In this episode 

This is the fifth episode in a series of six where I am exploring how to cultivate alignment through each of the five elements.

In this episode I invited Elizabeth Betwixt, a Women’s Sexuality and Pelvic Care Specialist, a BirthKeeper and Somatic Movement Therapist & Teacher, onto the show to discus how we can work with and balance our water element. Elizabeth and I explore:

• Various ways the water element expresses through our second (sacral) chakra and how to balance them
• How important it is for all people (especially women) to connect more to their sensuality, sexuality, creativity and PLEASURE
• Eco-somatics and the many ways our bodies (and our physical issues) are reflected in the earth and vice versa
• How stagnation in the second chakra can lead to all kinds of dis-ease such as fibroids, fertility issues, pain during sex or menses, relational issues, creativity blocks (and other un-pleasurable things). 
• How listening and trusting the wisdom of our tissues can unwind old traumas and restore our physical vitality and so much more!

About Elizabeth Betwixt

Elizabeth Betwixt guides women in the EcoSomatic Arts of Healing, Pleasure, Fertility, Birth, Ritual, and Movement. She is a lifelong student of pelvicology and the esoteric and physiologic nature of feminine lifeforce. She offers sessions and programs in her local community in Boulder, CO and on Zoom, such as Wild Womb : Wise Yoni bodywork sessions, Women's Sexual Soul Health groups, and Birth Prep and Postpartum Healing work for women and families.

Elizabeth Betwixt 

Pleasure :: Fertility :: Birth :: Movement 

WiseWomen Pelvic Care 

Learn more about Elizabeths offerings at https://www.elevationhive.com/elizabeth-betwixt

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I love to read them. 

I wanna just bring it back to the, the truth reflected in many

indigenous peoples that water is life.

The human body can go three days without water.

We can go longer without food, but water is sort of that determinant

as we are made of water and we need water for these bodies to work.

That water is essential to our existence here on this water planet.

Water is full of life.

Water is life.

Our life depends upon the water, the water inside of our bodies,

the sweat and the cellular fluid and the tears, uh, the ejaculate.

And it's also, , our raindrops, our rivers, our streams, and our oceans.

Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine, , A podcast

for healers, seekers, and dreamers.

My name is Amanda Lux and I am the creator of the Elevation Hive School and Community

for Energy Medicine and Dreamwork.

I invited a dear friend of mine, Elizabeth Betwixt, onto the show

today to discuss how we can cultivate alignment through the water element.

The water element rules our second chakra, which is located in the sacral

area, the low back the pelvis and all of the organs that reside in that area,

as well as all of , our bodily fluids.

. So, To balance the second chakra or the water element, is about getting into flow

and to our own rhythmic, cyclical nature.

And in our culture currently, there's a a huge lack of balance

in relationship with water.

Our juicy, playful, sensu nature resides there and it has to be nurtured

and nourished in order to flourish.

And.

It's really easy in our Go-Go culture to kind of disregard those needs.

Or to think of them as selfish or to just not even think of them sometimes.

I'm, So, I'm really excited to share this conversation

.

is a women's sexuality specialist.

She works in pelvic care.

She's a birth keep, a somatic movement therapist and a

teacher, in Boulder, Colorado.

and I really am excited to share with you her wisdom and perspective on how we

can take care of our bodies in order to better tend to the waters of the earth.

How we can tune in and listen to our own second chakra and what

happens when we don't , and how we can work with our second chakra.

To create more alignment, more flow, more ease, more vitality.

She really offers a beautiful perspective of how we can and why we need to really

tend to our water element and some really beautiful tools and ideas around that.

And as always, I invite you to just tune into your own body as you're

listening, keeping your, intuition and your, senses open and flowing and

feeling through the words for what.

Really meant for you.

How can this be supportive for you today?

So that's the inquiry I invite, , as you listen to this episode with

myself and Elizabeth Betwixt.

I'm super honored to be here today with my dear friend Elizabeth Betwixt.

Elizabeth is a magical, magical human being who I have had.

Incredible pleasure of knowing for 20 years now.

Mm.

Pretty much.

Exactly.

when we were just young in our twenties and in la going to

school at the Institute of Psycho Structural balancing where we met.

Mm-hmm.

, Studying polarity and cranio sacro unwinding with our teacher, Gary Straus.

