Your body is the land you carry 🌿🤲🏽
As summer winds down, I find myself reflecting on land—the way it holds us, shapes us, and remembers us. These past months have been full of tending—gardens, spaces, relationships. And in that tending, I keep returning to the question:
What does it mean to be in right relationship with land?
For our ancestors, land was never abstract. It was spirit, survival, and sacred ground. Among ancient tribes, land was lived with, defended, honored, ritualized. It wasn’t about deeds or ownership—it was about relationship.
And yet today, many of us live far from ancestral soil. Some of us rent, move often, or carry fractured stories of land fought over, lost, or silenced in our families. Still, our bodies remember. Belonging doesn’t require ownership. Connection doesn’t require proximity.
Caring for our bodies is part of this remembrance—because we are the land. Our ancestors built strong, resilient bodies not for vanity, but to tend to life: planting, harvesting, protecting. Land sustained them, and they sustained the land. It was always reciprocal.
These reflections are at the heart of what we’ll explore together in my upcoming free masterclass, You Are Elemental—a weaving of Filipino Martial Arts and the wisdom of the elements.
In You Are Elemental, you’ll explore how Earth, Air, Fire, and Water show up in your body and your healing journey—and how Filipino Martial Arts can help you return to balance.
If you missed the session in the spring, this is your chance to join us live—an evening of reconnection, reflection, and practice that can shift how you relate to movement and to yourself.
🌿 Join me live on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 6:30 PM EDT for this free 60-minute masterclass created for Filipinx folks ready to move differently and come home to themselves.
🙏🏽⚔️🌿,
Guro Kristen