Tend First, Then Act

Like many of you, I’ve been feeling the weight of what’s happening in our country right now. The division, the fear, the violence—it’s a lot to hold. For many people, it can lead to a sense of paralysis: not knowing how to stay loving without shutting down… or engaged without burning out.

When things feel intense on the outside, I always come back to the same guiding principle:

We tend the fire within first.

And then we act.

As we prepare to enter the Year of the Fire Horse, we’re stepping into a cycle of momentum, courage, and rapid movement. Fire Horse energy can liberate us—or overwhelm us—depending on what’s fueling it.

Fire without love burns.

Movement without grounding is ineffective.

So today, I want to offer you two ways to tend your inner fire—and one simple action to help move out of paralysis and into grounded, loving engagement.

Two Ways to Tend the Fire Within

1. A Gift: Global Coherence Meditation

For those who can’t join me in person in Austin—or who feel called to a quieter, daily practice—I recorded a guided meditation called “Global Coherence Meditation.”

This is a heartfelt offering to support your nervous system, nurture heart coherence, and contribute to collective healing during these times.

Please receive this as a gift and an invitation to daily meditation as an act of love for yourself and for the world.

Listen here

2. Love Is the Fire — Austin Mini-Retreat

For those of you in Austin, I created Love Is the Fire, a Valentine’s Day PranaShakti Mini-Retreat—not as an escape from what’s happening, but as an antidote.

This is a space to anchor love in the body—to ground the nervous system, soften the heart, and ignite conscious fire guided by kindness, clarity, and truth. Because what the world needs now isn’t more urgency or outrage.

The world needs people who are calm in their bodies, clear in their minds, and open in their hearts—people who can meet the fire of these times with steadiness, compassion, and courage.

Love Is the Fire

Saturday, February 14th | 9:00 am – Noon

Bravo Studio | 4544 S. Lamar

 Learn more and join us here

One Way to Respond

Once we tend the fire within, we’re better able to respond to the world with clarity and strength.

One simple, effective way to take grounded action right now is through 5Calls.org (or the 5 Calls app).

Here’s why it works so well:

• You enter your zip code

• It gives you your senators’ and representatives’ names and phone numbers

• It lists current issues being voted on

• It provides short scripts so you don’t have to figure out what to say

Every phone call is counted and tallied. Your voice truly matters.

This is one powerful way to move out of paralysis and into action—from love rather than reactivity.

https://5calls.org

This is how I’m choosing to meet this moment:

By tending the fire within first.

And then letting love guide how I act.

With love,

Deb

P.S. A quick scheduling note for my Austin community:

Jodie is unable to teach the Austin PranaShakti class this week, so the class will be canceled. I’ll be back next week and look forward to resuming our healing PranaShakti classes—both in person and online. Thank you for your understanding, and I can’t wait to be back moving together soon.