Practicing Inner Work
Centering our individual and collective health, healing, clarity, and wholeness so we can be and do, from and toward vision.
Practicing Inner Work
Inner work is the practice of cultivating the sacred. The sacred is what’s possible when we all have what we need to show up as (and return to again and again) our best selves, in interdependence and mutual accountability with all beings. Our wellness and intactness—our sacred being—are not a fixed state. We tend to our state through the practices of healing and liberation. As Elissa Sloan Perry reflected, “‘Wellness’ is being able to be with all the things—the heartbreak and the joy, the grief and the possibility—in a resourced way. In a society that often makes true wellness elusive, we don’t aim for perfection, but for enough wholeness to show up resourced, in relationship, and in practice.”
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inner work is to practice into the sacred such that we embody interdependence and mutuality from a place of gratitude and compassion, in service of the sacred, not from a default stance of tolerance and endurance of will. Practices of inner work involve intentionally communicating with our nervous systems and embracing our emotions, and are not about becoming adjusted to or tolerant of systems that harm us. Inner work practices cultivate our awareness and understanding—bringing and receiving information that supports us in acting from our vision and sacred self.
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Inner Work in Action
Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom
Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom is a refuge for seeding, growing, and applying healing/arts/spiritual (HEARTS) justice practices, rooted in Black Diasporic wisdom, for the sake of manifesting our collective freedom. Acorn creates spaces for BIPOC, Queer, and Trans* people to experience healing, restoration, and wholeness. They offer retreats, healing spaces, mentorship and communities of practice for practitioners, and other ongoing opportunities that center healing, creativity, and community building.
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Co-creators Centering Inner Work
We partner with many incredible people exploring individual and collective inner work as key to advancing equity and centering creativity, joy, and healing in our work. Here we name just a few that inspire us to learn and deepen our practices.
Kawelokū
Kawelokū supports people in developing a practice of experiential learning to increase awareness, interrupt habits, and shift being to lead toward a vision of whole and healthy people and planet. The online, in-person, and asynchronous space brings together a “far flung sangha” of movement makers who bring the wisdom of breath, posture, centering and aloha into everyday life.
The Hidden Leaf Foundation
Our work together is focused on integrating practices of inner work within Change Elemental, and within our partnerships.
