Resistance and Yielding

A friend taught a workshop in kinesthetics about resistance and yielding.  She helped us experience the extremes of those opposites so we could recognize them in our bodies, and then to consider a way of moving that might integrate the two.  

Integration

There is a rhythm of the tension and release

a gathering, and then a flowing

I speak of giving birth,

and many smaller things:

telling a story — giving all the words

their needed space, their needed hush

so in their turn they can pour forth

with their needed rush

and prayer — the sweet immersion

into silence, the waiting pause that builds

until the stillness is profound enough

to welcome in the Word

There is a time to hold your breath

to be a vessel where the forming hopes distill

till they well up and tumble forth

along the channels of Life’s will.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 15, 2011