Charge position

Power – What Power???

During a yoga session with a buddy this morning we were talking about a man’s pelvis – I was thinking about why men are so afraid of the power in their pelvis. And it IS powerful. Often I find men hold their pelvis in a discharge position so that the pelvic bowl cannot hold all of their fierce, passionate and intense emotions – they merely leak out if expressed at all, or reified in the body.

Holding the pelvis in a charge position, creating a curve in the lower back, means that we are coming from a more grounded place and are much more able to lead with our hearts and not our heads. It is very difficult to do both leading with a charged pelvis and your head. I brought up the fact that since the 80’s or even before that, men are portrayed in the media as buffoons and incompetents – very powerless beings that need the women in their lives to set them straight. Try watching TV for an hour and really look at the commercials – I really detest the way men are represented AND it is not the type of man I want to become. In this culture we get our role models from the media (yes, it is sad!!!) and the message they are sending us is that men are weak. NO NO NO – I will have none of it. We are a growing movement of men that are creating change one body at a time, empowering men to take charge of their bodies to become self-referent and NOT extero-referent (in other words, not defined by the external world).