Brownswell

Life, aliveness, death, love and ancestry.

So many of us have been moving through layers and layers of metaphorical and literal death the last few years. It’s been staring us in the face and following us no matter where we turn. I have felt this so deeply in my life and in those I love and care for the last few years - during this time I was also back with family on the lands that raised me for the first 26 years of my life - the Mississauga of the first credit nation, Hodenosaunee, and Anishinabewaki lands. It was the hardest and most expansive life-giving phase of my life to date. During that time I deepened my practice with flowers and the life death cycle of plants. My sister and cousin both asked me to create the flowerscape for their weddings to which I gladly obliged! I discovered I have a whole universe I’m dying to share with my flower friends. One of the ways we started to express together was by drying all the flowers from the weddings and then making a new permanent piece from the dried flowers that could be mounted. This is the one I created for my sister . I wanted to show her wildness, color, vibrancy, the wild flower meadow that I see her being in the world and that her partnership allows her to be. She brings life to everything she touches and her partnership with her husband is a groundswell that lets her rest and rejuvenate so she can keep creating and giving life. It’s one of my most favorite creations for one of my fave humans. More pics of the union to come soon. I’m still catching my breath from the last few years.

Xoxo
Kirin

Free & low-cost offerings to reconnect with and feed what’s resourced inside of us so we can feel liberation in these times and meet the moments of tension and crisis in our lives and community with courage and ease. ✨✨ ✨

💓Rest back into the deeply resourced parts of our bodies. It can be hard to feel this part of ourselves on our own, especially right now. We need community - our collective body to help us sink into the truth that even as our worlds get shaky there is stability and ground holding it all. Together we will weave a web of resilience we can’t create on our own.

OFFERINGS:

💓 Two free sessions to get a taste of this work. There will be gentle somatic exercises, some Q&A, and a nourishing meditation. Bring a journal, anything that helps you feel comfortable and connects you to your sense of resource.

💓 A community practice group to show up to every morning for 21 days to develop the habit of strengthening your awareness and ability to connect to what is resourced in you. Starts Dec. 1st and goes till winter solstice.

💓Links in bio to register

I can’t wait to gather with you - we will be uncovering potent insights and tools for finding liberation in these times.

HOLY GRIEVERS

Another morning overcome with Grief. FUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK!!!!

I want to inhabit a new kind of space. Take me away from here.

The tears would not stop. The plume of dark clouds thickened - drenched me in their solid mist.

I collapsed onto my bed. Suddenly I felt a tender hand caressing the top of my head. I sat up.

I was no longer in my room but at the cloudy shores of the ocean alongside ancestors and guides.

“You are a holy griever my love - grieve with dignity and let us help you. Come to the shore and let us build you a throne worthy of your tears. Each drop is sacred and filled with liberation - for you, for us, for all. Thank you for your service.”

For the ones who visit and are visited by grief often. You are holy.

Embody other as portal. Coming soon. Sign up for the newsletter to stay in the loop. www.Brownswell.com

Xoxo
KB

A spell in fact for our diasporic roots.
So they know they are a gift not a burden. I see you. I see us. We have beautiful gifts to offer don’t we - these diasporic roots. I love you to bits and pieces.

Let’s dissolve borders

EMBODY OTHER AS PORTAL
Coming soon.

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I love you always and forever
Kirin

EMBODY OTHER

Go ahead, other me
It’s now my gateway

I am learning to adorn
Myself in other

Let it drip off my skin
Like sweet life-giving
Nectar

Embody other as a portal

More to come soon. Sign up for the newsletter to stay in the loop.

I love all parts of you immensely
xoxo
KB

EMBODY OTHER

Go ahead, other me
It’s now my gateway

I am learning to adorn
Myself in other

Let it drip off my skin
Like sweet life-giving
Nectar

Embody other as a portal

More to come soon. Sign up for the newsletter to stay in the loop.

I love all parts of you immensely
xoxo
KB

How do we make our rage sacred?

With support, our bodies, and the earth. I’ll show you with

🌸July 11th, 1:30-3:00pm PST🌸

❤️‍🔥Join me for an experiential workshop using our bodies, nature and regenerative leadership principles to harness the power of our collective and personal anger into sacred rage.

❤️‍🔥Rage that can cleanse our spirits and connect us with our collective power.

❤️‍🔥This class will include personal practice, somatic exercises, as well as group sharing and group coaching, through a trauma-informed approach.

No prior experience needed.

🌲Livestream - so that you can join from anywhere in the world and the comfort of your own home or beneath the trees

🌿 Cost: $45
Equity pricing available - reach out at [email protected]

Are you an organization, institution, or business that wants to genuinely support and care for your employees? Consider covering the cost for them to attend this session 💥

How do we make our rage sacred and channel it?

With support, through our bodies, with the earth. I can guide you.

🌸July 11th, 1:30-3:00pm PST🌸

❤️‍🔥Join Kirin Bhatti for an experiential workshop using our bodies, nature and regenerative leadership principles to harness the power of our collective and personal anger into sacred rage.

❤️‍🔥Rage that can cleanse our spirits and connect us with our collective power.

❤️‍🔥This class will include personal practice, somatic exercises, as well as group sharing and group coaching, through a trauma-informed approach.

No prior experience needed.

🌲Livestream - so that you can join from anywhere in the world and the comfort of your own home or beneath the trees

🌿 Cost: $45
Equity pricing available - reach out at [email protected]

Are you an organization, institution, or business that wants to genuinely support and care for your employees? Consider covering the cost for them to attend this session 💥

What do the landscapes of your burnout look and feel like?