. I'm super excited to have this conversation in the context of how we can

align our energy with the water element.

And I specifically wanted to invite Elizabeth into this

conversation because her work is with specifically women's sexuality.

She's a pelvic care specialist, and she works with, I love this

wild womb and wise yoni body work.

Mm-hmm.

beautiful.

It's just beautiful.

So I already feel really juicy and connected to my body, just

saying those things out loud and connected to my second chakra

Thank you Amanda.

, I'm so happy to be here with you.

It's awesome to feel back into our lineage together.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And really it's the polarity therapy elemental work that has laid the

groundwork for everything that I'm doing, um, with sexuality, with

fertility, with birth, that learning how to listen also in cranial is what

helped me learn to listen to the deeper waters of the body, of the cells.

Sexual empowerment, sexual healing of all genders and sexual orientations,

and I focus mostly on women and especially going into birth.

, but all of that really comes from my elemental perception of the water

element and of how to circulate all the elements in the body so that they're

in balance and how to attune and align those elements to our earthly elements.

So, I'm also doing a big investigation these days into eco somatics.

And what that means to me is the work really we've always been doing

together, which is how does the soma of the earth, of our bodies ground

into the earth, reflect the earth?

So one thing I wanna invite you into this conversation in our field today

As we speak about the water, how our inner waters also reflect the lakes,

the rivers, the streams, the raindrops, puddling in the forests, and of course

the grand ocean and her waves of change.

Ooh, I love that.

. Amanda Lux: Yeah.

I love that.

I love that piece about , the soma of the earth in relation to

our bodies and the water of our own physical systems and Yeah.

And how that's related to the water, of the earth.

I just got done teaching a three day long cranio sacral balancing

class from a polarity perspective.

Yeah.

And we were teaching the whole time.

out at the school which is right on the water.

And there was this amazing wind that came through over the weekend.

It's been really, it's normally very, quite still, but there were so many white

caps and there was movement in the water.

Mm.

And it was just absolutely hypnotic and it just kept feeling like the

water was responding to the work.

You know, that there was this way that it was being activated as we

were moving into these deep states of stillness and tuning to it.

And I don't know, it was just super cool.

So I just love what you were sharing and I'm curious to know more

wow.

That just, I get chills all over.

That just really inspires me hearing that from you because.

One of the premises of my work with fertility, you know, meaning working with

people who have fertility imbalances, that could be, imbalances in the blood

cycle or things like cysts and fibroids gathering and the uterus or the ovaries

or, lack of, , adequate arousal, fluids, , things going on in the endocrine system.

They all come back to in what I've really just learned through experience, not

through theory, but through experience.

They come back to how are the waters?

energetically moving in the pelvis.

Like they're either gathering up and stagnating in certain areas,

like especially fibroids are related to stagnant, gooey, like

stuck things in the pelvis, meaning they're not flowing and circulating.

Yeah.

You know, or things are flowing too fast.

And, uh, a woman or a person is, , sort of losing or draining , her jing, her

arousal fluids, her, her deeper energy through different things could be activity

through certain qualities of relationship.

But that's exactly what we're doing on the earth, you know, with the ways that we.

Mistreating the earth, the ways that we are misaligning as humans with,

when I say we, I mean the over culture.

I think that there's a lot of waking up to how to be in alignment with

earth and utilize the resources of the planet we live on, , and honor them.

And there's still a lot of places on the earth where there's either not

enough water, like huge droughts, you know, and if wildlife is dying off, or

there's places where there's way too much water and we have flooding and

ecosystems are getting wiped out that way.

So it's all related.

Those two our fertility in the Earth's fertility.

And so much of it's the water element, but of course it relates to, you know,

the fires that are blazing or the damage going on in our air , , on the planet.

and then, so just to also invite, like how are the other elements, impacting

our water element and thus impacting our sexuality, our relationships, um,

the way we nourish ourselves, the way we give and receive, the way we create.

To me, these are all aspects of the water chakra.

Mm-hmm.

, uh, the water element.

Which we, you and I initially learned about in polarity and learned about as

a reflection of the Vedic piece, right.

Of uh, Dr.

Randolph Stone.

Wow.

Just amazing.

That whole thing about.

The ways that the over culture is treating the earth.

Yeah.

And how all of the elements are related to how we're relating to the water.

Right.

Right.

