The Body As Your Lover, Consort & Partner For Life.
Inspired by “Women Who Run With the Wolves” Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph D.
The Joyous Body Clarissa Estes
You take this body with you through all parts of your life
The meanderings of your wanderings like a river through a valley
You find yourself going up stream or down
Getting caught on the sides of the banks only for a time
Then shoved off by a current that encourages rapids of change
You find the edges of safety once again along the shore
The ebbs and flows of the ocean
The tides of the ocean like seasons in life
As cycles that crash upon you then through you
As you bear the waves of change
Taking you down, tossing you around and finally back to solid ground
The earth holds you
You are home
A woman of soul knows how to juggle the earth energy. She bears the energy of growth, creation, fertility and serenity.
See yourself in this interactive journey through your senses. Using your body to imbibe in the sensualty of life.
See the body as your consort.
Trust your body and your instincts to feel.
See your body as your master of navigating life.
The body as your loving vehicle to juggle the elements of life.
Be witness to your whole self.
Allow the movements and sound to assist you, aid you, heal you as you embody your whole self and transform
Water as energy transforms fear of being immersed
Or lost at sea
Or stranded
Not to give in to fear of losing your breath
Secret to life is to hold on to faith
Hold on to the body and the heart beat that bears witness to your life
To refute all assaults on hope on truth
To not give in to the fear of being unsettle or prevented from moving forward even if you don’t know where you are going
To not give in to uncertainty.
Water heals, softens, transforms
It brings things up and buries it back down
It comes and goes as it ebbs and flows.
The secret to fire energy is not give in to your fear of getting burned by the things you juggle in life
The scars we bare are from the fires we have juggled
By practicing playing with fire, you do not give in to your fear or being afraid of setting things on fire
Fire can sure cause pain but it also brings warmth
Fire inspires and transforms
Let your trouble and worries be burned by the fire within
Fire and earth will work you, exhaust you, wallow you up and spit you out burnt
Until you understand the strength and withstand it all
No matter how dense or how tall
Wind
Arms and movement of in and out up and down up and through
So below and above
As you move with wind energy feel the excitement of its chaos
Its ability to get you off course to lose balance
You may lose your bearings or of feel blown off course
Feeling lost in choreography of movement and life
Find within the ability to play with wind knowing you have the ability to create from chaos and destruction
Find the body ability to navigate in the midst of chaos
How the intuition guides you each step of the way
As life sweeps clear, reveals, brings surprises. Offers new ways of thinking and creating
The wind inspires and transforms
A woman of vision learns to cultivate the wind every day