Integrated structures - Musings on body, water and effective siritual pract

Mixed media on paper 2017

I was speaking to a friend recently about structure — in the context of astrology, actually. We were talking about the planet Saturn, and it got me thinking about the feminine side of Saturn, and the feminine side of structure itself.

Today, in this weaving of the feminine into our society, I feel we’re being asked to find a structure that is intrinsic to the feminine. We are so used to structure being external and rigid — like a crane, a skeleton, or a house — something built out of material, angles, and sharp edges. And for many years, especially with the rise of yoga in our culture, we applied this idea of structure even to our spiritual lives. I know I have. To some degree, that was needed: a supportive structure can be crucial.

But now, it feels like life is asking for a deeper integration. We’re being invited to imagine a structure that is fully integrated into matter, into the feminine itself. One of the metaphors I hold is the structure of water: water can adapt to any external shape while still holding its essence. It’s flexible, alive, and always true to itself.

I feel this is a powerful way to reimagine structure, especially when it comes to our spiritual practices. Instead of practices that simply hold us in a particular form, what are the practices that help us embody our essence — in any moment, in any environment?

Last year, I heard something that really shifted my thinking: Prune Harris, a shamanic practitioner, said a practice is truly effective when it changes your state of consciousness from A to B. If you have to keep doing the same practice for 40 years without any permanent shift, then it isn’t actually transforming your internal structure — your internal waters.

Another metaphor that has been alive for me lately is plasma — that iridescent light, that living, shimmering field. It feels like such a potent way to think about the energy body — fluid, luminous, and always alive with possibility.

These are some of the explorations I weave into my offerings with The Well 1-1. In my 1:1 work, we explore these themes energetically and through personalized guidance to help you reconnect with your own intrinsic structure and essence.

I also guide a deeper exploration through my course Radical Care, a week-long journey into simplicity, energetic hygiene, and the esoteric imprint in daily life — helping you reshape your inner waters and influence the subtle layers of your being.

This is just a little introduction to the living questions I’m holding right now — and the invitations I’m extending through my work

Belonging

 

Dear Friend,

I realise that this is the first newsletter of the year, a year that for me has started wildly. Wild initiations into grief and letting go of love and ideas of love. And I am leaning into trust and finding support in relationships that help me stay with the unknown and the difficult feelings.

Holding. Softening. Allowing. Being.

I have started writing on my Substack in Italian this year, as some of you may have noticed, I did this in a wish of belonging myself to the culture and soil where I have chosen to live since a couple of years, it felt good to do this and scary to let go of the known and open up to new eyes, new readers. Again leaning into trust and not knowing where this is going. But the newsletter will stay in English and for now I plan to offer my work in Italian and English.

I have started to unpack my storage where I kept the art that I produced in Sweden in the years I lived at the Pink House, it really felt like a huge energetic step, one that I did not realise at the beginning would feel so important. As finally opening and integrating a part of me that I had put on standby. And some of the paintings are now for sale on my website in a small collection. I plan to renew the selection in the shop seasonally and play with it a bit, I really enjoy the curation process and working with it energetically feeling into what works, what elements are supportive for the season. Also at home I have hung a couple of the oils I did in Sweden and they have brought a grounding, a gravitas to the space that otherwise is very light and airy. This gravitas for me right now has been extremely grounding and healing. The oils were created with elements of the land such as ash, soil, broken seashells. They infuse the space with their alchemical earthy qualities. When I lived in Sweden I worked a lot with grief as an act of belonging myself to life, to land, to the ancestors the reminder of this process of rebirthing is a balm to my being right now.

Love,

Nalini