The Skywalkers were living on the desert planet Tatooine as slaves of the Toydarian junk dealer Watto when they encountered Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in 32 BBY. The Force was strong in Anakin's bloodline, passing down to his progeny, the twin siblings Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, as well as Ben Solo, Organa's son and the last Skywalker in the direct line.
Posessing the highest concentration of midi-chlorians in his blood, Anakin had the potential to become the most powerful Force-sensitive being in the galaxy.
Anakin was the Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith.
In 41 BBY she conceived a son, Anakin Skywalker, who was born without a father. The family's origins dated back to Shmi Skywalker, who, as a young girl, was captured by pirates and forced into slavery. The Skywalker family, also known as the Skywalker clan or the Skywalker dynasty, was a legendary human family that played a prominent role in galactic history, with several generations achieving fame as generals, senators, and Jedi from the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, to the conflict between the First Order and the Resistance. And my sister has it." ―Luke Skywalker, to Leia Organa "One way that we can discover what our bodies are trying to tell us through the less conscious, spontaneous movements that our bodies make as we speak is to slow down and get interested in our bodies' sensations, the signals that are trying to bubble up from the deep body, from the cellular wisdom, that level of intelligence, before it gets to the cranium, way before it gets to the reflective centers of the brain? when it's still liquid or hot or pulsatory, pre-verbal, before they move from the brainstem to the right (limbic, emotional) brain and across into the left brain, the language centers, way before that, there is a reservoir of intelligence that we often don't pay attention to." The Force is strong in my family. There is more consciousness, more electricity, more warm, the light within the dark body is beginning to grow: The body becomes an alchemist." If we bring our attention and curiosity to the life, the sensations, and imagery that arise from the body, when enough care and safety and cherishing are there, the soul begins to light up the body. The body is like an orchestra that, with all its tempos and rhythms and wisdoms, is always trying to let us know more about our experience: The nervous system works quickly like the high violins and the flutes, and the organs, the viscera, are slower, more like the cello and the base, the bones are more like the drums. "We tend to split the body and spirit, we think of the body as matter as something to carry our head around, to perfect, to diet, to repress, to represent us in a particular way, rather than a deep living organismic collection of rivers and island and soft places and deep places and organs. Stromsted's numerous articles and book chapters explore the integration of body, brain, psyche, and soul in healing and transformation.įor more information visit THIS EPISODES WISDOM QUOTES Developer of Dreamdancing, Embodied Alchemy, and Soul's Body Center, Dr. With 40 years of clinical experience, and a background in dance and theater, she teaches at universities and healing centers internationally, and has a special interest in the creative process, neuroscience, attachment theory, eco-psychology, and embodied spirituality. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Depth Psychology/Somatics Doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and as a core faculty member for the Marion Woodman Foundation. She was a founding faculty member of the Women's Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a co-founder and faculty member of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley (1993-2004). TINA STROMSTED, PhD, is a Jungian psychoanalyst, dance therapist, and somatics educator.