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Hi, podcast, friends, I'm back, and I'm gonna depart a little bit from what I've been doing here in the podcast and take you on a journey I want to share a bit of what's been going on behind the scenes, in mind and mountain and my ski babes program, which is starting up on Monday, if you're listening to this in real time, it's been like really quite the journey over the last few years, and I haven't really talked publicly much about what has been going on, little bits and pieces here and there, but it has recently kind of clicked into place again, and I'm very excited about it. And I think for you to, like, fully understand why I'm so excited right now about the way ski babes has, like, fallen back into alignment with me in a new way. I need to tell you some of the backstory as well. So that's what I have in mind to do today. I'm out in my neighborhood, trails. You might hear some leaves under my feet.
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It's a beautiful fall day, a little bit chilly, and
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I was at the gym this morning and realized I wanted to bring you into this conversation, and so I just came like, right out in my gym clothes To record the episode. So here we are just very emergently, and I hope you enjoy. Okay, so here's the here's the situation I last night recorded like offered a free live workout for as part of the ski babes launch, since we're starting on Monday, we often partner with other like, like minded organizations to see to like, bring ski babes to their people, and also offer, like, some kickback, get we give back some of the funds that we raise through the event, back to the to that nonprofit. So I was teaching this class with the she jumped community, which is this really great organization that does a lot of work to help get more women and girls outside. And I had signed up to do this thing, which is always like a really well aligned partnership, but I have been, I haven't been teaching the workouts very regularly in a few years now, I think it's been like three years since I did some regular teaching, and I've done a little bit of filming here and there since then, but not very much, and a lot of that is because it inside of my own like Nervous System journey, it started to feel like teaching and moving in the way that the ski babes workouts require, like, wasn't really what my what was right for what my nervous system needed at the time. So that's kind of the story I want to tell you about and why things are starting to feel different now. Yay. But before I get into that like that, I this is all culminating in a version of ski babes, 2025 which I'm really excited about. It's been, I've been getting some questions from some of our longtime members about if there's going to be any new workouts in there this year, because, you know, novelty is always nice. And just like, what, what we're going to be doing together this year, 2025, let's just say it. You know, it's been a really intense year for so many of us, I think all of us in different ways. And, you know, we think we're all looking for the right kind of support. And I've been so I've been putting a lot of work into thinking and like feeling, into what, what does this mean? For ski babes, 2025 and this theme of hot for winter came up, and it just felt like, right away, my whole body was like, yes, like, that's, that's what we need this year. Because, I mean, I've been feeling into how there's this sense. Not for everyone. Some people are really into winter, but a lot of people, when winter starts to come, we start to dread. Feel this feeling of dread and like, oh boy, especially this year, when our cups are already so full, we're already maybe feeling pretty maxed out. The idea of like adding more hardship of just the normal daily endeavors of winter, scraping the windshield and shoveling the driveway and putting on all these layers before going outside the like all of that can navigating darkness. All of that can feel like, oh god. How are we going to do that if we're already maxed out with just like navigating the world, the state of the world and the collapse of systems that's happening around us and also our personal life crises, which you know, are also very real. So this question is like, how can we come into a relationship with winter that's not one of dread and overwhelm when our systems are already pretty full. Because I, like, I really believe in winter, you know, then? And the thing is, like, I can sense winter is out there. It's happening no matter what. So figuring out how to be embrace it and actually be excited about it be hot for it, be turned on by it. There is just so much need for that if we have to figure out how to shift that relationship so that we don't become just like drug down by the fact that it's coming so hot for winter is our theme. We're gonna dabble with that in a few different ways. I have a 21 day. I don't know if it's a practice or a course or what that's coming we're gonna do that in December, from December one to two Solstice. And that's going to be included as part of ski babes, or you can opt into that and buy it separately if you want. But the so that's coming. And then there the way that I am wanting to bring some, like really, some of this new nervous system lens in to the workouts. That's like what I want to deep dive into storytelling you about right now, but just know that that's like the teaching that I did last night felt like the first time that I was able to merge the ski babes workout model, which we know like, Okay, let me back up actually, because maybe you don't know if you're new to my