Last month I attended an “Awakening Through the Body” meditation retreat hosted by Dharma Gates in West Virginia. In complete honesty, I had no idea what I was signing up for. I’ve learned to follow my intuition, so when this came across my radar, I felt this deep instinctive pull. I did very little research or preparation for it, I just signed up and said I was going. 

4/16/2025 (listen on youtube) Sing of the shattering— the shadowed abyss of despair. Sing of endless hungry nights snatching soul-deep. Sing of the chasm where hope once lived, where shame has swallowed the light. Sing of the shards (past and future) sharp as the sounds slicing psyche into ragged strips of pain. Sing of the silence, sitting stone-heavy on your tongue suffocating searing slipping into the void. Sing over the splintered shards shuttering within your heart’s cag

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