The Well Healing Circle evening in August, Ameglia, Italy.
This morning I was sweeping leaves in my little terrace after a very intense thunderstorm yesterday, feeling the air of change, feeling that this round of cleaning was actually a ritual for making space fro the coming of Autumn, the new rhythm, temperature changes, shorter days,...
Read MoreIn this article I posted on my Substack | Streamlines I write about a self-healing study of my right hip and ovary. This is a great example of one of the processes that can unfold in a Well 1-1 session, particularely the psychic side of the process.
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Nalini X
Image: Dorothea Lange
Dearest Friend,
I would like to invite you to a monthly offering to connect, care and resource ourselves together.. during the hour long session we will connect with the wisdom within our bodies that many traditions connect with the image of a well, hence the name “The Well healing circle”. I love the image of the well as a space of unfolding mystery, of depth and wisdom. I imagine this gathering being a place for simplicity, beauty and being. If you feel interested visit the link or email me directly.
love, Nalini xx
Dear One,
March is here. I am writing you from my very rainy perch in Italy, my flat is quite high up on a hill overlooking the Lunigiana region and the Apuane mountains on the border with Toscana. Last night it rained so much I felt very exposed in my little bedroom, yet I really love feeling the mighty power of nature when she unleashes herself. I feel so much respect for the powerful forces of nature.
I just returned from a three week long trip to India where I spent some time in an Ayurvedic clinic to heal my body and to soak up new tools to apply in my practice within my circle. I don’t feel I ever want to stop learning.
In the beginning of the year I spent some time creating a FREE four day course called On Surrender (previously Downstream ~ I had some tech glitches last month when I launched it so apologies for those who signed up!) It is up and running smoothly now… I created it to introduce you to my work. On Surrender is a collection of daily yoga nidras and movement meditations to support you in your daily flow, every day has a different theme and rhythm, the aim with wich I share my work is always the one to connect the daily seemingly mundane small tasks of life with the sacred elusive nature of being.
Last but not least the calendar for 1-1 Well sessions is open for booking for the month of March for online and in person sessions, the Well is for you if you feel you ned guidance on a specific theme in life or a physical ailment, we will look at what is going on through the lens of the body and her own energetic processes. This week I am sharing on IG a series of posts on Well sessions: their birth, significance and how they work practically. So stay tuned on that channel if you want to know more.
Love, Nalini x
there was
a land.
where beauty danced
with the world
softening bulbs
two streams
life together
memories dance
fantasies fly
turning towards
vulnerability of longing
I will be sharing sporadic writing and painting on my new substack.
Dear ones,
I hope these words find you softly moving through the portal of the new year.
I have been quietly working on letting go the past season, the quiet has also been, I realise now, a need for creating space for listening to my body, the Earth body, the cries of the collective and to the silence that contains it all, witnessing the paradox of exsistence unfolding between our seeming, yet much much felt collective and personal polarities. I have found that often it is really our capacity to listen and simply be present with that makes a difference for healing to happen.
So at the moment I still feel quiet, listening, being.
As for my practice I am offering new ways to engage one-on-one with the Well sessions, please find more info below and on my website.
Much love, Nalini
1-1 WELL SESSION
Our bodies carry an intrinsic wisdom that much like an underwater river often flows parallel to our life’s unfolding as untapped potential. Nalini’s witnessing through presence and touch will support your own connection to this precious source of life force to support your unique path to wholeness, awareness and soul.
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I am spending some early summer days walking in nature on the ridged coastline of Liguria, where rocky pine covered cliffs abruptly plunge into the crisp infinite seascapes. I have been exploring these places since childhood the smells and sounds and the movement my body does as I climb and walk here are as familiar as my breath. Liguria has a very soft earth body and the wild coastline shapeshifts constantly, yet in the past years I have felt within myself the weight and sorrow of the impermanence of these jewel like tiny beaches ever more. I feel my grief is a mirror of our renewed collective awareness of the impermanence the familiar landscapes that surround our daily lives face because of the anthropocene, because of our lifestyle, because of us humans. So each time I go to the beach and I see the fragile balance of the rocks hanging low on the water’s edge I wonder how much longer will I be allowed to come here before the land will wrap itself in her aloneness to find soothing respite from human presence, to find her own healing. How long until the narrow steep pathway to climb down here collapses for good. For now I thank her each time I see her faded rocks and emerald waters for her letting me lie on her and find my nourishment and rest.
