58: Where can we soften? With Lauren Maxwell

Where can we soften?How do you invite your bones to change?How can I experience mental, creative, and expansive freedom every day?In this episode, Lauren Maxwell and I explore finding pleasure, how to change the shape of your spine, where we can soften to support and know ourselves, the human task of learning to feel safe in your own truth, uncovering the SELF in chaotic times, using a gentle approach to life to trickle into the world and change patriarchal systems, and having a morning practice to bring creativity, freedom, and expansiveness each day.Lauren is a writer and creative human who offers yoga, ritual, and intuitive coaching meant to help others find spaciousness in the everyday. Her zine, how to uncover SELF in chaotic times, suggests a softer paradigm for success and four everyday containers in which we all might nurture the truth of self. In yoga, Lauren specializes in back care and scoliosis. She loves helping others find pain relief and create soft open space to step into a more loving relationship with themselves.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode📝https://candicewu.com/lauren Podcast Homepage🎧 https://candicewu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community💌 https://candicewu.com/embody-communityPatreon – Your Support Means So Much!💝 https://candicewu.com/patreonCandice Wu Page on Facebook👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureSponsored by My Dream Class on SkillshareDreams are constantly revealing yourself to you and each bring a whole world of embedded knowledge and wisdom, waiting to be seen and bringing you new energies to cultivate in your life, possibility, and connection.Do you remember your dreams?It was actually a dream of being in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which unfolded into a lifestyle of location-independent living beginning with Thailand, a travel and romantic partner, practicing my healing work online with clients all over the world, and lots of new found inner and outer freedom and empowerment.If you’re interested in dreaming, I’ve started a series of dream work classes that will support remembering and harvesting dreams, and there’s much more to come about embodying the energies, wisdom, and messages of your dreams.This first class is about the basics: unfolding and awakening your dream life so that you can harness the power of dreams, how to cultivate the ability to remember your dreams, creating intentions and ways to record and harvest your dreams. This class is free through the end of Jan. ⠀⠀ Sweet dreams to you…❤Learn more at CandiceWu.com/dreamclass1Show Notes0:00 Intro1:00 Sponsored by my Dream Class on Skillshare2:54 Update on my Travels3:45 Introducing Lauren5:18 Conversation Opening6:10 Intro to Lauren’s World7:20 What Was It Like to Bring All These Parts Into Your Life?7:47 How the Spine, Back, and Inner World Is Connected With Everything9:29 The Misinterpretation of Chakras10:34 How Do You Soften?11:17 Mention of Book Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown13:09 Learning to Feel Into Pleasure and Moving Out Side of Patterns14:12 Mention Writer and Tarot Reader Sarah Gottesdiener15:12 Lauren’s Story About Changing the Shape of Her Spine Through Yoga19:48 Locked Up, Shifting Out of Pushing to Actually Heal21:37 Circling Through Experiences — Even as Simple as Our Phone Addictions21:37 Cell Phone Cycle23:23 What Was the Practice That Shifted Everything?24:31 Yoga Teacher Alison West, Yoga Union NYC24:37 Yoga for Scoliosis Ayengar System by Elise Browning Miller24:57 Inviting the Bones to Change — Physical, Energetic, and Emotional Release26:57 Relating to Ourselves in Pain. Listening to What’s Underneath28:52 Tapping Into the Truth and Opening the Creative and Spiritual Channels More Freely29:24 The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron29:54 Practice: Morning Pages — Free Flowing Text30:50 Having a Morning Practice — Engaging With Yourself Before Jumping Into the Rest of the World32:05 Where Is Lauren on Her Journey and What Are Her Struggles?34:01 How Can I Experience Mental, Creative, and Expansive Freedom Every Day?35:42 Were Is Your Home? My Home Is My Body. A Grounding Practice.37:41 What Can Make You Feel Grounded?37:57 Laurens Zine — How to Uncover Self in Chaotic Times38:07 Talking About Shifting From Suffering for Success to Wellbeing and Pleasure | Using White Privilege to Do Good39:42 Thinker Leo Lethard39:46 Mention of Rachel Cargle41:15 Taking Care of Self & Revealing Self | Building a Backbone for Moral and Social Justice42:50 Seeking Collaboration and Ways to Communicate43:28 Learning Safety With Your Own Truth and Surrounding Yourself With the Right People / Values?44:05 Opening of the Spine Through Energetic Connection and Reducing Constrictions44:57 Finding Strength in Community (There Are Others) — Learning From the Oak Tree Families Standing Strong46:52 The Craving to Find Your People — Stepping Into It47:59 Speed Lightning Round48:11 What Curious Dream Have You Had Lately?50:07 What Is One Daily Ritual That You Have?50:58 What Do You Have Doubts About?52:44 What Job Would You Be Horrible At?53:51 Last Words From Lauren54:24 Audience Special Offer | Gift: Free Consultation and Discount55:31 Where You Can Find Lauren and Her Zine55:57 Gratitude Sharing56:35 Outro57:47 Dream Class57:57 Newsletter & Embody Community58:46 Mary Oliver Quote