Body Water Clearing Exercise (shower)

This is an exercise that can be done in the shower or where any water is available for you to use. I will write it out as if you are using a shower. I recommending reading through this once before trying it and going into the practice by making it your own so eliminate the want to analyze the instructions.

The Practice:

Start by coming into the body with a few, deep belly breaths. Focus on extending the lower rib cage and stomach area and allowing the breath to expand the ribcage after the belly is fully extended. Do a few cycles of this, at least until you feel the sensation of "stretching" underneath the ribcage area. It's ok if you don't sense this after a few rounds, you may start to notice this after many practices as this breath practice can highlight where the diaphragm has tightness. Overtime, this will become simpler.

After this put your hands in 2 gentle fists. Start to gently beat the hands using the side of the fingers on the chest like a drum and then move down into the lower rib cage, torso, and hip area. Start to make your way to the sides of the body and behind the low back - if you can reach. Open-handed works too, if that feels better.

Open the hands and start to pat behind the glutes and bend the knees as you pat from the glutes down the backs of the legs, all the way to the feet. Pat the tops/bottoms of the feet and up the inner legs, knees, up to the groin area, ending at the 2 hip points. Do this step 2 or 3 times until feeling complete.

Gently behind the shoulder blades, collarbone area to the shoulders, back of neck, up the back of the head to the front of the head, face, and ears.

Get into the shower. For a couple minutes, feel the water on the top of the head and as it runs down the body. Continue with a deep breath, especially when you start to wander into the mind. Allow the waters droplets to become streams that wash down the body, collecting, cleansing, and moving down the drain to return to Earth.

Open the palms and begin patting where you feel called. I like to do the whole body, just like outside of the water - but choose based on your comfort level and of course in a way that is safe. This time, pay attention to how it sounds. Notice the splashing sound, the sound of the movement on the skin, and the sensations association. The smells. The feelings on the skin. The droplets. Tune into the subtilties with all of your senses - without forcing or naming anything - just feel. I encourage you to spend extra time with this one - connecting with all of the sensation, allowing yourself what it would be like to remember your waters within. No need to search for a particular understanding or awareness, allow this practice to be intuitive, fluid, gentle, and free.

When you feel complete - end with allowing the streams of the water to collect any impurities you are ready to let go of that came up during the practice. Again, no analyzation is needed here, staying in feeling/experience mode as much as you can. Activating gratitude as the water goes down the drain is awesome here.

Turn off the shower. Now, placing hands on the heart thanking the body's water, the body, and the ability to reconnect to water more deeply. This is a good time to fill in the space that is newly become available for the light of your choice.

Slowly start to come out of the shower but allow yourself to integrate by allowing this newness to guide you in moving in a new way. How will I now open my curtain or shower door? Pick up my towel? Dry myself off? This can all be done without thought, analyzation, etc. Be open to awarenesses beyond thought, allowing the connection that was awakened in this process to inform you of a new way of movement, no matter how subtle. The water within is always listening and is apart of us and our natural flow - we cannot lose this - and the quieter listeners we become, the more we can move more like it. Take some time either in action or silence, reflecting on this. And end however you'd like.

I love to add some gentle movement after I am done with the practice. Sometimes I am inspired for some sort of creation like writing, painting, dance, or yoga. Even just a lotting 1 min to ask the body what else it would like to do before moving to the next thing on your agenda - will empower your divine process.

This practice can be done virtually as well in the imagination. I, personally, find that I don't need to place an intention of activating my water or anything like that - I have found the approach of allowing myself to be silent and listen to what is already available to be the most valuable as it allows integration to be a more natural part of the process that feels as simultaneous as the awakenings within the process.

"Even raging waters are fluid until it meets something that is unwilling to change."

I hope you enjoyed this practice. <3