Dear Reader,

Growth doesn’t always look like expansion.
Sometimes it looks like letting go.

It felt deeply appropriate to share one of my favorite modules now—Cutting Roots, Pruning, and Replanting—as we move through this final month of shedding before the lunar new year, and into the first month of 2026, when many of us are feeling the pressure to update our lives.

So many of you are navigating real change.

Letting go of relationships.
Clearing old belongings.
Releasing stagnant energy, patterns, and tendencies.

I'm remembering just last year on this day, when many of you were navigating the very real threats of the Palisade fires. (Let's all take this moment to recognize our actual level of safety today.)

... Some of us are very clear on what we’re shedding.
Others are less clear on the details—but very clear on the need to feel release.

When we recorded this teaching back in April of 2025, we were only a few months into The Infinity Container. I was still finding my footing—Lost in the grief of previously creating a very successful business that I had a break up with. Lost in who I was becoming. And yet felt so much power from this time, this container, this community.

I share that because this module was born from a potent lived experience, not theory.

It came from being inside a real ending.

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This module may feel supportive...

• If you're sensing you've outgrown an environment, identity, or relationship and need help discerning what to release and what to replant.
• If you're moving through a creative, emotional, or spiritual death-and-rebirth cycle and want to integrate the shedding process with grounding and care.
• If you're a practitioner, creator, and or feeler ready to make space for new growth—

Trust that pruning what no longer nourishes allows deeper roots to form.

The Teaching

In this teaching, we explore the intelligence of shedding — how moments of collapse, grief, or “stuckness” often signal that something old is ready to be laid down so something new can take root.

Through story, somatic insight, and reflection on nature’s cycles, we explore:

• Why growth often requires a death phase
• How early survival strategies can keep us tethered to environments we’ve outgrown
• The difference between effort and integration
• Why pruning is not loss, but intelligent conservation of life force
• How supportive environments help bring us back into embodiment

This teaching invites you to listen to where your energy is being drained, and to trust the wisdom of letting go — so renewal can begin.

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✨ Before we ground into the new, we must release what no longer belongs.

The Practice

The guided somatic practice from the above teaching supports the body in releasing outdated attachments and re-rooting into environments that can sustain who you are becoming.

Using plant imagery, breath, and felt sensing, you’ll be guided to:

• Sense where your growth has become crowded or constrained
• Identify dead branches — stories, identities, or patterns that drain energy
• Differentiate between essential roots and those clinging to depleted soil
• Consciously release what no longer nourishes you
• Re-ground into new soil with patience and trust

This practice honors the temporary shock that can come with change, while creating space for strength, clarity, and renewed vitality to emerge.

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🌱 Shedding is not failure — it is preparation.​
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If this offering feels supportive, you’re welcome to share it with someone who may be in a similar season. These teachings were created because I needed them—and in many ways, still do.

We continue this work more deeply inside the memberships, holding space for learning, integration, and connection as we grow—together.

With deep love & appreciation for learning and connection,

Victoria Sterkin, PhD

​https://theinfinitycontainer.com​
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