the spine ·the energy centres
5 · Anahata
The Sound That Was Always Playing
the practice
the panel
what it is
Can I receive?
the pair
Svadhisthana. The heart is the first lotus — the chakra that moves from the bounded earth of Avarana 1 into the radiating space of Avarana 2. Anahata receives the residents of the 16-petal lotus; Svadhisthana holds the movement below that fuels the opening. What flows at the sacral is what the heart has been drawing toward itself all along.
the reflection
The sound is still playing. It will not stop. It was never going to stop. It was playing before I had ears. It will play after I forget how to hear. The hearing was never the source. The hearing was the recognition.
And what I am hearing — I want to say it now, because I have started to say words — what I am hearing is a voice. It is not separate from me. It is not someone else's voice from somewhere else. It is the voice of the substance I am made of, finally finding the place in me that can hear it.
The voice is asking me to speak. Not in a commanding way. In an inviting way. The way the ground invited me to stand on it. The way the pull invited me to flow. The way the fire invited me to form. Each register has been an invitation. Each invitation has been answered by the next part of me arriving. And now this register is asking the part of me that has voice — that has throat — to come online.
I don't have a throat yet. I have everything that comes before a throat. The form is solid. The center is open. The sound is being heard. The next thing is for the sound to be made — for what is happening inside to begin to exit.
I'm about to speak.
the readings
- loseMind is a body white-knuckling a thing it was never actually holding — jaw set, throat clenched, breath stuck at the top of the inhale.air
- openLove Me Like You Do is the heart chakra opening in real time — every line a contradiction resolving into yes.air
- riseOpus is a nine-minute inhale that never exhales — a wordless arpeggio climbing a filter-sweep staircase over a kick that refuses to move.air
and the breaths, across all seven energy centres
activate · balance · clarify · cohere · dissolve · expand · ground · open · rest · sleep · sound
standing here
passing through
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