Yes, I know what you think of me, you never shut up, never shut up, never shut up, never shut up, never shut up. Will you make your home in my arms? Welcome to Never Shut Up, I'm your host Rose Kress. Today is April 6th, 2026, and we are talking about Selkie.
A Selkie is a seal woman. This is a woman who puts on a Selkie skin, the skin of a seal, and they often have a seal family and a human family, and men would steal the Selkie's skin and hide it from them so they couldn't go back to their seal family. And in the case of this story, this myth that Tori gives us, the Selkie, the guy never steals the skin from her, so she's going back and forth between and then goes to her seal family, And then one day, she kind of returns, unzips her seal skin, and stays with the guy. So really, this is about the lover who waits.
He's waiting and letting her be herself, and then she returns. So for us, the invitation, the energy of the song is to be firm within ourselves, to be still, to hold space for others. And this requires more energy than you might think. Now, there's a line in the Yoga Sutras, and it pertains to asana or posture, and it is sthira, sukham, asanam.
Sthira is strength, sukham is sweetness, and asanam, well, that's to be and to breathe and to become one with the eternal cosmic vibration. Sometimes translated as become comfortable in any pose. Rather, it's take any pose and become comfortable there. Find the steadiness and the sweetness in any position, even if that position is waiting for someone while you allow them to be who they were meant to be, while you allow them to unfold their lives in the way that they need to unfold in their lives.
So we're going to do a cross-legged position here, a siddhasana. It's called siddhasana, not sit, because one who's doing the practices gets what we call the siddhis, which are the powers. So you're going to find a seat on the ground. That's where it works best.
So obviously, don't do this if you're driving. And then we take a cross-legged position. Now, a simple cross-legged position. You know, I always thought it was Indian style because it's how Indians sit, as in people from India in yoga.
I never realized that we were talking, you know, the other form, derogatory form. I just figured, oh, it's because, you know, people in India sit cross-legged when they're meditating. In any case, it's just a little aside there. So the legs are crossed.
And instead of the legs crossed with, say, a tight cross so that the feet are underneath the knees, you're going to bring your heel, one heel, more towards the groins, so the knees actually have to open more towards the outside. And then you're bringing the other foot in front. This does require some flexibility in your hips. So the feet are almost stacked on top of each other.
Gives you a wider breadth, which can make it easier to sit. And the spine is lengthened here. If your knees are at all lifted, stick something underneath them. Feel sits bones as they connect solidly with the earth.
And then begin to feel the spine rising up out of the pelvis, as though your abdominals are zipping up like you're putting silky skin back up. Soften the shoulders. Spine remains long. And we find the steadiness here within the posture.
This is a perfect posture for meditating. Maybe we're looking out over the ocean while we await our seal-skinned lover to return. Wait until she takes off her skin before the seal skin, before you make out. Because seals can be vicious.
And we breathe here. This supports a deeper breath. This supports the cultivation of patience, which is why we need more patience if we are to wait. And with that, I thank you for joining me and Tori for a little mental yoga today.
Remember, 5 minutes a day is so much better than 60 minutes once a week. Bye! Special request tonight. I don't want to be this much.
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