My Vagina's Eco-System

I have been navigating with the She Stands Tall Project since 14th February as a participant and witness to the vagina monologues alongside Rekha Kurup, my teacher, my sister, the founder of She Stands Tall Project.

Since sunday night (20.02.22), my reflections have been resting on my vagina’s ecosystem.

This part of my body like the rest of my body has it’s own ecosystem, an intelligent system with it’s balancing, connecting, protecting, repairing and response mechanisms. Any imbalance in any part of my body impacts my vagina’s ecosystem and any movements in my vagina’s ecosystem impacts the rest of my body. An intelligent interconnected system always in conversing and relating.

My vagina’s ecosystem is the embodied nature’s ecosystem. What happens in nature, what moves, dies, birth, lives and cycles in nature, moves, dies, birth, lives and cycles equally in my vagina’s ecosystem. Yet Nature has been hijacked, taken for granted, abused for years now and human have been trying to control Nature’s cycles for years.

In the women spirituality path, we say “what happens in nature gets imprinted directly onto women’s bodies at all levels.” Water and earth elements are said to be closely linked to a woman’s vagina.

Pause to look around you, what are the immediate states of earth and water in your current space?

What do you gather as information?

What are the states of water and earth in your body?

Earth is the house of water. Earth holds water. A woman’s vagina is a container, that holds, moves, evolves, nurtures, births, takes, gives, receives, allows and nourishes. Whenever water runs dry, earth’s fertility is impacted and so does the fertility of women in that place. Wherever the natural flow of water has been stagnated and polluted, we see the direct impact on women’s bodies. Both water and earth are elements to be vanquished and through this process, earth and water have been commodified. These movements have specific ramifications for women on the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, energetic and spiritual planes. Women are the water bearers on earth, the child bearers. A child within the mother’s womb is held, nurtured and nourished just as earth holds water and nurtures and nourishes us.

When I pause to listen and to become present to my vagina, water and flows are what I hear. I have suffered for years with all sort of unexplained dis-ease and diseases and imbalances and through it all, my body has intelligently been working hard to stay afloat to stay in balance through the imbalances.

I sit in conversation and circles with women, it is heart aching to hear the stories and lives of pain, of dis-eases, diseases, imbalances connected to the vaginal health and relating.

“Life gathers around water and water creates the circumstances for life to gather. Human, plant and animal life seek out water. Without water living things die. Over time water can change everything, while water itself is the ultimate “shape shifter” in its varying forms of vapor, liquid, and ice. Water is visible and invisible. It moves in all directions around the globe— north, south, east, west—through the atmosphere and beyond the planet into the universe.” Women, Water and the Reclamation of the Feminine, Wagadu, Volume 3, Spring 2006

While humans have moved away from earth- centered practices, we are never in disconnection from earth, from the feminine. We are numbed to the earth and her whispers and her echoes. Through trauma lenses, we see that there is hope, there is a call to return to our nature and to nature’s ecosystem embodied in our bodies.

Writing these words has softened and humbled me, I know little and yet I know mountains if only I pause to listen. The outer labia of my vagina has moved through this write up and as I reach the end, there is warmth building up inside and emanating outside. I am sitting here in trust of my ecosystem.

I am breathing here in acknowledgement that as women tune into the embodied nature’s ecosystem, we shall return to the beginning, to nature and this will ease the frozenness of trauma, this will bring to revive the earth- centered heart that leads at the core of creations.

If you have reached so far, then join us on Facebook Livestream on the She Stands Tall Project from 6.30pm to 7.30pm IST / 5pm to 6pm Mauritian time till 27th Feb for the Vagina Monologues.

Or you can log onto facebook on She Stands Tall Project anytime for the monologues. I will definitely invite you to do in company of other womens of all ages and sit in reflection and sharing after each monologue.

Love from my heart to yours

Love from my body to yours

Love from my vagina to you

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