Holy Gestures

Another area that I am currently learning so much about is my body, or moving center.  I had never really been taught about the beauty, joy, and knowledge that my body contains. 
 
So learning about the body, or the moving center, as part of the “whole” of me has been so freeing and validating.  Cynthia says that though the body is “…viewed with fear and suspicion…” by many spiritual traditions, what is missed and is of “…crucial importance…is that the moving center also carries unique perceptive gifts, the most important of which is the capacity to understand the language of faith encoded in sacred gesture.”[1]   It has been a joy to use my body in the sacred gestures that speak beyond my ability to utter words that would even come close to adequately expressing the depths of many of my/our longings and yearnings – depths of inexpressible awe, gratitude, surrender, joy, and/or trust, as well as cries of ‘no, I can’t!’, of ‘I don’t know!’, of ‘here I am’ and so many more.  And there is SO MUCH more to learn – about how much actual knowledge our bodies contain that we could benefit from if we but learn to listen to them, and how we could find such healing if we would dare to allow the knowledge and experiences that we have suppressed or denied all our lives, but are retained in our bodies, to be heard.   
 
[1] The Wisdom Way of Knowing, Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart, Cynthia Bourgeault, 2003, page 28.