Feminine

This mindfulness meditation embraces and honors the feminine experience, inviting women to connect with their inner selves in a compassionate and non-judgmental way. It encourages women to cultivate self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-care while embracing the diverse range of emotions and qualities associated with femininity, but at the same time, not excluding masculinity from the equation.

Transcript

Begin.

Let's first just come to the space of arriving and within that space,

Notice what is present for you right now.

We are in the energy of the Women's Day.

There's a history that brought us here to celebrate,

Which is really empowering and powerful to know how far we've come.

And yet there's so much more that can and needs to be done.

So just for a moment,

May you place your hand over your heart or even offer yourself a hug and just honor in this space of womanhood,

Gently sensing and feeling what is your hand providing for you.

It might be on your chest,

Maybe you are resting it in your lap,

Maybe both hands are connecting.

Regardless of what your choice is,

Notice how you are in relationship to your hands and giving space of this experience of human touch to really be present in this moment.

You offering that touch to yourself,

Let yourself just gently acknowledge that.

Notice with this connection from yourself to yourself,

There might be some thoughts or sensations or emotions that surface.

Notice if you can have some spaciousness,

Just to allow it all to be present.

Gently,

Kindly and lovingly provide that space of intimacy.

Even though we are all present here now,

There is nothing more powerful than knowing that we can be vulnerable and intimate,

Especially when a group and especially when sitting together with our womanhood.

Noticing softly how your mind responds to this moment,

Witnessing which part of your body is most open.

If there's any part that might be resisting,

Whatever the reason and the cause for that is,

Just letting it all be here,

Welcoming.

There is awareness of any tension present,

The stiffness,

Discomfort,

Pain perhaps.

Could you offer this gentle and soothing touch to that part of the body?

Just noticing how our body responds to emotional and thinking triggers,

Letting your hand rest on that part,

Just offering the presence,

Allowing this energy of the feminine to go through your hand to wherever it might be needed.

The energy of nourishment,

Care,

Kindness,

Warm love,

Feminine brings also creativity,

Feminine energy also embraces the unknown.

So much power behind it.

Could you connect with that power just now?

Can you acknowledge the power within you?

And if there is some resistance,

Would you acknowledge that too?

Gently,

Kindly,

Lovingly releasing the practice and just giving yourself space to reset and reorganize your presence.

You might rub your palms together,

Warm up the palms and offer that warmth to your eyes as you begin to shift from your inner intimate space to the group setting.

And if you wish to continue to extend that space just for yourself within your personal intimacy,

You can just go ahead and do that as well.

So as this is our day,

I would really like to invite you to share anything that is present.

I know I sent a bit of an introduction to the feminine and just the energetic life what feminine carries and knowing that this balanced and imbalanced energy of the feminine we have all experienced it,

Especially when it comes to embracing the unknown.

The universe is dark and that is the feminine energy,

This vastness of the universe where it's all dark and receptive,

But there's dark matter and apparently it's made of nothing.

That is the feminine.

And the stars are the masculine,

The light.

One without the other can't really go.

It can't really go anywhere.

So the masculine has slightly different traits.

It has the trait of linear,

It goes straight,

It's about action,

And completed action,

Vision,

Objectives,

Right?

Like it gets us to move.

Feminine asks us to just accept us,

Nowhere to go,

Nothing to do.

A lot of what we do with meditation is actually a feminine trait.

So I might be talking about that a little bit,

But again,

Before I go there,

Either by typing or sharing anything that is alive for you today,

Right now,

Peace is present.

Yeah.

I was actually experiencing something that is not a very balanced feminine energy in the daytime.

And it was all the opposite of care,

Creativity,

Nourishment,

And emotional intelligence.

It was,

I have to ask my day off,

Half day off to sleep it through.

But it was later on when I feel better myself,

I think about it,

It's,

I was like an idiot.

I don't have to do that to myself.

And when I sleep on the bed,

I,

What I am luckily,

Or I'm happy what I did is just to be with myself,

Hold my own hand to ask myself,

What's going on?

