Moving with Anger Toward Healing

Jul 28

We’ve been working with the sacred fire of anger all month long — not to suppress it, not to be consumed by it, but to honor it. To study it. To allow it to guide us, teach us, and ultimately set us free.

Anger, when held with care, can be a compass.
It tells us: something precious is being threatened.
It signals: there’s harm here, and I deserve better.

But how do we hold that fire without getting burned?
How do we harness its energy for transformation without letting it hollow us out?
How do we show up again and again — for justice, for each other, for ourselves — without collapsing from the weight?

This month in practice, we’ve been asking exactly that.
We’ve been exploring sustainability — not just of ecosystems and movements, but of our own nervous systems, our own hearts.

How do we keep showing up for change without burning out?

🔥 Week by Week, We’ve Been Building Our Fire…

🜂 Week One:
We learned how to hold the fire — to be with our anger without letting it scorch us. We practiced Agni Mudra, the seal of inner fire, weaving it into our shapes to ignite awareness and cultivate courage.

🜂 Week Two:
We turned toward healing — tending to the wounds that anger points to or is born from. We softened. We gave space to grief. We listened to what our bodies were really trying to say beneath the heat.

🜂 Week Three:
We learned to discharge — to let the energy of anger move through us without losing the message it brought. We shook it loose. We roared it out. We honored it, then set it down.

🜂 Week Four:
We asked the deeper question: how do we relate to harm within community?
When we are hurt — or when we’ve hurt others — how do we stay in relationship? How do we speak truth and still stay open?

And now… this week, we integrate.
We move with it all.

The Body Knows: We Return to the Hips

This week, we shift our focus to the hips — the emotional dumping ground of the body.

The hips are sacred. They are sturdy, vast, and quietly powerful.
They hold what we’ve been too busy, too exhausted, or too scared to feel.

And anger? Anger settles deep in these joints like sediment in still water.
Heavy. Unspoken. Unprocessed.

So this week, through deep hip openers, breathwork, and guided somatic inquiry, we ask:

What does it feel like to shift our relationship to anger?
What happens when we stop resisting emotion and start dancing with it?
If we can transform anger… what else might we be ready to alchemize?

Because when we release anger — when we really let it move —
we make room.
For grief. For joy. For pleasure. For clarity. For power.

A Teaching from A Queer Dharma

To guide this journey, I’ve been dissecting Jacoby Ballard’s luminous book, A Queer Dharma, throughout the month. It’s become a spiritual compass in our work. He writes:

“We need to create space to attend to the grief, move the energy of the anger out, and then show up with wisdom and commitment... We want to do our social justice work in a way that is reparative, restorative, revitalizing.”

That line stays with me.

Because our work is not just about what we fight for — it’s about how we fight.
And who we become along the way.

The Invitation

✨ Let’s move the fire, not extinguish it.
✨ Let’s wring out, unwind, soften, and return to ourselves.
✨ Let’s remember that we are resilient — not because we don’t feel, but because we do.

This week, you can join me in any way that calls to your spirit:

🧘🏽‍♀️ On the mat at Live Beyond Limit – for in-person classes rooted in community, breath, and movement

💇🏽‍♀️ In my chair at 3 Little Birds North – where transformation happens not just through haircuts, but through sacred listening and energetic shift

📡 Online – I’m now offering a free weekly livestream, so wherever you are, you can be part of this work

We Are the Ones

We are doing something powerful here, friends.
This is more than a yoga practice. More than a haircut. More than a blog post.

This is community care.
This is healing as rebellion.
This is queer, embodied liberation.

Join me this week as we move from fire to flow, from tension to trust, from anger to agency.

You don’t have to hold it all alone anymore.
Let’s release. Let’s return.
Let’s rise.

With breath and power,
Hypnotist Aza

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