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Discussion Chapters
Ch 1: Intro
Ch 2: Grounding Practice w/India
Ch 3: Opening Flow W/Lalah
Ch 4: Mental Well-Being
Ch 5: Emotional Well-Being
Ch 6: Physical Well-Being
Ch 7: Energetic And Vibrational Well-Being
Ch 8: Spiritual Well-Being
Ch 9: Environmental Well-Being
Ch 10: Closing Flow
Ch11: Q&A
Ch 12: Closing
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About
The Restoration Cycle is a haven.
Enter this sacred space, and watch as your spirit begins embracing the gentle realm of healing and renewal. Through this Restoration Cycle class, learn to release the weight of things burdening and anchoring you down.
Furthermore, in a world that glorifies perpetual productivity, we often forget the importance of allowing ourselves time to fully rest, restore, and replenish. Through the metaphorical lens of dormant seasons, we’re reminded that life echoes the ever-changing rhythms of the natural world. In the fall and winter the metabolism of oak trees and maples slows down, energy consumption decreases, and they shed what no longer serves them. Just like these resilient trees and many other resilient aspects of nature, we, too, require cycles of ease, surrender, and stillness to become stronger.
All seasons are not the same. During certain seasons, doing less can actually mean accomplishing more. Learn to discern when the seasons of your life are nudging you to embrace The Restoration Cycle through Conservation and Dormancy.
Learn how to embrace this new pace where doing less leads to accomplishing ‘more’, more of the right, necessary, and aligned things.
Class notes
Opening flow
There’s a certain level of healing, renewal, and restoration that only comes from surrendering to slowing down.
Mental well-being
Taking breaks and allowing our minds to rest through periods of dormancy can be valuable for mental rejuvenation. It will enable us to process information, gain clarity, and enhance our creativity and cognitive and intuitive abilities. By recognizing the importance of conserving mental energy, we can prevent burnout, restore from burnout and overwhelm, reset from overstimulation, enhance focus, and promote overall mental health and well-being. Creating space for moments of rest where we don’t have to make many (if any) decisions is a powerful way to rejuvenate the mind as well. Stillness, solace, and guided meditation are great for this. Solitude is sacred.
Emotional well-being
Embracing dormancy and conservation in our emotional lives means acknowledging the need for self-care and taking time for reflection and introspection. It provides an opportunity to process emotions, heal from past experiences, and cultivate resilience. Instead of perceiving it as a weakness, this practice fosters emotional intelligence, resilience, strength, and self-awareness. Somatic touch, therapy, practice, movements, and approach help us move emotions. Motion moves emotion. The somatic connection between our emotions and physical well-being is deeply intertwined and connected. When our emotions affect and impact our physical health, this is known as psychosomatic disorder, psychosomatic symptoms, or psychosomatic illness.
In my upcoming written reflections, I’ll share how I learned to effectively navigate my emotions and this phenomenon as an empath and highly sensitive being.
Physical well-being
Just like many things in the natural world, along with our mental and emotional well-being, our bodies also require periods of dormancy and conservation. Engaging in active rest, undistracted rest, and somatic relaxation, such as mindfulness, slowing down, epsom salt baths, massage, gentle restorative and therapeutic exercise, and gentle somatic movements, allows for physical recuperation, recovery, restoration, and healing. Recognizing the importance of rest strengthens our physical health, empowers it, prevents injuries, helps the body process stress, pain, and trauma, and promotes a sustainable approach to physical health and well-being.
Energetic and vibrational well-being
Dormancy and conservation can be applied to our energetic and vibrational selves by recognizing the value of conserving and balancing our energy. Practicing meditation, mindfulness of consumption, mindfulness of our own energetic embodiment, vibrational awareness, mental relaxation, mental and energetic nourishment, grounding techniques, or engaging in activities that align with our vibrational values and passions, energetic and vibrational integrity, and being in divine flow can help maintain a healthy energy state and field. This mindfulness practice encourages deep self-awareness and vibrational awareness, fosters emotional and energetic balance, and promotes a sense of harmony within ourselves and the world and environment around us.
In my upcoming written reflections, I’ll share how reaction rest, especially as an empath and highly sensitive, can bring about transformative, overall rest.
Spiritual well-being
In terms of spirituality, dormancy and conservation allow for deeper connections and growth. Taking time for stillness, contemplation, reflection, and introspection is a form of rest. Moving in spiritual integrity, prayer, divine flow, and divine alignment is a form of conservation and sacred rest. Engaging in nourishing spiritual practices can have a transformative effect, leading to personal spiritual growth and expansion, expanded consciousness, and a greater sense of higher purpose. By embracing this practice mindfully and intentionally, we can become devoted to our spirituality, and in return, it will nourish and empower our spirits and souls.
Environmental Well-being
We can’t rest, restore, or thrive in the same environment that is disruptive to our vibrational being and disregards our sense of well-being. Curating and charging up your space for rest and restoration is essential to reclaiming and empowering your sense of higher self. Candles bring powerful clearing energy and restore higher vibrational flow in your home and space. Keeping your environment ‘clean’ is a physical, spiritual, and energetic practice.
Closing flow chapter
Lalah’s closing flow
More divine insights coming soon in my written reflections and declarations on Wednesday, December 20th.
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SUPPORTIVE QUOTE
Supportive Reads, Tools & Mentions
Reads
Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power, by Lalah Delia
High vibrational organic fabrics: linen, hemp, organic cotton:
Linen:
Hemp Clothing:
Organic Cotton Clothing and other natural Sustainable Household items:
Plant Medicine for Grounding and Nurturing Mind, Body, Energy
Clematis flower essence
Rockwater flower essence
Elk
Adaptogens
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Hawthorn
Lavender
Chamomile
St. John’s Wort
Cacao and cinnamon tonic drink
Candle for clearing:
Black candle for removing and clearing lower vibrational energies
Orange for resetting space and intention setting
White for purification and blessing
My favorite candles are natural beeswax candles because they are sustainable, all-natural, eco-friendly, purify the air, help remove allergens from the air, do not undergo chemical processing, have medicinal properties, are non-toxic, burn clean, aren’t oil-based like paraffin based candles, and have a longer burn time.
Bees carry an extremely high vibration, and so do beeswax candles.
Research the ‘Bee Frequency’ and the healing properties of bees.
Candle holders:
Hurricane-style candle holders are perfect for longer and safer burning.
Here’s a link to the ones I use and shared on camera.
Optional, sand can be added into deep candle containers for extra protection and can be purchased at plant nurseries and garden centers.
Other Mentions
Flux: Software that make using your devices more in alignment with the body’s natural rhythm
Upcoming/Previous/Supportive VHD Content
Read The Restorative Cycle: Personal Conservation and Dormancy Personal Written Reflections
Watch the Restorative Cycle: Personal Conservation and Dormancy Practice replay
Watch the Flowing with The Flow: The Flowing Path class replay
Meditations
Energy Cleanse: Sacred Waters, by Lalah Delia
Inner Gardening Care, by Lalah Delia
Golden Light Activation: A Daily Session For Healing, by Lalah Delia