Oh Woman! R i s e

Oh woman

Call yourself back

From your isolation

from stagnant trenches

arrid deserts

hollow caves

and claustrophobic shadow lands

that

speak

behind

rustling

leaves

and

backs

Sing the soulful sinew back onto your bones

Drum

and

stamp

the

tattered

scattered

pieces of yourself

back together

Those parts

that were politely ripped from your hands

and heart

while you smiled

 and 

e n d l e s s l y

poured

out

more

than

you

had

to

give

Start

Even if in silence

rocking alone

in the dark

Start

Even if in whispers 

Or crawling

It is time to inhabit

the luminosity of your skin

This vast wise container that is you

They will never know who you are
if you do not stand firmly
in these thighs
breasts
and feet
that speak stirring stories
that rattle
tightly bound
one track
minds
and suffocated hearts

If you do not
they will force feed you with lies
spin
you
in
circles
fill you
with a million stories that are not yours
attempt to shatter your vast spaces
that know not of confinement
and only know
the wisdom every cell in your body speaks
every nuance
pulsation
vibration
ripple
pulse
and twitch

They will tell you you are crazy
That you imagine the mystery of your heart
They will interrogate you
demand answers
why's and how's

as you lie tied to their crosses

You hear yourself echoing

 answers
explanations
apologies
in their dark airless torture chambers
while the landscape of your heart
you have walked
track by track
barefoot
blindfolded
naked
in the dark
over
and
over
again

warns you

not
to
betray
it's
timeless
wisdom
that
surpasses
all words
and
bounds

Oh woman

Divine feminine beauty in all your shapes and forms

It is time to R
                         I
                            S
                                E

You need to call yourself back
into the centre of your skin
You need to inhabit this profound territory
shine through the thick tangible veils
in the absolute
T R U T H
of who you are
and what you know without words.

There will be no further annhilation on these grounds.
No
further.

2 October 2017

L o v e Is E v e r y t h i n g

l o v e   i s   e v e r y t h i n g:



Love is everything can be a well intentioned, beautifully, intricately woven, safe, protective cloak. Equalizing, neutralizing, sanitizing everything and everyone in a gentle, kind, pinkish green, tinged in gold, purple haze. Watering down loves most exquisitely pure elixir into a sprinkle, a spray, a breeze.


Wearing this love is everything cloak you circle the sacred fire. You feel the heat of the flames.  You feel the warmth, glow and sparks and spread a logical love with both feet on the ground from a safe, sweet and kind distance, with a twinkle in your eyes, a smile on your lips and the gentle light of love in your heart.


 With this love is everything cloak you do not risk stepping into a sacred groundless fire to succumb to the purifying burn of loves purest nectar.  You do not risk standing in the blaze of this scorching volcanic pool.  In this sacred fire you are willingly naked, vulnerable, exposed.  In this fire you cannot avoid seeing yourself in the mirror of the other.  The mirror of your soul.  In this fire you stand in the presence of your wounds, your shadow, your power, your weakness, your demons.


 In this fire we pulse, crack, rock, sweat, twist, strip and burn into bliss.  Truly burn into bliss.  We are humbled, kneaded, wholed, transformed.


 The heat of this fire is not for everyone.


 In these flames we live in complete fullness, complete truth.  Stepping into this fire you risk being fully seen, fully and unimaginably deeply loved, every crevice, canyon and black hole of you.


When and if you are ever ready to leave your cloaks, clothes, skin and swords at the temple door and kneel, only then is love truly and purely everything. It is then that you allow this fire of love to initiate you.


Love is you, you are love. 


This intimate, conscious love with another is the eye of a needle that is a doorway into the unseen, unknown realms, a threshold into a pulsating infinite cosmic force.  Yes, then love is everything.


This pure and potent love from the sacred fire pit is what heals.  This love is the love that heals you, your neighbour, your friends, your enemies, strangers, humanity, the world, all the planets and the entire universe and beyond. Once you have stepped into this sacred fire, love is everything becomes a sword of blazing blue truth.  This love burns with a purity from deep within and ignites trillions of fires, one star, one atom, one cell, one universe at a time; to create this one pulse, this one breath, that is your breath, that is mine.


The risk of allowing another to deeply, soulfully and purely matter to us allows us to live and vibrate love is everything in its purest most potent form.  From out of these burnt ashes all and everything is possible, something exquisitely new can emerge.


If you are not ready for these flames do keep your beautifully woven cloak on and continue circling the sacred fire, spreading your version of love with both feet firmly on the ground.



13 Feb 2016

Silver Island Retreat with Doug and Patwant 8-14 Oct 2017

www.silverislandyoga.com/yoga/profile.php?home=/Patwant%20and%20Doug 


Join us for a magical experience in earth heaven.

Only 10 spaces available.
Sat Nam

Meet Patwant Rhodes: South African Reiki master, poet, mother and kundalini yoga teacher

Thank you www.yogigems.com for this feature.





Meet Patwant Rhodes: South African Reiki master, poet, mother and kundalini yoga teacher

looking up, tuning in, opening

There is a need right now to look up, look out, not in a way that is running from what is, but in a way that allows us to see that there is light, a higher vibration, a higher plan, a shift. There is a lightness out of the heaviness. There is a purpose.  There is a plan. There is an infinite, powerful universe that courses through our veins. Find the light.  Keep finding the light and when you do, consciously breathe it.

