Connect With Your Body, #897

Blooming Woman by Shiloh Sophia
Painted during Temple 2022 in Sonoma

 

Red Thread Letter #897

Connect with your Body

 

This simple ceremony of my body

by Shiloh Sophia

I say to my body

I am sorry, I haven’t been noticing

every intricate thing you do for me

 

I say to my body

Thank you for holding me up, and in,

when I didn’t know you were

I say to my body

I am present and I want to try

to pay attention to your messages

I say to my body, my truth…

That sometimes it is hard to be

in a body that feels hurt

I say to my body, my experience…

that sometimes pleasure is elusive

and I forget to invite more beauty

I say from within my body

I am arriving, I am arriving now to explore

in this sacred space where I live

I say from within my body

I am here now, ready to learn

to love this place and space

I say from within my body

I am listening to you now

I am leaning into being

To my whole self say

I am here

I am here

I am here

And when I forget

I choose to remember again

this simple body ceremony

and if I do not, body, remind me

that this is where I live and love

I realize I get to choose and curate

how I experience where I am right now

living in this vessel of clay and light

I am here living in this awesome body

falling in love by choice, not by chance,

I choose my body, this body

This simple ceremony of my body

 

Dear One,

Good morning from Sonoma. I am writing to you from the chaise lounge I have written in the past twelve years. It is part of my ritual. I bought this chaise lounge with a very 80ies fabric at a second hand-store in Healdsburg. This is where I write, this is my chosen spot. My kitty Frida is with me as she often is, my writing companion.

Tomorrow I am leading a daylong class that I have led several times before, called DivaX and it is all about moving into the body and uncoiling the stress we feel. I realize how the level of stress we are living in makes us not just uptight but coiled into ourselves. We have very little place in our lives to release this pressure. But around here, we release it through movement and painting. As I sat down to write for the energy of the class, this is what came out, the Simple Ceremony of My Body.

I know that loving our body isn’t so simple. Learning to live in this vessel in a sacred manner is literally a minute-by-minute choice, with food, water, shelter, rest, and laboring in a good way. But what is simple, is stopping to write something like this, and feel it for ourselves. Or if you don’t feel like writing, you can just use this one and read it to yourself, or out loud to your body. Often when I am writing I am not just writing personally but from the framework of the collective, and in particular, what I hear in working with women in our Intentional Creativity community.

So today, this Red Thread Letter is a simple invitation – take a few minutes to tune in and connect to your body. It is the only one you have…for now.

With love,

 

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