{"id":1459,"date":"2011-05-03T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2011-05-03T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:41:38","slug":"soul-retrieval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Soul Retrieval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2008)<br \/>\nLast night was lovely.\u00a0 This is the third session of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurashannon.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Shannon\u2019s<\/a> Training in Women\u2019s Ritual Dances.\u00a0 So good to see all those women again and to dance our dances.\u00a0 I sat out part of the time with Molly, leaning against her &amp; dancing Koga Me Mama with our fingers.\u00a0 Laura just put on the CD and I found to my surprise there were quite a few where the music was familiar but I didn\u2019t remember the dance until we started.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve done any of those dances since before this cycle of PTSD so there\u2019s a way in which they seem like another lifetime.\u00a0 Well it was truly another lifetime for the newly integrated part of myself.\u00a0 I noticed in one dance that my feet seemed to be contacting the floor with more differentiation.\u00a0 Then my ankle started to hurt and I had to dance more minimally.<br \/>\nI told several people about what I\u2019ve just been through and as I told Judie David I realized that I should really be saying I went on a shamanic journey to find and bring back and integrate a lost part of myself.\u00a0 There\u2019s a way in which I feel like I\u2019m here \u2014 on Planet Earth, in the White Mountains, in my house \u2014 for the first time.\u00a0 Everything seems fresh and new.\u00a0 That\u2019s really true for the part of me that\u2019s here for the first time in 66 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2008) Last night was lovely.\u00a0 This is the third session of Laura Shannon\u2019s Training in Women\u2019s Ritual Dances.\u00a0 So good to see all those women again and to dance our dances.\u00a0 I sat out part of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circle-dance","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}