Eco-Somatics, Sensuality, Pleasure & Play: Exploring the Water Element with Elizabeth Betwixt (Ep. 5 of 6)

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I wanna just bring it back to the, the truth reflected in many

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indigenous peoples that water is life.

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The human body can go three days without water.

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We can go longer without food, but water is sort of that determinant

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as we are made of water and we need water for these bodies to work.

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That water is essential to our existence here on this water planet.

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Water is full of life.

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Water is life.

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Our life depends upon the water, the water inside of our bodies,

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the sweat and the cellular fluid and the tears, uh, the ejaculate.

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And it's also, , our raindrops, our rivers, our streams, and our oceans.

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Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine, , A podcast

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for healers, seekers, and dreamers.

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My name is Amanda Lux and I am the creator of the Elevation Hive School and Community

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for Energy Medicine and Dreamwork.

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I invited a dear friend of mine, Elizabeth Betwixt, onto the show

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today to discuss how we can cultivate alignment through the water element.

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The water element rules our second chakra, which is located in the sacral

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area, the low back the pelvis and all of the organs that reside in that area,

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as well as all of , our bodily fluids.

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. So, To balance the second chakra or the water element, is about getting into flow

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and to our own rhythmic, cyclical nature.

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And in our culture currently, there's a a huge lack of balance

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in relationship with water.

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Our juicy, playful, sensu nature resides there and it has to be nurtured

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and nourished in order to flourish.

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And.

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It's really easy in our Go-Go culture to kind of disregard those needs.

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Or to think of them as selfish or to just not even think of them sometimes.

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I'm, So, I'm really excited to share this conversation

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.

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is a women's sexuality specialist.

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She works in pelvic care.

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She's a birth keep, a somatic movement therapist and a

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teacher, in Boulder, Colorado.

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and I really am excited to share with you her wisdom and perspective on how we

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can take care of our bodies in order to better tend to the waters of the earth.

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How we can tune in and listen to our own second chakra and what

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happens when we don't , and how we can work with our second chakra.

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To create more alignment, more flow, more ease, more vitality.

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She really offers a beautiful perspective of how we can and why we need to really

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tend to our water element and some really beautiful tools and ideas around that.

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And as always, I invite you to just tune into your own body as you're

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listening, keeping your, intuition and your, senses open and flowing and

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feeling through the words for what.

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Really meant for you.

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How can this be supportive for you today?

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So that's the inquiry I invite, , as you listen to this episode with

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myself and Elizabeth Betwixt.

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I'm super honored to be here today with my dear friend Elizabeth Betwixt.

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Elizabeth is a magical, magical human being who I have had.

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Incredible pleasure of knowing for 20 years now.

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Mm.

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Pretty much.

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Exactly.

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when we were just young in our twenties and in la going to

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school at the Institute of Psycho Structural balancing where we met.

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Mm-hmm.

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, Studying polarity and cranio sacro unwinding with our teacher, Gary Straus.

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. I'm super excited to have this conversation in the context of how we can

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align our energy with the water element.

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And I specifically wanted to invite Elizabeth into this

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conversation because her work is with specifically women's sexuality.

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She's a pelvic care specialist, and she works with, I love this

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wild womb and wise yoni body work.

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Mm-hmm.

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beautiful.

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It's just beautiful.

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So I already feel really juicy and connected to my body, just

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saying those things out loud and connected to my second chakra

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Thank you Amanda.

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, I'm so happy to be here with you.

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It's awesome to feel back into our lineage together.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And really it's the polarity therapy elemental work that has laid the

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groundwork for everything that I'm doing, um, with sexuality, with

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fertility, with birth, that learning how to listen also in cranial is what

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helped me learn to listen to the deeper waters of the body, of the cells.

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Sexual empowerment, sexual healing of all genders and sexual orientations,

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and I focus mostly on women and especially going into birth.

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, but all of that really comes from my elemental perception of the water

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element and of how to circulate all the elements in the body so that they're

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in balance and how to attune and align those elements to our earthly elements.

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So, I'm also doing a big investigation these days into eco somatics.

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And what that means to me is the work really we've always been doing

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together, which is how does the soma of the earth, of our bodies ground

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into the earth, reflect the earth?

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So one thing I wanna invite you into this conversation in our field today

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As we speak about the water, how our inner waters also reflect the lakes,

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the rivers, the streams, the raindrops, puddling in the forests, and of course

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the grand ocean and her waves of change.

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Ooh, I love that.

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. Amanda Lux: Yeah.

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I love that.

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I love that piece about , the soma of the earth in relation to

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our bodies and the water of our own physical systems and Yeah.

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And how that's related to the water, of the earth.

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I just got done teaching a three day long cranio sacral balancing

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class from a polarity perspective.

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Yeah.

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And we were teaching the whole time.

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out at the school which is right on the water.

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And there was this amazing wind that came through over the weekend.

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It's been really, it's normally very, quite still, but there were so many white

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caps and there was movement in the water.

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Mm.

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And it was just absolutely hypnotic and it just kept feeling like the

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water was responding to the work.

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You know, that there was this way that it was being activated as we

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were moving into these deep states of stillness and tuning to it.

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And I don't know, it was just super cool.

