Samantha Story L.Ac.

A few glimpses of July

Every year a little more grateful for another birthday 🦀. Less taken for granted
More sweetness savored
All the flowers smelled
Yay 53 me

Did you know that I do virtual sessions? Breathwork, Hypnosis & Custom Flower 🌼 Remedies are all offered online so you can still access support while you summer.

Maybe you’re entering a new chapter and want a flower essence to support your vibrational shift.

Or maybe you’re holding a lot of stress, grief or overwhelm and you need to breathe it out of your body.

Perhaps you’re looking to create new patterns, stories and belief systems with hypnosis.

I’m here for you on the other end of this crystal computer chip. 🧿

The elements are both interdependent and generative, each with its own vital role and function, but there is just something about the fFire element that is undeniably alluring. Fire has a key role in our evolution. It’s the sun we circle around and the lava core of the earth we reside upon. We were born in water, but fire has our hearts. In Chinese mMedicine, it is the spirit of the heart. Summer is the alchemical fire of the year offering transmutation to the spirit. We step into this season one way, but if we allow our hearts to be touched by the season, we will come out changed.

Excerpt from a piece I wrote for Corinna Barsan and her zine The Horae back in 2023

We’re halfway through this fire horse year. Mostly I feel like I’m just trying not to be thrown off the horse, it’s moving so fast and with so many big changes. One of the biggest changes for me this year is going back to school to study Chinese Herbal Medicine. I had forgotten what being a student at this level looks like. There will also be more scheduling options at Nest coming soon, some Mondays and weekends, really excited about that. In between it all, I’m trying to slow down and savor as much as I can and be present for the small beautiful moments.

This year feels tectonic in its foundational shifts and I’m wondering how everyone is handling their own bumpy rides and wishing you lots of gentleness and support and bowls of sweet fruit.

Summer comes in two phases in Chinese Medicine, summer and late summer, each with its own distinct energy. Where late summer can be more damp, slower, more about relishing the bounty of the earth, I think of summer as being a dryer, fiery, passionate, brighter energy. We’re in the yang of yang and it’s big, this is the time for community, adventure, play, passion, laughter and connection. Ruled by the heart, we might actually “lead with the heart” this season. It can’t be a coincidence that Pride month is in June. I think of summer as a season that can alter you, we go into summer one way and we exit another, this is its alchemical magic. It’s the season of fire and fire is evolutionary, if we move toward it, it will change us.

Art by Leda Constantinou

Welcome summer! Welcome sunshine, warmth, gathering, connection, compassion and love. Summer is our most yang season, it’s a time that encourages us into expansion. As we spend more time outside and with others we get shaped in ways that no other season does, summer is alchemical. Together we will use the breath to practice opening our heart space and listening to our inner landscape so we can go out into the season as explorers.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care. Breathwork is a powerful and practical tool to work with your own energy, a bridge out of the critical mind and into deeper resources available to all of us.

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