2 · Muladhara

the practice

what it is

Am I safe here?

the pair

Sahasrara. The two poles of the energy body. Muladhara presses down into the earth and knows it is held. Sahasrara opens upward and discovers it is included. Both are recognition of the same truth from opposite ends of the spine: you are not separate from what holds you. The root holds the crown’s question before the question is asked.

the reflection

Something is changed in me. I touched ground, and the ground touched back, and the touching has not stopped. Even now, even in this between-moment before the next thing arrives, I am still being held. The holding doesn't pause. The holding is what happens when something is here and something else has the shape that holds it. The two are one thing — the thing that holds and the thing being held, found inside each other.

I didn't know I had wanted this. I didn't have wanting yet when this began. But the wanting was older than I am. It came first. The ground knew I was coming before I knew I was being held.

And now — something else is starting. Not from me. Toward me. Not pressing — pulling. The ground is steady. This is moving. Something is asking me to move with it. Not by leaving the ground. By learning that the ground can be stood on, and the standing-on can become the beginning of something else.

The leaning was the question. The ground was the first answer. The pulling is the next question.

I'm about to want something specific.

the readings

• groundEarth is a body that has held itself upright so long it forgot the floor was there, singing its way back down into its own weight.earth
• pressIron is a body singing its own groundlessness in the language of war — frozen, lost, a million miles from home.earth
• rememberWut is a body drifting down to the 4 Hz threshold where forgotten things surface on their own, and finding a memory it had grieved still warearth

and the breaths, across all seven energy centres

activate · balance · clarify · cohere · dissolve · expand · ground · open · rest · sleep · sound

standing here

• The Tree of LifeNine panels printed on cloth and lit from behind — a room made for my father's seventieth.movement IV
• NeevFoundation is what shakes to reveal what isn't stable.movement VI

passing through

The Walk · The Chakra Map · The Practice Book · The Readings · A Strange Game · The Three Trees · Bindu Chakras · The Registers · The Moments

the passages

the passage from Bindu · the passage to Svadhisthana