Heart Opener - May 12, 2017

Digital Drawing

In yoga it's an asana that opens and spreads the chest giving the sensation of lifting and freeing the heart from its shrouding restraints. I have also experienced this with body work that opened from the back, releasing old scaffolding rarely noticed or felt except in the sense of - got your back - meaning you are protected, and shut off from the world.

So to be open hearted and available to the world of emotion and other unknowns means feeling the love and goodness that is and the pain and suffering as well. The heart is not a strainer that only let's in what it wants, it accepts what is if unprotected.

I remember the embodied sense of this drawing at the time of doing it. The large predator bird has torn apart the vital beating heart with its massive talons and let's it bleed onto Indra's Net.