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Body Transformation
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The Dance Between
Spirit and Embodiment
As a vehicle through which our spirit can express itself the body is
unique in incarnatory possibilities.
Experience of the third dimension is only possible through a body, although
the body itself can not consciously experience without our waking consciousness.
In the intertwining of consciousness and form, the divine drama of the
interplay of our divinity and humanness takes place. This unfolding story
of our life where we gradually face the past as it is written in our body,
constitutes one of the great mysteries.
As we explore or "go into" the pains, feelings, tightness and lack of
awareness in our body we come face to face with the memories of the past
- sometimes literally and sometimes as a metaphor - sometimes as high
drama where we are wracked with pain, fear, sadness and loss, incompleteness
of expression - loves that did not flower to fruition, and anger at the
way events unfolded. And there is also more. As we release and surrender
these embodied memories of the past we somehow allow more space for descent
and inflow of that which we truly are - spirit in the embodied form, seeking
to express itself, seeking to experience the energetic dance between the
atomic and molecular, the very play of delight that is the force of creation.
As we tap into this layer of existence we can experience great bliss,
rushes of ecstatic realization, waves of connectedness to every living
thing : these also are our birthright as beings exploring the mystery
of embodiment.
The great historic spiritual traditions of this planet have often seen
the body as problematic - as an obstacle to our spiritual realisation
- as something to be transcended, as a barrier between us and oneness.
However, this approach overlooks one simple fact - that when, on this
planet, we do experience the great moments of spiritual awareness and
elevation that human life can bring, it is precisely through the body
, through the complex interlayering of nervous tissue and biochemistry,
in the dance between history and the moment that the bliss of realisation
descends upon us, and we realise that we are more than our bodies, that
our awareness extends into the infinite, that although our body lives
in history, our being is timeless.
And this is the nub of the problem, for our bodies not only live in history
but are also historic products. They contain the memories of everything
that ever happened to us in this life - not only in childhood and infancy,
but also our birth, gestation and conception live as energetic moments
captured into biological reality. Beyond this, there is more.
In our descent from the planes of spirit into biological matter we pass
through complex intersecting matrices of energy - the light grids, that
control how consciousness will express itself in this particular incarnation.
In passing through these, the purity of spirit, which has no attachment,
becomes fashioned by energetic vortices and we take on or absorb patterns
in much the same way as a piece of clay is sculpted on a potter's wheel.
We absorb past life influences - karmas - parts of our past still to
be brought to completion and a point of stillness within us - and we absorb
family influences; the karmas of the family that wish to express itself
through us. These karmas may be thought of as a standing wave pattern
that influences the expression of consciousness that will eventually become
embodied, much as a 35mm slide in a projector influences the expression
of the pure formless light that initially shines through the slide to
produce the pattern of light that we see on the screen. These layers of
information, which are initially sub-atomic, gradually slow down in frequency
until they eventually intersect with biological reality - genetic coding,
cellular function and energetic flow through the nervous system.
In working with the body we start to work backwards through the layers
of karma accumulated in our body, through the layers of holding of our
muscular movement and expression, through the restrictions on our breathing
and expression of our feeling life. And as we do this we meet the past
as it has come to live in us as body pains, unconsciousness, fear etc.
This is the essence of the hands on work with the body and the movement
re-education work.
Participants who come to take part in the work will receive it at the
point of intersection between what you can give , and what comes through
you, and what they can receive. They will experience it according to their
evolutionary level of unfolding intersecting with yours, in the mystery
of the moment. If you bring the fullness of your being to the moment,
you are doing all that can ever be asked of you. And such moments are
rare. Often it is a matter of prayerfully gathering ourselves to a temporary
point of stillness in the storm of our ongoing process of life, and sharing
a session from that place - noting our incompleteness, lack of full presence,
judgements, inability to fully connect etc. as we make our way into the
mystery of another person's embodiment and their struggle with the journey.
Daricha March 1996
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