How we're dealing with fire, how we're dealing with the air, what's

happening with the, with deforestation.

Right.

Right.

And all of the ways that we're treating the soma of the planet

reflected in our own bodies.

And what that immediately leads me to, which makes me feel so excited

inside, is how we can work to heal the planet by focusing on healing

and rebalancing our own bodies.

Yes.

Like that way, like if the, if the cultural, you know,

ramifications are Yes.

Affecting the planet and the negative, then the personal

healing work that we're doing to.

Create new relationships with our own waters and our own

sexuality and our own wombs Can.

Be beneficial, to heal the planet right?

Yes.

Yes.

So a lot of the, the basic that I experienced

there in my clinical practice is just the sexual healing pieces.

, I didn't even say earlier how we're dumping in the ocean.

Right?

Right.

Uh, hello.

We're dumping plastic and so much crap in the ocean chemicals and yeah.

And to get in into like what happens in my body work sessions.

Well, a good part of it usually is, is tending to clearing out the damage caused

by sexual invasion, sexual torquing and abuses that all people experience.

, women and men.

Girls and boys, unfortunately, or I shouldn't say all, but most, many

people have had some sort of sexually invasive experience or sexually

misaligned or just because of lack of, of real true honoring sexual education.

Right.

Kids beginning their sexual explorations, like they end up hurting each other.

They end up collapsing their true feelings.

There's a lot of trauma that gets built up there, you know, , I just feel

really passionate about why, as humans, are we violating each other sexually?

Why are we violating our children?

Why is sexual human trafficking existing?

And I do think that the beginning of that is going in tending and

cleansing our water element.

And that's a lot of what happens in my contact work in the sessions with,

, Manually working in the different organs of the pelvis, working the tissues of

the yoni internally or the pelvic floor.

Pelvic diaphragm is just releasing a lot of that backed up pain and trauma so

that's like, you know, cleansing the ocean waters, cleansing the stream,

coming back into a, a pure sense, a pure erotic innocence, a pure feeling of what

is that life force that flows within us that constantly regenerates itself.

, that's like the cleaning of the inner waters.

And then that I believe strongly can go on to become this very empowered

creative force in the person.

And then what they do in the world comes from this very

purified, empowered, bright, bold.

essence of their eroticism, their creativity, and so

what they can create is huge.

So maybe those are creating changes ecologically or

sociologically or whatever.

Hmm.

Wow.

That's just beautiful.

, I love that question.

, I love the concept of , how cleansing the inner waters of our bodies can

assist in the energetics and the consciousness around taking care of

and cleansing the waters of the earth.

Yeah.

The way that those are interconnected in ways we can know and can't know and Right.

I love it.

I think it's beautiful.

Mm-hmm.

. Mm.

One of, one of the essence pieces of the mapping that I do

in the body that I think is just something that those who are listening to this right

now can start to work with right away is the sense of the pelvic chalice and the

pelvis containing this bowl, which then has a stem on the bowl, which is our legs

and our feet grounding us to the earth.

And the pelvic bowl itself, , , pubic bones, the sacrum, and the coic forming

this bony structure of containment.

And that, um, this is the seat of our, of our power, which holds the rest of

our body, which holds our structure, everything else going on up, and

that there's water, energetically essence, fully held in that bowl.

And that something any of us can do at, in any moment, in any place of a

day is, you know, with a hand on, on the abdomen reaching into the lower

belly, over the womb, if you have a womb, the water chakra, um, bring,

bringing some breath just right into the pelvis, slowly allowing it to drop

and even reaching for what we call the pelvic floor, which I like to

call the pelvic diaphragm because it's really not a floor at all.

. Mm-hmm.

. , it's more like a trampoline or a hammock.

It's springy and resilient.

Um, but that's just a marker for starting to fill that breath, move through the

pelvic bowl, and then really check into, well, what are, how, what is

that water like inside of the bowl?

What does it feel like?

How is it flowing?

Is it moving all around?

Is is the chalice of the pelvis full to the top?

Is it full halfway up?

Is it dry?

Like, just starting to energetically feel into what are those waters feel like?

And a lot of times people will feel colors or they'll feel, um, places it's

moving in, places it's not moving, and you don't have to know all the organs

of the pelvis to figure that out.

This is more like the, the energy essence of the water.

Another thing that we can feel for is, is the bowl tipped or

is there a leak in the bowl?