world or yeah, have come to me through the podcast or through nervous system work, rather than through the workouts. But ski babes was born in 2016 is when I put it online for the first time. I'd been teaching it in person in Valdez for a couple years previous to that. So this is the ninth season of it operating virtually, which is wild. We're going to have a 10 Year Celebration next year. I don't know what that's going to look like, but it's going to we're going to complete 10 years of ski babes in 2026 which is awesome, and it's always been, you know, the basic model is using our body weight to replicate moves that we're asking ourselves to do outside. So we're training ourselves for functional fitness, for moving our bodies through the challenges of winter slippery surfaces, and then if you are playing outside, you're also maybe on the side of a mountain, maybe in some nasty weather, navigating all sorts of different weather conditions. And we're practicing. The weird moves that are we ask ourselves to do outside in the winter, inside in a controlled environment, and building up the muscle memory for that and the interoception to be able to stay present inside ourselves in the midst of challenge and man, if it isn't effective at training both like strength wise and mental health wise. You know, the program grew really organically when I was living in small town Alaska and learning how to back country ski and working at a gym, running a gym and teaching these classes in person as my day job, and then also working through grad school for social work and learning the mental health strategies that were all of which like coming together and supporting my outdoor endeavors and also my ability to make it through grad school and then also do this job. It was a very busy time and a very creative time. And then I was like pushing myself physically too, in doing the wilderness ski classics and learning that I could like all of these different skills were coming together to help support these fitness endeavors too, which are also very much mental, emotional, nervous system endeavors. So that's like where we originated. And so I put the program online in 2016
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and it just kicked up. It like had its own momentum and grew really fast. Every year the enrollment doubled. And I was like, Oh my gosh, this is amazing. It's like, felt kind of like this thing had its energy of its own. It was really fun. And then 2020 hit, and it was covid times, and there was such a need for exactly what I had. And I had spent four years like working out the kinks of running in program like this online, and had it pretty well dialed so that when there was this huge influx of people who needed access to fitness training and also mental health support and also community. We were, like, really well positioned for that. And so things grew amazing. And that was really fun time. I mean it well, it was a fun time inside of the business. It was a really intense time in the world, as you remember, I'm sure, but it felt really like for me, it was really a gift to be able to have this structure in place to help support people as we were working through all of the uncertainty and the unknowns of what was going to happen in our lives and in our world, in the 2020 pandemic, like the heart of the pandemic, years and but also, you know, there were also some big challenges of those times as you can remember. You know, there was, like, a lot of racial justice stuff happening, and that really pulled into focus, the way that, like, I had the idea and the vision of wanting to have a an impact in the outdoor rec world on the side of making it the like more inclusive space that I wanted it to see, but I didn't really have the skills to execute on that, so I went back to studying, and found my teacher, Dr T who I studied with for a few years on the liberation approach to social justice work, and that was able to start bringing that skill set into The work that we're doing inside of mind a mountain and ski babes, and bring the lens of wanting to create an outdoor rec culture where everyone is welcome. That's when the outdoor allyship series started, and we started our sistering Support Fund. And, yeah, we just started playing around with different ways to like, actually impact culture in those kind of ways. And that all started to feel like it was working, and we were making our way imperfectly. Of course, I. Uh, but, you know, in that same kind of time. So the the program, the business, is kind of on this one trajectory, and in my personal life trajectory, I was in the heart of fertility journey, having these big realizations of how and this like, kind of like crumbling of the illusion of athletic privilege being like this relationship that I thought I had with my body, where I could kind of put in the work, do the training and get the results that I wanted that had basically always pretty much worked out for me in the past. I mean, what a amazing privilege that is to have had that experience of my body working in that way, but it certainly wasn't, didn't work that way with fertility. And you know, I do have the fertility conversation in episode three of this podcast, if you want to listen back to that if you haven't, but the that was really a pretty intense period of learning about like, Oh, this is not actually how the body works. Is it okay? Taking a little pause. I just saw some really beautiful leaves and the light through them. I took a picture for you. If you want to see it, it'll be on the episode page. And I thought we might just want to, like, take a little pause together too, and notice, notice our bodies, notice the space that you find yourself in, see if there's anything beautiful or interesting or pleasant about where you find yourself right now
