Over the weekend I had a period where I was thinking about what it really means to be a fertile woman in this current age and culture. One in which more women are choosing not to have children, or not have children till later.

So I was pondering this question.

How to be fertile carriers of this earth without physically giving birth.

How to cultivate and embody the earth, and the gifts and lessons it gives us.

How to experience a sense of fulfilment and completion in that.

I feel like a lot of my own practices have been leading me to this point. I feel like yoga has given me super effective tools to develop this connection to the earth and life force energy that we are all bearers of. And I feel like odissi has given me further super effective tools to shape and fill this connection into one which is powerful, luscious and exquisite. It’s amazing to be able to create the space to feel all those colours within ourselves.

I feel sometimes in the broader sense, stepping back from my own specific practices, that that is what my life work is building (slowly). Not to say I will never have children (be at ease, womb!), but to be finding a sense of love, enjoyment, fulfilment and peace in my body and, by proxy, the earth. And to communicate that sense to others in the best way I can. Embodying the lessons I have learnt, if not in another human being, in myself.