Is water flowing out unconsciously?

Um, there's a lot that we can learn about, structurally, about if we tip

the pelvis forward or back and what that relates to emotionally and behaviorally.

But just first the concept of how are my waters gathered and contained in the

pelvic bowl, and what do they feel like?

That's beautiful.

, of course I'm going there and all I can think about is this dream

that I had like eight years ago that randomly popped into my head.

Hmm.

That had to do with this.

Teacher in the dream that was like, you find and repair the pelvic bowl.

And I thought he meant a specific bowl.

And I was looking on all these shelves and I'm like, which

one looks like a pelvic bowl?

And it wasn't until I was awake and going through the dream, , that

had occurred to me like maybe it was literally my pelvic bowl . Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm just tuning to that.

And then that dream came up, you know, from so, so long ago

and there was a lot of dangerous masculine energy in the dream.

I remember that too.

And I'm just thinking about that, how are we relating internally to our

own different sexual energies and.

Yeah.

You know, that dynamic in inside of our own bodies and our own psyches

and our own energy system, cuz we all have all the energies, the

masculine, the feminine, the beyond.

Yeah.

But it's just, that's where I went.

I'm like, wow, how are my waters?

Where is it, how is it sitting?

Hmm.

What did that dream from eight years ago mean?

Yeah.

Well, I, I consider the dreaming, there's like waters of the dream

time I feel that are very connected to the waters of sexuality too.

Yes.

And I see that a ton in pregnant women especially.

Like I, that's one, one of my focuses with birth and pregnancy is really just

the fact that it's this flowering of feminine female body, sexual energy.

It's this full flowering of it.

And so whether or not you choose to.

Conceive in birth there, we can still learn from the physiology of

how birth works, about how female or even feminine, full flowering of that

water, that juicy life force, how that actually looks or how it moves.

And that's one thing that happens in birth in pregnant women a lot, is the

dreams become so alive and so prophetic.

So oracular.

Yes.

I still remember some of the really profound dreaming that happened for

me when I was pregnant with my kids.

Yeah.

And how the, how my relationship with them, my kids started in the dream time.

Oh.

With both of

them.

Yeah.

You have such beautiful stories with that . Yeah.

I, I'm thinking about too, the grounding you did for us before we came on, um,

recording, but just how working with the cranial fluid too, in the third ventricle

of the head, that's a water, right?

So when we, whenever I'm using the word water, I'm speaking

about all the fluids of the body.

So we could be talking about, you know, the energy of water, but we can be talking

about cranial fluid, we can be talking about blood, we can be talking about

menstrual blood ejaculate, um, armita, the deep feminine prostate fluid that comes

flowing out in the orgasmic experience.

Um, the cellular fluid.

You know, another way to work with the fluids of the body is just anytime

we're rocking back and forth mm-hmm.

, like slowly shifting our weight.

Um, that's a great way to just get in touch with the fluid nature.

of how gravity moves within us and how the cellular fluid,

like sloughs back and forth,

Right.

And that's being with the waters of the body in every place in the

body, not just one particular place.

I was thinking about how I resource myself, , in relating to the

rhythmic tidal, nature of the cranial sacral rhythm over this weekend, and

teaching that in this beginning class, you know, to people who are like,

never heard of cranio sacral fluid and , I was describing how I always,

Sit on a ball at the table if I'm gonna be sitting.

Mm-hmm.

And that for me, , that's so necessary because I, I'm moving

my body constantly as I'm working.

Hmm.

I was like, this is the way the rhythm is flowing.

It's the way my body is moving.

Mm.

Yeah.

It just echoes.

And that whole like way of being, sematically empathically connected to

a client or in a partnership, right?

Mm.

Too.

Yeah.

When you're in any kind of sensual exchange.

Yeah.

Um, whether it's sexual or not.

Right.

Yeah.

There's this juiciness that occurs and there's this

connective, interplay between the different energies involved and.

I mean, that is so watery.

so watery.

And as we're speaking, you know, we're mo we're like moving our pelvis.

We're spiraling.

We're, rolling our shoulders.

We're feeling that undulation come through the spine.

Yeah.

I mean, that's very primordial movement and to exist in that.

I love how you said that, like in sensual movement, like

Yes, in the sexual movement.

