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Sovereignty: Re-membering
Authority, Agency, Authenticity.
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Re-membering relationship with life.

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If you stop scrolling for just a few seconds,

You’ll see how simple it can be to generate feelings of calm, peace, safety… exactly when you need them most.

When you see me in this state of calm presence, the mirror neurons in your brain are signalling a similar experience in your body - even if just for a moment.

It happens that fast. It’s really that simple.

🫀 This is who I am. This is what I do.

This kind of movement meditation is what I teach, what I love sharing with people from all over the world.

🧠🫁🫀 The body generates beneficial feelings as intelligent messengers, signalling us back to emotional regulation and homeostasis.

It does this without our being consciously aware, most of the time. Like a mother with her young one, our body can provide soothing, calming, comforting feelings. The biochemistry is available to us if we learn how to access it.

And with practice, we learn to listen to that wisdom and respond - when needed - with kindness, gentleness, acknowledgment.

We can remind ourselves of our own belonging.

This is self care. This is love.

@kindred.meditation

#kindrêdmeditation #kindrêd #wisdom #presence #meditation by @therese_ofthetrees

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8 months ago

The rainbow is always whole. The earth simply holds half of it, the way the body holds what we have not yet seen.

Recently, I’ve been finding my way around phrases like these: high frequency or low vibrations. Yes, high and low are words I use to find my way, to describe where I stand in relation to the world. Yes, those are used as scientific terminology for measuring wavelengths.

But I don’t want to use them to measure my worth, or how well I am living, whether I am “enlightened”. It does disservice to the full spectrum of me, of life.

For the women who have lived, who were told to rise above: what if the wisdom was never above you?

What if it has been in your bones all along, patient and ancient, waiting for you to listen?

Grief belongs. Anger belongs. Rest and joy and longing belong. The full range is not something to rise above. It is your wholeness, held in your bones. 🦴

Something new is taking root for In Her Bones gathering in the new year. More soon, as the light returns. 🤍

#wisdom #womenswellness #inherbones

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4. Georgia O’Keefe
6. Natya Strueva by @therese_ofthetrees

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6 days ago

Once upon a time there were 3 friends from 3 corners of the world who came together to build something so stunning & groundbreaking that it made them grow 3 times as big just to hold the beauty of it.

We are not your average leadership team. We have 7+ decades of combined teaching experience - expertise in education, creative arts, entrepreneurship, the science of friendship, and embodied leadership. And we’ve each been practicing Kindrêd since before it was even Kindrêd - 15+ years.

We lead retreats around the world, Kindrêd Teacher Training programs, our online Kindrêd LIVE Membership & online immersions.

👑Theresa de Rox is a joy activist, live-life-to-the-fullest enthusiast, currently residing in Canada. She has been an educator for more than 40 years, and her expertise lies in fostering deeper relationships with life: all of it, not just the good parts. Her childlike joy is captivating and her warmth is contagious. She has been known to dance on a few tabletops just because she can.

👑Katie Kolenberg is an artist and mentor, living in Australia. She has lived a wholeheartedly creative life since birth, and has spent the last two decades studying creativity, business and the nervous system and how they shape our lives. She spends an unreasonable amount of time fossicking for rocks & her laughter is known to make people cry, and even occasionally pee their pants.

👑Katie O’Farrell is an artist & poet, hailing from USA. She has studied friendship for over 30 years and has turned that into her superpower. Her ability to speak from the heart will stir something ancient and tender inside you and her dance moves will remind you that our bodies were made for joy. She’s a weird bird that can find silver-linings in the darkest corners. When no one is looking, she likes to lick rocks.

🌀If you want to experience Kindrêd for yourself or you’re returning to it after some time, come and try a month in our online membership.

💬Comment LIVE and we’ll send you the details. by @therese_ofthetrees

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22 days ago

We have been taught not to trust the body. It makes mistakes. It gets messy with emotion. It is wrong, or bad. It ages.

This human experience is messy. Most of the time it is not convenient. It is not comfortable. It is not conforming.

And so we have been conditioned to fix it. Fix how we look. Fix what we say. Fix how we act.

But in the fixing, we lose the body that feels, that is moved by joy as well as grief, that laughs, cries, softens, slows.

We lose the complexity that makes each of us different.

The body was never the problem to be solved. It is where a thought like safety, peace, or belonging becomes something you can live, something you can feel in your bones.

We gather soon. Our first in person gathering on Monday, September 28th at Sahaja Wellness [6:30-8 MDT]. Online begins Thursday, September 24th [6:30-8pm MDT].

We begin by listening to the body and to wherever we are in the moment. No one has to know how to move, and sitting out a moment is as welcome as joining one.

Each session includes Kindrêd, a somatic movement practice that uses the hands and upper body for creative expression. You can do it seated or standing, with eyes open or closed. There is no right way, and no one is asked to perform or explain.

$33 per session, or $90 for all three months.

#wisdom #kindrêd #sacredspace by @therese_ofthetrees

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Can you see me in this reflection? I am the gentle flow, light sparkling on water. ✨

I was taught not to trust what I know. Taught to dismiss my inner voice, my hard-earned wisdom.

But now my body shows me what trust feels like, the felt sense of it, moving through me the way the river moves through stone, cutting past every layer of pretense, past the version of myself that was built to be acceptable to someone else.

This is the work of In Her Bones. Not becoming someone new, but uncovering who was always there, shaped by lived experience, formed in her grandmother’s womb… waiting patiently for her time to live in her fullness.

