unfurl.

The western, colonized relationship to the body says that the body is something to dominant with logic and rationality. That the emotion and sensation felt in the body is in conflict with our rational, thinking brain. Relegating the instinctual, sensual, and emotional to the Native, Black, feminine, and irrational. 

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Our body, and its messaging, then becomes untrustworthy so we separate from it. We become floating heads, finding value in what we think and diminishing anything that we feel. We contort into boxes and employ shame, numbness, and self criticism to guard the door to our freedom. 

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When we befriend the body again, finding it to be trustworthy, we are reunited with our bodily wisdom, intuition, and ancestral memory. We inhabit our body in its wholeness. 

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This is what I’m practicing. It is a practice that is lifelong. To unfurl my curved spine and reclaim my primal instincts. To find these instincts as trustworthy. The way I feel my feelings, the way I move my body, the things that bring me pleasure and pain. All the messaging and wisdom of my body- communicated through emotion and sensation - is worth trusting. 

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I’m reclaiming my right to feel, deeply and fully. In doing so, I’m drawing from the deep, limitless well of my body’s wisdom. Im restoring the brain-body connection and inhabiting my wholeness with trust and devotion.