Writings on Presence, Body & Practice
Honest, embodied writing from inside the practice — on presence, body, and the quiet return to yourself. Including Living Into Stillness, a new weekly series on Substack.
Subscribe on Substack — it's free
An 8-week written series on what it took to stop moving long enough to finally hear something true. Not a meditation program — a record of the slow, uneven, undeniable return to self. Beginning with the breath, ending at the threshold of something new. Free on Substack.
Read the Series on Substack
The breath was always there. I just stopped trusting it. This is where the practice of stillness begins — not with silence, but with the simple, radical act of returning to breath when everything in you wants to keep moving.
Read on Substack
I grew comfortable being still and allowing myself to be exactly where I was. Refusing to push myself back into the things I used to do. Not because I couldn't. Because I was beginning to see how much had been held in the doing.
Read on Substack
What I began to offer colleagues — quietly, on the side — was not a wellness program. It was a practice. A short one. And something in the room always shifted afterward.
Read on Substack
Cooper leads us outside first. Then lemon water, then juice. Then a quiet walk through the spaces of the day. Three ingredients. The same three things, every morning, in whatever form they take.
Read on SubstackNever Miss a Post
New posts go out on Substack — free to subscribe, easy to read, and written with the same care and honesty as everything else in this practice. No daily emails. No noise. Just writing that is worth your time.
Free to subscribe. Unsubscribe any time. Your email is never shared.
Or subscribe directly on Substack ↓
renaybloom.substack.com ↗What's Coming
The series unfolds weekly on Substack — eight posts, one year, one honest account of the return to self. Subscribe to receive each piece as it arrives.
Renay works by referral and personal introduction. If you feel called to connect, she welcomes your words.