Dancing With The Ocean

Dancing with the ocean is an embodied poetry practice that invites you to connect with the liquid body, the element of water. Using movement, breath, and somatic practices, this meditation allows you to embody the delicately dynamic and deeply reflective qualities of water.

A reminder that life is an oceanic dance. That you are the dancer, and you are the ocean.

Transcript

Dancing with the ocean of your being because you are a body of water,

You move like a river and you leak water when you are moved.

Divinity is flowing through the rivers of your being.

Getting here by finding a comfortable seated position,

Taking as long as you need to adjust your body,

Seeing if perhaps you can become a little bit more comfortable.

We spend so much of our days in discomfort,

Trying to be a certain way.

Spending this time in this embodied poetry meditation is just to allow your body to relax into comfort if that feels accessible to do.

We are going to begin with a gently somatic movement practice.

We're simply going to start to sway side to side.

Just like our spine is made of water or seaweed.

All the way from our lower back,

Up through our thoracic spine,

To our neck and our head.

There's no right or wrong way to do this motion.

Just imagine seaweed flowing back and forth through the soft heaviness of water and allowing your spine and your body to move in this water like motion.

To move in a way that feels soothing to you as you sway side to side.

As you feel the fluid,

Non-linear element of water in your body that is longing for you to move with it,

Not against it.

This motion may trickle out into your arms,

Your shoulders,

Your neck.

Follow how your water wants to move today.

Your movement may be so small that it is imperceptible or it may be very dynamic and exaggerated like a contemporary dance.

You are made of water.

Can you feel into the liquid body,

The fluidity,

Into all the dynamic qualities of water?

The moments of subtlety,

Moments of surging,

The delicacy.

Feeling the ebb and the flow.

Feeling the moment when the movement suspends before transforming into something else.

This swaying motion can be quite soothing for the nervous system.

We are going to introduce a breath practice so you can either continue to sway in this gentle seaweed water like motion as you intentionally breathe or if stillness feels right you can allow this seaweed movement to gently and slowly come to a natural pause in your own time.

There is no need to completely stop in a jarring manner but rather just allow your body to find stillness at its own pace and allow the movement to become slower and smaller and softer.

If this movement feels really nice you have the option to continue gently swaying as we introduce our breath breath practice.

Otherwise you can come to that gentle pause over time.

We are going to move forward with a breath breath practice called the oceanic breath.

This breath sounds similar to ocean waves.

You will inhale slowly and deeply through the nose and exhale making a shhhh sound through the mouth.

Almost like you are tenderly shushing a small baby or child as they go to sleep.

So breathing in through the nose and shhhh.

Continuing this breath practice at your own pace and in your own time.

Feeling the oceanic quality,

The soothing quality of the breath.

Allowing the exhale to extend and become elongated.

If at any point it doesn't feel supportive,

You can allow the breath practice to gently fall away.

Otherwise continuing to breathe like this,

Relaxing as each wave of breath builds with the inhale,

Suspends like the top of a wave and then crashes with the exhale and passes.

Just like each and every wave in the ocean.

We are going to breathe like this for a few minutes so when you next hear my voice I will guide you into the next part of our practice.

For now,

Continuing with your oceanic breath.

The next time you exhale your oceanic breath,

Gently allowing the breath practice to fade away.

Noticing sensation in your body,

Any emotions arising or imagery in your mind,

Any thoughts that are passing through.

Your mind moves at the speed of light,

Whereas your body moves at the speed of water.

So perhaps through this seaweed like movement and this oceanic breath,

Maybe your mind has slowed down slightly,

Maybe even the slightest bit to become more in tune with the pace of your body and it's entirely okay if it hasn't.

Before we find stillness in our poetic rest,

We are going to take one more somatic practice.

I invite you now,

If it feels interesting,

To take your hands in front of you,

Palms facing up with your little fingers together and I invite you to imagine that you are scooping up the freshest,

Most pure,

Soothing,

Calming waters with your hands and then you are going to pretend to splash it onto your face and you are going to drag your fingers and your hands down over your face.

We're going to do this a couple of times,

So taking your hands,

Scooping up that beautiful,

Fresh,

Soothing water and splashing it over your face and then dragging your fingertips and your hands down your forehead,

Over your eyes,

Your cheeks,

Your chin,

Perhaps even your neck and down your collarbones and chest.

Imagine repeating this three more times at your own pace.

When you have completed splashing your face three times with this pure,

Refreshing,

Soothing water,

We are now going to invite our bodies to relax again and we are going to enter the internal landscape of ourselves.

I invite you now to still the waters inside you just for a little while,

Long enough to see the reflection of your true nature,

Bathing in the deep and reflective qualities of water so we have moved with the dynamic qualities through the breath and the body.

This practice is all about moving with the water and not against it,

So if you don't feel as though stillness is useful for you in this moment,

Perhaps you continue to move with those seaweed,

Fluid movements we practiced earlier.

Otherwise allowing your body to come towards stillness,

Noticing the soft,

Wave-like quality of your breath,

Noticing the water moving within you.

Can you be here right now in the embodied state of water?

Perhaps I see tumble stones stacked to make a waterfall of your spine,

Nerve pathways and veins like rivers and streams that make up the waterways of your body.

I see it within you,

The waters that move on this earth,

The waters that are soft but flowing and then finding stillness once more.

I see the seashell of your heart that is always whispering to you,

The songs from the depths of your waters.

The universe is always naturally moving and unfolding,

Trees grow to soaring heights,

The moon pulls the tides higher and lower,

Our hair gets longer,

Lungs fill with air and then let go again.

The movement of creation is wave motion,

It moves within you and around you.

Life is not a linear journey,

Life is an oceanic dance.

Can you dance with the flow of divinity?

Can you dance with the waves that are your body?

The waves of thoughts?

The waves of sensations?

The waves of feelings?

Instead of resisting them,

Can you dance with them?

Can you see that as you dance with these waves,

That you are not these waves,

You are the whole ocean?

Can you be here in the river of this very moment?

Allow this very second in time to take you where you are supposed to be.

Right now there is no need for effort or control as you float here in this moment.

As you feel into the quality of water.

This divine quality that moves the universe is you,

You are made of water.

Can you find softness in trusting this divine force?

Can you trust in surrendering to the water of your being?

Just like the river longs for and moves towards the ocean,

That the water in your body will carry you exactly where you are supposed to be.

Trusting that whatever is meant for you will never pass you by.

Allowing the ocean of poetry,

Of these words,

Of this feeling of dancing with the ocean to sink in a little bit deeper.

Allowing yourself to sit with it,

To allow what is ever arising from within to flow.

Allowing yourself to move with the water as you rest in the river of this moment.

And when you next hear my voice,

I will return to guide you out of this embodied poetry meditation.

Until then,

Remember that just as the clouds release rain that nourish all living beings on this planet,

You are made to be a tiny droplet of love in the ocean of life.

Let it pour.

Slowly coming back to the wave motion of your breath,

The fluid quality inside you.

Coming back to the liquid body,

Back to this very moment.

If your waters have stilled and you would enjoy staying here,

Please do.

Otherwise you may like to intentionally and slowly move the breath and the body once again.

Slowly wiggling fingers and toes,

Allowing your spine to move,

Allowing your body to move in whichever way it is asking to be moved.

When you are ready,

You can slowly blink your eyes open and move into the rest of your day as the embodiment of water.

Remembering that life is an oceanic dance and that you are the dancer and you are the ocean.

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