(20 min CLASS) Making Friends with Our Shadow w/ Nkechi Njaka

This audio article and mindful reflection practice is designed for us to meet ourselves and the space of integrating our shadow. When most people are confronted with Shadow work, they are also confronted with resistance.

Shadow work is an important way for us in understanding some of our subconscious patterns. It's also a way for us to understand what parts of us might still need healing. And furthermore, shadow work allows us to integrate all of who we are. Our work with our shadow is our guide to finding, seeing and integrating the aspects of ourselves that we have decided were too hard to love.

Reflection:

1 - What am I not talking about?

2 - What or who am I avoiding?

3 - What conversation am I not willing to have?

4 - What are we afraid to feel?

5 - What is my practice? What do I learn and love?

MEET YOUR TEACHER

As a neuroscientist, choreographer and meditation teacher, Nkechi has spent the majority of her life investigating the relationship between the brain and the body and has always felt the significance of their integration. She attended Scripps College in Claremont, CA where she majored in neuroscience and dance and went on to complete an MSc. in Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh

Through her work as a neuroscientist as well as a professional modern dancer + choreographer, she discovered that mindfulness and creativity are crucial for sustaining individual and global wellbeing.

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