Maybe we'd be moving like that when we're intertwined and bliss and also

when we're just like making coffee in the kitchen, you know, , right?

or just communicating like, oh my, I mean, I do a lot of communication

work with, with my clients and their partners, and that's a big piece being

in resonance in the fluid body like that.

Mm-hmm.

. Because so much of the water to me, is about the giving and receiving.

So it's like hearing the other person's world, receiving it actually

in your body, and then offering your peace and having that dance right of

the waters.

I would love to hear in your beautiful words what is the water element

like what, in a really basic way.

Yeah.

Would somebody even begin to think about what it means to attune

your own energy through the water?

There's so many ways to talk about all of this, right?

, to imagine into, you know, to, to bring vision into.

But one of the, the foundations, the way I talk about that is that in the

pelvis, in the water, Energy center, the sacral chakra, that there's like

this geyser of life force, this well spring, this sacred spring that is

bubbling up from the power of the earth.

Now the earth has many layers of water in herself, you know?

So many of the . Of the myths, the, like, the aboriginal myths of the earth.

Say that life starts in the.

So I consider that in our bodies we have this oceanic, sacred spring coming up

from the waters of the earth, from a body of water that's much bigger than us

coming up through our bodies and bubbling up through this womb or pelvic chakra.

And it's the geyser of life.

It's the basic life force energy which everything runs on, which

creates it in so many ways.

But is this, is this never ending infinite, , fountain up inside

of that chakra and , it can get stuck and it can get cloudy or, um,

dirty, just like our ocean waters.

And it's also pure in and of its essence and that that nourishes all of life.

, so it's first gonna nourish the health of our bodies.

And so having that energy circulate.

is one thing, but also that water is governing how we

nourish ourselves in general.

So related to food and eating and drinking and, , that's a way to look at,

you know, how am I nourishing myself?

What's my relationship to nourishment?

What's my relationship to filling up myself with the waters of life, the

food of life, , and then creating, so obviously that sexual life force

energy is what creates life here.

And it's also creating our creative projects, whatever those are.

And, uh, nourishing them too.

Both instigating them, nourishing them, , sending, you know, streams of beauty

out through the rivers of our life.

Like we all have so many things that we.

Nourish in our lives, whether they're children or work projects or, , creative

art projects or something like taking care of our family members or our

community members, or the land we live on.

That's all, those are all expressions of nourishment and care.

I also just think of it, like I said, of giving and receiving.

So because it's this, this flow of life going out of the geyser, the wellspring

of the pelvis, and then coming back in.

So what we magnetize and pull in that nourishes us.

I think we would say classically, water is an expression of all our

relations, whether they're our family, friends, lovers, community members,

ancestors every person in the world, the unseen, the unknown, our guides,

all of that is being in relationship.

That's a brilliant description of the water element and how

we can align our energy through that.

There are times when we need more or less of different elements, right?

Yeah.

To, to feel in alignment, but knowing when and why each one, what they rule or how to

relate to, like when do we need more water or when do we need less water , right?

When is it time to just ask that question, like, what's

happening in my water and Right.

How, what would you say about that?

, you're kind of an expert of the

water, I guess so.

It is, it is very much about, um, listening deeply to the waters, different

body work that I do, the different, um, even like the different, you know,

couples work that I do, which is.

like I was speaking about the communication, it's communication

through a watery sense of feeling.

Oh, I didn't even say that part.

Feeling emotions.

Emotions.

Huge part of

the water.

Yeah.

, right?

. Well, and, and then the subconscious aspect, right.

Of the dreams.

And, and that physical knowing that's not in our mental knowing even

perhaps that maybe we have hidden down there that's been in the depths

that we haven't become conscious of

. It's either hasn't become conscious

Yes.

And that is another aspect of the water.

What, what that rules, that subconscious element.

Totally.

When you say that, I immediately got this image of like the

Lochness monster or something.

you know, because that's can be what it's like when we have deep.

, um, experiences painful or very powerful mysteries inside of ourselves that get

like, pushed down into the lake of the pelvis, gets pushed down and submerged

and maybe we try to forget about them.

Or even feelings, like guilty feelings, disappointment, feelings,

um, angry feelings, things that.

Sometimes have trouble bringing out into the world.

They can get pushed under, like these shadows, right?

