Cleansing Consciousness: Churning the Ocean (video)

Churning is the word of the times! I have heard the word churning used by women in my classes, and I have used this word myself, to describe the energy of these days. Many of us experience the churn, the push and pull of opinions, divisions and conflicts. Women share with me that this brings sadness, fear and a sense of heaviness. We look for solutions, a way out, or an answer. But in ancient archetypal wisdom, churning is the movement of revelation and liberation.

In this video I share the archetypal and ancient story of the Churning of the Ocean, which is the opening of Natya Sastra, the 4000 year old text on Indian dance. I also share the practice of churning as consciousness cleansing movement.

I hope this will bring you a way of being in these times that does not resist nor “surrender” to the movement of reality. There is a movement that is beyond the duality of acceptance and rejection when we can sense the wisdom of churning.

Ancient wisdom traditions recognised chaos as the source of creativity and regeneration. This was never a thought but an embodied experience of renewal. What that renewal and regeneration means for each one of us is an intimate revelation- it is not a one-size-fits all "solution".

I hope you will taste the beauty of the dance of churning and its cleansing of the shackles of heaviness and fear of our minds.