And what can I do for you?

It doesn't help that much,

But I do feel I connect to this darkness and make no sense emotions that I'm able to be with her at least for at that time,

Even I don't know what to do with her.

But later the results turned out to be better and good.

And I think that's very interesting.

I have to experience this on the,

You know,

The women's day,

Which is like,

I was into this really masculine energy that I kind of experienced in transforming to a okay feminine energy to solve my day.

Can I ask you a question?

Sure.

Yeah.

I'm curious,

You're referring to this feminine energy as she,

So who is she?

And is the witness or the observer?

I think that's more like a matured mature version.

Also the one who is expressing at the moment is the witness or the observer talking about her.

Oh yeah.

The feminine.

Yeah.

It's her.

Yeah.

But both of her.

The one that have all this unknown emotion is also her.

Right.

Yeah.

And I can hear how it just,

There was some hijacking happening there and it was just taking over or over high reactivity.

I also like for us in Beijing,

It's been very polluted few days recently.

And I find it really,

Really difficult to kind of like really make sense of what is going on.

If there is any trigger,

It's very,

Very easy to go and not feel resourceful.

But I hear that you actually had a lot of courage to go and ask for the time away and you went home and you slept a little and recharged.

Yeah.

It seems that the feminine energy actually found a way of taking care of herself in a way as well.

Yeah.

Beautiful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Also messages connecting with my inner worth,

Also feeling fatigue at the moment and low energy and grateful to be here connected with the community.

Yeah.

Welcome.

So there is a lot of polarization,

Right?

Like that is really present as we are coming together here,

Inner worth and fatigue.

It's just honoring that and holding it together.

And then I've been thinking about the future.

You're not feeling very feminine.

I'm wondering maybe deep down you're male.

It's something to confront and deal with,

And maybe trying to avoid this.

And yeah,

I really like to address this feminine and masculine rather than female and male,

Right?

Because we are all it,

Aren't we?

Yeah.

And there's beauty in combining it all together.

And times are like this that it even presents itself through gender as well.

There's all the binary and it's so strong,

This desire to integrate masculine and feminine.

It used to be very separate and very clear the distinction of where we are.

Men do this and women do this,

Right?

And women just need to be quiet and men are going to take care and be outside in the world and earn.

And all these boundaries are actually changing,

Right?

And I'm also hearing that you're maybe trying to avoid facing this.

So there's some discomfort with this realization that deep inside there is maybe this masculine aspect that really is wanting perhaps the surface,

Right?

I'm just wondering right now if there's anything that you would need at the moment just to spend a little bit more time with this topic.

I'm not going to,

I can see you're typing,

I'm not going to call the names just to keep the confidentiality.

But yeah,

If you wish you can unmute yourself as well.

Oh,

Okay.

Maybe denying the reality of yourself.

So yeah,

This is a very potent thought,

Home,

Right?

So what is the reality of self,

Right?

Which self are we talking about?

It can be so philosophical.

I'm just wondering if you can for a moment even just decide to place one aspect,

This feminine into one hand and masculine into the other and let them both be visible.

Because sometimes in the darkness inside of us when we have this polarization,

It's very difficult to hold it.

But when we place it in our hands and it can be anything,

It can be a dilemma,

It can be a topic,

It can be a trait,

It can be emotion like sadness and anger or just the traits like masculine and feminine.

And then we can look at it,

Right?

Like can you look at it and notice the quality?

Is it lighter,

Heavier?

And notice if there's any way where you can bring these two hands together and integrate them.

In the end,

The reality is really about integration.

Whatever separateness we have within us,

We are all coming to creating the wholeness of self.

And through that wholeness,

We are actually realizing also the connection with everything outside of us as well.

So while inside there might be some polarization,

Right?

Like if you don't feel integrated.

But look at outside of you and maybe you can notice that you also don't feel integrated with things that are outside.

So I'm right now looking at the curtain,

For example,

And I'm thinking I'm separate from the curtain.

That's what I'm noticing.

