Suzanne Armistead

Oh yeah!  I am leading a movement workshop this weekend called “Stillness Moves You…into the energy body”.  1:30 to 4pm on Saturday, June 19^th, at Empower Yoga, 1611 W. 5^th St., Ste. #140.

Would love it if y’all would join us!

Love,

Suzanne

Oh ma gosh!!!!!!!!!!!  At Hildes practice for our singing for Amma last night, we did some movement to get into our reception of Mother Love!  It was all so beautiful and healing.  Sus

asked me to lead people to the place of openness, and to help them connect to the places where they might be holding tension so they could be aware of them and smooth ‘em out.

We went together into the vibrations of love that are in all of us, that I call the energy body, opening with total surrender and joy.  We connected with one another by going into the energy body, individually.  It was yummy.  As we came out of the moving meditation, we joined one another with a light and delicate ease and grace, bringing this seemingly internal love outward to one another by moving around the room touching hands.  Each hand connection was expressive of the connection that we had with one another, quiet and soft with one, yet, joyful and giggly with another.  What a gift to see and share with one another this way.  What a gift to be alive.

Claiming My Life:  An act of self love

I have been in a lifelong healing process.  Sometimes it’s mental.  Sometimes it’s physical.  Sometimes it’s spiritual.  Sometimes it’s all of them or any combination of the three.  I have really come to see that it doesn’t matter which it is because it is all here to be worked out, and my commitment to myself is to do that.

I have been in a friend’s singing class called “Claiming Your Voice”.  You may know of her, Susan Lincoln, she is the originator of HildeGirls.  She is very talented, compassionate, present to the gifts of art in healing one’s heart and soul, and committed and generous in being available to share her gifts and talents through her work with those like myself.  Doing this class has given me an effective way to continue my healing.  It gives me a venue to look at myself with love and permission to be right where I am.

  I see through being in this class that I really do want to be free to be myself.  This is a major necessity in healing.  This means claiming my authenticity and letting go of thoughts that tell me I should be different or that I am not enough.  It is also about living and honoring who I am and who others are.  One of the ways that I am learning to do this is to call friends and/or family and sing to them.  In the past, singing to someone has been reserved to a very few, both because I feel shy, but also because I had to feel a certain way about them to sing to them.

Now, I realize it’s really about feeling a certain way about me.  The voices in my head can stop the offering of my singing to another in a flash by working to make me feel bad about myself!  But just now in writing this, I realized that singing to another and myself is mandatory to me.  Why?  Because it is about claiming my life.  Every time I allow the voices in my brain to trick me by telling me I am not enough and I should be different than I am, or that singing to myself or another doesn’t matter because I don’t matter, I am letting the fictitious veil of the voices tell me lies, and, worse, I am believing them.  NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CLAIM MY LIFE  and every precious moment of it.  It is a gift for me, to me, and from me if I choose.  Claiming my life is a choice that I choose to make today.

Love,

Suzanne

I’ve been working with healing myself.  After the death of my beloved son, I saw the need to move beyond coping with the shock.  Walking and keeping my feet connected to Mother Earth was of great importance.  I connected with nature and was able to take the grieving process into the direction of healing.

Next, I saw was that I needed to do more movement and flexing and stretching.  The loss of energy with Davis’ leaving was of such a magnitude that I needed to open up reserves and let then flow.  The movement I needed to do was about addressing fatigue, joint pain, depression and fear.  I felt like I was sick with the flu, daily, until I began to move.

I moved with a guidance that was full of love and intention.  The intention was to live my life honoring my son and the undying love I have for him in my heart.  This meant living out loud the everyday awareness that he was with me, mostly to myself, but to my husband and others, too.  As I began to move, there was no pushing, forcing, or trying to be uplifted.  There was only love and acceptance planting itself through soft, gentle, incremental moving from stillness.

As I did it, I saw the breath rise and fall in me with such depth that I felt like I was being breathed for the first time in my life, instead of holding my breath.  The peace and calm that came to me was definitive, and the voices that drove me unconscious for years took a back seat and even disappeared most of the time. 

I did it daily.  No matter what was present, from mental anguish, anxiety, physical pain, anger, hopelessness, fear, you name it, it subsided.  I went to a place of peace, acceptance, and reverence.  I did it daily, sometimes twice a day.  Each time I laid down on the floor to do it, I heard the voices telling me it wasn’t going to work this time.  But the voices were so loud and painful that I couldn’t stand them so I did the movement, anyway, knowing that I had to move out of and away from their horrible clutches. 

I still do this magnificent practice after  a year and 9 months of discovering it as a healing for me.  I share it with others, now, too.  I teach monthly workshops on it, and weekly classes.  Tomorrow is a workshop called:  Stillness Moves You:  The Experience.  The experience is one of going within and meeting the energy body.  Our energy body is the healer.  When I move into the energy body, I move into healing.  I ALLOW healing to take place within me.  The truth about it all is that meeting my energy body reminds me who I am, restores me to the truth that I am pure Spirit, and that I am love.

In gratitude for miracles,

Suzanne

Mother’s Day exceeded my expectations in terms of the love that was sent to me from friends and family. There was a lot of love expressed to me that helped to deal with the gap of child loss. One thing that is clear to me, and many who remembered me on that day, is that I am  a  mom and always will be. And, I treasure that with all of me.