Becoming/Unstuck
Becoming/Unstuck tells the stories of internal paradigm shifts. Unsticking from old paradigms is the work of Becoming, or setting ourselves free. The process of Becoming Unstuck is individual, but universal. Everyone has their own story to tell, and this show is the table around which we gather together to share and listen. Here we illuminate that Becoming Unstuck is both journey and destination, process and result, the way Home and Home itself. These stories help us understand that the process of Becoming Unstuck isn't formulaic. It isn't neat and clean. You can't learn it from a book. You have to be willing to get dirty. This kind of education is embodied. It is dynamic and vibrant and messy. This show isn't one in which we cover up that mess because that mess is life, and what we are here to do is learn to live it.
Becoming/Unstuck
Never Too Heavy with Wangũi Hymes
Wangũi Hymes is an embodied flow state. She is a wise being, a teacher and student of liberation, and she is a holder. But she always "thought [she] was too heavy to be held". This week she talks to us about learning how to be held in community, learning how to feel buoyant, and how things get easier when you have the privilege of being connected to "some of the most wondrous beings this world has to offer".
Wangũi and I met as working residents at a Buddhist Center in Berkeley, CA, which is where she learned to be still, and find her breath. She describes the awakening that happened for her when she "uncovered and discovered that the thing [she] was trying to run from was the very thing she was trying to run towards, and the only thing standing in her way was [herself]."
She wants you to "allow yourself to be heavy. To lay on the Earth, put your cheek against it, and just allow yourself to be held, and know that you are never too heavy."