There is, within so many of us, a tightness, a tension, a contraction.
It’s been there for so long, we don’t even know it’s there.
It’s been there for so long, it’s become who we are.
It’s a tightness of the body, a tightness of the mind, a tightness of the heart, a tightness of spirit.
It’s in our muscles, our bones, our joints.
It’s in our thoughts.
It’s in our feelings.
It’s a tightness that comes from separation, from judgement.
It’s a tightness that comes from not feeling.
It’s a tightness that comes from us being separated, disconnected, from ourselves, as well as from others.
It’s a tightness that comes from not knowing our hearts, not knowing the capacity we have to love.
It’s a tightness that comes from not learning to think, to question, to discern, for ourselves.
It’s a tightness that comes from mediocrity.
It’s a tightness that comes from us not walking our own path.
It’s a tightness that comes from repressing the fullness of pleasure.
In all the years of doing this work I’ve seen how much happens when we release the tightness, the contraction.
I’ve seen how opening the body holds one of the greatest keys, for our body is the container, the vehicle, the portal.
I’ve seen how softening the body creates space for us to feel, for feelings to move, to dance, to flow, to release.
It’s simple, in one way, tightness in the body is tightness in our feelings.
The tightness is the limitation, the inhibition, of feeling.
In tightness our feelings are judged, suppressed, disconnected.
And yet they grow within us, they struggle against the bonds we’ve tied around them.
In their struggle, they find a way of expression that is so often unhealthy.
Release in the body becomes release of these strong, powerful currents of emotion.
Release in the body allows the movement of the tides of emotions.
In the softness of the body, the heart can be felt.
In the softness of the body, love has space to grow, to expand, to flourish.
In the softness of the body, love has space to dance, to explore, to discover.
In the softness of the body, the vastness of the heart can be felt.
In the relaxation of the body, awareness opens.
In the relaxation of the body, sensation flows.
In the relaxation of the body, pleasure, more than we often imagined, has a space, a way, channels, to move with delight.
In the opening of the body, there can be a place for the quietening of the mind.
In the stillness of the body, there can be a place for thoughts to slow.
In the slowness of the body, there can be place, a natural place, for us to drop beneath the frantic surface, to the quiet within, the quiet that’s always there, patiently, softly inviting us.
In the release of the body, there can be a place for intimacy.
A place to feel the connection, with ourselves, with another, with life.
The felt connection, the known connection, can arise from the opening within.
For me, for so long, touch has been the element of opening, of softening, of release, of relaxation, of connection.
It’s been the path, the door, they key, and the temple of endless chambers, limitless ways, in to the body.
When we lay ourselves down to be touched with love, with tenderness, with awareness, from the heart, we lay ourselves upon the altar of possibility.
The layers of tightness, of tension, of contraction, release, release, release.
They release as the endless waves of the ocean, now slowly, and gently, now a rush of power.
They release as the dropping of the stiffness of armour, allowing us to move, to dance, with freedom.
They release as the cacaphonic noise of the mind comes to the quiet song of silence.
They release as the tumultuous of the inner storm comes to the peace of my softly beating heart.
Touch is the invitation we are offered, to feel, to connect, to know.
In touch, in the wordless conversation of skin upon skin, a language is spoken, far beyond the mind.
It’s a language of the body that reaches deep within us, to the places where there are no words, just feelings.
It soothes, it calms, it heals.
It brings tears of release, and tears of pleasure.
It opens the way for the tightness to unwind, for the walls to tumble, and for that which was held so deeply, so tightly, to come to light.
And to lighten us.
To en-lighten us, for touch from the heart is a sacred prayer upon the Divine altar of the body.
Come and experience, come and learn, I invite you…