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So I just love what you were sharing and I'm curious to know more

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wow.

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That just, I get chills all over.

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That just really inspires me hearing that from you because.

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One of the premises of my work with fertility, you know, meaning working with

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people who have fertility imbalances, that could be, imbalances in the blood

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cycle or things like cysts and fibroids gathering and the uterus or the ovaries

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or, lack of, , adequate arousal, fluids, , things going on in the endocrine system.

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They all come back to in what I've really just learned through experience, not

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through theory, but through experience.

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They come back to how are the waters?

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energetically moving in the pelvis.

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Like they're either gathering up and stagnating in certain areas,

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like especially fibroids are related to stagnant, gooey, like

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stuck things in the pelvis, meaning they're not flowing and circulating.

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Yeah.

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You know, or things are flowing too fast.

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And, uh, a woman or a person is, , sort of losing or draining , her jing, her

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arousal fluids, her, her deeper energy through different things could be activity

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through certain qualities of relationship.

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But that's exactly what we're doing on the earth, you know, with the ways that we.

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Mistreating the earth, the ways that we are misaligning as humans with,

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when I say we, I mean the over culture.

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I think that there's a lot of waking up to how to be in alignment with

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earth and utilize the resources of the planet we live on, , and honor them.

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And there's still a lot of places on the earth where there's either not

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enough water, like huge droughts, you know, and if wildlife is dying off, or

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there's places where there's way too much water and we have flooding and

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ecosystems are getting wiped out that way.

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So it's all related.

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Those two our fertility in the Earth's fertility.

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And so much of it's the water element, but of course it relates to, you know,

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the fires that are blazing or the damage going on in our air , , on the planet.

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and then, so just to also invite, like how are the other elements, impacting

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our water element and thus impacting our sexuality, our relationships, um,

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the way we nourish ourselves, the way we give and receive, the way we create.

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To me, these are all aspects of the water chakra.

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Mm-hmm.

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, uh, the water element.

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Which we, you and I initially learned about in polarity and learned about as

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a reflection of the Vedic piece, right.

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Of uh, Dr.

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Randolph Stone.

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Wow.

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Just amazing.

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That whole thing about.

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The ways that the over culture is treating the earth.

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Yeah.

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And how all of the elements are related to how we're relating to the water.

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Right.

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Right.

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How we're dealing with fire, how we're dealing with the air, what's

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happening with the, with deforestation.

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Right.

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Right.

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And all of the ways that we're treating the soma of the planet

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reflected in our own bodies.

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And what that immediately leads me to, which makes me feel so excited

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inside, is how we can work to heal the planet by focusing on healing

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and rebalancing our own bodies.

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Yes.

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Like that way, like if the, if the cultural, you know,

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ramifications are Yes.

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Affecting the planet and the negative, then the personal

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healing work that we're doing to.

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Create new relationships with our own waters and our own

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sexuality and our own wombs Can.

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Be beneficial, to heal the planet right?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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So a lot of the, the basic that I experienced

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there in my clinical practice is just the sexual healing pieces.

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, I didn't even say earlier how we're dumping in the ocean.

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Right?

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Right.

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Uh, hello.

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We're dumping plastic and so much crap in the ocean chemicals and yeah.

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And to get in into like what happens in my body work sessions.

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Well, a good part of it usually is, is tending to clearing out the damage caused

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by sexual invasion, sexual torquing and abuses that all people experience.

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, women and men.

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Girls and boys, unfortunately, or I shouldn't say all, but most, many

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people have had some sort of sexually invasive experience or sexually

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misaligned or just because of lack of, of real true honoring sexual education.

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Right.

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Kids beginning their sexual explorations, like they end up hurting each other.

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They end up collapsing their true feelings.

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There's a lot of trauma that gets built up there, you know, , I just feel

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really passionate about why, as humans, are we violating each other sexually?

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Why are we violating our children?

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Why is sexual human trafficking existing?

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And I do think that the beginning of that is going in tending and

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cleansing our water element.

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And that's a lot of what happens in my contact work in the sessions with,

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, Manually working in the different organs of the pelvis, working the tissues of

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the yoni internally or the pelvic floor.

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Pelvic diaphragm is just releasing a lot of that backed up pain and trauma so

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that's like, you know, cleansing the ocean waters, cleansing the stream,

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coming back into a, a pure sense, a pure erotic innocence, a pure feeling of what

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is that life force that flows within us that constantly regenerates itself.

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, that's like the cleaning of the inner waters.

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And then that I believe strongly can go on to become this very empowered

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creative force in the person.

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And then what they do in the world comes from this very

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purified, empowered, bright, bold.

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essence of their eroticism, their creativity, and so

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what they can create is huge.

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So maybe those are creating changes ecologically or

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sociologically or whatever.

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Hmm.

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Wow.

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That's just beautiful.

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, I love that question.

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, I love the concept of , how cleansing the inner waters of our bodies can

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assist in the energetics and the consciousness around taking care of

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and cleansing the waters of the earth.

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Yeah.

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The way that those are interconnected in ways we can know and can't know and Right.

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I love it.

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I think it's beautiful.

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Mm-hmm.

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. Mm.

