Lately, ironically, I feel inspired. The toxic rhetoric circulating through the media feels like a fuel for love. It feels like a call to show up.
I am also scared, I am also devastated. But my heart is a container for both/and.
This practice was inspired by the words of adrienne maree brown -
“I love to see the way mushrooms can take substances we think of as toxic, and process them as food, or that dandelions spread not only themselves but their community structure, manifesting their essential qualities (which include healing and detoxifying the human body) to proliferate and thrive in a new environment… A mushroom is a toxin-transformer, a dandelion is a community of healers waiting to spread..
What are we as humans, what is our function in the universe? … When we are engaged in act of love, we humans are at our best and most resilient. The love in romance that makes us want to be better people, the love of children that makes us change our whole lives to meet their needs, the love of family that makes us drop everything to take care of them, the love of community that makes us work tirelessly with broken hearts… Perhaps humans’ core function is love.”
{ emphasis my own } Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
The invitation today is to connect to the resilience of love that lives inside our hearts and minds and bodies and includes the following:
heart centered movement meditation
hridaya namaskar (heart salutation variation)
anahatasana (standing and kneeling backbend)
wild thing pose, lunging twist, side angle pose, exhalted warrior
quad opening, crane pose, twisted monkey, seated twist
ustrasana (camel pose) variations
pyramid pose, pigeon, janu sirsana (head to knee pose) variations
meditation inspired by adrienne maree brown
Enjoy!
<3 Rachel
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