Emotional Fitness Dojo
When Love & Death Become Our Teacher ~
Welcome Grief, Rage & Fear!!!!
Emotional Fitness Dojo
When Love & Death Become Our Teacher ~
Welcome Grief, Rage & Fear!!!!
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When Love & Death Become Our Teacher ~
Welcome Grief, Rage & Fear!!!!
When Love & Death Become Our Teacher ~
Welcome Grief, Rage & Fear!!!!
During the last few years of his life, what lit Burt up the most was talking about our emotional fitness and how, if every person on planet Earth had the ability to clearly identify what they are feeling and then cogently communicate about it, ours would be a much saner, happier planet. Burt was especially concerned about the emotional fitness & mental health of men. Burt studied meditation & martial arts; pursued his own emotional & spiritual recovery (from co-dependency through Alcoholics Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, therapy & coaching); & trained for marathons. He also cycled to work, played Ultimate frisbee & enjoyed being in his physical body. He was a computer programmer by night & a life liver by day. Burt was capable of changing the brake pads on his car and soldering his own quad drones that he would fly for fun. After growing up as a minority in New Jersey, & spending a decade in a dysfunctional marriage, Burt's sensitive soul found the lessons it needed for optimum evolution on planet Earth.
He passed away from a recurrence of liver cancer in southern Ecuador on January 31, 2020.
As a spiritual seeker who has spent her life studying dance & embodiment, Cara left performance & the stage behind and embraced embodiment & dance as a guiding philosophy for a grace-filled life full of connection & meaning.
In 2011, Cara was seeking transformation when Burt stepped into her life. Rooting their instantaneous connection in friendship, they spent 18 months developing emotional intimacy before becoming partners. Soon after, a baby followed - Cara's first, and Burt's third (roughly).
Living 24/7 in emotional intimacy with Burt, Cara was confronted with her own trauma & conditioning in which she moved from an unconscious operating system steeped in Shame
E.g: She had a deep fear of intimacy with which came a superiority complex, a know-it-all attitude, a lack of empathy & self esteem, a quickness to defensiveness & harsh judgement of herself & others. (Narcissism, too.)
greater compassion for herself, more empathy for others, & an ability to stay in her heart in challenging moments as well as an unshakeable resolve to live with LOVE as her true north.
Cara & Burt's partnership, which included:
building a family; Cee's early childhood together; two miscarriages; co-running a community house where Cara also managed a co-op of parents, along with their young children; navigating & surviving a 4th stage, cancer diagnosis; downsizing their southern California life & heading south of the border to world-school their son; & then death, have filled Cara with a hard-earned wisdom that she enjoys sharing.
She looks forward to bearing witness to your evolution and personal empowerment - which is what Emotional Fitness Dojo is all about - & she knows that Burt is elated to see his legacy come to fruition. You can learn more about Cara and her work as an embodiment artist & storyteller at themamacaravan.com.
letting go of the thoughts in your head; releasing stress; being present & more. Begin with where you are right now. How do you feel?
Can you breathe into what you're feeling & identify where in your body you are feeling this?
"I feel.... creaky. And, crackly." says Burt. A regular Dance Church member, watch Burt give you a demonstration of what being with "What Is" looks like in getting up from your desk for 5 minutes and taking embodied action.
JUST AS WE WORK OUT OUR PHYSICAL BODY AT THE GYM & WE VISIT A THERAPIST FOR ASSISTANCE WITH OUR MENTAL BODY,
EMOTIONAL FITNESS DOJO EXERCISES OUR EMOTIONAL BODY.
The message from the longest study on adult life yet performed – the 75-years-old, Harvard Adult Development Study - is that good relationships keep us happier and healthier longer.
Being an emotionally fit person is an excellent benefit for one’s sex life as well. Because the main pathway to having & sustaining “great sex” is through deeper intimacy with yourself and others.
WE EACH ARE BORN WITH AUTHENTIC POWER -
our job is to strip away everything that is false within us and that we have been conditioned with.
they're capable of a full range of emotions.
They experience life to the fullest, including looking & feeling vibrant, sexy, loving, strong, grounded, confident, vital, prepared, self-possessed & more.
Want to improve the quality of your relationships - including with yourself?
Inquire how here.
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FREE PDF - Practice safely & effectively releasing your rage & tapping your grief at your own timing & in the privacy of your own home. Be guided through calming exercises. Links to our Release Your Rage & Tap Your Grief Musical Playlists included.