Grounded Presence Now

Calling heart-led leaders, teachers, and healers: This is your time to stand steady in the storm. We’re living in extraordinary times that call for deep presence and grounded leadership.

You don’t need a title to be a leader. Maybe others look to you for steadiness, empathy, or guidance in your family, workplace, or community. Now, more than ever, you’re being called to lead from your center. Align with your inner wisdom that transcends the noise. When the path forward isn’t clear, listen to your inner guidance. The key is learning how to tune in and trust your inner guidance system. That’s where Grounded Presence comes in.

If you’re a sensitive, intuitive, or empathic person, you may feel subtle energy shifting in the collective before you can name it. Maybe you feel the undercurrent of unease in a conversation, or the weight of someone else’s stress as if it were your own. 

You might wake up some days feeling “off.” You might feel emotionally entangled with your child, client, or friend. Sometimes your energy might feel scattered after a meeting where tensions ran high. You want to be the calming presence, but you wonder how to be someone others lean on when the world feels upside down.

How to Achieve Grounded Presence

Grounded Presence is a skill you can practice. It’s a body-based, spirit-centered way of being that allows you to: 

• Respond rather than react 
• Feel centered even in chaos 
• Listen deeply and respond with inspired actions

This isn’t about ego, control, or “being right.” It’s not about dominating a conversation or pushing your point of view. This is about aligning with your inner spiritual authority—the deepest, truest part of you that knows how to meet life with grace and clarity. 

Your inner spiritual authority is the higher self that pauses in the heat of the moment, softens into breath, and listens for the deeper truth. This is your grounded leadership, even when people disagree. Even when chaos reigns. Even when emotions are high. You can learn to pause, drop into your body, and feel for the flow of what wants to emerge. Your inner wisdom doesn’t spring from your head, but from the quiet truth inside your heart.

The world doesn’t need more fast talkers and high achievers. The world needs leaders who are: 

• Anchored in their bodies 
• Guided by their intuition
• Aligned with love, not fear. 

This is called Jazz Living—an improvisational approach to life where you flow with what’s present, pivot with creativity, and adapt with compassion. It’s both art and skill. And it begins with practice.

Seeking Inner Wisdom

Here are three simple ways to begin deepening your connection to your inner wisdom: 

1. Listen with Your Whole Body. Your body has an intuitive language that speaks through your senses. Practice pausing and noticing: Where is tension? Where is softness? Let your body guide your next move. 
2. Align Will with Love. When your personal will (solar plexus) is aligned with your connection to Divine Will, your heart opens in loving kindness. You can transform force into flow. Practice softening your gut and opening your heart in challenging moments. 
3. Trust What You Know: Practice tuning inward through movement, meditation, and journaling to strengthen the bridge between your intuitive self and your conscious mind. The more you listen, the more clearly your wisdom speaks.

Join Me in the Masterclass

You’re invited to practice the art and skills of deep inner listening, aligning with Divine Will and trusting your intuition in a master class: 

Grounded Presence Intro
April 23 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT
In this 75-minute experiential class, get present in your body; access your inner guidance; use improvisational movement and meditation; clarify your next steps from within. The master class includes journaling, body-soul movement, and guided meditation. BONUS:  50% discount for the next 3–week practice series.

Grounded Presence – Deepening the Practice
April 30 – May 14 (3 sessions).
Each week, we’ll go deeper into the inward spiral.

• Session 1: Listening to Heart Wisdom
• Session 2: Strengthening Body Awareness
• Session 3: Feeling and Trusting Your Energy Body.

Transformation takes root through repeatable, embodied practices you can carry into your everyday life.

Whether you’re guiding a classroom, holding space in a family, running a healing practice, or showing up as a calm center in your friend group, your presence matters. Your steadiness helps others find theirs. Your clarity brings light to confusion. Your groundedness creates a ripple of safety and trust. Let’s tune in together. Let’s get anchored in what’s real. 

Grounded Presence is a practice that helps sensitive, heart-led leaders stay calm, centered, and effective during times of change. Your body holds intuitive wisdom that can guide decisions more clearly than mental analysis alone. Improvisational movement, guided meditation, and journaling are tools that can deepen your trust in your inner spiritual authority. Let’s be the steady, grounded ones the world needs now.

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Grounded Presence—A Master Class to Embody Resilience

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Connecting with your inner guidance system through a heart-centered meditation.
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Leah Skurdal

Leah Skurdal guides people to up-level their stress resilience to improve relationships. Leah shares intuitive insights in private Energy Healing to address the roots of disharmony. As an inspirational speaker and published author, Leah offers lively classes, experiential workshops, and keynotes.