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One of, one of the essence pieces of the mapping that I do

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in the body that I think is just something that those who are listening to this right

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now can start to work with right away is the sense of the pelvic chalice and the

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pelvis containing this bowl, which then has a stem on the bowl, which is our legs

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and our feet grounding us to the earth.

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And the pelvic bowl itself, , , pubic bones, the sacrum, and the coic forming

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this bony structure of containment.

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And that, um, this is the seat of our, of our power, which holds the rest of

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our body, which holds our structure, everything else going on up, and

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that there's water, energetically essence, fully held in that bowl.

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And that something any of us can do at, in any moment, in any place of a

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day is, you know, with a hand on, on the abdomen reaching into the lower

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belly, over the womb, if you have a womb, the water chakra, um, bring,

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bringing some breath just right into the pelvis, slowly allowing it to drop

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and even reaching for what we call the pelvic floor, which I like to

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call the pelvic diaphragm because it's really not a floor at all.

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. Mm-hmm.

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. , it's more like a trampoline or a hammock.

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It's springy and resilient.

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Um, but that's just a marker for starting to fill that breath, move through the

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pelvic bowl, and then really check into, well, what are, how, what is

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that water like inside of the bowl?

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What does it feel like?

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How is it flowing?

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Is it moving all around?

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Is is the chalice of the pelvis full to the top?

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Is it full halfway up?

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Is it dry?

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Like, just starting to energetically feel into what are those waters feel like?

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And a lot of times people will feel colors or they'll feel, um, places it's

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moving in, places it's not moving, and you don't have to know all the organs

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of the pelvis to figure that out.

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This is more like the, the energy essence of the water.

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Another thing that we can feel for is, is the bowl tipped or

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is there a leak in the bowl?

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Is water flowing out unconsciously?

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Um, there's a lot that we can learn about, structurally, about if we tip

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the pelvis forward or back and what that relates to emotionally and behaviorally.

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But just first the concept of how are my waters gathered and contained in the

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pelvic bowl, and what do they feel like?

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That's beautiful.

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, of course I'm going there and all I can think about is this dream

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that I had like eight years ago that randomly popped into my head.

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Hmm.

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That had to do with this.

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Teacher in the dream that was like, you find and repair the pelvic bowl.

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And I thought he meant a specific bowl.

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And I was looking on all these shelves and I'm like, which

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one looks like a pelvic bowl?

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And it wasn't until I was awake and going through the dream, , that

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had occurred to me like maybe it was literally my pelvic bowl . Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I'm just tuning to that.

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And then that dream came up, you know, from so, so long ago

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and there was a lot of dangerous masculine energy in the dream.

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I remember that too.

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And I'm just thinking about that, how are we relating internally to our

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own different sexual energies and.

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Yeah.

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You know, that dynamic in inside of our own bodies and our own psyches

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and our own energy system, cuz we all have all the energies, the

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masculine, the feminine, the beyond.

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Yeah.

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But it's just, that's where I went.

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I'm like, wow, how are my waters?

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Where is it, how is it sitting?

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Hmm.

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What did that dream from eight years ago mean?

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Yeah.

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Well, I, I consider the dreaming, there's like waters of the dream

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time I feel that are very connected to the waters of sexuality too.

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Yes.

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And I see that a ton in pregnant women especially.

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Like I, that's one, one of my focuses with birth and pregnancy is really just

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the fact that it's this flowering of feminine female body, sexual energy.

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It's this full flowering of it.

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And so whether or not you choose to.

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Conceive in birth there, we can still learn from the physiology of

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how birth works, about how female or even feminine, full flowering of that

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water, that juicy life force, how that actually looks or how it moves.

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And that's one thing that happens in birth in pregnant women a lot, is the

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dreams become so alive and so prophetic.

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So oracular.

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Yes.

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I still remember some of the really profound dreaming that happened for

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me when I was pregnant with my kids.

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Yeah.

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And how the, how my relationship with them, my kids started in the dream time.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:18

Oh.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:18

With both of

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:19

them.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:20

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:21

You have such beautiful stories with that . Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:24

I, I'm thinking about too, the grounding you did for us before we came on, um,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:28

recording, but just how working with the cranial fluid too, in the third ventricle

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:33

of the head, that's a water, right?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:35

So when we, whenever I'm using the word water, I'm speaking

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:38

about all the fluids of the body.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:40

So we could be talking about, you know, the energy of water, but we can be talking

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:44

about cranial fluid, we can be talking about blood, we can be talking about

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:48

menstrual blood ejaculate, um, armita, the deep feminine prostate fluid that comes

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flowing out in the orgasmic experience.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:20:57

Um, the cellular fluid.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:00

You know, another way to work with the fluids of the body is just anytime

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:04

we're rocking back and forth mm-hmm.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:06

, like slowly shifting our weight.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:10

Um, that's a great way to just get in touch with the fluid nature.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:15

of how gravity moves within us and how the cellular fluid,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:18

like sloughs back and forth,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:20

Right.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:21

And that's being with the waters of the body in every place in the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:21:24

body, not just one particular place.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:27

I was thinking about how I resource myself, , in relating to the

Amanda Lux: 00:21:33

rhythmic tidal, nature of the cranial sacral rhythm over this weekend, and

Amanda Lux: 00:21:38

teaching that in this beginning class, you know, to people who are like,

Amanda Lux: 00:21:41

never heard of cranio sacral fluid and , I was describing how I always,

Amanda Lux: 00:21:45

Sit on a ball at the table if I'm gonna be sitting.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:48

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:48

And that for me, , that's so necessary because I, I'm moving

Amanda Lux: 00:21:51

my body constantly as I'm working.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:54

Hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:54

I was like, this is the way the rhythm is flowing.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:56

It's the way my body is moving.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:58

Mm.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:59

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:59

It just echoes.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:00

And that whole like way of being, sematically empathically connected to

Amanda Lux: 00:22:05

a client or in a partnership, right?

