When I first met Paul Chek in June of 2018, I'd torn my ACL a week earlier and my knee was about the size of a cantaloupe. I didn't know it was a ruptured but he looked at it and gave it an accurate diagnosis within seconds, and followed by telling me to "let water be my teacher." It stuck with me, but I never really pursued any deeper work with, or in water, especially with the rehab of the ACL itself. However water has been showing up for me lately in different ways. Recently I was in Maui and found a deeper connection with the ocean, swimming 3km a day and jumping off waterfalls. It was the first time I'd got into flow state while in the water, and the first real adrenaline rush I can remember for some time, too.
This past weekend I was also in a pipe ceremony in the Lakota tradition, and water was a strong theme of the day as well. Water is obviously essential to life, and we know 'Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.' But water is also represents female energy, the yin to the fire of the male yang. Bruce Lee has also emphasized the power of moving like water, being malleable and able to move with easy and yet able to generate unreal amounts of power. So how can water be our teacher? It depends where we're at, but I feel that I need to pay closer attention to both my physical engagement to water and how I move, being able to be flexible and open, but also to nourish and grow my feminine to a new level, harnessing a fluid mobility and mature yin.
