Primordial Movement: A Living Practice of Reconnection and Reverence
I didn’t come into this world. I came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
This is what Primordial Movement continues to teach me. It is not simply a practice - it is a sacred inquiry into what it means to be human, embodied, and alive in relationship with the Earth and cosmos. It’s a return to the original intelligence of the body, to the undercurrent of life that has been moving through us since before we took our first breath.
When I move, I’m not “doing” movement - I am being moved. Breath, sound, and undulating waves carry me beyond thought, into ancient memory stored deep within my tissues. There, I touch something pre-verbal, pre-human - a place where I feel my kinship with serpent, reptile, and dragon energies, ancestral forces that ripple through my spine and awaken a primal power long forgotten.
A Journey into the Mystery
Primordial Movement invites me to slow down and listen. With each breath, I drop beneath the chatter of the mind into the subtle currents of sensation, into the whispering language of cells and bones. As I soften, I discover that my body remembers - remembers how to move, how to release, how to re-pattern itself toward wholeness.
Sometimes, as the waves take me, I meet places within myself that have been blocked, numbed, or frozen by old wounds. Trauma held in the body - often from early experiences, from the parent-child bond, from cultural conditioning - begins to unravel gently, like silk loosening from its knot. As energy flows, new possibilities emerge. I feel my capacity, my strength, my aliveness returning.
A Gateway into Innate Power
Breath, sound, and movement are gateways. They open a door into somatic awareness, awakening, an ancient energy. A grounded, embodied power that lives in the solar plexus and radiates confidence, clarity, and presence. This energy is not about domination; it is about alignment. About being fully at home in my body, inhabiting the entire spectrum of who I am, from my earliest gestational origins to the highest human capacities.
Through this practice, I begin to sense my body as part of a larger intelligence, one that flows through rivers and winds, sunlight and shadow, pulse and breath. I remember that I am not separate from the biosphere, but an expression of it, woven into its rhythms and belonging to its song.
The Wave Beneath Everything
Primordial Movement finds its deepest roots in the cosmos itself. Everywhere I look, I see it - the spirals of galaxies, the curve of tides, the pulsing of heartbeats, the curling of ferns unfurling toward light. Science now shows us that at the most fundamental level, everything is movement. Every atom, every cell, every star vibrates in wave-like motion.
When I move with this awareness, something profound happens: I reconnect with the universal pulse. The same undulating waves that brought the universe into existence move through my spine. The wind carries its rhythm, the water mirrors its flow, the fire dances its vitality. This is not metaphor - it is direct experience.
An Invitation
Primordial Movement is a living, breathing art, a constantly evolving inquiry into the mystery of who we are. It invites us to step out of speed, out of survival, and into resonance with the living medicine of the natural world.
Through this practice, we remember that the intelligence of life is not something “out there”, rather, it flows in our blood, our bones, our breath. It lives in the fire of our passions, the longing of our hearts, and the spiralling motion of our very cells.
This is a homecoming. A remembering. A reclaiming of what it means to be fully alive.
Slow down. Listen. Let yourself be moved.
Beneath everything, the wave is still here. And it is calling us home.
Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings (established 1989)