New Seneca Village Integration Practices

The New Seneca Village restorative residency experience is an invitation to a more responsive and loving relationship with yourself, your purpose and your values. The restorative residency experience integrative practices below have been curated from Village team noticings and Villager sharings.

New Seneca Village is a restorative residency experience that invites leaders and healers to access expansive resources (time, space, access to nature, restorative practices, intentional community and higher consciousness) - so that your leadership in life and work can be more firmly grounded in the practices that work best for you.

Some of these practices are best engaged in advance of the restorative residency experience, while some will be more relevant once you return home and beyond. We invite you to engage with and practice what works for you, ignore what does not, and create and adapt your own restorative practices on an ongoing basis.

If you would like to share your post-restorative residency experience practices with the Village, we would love to hear from you at team@newsenecavillage.org.

Ease into Your Return

We encourage you to be mindful in creating an intentional schedule for your transition back to life and work after residency. Consider creating space in both your personal and professional calendars for a slower and easier re-entry.

Sustain Sounds

While at the restorative connection gathering, we were enveloped by music and sounds that deeply supported our restorative residency journey. One practice to help maintain the energy and experience of the residency is incorporating music or nature sounds into your daily environment.

Check out the Village playlist for some reintegration vibes and keep the spirit of the residency alive in your ongoing restorative journey.

Connect + Share

Connect with someone who makes you feel seen and heard to share your reflections from your restorative residency experience. Engaging in conversation with others can help provide an opportunity to ground more deeply into what you are creating for yourself and your intentions moving forward.

Nourishment

Consider arranging for prepared meals or a grocery delivery to ensure you have nourishing and sustaining options ready for the days following your return from the residency. Don't forget to have the food choices that bring you pleasure and joy!

Be In Nature

As you transition from the restorative connection gathering, there is a gentle call to reflect on and embody the wisdom, realizations and lessons shared during our time together. We encourage you to create moments to be and connect with nature — whether that is visiting your favorite park, finding a nearby water source, or simply walking barefoot on the earth. Let nature be an ongoing source of support and renewal for you.

Energetic Exchange

Reach out to someone from your restorative residency experience, or a Villager from a previous residency, to share what you have noticed and what continues to move in and through you. Create an accountability partnership to support integrating your own practices more deeply into your daily life.

Moment to Pause

We invite you to sit quietly and comfortably with your feet on the ground
Invite yourself to notice and connect with your breath [In through the nose. Out through the mouth].
Sense the restorative residency experience energy around you. Imagine the feels, smells, tastes and sounds that make up your vision of intentional restoration now.
- What intentions do you have for your ongoing restorative journey?
- What are you creating for yourself – your life and leadership?
Close with 3 deep breaths.

We invite you to continue to reflect on and connect with the vision

and intention for your restorative journey so that you call it

from moment to moment to moment.