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and then, yeah, as you notice that's let's bring A little bit of attention back to yourself and your nervous system and see if you notice any, any little shifts, micro changes. Seeing how it is to bring our bodies back in the into the present moment, and especially in to relationship with the good stuff around us. See if the body can take that in for a minute. You are welcome to stay with that. If you want to pause and hang out. I'm going to pick the story back up, and I'm going to see if I can stay in connection with the present moment around me and with my body while I keep walking us through this. That's like the that's the ultimate goal for me these days is see how present I can stay and be like, noticing how my body is reacting along what side the stories that as they come so feeling feet on the ground as I walk, noticing the trees. And, yeah, I mean, the the fertility stuff was really hard, and so there's, like, no question of there being activation that comes up when I talk about it, and there's grief there. There's like, it's comes in, like, different sized waves depending on, you know, so many factors, depending on the day or the situation or the time of the month. But the that was, I'm bringing it up here because of how it it was part of shifting my relationship with the work of ski babes and summer strong, and the type of the way I was approaching movement practices. I think, you know, like baby Sarah young Sarah, when she started this whole program, like, really did have this faith in the in the training that, like, if you just, like, train and just do the things right, then you'll get. At the results you need, like, that simple and gosh, if that isn't naive and innocent and like, adorable in retrospect, to to think that that was some of like, what my unconscious belief was and my lived experience, you know, but there's been a lot of learning that's had to happen since then. And I mean, that's a good thing that brings a lot of depth and also a lot of like realisticness back potential for all of that, back into the way I want to be teaching and sharing. I think there's, you know, there's just a lot of toxic wellness culture that will tell us that if we follow all of the rules, and eat every all the things just right, and take all of the right supplements and go to all the right therapies that we will be good, that we won't have any problems. We'll be and then, and then, like in inferred in that is that if you have problems with your health or your body or with maybe anything your mental health, then there's something that you have been missing, there's something you're not doing right, and that there's a solution out there that you should be still striving for. Oh my gosh. How exhausting is that? And how confusing to think that there's like everything can be resolved when that's just not the way that human body's work. So, yeah, I don't know. I feel like all of us go through some kind of, like, harsh awakening around that some and some people are like, know that from the beginning, because of their lived experiences, I um, with, you know, chronic illness or disability, or, you know, a variety of other things. Well, for me, I was, I learned it in my mid 30s, and it's really been a pretty interesting journey. I definitely want to talk more at some point about ableism. Maybe I'll look for someone to bring in to explore that with us together, because I've been so enjoying reading stories of people who are like memoirs, and I do a lot of I'm like, very interested in hearing about people's stories who navigate bodies that are like not working the way they want them to, and how they're how they're living and thriving with that situation. It's really inspiring to me. One of my favorites is care work, if you want to get started in that, I highly recommend that book. So okay, back onto my track. Back onto track here, because so the fertility journey and the learnings, there one big piece of it, and then I started into the somatic experiencing world as like, kind of all at the same time, realizing that my Yeah, that my body was, like, really looking for a different type of support, other than just, like, traditional talk therapy, And honestly, other than just traditional, just exercise as a coping strategy. Because, yeah, things were things were really shifting. And so inside of somatic experiencing work, I first started receiving somatic therapy from a from a therapist here in Anchorage that she does virtual stuff too, and then started into the three year training program myself. And as part of that training, one thing I learned about is a nervous system pattern that is called Global high intensity activation, and what that pattern is, it's it's not uncommon. There's a lot of people that have that pattern, and there's a lot in our culture right now that is encouraging this pattern. It's certainly not a lot of people don't also. So some of you might relate. And some maybe not, or maybe you know people who you can understand through this lens, the global high intensity activation pattern is that is a nervous system pattern in which the nervous system is comfortable. Most it runs at high activation. It's just like globally, through the through the whole system, and pretty much all the time it's running high you've got activation in running at a pretty high place, and that means that it doesn't the body has started to associate activation with safety, they've become over coupled, and so the body thinks that, like, when I'm activated, I'm safe. So that might be like, hyper vigilance. It might mean that, like, I'm always tracking problems or the stressors I'm like, moving from one thing to the next. It often means that deactivation is hard to access because the body doesn't think that it's safe and it's again, it's not conscious. This is all below the level of consciousness until we start to learn about it, and then we might become conscious that the pattern might still be there as the body starts to unlearn this pattern. But you can imagine that if the body has associated activation with safety, that if it moves into some deactivation and lets down its guard a little bit, it probably won't allow that for very long, and then it'll like, pop right back up into like, it'll come up with something else it needs to worry about. For instance,