Amanda Lux: 00:22:09

Mm.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:09

Too.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:09

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:09

When you're in any kind of sensual exchange.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:13

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:14

Um, whether it's sexual or not.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:16

Right.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:16

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:16

There's this juiciness that occurs and there's this

Amanda Lux: 00:22:19

connective, interplay between the different energies involved and.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:25

I mean, that is so watery.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:28

so watery.

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And as we're speaking, you know, we're mo we're like moving our pelvis.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:33

We're spiraling.

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We're, rolling our shoulders.

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We're feeling that undulation come through the spine.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:39

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:39

I mean, that's very primordial movement and to exist in that.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:44

I love how you said that, like in sensual movement, like

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:46

Yes, in the sexual movement.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:48

Maybe we'd be moving like that when we're intertwined and bliss and also

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:53

when we're just like making coffee in the kitchen, you know, , right?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:22:57

or just communicating like, oh my, I mean, I do a lot of communication

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work with, with my clients and their partners, and that's a big piece being

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:23:06

in resonance in the fluid body like that.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:23:09

Mm-hmm.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:23:10

. Because so much of the water to me, is about the giving and receiving.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:23:13

So it's like hearing the other person's world, receiving it actually

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in your body, and then offering your peace and having that dance right of

Amanda Lux: 00:23:24

the waters.

Amanda Lux: 00:23:41

I would love to hear in your beautiful words what is the water element

Amanda Lux: 00:23:47

like what, in a really basic way.

Amanda Lux: 00:23:49

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:23:50

Would somebody even begin to think about what it means to attune

Amanda Lux: 00:23:54

your own energy through the water?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:23:57

There's so many ways to talk about all of this, right?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:23:59

, to imagine into, you know, to, to bring vision into.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:03

But one of the, the foundations, the way I talk about that is that in the

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pelvis, in the water, Energy center, the sacral chakra, that there's like

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this geyser of life force, this well spring, this sacred spring that is

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bubbling up from the power of the earth.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:21

Now the earth has many layers of water in herself, you know?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:25

So many of the . Of the myths, the, like, the aboriginal myths of the earth.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:29

Say that life starts in the.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:32

So I consider that in our bodies we have this oceanic, sacred spring coming up

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from the waters of the earth, from a body of water that's much bigger than us

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coming up through our bodies and bubbling up through this womb or pelvic chakra.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:48

And it's the geyser of life.

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It's the basic life force energy which everything runs on, which

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creates it in so many ways.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:24:57

But is this, is this never ending infinite, , fountain up inside

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of that chakra and , it can get stuck and it can get cloudy or, um,

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dirty, just like our ocean waters.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:12

And it's also pure in and of its essence and that that nourishes all of life.

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, so it's first gonna nourish the health of our bodies.

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And so having that energy circulate.

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is one thing, but also that water is governing how we

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:27

nourish ourselves in general.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:29

So related to food and eating and drinking and, , that's a way to look at,

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you know, how am I nourishing myself?

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What's my relationship to nourishment?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:39

What's my relationship to filling up myself with the waters of life, the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:45

food of life, , and then creating, so obviously that sexual life force

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energy is what creates life here.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:53

And it's also creating our creative projects, whatever those are.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:25:58

And, uh, nourishing them too.

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Both instigating them, nourishing them, , sending, you know, streams of beauty

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out through the rivers of our life.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:07

Like we all have so many things that we.

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Nourish in our lives, whether they're children or work projects or, , creative

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:14

art projects or something like taking care of our family members or our

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:19

community members, or the land we live on.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:21

That's all, those are all expressions of nourishment and care.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:24

I also just think of it, like I said, of giving and receiving.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:27

So because it's this, this flow of life going out of the geyser, the wellspring

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of the pelvis, and then coming back in.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:36

So what we magnetize and pull in that nourishes us.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:40

I think we would say classically, water is an expression of all our

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:44

relations, whether they're our family, friends, lovers, community members,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:50

ancestors every person in the world, the unseen, the unknown, our guides,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:26:55

all of that is being in relationship.

Amanda Lux: 00:26:58

That's a brilliant description of the water element and how

Amanda Lux: 00:27:01

we can align our energy through that.

Amanda Lux: 00:27:04

There are times when we need more or less of different elements, right?

Amanda Lux: 00:27:10

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:27:10

To, to feel in alignment, but knowing when and why each one, what they rule or how to

Amanda Lux: 00:27:17

relate to, like when do we need more water or when do we need less water , right?

Amanda Lux: 00:27:23

When is it time to just ask that question, like, what's

Amanda Lux: 00:27:25

happening in my water and Right.