love,
Nalini
Dear friend,
I am in awe of the capacity humans have to create sustainable living communities that interact with nature on so many levels. I feel a lot of gratitude to be able to spend time in places like this tiny eco village in the Italian Appennine mountains, I am currently living in a terra cruda/cob house and creating in the self heating solar powered studio portrayed above, dedicating myself to creativity and living in beauty. And of course it makes me wonder about how to bring this awareness beyond this space in the work I share. Often I see that as humans we fail to consider how vital it is for us to be in constant exchange with a healthy environment and how well our whole system responds when we do. And how well the environment responds to this reciprocal living. As healthy environment I mean humans of course, but also non human species, nature, air, soil, food..
in love.
Nalini Ruha
dear lover,
I am writing to you from my new little cob-home in an Italian eco-village in the Appennine mountains, there is a sweet chilly breeze in the air as if the weather is undecided on wether to surge into spring or stay in the cozy stillness of winter. And what a winter it has been with a lot of darkness for many of us as waves of surrender invited us in the art of wintering deeper and deeper…
Some days ago I visited a friend, Monica Montebugnoli, a shaman local to the area of Pontremoli in Lunigiana, a very sacred territory that extends between the Appenine mountains just next to me all the way to the sea. I brought my camera to document some of her process in making sacred drums. She is a beautiful artist and works with the animals in such a sacred and tender way, I feel so blessed to know her and have made my drum with her.
I returned from my travels in Scandinavia with a series of new watercolours, I feel they are all about the process of meditation and the awakening of the subtle more nuanced perceptions that bloom with a deepening of the practice. They are for sale as some of you ahve been interested in buying some of my art you are welcome to contact me directly.
Finally I will be facilitating some gatherings live in Italy soon, when the dates are settled I will let you know.
joy,
nalini x
Dear friend,
I have returned to Italy after a long month in my native Scandinavia where I spent a month with my teacher Pema in a time of meditation in stillness and work. I am still unpacking the gifts of this month long retreat, but I can share that it has been deeply healing and nurturing to meet the darkness of winter and her gifts and be surrounded by fellow travellers of the Soul path supporting one anothers deepening in surrender and dedication. I has become clearer for me that my commitment to the feminine path and her remembrance as the birthing within us of the Earth Soul is the medicine that this in many ways a broken world needs. I will start sharing more of my work in Italian as well and I feel the calling to do so and ground my roots in a land were the beauty of the feminine path is deeply misused and misunderstood.
The Earth Soul is waiting for us to hear Her calling, to make space for her to nestle in our bellies and bones, eating up the resistance from the inside and rebirth our lives anew. It is a birth as much as it is a remembrance and Her taste is sweet and wild.
Love,
Nalini
Dear friend,
I am writing you from Nari Village, a beautiful sanctuary in Denmark where humans and non humans are weaving a beautiful small community. I am here for a little over a month, my intention is to learn, practice and witness the flow interbeing. I have only arrived since a few days and am already assimilating so much of my own resistances, longings and desires. It is both challenging and beautiful to learn when to surrender and when to kindly wait and make space for one’s own process to unfold in grace.
Much love,
Nalini
I want to live beyond myth,
be shapeless and free
whatever I do I want to not repeat myself
let myself be shapeshifting
like nature like the riverbed like the waves.
let me move beyond what is expected of a somebody like me
let me not even be me, let me just be
natural exploration of the creative force of life
let me just be unexpected movement of consciousness.
not even that!
embodied breath
animal
dirt and stars.
let me move beyond my sense of self
beyond what I know of the world. let me see that I know nothing
nobody.
and so I just am simply life.
let me be life.
let me be life.
let me move beyond my archetype,
beyond the stream of images that I believe is me
let me move from a space of darkness and light dancing
me being their relating their dance.
let me just remember that this is a dance
I am the dance nothing else.
let me loose my sense of me, of I.
May I come home in my dance,
may I forget my steps and be in the presence of improvisation.
infinitely
presence ~ dance ~ nothing else
let this be my dance
my awareness of life living through me.
may I remember