These shadow monsters moving under the water

. Amanda Lux: Well, and, and if you

water documentaries, I'm not a big person to watch those things, but

every once in a while I'll catch an article or a thing about some new

discovery of some, oceanic creature.

That, that lives so many leagues below what's known that it's just

now being uncovered and yeah, there's still things we don't know.

, Elizabeth Betwixt: oh, I'm so glad

heard on, yeah, just weird podcast.

Different things I've heard people say about how much of the ocean's

depths are actually unexplored and that some people believe that there

are like deep civilizations under there that we haven't even found.

And certainly ruins of other civilizations.

I mean, there is this human fascination with what's under the waters and

yeah, I think it just really speaks to the power that we have in the

water element and the mystery.

I definitely want that to be said.

Is that part of sexuality work, part of dreaming work, part of

birth work is about the mystery.

Yeah.

That is enveloped in the waters

too.

Yeah.

Well it's also beyond containment.

There's a sense.

, you know, it's not always controllable.

Water is so much power and potential and Yeah.

When you get a leak or something, it'll flow wherever it possibly can.

It's so intelligent and Yes.

Efficient.

Yeah.

And it can take any shape.

It can take any shape.

Shape, yeah.

Of the things around it.

And then there's also that Doos piece about there's nothing as powerful as

water to wear down rock, to wear down.

It's, you know, and it does over centuries and centuries,

change the shape of our earth.

Right.

By the way, it wears away.

So you had asked like, how can people align their water energy?

And I, really believe the first part is just feeling, our feelings.

I mean, perhaps that's the most essential water practice.

What do you think about that?

I love that as a, a place to begin.

Mm-hmm.

, that visualization of the pelvis and the pelvic bowl and the, and the waters and

that brought me to my physical body.

And then, that felt like a beginning sort of way to contemplate, you know,

is through that physical gateway.

And then once you get in there, it's immediately about the feelings.

Yeah.

, You're almost immediately into like, well, what's the feeling quality of that?

Right, right.

What's the emotional tone of that and.

, , what's the safest way you , to do that.

I think that that's the next thought that comes up for me.

How do we safely explore ,, those mysterious depths of the

unknowns and the power and the potential start to relate to it.

And I think the emotions are a way in with that too.

They'll teach us trusting the wisdom of our own waters is

important.

And I know you specifically do, yoni unwinding

and body work oriented around Yeah.

That, and that's just really, really special.

Not very many people have the courage and the knowledge to go in there.

But the way that you do, the way you approach that to me is so beautiful.

Yeah.

From what I know of you and even in the title that you were saying, the, the

Wise Yi Body work, there's that wisdom that resides inherently in the body.

Yes.

And to return that relationship with our own inner wisdom

thank you for speaking to that because the Yi work, cervical

work, pelvic, , repair work, postpartum, you know, we're having so many birth

injuries in our culture right now.

Yeah.

Like, it's really so sad to me that women's pelvis are getting

torn up in birth and there's a lot of factors related to that.

But in doing this postpartum pelvic repair, it really so much is about

trusting the wisdom of the tissues in a flowing way to unwind the

movements that were difficult to bear or difficult to sequence through

the forces that were coming through.

, Or included interventions and, different things from the hospital birth.

But yeah, a lot of internal pelvic work is sort of muscle release focused,

and that's not my focus, my or approach.

My focus or approach is to become in relation with the tissue in an

unwinding way and actually with the cranial fluid flowing through it.

Yeah.

And then all the other fluids flowing through it, the cellular fluid, and

then letting that tissue become juicy again with life, where it might

be rigid or in shock or tense up.

And I'm not trying to do something to, yeah, a woman's vulva or yoni

or in inner vaginal walls or cervix.

I'm just trying to listen to it as it unwinds itself and revitalizes itself.

And that's absolutely, an approach that I learned through cranial

sacral that I'm now applying to the pelvis and the genital work.

Hmm.

So beautiful.

So amazing.

And that's definitely an area that has been mistreated,

Probably any woman listening to this who has had

an experience with the gynecologist, many of us have had experiences with

that being like rough or sharp or just intense, you know, very doing oriented.

We're gonna get you in and out of here, we're gonna insert

the speculum really quickly.

And it's cold and it's fast and there's just not much relationship to the tissues.

And that's what we're talking about with the water element

is being in relationship right.

To the giving and receiving.

So, , I mean, that's an error in training in our medical industry.