Amanda Lux: 00:27:28

How, what would you say about that?

Amanda Lux: 00:27:30

, you're kind of an expert of the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:31

water, I guess so.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:33

It is, it is very much about, um, listening deeply to the waters, different

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:41

body work that I do, the different, um, even like the different, you know,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:46

couples work that I do, which is.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:49

like I was speaking about the communication, it's communication

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:52

through a watery sense of feeling.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:54

Oh, I didn't even say that part.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:56

Feeling emotions.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:57

Emotions.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:27:58

Huge part of

Amanda Lux: 00:27:58

the water.

Amanda Lux: 00:27:58

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:27:59

, right?

Amanda Lux: 00:28:00

. Well, and, and then the subconscious aspect, right.

Amanda Lux: 00:28:03

Of the dreams.

Amanda Lux: 00:28:04

And, and that physical knowing that's not in our mental knowing even

Amanda Lux: 00:28:08

perhaps that maybe we have hidden down there that's been in the depths

Amanda Lux: 00:28:13

that we haven't become conscious of

Amanda Lux: 00:28:15

. It's either hasn't become conscious

Amanda Lux: 00:28:18

Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:28:19

And that is another aspect of the water.

Amanda Lux: 00:28:22

What, what that rules, that subconscious element.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:25

Totally.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:25

When you say that, I immediately got this image of like the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:27

Lochness monster or something.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:30

you know, because that's can be what it's like when we have deep.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:35

, um, experiences painful or very powerful mysteries inside of ourselves that get

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:42

like, pushed down into the lake of the pelvis, gets pushed down and submerged

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:48

and maybe we try to forget about them.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:50

Or even feelings, like guilty feelings, disappointment, feelings,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:56

um, angry feelings, things that.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:28:58

Sometimes have trouble bringing out into the world.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:01

They can get pushed under, like these shadows, right?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:03

These shadow monsters moving under the water

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:07

. Amanda Lux: Well, and, and if you

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:09

water documentaries, I'm not a big person to watch those things, but

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:13

every once in a while I'll catch an article or a thing about some new

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:17

discovery of some, oceanic creature.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:21

That, that lives so many leagues below what's known that it's just

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:26

now being uncovered and yeah, there's still things we don't know.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:30

, Elizabeth Betwixt: oh, I'm so glad

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:32

heard on, yeah, just weird podcast.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:35

Different things I've heard people say about how much of the ocean's

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:39

depths are actually unexplored and that some people believe that there

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:43

are like deep civilizations under there that we haven't even found.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:47

And certainly ruins of other civilizations.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:50

I mean, there is this human fascination with what's under the waters and

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:29:56

yeah, I think it just really speaks to the power that we have in the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:00

water element and the mystery.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:02

I definitely want that to be said.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:04

Is that part of sexuality work, part of dreaming work, part of

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:07

birth work is about the mystery.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:10

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:10

That is enveloped in the waters

Amanda Lux: 00:30:12

too.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:12

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:13

Well it's also beyond containment.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:15

There's a sense.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:18

, you know, it's not always controllable.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:20

Water is so much power and potential and Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:24

When you get a leak or something, it'll flow wherever it possibly can.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:28

It's so intelligent and Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:30:30

Efficient.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:31

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:32

And it can take any shape.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:34

It can take any shape.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:35

Shape, yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:36

Of the things around it.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:37

And then there's also that Doos piece about there's nothing as powerful as

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:40

water to wear down rock, to wear down.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:44

It's, you know, and it does over centuries and centuries,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:47

change the shape of our earth.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:49

Right.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:30:49

By the way, it wears away.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:31:09

So you had asked like, how can people align their water energy?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:31:14

And I, really believe the first part is just feeling, our feelings.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:31:18

I mean, perhaps that's the most essential water practice.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:31:22

What do you think about that?

Amanda Lux: 00:31:25

I love that as a, a place to begin.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:28

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:28

, that visualization of the pelvis and the pelvic bowl and the, and the waters and

Amanda Lux: 00:31:34

that brought me to my physical body.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:38

And then, that felt like a beginning sort of way to contemplate, you know,

Amanda Lux: 00:31:44

is through that physical gateway.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:45

And then once you get in there, it's immediately about the feelings.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:49

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:50

, You're almost immediately into like, well, what's the feeling quality of that?

Amanda Lux: 00:31:54

Right, right.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:54

What's the emotional tone of that and.

