textures

We experience so many different energetic frequencies in a day from thoughts, feelings, anticipations and actions. These varying frequencies are similar to textures. Some feel caramel smooth; silky, sweet and easeful. Others are experienced as shingle beneath bare feet or itchy fabric upon skin.

The world loves to tell us how to interpret all our moments. Social media is full of advice on how one should act, what certain actions mean, how we can analyse and dissect events according to generalguidelines.

Yet, the truth is that we each experience textures in our own unique way. What seems caramel to me, may seem itchy to you. What is suggested as silky smooth can cut like glass if it’s not meant for you.

Life can never be lived according to another’s experience. We have to understand and interpret our own body language.

Mindful movement offers a place where we can learn our textures on the mat, so we can understand the frequencies beyond the mat.

Moving toward edges, syncing with breath, pouring sensation into the space of limbs; all these actions allow us to feel what, where and who we are.

We don’t need someone to tell us whether something is right or wrong for us. We don’t need to be fixed. We just need simply to pause and feel for the textures. We need to be held whole.

All these sankalpas (little blog pieces), intentions of sentences strung are truthfully just different iterations of the same thing. Whether you call it presence, being, now…the practice of complete awareness and feeling into the body; your body, teaches you everything you need to know.

But I find that experiencing sensations as textures allows me to see whether I’m on the right path, with the right people. Whether I’m in a space that lights me up and opens the world a little, or one that steals my light and dims me.

If you listen to body, it definitely tells us if a heated texture feels warm and snuggly, desirous, or likely to burn. There are textures of coolness; like a soft breeze or ripple in the ocean, then there are the ice cold versions that sting and repel. Some textures are deep, others shallow.

Playing with, and leaning into these textures, allows us to understand what and how we are in all our moments. It helps us to understand ourselves and others better. So we can lean into the things our body adores, and move away from the things it does not.

This is why movement is medicine.

There are many ways people tend to seek shutting down feeling. But that’s missing the point of life. To feel is to be.

And when we feel, life lights up.

Life’s too short to skip the tricky parts. It’s too short to skip these tiny moments.