The BODY as TEMPLE for the SOUL
The Body as Sacred Temple
Your body isn't just a vehicle for spirit - it is spirit's home, its sanctuary, its place of power. Everything sacred lives here, in your cells, in your bones, in your breath.
Let's begin where we always begin - in your body.
Take a moment to scan yourself from crown to toes.
Notice what's here without trying to change anything. Are you leaning forward, bracing against life? Are you collapsed back, avoiding contact? Just notice. Just feel. Your body is already speaking to you, already showing you what's true.
The Living Temple
Your body is a living temple, a sacred sanctuary that holds everything you are, everything you've experienced, everything you're becoming. Every memory, every emotion, every ancestral pattern, every societal "supposed to" - it's all stored here in your cells, your tissues, your bones.
But more than that, your body is where spirit itself lives and moves and creates.
Most of us are trained to look outside ourselves for answers - to books, podcasts, teachers, guides. And while these can be valuable resources (hello, you're reading one now!), the deepest wisdom you're seeking already lives within your physical form. Your body isn't just something that carries you through life - it's the sacred vessel through which your soul speaks, your intuition flows, and your magic manifests.
This is why we begin with the body. The spiritual lives IN the body. Every intuitive hit, every moment of divine connection, every spark of creativity - it all happens through this physical form. When we try to access spirit by leaving the body, we miss the very temple where transformation occurs.
Tending the Temple
Here's something that might surprise you: while this work is deeply rooted in feminine wisdom, we begin with the masculine. Why? Because your inner masculine's sacred role is to tend to your body as the temple it is - to create the conditions where spirit can fully express through you.
Think of the ancient temples - they weren't just buildings. They were sacred spaces, carefully tended, deeply respected, designed to facilitate connection with the divine. Your body deserves this same level of reverence and care.
But here's where most of us get stuck.
The wounded masculine makes our bodies wrong. He nitpicks and criticizes:
- "When you're thinner..."
- "When you're stronger..."
- "When you've fixed this part..."
- "When you've changed that part..."
This is not the way of the sacred masculine.
True masculine energy tends to the temple devotionally, exactly as it is today. Not two weeks from now when you've "fixed" something. Not in some imagined future when you've finally become "enough." Today. Now. As you are.
The Body's Sacred Language
Your body speaks a language older than words, a language of spirit itself. It communicates through sensation, through energy, through the subtle signals we've been trained to ignore:
- The tightness in your throat when you're about to speak your soul's truth
- The flutter in your belly when you're following divine guidance
- The heaviness in your chest when you're betraying your own sacred boundaries
- The expansion in your heart when you're aligned with your soul's path
Learning to read and trust these signals isn't just about better "body awareness" - it's about remembering how to commune with spirit through your physical form. But first, we have to create the conditions for this wisdom to emerge.
Sacred Practices for the Living Temple
This isn't about adding another self-care routine to your to-do list. It's about fundamentally shifting how you relate to your physical form as the sacred vessel it is.
Let's explore two foundational practices that will help you begin this journey.
First, Contact:
Contact is when our physical, energetic, and spiritual bodies align in genuine connection - with ourselves, with others, with the divine. You know what contact feels like. It's that moment when someone is truly present with you, truly seeing you. It's when you're fully present in your own temple instead of floating above it.
Practice noticing:
- When are you in full contact with your sacred vessel?
- When do you leave your temple?
- What triggers the disconnect from your body's wisdom?
- What helps you return to this sacred space?
Second, Being With the Horses:
Everything lives in the world of energy. Follow the charge. Be with the horses.
When strong sensations or emotions arise:
1. Notice where they live in your temple
2. Don't try to analyze or fix them
3. Simply be with them, like the horses
4. Hold steady, grounded presence
5. Let spirit move through you as it needs to
6. Trust the wisdom of your sacred vessel
Your Invitation to the Temple
For the next week, I invite you to:
1. Tend to your body as the sacred space it is:
- Speak to your temple with reverence
- Move your sacred vessel with care
- Nourish this living sanctuary
- Allow for sacred rest
2. Practice coming into full contact:
- With your physical form
- With the spirit that lives there
- With the wisdom that flows through you
- With the magic that moves through your body
3. When strong sensations arise:
- Be with them like the horses
- Hold sacred space
- Trust your body's divine wisdom
Remember: This isn't about perfection. It's about presence. It's about returning again and again to this sacred vessel that holds your soul's journey.
Your body isn't something to overcome.
It's not something to fix.
It's not something to transcend.
It is the temple where spirit lives.
It is the sanctuary where transformation happens.
It is the sacred vessel through which your soul's magic flows.
Your body is not just a temple - it is THE temple. Every moment of magic, every spark of intuition, every touch of divine guidance happens here, in this sacred vessel you call home.