meditation

Release your butt™

Release your butt™ first occurred to me in 2021 while I was collaborating on a project focused on undoing white supremacy in the Alexander Technique. I realized there is a link for me between my whiteness and my patterns of tension. Born from my irreverently reverent nature, this phrase helped shift something in my soma along with putting a big old grin on my face.

Today I’m delighted to announce the Release your butt™ line of hats, mugs, and totes.

Release your butt hat, mug, tote

Release your butt™ hats, mugs, and totes

3% of any profits from this project will go to The Embodiment Institute co-founded by Prentis Hemphill and Kasha Ho.

And for those of you out there curious to explore a more nuanced understanding of what releasing your butt might be all about, here is a free bonus guided Release your butt™ somatic meditation.

Over the years, Release your butt™ has become a playful invitation to pause, notice, gather, and ground our body-mind-spirits. Let’s surrender what we no longer need to hold. Let’s be in our somatic agency and consciously choose to venture into freer embodied territory. Let’s get real about our somatic strategies for how we meet and process what’s out of our control. Let’s recognize and honor the beautiful chaos. Release your butt™ is a conversation and gift between you and you, a local act that can benefit the greater whole. Your butt is yours to do with what you want. How will you be with it today?

Note: Wave Somatics LLC is no longer posting on social media, but if the spirit moves you, feel free to share this project on your IG, FB, TikTok, and beyond. Just please be sure to credit Wave Somatics LLC in your posts. Thank you for your support!

Your Song: a guide to nurturing self-expression

Your Song: a guide to nurturing self-expression

Whatever is inside of you wants to come out. Can you feel it? I promise you it’s there. Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment, and shift your attention to your body. Feel the weight of your bones, the movement of your breath, the gurgling of your digestion, your heart beating in your chest. What is in there? What wants to be expressed? A burning? A yearning? A pulsing? A swirl? A painting? A sound? A movement? A story? 

How Good Can You Stand It?

How Good Can You Stand It?

What is your capacity for pleasure, delight, and joy in every day life? 

As a matter of survival, we are biologically wired to look for threats in any situation. We often therefore become accustomed to noticing our pain and discomfort, rather than luxuriating in the more pleasant experiences of life. The more time we spend focusing on our pain, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, the more it intensifies and grows. Even when we’re committed to resting, releasing, and receiving in our yoga, meditation, or other self-care practices, there are often parts of us constantly fighting to keep our systems on alert. Our relationship to pleasure is intimately wrapped up with our capacity to experience safety. This can breed an exhausting subconscious conflict of interest, which interferes with our ability to freely inhabit a place of joy.

How to Find Inner Peace Even While That Annoying Guy Next to You Screams on His Cell Phone (Hint: It doesn’t involve knocking him out).

How to Find Inner Peace Even While That Annoying Guy Next to You Screams on His Cell Phone (Hint: It doesn’t involve knocking him out).

The car alarm honks outside your bedroom window for hours at a time.
Around every corner another computer screen glares in your face.
Advertisements infiltrate your dreams.

We are a culture bombarded by stimuli.

So when we need to rejuvenate we tend to close our eyes.