Just this morning I popped outside for a quick cross-country ski. The sun is out, the sky is blue, and our long winter’s bitter cold is at last coming to an end. I’d just completed an Energy Medicine Yoga® lecture on the kidney/bladder meridians (channels of energy) and was ready to move my body. As EMY founder Lauren Walker describes it, the kidney meridian is our essential energy, our chi; the bladder meridian connects us to our soul’s purpose, to the “light of our soul”. Helping us channel our energy to align on our path in life.
It was all very cool. Lauren guided us through ways that we can, through touch and visualization, nurture and protect our heart; release grief and the enervation that often accompanies it; and shower ourselves in our own healing light.
Happy and energized, I hit the trail and skied along the belly of Mount Helena before turning around to head back the way I came. And there it was. A shimmering trail of light glistening along the twin tracks of my ski tracks in the bright sun. Sparkling with light and movement, just as I imagine my meridians may move when I am in the flow.
In EMY, we understand that energy needs to move, and when energy is blocked, pain and illness can arise. We cultivate practices to release “stuck energy” and to support healthy patterns of energy movement. Furthermore, energy follows thought. (Pause for a moment and think of your left thumb. Do you feel a slight pulsation?) I began thinking about my energy flows as I continued along the ski trail.
A sheaf of snow drifting across the trail as a load fell from the great pine boughs of a tall tree up ahead. Glimmering in the sun, it filled my heart with delight, and I thought of our radiant circuits, which are energies of joy and healing that swirl and flow through our being, bathing us in healing energy.
Sparkles of ice crystals caught in a beam of sunlight is like our aura, which emanates from us and surrounds us in protection.
As I skied along, I imagined the deep healing energy of the earth rising up through me, and cascading around me in luminescent light.
It was, I have to say, a heavenly ski. And we can play with our energy in these life-giving, healing ways whenever we choose. Energy follows thought. Let your big, beautiful brain play with your exquisite, resplendent energy systems. See where it takes you!
P.S. If you’d like to learn more about EMY, there is a workshop coming up in Whitefish in May, and I love to integrate EMY into my yoga flows, so… I’ll see you on the mat!
