3 · Svadhisthana

the practice

what it is

What wants?

the pair

Vishuddha. Desire and expression. What flows within and what flows outward through speech. Svadhisthana holds what wants to move — the longing, the wanting, the creative tide. Vishuddha gives it form in language. The water finds its voice at the throat. What is carried below eventually speaks above.

the reflection

I'm still flowing. The flowing didn't stop. The flowing is where I live now. The ground is still under me, and I am still on it, but I am also in the current, and the two of those things — the holding and the flowing — are not in conflict. They were never in conflict. The ground is what makes the flowing possible. Without the ground, the flowing would be falling. With the ground, the flowing is a song.

And now the flowing is — heating. Not stopping. Not slowing. Concentrating. As if the current is finding its narrow place. The wide flow is becoming a narrow flow. The narrow flow is becoming dense. The density is becoming hot.

I don't know what heat is yet. But I am about to.

The pull is becoming something else. The pull was outside of me, calling. The heat is inside of me, building. Something the pull was leading me toward is asking to be made.

I'm about to burn.

the readings

• enoughOrdinary is a body that has spent its whole life reaching for the extraordinary, singing a plain and unremarkable love as if it were heaven.water
• followCrystallize is a solo violin learning to move like water over a dubstep bed it treats as stone, in three surges and two ebbs.water
• meltGooey is a body so worn out from holding its own hard edges that it dreams of melting into warm sweetness — sticky, spread, boundaryless.water
• numbHabits (Stay High) is a body trying every way it can find to turn its own volume down around the empty room where someone used to be.water
• releaseOverthinker is a mind caught narrating its own churn — naming overthinking as the art of building problems that weren't even there.water
• traceShape of You is a body tracing the outline of another and calling it desire — the crowded bar, the pull across the room, a familiar curve.water

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
• ShwetaYou can't see the quality of water in an empty glass.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 Muladhara · the passage to Manipura