The 5 Rythms of Water, The 5 Rythms of Love - The Well
Image: Emma Wise Photography. Northern NSW, Australia
'For me this is the most important part of the ceremony.
Everything that has happened this night is concentrated in this moment.
Please be very attentive to what I am about to share with you.
Have lots of concentration. Listen carefully...'
These were the words used by Oscar and Ximena from Shatiri Natural, a young yet powerful and knowledgeable couple who carry the blessing of serving the sacred grandmother Ayahuasca, as he was closing the last ceremony of a two week plant medicine retreat in the jungle of Peru.
At the time I was in the middle of a 3 month period spent serving, learning and healing with the plants and the Amazon’s healing system in 2021.
What Oscar shared with us that night was a teaching from a special kind of teacher… this teacher is the sacred element of Water. The teaching, well, that you will have to learn yourself as this is now being passed on to you.
We have created a series of 5 articles, one article for each teaching.
The content is translated from a recording of Oscar sharing the teachings in a ceremony. It was in Spanish, and I have translated the talk phrase by phrase into English in order to share with you all. In this way you can feel his energy as you read.
So just as we were told that night, before we start, let us take a moment to be fully present with absolute concentration, so that we can receive this simple and beautiful teaching.
Let’s take a deep breath…
‘An old tradition tells us that Water is synonymous with Love. For us, to rediscover our essence, the path is the Water.
Within ourselves there is an abundance of Water. I don’t know the percentages, but if we concentrate and we really feel, we become conscious that we are Water. And the essence of this planet is Water.
The most abundant thing is Water. The reason why there is life on this planet is because of Water, and we are not separate or indifferent from that energy.
The root cause of any suffering or sadness is due to not being in alignment with this energy; because we feel separated, but if we start connecting with the earth, your life will start changing. You are going to rediscover your essence.
This teaching speaks about 5 rhythms of Water, 5 rhythms of love.
The First Rhythm is the Well.
’The Well, it is like the ceremony where we discover that which we are not; the sadness, the suffering; whatever I need to forgive and let go. But if we transcend this, we start to tread the path towards our essence, we ‘see’ the Water, the first rhythm of water, the first rhythm of Love.
But this first rhythm still doesn’t allow me to actually drink it. I cannot really experience it. I can see it, I am conscious of it yet I don’t feel it. And so we keep drinking medicine, and doing dietas (Amazonian traditional healing work with master plants), or whatever your spiritual practice is. There are many paths, Yoga, Mantras, Chi Gong. In my case it is to drink medicine (Ayahuasca), so we go into the ceremony, as many as we need to, so that we can connect to the second rhythm of Water…’
We are immensely grateful to Oscar and Ximena for sharing and passing on this beautiful teaching and for allowing us to share it and pass it on to you today and in the upcoming days so if you haven’t subscribed yet just take a moment to do so below.
We would like to also say thank Sam from @alchemy.of.awakening for transcribing the teaching from audio and for inspiring us to share this with you.
May you feel the first rhythm of Water, the first rhythm of Love!
BY JUAN with Love.