philosophia
This life is a love affair and it’s deeply personal.
Body Chalice is living as a sensual, somatic, and sacred experience and feeling your life while you are in it – the bliss and the torture and everything in between.
It’s your body as the conduit and container for the energy of life and as the gateway to all the realms and liminal spaces, within and without.
Body Chalice is not literal or one dimensional. It’s delving into diverse sources of knowledge – the mythical, metaphorical, physiological, archetypical, scientific, subtle, mundane, profane, and the ordinary.
It’s the expression and exploration of emotions and ideas through creative, spiritual, and sensory experiences as we traverse this eternal wall of mirrors and our own human journey and rhythms.
We learn through contrast, “being in relationship with” and direct, lived experience. And in the continual cycles of life, death, rebirth, illumination, and dark nights – we find the medicine and alchemical gold – which we integrate, transmute, in-body, and ground into the world of form.
Body Chalice is soul-making in everyday living.
It’s making and creating space to “tap in” and living the questions and the answers.
It’s “Philosophia” as the love of wisdom and the affectionate tending and devotion to and caring for.
Philo – ”loving, fond of, tending to,” (adj.)
“dear, loved, beloved,” (as a noun), “friend,” from philein ”to love, regard with affection”.
Sophia - “Skill, knowledge of, acquaintance with; sound judgment, practical wisdom; cunning, shrewdness; philosophy, wisdom personified”, abstract noun from sophos “wise”.
“Sophia” often denotes the feminine personification or embodiment of “divine or holy wisdom” and serves as the inspiration for this human journey.
All parts of us want to be known.
Body Chalice is the holy paradox AND the tantra (weave) and yoga (union) of life. It’s recognising your organic divinity and the embodiment of the divine in everything.
It’s the merging of masculine and feminine, form and freedom, spirit and matter, the wise child and playful adult, conscious ego and creative energy, as above so below – you get the idea – and the knowledge that the one contains the other.
It’s living the tension of the opposites, the rub, the still-point, the duality, the cohabitation, the chaos and the oneness.
A friend of mine Hettienne (Creator of Walking With Mary) once said something like, “Often, when we start our quest, we lose our heart, and then it becomes a pursuit of the mind.”
We all hold fundamental truths – and often conflicting views – about the nature of reality, and well, everything. And all truths are valid AND partial. They often appear polarised and contradictory, but a lot of the time they are offering another viewpoint or experience of the same or “bigger truths”.
The aim is not to conquer or change the mind – or any other aspect of your human experience. Sure, shifts, sovereignty, AHAs and soulutions emerge, but we dial down the hyper-vigilant flood lights and striving. We soften into active receptivity and “being in relationship with”. We recognise our power to co-create and consciously participate through inspired action – without a defined expectation. We open up to the wisdom designed to guide us and trust our own integration and the radical ride whilst we live the mysteries and ground them into the world of form.
And it takes courage to trust and live from our hearts and allow all the heart opening and breaking moments. To “be with and feel into” all that we are, amidst the noise from the voices and opinions “out there” and from our own inner conflab and aspects.
Love is the medicine and the greatest magic we can practice.
This is your SoulJourn.
Your subjective interpretation, blending and synthesis. Your philosophy and your “body of highest truth”.
Body Chalice is about living your personal alchemy and honouring your evolutionary urges. It’s trusting in your ability to discern what is right for you – moment to moment – whilst being open to “not knowing” and deeper understanding.
It’s falling in love with life and yourself. It’s holding what hurts. It’s in-spired living and in-bodied wisdom.
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