It could be different if, if they were being trained differently.

, Amanda Lux: right?

So, yes, yes.

Yeah.

That's a consciousness piece.

It's a consciousness piece.

And it's exactly, again, related back to how are we treating the

waters of our earth, you know?

How are we in relation to water, large bodies of water in the ways that we're

polluting, in the ways that we're, harnessing the power of it for our own

uses, but not necessarily honoring or letting flow the natural cycles of it.

We're damning it, we're containing it, , it's crazy.

It's wild.

It's so disconnected

To speak to this elemental series, of your podcast,

it's probably the water element that can teach us about connection in all

the other elements too, because we need that connection in the air and

the fire and the earth, but water can just teach us how to connect.

Mm-hmm.

, that actually comes up a lot in my practice is just dealing

with feelings of disconnection.

Yeah.

In general and how people navigate that.

Yeah.

And so the water element can teach us how to just make connection and then we

can apply that in other elemental ways.

Hmm.

That's beautiful.

. I know we don't have a ton of time left.

Maybe a few minutes or something.

. Yeah.

I'm thinking like maybe that's very vast.

How can we

I wanna definitely ask you about the woman as pleasure portal.

Mm-hmm.

. I just wanna plant that seed and invite whatever you wanna say about that.

Because first of all, that's the most beautiful name of

anything I've ever heard.

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Aww.

You wanna share anything about that?

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, I do consider pleasure to be essential to the water element.

Just, and not like the pelvis or the genital specifically, but how we

experience pleasure all the time daily, like the wind on our faces, you know,

, the feeling of our toes and the sand.

Even the feeling of exchanging a glance across the room with somebody that's not

even sexualized but is connective and you experience the light pleasure, you

know, um, there's so many ways to talk about pleasure, but I think of pleasure

as part of the nourishment of the water element, the part of that exchange

of energy that giving and receiving.

So woman as a pleasure portal is really, coming into the healing and

the embodiment of the female body every inch, you know, from, , the bottoms

of the feet to the crown of the head and the whole energy body all around

as well, , in a pleasurable way.

And so we do that through body work.

We do that through these somatic movement experiences where we're tuning to

different stations of the female body.

, like the breasts, like , , the third eye, like the heart chakra as

differentiated from the breasts, and then certainly we're talking womb

and ovaries and cervix and vulva and, , pelvic diaphragm and souls of the feet.

, Then there's a lot more to it too.

But it's, it's really about finding the embodied anatomy of these places

and how they work and somatically mysteriously and very physiologically

and structurally as well.

And then finding ways to move toward pleasurable sensations in these areas.

It's done through finding a way to reside in the female body in a yin, watery,

non-doing, yet being kind of a way.

And that, that opens up.

, another way I have of thinking about that pelvic generative water center, is that,

, there's that tural field moving through the human body, up the spine and out and

around through the edges of the field and back up through the pelvic diaphragm

again so it's about circulating, it's about circulating the water energy

and the activated Shakti energy.

Through all these different

energy centers.

And so if somebody is not connecting with that Shakti energy or that watery energy,

or their own yin or their own pleasure, in some ways it's been shut down or forgotten

or unsafe to go there, or they just don't know how to make that connection.

Yeah.

Um, how do you know if you're that person?

What happens , when that gets disconnected?

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Hmm.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah.

Well, a lot of things, I mean, one of the most physical things that

women or people come to me with is the very physical imbalances, you

know, that are very clear, , like the fibroids or the cysts or endometriosis

or P C O S or, pain during sex.

These are, when physically things get to the point where

they're like, I have a problem.

Mm-hmm.

, you know?

Mm-hmm.

. . And then on another level, fertility wise, like idiopathic infer fertility,

I'm trying to conceive and the doctors all say everything's happening correctly,

but we still can't conceive mm-hmm.

And that, that's such a great example of, everything's working.

It's just things aren't synergistically, harmonically communicating.

Right.

And that's such a great example of yeah, there's usually something stuck

in the throat or a lack of receptivity in the crown , . Or the trust in the

relationship between the partners.

Right.

So those are some physical things that lead you there,

but it's definitely often.

And a lot of what I work with is when people feel unsafe in

their bodies for various reasons, usually from traumatic experiences.

, it's often a feeling in the nervous system.

Like I can't even.

