Sacred Dance Day Sadhana ( Day 14 )
“Be conscious of this unconscious prayer (of your breath), For She is the holiest place of pilgrimage.
She wishes for you to enter this temple, Where each breath is adoration Of the infinite for the incarnate form.”
― Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras
Sacred Sensuality & Sexuality
Sensuality/Sexuality itself is a sacred life force and the conceiving power in the universe.
When we allow it to flow freely, it elicits deep feelings of longing, desire, and passion, and in the blissful unifying act produces immense healing for our bodies and souls. We’re experiencing unspeakable suffering all over the world after an age of defiling, suppressing, and misusing sexuality. A key part of healing love is to create spaces where we can fully accept our sexual nature and freely express it in mutual respect.
While modern religions have defined sacred and spiritual as being separate from the body, from nature, and certainly from sex, the ancient roots of our language and history imply something different suggesting that at one time there was a sacred nature to sex.
Given the shifts in our culture, now is a time to return to ancient wisdom.
Sacred is defines as that which is made or declared holy, revered, blessed, holy.
Sacred is understood differently in varying cultures. In indigenous culture, the concept of sacred is one of relationship rather than dogma. While in native cultures, humans, animals, plants, and especially the Earth herself are sacred because we are all part of the Whole. All of creation is inherently sacred because it is part of the interconnected web of ecology that sustains and carries life.
Sacred Sexuality is an essential part of many spiritual traditions and cultures.
It implies an awareness that sex is the inception of life, of all that is, a connection to Source energy.
It is no coincidence then that the word sacrum is also the anatomical term for the triangular bone at the base of the spine – the very place which Tantric traditions say is the seat of the sleeping kundalini or Shakti energy. When aroused through practice, the kundalini rises up the spine to awaken the spiritual centers in the brain – the place where many of our closing and our habitual mindless chatter lives.
The Tantric attitudes of slowing down, awakening all of the senses, tuning in to subtle energy, letting go of judgment and blame, expressing gratitude for the gift of life, and savoring the present moment are wonderfully supportive tools for intimate relating.
