Yin

Yin is a woman. A woman cocooned in her femininity -- warm, sensitive, sensual, and transformational. She is compassionate and loving, floating yet grounded; creative, quiet, and peaceful. Soft at the edges, yet strong at her core. She is aligned with her emotions, held by a regulated nervous system, juicy and wet with life force. She is so deeply rooted in her Yin that nothing can shake her. Roots, boundaries, and the ground itself exist to hold and protect this Yin cocoon.

A woman of capacity and flexibility. The capacity to hold all emotions as they arise and pass by -- to hold without judgment or polarization. The capacity to be with all that is, and yet remain true, soft, and strong. The flexibility to transform emotion itself; the flexibility within her system to see, embrace, and alchemize emotions and energies into life force, vitality, stability, groundedness, and the courage to step up for herself. Because Yin, though deeply connected to Yang, can represent herself fully, without needing to be complemented or completed by anything, once She/Yin is truly and wholly in her sacred element.

And to be this… requires daily presence and practice on all levels: cellular, bodily, energetic, and mindful. It is a presence expressed through how you carry your body, how you care for your energy, and how you nourish both your spirit and your cells. Yin dwells in stillness and patience. She rests, listens to her intuition, wraps her body in a blanket, and settles into a low-stimulation environment. Yin is sacred, spacious, and easeful.

When you are fully in your Yin, you become like a warm blanket -- one that others can wrap themselves in, feel embraced by your stillness and softness, and rest beside in coziness. Yin creates space for Yang to rest, release, breathe, and slow down. When a complete Yang can fully receive and recognize Yin, a union occurs: two wholes creating a union of energy, mind, and body.

Today’s world needs Yin. It needs a lot of Yin. As humanity, we have become lost in too much heat, too much action, hardness, drive, and dryness. Yin has turned into Yang, and Yang has become even more Yang. We are overstimulated, burned out, rushing all the time -- always on the inhale, never in silence or stillness, never truly resting. Because we have this idea that if you rest, slow down, or stop… you will lose it.

A small digression by way of example: I love driving, and I used to drive fast, on highways and small roads alike, always overtaking, passing slower-moving cars, trying to be faster, to be first. Yin expressed through a Yang action. Yet this pace never led to spectacular achievements, because on the road you will eventually be stopped -- by traffic lights, congestion, or circumstances beyond your control. When that happens, the cars that were moving more slowly end up right behind you.

Of course, there are different reasons we move this way at times. Through this example, though, I want to touch on the core theme: your Yang drive, its heat, urgency, and overstimulation will eventually end and cool down (if you allow this to happen). And sometimes the result of all that effort is very little, if not nothing at all -- like being the first car stopped at a red light.

So before you lose yourself in hot Yang, pause and ask whether it’s truly worth it. And if you are a strong Yang, find your Yin -- so you have space to slow down, cool down, rest, and bring a little air into your action. Because, as we know, when we push too hard, life pushes back, often without delivering the results we want. When we sit back and relax, things begin to unfold (something like Yang push/wanting letting go into Yin space/floating).

As much as Yin/the feminine is sensitive, soft, and rested, it is also a powerful source of all creation. When Yang settles into Yin, the Yang/masculine becomes ignited, integrated, and receptive to creative spark. From there, Yang can move into true action, not burned out or overstimulated, but flowing. An action that is not overly driven, tiring, draining, or rushed. This is the action Yang longs to embody.

To truly be in her/feminine Yin and his/masculine Yang, both are needed in a balanced union, giving, offering (and receiving) each other their richest juices/essence in order to create anything. In this union, everything flows untethered -- love, peace, compassion, ecstasy. It is life force at its fullest expression, and it is fulfillment.