Balancing natural energies

Words GAYLYN AITKEN

Several years ago when I was learning Kahuna Sciences from Abraham Kawai’i, I attended a geomancy workshop with him. I learnt how to sense through the responses of my body, the different frequencies that make up my immediate environment and how to adjust myself or my environment to facilitate flow or containment, depending upon the situation. This in turn deepened my understanding of the principle of motion, action and how its effects are the same within all circumstances, time and space.

This elemental principle ignited within me a desire to develop a way of life that mirrored the flow, flexibility and speed of adjustment, found within nature in response to the frequencies of opposing forces. I figured it’s easier to swim with the tide than to fight against it with my concepts and belief systems.

Aligned Movement grew from this desire, as I slowly but surely learnt how my body responded functionally to various situations.

Motion is life and motion is created from equal and opposing forces moving upon each other.

In relation to this month’s theme of women’s well-being, I’ll focus on the opposing forces of male/female energy that not only relates to species gender but can also be found as a way of identifying and improving the function of anything.

The motion of feminine energy can be identified through the senses as: cool, damp, dark, sweet, fluid, smooth, heavy, deep, inwards, measured, receptive, flexible, resilient, creative, container, nurturer.

The motion of male energy is the opposite; light, heat, fast, textured, direct, projective, focused, dry, supportive, metallic, provider, rigid, strength, new ideas, birth.

In balance, these two opposing forces create motion that contributes to one’s wellbeing. Sensing the qualities of male and female energies can provide insight into what’s needed when and how much. We learn from ourselves of our self, to better manage life by lessening or increasing the harmoniously opposing forces to keep upright and moving with ease.

The root of harmonious motion is communication between all the parts of being human, our body, our mind and our spirit. All are equal and different in the same measure and are kept well by being consciously aware of the qualities of motion.

When I move in conscious alignment, I’m aware of how the phases of my breath move my body parts in a particular way that allows for the expansion of inhalation and the contraction of exhalation. In everyday movement, I can then sense the time to move in a particular way that will contribute to the fluid power of the movement, which when employed often enough, becomes a pattern of movement.

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