Widening the midline of your heart, body, and year
This is the midline of the year. We’ve crossed over summer solstice.
In my advanced 300 hr Yoga Teacher Training this year, we talk a lot about widening the midline. The heart is also a midline connecting the heady brain with the body. In Sanskrit, hridya is heart, and takes on a deeper meaning of our spiritual heart - it’s the seat of our soul, purpose, and consciousness. Hridya becomes the synthesis of the mind and body through the heart - the midline of our embodied experience - as my teachers would say.
Widening the midline of the heart is learning how to shine out from both the front body and the back body heart space. It’s an openness to feeling the world within and out. Just as the heart is protected by the ribcage, you too need protection and discernment. To remain open to giving and receiving without overextending or exhausting yourself - holding embodied boundaries and knowing what your intentions are that guide your actions and your calendar.
This guide that I designed a couple of summers ago (as part of my Grove community seasonal planning workshop) offers you a midline reflection on how you are tending your metaphorical garden for this year. This is the time to shine out, like the intensity of the sun. Our bodies are the midline between the sky and soil - heaven and earth - if you will, so take this time to reconnect to your midlines because reclaiming our hearts, bodies, and time is revolutionary.
