The Kidneys in the Home of Our Bodies

In the School for Body-Mind Centering, the kidneys are regarded as our personal energy, our inner resource, and the feeling of being safe in our bodies and in the environment. The kidneys are blood-rich, filtering organs that are related to the element of water.

We started our exploration by asking ourselves, in meditation, where we feel overdrawn, overextended, pushed-out of ourselves, not just in the kidneys, but in our entire Self. Then, in partner work, we investigated the organ touch onto the kidneys in Child's Pose. Without judgement, always without judgement, we observed the breath naturally filling into our partner's kidney area; the breath naturally widening their wings on the inhale, and letting them rest on the exhale. We helped to express the downward, watery flow of the kidneys by moving our hands down the kidneys, buttocks and then to the feet, pressing on them to ground that easeful, downward motion.

From this place, we moved in asana.
What did you feel as you moved and outwardly expressed? Perhaps fullness and natural support through the kidney/ lower back region? Did you feel the need to push-out and "express fully", especially in backward bends, and if you did, did you feel supported? How integrated did you feel through the upper and lower body, inner and outer body, front and back body?

What does it mean to release the kidneys and allow them to do their work and be? Thus, what does it mean to fully nurture ourselves and engage in the world As ourselves being truly Enough?