Your biggest strength as a woman from South Asia, Indian, or Middle Eastern lineage lies in the body.

Let me explain that a little bit.

One of the strengths of the culture and the traditions have actually preserved and cultivated energies, aliveness, flow in the body. This flow in the body actually connects with our psychology as well.

When we’re feeling a lot of energy, passion in our lives, that’s an experience in the body. When we’re feeling really generous, it brings warmth, flow, and deliciousness in the body.

Historically and currently, this capacity is passed down to us — think of this as intergenerational wealth or lineage blessings . This is really important because we focus so much on intergenerational trauma that we have forgotten our embodied inheritance that sustains and supports us every day.

This is our opportunity to recognize, to bring to consciousness, and to cultivate an awareness of what is happening in the body and what it brings for us.

What I’ve noticed in my work is that we have a tendency to try to understand and untangle things from the mind. We try to problem solve and to figure things out intellectually so that we can come to our flow – our generosity, love, peace, joy, and pleasure.

Untangling the mind and the ego is an important part of the process. We do have a tendency to block ourselves and we need to work through it. 

At the same time, when we bring our awareness to our bodies with consciousness, it can deeply support our transformation.

Instead of having to untangle everything from the mind, we harness the power, the flow in the body, the energies in the body to do part of the untangling. Simultaneously, we can also untangle from the mind or we can process some issues that we may be experiencing.

The body is the ground of support. By bringing our awareness to it, we can process our issues and return much faster to our feelings of joy, peacefulness, love, passion, generosity, kindness with ourselves.

So we can finally come back to our ourselves.

A lot of the women I work with are incredibly capable, thoughtful, and giving. They may be successful professionally, spiritually curious, deeply caring in relationships — yet underneath there is exhaustion, numbness, collapse, or a feeling of being disconnected from themselves.

What I often notice is that they are trying to live almost entirely from the mind. They are trying to think their way back to aliveness.

But when we begin slowing down and bringing awareness to the body, something starts to shift. Sometimes there is grief. Sometimes warmth. Sometimes trembling, tears, tenderness, anger, or relief. Sometimes there is simply the realization: “I haven’t actually felt myself in a very long time.”

And often beneath the exhaustion or over-functioning, there is tremendous beauty, vitality, love, generosity, sensuality, and presence waiting there in the body.

This is part of the inheritance I am speaking about. Not perfection. Not bypassing suffering. But an embodied richness many of us were disconnected from while trying to survive, adapt, achieve, or caretake others.