{"product_id":"your-deepest-ground-a-guide-to-embodied-spirituality-9781649633026","title":"Your Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spirituality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA guide to connecting with your deepest ground―a rootedness that supports authentic psychological healing and embodied spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This beautiful and deeply insightful work invites us to reconnect with our true ground--a place of inner stability and peace that lies beyond fear.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTara Brach, author of \u003ci\u003eRadical Acceptance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn John J. Prendergast's decades of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, the area of the body that's most difficult for people to connect with, given our survival fear and trauma, is our physical and energetic ground. This area in the lower belly and at the base of the spine corresponds with the root chakra in the Indian subtle body tradition, the lower dan tien in Taoism, and the hara in Japanese martial arts. While most spiritual traditions focus on opening the mind and the heart, they tend to avoid or undervalue the opening of the ground. Prendergast notes, \"It remains largely unconscious and deeply defended.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis guide invites you to take a deep dive into your personal, archetypal, and universal ground, and to see through the false ground of your early conditioning and limited identity. Throughout \u003ci\u003eYour Deepest Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, Prendergast shares: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Profound yet accessible teachings to help you connect with your ground\u003cbr\u003e- Sensitive awareness to the trauma we're often holding in this part of our physical and energetic body\u003cbr\u003e- Sensing and inquiry practices to work with your own body and life\u003cbr\u003e- Authentic anecdotes and conversations drawn from his teaching that show the power of this work in action \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy consciously opening to our ground, we can experience a felt sense of inner safety and stability that supports the full flowering of inner peace, freedom, and loving awareness―a truly embodied spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn J. Prendergast, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhD, \u003c\/b\u003e is a spiritual teacher, author, retired psychotherapist, and retired adjunct professor of psychology who has taught at Esalen and Kripalu and online. He studied for many years with the sage Dr. Jean Klein, as well as with the spiritual teacher Adyashanti. He is the author of the books \u003ci\u003eIn Touch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Deep Heart\u003c\/i\u003e. For more, please visit listeningfromsilence.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sounds True","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185783079186,"sku":"9781649633026","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b4d8b4d-8623-49fb-853d-d2158dbf1ea3.jpg?v=1744587311","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/your-deepest-ground-a-guide-to-embodied-spirituality-9781649633026","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}