, I don't feel safe socially.

I don't know how to speak my needs and get them met.

I don't even know how to identify them.

So people are walking all over me all the time, or I'm

finding myself people pleasing.

I feel like I have no boundaries.

Right.

Um, water issues.

. Elizabeth Betwixt: Yeah.

Yeah.

right?

. Amanda Lux: I mean, I was just even

even physically manifest or even consciously manifests that there's so

much in our culture and imbalance in the yang energy is so much more valued

, just the doingness, the getting things done, the being active, the hustle, the,

achieving and going out and getting,

. There's very little room for being

just doing spirals and tuning into the watery pelvis and how am I feeling

and what am I dreaming and who am I in my deepest rhythmic, cyclical way?

How does that wanna be expressed and how can I be receiving myself and my

own energy or be received by the world?

Yeah, I mean, a lot of times people think sexual issues are a lot

between the two partners, but it's really just about how I'm relating inside of

myself and am I at peace and at ease and able to flow with the truths of myself.

Mm-hmm.

And then of course, bringing that to the relationship

changes the whole relationship.

That's a lot about tuning into those deeper waters, those feelings.

, learning how to be inside of our bodies in a truthful way, and

certainly rest and being in yin.

, I mean, one thing I think in this hugely masculine.

yang time is that we all need more rest.

We all need more non-doing.

And then especially women, I mean, we're having much larger fertility issues,

cyclical issues like, uh, blood cycle issues that largely come from stress

adrenalized hormones and lack of rest.

Right.

Well, and you know, to bring it back again, weaving that into how that

shows up in our relationship with the planet and the cycles of the seasons

and the days and the, and the moon.

Yeah.

. Absolutely.

I've done some work with the seasonal wheel of the year and the moon cycle,

the blood cycle with women, and I intend to do some more of that.

I probably will have a program around that because aligning our inner cycles to

the seasonal cycles, and not just women because ancient peoples would align.

The men would be aligning to that too.

The children would be learning how to live in rhythm with the seasons of the earth.

And they're, the seasons are different, of course, depending on which

hemisphere you're in, but even in different ecosystems and environments.

But they're there as are the, the movement of the moon is there

that's not just affecting women, that's affecting everybody.

Absolutely.

is there, are there any last words that you would

like to share about the water?

Anything you would like to say in closing, in completion?

I wanna just bring it back to the, the truth reflected in many

indigenous peoples that water is life.

The human body can go three days without water.

We can go longer without food, but water is sort of that determinant

as we are made of water and we need water for these bodies to work.

That water is essential to our existence here on this water planet.

Water is full of life.

Water is life.

Our life depends upon the water, the water inside of our bodies,

the sweat and the cellular fluid and the tears, uh, the ejaculate.

And it's also, , our raindrops, our rivers, our streams, and our oceans.

Beautiful.

Thank you.

Well, I'm so grateful to have had you and your wisdom and your beautiful

self and your words and your incredible way of working with the water.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, on, on the podcast to talk about that.

I just feel so, so, so grateful and so honored

I will be, , putting a page on my website for, for people to connect

with you cuz you are that wild woman in the woods currently and I want to

make sure that people can find you.

. And I'll put any links to anything else that comes up for you in the future.

Of ways that people can connect with you and work with you.

Thank you Amanda.

Yeah, because you're such a, a valuable gift to the world and I'm just so

grateful that you're, that you're here doing your work and it's just beautiful.

And I just feel, just so replenished from this conversation.

I feel so like moved and I feel even some tears welling up and I feel like,

oh, it's the water of my body coming.

Yes.

Yeah, . And I feel like, so happy to feel that sensation of fluid

and emotion and gratitude and uh,

, and I love this conversation.

Just, it reminds me the importance of that, not just for myself, but for the

planet, you know, and for all beings.

And just thinking of how, all the waters on the planet get

recycled through the air Yes.

And the clouds and, and come back into the oceans and the streams

and the rivers and into our bodies.

Mm-hmm.

And that we are made of , , mostly water and that our own waters

are also recycling all the time.

Yes.

Connecting with one another and with all the waters of all the world.

And how incredible is that?

Yeah.

Like I, I love it.

Mm-hmm.

. . Thank you Amanda.

That's beautiful.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of a Lone

Traveler's Guide to the Divine.

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It is such an honor to be in sacred community with you.