029 - Brigit Viksnins: Alchemical Alignment
Welcome, dear listeners. In this episode, I’m speaking with one of my beloved teachers, Brigit Viksnins.
Brigit is a life partner, a stepmother, mother, and grandmother. She is the creator of the international training program Alchemical Alignment, which is protocol-free, spirit-led, experiential somatic modality that draws on a range of bodywork traditions that she has trained in and is deeply experienced in.
Bridget is also a first-generation Latvian-American from a lineage of healers, midwives, authors, and teachers. Her parents fled from their homeland during World War II, becoming refugee immigrant children under bombs and in the displaced persons camps on their way to the USA. Now Brigit regularly travels to post-Soviet Latvia to relate to the land, eat traditional foods, steep in the wisdom, arts, and crafts of her ancestors, and also share her skills.
Together, Brigit and I have an open, unfolding conversation about trauma resolution, ancestral patterns, stabilizing our nervous systems, calming through co-resonance, and self-love as a relational practice. We also discuss:
The journey of Alchemical Alignment
Finding Heaven & Hell on earth
Cultivating a range of pace & velocity in our lives
Breaking trauma resolution into tiny, doable bits
The necessity of contraction & having healthy dark in our range
Sharing stillness to create co-resonance between bodies
When self-love can be self-less
This conversation is full of wisdom, and I hope you’ll listen with an open heart, then visit the Alchemical Alignment website to learn more about any topics you aren’t familiar with.
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