Amanda Lux: 00:31:58

, , what's the safest way you , to do that.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:00

I think that that's the next thought that comes up for me.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:03

How do we safely explore ,, those mysterious depths of the

Amanda Lux: 00:32:07

unknowns and the power and the potential start to relate to it.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:11

And I think the emotions are a way in with that too.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:14

They'll teach us trusting the wisdom of our own waters is

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:32:18

important.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:19

And I know you specifically do, yoni unwinding

Amanda Lux: 00:32:23

and body work oriented around Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:26

That, and that's just really, really special.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:29

Not very many people have the courage and the knowledge to go in there.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:34

But the way that you do, the way you approach that to me is so beautiful.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:38

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:38

From what I know of you and even in the title that you were saying, the, the

Amanda Lux: 00:32:42

Wise Yi Body work, there's that wisdom that resides inherently in the body.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:49

Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:50

And to return that relationship with our own inner wisdom

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:32:54

thank you for speaking to that because the Yi work, cervical

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:32:58

work, pelvic, , repair work, postpartum, you know, we're having so many birth

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:03

injuries in our culture right now.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:06

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:06

Like, it's really so sad to me that women's pelvis are getting

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:10

torn up in birth and there's a lot of factors related to that.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:15

But in doing this postpartum pelvic repair, it really so much is about

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:20

trusting the wisdom of the tissues in a flowing way to unwind the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:25

movements that were difficult to bear or difficult to sequence through

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:31

the forces that were coming through.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:33

, Or included interventions and, different things from the hospital birth.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:38

But yeah, a lot of internal pelvic work is sort of muscle release focused,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:44

and that's not my focus, my or approach.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:46

My focus or approach is to become in relation with the tissue in an

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:50

unwinding way and actually with the cranial fluid flowing through it.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:54

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:54

And then all the other fluids flowing through it, the cellular fluid, and

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:33:57

then letting that tissue become juicy again with life, where it might

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:01

be rigid or in shock or tense up.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:03

And I'm not trying to do something to, yeah, a woman's vulva or yoni

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:08

or in inner vaginal walls or cervix.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:12

I'm just trying to listen to it as it unwinds itself and revitalizes itself.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:19

And that's absolutely, an approach that I learned through cranial

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:23

sacral that I'm now applying to the pelvis and the genital work.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:29

Hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:29

So beautiful.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:31

So amazing.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:32

And that's definitely an area that has been mistreated,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:38

Probably any woman listening to this who has had

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:42

an experience with the gynecologist, many of us have had experiences with

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:46

that being like rough or sharp or just intense, you know, very doing oriented.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:52

We're gonna get you in and out of here, we're gonna insert

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:54

the speculum really quickly.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:34:56

And it's cold and it's fast and there's just not much relationship to the tissues.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:02

And that's what we're talking about with the water element

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:04

is being in relationship right.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:06

To the giving and receiving.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:07

So, , I mean, that's an error in training in our medical industry.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:11

It could be different if, if they were being trained differently.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:14

, Amanda Lux: right?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:14

So, yes, yes.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:17

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:17

That's a consciousness piece.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:19

It's a consciousness piece.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:20

And it's exactly, again, related back to how are we treating the

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:23

waters of our earth, you know?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:27

How are we in relation to water, large bodies of water in the ways that we're

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:31

polluting, in the ways that we're, harnessing the power of it for our own

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:36

uses, but not necessarily honoring or letting flow the natural cycles of it.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:41

We're damning it, we're containing it, , it's crazy.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:44

It's wild.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:45

It's so disconnected

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:46

To speak to this elemental series, of your podcast,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:49

it's probably the water element that can teach us about connection in all

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:53

the other elements too, because we need that connection in the air and

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:35:57

the fire and the earth, but water can just teach us how to connect.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:01

Mm-hmm.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:01

, that actually comes up a lot in my practice is just dealing

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:04

with feelings of disconnection.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:06

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:07

In general and how people navigate that.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:10

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:11

And so the water element can teach us how to just make connection and then we

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:14

can apply that in other elemental ways.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:17

Hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:18

That's beautiful.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:35

. I know we don't have a ton of time left.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:37

Maybe a few minutes or something.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:39

. Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:39

I'm thinking like maybe that's very vast.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:36:41

How can we

Amanda Lux: 00:36:45

I wanna definitely ask you about the woman as pleasure portal.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:50

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:51

. I just wanna plant that seed and invite whatever you wanna say about that.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:54

Because first of all, that's the most beautiful name of

Amanda Lux: 00:36:57

anything I've ever heard.

Amanda Lux: 00:36:59

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Aww.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:04

You wanna share anything about that?

Amanda Lux: 00:37:05

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:06

Thank you.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:07

Thank you.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:07

Well, I do consider pleasure to be essential to the water element.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:11

Just, and not like the pelvis or the genital specifically, but how we

Amanda Lux: 00:37:16

experience pleasure all the time daily, like the wind on our faces, you know,

Amanda Lux: 00:37:21

, the feeling of our toes and the sand.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:23

Even the feeling of exchanging a glance across the room with somebody that's not

Amanda Lux: 00:37:28

even sexualized but is connective and you experience the light pleasure, you

Amanda Lux: 00:37:32

know, um, there's so many ways to talk about pleasure, but I think of pleasure

Amanda Lux: 00:37:38

as part of the nourishment of the water element, the part of that exchange

Amanda Lux: 00:37:44

of energy that giving and receiving.

