I'm rooting for you / us

& a donation-based practice event

“I’m rooting for ya!”

Maybe the first time I heard this was when I was trying to do sports in grade school, because that’s what I was supposed to do for fun?

The connotation is cheery yet cheesy, and to me has been tainted with the air of competition and pressure meant as support.

But today I read it in a different context, that “life is rooting for you” - and it stuck in a different way.

It stuck like the way I practice most mornings, even if just for a minute, grounding into my body, to literally root for myself, root for us, root for a better world…

the first thing i made in clay class last month :”)

When I root for me or you, it’s not just empty words of encouragement; it’s a reminder that I am literally deepening my roots to be able to better hold us and all the contexts we live within.

I am rooting for us not because I know but because I don’t know, and so all I can do is resource myself through deepening my systems of support and sense of grounded abilities. I am rooting for our responsiveness, so that we don’t burn ourselves out through reactivity.

Maybe this is why I’m high key obsessed with roots and trees and plants… they are literally the ones rooting for us all, everyday, continuously, year round.

They root for our oxygen, our minerals, our interdependent existence. They root to remind us that we can too.

So what helps root you on?

What are you rooting for?

all fired and ready to go on my altar as votive offering for the trees <3

That being said, I want to invite you to practice, since we are deep in the midst of it all.

Pre-holidays, post-election, persisting genocides…

I want to offer what practices I’ve created from what I know within all the unknowns.

So join me for Cyclical Mindfulness - which I’ve now made available at a sliding scale.

I hope to see you there, and I look forward to rooting for and with you.

In sensory solidarity,
Rachael Amber