Practices for Meeting Water 🍉 (16.07.23)
I don't know about you, but here the days are getting warmer and warmer. In the current Qi Gong classes we work with the Fire element, which is related to the Summer season in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Fire is balanced by Water, and that's what I wanted to write about today, to soothe the heat and calm the nervous system if needed.
Reflection and Practice for Meeting Water
First of all - as always, make sure you drink enough! Did you know that it is really nice to make a jug of water with a slice of cucumber, watermelon or some lemon peel in it? That's really refreshing and makes your daily fluid intake special! Drink with awareness, letting the cool water flow down your throat, moisturising your body. Let it be a cleansing invitation to ingest the waters of life!
Water is a very playful medium too. You can find lots of water games online, so invite your creativity and enjoy the weather in a different way!
Perhaps you have a place where you can swim outdoors, in the sea, a lake, or river. Make it a conscious practice, even if you're in the swimming pool, to feel your body glide through water, surrounded, enveloped, supported by water. If you are already working with power animals, you can invite your water guides with you, salmon, otter, seal, whale... Connecting with them while being in their element is really special.
You can visualise sitting by a well (or visit one if you live closely), where the water bubbles up from the ground. Feel what is 'emerging' in you, bubbling right now, or what you can do to invite more of that effortless 'welling' in your life. Wells are often linked to healing and the goddess. Does that mean anything to you? You can also visualise the course of the water downhill, connecting all the way to the sea. How are you making connections?
A Water Ceremony, where you prepare your space with a bowl of water in the middle. Perhaps you'd like to decorate it with flowers around it. As you start, visualise yourself in a still place in nature. Build this place of power in your imagination. Meditate on the water in the bowl, coming closer, moving further away, gazing within its depths. I like to dip my fingers in and bless different body parts. Perhaps you can take a sip too with sacred awareness. Reflect on what water means to you, physically and metaphorically. Ask if the qualities of water may be strengthened in your being. Feel the blessing and fluid guidance of water enter you. You may want to play some music and dance to invite water in your life as an ally... Afterward, write down your insights or make an art work to further strengthen your connection with water.
On Thursday we did a really Deep 60 minute Flow class, which you can access with the Qi Studio Membership. Try it out with the free two weeks trial! You can sign up via the website, or, if you're already part of the online community, you can change your plan from within your portal.
As always, carry some water drops to the Seed Topic within our community, or share them as a comment in the Magical Seed Library, whatever you prefer!!
Art of Thriving Meeting TOMORROW 17 July
Tomorrow we're having the final Thrive Circle before Summer. We've had some really deep conversations about how we can live well, connecting with other soulful pioneers. You can join us at 19.30-20.30 with this link. If you haven't registered for the network, it's only 9€/month, which you can do here (or from within your portal if you are already a community member. Please note that everyone in the Qi Studio Membership has automatic access so in that case you don't need to do anything else!).
I look forward to being in circle with you again this week!
Here's to flow, fluidity and the power of shape shifting...
Eline
Image: Entering a Well in Cornwall
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