And I can give justification to all of that why I'm separate from it.

But then I can hold the curtain here and myself here and notice how it feels and then aim to integrate it and then bring it together and to notice that I am made of the same elements as the curtain is.

And actually we are one.

And you know what happens when we feel like we are one with all around us?

Have you ever felt that?

Because right now I'm noticing I'm actually completely taking the energy of the curtain and I can feel really good about myself a little bit better than when I felt myself separate from the curtain.

Yeah.

And what if we open to that spaciousness and feeling this,

You know,

One with the universe,

One with the stars,

One with a tree,

With the earth,

Serving masculine and feminine,

Then becomes a very human concept.

We don't necessarily even need to go there.

So I'm just reading more,

More comments now experiencing a healthier than usual relationship to my body today,

And especially through the practice,

Being grateful for this moment of calm.

At the same time,

I keep wondering how different energies fall into different places along a spectrum beyond the binary.

Yes,

Exactly.

So in deep breath,

Letting ourselves just for a moment,

Inhale that separate deadness and how curious it is that actually with the inhale,

We can just bring it all inside.

And as a matter of one short breath,

However many seconds it takes,

It goes all the way inside,

Nourishes all the cells,

Gives us all that we need,

And then we release it.

As we release it,

It goes out and brings life to something else,

Plants,

Taking one breath for ourselves,

And as we exhale,

Just letting the breath find the other,

Continuing to notice how the energy of the breath falls into different places,

Exactly where it belongs,

And also noticing the innate capacity to even direct that breath.

So perhaps directing the breath to go towards the feminine,

And then as we exhale and release,

Directing the next breath towards the masculine,

Just breathing,

Nourishing each and every cell with the in-breath and the innate capacity to care and provide,

Noticing this capacity for us to begin to play with darkness and light,

Just by placing the intention,

Opening the gaze inwards,

Noticing the space from the top of the head all the way to our feet,

Supposedly all dark.

Let us now open up to bring some light inside,

Just the warm healing light,

And letting that warm healing light into the body,

Through the gateways,

Top of the head,

From the mind,

Perhaps from the palms of our hands towards the body,

Or from the bottom of the feet,

Taking the light of the earth,

Letting it all come into the body,

Around the body,

Let it penetrate,

Go through the body,

Warm healing light.

And even though you might be having a spaciousness and relaxation at the moment,

From time to time,

Your thoughts might bring some worries,

Some concerns,

Some topics that you are not able to resolve beyond the meditation.

Let this warm healing light,

In the form of your inner spirit,

Come to life,

So that you direct it with your mind towards the sensation of coming into that topic,

Coming into that topic,

Into that problem,

Physical,

Emotional,

Mental level,

Or any other level necessary that needs healing right now.

Directing that light into that space,

In the warm healing light,

Come into your head,

The space between your ears,

May your warm healing light bring smile to your face,

May the warm healing light go into your chest,

Behind your ribcage,

Let it fill each and every cell of your lungs,

Your heart,

May your heart be open now,

May it embrace healing and hope,

Let your mind gently,

Kindly,

Lovingly,

Direct the warm healing light towards your abdomen,

May your all inner organs be filled with light,

Pancreas,

Spleen,

Stomach,

Large intestine,

Small intestine,

Liver,

Gallbladder,

Kidneys,

Each and every cell filled with warm healing light,

May the warm healing light travel gently,

Softly,

Lovingly with your sexual organs,

Your bladder,

Productive organs,

Your whole pelvis area,

Be filled with warm healing light,

Your hips,

May they open up,

May you gently,

Let the warm healing light go around,

Through and into your legs,

Your thighs,

Eyes,

Knees,

Calves,

All the way to your feet,

And letting yourself fill up with light,

Knowing that this source is always inside of you,

Letting this nourishment always be available to you,

All it takes is to switch the light in your mind,

And taking few deep breaths,

Just to sense a little bit more of aliveness inside of your body,

And gently releasing the practice,

And giving space to whatever is present,

One more time,

Just allowing it to be present,

Any polarity,

Any resistance,

Any togetherness,

And flow,

And gently coming back to the screen,

If that is okay for you,

And looking at all the friends who are here,

And letting a little bit of that light from you begin to shine to each and every one of us,

