We must do our best not to normalize these times. We must do our best to protect our energy, our capacity, and our liberation- both embodied and externally. Our erotic intelligence provides us with a pathway that allows us the type of permission NO oppression can suppress.

The colonial understanding of spirituality was never about liberation. It was about managing our compliance within a system that depends on the self-sabotage of overextending and the normalizing of going "above and beyond".  The self-neglect of it all.

Our perpetual exhaustion and the current struggles we face in being present in our everyday lives are, in part, by design. This is how we arrived at this point in our society and in history.

Through decolonizing my understanding of spirit, energy, and my own spiritual lineage, I learned how to care for my exhaustion and now teach others this same care. Diving deeper into somatic education and spiritual application, I not only learned about the body's healing process and the stages of healing through neuroplasticity, but I also gained insight from spiritual mentors and energy teachers on how to make connections between our energy and our spirit. I have also embodied the importance of energy practices as spiritual practices and how the erotic is somatic, sexual, and spiritual. 

Today, I am sharing one of the spiritual practices that have been part of this healing experience. I hope it gives you the comfort and capacity to rest.

Learning how to care for ourselves and bring the erotic into everyday living is what I shared in the Erotic Living course and sharing one of my favorite spiritual baths, a white bath. 

"What is Spirituality?

At its core, spirituality is the process of raising one’s consciousness and aligning with higher states of connection to self, others, divinity, divine purpose, and self-understanding. It often involves releasing old patterns, healing past wounds, and stepping into a more expansive sense of self.

While some of his understanding is still rooted in anti-eroticism, neurosciencist Dr. Joe Dispenza's work accessibly explains how the body heals and the importance of understanding the science of healing, neuroplasticity. He explains that neuroscience confirms that one's  spirit is "the conscious awareness of one's energy." This confirms an ancestral knowing of the embodiment of spirit. As someone who decolonizes healing and somatics, it's vital to honor mind, body, spirit, and energy.

Your weariness is not just physical and mental. It is spiritual. 

When you integrate spirituality into your sexual wellness journey, healing becomes erotic.  The erotic is sexual, spiritual, and somatic (mind AND body).

Spiritual practices incorporating this understanding, such as the Sacred Pause, erotic energy healing work, and erotic breathwork, invite you to attune to your erotic self. This attunement helps dissolve both erotic-related distress and fosters an erotic connection that creates space for emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical capacity to reclaim our energy, our attention, and our capacity to experience love, joy, and pleasure. All from a place in which you desire.

There are 3 main healing intentions I explored that are foundational to embodied safety, healing, and  post-traumatic growth:

• Cleanse
• Protect
• Replenish

These intentions nurture one's emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, sexual, and metaphysical embodiment. 

Spiritual healing is not always easy, but it can be transformational in caring for your exhaustion. This care will provide you with the capacity you desire to be present with what you care about.  

Here is a simple to one of my favorite baths for cleansing, protection, and replenishing your energy

Til next time.

Take good care of yourself!