Comments on: Embodiment: Lighting the Temple From Within

By: Sydney S

Sydney S — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:28:54 +0000

This topic has been on my mind a lot lately. I am apart of a Gender and Contemporary Issues class, and we talk a lot about women and their relation to their bodies. In our culture it seems as if our principal focus is dealing with body image. This I relate to your thoughts on the “concrete body.” The external view (or the walls) of a human being is only a small portion of one’s absolute self. Unfortunately many media examples do not allow us to see past this. It’s almost as if we feel in order to live in our bodies, we have to solely look the part.
Being a dancer, there is even more of an emphasis on image. I have always felt pressured to look a certain way, or fit into a specific size of apparel. For awhile I think I was living more on the outside of my body. Recently however, I discovered the beauty of Somatics. There are many techniques offered that allow you to be one with your mind, body and spirit. Yoga as you mentioned is one of them. My new found love for Bikram Yoga, has taught me to be one with my inner self. It is a type of personal, active therapy. I feel a sense of renewed control, as my mind becomes more clear and in tune with my body.
I hope that all women can become more comfortable inside themselves. Although I am still learning, I think it is crucial for us to see beyond the ideal female body. That “light” is what truly causes someone to radiate outwards. I believe if the inward stirrings of our bodies can be at peace, we will begin to be more satisfied with the outer. More importantly, we can see and celebrate ourselves as a whole. That wholeness is what can bring us forward to new potentials never imaginable.
Thank you for your thoughts! Your work is marvelous. Just what I needed

By: Garrett

Garrett — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:16:26 +0000

Extraordinary, Julie, thank you, what you say about being in your body, how you’ve learned to experience it through practice, your powerful awareness of change and movement and fluidity on the cellular level and the experience you connect with the Goddess. How beautiful, and so much change, and so much connection, giving me a perception and a reminder that there is always vastly more. Speaking of cells and talking of poetry (as Pooh would say, but we weren’t explicitly,) do you know this poem of George Oppen (also thinking of your new grandson and the totality and fulness and newness of life at every moment):

Cell by cell the baby made herself, the cells
Made cells. That is to say
The baby is made largely of milk. Lying in her father’s arms,

the little seed eyes
Moving, trying to see, smiling for us
To see, she will make a household
To her need of these rooms – Sara, little seed,
Little violent diligent seed. Come let us look at the world
Glittering: this seed will speak,
Max, words! There will’be no other words in the world
But those our children speak. What will she make of a world
Do you suppose, Max, of which she is made.

By: Renae C

Renae C — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:53:27 +0000

I’m further behind than Ronna, I just noticed the link to this post at the bottom of your latest post.

But oh how I needed to read it at this very moment. Your writing has embodied these concepts for me since I found you. And this post illuminates everything with the light from within.

Lovely and full of love.

By: Ronna

Ronna — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:39:39 +0000

I am SO far behind in reading this and SO grateful you invited me to it.

…the goddess is not something that we take on, another role we play, where we wear flowing gowns and flowers in our hair. It is the awakening in the cells of matter, the billions of cells in the body, to the light of the source from which all life comes. When we open ourselves to the light that is the love and compassion that emanates from our own radiant hearts, that light floods all parts of our bodies and is the experience of our divine, sacred nature merging with our immanent earthly body.

My earthly body, this particular day, is in excruciating pain. But your words remind me that there is more to me than my pain; that even my pain seeks to tell me more, take me deeper, open me to the light of the goddess within.

Thank you, Julie…as always.

By: Square-Peg Karen

Square-Peg Karen — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:38:05 +0000

I am SO glad I asked you for the url to this post! and how oddly/perfectly synchronistic that I just saw your Marion Woodman book pic on the home page of your blog (and mentioned it on Twitter moments ago..lol) …and here’s Marion in THIS post.

there’s so much woven together in this post – I’m going to read and reread it. Healthy, wholistic ways of viewing/living in our bodies are so important – and this is THAT! thanks

By: unabashedly female · Igniting the Spark of Sacred Activism

unabashedly female · Igniting the Spark of Sacred Activism — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:47:05 +0000

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By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:42:40 +0000

Julie, Thank you for your lovely comment. I’m glad you enjoyed my writing. Yes, writing through the body is a profound way to tap into breakthroughs of all sorts. Plus, the more time we spend in our bodies, the more we get to be aware of the astounding world we are blessed to live in.

I’d be happy to tell you more about ISA.

Blessings,

Julie

By: Julie Jordan Scott

Julie Jordan Scott — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:56:35 +0000

Oh, Julie – what beautiful writing and what poignant thought pours through your writing. I get together with a group of writers monthly to write about our bodies and the breakthroughs through out the past couple years have been astounding.

I need to check out this institute for sacred activism – it sounds so aligned with who I am, what I do, and what I believe. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.