Body Blessing Rituals Insights - The Aftershow w/ Kirti Srivastava

Participating in this beautiful Body Blessing ritual last weekend with my co-host @dilse.kirtidance was a powerful experience.

A lot came up with masculine energy that women feel pressured or compelled to embody when it’s absent from her life.

There was an abundance of beautiful feminine energy during this ritual, which on its own would draw in others, naturally. Everyone on this planet, man and woman, is cut off from and starved from the feminine in this society.

We practiced this portion of the ritual on a nude beach, where we could be free to liberate ourselves and remove masks and layers. We also had a circle, a beautiful alter, and drums. Of course people would be drawn in.

It was necessary for us to have safe, masculine protectors standing guard to protect the space. They were amazing, and made the experience so safe and pure, but were busier than 2 men could handle.

There were a few of us women who served as the second layer of defense. Simply in defense of keeping our vulnerability safe to be fully expressed & undisturbed in the ritual.

Do you see how this is a metaphor for the ways women are not able to fully open unless there is a safe masculine container?

This relates to everything from the sexual experience to the courting experience, to her own inner masculine (in my case defensiveness) having to work overtime when that masculine energy is not present on the outside and the feminine never gets a chance to fully exist.

We need the masculine to be masculine. So the feminine can be feminine.

Courting the feminine is a life skill. Longitudinal studies have shown that healthy long-term relationships are a factor in happiness, health, and life expectancy… especially for men.

If you are skilled in the courtship dance, and you didn’t pay a coach or teacher to teach you… where did you learn?

Who taught you to embody the healthy masculine? Who taught you to be present? To protect? To lead?

This of course also applies to non-binary and/or LGBTQ+ partners who lead with their masculine energy.

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