Hi everyone! Today marks day 69 of @James Humecky consistently showing up DAILY for morning meditation - live, here. Even tho James has some sugar last night (guilty pleasure) - he deserves and obviously didn’t let him affect him showing up…. Even tho it was hard for him to get up…. DISCIPLINE! Due to responsibility and commitment…. Check out the Day 69 meditation here!!!!!! Lots of thoughts, racing, as per usual, coming and going, observing them…. I showed up because I said I would on day 69. And for me integrity is one of my highest values. Even tho I said it randomly in a comment somewhere to James and he probably doesn’t even remember, I knew!!! Self-integrity is something that I have been working DAILY for the past 8 years. Also, discipline. Discipline comes w practicing it - no matter how hard or how much you don’t want - like getting up in the morning, for example… This is a good example the kind of human James is…. I share values w him - self-integrity, commitment, responsibility. And after effect of those comes discipline, tenacity & success. And then, of course - JOY & FREEDOM! So, it’s ok to have guilty pleasures! By all means!! Especially if we have the discipline to not let those derail us from our path, goals and ways of being….

Smell is one of the earliest senses developed in human evolution and taps right into the limbic system and excites us on a level beyond our understanding. We literally can feel a smell much like we can taste the color. This was some random thing that was sent to me and I just wanted to share it with you and have you remember and pay attention to the smell smells around you. Pay attention to the smells of the ones you love as much as to the smell of those that maybe you don’t love so much. Smell is constantly playing a song on your brain 🧠 on your nervous system, and plucking at the strings of your heart and your deepest primal urge 🦍

💃🏽🕺 I wore my red Hawaiian shirt in celebration!! 😏 😎 But underneath the joke is something real: 69 days of getting up and doing the practice. After 69 days of meditation I feel a lot more self-trust. I’ve noticed more focus, more discipline, and a stronger ability to come back when my mind is scattered or life gets noisy. That steadiness is bleeding into the rest of my life. And I’m watching it happen here too. People are using this practice as an anchor through stress, caregiving, grief, ADHD, big transitions, and ordinary hard days. What have you stayed committed to long enough to feel yourself change? What practice has helped you stay upright when life gets wobbly?

What would change if you stopped treating pleasure like it only means sex? 😭😵‍💫 Some people have experienced abuse and trauma around sexuality. Many people have experienced social, religious or familial repression. And our culture treats it as something dirty and secret yet it's on everybody's mind all the time. 🤩💖 This community is opening more space for mature conversation, curiosity, education, and real questions around sex, eroticism, intimacy, desire, and the body. 🍒 Pleasure is food, breath, movement, laughter, touch, nature, creativity, honesty, and connection. 🍑🍆 And yes—sexuality belongs in the conversation too. 🚫 No shame. 🚫 No performance. 🚫 Not some secret side room of being human. 💃🏽🕺♥️ That does not mean this is a place to flirt with each other or turn the community sexual. 🤩 💖 It means we practice consent, respect, clear boundaries, and taking care of one another while we explore a powerful part of being human. 🚫 Don't Yuck your Yum 🤤😋‼️🚀 & 🚫 Don't Yuck someone else's Yum What kind of pleasure are you ready to understand more deeply?

‼️🐦‍🔥 Own your wanting. Direct it. Don’t let it own you.💥🍒 😍🚀 Life is meant to be lived - not be a long string of "should nots" - but you have ultimate control of your desires and can choose how to direct that energy. ❤️‍🔥 Desire is not the enemy. 🕺 It is part of being human. 💖 It drives love, art, hunger, ambition, sex, creation, and the will to live. 🥶 But when desire becomes fixation— “I need that person, thing, drink, status, or outcome to be okay”—it starts running the show. Don’t repress desire. Name it and honor it! This is you being a real human being. Then ask: What am I actually hungry for? Love? Rest? Touch? Belonging? Relief? Nourishment? I love you - Jump into the Somatic Primer Series in the classroom and develop those foundational skills.