How can seeing and feeling our burnout as a landscape, an ecosystem help us embrace and learn new lessons from it rather than just be burdened by it?

Let’s try it out together in our FREE class June 22nd. The Gift of our Burnt Out Landscapes. Link in bio.

Xoxo
Kirin

What would care look like that feeds us at a root level? So that it’s sustaining? Unlike a spa day, a massage, Netflix, a vacation - which definitely have a place in our care regimens, but don’t offer a sustained sense of center, flow, or aliveness.

Where are the sources of life that continue to feed us? We are in this inquiry on a collective level - much of the way the think about feeding ourselves are still rooted in a paradigm of fixing, capitalism, reactivity and individualism.

We are being asked to evolve our understanding of care beyond what we currently know if we are to stand in these times with joy and strength. How do we do this? Where are the answers? At Brownswell we are still swimming in this curiosity but what we do know is that we are finding pathways by being in deeper relationship with

✨our bodies
✨the earth
✨ our darkness (our grief, anxiety, discomfort, burnout)
✨exploring this question in community
✨connecting with our guides and ancestors
✨starting to see ourselves and others as ecosystems

We will explore this question together through these avenues in our free class June 22nd - The Gift Of Our Burnt Out Landscapes. Join us and let’s keep uncovering ways to care for ourselves and each other that are reciprocal, penetrating, lasting and responsive to the times we are in.

Much love
Xoxo
Kirin

It’s possible for us to find liberation under our current conditions, despite systems refusing to change.

To get there we have to be willing to embrace what’s in front of us first in order to find an expanded perspective.

Burnout is everywhere, as is grief, anger, hardship. How do we embrace these energies, in a way that is gentle to our systems, as a tool for liberation?

Join me June 22nd for the Gift of our Burnt Out Landscapes to experience how I guide myself and my clients from shut down to possibility. My gift to you dear leader - because I know we are tired, and that there is another way to be that doesn’t bleed us out.

Xoxo
Kirin

Shall we see what happens when we embrace this inquiry?

Join me for the Gift of Our Burnt Out Landscapes. A free class I will be leading June 22nd where you can deeply experience my work through your body, with the earth and others, in a community of empathic leaders.

Together we will get to feel how our aches and pains can guide us towards - breath again, new possibility for ourselves and our world, regenerative leadership that blooms and rests like the cycles of our earth.

What have we got to lose?

Link in bio to register.

Shall we see what happens when we embrace this inquiry?

Join me for the Gift of Our Burnt Out Landscapes. A free class I will be leading June 22nd where you can deeply experience my work through your body, with the earth and others, in a community of empathic leaders.

Together we will get to feel how our aches and pains can guide us towards regenerative leadership and new possibility for ourselves and our world.

Can't wait to see you there.

Releasing in our hands to release in our bodies as empathic leaders ✨🌸✨

I know you know at this point that as empathic leaders we are being urged to heal, grieve, rage, be in our bodies. And - it’s hard to develop these practices ! Here’s a bridge to help us reach for this desire.

🌸 Play with the earth in ways that allow our bodies to sensorially feel release
🌺 Here I collected flowers over the seasons and dried them in my prayer basket. A few days ago - in the midst of a lot of transition and continued collective crises - I started a ritual where I crushed up the flowers.

I sensed into the feeling of disintegration of each flower under my fingertips, rubbed the remenants over my palms, savored the perfume of marigolds, lavender, rose, eucalyptus, watched as the wind scooped each seed, petal, stamen, pistil and returned it to the earth.

When I can see and feel in my hands the beauty and organic nature of disintegration it becomes easier to do in my body, and to flow with these processes in my body as well.

Earth+body+community allows us to re-ignite our natural ability to heal, release, grieve, so we can keep our energy flowing and regenerating as empathic leaders. This is what I call Regenerative Ecological Leadership.

Are you feeling hungry for more ways to
✨Sign up for the Brownswell newsletter to receive meditations, exercises and videos to embody regenerative leadership
✨Experience regenerative leadership in my free class June 22nd: The Gift of our Burnt Out Landscapes.
✨ Get on the waitlist for my upcoming 6-month program Dance with Darkness to embody regenerative leadership.

I love you all
Xoxo
Kirin

How do the waters of your grief nourish the roots of your pleasure?

How do the fires of your anger heat the hot springs of your joy?

How do the frozen glaciers of your fear melt into the flowing rivers of your self-compassion?

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Imagine our tender inner terrains as ecosystems that feed one another.

A whole ecology that expands beyond "wrong" or "right,"
"bad" or "good."

Our bodies and beings as microcosms of the Earth.

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As bodies of color and bodies of culture, “home” takes on new meaning when there are centuries of colonization that continue to walk with us, centuries of colonization that have quite literally taken some of us from our lands and homes, made home unsafe to stay in, severed our connection to Earth as home, created conditions so we do not feel “at home” in our bodies or with our feeling states.

To come home to ourselves and our bodies is radical love work. Reclaiming our bodies as home is radical love work.

We invite you to come “home” to your body with us next weekend.

Mapping the Earth of Our Bodies is a weekend-long retreat specifically for BIPOC - a space to explore the tender places inside of us earth-based embodiment.

Learn more through link in bio. And be sure to register soon to receive the early bird rate. 💗🙏🏽