I did an online retreat for the new year with Heather Ruce, and one of the questions Heather asked is what gesture best describes your intentions for the new year. I liked this idea of focusing on a gesture, because gestures helps us drop the mind down into the body. 

Heather does a lot of work teaching sacred gestures (via the teachings of GI Gurdjieff), and she talks about how different gestures seem to carry their own energetic signatures that cross languages and cultures and how these are movements we humans have been doing for generations and generations and generations. These are things like bowing our head, kneeling, putting our hands over our heart, opening our arms wide. The moment you make one of these gestures, you can immediately sense the meaning and energy behind it. 

When I heard the question about a gesture we're being drawn to, I got a vision of a lifted foot in the process of taking a step.

I don't know if this gesture fits into the typical canon of sacred gestures, but it feels spot on for the energy I'm being called to, which involves taking skillful action at the right time and being clear and direct. And I love how this feels like a kind of antidote for the drain of overthinking, stuck, push/pull energy. 

So I'm going with it for this year—a lifted foot, a step. And I'll try working with this posture/gesture when I know I'm needing a boost of it's medicine or a reminder that my body knows how to do this clearly and directly and the rest of me can trust and follow that. 

What do you think?  Does your body feel drawn toward a specific gesture these days? And if so, what is the energetic resonance for you within that gesture?

With care,
Brianna

p.s. The photo up top is a drawing from my notes of what I imagined this sacred gesture might look like. I guess I gave the gesture jazz hands, too. Ha! :)