13 Experiential: What Was the Expansion Before You? 38:33 Outro

183: A{Live} Now: Settling Into My New Space

I’m settling into my new home. A little taste of how I support myself and landed through the transition of buying a new house, moving, and repairs! It’s been a whirlwind in many ways and some things have brought me stillness and ease.Links, Articles, and Resources:All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/settlingPodcast Homepage 🎧 https://CandiceWu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community 💌 https://CandiceWu.com/embodyDonations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝 https://CandiceWu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook 👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram 📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureSponsored BySupport The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support.🎧 Show Notes:00:00 Intro 03:54 What I Am Eating & Drinking Today 05:30 The Feeling of Having My Own Space 08:27 Learning to Invest Into Quality 10:09 Taking the Enjoyment in All the Things by Being Present 12:25 Mimicking How Horses Are Present 14:05 A New Baseline 15:02 Coming Back to Yoga Poses 15:25 But Also Deadlifts 15:42 And Sleeping Is Incredible Too 16:21 Going with the Flow 17:35 Invitation to My Circle on Kaigo