Discussing a moment where I made a lot of noise at a silent retreat. #embodiment #retreat #embody

9 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Jo L shares a moment from a silent retreat where she made noise and felt vulnerable. A fellow retreatant noticed her eating less and left a note asking if she'd had enough to eat, a small gesture that moved her deeply and showed how attention and care matter in embodied practice.

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And there were some women in the room who got up and left, and of course they did. But there was a few that stayed in the room. And when we checked out on Sunday, I said, thank you so much for being present with me because I needed that. Yeah. I needed someone in the room. And so that was such a beautiful gift to me. Yeah. And there was one other thing that someone said. Yes, and just witnessing. And one other thing, at one meal, I knew something happened. And I just like all of a sudden, I couldn't eat and I was kind of restricting. And someone wrote on a little note, did you get enough to eat? And she gave me that and it was so touching. So that was the other thing where it was a little interaction that just was so meaningful. I mean, I think she cheated a little bit, but it was, it was okay in that case. Yeah. So it's little moments like that, that they're transformative.