A Corpo Libero

mauraquinnn

juicyjali

misswhitneybell

Wild flowers, swimming holes, makeshift river hot tubs, and a whole lotta love for this life 🌷

apsaralife

nicoleguillon

on summer solstice at 5:05am i watched the sunrise over the perth hills, and wrote 13 wishes on 13 pieces of paper. manifestations of what i hope to embody this year. i went for a morning swim, to reminisce on my other, northern summer solstice swim i got to experience this year in the yukon in the light glow of the midnight sun. at 7:20pm i watched the sun set over the ocean, and started the ritual burning of these unread wishes, each night releasing one of them for the universe to look after for me. on the first of january, my birthday, i was left with 2 pieces of paper, i burned one, and read the last wish. that one is for me to see through this year. i never knew which wishes i was burning, and to be honest kind of forgot them as i folded them up. i kept them broad and open to interpretation, giving the universe the best chance for them to come true for me. the last one i read was not one i expected, but it will be the one that i hold myself to this year 🌝

madeleine.rose

cold.synergy

I've been feeling the urge to dive into deep still water. And this place has been popping up in my mind lately. 💙

Because im pretty adapted to the cold i need to change things up sometimes and give myself a challenge. Diving into ice cold water (probably 2 degrees) like this definitely gives me that cold shock.

I do this with intention. When you expose yourself to ice cold water and get this shock, you have the chance to be aware of it, be mindful about it and observe it while it happens.

And why is this a good thing, you may ask? 🧐 Many good reasons, and here is one of them:

You train your nervous system to be flexible and you get resilient. You feel the shock, activating the sympathetic nervous system "fight and flight mode", and then you breathe - calming down (in the uncomfortable element) and the nervous systems makes a switch, connecting you to the para sympathetic mode - "rest and digest".

If you do this regularly, your body will adapt this to your daily life. When you get stressed, anxiety, panic attacks- you recognise the feeling from the water, and the body knows what to do - breathe! 🙏 This helps your system to stay in homeostasis - balance. Helps you regulate faster, so your body has a better capability to heal and stay strong.

The body is so intelligent. We just need to activate the system, so it knows what to do. 🙏💚