Revolution in Reflection 🧘🏽♀️
Winter is a time for hibernation—a cocoon for reflection. I’m already easing into longer journaling sessions to look back on the year. For me, winter is a time to give the warrior within me a rest. A time for her to take a knee and shed her armor. A time to reflect on how she’s served me—how she’s protected me, what soft parts she’s still guarding, and how she’s grown. Has she held stronger boundaries in some areas of my life, and trusted other parts of me to lead when needed? What is my relationship with my inner warrior, and how can I care for her this winter season? Tomorrow’s Dojo session will explore how we relate to our inner warrior and how we can best tend to them during this time of rest.
It’s important to remember that our generation is likely the safest our lineage has ever known. Our parents, grandparents, and ancestors called upon their inner warriors throughout their lifetimes to survive warfare, provide for their families, and adapt to life in foreign lands. Their nervous systems often struggled to find safety. We may be the first generation to experience enough external safety to finally feel safe within. And when we experience this inner safety, it often stirs echoes of our ancestors' stories, deeply rooted in our nervous systems. Perhaps our task is to greet these inherited fears with the safety and light of our love, allowing them to move through us. This isn't just about freeing up energy from protection to creativity, but about seeing ourselves clearly, without fear clouding our vision—recognizing that we are the gifts our ancestors always knew we would be to the world.
When I think about the world my inner warrior is fighting for—the world we’re called to co-create—I’m reminded that true transformation is not only about struggle, but about embracing all aspects of the journey. Both the struggle and the celebration of life are what calls forth the revolution we’re dreaming of. I love this quote:
“Let us be wary of any revolution that isn’t threaded with an element of play, celebration, mystery, and humor. If it is primarily a grim struggle, then there may be no revolution at all. That is not to say that there is never a time for struggle, but to frame the transformative process primarily in terms of struggle reduces it to something of the old world. It devalues other parts of the process: the gestation, the latency, the coming inward, the breathing, the emptiness, the observation, the listening, the nourishing, the reflection, the playful exploration, the unknowing. Aren’t these the things we could use a little more of on this earth?” — Charles Eisenstein
Our inner warriors are not only guardians of our lifeforce, but also active storytellers—transmuting the stories our ancestors carried in their nervous systems into an energy of hope and possibility. They remind us that liberation is not a destination but a living, breathing process, as dynamic as the seasons themselves. We honor our lineage not by perpetuating struggle, but by making space for joy, mystery, and the soft unfolding of dreams.
In this winter of reflection, let us tend to our warrior’s spirit with reverence—listening to her wisdom, acknowledging her resilience, and trusting that true revolution blooms not from constant battle, but also from moments of connection with each other and the collective dreaming we share.
Looking forward to seeing Chryslais Kali members tomorrow evening for our close out session of the year!
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