And you might be looking at some images,

And some names,

Or the videos,

Whatever that is,

Just taking time to connect with each other,

Noticing the connection,

And how we are all made from exactly the same particles,

And if I could just find connection with the curtain a few moments ago,

We just experience some sense of togetherness right now,

We just softly and gently acknowledge,

Just like me,

This person is looking for happiness,

Just like me,

This person is wanting to be loved,

Just like me,

This person wishes to be safe and protected,

Just like me,

This person has felt fear,

Loneliness,

Lack of self-worth,

Just like me,

This person is longing to belong,

And take a few moments,

Either come back to yourself,

And let yourself feel the connection with your hand on your chest,

Or continue to look and feel the togetherness with this beautiful this beautiful energy,

If there is anything that anyone would like to share,

Or bring to the space,

A reflection,

Or insight,

Or a question,

Just go ahead.

I was really resonate with Caroline's comment about different energy falling to different places along the spectrum beyond the binary,

Binary,

Binary,

I was studying this chakra thing,

So for the masculine energy is more like third chakra,

The self-worth,

On the stomach,

And for the feminine representative is more like the second chakra,

The the sacrum chakra,

Which represent the,

How to say that,

Reproducing organ,

Reproductive organs,

And my my own problem is that my solar plexus sometimes is too strong,

And it just becomes too big,

And it just prevents my second chakra to work well,

And even we always find,

Want to find a balance in this,

In every chakra,

However these two masculine representative,

And feminine representative are only two chakras among all the sevens,

I was like,

Yeah,

It was not,

I would,

When I read that,

I really feel there's actually a lot more than these two energies.

And all of that is in your awareness at the moment?

I'm only working,

Mainly working on the first three or four chakras for now,

Later I work on the top,

Actually.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Wonderful,

And yeah,

It's,

It's beautiful as long as there's work being done,

It's all well,

The feeling sense of more calm,

Of mind,

More centered,

Even though there are lots of thoughts coming in while holding the hand on the chest,

And able to sit,

Still get back to inner space with care.

Thank you for sharing that.

So,

Always wondering why there there are feminine masculine energies,

Maybe it's a too big topic,

What if they don't have a tag,

The same as positive and negative energy?

That's a great point.

Besides,

It's great to connect with the community virtually.

I mean,

It's,

Yeah,

This is really a great perspective and,

And depending on what is our point of focus,

Really,

In this realm,

It's duality,

We observe it,

That duality helps us to feel safe,

Our mind needs it,

Needs that construct,

So that we can compare,

It constantly compares.

And as we begin to shift into a different reality,

A different reality in scenes or different,

Like in terms of different dimension,

It's irrelevant,

There is no duality,

There is no masculine and feminine,

It's just a human construct.

Yeah,

It's,

It's totally obsolete.

But when we are,

We need to reveal it,

We need to see it,

When,

Especially when they are playing with that within us.

And then once when that is realized and seen,

Then different things come up.

But yeah,

Positive and negative energy,

It's all an energy,

There is no positive and negative really,

But it helps us make sense of that.

Otherwise,

It's hard.

Yeah,

Very nice to have everyone here as well.

So,

I have just a few more minutes before we,

We complete and close.

I really like to play,

Especially on times like this,

I like to bring the,

The little background,

Maybe not this,

I'll put my,

Some like this,

Some rainbow glasses.

So,

If you want to go into the,

The video filter that you would like to use for this moment and can bring some playfulness and,

And wonder and magic.

And as we dive into this virtual world,

That totally doesn't make any sense.

Hello,

Kitty.

All right.

Look at those new avatars.

Absolutely.

How do you do that?

You go into the video,

Click on the arrow,

At least I have on my Mac and then choose virtual background.

Yes.

I don't have that.