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this happens when one thing we I noticed this in is, like, when we're when I'm doing a workout, and we arrive at the end and things start to slow down, and we're stretching and we're kind of wrapping things up, and there's less intensity in with what you're doing with your body things, there's a pace that's slowing down. We're coming to the backside of the wave of the whole workout, you know. And often we'll be stretching and hanging out. And then people, I will, people's minds will jump to their to do list or to the next thing that needs to happen and that that is essentially the nervous system slowing down and coming down into a deactivated place, and then the nervous system sending an impulse to reactivate. Nope, we can't deactivate. We need to, like, go up instead of, like, hanging out, stretching, enjoying the pleasure of it, having some water, celebrating the fact that you're done, you know, like stretching out. This is like, stretching out the backside of the wave. Instead of that, there is this, like, Oh no, we need to, like, go on to the next thing. And honestly, doesn't our culture reinforce this? That's like, why I think this is such a common experience these days, for one, our lives are packed full so many of us, and so we do like have these lives where we have to be moving from one thing to the next, and then we have all of the stimulus inside of modern living. Oh my gosh, you know, if you reach a moment of like, stillness, what's the impulse, like, pick up your phone and maybe go start scrolling, or check your email or, like, check the news. It's like so many places where we can find that activation, and it's kind of reinforced that we should be doing that. So all that to say global high intensity activation is we kind of live in a global high world these days, and it's a pattern that I recognized very much in my own nervous system, that I was running really high, and because my nervous system was running high, I didn't have a lot of space between where my like, set point was, my normal and my place of overwhelm. There's just, like, not much space there, because I'm already like, my my bucket is already very full of activation water, and so just a little bit more, you add, just like a little bit more on, and all of a sudden it's overflowing and it's too much. So that's that's like the what I was, how I was living, and I was. Again, like leaning pretty hard on things like exercise and outdoor time, to take the edge off of that, and to, like, empty the bucket a little bit and give me a little bit of relief from that in that intensity. But then, because I wasn't resolving, I didn't have the like underlying pattern resolved, it would just fill up. And so every day, I would need some kind of like coping strategy, something to help take that edge off. Okay, so once I started to learn about this in somatic experiencing and feel it like, learned how to feel my body and came into a relationship with, like, how intense that cycle was, and started to have some experiences of deactivation inside of these, like, supported practices inside of these somatic therapy sessions, it's hard for the body to deactivate from that pattern alone, so you you really kind of need some co regulation in order to help the body feel safe enough to try a new pattern. So I started to have a few of those experiences of moving into a different rhythm, and it felt so good. Oh my gosh. It like the My body was just like, really craving it, and I could tell that there was something in this for me, it was time to reset my nervous system and come into a different relationship with the world. So, so I spent a couple years, like a few years, I remember calling it a softer season. Well, I wonder what year that was. I remember sharing this with, yeah, with the mind and mountain community that I was like in a softer season, and I was like doing less intense outdoor rec things and focusing. It was when we were like focusing on fertility. And I thought that was just a season, but it ended up picking it ended up being a few years, and is still, in a way, I still am in it. Though these days, my nervous system is operating really differently, and I would say that the set point like my normal right now, instead of being like pretty high at that, but like seven or eight out of 10 now, I have a set point that feels more like it's like a three or a four, maybe, maybe lower. I don't know. I haven't thought of that in numbers before, but it feels really different, and it feels amazing. There's so much more space. There's so much more capacity for navigating the stressors of life, doing harder things without being instantly overwhelmed by them, I'm so relieved just feeling my body take some deeper breaths as I recognize and feel so proud of all that work. Oh my gosh. It really took some time and some effort and a lot of practice and a lot of support.
