Desire

What is desire? From where does it arise? Where in the body do we feel this?

Investigating into desire, the nature of desire, and embodying desire in our yoga practice, as we can imagine, is rich and deep, like eating a creamy chocolate mousse, as opposed to a low-fat energy bar (my desire for good food is strong, so please excuse the banality of my food analogies :)

When we allow ourselves to be in the place of nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one i have to be, we can listen inside. Listen into the movement of everything. With every movement, within every single cell, with the seeping pulsing flow of fluids, there exists the background and foreground of Desire. How can we be here without Desire? We ARE Desire. We ALREADY embody Desire - we could not exist without it.

We usually think of Desire as sexual Desire (and food). Well no wonder: in the lower chakras, the organs of reproduction, digestion, and excretion, the feelings of desire can feel the strongest, the most palpable. But by sensing and feeling into the quieter and seemingly hidden places, we can feel the presence of Desire there as well. This is the creative process, and how we come to be.

We Reach, We Push, We Pull, We Move, We Settle, out of Desire. Underneath All of this, there is Yield. Yield to ourselves, allowing this very moment to be what it is, allowing ourselves to be who we are - then we can observe, this dance, this play of Desire - and, as a consequence, reach for what we want. What do you desire, really?