Peony

The answer to my problems is probably not buying another journal.

And yet here I am — like a cat staring at the moon.

I can’t pass one in a bookstore without stopping. They are blank pages filled with potential — for everything. My sadness, my joy, my worries, my aspirations, my fears, my contemplations. The fabric of my inner life.

I can be here for hours. It’s my favorite part of the day.

It connects me to a place of being — disguised as solving a problem. Really, I just like spilling thoughts outward. It’s how I slow down and unstick. (unstick is absolutely a word.)

For practices that connect you with your inner life — link in bio.

— Paige

YOU ARE CONNECTED TO SOMETHING GREAT AND UNFOLDING. YOUR HEART PULSES TO A DISTANT STAR.

This is one of the affirmations in Cloud Ghost — and it gets to the heart of these practices.

In Chinese medicine, your body is nature. It is a map of rivers and seasons, of sky and earth, of rolling hills and open fields. As you pause and pay attention to the natural world — to its beauty, its shifting light, its shapeshifting clouds — you begin to see yourself in it. You are a reflection of that beauty. What you see is who you are.

This is the essence of The Body Sublime — to offer you a different story of your body. Your body as poetry. Your body as nature. Your body as nature’s beauty.

In Cloud Ghost, we practice this literally. You lie down, you breathe, and you watch the clouds inside your ribcage move and transform — into a horse, into a snake, into a dragon. What you attend to, you become.

This is what tending the spirit through nature’s medicine looks like.

Link in bio to join Cloud Ghost.
— Paige