Amanda Lux: 00:37:46

So woman as a pleasure portal is really, coming into the healing and

Amanda Lux: 00:37:53

the embodiment of the female body every inch, you know, from, , the bottoms

Amanda Lux: 00:38:00

of the feet to the crown of the head and the whole energy body all around

Amanda Lux: 00:38:05

as well, , in a pleasurable way.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:07

And so we do that through body work.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:10

We do that through these somatic movement experiences where we're tuning to

Amanda Lux: 00:38:13

different stations of the female body.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:18

, like the breasts, like , , the third eye, like the heart chakra as

Amanda Lux: 00:38:23

differentiated from the breasts, and then certainly we're talking womb

Amanda Lux: 00:38:26

and ovaries and cervix and vulva and, , pelvic diaphragm and souls of the feet.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:33

, Then there's a lot more to it too.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:34

But it's, it's really about finding the embodied anatomy of these places

Amanda Lux: 00:38:38

and how they work and somatically mysteriously and very physiologically

Amanda Lux: 00:38:46

and structurally as well.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:47

And then finding ways to move toward pleasurable sensations in these areas.

Amanda Lux: 00:38:54

It's done through finding a way to reside in the female body in a yin, watery,

Amanda Lux: 00:39:02

non-doing, yet being kind of a way.

Amanda Lux: 00:39:06

And that, that opens up.

Amanda Lux: 00:39:08

, another way I have of thinking about that pelvic generative water center, is that,

Amanda Lux: 00:39:16

, there's that tural field moving through the human body, up the spine and out and

Amanda Lux: 00:39:22

around through the edges of the field and back up through the pelvic diaphragm

Amanda Lux: 00:39:27

again so it's about circulating, it's about circulating the water energy

Amanda Lux: 00:39:32

and the activated Shakti energy.

Amanda Lux: 00:39:36

Through all these different

Amanda Lux: 00:39:37

energy centers.

Amanda Lux: 00:39:38

And so if somebody is not connecting with that Shakti energy or that watery energy,

Amanda Lux: 00:39:45

or their own yin or their own pleasure, in some ways it's been shut down or forgotten

Amanda Lux: 00:39:51

or unsafe to go there, or they just don't know how to make that connection.

Amanda Lux: 00:39:55

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:39:56

Um, how do you know if you're that person?

Amanda Lux: 00:39:58

What happens , when that gets disconnected?

Amanda Lux: 00:40:02

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:02

Oh, that's great.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:03

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:04

Well, a lot of things, I mean, one of the most physical things that

Amanda Lux: 00:40:09

women or people come to me with is the very physical imbalances, you

Amanda Lux: 00:40:14

know, that are very clear, , like the fibroids or the cysts or endometriosis

Amanda Lux: 00:40:18

or P C O S or, pain during sex.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:22

These are, when physically things get to the point where

Amanda Lux: 00:40:26

they're like, I have a problem.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:28

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:28

, you know?

Amanda Lux: 00:40:29

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:29

. . And then on another level, fertility wise, like idiopathic infer fertility,

Amanda Lux: 00:40:33

I'm trying to conceive and the doctors all say everything's happening correctly,

Amanda Lux: 00:40:38

but we still can't conceive mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:40

And that, that's such a great example of, everything's working.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:43

It's just things aren't synergistically, harmonically communicating.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:48

Right.

Amanda Lux: 00:40:49

And that's such a great example of yeah, there's usually something stuck

Amanda Lux: 00:40:52

in the throat or a lack of receptivity in the crown , . Or the trust in the

Amanda Lux: 00:40:58

relationship between the partners.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:00

Right.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:01

So those are some physical things that lead you there,

Amanda Lux: 00:41:04

but it's definitely often.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:06

And a lot of what I work with is when people feel unsafe in

Amanda Lux: 00:41:10

their bodies for various reasons, usually from traumatic experiences.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:16

, it's often a feeling in the nervous system.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:19

Like I can't even.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:21

, I don't feel safe socially.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:23

I don't know how to speak my needs and get them met.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:27

I don't even know how to identify them.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:28

So people are walking all over me all the time, or I'm

Amanda Lux: 00:41:32

finding myself people pleasing.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:33

I feel like I have no boundaries.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:35

Right.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:36

Um, water issues.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:38

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:40

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:41:44

right?

Amanda Lux: 00:42:00

. Amanda Lux: I mean, I was just even

Amanda Lux: 00:42:05

even physically manifest or even consciously manifests that there's so

Amanda Lux: 00:42:09

much in our culture and imbalance in the yang energy is so much more valued

Amanda Lux: 00:42:14

, just the doingness, the getting things done, the being active, the hustle, the,

Amanda Lux: 00:42:19

achieving and going out and getting,

Amanda Lux: 00:42:22

. There's very little room for being

Amanda Lux: 00:42:26

just doing spirals and tuning into the watery pelvis and how am I feeling

Amanda Lux: 00:42:31

and what am I dreaming and who am I in my deepest rhythmic, cyclical way?

Amanda Lux: 00:42:38

How does that wanna be expressed and how can I be receiving myself and my

Amanda Lux: 00:42:42

own energy or be received by the world?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:42:46

Yeah, I mean, a lot of times people think sexual issues are a lot

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:42:49

between the two partners, but it's really just about how I'm relating inside of

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:42:54

myself and am I at peace and at ease and able to flow with the truths of myself.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:00

Mm-hmm.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:01

And then of course, bringing that to the relationship

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:03

changes the whole relationship.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:05

That's a lot about tuning into those deeper waters, those feelings.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:09

, learning how to be inside of our bodies in a truthful way, and

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:14

certainly rest and being in yin.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:16

, I mean, one thing I think in this hugely masculine.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:20

yang time is that we all need more rest.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:23

We all need more non-doing.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:25

And then especially women, I mean, we're having much larger fertility issues,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:30

cyclical issues like, uh, blood cycle issues that largely come from stress

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:36

adrenalized hormones and lack of rest.

