undone

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Undoing encompasses many things; undoing old patterns, unbecoming what we believed we were. It also means a thing which is not yet complete; still some distance to travel, some thing more to be done.

Undone is the state opposite rigidity; a fluid, formless, boundless being. A spin of wool unspun; the turn of Earth. Some sense of disentangle, unfurl, unbecoming, a thing metamorphosed. For untangling our body untangles our mind.

This restless world seeks to do ever more, filling time, seeking satiety and stability by settling for comfort, believing their present unhappy state should be satisfying enough. Dulling the sense of notknowing and discomfort by artificial substances, highs and distractions. These states can never fulfil us. We will only ever seek more - to feel less - no longer attuned to our inner rhythms; the reverberations of a universe expanding at edges. The endless possibilities. No questions ever answered.

Undoing means reaching beyond comfort. Being comfortable with discomfort, to create space in the place of not belonging, invitation others to join us.

To be okay with not being okay.

Somatic groups (yogis, yoginis, meditators, creatives) can appear almost cultish to a general audience. Stepping away from the societal norms of dulling satisfaction can seem mysterious, almost mythical. For unbecoming is the place where we know that we know nothing.

We can feel immense pain, allowing it to crack us open, yet still refusing to choose numbness over feeling.

Sedation and soothe seem appealing at times. But nature demands that we lean into and feel every moment. Equal pain, equal pleasure. Life demands both in equal measure.

All impermanent and uncertain.

Breathing is feeling.

Undone can feel like falling apart, unease, feeling different and out of place.

Allowing bodily disorganisation invites our primordial instinct to figure things out.

This world sells stories that simply are not true. No amount of money will ever fulfil us. Most of adulthood is about undoing such myths, about reparenting self.

The quickest route to being in sync with true self, is to allow our instincts and bodies to recalibrate to nature, to the patterns within. By undoing all we were taught, and instead remembering what’s important - being here, now, reminding ourselves of our connection, our roots. Feeling and thinking for ourselves.

Practicing this way gets us out of our own way. Shifting ego aside (power, control, greed).

Beauty lies in the messiness.

There’s deep power in reacquainting self to within. This practice is to be lived, far beyond just an hour.

Yoga is how we are, how we sit with everything, our conduct and composure within and without.

Here is a practice to be felt, lived, and taken beyond the edges. A centre-to-periphery pattern of being.

Unbecoming. To become.

“My job is to help them to discharge all that emotion. If that stuff is bottled up – it’s not good for your health.” Chloé Zhao