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But the way this relates to my relationship with ski babes and with teaching is that during those few years where I was like in the softer season and feeling like I didn't really want to be teaching workouts, didn't really want to be doing hard or scary or stressful things outside those I understand now as a way that my body so my body had previously In that global high pattern it had over coupled activation and safety, and as I was starting to uncouple those things and help the body recognize that it could find safety in other ways and that it could deactivate so I basically had to learn on the physiological level, because those things like the body just knew, the physiology knew how to activate and how to stay there, but it didn't really know how to deactivate. So the neural pathways the nervous system patterns, had to had to wire the. In. And that's, of course, like that takes some time, because it's like actually building new wiring patterns inside the body. And there has to be so much safety presence, because the body doesn't really, it's not really up for taking on change when it's feeling unsafe. So I kind of did have to take a break from putting myself in situations that felt unsafe or stressful, because those that pattern would return, and as I was learning to deactivate, I needed it to be in like little doses. I needed to be able to take like little waves, micro waves, because those are a lot easier to deactivate than massive tidal waves. And so I can see this now as part of, like, an intelligent process that needed to happen, where I needed to kind of back out of teaching interval training workouts, and I shifted to weight training, where I was able to, like lift Heavy, but like that didn't stress out my nervous system in the same kind of way as cardio intensity did. So that worked. That's been working like quite well, really, for me, as a way to stay strong through this time when I needed less intense activation in the system. But it doesn't really it like I still want to be outside and I still want to be doing adventures. And, you know, there's I'm so resourced and supported by recreation and playing outside with friends and with Luke And by seeing the amazing places that we get to see when we're outside. So it's like those parts were real. Like, that was a real conflict for a while. Like, how do I both tend to what my nervous system needs and keep this part of me alive that gets so much out of the outdoors. I mean, there's a whole conversation we can have around that too, huh? Because it's like learning how, learning different ways to relate to the outdoors has really been a big part of this too, recognizing that we don't need to be doing extreme things to be in relationship with nature, that there's a lot of nature around us in micro ways, whether it's the plants that you have inside or your pets or the beauty of a neighborhood walk. So there's like a lot that can be said about that. And then for me, also, there has been this experience as my nervous system set point has changed, that I'm starting to recognize that there's capacity showing up to go back out into more challenging recreation, more challenging workouts too, without it hitting that overwhelm point right away. Because so so my nervous system, it had to learn how to deactivate to ride through activation cycles and not get stuck in that activation point. And now that it's now that that's been something that's been wired in and more easily accessible, I have been like finding pretty tangibly that I can go through, like, go back and return to some of these experiences that used to be pretty dysregulating. And would I'd be in that high activation place for a long time these days now, I can, like, I'm thinking of a time couple, maybe it was last summer where we had a couple really big river crossings to do on our some back country trip with Luke. And so we this big glacial river is just like huge water, and right at the edge of what was like reasonable or safe for us to do, pretty intense, but we were able to, like, walk across this big, gnarly river that was like gray, the way glacier water is just like so dark gray and rumbly, and we were like, kind of Eddy hopping from the. Rock to rock to make it across this big crossing. And the water is like, at my waist or higher, and we're using all our river crossing skills and they get to the other side. And for sure, my body is activated. It's like, whew, lots of adrenaline. We made it to the other side, though, and I was able to be like, Oh my gosh. Like, yes, cortisol, yes, adrenaline. Like, of course, you're here. It makes sense that you're here. Makes sense that you're charging my body with this, like, jittery feeling. Because that's that actually is the energy that you need to do a really intense thing with you need that activation and that stress, those chemicals in the body to help you mobilize and do something really hard. And then the question is, after the thing is over and we've survived and we're on the other side of the river, can we actually notice that, just as much as noticing that the the, like, this big, scary thing had to happen, can we now also notice that, like, now I'm on the other side and, like, this thing is over and we did it. And can we, like, let the let