Diving deep..........water

Yogis,

With earth we sat on the river’s edge, just watching.  Nowhere to go.  Feeling the ground beneath our sits bones.  Relaxing deeper with each exhale and noticing the sheer vastness and limitless opportunities that surround us.  Becoming completely still in order to awaken.  Aware of this moment…perfect exactly the way it is.

Now it is time to dive in.

 

Our second chakra, Svadisthana, the element of water, is located right in front of the spine at the back of the pelvis.   Earth defined where we are, water begins our movement.  Earth is the spark of creation, water brings it to life. 

As we move inward and dive deep we uncover our subconscious, creativity, sensuality, and emotions.  Like the feeling of the first soaking rain following a drought.  Our moisture.  Our place of aliveness.

This is also the well of desire. Beginning to feel.  Desire is what propels us forward.   Those inner stirrings.  But what is it that you really desire?

To me “want” and “desire” are different.  We all have plenty of wants.  I want ________.  You fill in the blank.  A pair of new shoes, to be thinner, a bigger house, a smaller house, a different job.  But none of these, if we get them, will satisfy us for very long.  The wants will just change.   They rise from the ego. 

 

But desire comes from a much deeper place.  Our desires are often buried under layers of life.  We have forgotten them, or perhaps feel we don’t deserve them, or maybe were once told they were wrong.  Yet they are the  very things that will fulfill us.  I desire _______.  Unconditional love.  To completely accept myself.  To let go of fear and anxiety and live from a place of trust.  To shed all of my shields and masks and live as me.  You will know you have found them when just speaking them makes you tingle.  They rise from the soul. 

Working with the element of water takes diving in.  You can’t be an observer.  But once you are submerged you just lie back and let go…… let go of struggle and release into its current, like floating in an inner tube.  Head back, sun shining on your face.  Not knowing what turns are ahead (that’s what makes this all so exciting!)  Flowing with the hum of life, and feeling it all. 

“It is not by denying desire that liberation is found, but by discovering your truest, purest desire: then the obsession and need surrounding external satisfactions naturally lose their power.”       ~Isha Judd

Feeling alive,

SARAH