Healing the root, and a suggestion for post-eclipse restfulness
non-travelling medicine from me and writers that heal too
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Today I’ve prepared you a tropical infusion for our virtual tea taking: soursop leaves, orange peel, some honey. The mug chosen is terracotta coloured and too small. It’s good though, enough. I’m using the space created to evoke slowness as we prepare to sit and sip together.
’s letter on drinking hot beverages reminds me that tea is a mechanism for slowing down the vessel. You have to regulate your breathing, you have to drink mindfully, you must set a tone of steadiness to ease digestion.We’ll drink in silence and in thought because today, you will see, I am practicing less. For the sake of the body’s tellings.
Here is today’s letter.
Enjoy x
Lately my body has just wanted less. Less writing, less online talking, less ideating, less moving, less tasks, less. I titled this essay ‘‘healing the root” because that is what I have been doing. I was tending to my foot, a root chakra region, and getting back to full wellness. Hobbling around and keeping myself at full capacity when I needed to be at half was the last of it before I exhaled and slowed down to an actual halt. There is something sacred about recognising your own medicine. I mean calling it, or sensing the subtle needs that the body is communicating. A foot massage for the nerves. A firm decision to not today. I’m also talking about instincts, the intuitive, the ability to give permission to what is unseen, to bring it to the forefront and lay hands on it. I believe in affirmations, as you know, but I also believe in silence. In quietude, the body is able to let language glide up and down the vessel freely; the nervous system, the heart space and emotional body all listen and repeat. It has been quiet for the sake of all of this.
Otherwise, the lunar eclipse left me, and maybe most of us sensitive to it, completely exhausted. I’m learning not to resist this, but how are you managing?
A brief note on the root before my suggestion. The root is for grounding, recharging in natural rhythms, being able to feel the Earth and sensing, intuitively, through the soles that you belong to it. I think of it as expelling and receiving from and unto the Earth. You are rooted so that you are capable of managing and holding more weight, more you. It’s a beautiful metaphor and a pathway to remind myself that I am here to find the conditions that nourish me so I may be of service, to nourish others.
As a traveller, I find this obviously thrilling yet a big challenge. To be rooted while roaming seems like a paradox. I am learning that healing and constant movement are, despite my ambitions, also contrasts. To be grounded always while nomadic at heart is a matter of subtle balance. Neutralizing or surrendering are themes I will let myself revisit in this waning quiet.
My suggestions come in the form of wishing you rest and simplicity if that is a medicine you require. Here are my wishes affirmed over you:
May you be safe in your body.
May you heal your root.
May you find your medicine always near.
As I’m still resting quietly, I wanted to share the words from those who have beautiful musings to offer. These are some essays that seem so perfectly timed for this season that I am moving through. I greatly appreciate each of these writers and I trust their posts will reach you as additional medicine, suggestions, love:
writes about the other side of comfort zones and includes some enlivening affirmations and reminders that I feel you will love immediately. writes about the dizzying realizations of changing rhythms and adjustment and its completeness. writes sweet somethings with a small dosage of fright to remind you of the power of intuition, of instinct and of inner-knowing that needs not be translated, just understood. prompts necessary thoughts about shadow work and how timely? We are coming out of the shadows of the eclipse. ’s first post is just a drop in the ocean of her nomadic musings and experiences. I have been following Lanna’s work for a while and I’m so glad to have a place to read her thoughts on the other side of colourless living, aka the rat race.
This post by
is a vibrant reminder to live (and be) in flow according to your natural pace. To me, it reads like a love note on slowness.’s Substack was the latest edition to the list. And it’s divinely timed. The podcast shares that choosing joy, choosing pleasure and choosing to take your rest is a journey. The words are flowing through the speaker this morning as reminders.
Thank you, so much, for being here.
Below I share some more writings that I hope you will enjoy.
An Origin Story: Food Poisoning In Mexico Turned Me Nomadic
The Friday unwind 006: A Final Pep Talk Before My Year Of Audacity
A story about quitting my job to write
Musings on Black nomadism (pt 1)
The Friday unwind 004: When there is nothing to become
Love,
Amara Amaryah
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Hmm another warm cup of Amara tea served, thank you! Being still, tapping into our feminine energy, the healing space is so lovely to be in whenever we can. Plenty of time to move in our masculine energy in a productive space! That also tends to come easier than the former. And so it’s nice when we’re gently nudged (sometimes forced) to surrender. The Moon does a good job at that.
Personally I’m at 100% every full moon and eclipse season! But biased because I was born under a lunar eclipse Libra/Aries 🤪 nonetheless every new moon makes me lie down to rest and reflect.
Thanks for all the good reading material! I love reading new work/writers. Thanks for sharing mine as well!
Something I've been thinking about often is when I eventually begin traveling more again (maybe nomadically, maybe not), what are the routines that really ground me that I can incorporate while constantly traveling. Have you been able to find and stick routines easily while traveling? I have things like pole dancing and going to the gym that really make me feel good, but not everywhere I travel may have pole classes available for example. Would love to know!