What Does It Mean To Offer Comfort Back To The Breast?

This meditation began with a question:

What does it mean to offer comfort back to the breast?

Inspired in part by women who have experienced breast cancer, this practice is an invitation to return to the breasts with tenderness, curiosity, and care.

Together, we reflect on the breast as connected to life, nourishment, intimacy, pleasure, lineage, and the body’s capacity to give and receive.

This meditation includes a gentle invitation to bring your hands to your breasts, or simply bring your awareness there, and to notice what it means to offer care back to a part of the body that is so often associated with giving.

You can listen sitting still, lying down, or while moving through the responsibilities of your day.

Whatever your breasts have been, whatever they are now, there is no form your body has to take for you to offer it tenderness and love.

Transcript

What does it mean to offer comfort back to the breasts? I'll give you a few moments to be with that question. Rests our connection to life. To the feeding of life. Intimacy. Comfort, Fertility and abundance. The continuation of families. And communities. Erotic love. The body's capacity to give and to receive. There is lineage here too. Not only in what women survived before us, But. . . And what they knew about sustaining life. What they protected. What they nourished. What they carried forward. What they made possible for those who came after them. And lineage carries a reminder. What pours outward must also receive. What nourishes must also be nourished. A woman's giving must not require her disappearance. Our breasts are associated with giving, But they are not only for giving. They are part of our own bodies. Our vitality. Our pleasure. Our relationship with self. I invite you to bring your hands to your breasts. And if that does not work for you in this moment, Simply bring your awareness there. One hand or both. Notice the breath beneath your breasts. Arise. The fall. The subtle movement of life. Listen. And whatever your breasts have been, Whatever they are now. There is no form your body has to take for you to offer it tenderness. For you to offer it love and acknowledgement. Our bodies change. Our breaths change. This too is part of being alive. And as we close this practice together. I leave you with the same question we began with as a loving reminder. What does it mean to offer comfort back to the breasts? Explore that question. Let it teach you. Let your body answer in its own time. Practice what feels true. And notice what becomes possible when your care begins to move more toward you. And it's like you're staying