Amanda Lux: 00:43:39

Right.

Amanda Lux: 00:43:40

Well, and you know, to bring it back again, weaving that into how that

Amanda Lux: 00:43:45

shows up in our relationship with the planet and the cycles of the seasons

Amanda Lux: 00:43:50

and the days and the, and the moon.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:53

Yeah.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:54

. Absolutely.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:55

I've done some work with the seasonal wheel of the year and the moon cycle,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:43:59

the blood cycle with women, and I intend to do some more of that.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:02

I probably will have a program around that because aligning our inner cycles to

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:07

the seasonal cycles, and not just women because ancient peoples would align.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:11

The men would be aligning to that too.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:13

The children would be learning how to live in rhythm with the seasons of the earth.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:17

And they're, the seasons are different, of course, depending on which

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:20

hemisphere you're in, but even in different ecosystems and environments.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:25

But they're there as are the, the movement of the moon is there

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:28

that's not just affecting women, that's affecting everybody.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:31

Absolutely.

. Amanda Lux: 00:44:32

is there, are there any last words that you would

. Amanda Lux: 00:44:34

like to share about the water?

. Amanda Lux: 00:44:37

Anything you would like to say in closing, in completion?

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:41

I wanna just bring it back to the, the truth reflected in many

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:45

indigenous peoples that water is life.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:48

The human body can go three days without water.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:51

We can go longer without food, but water is sort of that determinant

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:44:56

as we are made of water and we need water for these bodies to work.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:01

That water is essential to our existence here on this water planet.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:08

Water is full of life.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:09

Water is life.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:10

Our life depends upon the water, the water inside of our bodies,

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:14

the sweat and the cellular fluid and the tears, uh, the ejaculate.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:20

And it's also, , our raindrops, our rivers, our streams, and our oceans.

Elizabeth Betwixt: 00:45:25

Beautiful.

Amanda Lux: 00:45:26

Thank you.

Amanda Lux: 00:45:27

Well, I'm so grateful to have had you and your wisdom and your beautiful

Amanda Lux: 00:45:34

self and your words and your incredible way of working with the water.

Amanda Lux: 00:45:40

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:45:41

Uh, on, on the podcast to talk about that.

Amanda Lux: 00:45:44

I just feel so, so, so grateful and so honored

Amanda Lux: 00:45:48

I will be, , putting a page on my website for, for people to connect

Amanda Lux: 00:45:52

with you cuz you are that wild woman in the woods currently and I want to

Amanda Lux: 00:45:59

make sure that people can find you.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:01

. And I'll put any links to anything else that comes up for you in the future.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:06

Of ways that people can connect with you and work with you.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:10

Thank you Amanda.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:11

Yeah, because you're such a, a valuable gift to the world and I'm just so

Amanda Lux: 00:46:17

grateful that you're, that you're here doing your work and it's just beautiful.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:22

And I just feel, just so replenished from this conversation.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:27

I feel so like moved and I feel even some tears welling up and I feel like,

Amanda Lux: 00:46:34

oh, it's the water of my body coming.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:38

Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:39

Yeah, . And I feel like, so happy to feel that sensation of fluid

Amanda Lux: 00:46:46

and emotion and gratitude and uh,

Amanda Lux: 00:46:50

, and I love this conversation.

Amanda Lux: 00:46:52

Just, it reminds me the importance of that, not just for myself, but for the

Amanda Lux: 00:46:56

planet, you know, and for all beings.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:00

And just thinking of how, all the waters on the planet get

Amanda Lux: 00:47:05

recycled through the air Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:07

And the clouds and, and come back into the oceans and the streams

Amanda Lux: 00:47:12

and the rivers and into our bodies.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:14

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:15

And that we are made of , , mostly water and that our own waters

Amanda Lux: 00:47:20

are also recycling all the time.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:23

Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:23

Connecting with one another and with all the waters of all the world.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:26

And how incredible is that?

Amanda Lux: 00:47:29

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:29

Like I, I love it.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:32

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:35

. . Thank you Amanda.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:36

That's beautiful.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:37

Thank you for having me.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:45

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of a Lone

Amanda Lux: 00:47:49

Traveler's Guide to the Divine.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:51

I so appreciate your energy and your presence and your support.

Amanda Lux: 00:47:56

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Amanda Lux: 00:48:03

that would just mean the world to.

Amanda Lux: 00:48:06

You can find more information about Elizabeth on my

Amanda Lux: 00:48:09

website elevationhive.com.

Amanda Lux: 00:48:13

I have in-person classes in polarity therapy and cranio

Amanda Lux: 00:48:17

sequel therapy coming up.

Amanda Lux: 00:48:19

And also there will be more classes in person and some online offerings

Amanda Lux: 00:48:25

around dreamwork coming soon.

Amanda Lux: 00:48:28

So I look forward to that.

Amanda Lux: 00:48:30

Thank you so much for listening.

Amanda Lux: 00:48:32

It is such an honor to be in sacred community with you.