In Her Bones September circle is gathering.

If you know you’re ready to stop pretending or hiding or rushing through life to fit into someone else’s idea of who you’re meant to be… come find us.

In Person - Sahaja Wellness, Stony Plain
Online - via Zoom
Link in bio

#wisdom #sacredspace #womenscircle by @therese_ofthetrees

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Every ring in that trunk is a year it lived through. Drought years. 🪾 Storm years. 🌩️

The bark doesn’t smooth them over. It carries them, visibly, and calls that beauty. 🌳

We were taught to sand ourselves down. To hide the years that marked us.

But nothing that has actually lived looks unmarked. What you carry is not the thing to hide. It is the thing that makes you real.

This fall, In Her Bones is a room built just for that.

Real humans. Real experience. Real knowing in our bones.

The kind of knowing that lives below words.

I find it most easily here. Arms around a fir that has been quietly rooted for longer than any of us can fathom. 🌳

This is what I mean when I talk about sovereignty.

Not willpower. Not performance. Not power over. Not having the right answer or the perfect boundary or the loudest voice.

Sovereignty is what happens when you slow down long enough to feel what is actually true in you. When you let the intelligence of your body lead you into deeper relationship, stronger connection, alignment with what matters to you. 🤍

The tree does not question its rootedness. It does not wonder if it is too tall, too wide, too much. It grows toward light because that is its nature. It holds the hillside because that is its gift.

We are not so different.

Your body is listening the way roots listen to water. Quietly. Constantly. Below the surface of your awareness, something in you already knows what it needs. ☀️

Being in relationship with life, with the living breathing world around you, is not a luxury. It is how you remember who you are. 🍃

The mountain, the moment, the tree listening, the bright yellow flowers responding to the wind, the sun, the sky, to one another.

You belong to all of this, and your body knows it.

#wisdom #presence #kindrêd #meditation

In Her Bones - monthly gathering for women who know things deeply. New cohort beginning Sept 2026.

Link in bio. Comment BONES for more details or DM me. by @therese_ofthetrees

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We were taught to make ourselves small. Soften the voice. Shrink the wanting. Fit into rooms that were never built for our whole selves.

But nothing in nature does this.

The sunflower does not apologize for turning toward the sun.

It simply turns, all day, toward what feeds it.

You were not made for smallness.

You were made for the full range of who you are.

This fall, In Her Bones is a room built for exactly that. Come find it.

Link in BIO or click on the FB Event Page for more information.

#wisdom #inherbones #sovereignty #womensgathering by @therese_ofthetrees

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2 months ago

Oh my heart! Full to overflowing with all the beautiful messages, well wishes, phone calls and voice notes! Gahhhhhhh!

Feeling so blessed and so very thankful for all the love. ❤️🤗💃🏻

I’ll respond to each of you as soon as I can. 🤍🌟🥰 by @therese_ofthetrees

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3 months ago

Under open sky, in the arms of each other, this is what Wild Roses has always held for me, for you, for us. 🌹

This is a sneak peek into what we’ll be exploring together this year: The Crone’s Wisdom, Riding the Fire Horse Without Burning Out. An hour of story, movement drawn from Kindrêd Meditation, and the kind of fire that is tended with kind, caring attention. 🔥

Can’t wait to meet you on Opening Day, Friday morning, July 10th, 10:30am.

Link in bio.

#WildRosesFestival #FireHorseYear #CroneWisdom #KindrêdMeditation by @therese_ofthetrees

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3 months ago

There is a kind of knowing that lives below words.

I find it most easily here. Arms around a fir that has been quietly rooted for longer than any of us can fathom. 🌳

Yellow flowers blazing along a sun-drenched path. The warmth on my face that asks for nothing, explains nothing, simply offers itself. 🌼

This is what I mean when I talk about sovereignty.

Not willpower. Not performance. Not power over. Not having the right answer or the perfect boundary or the loudest voice.

Sovereignty is what happens when you slow down long enough to feel what is actually true in you. When you let the intelligence of your body lead you into deeper relationship, stronger connection, alignment with what matters to you. 🤍

The tree does not question its rootedness. It does not wonder if it is too tall, too wide, too much. It grows toward light because that is its nature. It holds the hillside because that is its gift.

We are not so different.

Your body is listening the way roots listen to water. Quietly. Constantly. Below the surface of your awareness, something in you already knows what it needs. ☀️

Being in relationship with life, with the living breathing world around you, is not a luxury. It is how you remember who you are. 🍃

The mountain, the moment, the tree listening, the bright yellow flowers responding to the wind, the sun, the sky, to one another.

You belong to all of this, and your body knows it.

#wisdom #presence #kindrêd

In Her Bones - a monthly gathering for women who know things deeply. New cohort starting Sept 2026. by @therese_ofthetrees

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5 months ago

But I need these little things… 🌸🌊🌳🏔️☀️💨

If you know me at all, you’ll know that me and earth, we’re a thing: inseparable, joined at the hip, twinsies, lovers, besties. There is no word big enough. And I grow more in love with her every day.

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What I want you to know is that you are inseparable from her too.

Not metaphorically. Actually.

We share breath and soil, sea and sky. The same water that moves through ocean moves through you. The same light. The same turning.

On this Earth Day, my deepest wish is that you feel your way back to that. Not as a concept. As a lived, body-knowing, bone-deep remembrance.

#kindrêd #wisdom #meditation #earthday by @therese_ofthetrees

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