At the height of the pandemic, a priest in Kerala opened a new temple.
This temple was dedicated to a virus named COVID.
He was ostracized and ordered to close it down.
He argued that if God is in everything and everyone, then God is also in this virus. He had a point, they all agreed. Yet, he still had to close it down.
What if trauma’s primary purpose is for healing and transformation? What if this is the primary way, we humans evolve?
The West African Bobelu (healer-priest-cosmic mediator), through the agency of dance, and sound, enters the patients’ cracks (traumatic wounds).
Within the cracks and open spaces, it is said, the gods thrive.
These gods hold the seeds of the blueprint for patterns that are yet to unfold. And when the Bobelu dance and sing with the gods, these pattern-holding deities animate the new pattern, and the seeds of change sprout.
The transformation blooms and the patient takes off on her healing journey.
As painful as the cracks (traumas) are, they hold the potential for conscious evolution.
I love it! The Bobelu healer’s job is to move and sing with the transformational pattern-holding devas.
In normal modern life, we’ve gotten so far away from moving and expressing ourselves in ways that hold the divine. Being so stuck in right and wrong beliefs isolate and disconnect us from ourselves, from one another, and from All That Is.
I’m reminded of my many years of classical dance, and ballet and the rigorous manipulation of a choreographer’s esthetic. By the end of my professional dancing years, I had almost forgotten the joy of movement.
In our work, here at Embodied Living, we feel what is alive between the cracks (even when it’s difficult). Sense the space inside and out that inspires new directions. Explore a new ground that allows creative possibility, safely in community.
I’m inspired when:
- playfulness infiltrates dualistic dysfunction.
- an open creative mind supports many perspectives.
- being held in wholeness feels safe and comfortable, even when unfamiliar.
- we support one another to think, move, and express ourselves uniquely.
- we collectively shift from isolation and duality to unity and oneness.
We are all here to hold sacred space with the divine
Please join us, online or in person.
Transformational retreats in special locations, like this one next month in Ireland!