A new phase

Since you last heard from me, I have been turning the soil - composting projects, ideas and visions about my work in the world. All the while, nourishing so that a path more true to my body, to my gifts and to my wisdom as a decoder of body intelligence can exist.

It's been neither quiet nor easy - it's been with sweat and tears, a push and pull at the safe and 'appropriate' way of being in the world.

But after eight years of coming home to my body. Eight years of being with women's bodies. Decoding the intelligence that is held in the soma. Learning the language we were told didn't exist. Remembering the wisdom women carry about the past, the future, and everything our bodies have been trying to tell us that the world said not to trust. And seeing the deeply rooted power-over complex with the body in our world today - I know it is time.

A new phase of my work is coming into the world.

It begins with a podcast — YINtentions — conversations with women about the intelligence we were told not to trust. The stories we were told not to tell. The evolution we create when we finally speak them.

But this is not just about the podcast.

This is about naming what's been unnamed. Making visible what's been dismissed. Creating space for the conversations that change how women move through the world - in their bodies, in their leadership, in their relationships with money, power, pleasure, grief, rage. It is about being with the yin rather than trying to define it, contain it, contextualize it.

It is about living in our bodies and creating through our bodies.

The first episodes are live today on Spring Equinox. They include an invitation to the undiscovered landscapes of our body. Why this work. Why now. Why 100,000 women remembering the language their bodies speak changes everything. The second episode is a conversation with Jenny McGrath, a friend whose work in body politics I look up to, about what it means to learn to leave your body, and what it means to return.

Listen anywhere you listen to podcasts.

I'm also called to writing again. To be with the inquiry itself, alive and unfolding in my body. Reflections on somatic intelligence. Invitations to gather. Pathways into practices. The occasional provocation that moves something before your mind catches up.

If this finds you where you feel a pulse, tingle a deep ache as you read this, I'd love for you to be part of this. Nothing you have to do. Everything happens in the back end.

with bliss and intention,

Anna Teresa