Sweeping through our landscape
This last week I attempted to simultaneously spring clean my flat and detox my liver. Both ended up getting a little messy. Something is missing in this equation: perhaps a little hard on myself and a few deep breaths might help…?
I grew up in the windy city of Cape Town, dominated by the notorious South Easter. A lot of Capetonians hate this wind but I always loved it. Not only was its power exciting and enigmatic, it also swept up all the smog and pollution in the city.
In a way, we can think of the breath as our own South Easter.
John Friend (founder of Anusara Yoga) describes the breath as prana: “Prana is the energy that sustains the manifestation of the universe. It is a finite energetic form of the Goddess Chittishakti, who is the infinite supreme creative power that pervades the entire universe. One of her forms is air, which surrounds us and fills our lungs as we breathe. The air contains prana and is distributed throughout the whole body by the act of breathing. Thus, prana fills us and surrounds us.”
We don’t need to spend a lot of money to cleanse our systems. We have our own South Easter to clean up the gunk – we can just open our proverbial windows and breathe the healing prana/air in deeply.
