Hey there, welcome to the weMove podcast. There’s a lot of internal change happening within weMove at the minute. Not the obvious change, Chris and I are both still involved, but with this year being what it is, it has evolved us. 

I’m now in Portugal living with my young family, which has been a radical, obvious, natural, needed, timely, earned move. For how long, who knows but we are up in the hills, surrounded by nature, farmland, real life and it is just what we needed, I needed. And Chris is roaming and exploring in his own way, revisiting his place of birth, and the constructs that come with that. We are both in a good place, however you define a good place. I would say it still comes with the daily sludge to move through, but interspersed with real gems and progress.

Training here is happening more in this place for me than the initial phase of lockdown 1. I just didn’t want to move, I wanted to be quiet and luckily I had the opportunity to. Become a kind of hermit, training with a close group of friends, having conversations that I realise are becoming the next stage of weMove. IT’s pretty cool, daunting and natural.

And that has informed our podcasts in a way it didn’t before. We were attempting to be more planned, slick, professional, but this world feels that the conversations we have are by their very nature, real.  Real in the sense that we are not setting out a formulaic conversation structure where guests are brought on to promote their new book or just getting the big names on. Because those big names you can listen to again and again and they say the same thing, their thing. 

We are looking to the network that is natural and connects more organically around the world, and has no less impact. In fact I think it has more impact if we actively and passively let it. Todays conversation is a continuation of last weeks pod with Georgie Holt in that it is with acupuncturist Jack Jewell, a Five Element Acupuncture practitioner and he feels like a young Jedi, of which there are a growing number of younger therapists who are following in the footsteps of the history and tradition while bringing a more contemporary take on therapy.

What is consistent in Jack and the tradition is the belief that the relationship between the natural world and our bodies, is paramount in how we live, in particular how it manifests as illness in our body, mind and spirit.

Which I find particularly interesting because weMove started with the belief that people just need to move and then the path will open up if we seek. What we are beginning to realise is that the seeking is our Self and who we really are. We just have to go through this initiation of endurance, learning, unlearning, finding, losing and then re-finding who we are, what we can do and what is possible.

Literally, we spend our entire life if we are unlucky looking for something that was under our noses all along. Us, you, me. We are what we seek, but we have to be in that place which feels like non effort, that middle way we discuss where we can observe and shape our reality.

I enjoyed this one, the sound is a little whack but that is the wonder of zoom, headsets and transcontinental Wi-Fi connections.

Thanks Jack, this was good.

You can find Jack on instagram @jjacupuncture and jjacupuncture.co.uk.

We also got our first newsletter out a couple of weeks ago, thanks to those that signed up, sent us questions and emails. We are putting together the next one, it will be different again. If you are not on the list sign up at weMove.world. Like I said things are changing here at weMove world and it will be a good end to this year and start to the wonder that will be 2021.

Peace from Portugal.