This is so interesting because I certainly remember playing and going around barefooted all childhood long, and especially growing and maturing in Hawaii. The beaches, the shoreline lava, the grass, and rain puddles, even as an adult. And even when the environment around me was going nuts and tried to pull me under, that Earth to Body connection was healing. We have lost so much in our ‘need’ to become “civilized” that we lost our most basic selves along the way and most humans don’t even know what is missing in their lives and think of connections with our Sources of being are mumbo jumbo. No wonder we are where we currently are. Thank you Dev.
Your words really moved me, especially the image of walking barefoot over lava and through rain puddles. That kind of embodied memory is wisdom. I feel the same grief sometimes, watching how we’ve traded aliveness for convenience, and wildness for control. But like you said, the body remembers. And you’re clearly someone who’s kept that thread alive. Thank you for naming it with such clarity and soul. 🌧️🌺🌍
And everything you say about truly connecting with Mother Earth rings so True. Whenever I am out in nature, I feel a completely resonant vibe and it is during my walks that ideas often pop in naturally.
This also reminded me of something I experienced a few years ago.
I was with a 6 year old boy, who had experienced a tough life. He was having a bit of a meltdown, and I asked him what he did to help calm himself. He said "I lay down on the grass'. So we went outside and he lay face down on the grass...within seconds, he had calmed down and his little body relaxed.
The wisdom of children eh🌿☘️🍀🍁🍂🍃
Right, time for my daily walk and I'm gonna sway from the pelvis😁
I love this. “It’s like trying to swim upstream in cement shoes while someone yells motivational quotes at you.” That really hit me 😂 that’s exactly how it felt
Haha yes, the most accurate (and exhausting) workout plan ever! 💥💬🩴 So glad it hit the mark, sometimes the truth needs a ridiculous metaphor to be fully felt. Thank you for resonating 💛
This! “Most people PUSH through life. They create resistance. They’re fighting the current, generating friction, exhausting themselves just existing. It’s like trying to swim upstream in cement shoes while someone yells motivational quotes at you.
But when you move from your center?
From your actual power source? You’re not fighting the current anymore.”
Dea your a gem of primal power! Thank you so much! 🙏
Wonderful read and a great reminder to come back to ourselves. We're so wired to live from the neck up, it's essential we remember to live from the neck down. My favorite part was this: "You stop being tossed around by every cosmic event, every collective freak-out, every attempt to manipulate you into being smaller, quieter, more convenient." Powerful!Thank you for sharing this.
I just want to let you know that I LOVE reading your content. I take my time with each of your posts because you consciously help me move my head (brain) into my body and it's exactly the reminder I need when I'm working (tensed up and on the edge of my seat usually 😂). So, thank you!
I love the thought of moving from my center intentionally, again. I used to be more grounded in my pelvis when I was belly dancing regularly, but I have taken a decade+ long break. Hula dancing brought my energy back there, but I haven’t been dancing hula much lately. This is good timing because I’m getting ready to start belly dancing again, and it really helps bring my focus to my pelvis and hips. I have felt the power you’ve written about, but I hadn’t really thought about it until I read this. I am ready to get grounded in my pelvis and let my Magic Eggs lead the way, both in walking and in dancing! By early December, it will have been 40 days. Count me in! 💃🏼
I love this article. It reminded me that when I dance I will always do so from my pelvis. And that is when I feel most myself. But in the everyday, it's the torso. Thank you for this beautiful nugget of wisdom. Signing up to my 40 day reset.
Today. The day after. The day after reading about the magic eggs.
I did not intend to practise but it just came to my mind when I left the station today.
The thought about my magic eggs within and the thought about my hips that frame the pelvis, in which the creative space within me has its most safe space ... and it didnt feel weird and it didnt change much since I started few years ago already wearing skirts - after 4 decades of trousers - and the female clothing itself did already change my walk.
I guess I should intentionally try your advanced tipps now ...
