This podcast is a journey of exploration into two questions - 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?' In this video, I invite Stina Deurell to help me answer these two questions, particularly the latter question of healing, through an exploration of the meditation practice she has developed called 'Wider Embraces'. https://widerembraces.org/
The Wider Embrace meditation enables us to have experiences of 'transrelationality' - experiencing ourselves as part of the whole (the Embrace) - and 'introrelationality' - gaining an experience from the perspective of the whole/Embrace. Stina argues that such experiences are so important for us to raise our consciousness to become 'multi-individual' beings who can transcend separation and violence.
Stina Deurell is the founder of Wider Embraces, and it has been her primary focus since 2012. She is also a creative and renowned nature photographer. And for more than twenty years, she has been a self-employed web developer and graphic designer.
Since the 70s, Stina has been part of the Swedish environmental movement, both as an employee and on the board of several organisations.
She holds a third-degree black belt in Aikido, has been practising both TM and Zen meditation and is a Reiki master. Stina was one of the leading members of Malmö Integral and on the board of Holma College of Holistic Studies.
Her main characteristics are curiosity, creativity and a bit of stubbornness.
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