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The Grounding

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Remove your shoes when it is safe and appropriate. Walk onto earth or another natural surface. Stand. Notice pressure, texture, temperature, balance, and breath.

Passage actions

THE QUESTION

How does one maintain balance on a slippery earth? Start by feeling where your feet are now.

Passage actions

The Society's Grounding practice is its own developing ritual. Its language of slippery earth and rootedness is in acknowledged conversation with Nahua philosophical traditions; it is not presented as an ancient Nahua ceremony.

Passage actions
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