This is so interesting because I certainly remember playing and going around barefooted all childhood long, and especially growing and maturing in Hawaii. The beaches, the shoreline lava, the grass, and rain puddles, even as an adult. And even when the environment around me was going nuts and tried to pull me under, that Earth to Body connection was healing. We have lost so much in our ‘need’ to become “civilized” that we lost our most basic selves along the way and most humans don’t even know what is missing in their lives and think of connections with our Sources of being are mumbo jumbo. No wonder we are where we currently are. Thank you Dev.
Your words really moved me, especially the image of walking barefoot over lava and through rain puddles. That kind of embodied memory is wisdom. I feel the same grief sometimes, watching how we’ve traded aliveness for convenience, and wildness for control. But like you said, the body remembers. And you’re clearly someone who’s kept that thread alive. Thank you for naming it with such clarity and soul. 🌧️🌺🌍
Love this!
And everything you say about truly connecting with Mother Earth rings so True. Whenever I am out in nature, I feel a completely resonant vibe and it is during my walks that ideas often pop in naturally.
This also reminded me of something I experienced a few years ago.
I was with a 6 year old boy, who had experienced a tough life. He was having a bit of a meltdown, and I asked him what he did to help calm himself. He said "I lay down on the grass'. So we went outside and he lay face down on the grass...within seconds, he had calmed down and his little body relaxed.
The wisdom of children eh🌿☘️🍀🍁🍂🍃
Right, time for my daily walk and I'm gonna sway from the pelvis😁
I love this. “It’s like trying to swim upstream in cement shoes while someone yells motivational quotes at you.” That really hit me 😂 that’s exactly how it felt
Haha yes, the most accurate (and exhausting) workout plan ever! 💥💬🩴 So glad it hit the mark, sometimes the truth needs a ridiculous metaphor to be fully felt. Thank you for resonating 💛
This! “Most people PUSH through life. They create resistance. They’re fighting the current, generating friction, exhausting themselves just existing. It’s like trying to swim upstream in cement shoes while someone yells motivational quotes at you.
But when you move from your center?
From your actual power source? You’re not fighting the current anymore.”
Dea your a gem of primal power! Thank you so much! 🙏
Ahh, thank you! So deeply felt 💛🩵 May we all ditch the cement shoes and move from that wild, rooted center: where power flows, not strains. 🌀💎✨
Wonderful read and a great reminder to come back to ourselves. We're so wired to live from the neck up, it's essential we remember to live from the neck down. My favorite part was this: "You stop being tossed around by every cosmic event, every collective freak-out, every attempt to manipulate you into being smaller, quieter, more convenient." Powerful!Thank you for sharing this.
I just want to let you know that I LOVE reading your content. I take my time with each of your posts because you consciously help me move my head (brain) into my body and it's exactly the reminder I need when I'm working (tensed up and on the edge of my seat usually 😂). So, thank you!
Oh my! Magic Eggs! ✨🥚✨
I love the thought of moving from my center intentionally, again. I used to be more grounded in my pelvis when I was belly dancing regularly, but I have taken a decade+ long break. Hula dancing brought my energy back there, but I haven’t been dancing hula much lately. This is good timing because I’m getting ready to start belly dancing again, and it really helps bring my focus to my pelvis and hips. I have felt the power you’ve written about, but I hadn’t really thought about it until I read this. I am ready to get grounded in my pelvis and let my Magic Eggs lead the way, both in walking and in dancing! By early December, it will have been 40 days. Count me in! 💃🏼
I truly needed and loved this message, hips do not lie, and are our power center 💃
I love this article. It reminded me that when I dance I will always do so from my pelvis. And that is when I feel most myself. But in the everyday, it's the torso. Thank you for this beautiful nugget of wisdom. Signing up to my 40 day reset.
Today. The day after. The day after reading about the magic eggs.
I did not intend to practise but it just came to my mind when I left the station today.
The thought about my magic eggs within and the thought about my hips that frame the pelvis, in which the creative space within me has its most safe space ... and it didnt feel weird and it didnt change much since I started few years ago already wearing skirts - after 4 decades of trousers - and the female clothing itself did already change my walk.
I guess I should intentionally try your advanced tipps now ...
True grounding begins when awareness remembers where it lives. The body follows only after.
Grinning,, just yesterday I tried to recall the old way of moving hips and body. Nope. Blank screen. Cosmic headquarters in charge.😂❤️