those stress chemicals move through the body, like my body wanted to shake a little bit, like whatever the body wants to do, to help it come down, give it space to do that, shake, discharge a little bit. Notice the fact that I'm on solid ground right now, that we're on the other side of the river. Like, really, had to, like, really work to orient to the fact that it was over and that we had done it. We moved a little bit away from the side of the river, so I wasn't, like, we weren't hearing the really loud river sounds. So I could orient to the fact that, like, it's a little quieter. This thing is done. Ate some snacks, drank some water. You know, all these practices to help the physical body come down the backside of the wave. And that feels very doable. Now, it takes work sometimes, depending on the size of the wave, but these waves are much more apt to be able to, like move through my system and and then pass. And also, you know, there's another nuance here. Let's see if I can name it. I think inside of the global high experience that I used to live in, there used to be a feeling that, like when activation came up, it was something bad was happening, or something that was there was something scary, like I'd feel activation come up and right away be feel scared. That was like the particular, a particular over coupling that had happened in my system and so and so, there's been work that's been happening to help my self, like, uncouple those things, and be able to feel activation as a neutral experience and not mean that, like there's a problem, or there's like a threat, maybe there's just activation that's like the right amount of activation to help navigate a situation. And so now it's like, now there's activation. It's like, yeah, okay, I feel the activation. This is this is okay to feel. This is not a problem, and it might even help me navigate this moment.
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And then that kind of like acceptance of it. It's neutrality, and the presence with the sensations of the activation can help it, like, move through and maybe even settle a little bit more smoothly.
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Yeah. So that's been awesome. It's opened up this potential to, like, move back into doing some of the things that I used to find a lot of joy in, but had felt like I had to take a break from for a little while and have more fun on these outdoor adventures without feeling like, as nervous and it's gonna, like, kick me back into an old pattern that it's hard to get out of. I can like this is where I talk about this work, having the potential to build trust in your system. So as you start to as your system starts to learn that it can be in relationship with activation waves, then they become less intimidating and easier to. Uh, flow through and, like, not in, like, you don't have to avoid it anymore, which is great. And then, okay, so let's bring this back to the workouts then, because that's exactly the experience that I had last night teaching this ski babes workout with she jumps. I was feeling beforehand, I had some apprehension that I was going to, like, fall back into the old global high patterns that used to come up in my body with intensity and interval training. And so I was, like, had this inner conflict about about doing this, and then also this sense I just had this, like, this intuitive sense that there's another that I can, like, bring a different way, a different style, to this, to this work, but I hadn't actually done it yet, so I had to, like, do it to, like, fully have the evidence that that was real. And that's what happened. I'm, like, really excited to share this. I what I did was teach a workout that is the ski babes format, but has even more nervous system centered work inside of it. And it felt so good, so fun, I was able to like tend to my own nervous system throughout. And this is like the one of the ways I teach is by tracking the nervous systems of the other people that are inside the workout with me, and there's like, a way I can feel that through the collective field that we're in. This might sound kind of weird, but I can, I like, can sense that. I think it's like the same way that we that flocks of birds can like sense each other, or caribou can sense where the other ones are, and like what they need to do. If there's like one of them's picking up a threat, you know, or one of them's so then they all start running. It's like that same way that our bodies have the ability to sense the field so that I was like, that's some of how i i teach through using that and was able to track the field of the group I was teaching to and bring in practices to help support all of our nervous systems alongside doing these intervals. And it felt so good. It was so fun. It feels like the coming back together, or the culmination of this arc of time that I've been on feeling like the workouts were one thing and my nervous system work was another. And of course, I've always woven nervous system work into ski babes. But the way it has deepened for me in the last couple of years, the last maybe three, four years, has is a whole nother level. It's, it's just, I guess I don't have words for it, other than saying that there's a whole new level of depth and subtlety and nuance to it that