04/14/2026
As we begin big changes, we that that sense that we need to ground, soften, slow, and be in quiet places. We stay in our home, go in our gardens, and animals go into the quiet places too. This is the rooting, corresponding to the root chakra, and energy center of depth.
We can activate this by relaxing the jaw, making the sound AH and relaxing the pelvis. We might come to hands knees, kneeling, or deep sitting as ways to open the pelvic floor. This is all built into our design and nature teaches it, if we watch animals.
I've seen, as a midwife, that women who allow this phase to happen will bring labor closer to them. I am pretty insistent that they get everything prepped earlier in pregnancy and stop working at 39 weeks so they can allow this grounding.
I am curious if you feel this image is correct? I'm debating whether to make the woman be down on her knees. I feel that dancing around light is part of latent phase, but the root chakra feels like she's been more down in her pelvis and I'd say that is early labor.
I'd love feedback. We will be discussing this Saturday at the retreat as we explore the elements and how they correspond in our bodies and in labors. I'm trying to use Ai obviously to make some images.
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