When we embody the ocean, we embody a home that naturally celebrates queerness and gender diversity in all its forms. Water holds us. Water helps us flow. Water reminds us where we can move.
This is part 8 in a new series about something very real for so many trans and gender expansive folx: Waiting for gender affirming care. Access the entire series on my website. In my last newsletter, I wrote about how tress can be a supportive place for us to find embodiment and holding on days when we can’t be in our own bodies. This week’s T4T meditation continues on that theme, focusing on embodying water. A quick note about the ocean and queer ecology:
The ocean is SO queer. It’s is home to a truly awe-inducing number of life that embraces gender diversity and queerness in all its forms. Clownfish are born as one sex and change into another depending on age and social structures. Sea slugs carry male and female reproductive organs. Certain shark species can reproduce asexually. And the list goes on. As trans and gender expansive folx, it can be hard to feel at home in our own bodies. Waiting for gender affirming care, dysphoria, along with the current harmful narratives about trans and gender expansive bodies in the social discourse all play a part in our feelings and sense of safety. When we need to find a home that can hold us in all our gender expression, in all our queerness, the ocean is here for us. When we need to tap into mutual aid, community, reciprocity, and resilience, the ocean is here to show us it’s possible. Embodying the ocean as a way to move Water is a beautiful reminder of how we can find movement and flow in our bodies. When we are stuck in freeze, or feeling the adrenaline of being in fight or flight, water reminds us that we can move and flow to reconnect to ourselves and our communities. The following recorded practice (now with higher quality audio!) guides you through a gentle practice of embodying the ocean, finding home in queer nature, and connecting to gentle movement and flow.
Access the recording here How to use this practice Things are intense in the world right now. While practices like these can’t change the problems that face our bodies and communities, they can help us meet those challenges from a place that has agency, that’s connected, and that helps us feel more grounded to ride the waves. In solidarity,
Eula —-
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