023 ~ Origins of YSM Part 2: What Kept Not Happening

A retreat kept not happening. Online yoga kept not happening. Structured formats kept not happening. For months, everything they tried to build together quietly refused to become.In Part 2 of the Origins of YSM series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon explore what it means to keep listening when everything you reach for keeps slipping away — and why the sifting itself was the work.Not everything that doesn't happen is a failure. Some things don't happen because something else is waiting to be found.Together YSM explores:• The magnets metaphor — why different people are drawn to different energies, and why YSM has never tried to be everyone's cup of tea — that clarity is part of the design• What it takes to sit and listen with someone for a full year before knowing what you're creating — the courage, the fortitude, and the Self-awareness that makes it safe enough to keep going• Revelation and generation as a cycle: how each presence pulls something out of the other, and how that cycle is different from ordinary back-and-forth conversation• The multidimensional nature of presence — listening that extends beyond humans, into trees, animals, Nature, and the field that's created between Beings who are truly in conversation• All the things that kept not happening — structured retreats, online yoga, formatted programs — and what was finally revealed when YSM stopped trying to decide what it should beWhat is the work you can't not do? What is the being you can't not be? This episode is one long exploration of that question.In this episode:[00:00:56] Picking up where we left off — the cubby invitation and what drew them together[00:02:18] The magnets: not everybody will be drawn to this — and that's part of the design[00:03:21] What it takes to sit and listen to someone for a year — courage and self-awareness[00:04:05] Revelation and generation as a cycle: the presencing that creates something new[00:05:06] What makes this different from ordinary conversation — presence in the field between[00:06:18] Multidimensional presence — talking to trees, horses, the natural world[00:07:46] Everything kept not happening: sifting through what didn't want to be generated[00:09:30] "What is the work you can't not do? What is the being you can't not be?"✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar📝 Subscribe to Victoria's writing:https://substack.com/@vibrantsoulcoaching📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.