When we open to life and what it brings in all its forms, when we open to life and what it brings, free of judgments, when we allow what is as it is, we are free. Divine and deep acceptance is liberation, even if only for a moment. Keep practicing it. Acceptance. When we unlock, shed and open, we allow. Allowing brings flow, magic, spontaneity, gifts. 

The true path can only reveal itself as we step forward. One foot at a time.

sat nam

s i t

This month has been full to the brim with waves of intensity, waves of deep unwavering knowing, waves of complete overwhelm, waves of crystal clear clarity, waves of miracles and definitely waves of a subtle scent of something new on the crescent of the moon. There is a scent of something magical in the air as we continue to forge a new path from right where we are, no matter how challenging it may feel, no matter how slow your progress may feel externally.  There is major work happening deep below the surface, in the murky underworld, where excavation is always necessary.  The effects are not quite visible yet. They will be.  If you sniff the wind in those quiet moments, you will sense the wind changing.

Between these great moments of burning fear and allowing the intense feelings of being completely out of control, there is a great sense of everything being exactly perfect as it is, even if we don't completely understand it right now.

My daily practice is what carries me. My sitting in and surrendering to the burn is what carries me.  Our souls are truly great.  We are simply here to fulfill and honour a purpose, a soul contract.  I continually need to remind myself to get out of the way of myself.  It is all way beautifully bigger than me, than you. Once we start clinging, attaching, resisting, running from what is alive for us in this moment, that is our big sign to sit. Sit. Sit and observe what is there. No matter what. SIT.

This month the kriyas that have arisen to be taught are ones like: "wake up the body to handle stress and strain" "radiant body kriya for courage" "kriya for pleasure and happiness" "sexual energy transformation kriya" "glandular shine" lots of healing ra ma da sa sa say so hung meditation, as well as "removing fear of the future" with the beautiful soothing dhan dhan ram das guru mantra for miracles , healing and blessings. Such beautifully perfect kriyas that leave us feeling recentered. Reset.

We are all in the process of birthing a new age. I love the Rebirithing Kriyas that Yogi Bhajan taught in the 80's. They are so pertinent and perfect for these times. A deep clearing of trauma and subconscious pain occurs with each one.

This months Kriya: ARDH KECHARI KRIYA again, was very powerful. Yogi Bhajan said that Kechari Kriya is one of the most sacred kriyas in yoga.  With this particular kriya he said it would take 7 days to integrate the effects. To assist this process he said 32 oz of any citrus juice should be drunk for 7 days after practicing it.

July also saw the ending of my 3 months practice of another round of Sopurkh.  I have done a few rounds of those over the last couple of years..  This month also marked the beginning of another practice of Bound Lotus and Japji Sahib.  This time working towards it being my 1000 meditation. In three years I will let you know how that went!

On this 31st day of July 2016 I leave you with a poem I wrote today after my meditation.


Spin

I spin through the desert of my dreams
rainforests rip through me
moons circle my sun
stars become me
light shatters me
I merge
melt
pulse

endless

I am all of everything

skin
borders
lips
lungs
tongue
and eyes
dissolve

no
body
no
boundaries


endless
infinite
nothing


end
less
in
finite
no
thing
i
am

June 2016 with Patwant

Great Resounding Sat Nam Greetings

June is finding itself beautifully full, rounded and succulent. Perhaps some of the offerings below will make your soul sing.  If so do please join me.

♡♡♡11 June:

On Saturday 11 June we will be launching our very first YOGA2CARE Fundraising class for Capricorn Primary in Vrygrond. 675 children need help with school fees,  food, trauma councelling etc...We want to help them! I will be teaching the first fundraising class in their school hall in Vrygrond.
Time: 9-11
Bring: yoga mat and donation (no previous yoga experience needed)
Email me to book and I will give you directions. suryawellnessprogramme@gmail.com

Abigel Sheridan, a phenomenal, dynamic woman who initiated 'Chic Mamas Do Care' raises so much money through her initiatives for communities in dire need...Abigel Sheridan I salute you and thank you for giving us this opportunity to give!

♡♡♡18 June:

SHED SKIN. BECOME CLEAR - MORNING RE- TREAT

Venue: Phakalane
Time 10am-1pm
Investment: R300

If you need a mid year REBOOT this is the perfect morning for you.

We will be practising the transformational ancient teachings of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

Gift yourself this precious time. Continue the deep journey of your soul awakening at this most auspicious time on earth. More than ever it is our time to heal and awaken. Breathe a good healing dose of light, life and clarity into your practice.
Email me to book: suryawellnessprogramme@gmail.com

♡♡♡25 June:

REBIRTHING - RELEASE YOUR GARBAGE

Removing your subconscious blocks lies at the essence of every Rebirthing Kriya.

"My weakness is that my mind doesn't reflect myself. When I have a hazy mind and a dazey day, that is the day I have failed within myself. That's the beginning of every life and the end of every life. There is nobody in the world who can tell you what to do or who has an answer for your problems. Your answer to your problems will come from the very self of your own self" Yogi Bhajan

Venue: Phakalane
Time: 10am-1pm
Investment: R200

Multiple Blessings on your journey. Hope to see you at one of these classes soon.

Sat Nam
Patwant