As women age, more and more, we become the keepers of the heart’s wisdom and it’s our duty to this chaotic world to be our most powerful, to stand planted and deeply rooted in our truth, and to be able to clearly express that truth in whatever form our calling demands (this will, of course, look different for each and every one of us which is where the beauty of it lives).
But we cannot be the keepers of the heart’s wisdom and we cannot be powerful agents of change if we are not in our own bodies, if we don’t know the strength and capacity for action that resides in our own bodies, if we are constantly at war with our own bodies.
Enter the work of dance and breath and attention and the support of a community of women (for we are not meant to heal and become whole on our own; we are built to do this work with the support of others).
In order for the wisdom of the heart (that is compassion and love and courage above all else) to rise up and out the throat/expression energy center and enter the larger world, we have to constantly re-activate and stoke our inner fire that resides in our core -- the whole of it from the pelvis upward and all around and including the spine.
We don’t want hard, rigid muscle-only strength in this area or we become hardened and rigid in the world. We want soft, fluid, changeable, responsive strength which comes with breath and acts more like water in the world.
This space in the body then must be connected to our grounding so that our active energies are not scattered, weakened, and wasted or sent out in the wrong direction, misunderstood in their intent.
That grounding allows us to connect, rooted, to the women in our #circleoftress so when one is feeling weak, the others hold them up; when one is feeling extra strong, they might simultaneously hold others and fly.
THIS...this is how it’s all connected and THIS is the core of the work I do. If you need a #circleoftrees, if you need to stop the war with your body, if you want to explore your powerful self and then take her out into the world, you might be interested in the work we do with Bodypoetics.