happens through the felt sense through the body. And I was able to bring that in last night to the way I'm teaching, and it felt, it felt like the thing, it's like the way that I want to be teaching. That's what I want to bring into the the community of ski babes for this year. It's like, the direction I want to see things go in the future, and I'm super excited about it. It's like, it's like my two worlds just like, clicked back into place and came back together. So, so what that means. What does that mean for us for one one thing it means is that I am hot for winter. I am like, super excited and turned on by the season that we have coming up, and by what I see us being able to do together inside of the program, whether it's training or nervous system, like all of it comes together. I'm planning to teach live inside of ski babes this fall, at least weekly. I. So I want to bring this like this, tweak this, this approach to the ski babes workouts. I want to bring this in for those of you that are looking for more of that. The interesting thing about what ski babes has now is it has workouts from the me that started the program, it has the few years in version where I was recording workouts with mobility track models to help make mobility track something that more people can access. And now what we're doing this year is adding in an even more nervous system centered approach, and I'm going to do that through live workouts at this point, because this is like, feels very emergent. It feels like a new iteration of something that is just beginning, and so I don't have the like produced version of it yet, but I'm very excited to I want it to be like a co creative experience. So for those of you that are like thinking about coming live to or just being a part of ski babes this winter, I would love to teach these in live in real time with you as often as possible, so that I can use that like sense of the field and support, like the way of supporting your actual nervous system in real time. That's going to be, I think that's going to be very powerful. So let's, let's put that intention out there and then see what happens. So that's the live workout piece, and then hot for winter, so that we're hot for winter in the way that we're going to be learning and practicing and CO regulating in our support for our nervous systems together. And then I am also hot for winter in that I have been developing this actually, just like dropped in at one point here while I was in this creative space about, what are we doing with ski babes this year, hot for winter, 21 day practice that we're going to do together in December, and that will be included for anyone who's in ski babes, and you can buy it separately if you want to join us, but not be a part of the ski babes crew. So there's options. We're going to keep this hot for winter theme going, and I am just really having a great time following the thread of it and seeing where it wants to go. It feels like it's kind of got its own life force and it's feeding me, and I can't wait to see where it goes. So, yeah, you know like winter is coming, if you live anywhere where winter is a thing certainly coming here in Alaska, and especially like feeling into how at capacity many of us already are, and how like, winter really has its challenges alongside it, but it also has this potential for like, I think about how playful Winter can be oh my gosh, ice skating season is coming, ski season, snowball fights, snow angels, beautiful winter walks in the woods. There's so much beauty and play and
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joy that can come from winter and and then there's also the side of nourishment and slowing down. Think of the animals that are hibernating, and the way that some our own systems maybe have the potential to move toward a slower pace. Some rest, notching down. And both of these sides of winter, the playful side and the nourishment restful side, these have a lot to to give us. There's a lot that we can receive from the experience of like coming into winter and being nourished by it. So I can't wait to share more with you on that inside of these workouts, inside of the hot for winter, 21 day practice and yeah, we'll just see where this goes together. So. So, okay, amazing. I'm about to wrap up. Thank you so much for being here and coming on this walk with me. I am out here walking through the woods, talking to my phone, but I have you in mind all the time. I'm hoping that these words are landing with you. And, you know, I think of all of this work as a very co creative experience. So I would love to hear back from you if any of this landed, if you're also excited about what I'm talking about here, what resonated, feel free, you know, leave a you can leave a comment if you're listening on Spotify. You can send me a message on Instagram or an email back. It's always really helpful to be in community on these topics. So I welcome, I welcome any responses, if you have anything to share, and I really look forward to seeing where we go with this together. Yeah, okay, thanks for being along for the ride. I hope you have a really good rest of your day, and until next time, take really good care of yourself and each other, and I'll see you again soon. You.
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