Summer Solstice Day - International Yoga Day and a day to be celebrating yang, sunshine and yoga together. Right? For me - today - wrong. I was-am...? At home. Alone. Very Yin. 😆 And contemplating the ironies of life.
I had planned to be at yoga and enjoy the community lunch. I had planned a lot of things. Life is what happens while you're making plans. And it is ALWAYS in this place that the best teachings and learnings occur.
Backtracking a weeny bit. I fell down the stairs at home yesterday and injured myself. Bounced down the stairs on my back, elbow and coccyx. Serious ouch. You can read more about that and see the fun pics here: Movement As Medicine, Movement As First Aid.
Because I know we CREATE & INVITE all of the experiences in our world to grow-learn-evolve, I have been asking myself today, "What the heck is all this about? What am I missing? What do I need to face and to learn?" And have been reading and feeling a lot. And now I get it. Although the obvious injury is the scraping and bruising on my back, I can FEEL today that I have badly bruised my coccyx - the seat and foundation of the sacral chakra - svadhisthana - the second chakra.
Contrary to much popular "wisdom" (I use that word rather loosely) online, the 2nd chakra - svadhisthana is not only about connection and sexuality. It is also, arguably primarily, the seat of our creativity.
Louise Hay, in her profoundly insightful book "You Can Heal Your Life" talked about sacral injuries as literally sitting on old pain: 🤣 Damn, I can relate to that right now!!
Sacrum: Signifies stubbornly holding on to old anger. Feelings of powerlessness and loss of power.
Coccyx (tailbone): Signifies blaming oneself, holding on to that which no longer serves the self, being out of balance with oneself, “sitting on old pain.”
Solstice energy is about shining a light on those things which hold us back, prevent us from deepening our engagement with each other and with life itself as we descend-ascend the Great Spiral. It's very hard to ignore this one 🤣 and I am laughing through almost-tears of pain.
You see the irony is my daughter left yesterday to stay at her bestie's house for 4-5 days after 3 months of Covid quarantine, and I have given myself these 4 undistracted days to complete a really important strategic document about the future of my refugee herbal project. What has blocked me till now? Trust issues about alignment with new business partners, and having to release old feelings of anger and blame at myself for things that haven't worked as well as they should have till now. I am literally sitting on - squirming painfully on - things that no longer serve! So within 3 hours of dropping her off at Nicky's house, I fell. And am confronting completely and very immediately the issues that are holding me back.
I may not have had all the sunshiney yang energy feels of the Summer Solstice today, but I HAVE come face to face with my own creative sun and what I need to release to enable and allow her to radiate.
Summer solstice is about light and heat right? Well, I managed to shine not only the light, but to feel the heat. Last night, about 3 hours after my little accident, I developed a fever. 38.3C. And have been hot and sweating and uncomfortable all day. My reading today tells me fever is a sometimes-response to soft tissue trauma (tick!) and symptom of concussion (maybe). Yes, I have a headache. Either way, in our post-Covid world, even if I had wanted to go out of the house today, it's not possible with a fever. Everywhere in Thailand measures fever on entrance - even the local fresh market and the convenience store. And so I am home, in my very YIN space, contemplating the creative seat of Yang energy, quite literally. 🤣 And it's like my higher self is looking at me and saying, "Yes, I knew you'd want to run away and distract yourself from this one, so I closed that door already." Damn 🤣
It would be fair to say that the expression of Yang energy has always been a little unbalanced in my life. 🤣 OK. Maybe more than a little sometimes. 🤣 As we are called to grow and step up into the new paradigm, we have to face our demons, our excuses and our limits first.
We invite injury to ourselves to enable a revisit, a releasing, a rebuilding and growth. I am seeing quite clearly late this Solstice afternoon as the tropical afternoon rains tumble, that my Yang needs to be much more Yin. Much more tempered. So that the energy of connection can grow in a healthy way that supports new paradigm community.
I didn't see the Solstice sunrise today as I had planned, being still very much caught up in a deep, fevered, healing sleep. But my dear friend, Kate, shared hers.
It matters not if we saw the physical sun rise today - what really matters is that we're connected to our own rising kundalini sun - healthy and unfettered by old energies and released to rise and shine brightly. My-our Yang energy needs to be - is being - rebooted from that place.
Yoga asanas that help to open and align Svadhisthana are …
- Seated pelvic circles: Sitting in a cross-legged or half-lotus pose with your hands on your knees, make circles with your torso. Go around in one direction 5 or 6 times and then switch directions.
- Baddha konasana (butterfly pose) with forward fold: In a seated position, bring the bottoms of your feet together. Let your knees drop to the sides and bring your heels in close to your pelvis. Lengthen the torso and fold forward.
- Bhujangasana (cobra pose): Lie on your stomach with your feet flat on the floor. Place your hands under your shoulders and slowly lift your head, chest, and abdomen while keeping your naval on the floor. Be sure to press down through the pubic bone toward the mat.
The mantra sound that corresponds to the sacral chakra is the sound VAM. By chanting VAM, the vibrations will open and align this chakra. The color for the second chakra is orange and the gemstones for this chakra are amber, calcite orange, carnelian, or hematite. Source: Chopra Center
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