Your inner Sea Turtle loves to glide through the waves, feeling peaceful and receptive. It sees itself as peaceful and easy-going, happiest when relationships are strongly connected.

Sea Turtle adapts to different environments. This is the inner part of you that lives in harmony with the surge and flows through life seamlessly.

Drop into feeling your body in this moment. Notice where the members of your group are and how they’re moving together. Do you sense any friction that calls for diplomacy? The inner Sea Turtle wants everyone to get along with no conflict. Through finding common ground and fairness, Sea Turtle ensures everyone is heard and considered.

Beware, though, as you put your attention in others’ experience, not to abandon your own experience. Stay awake to your own desire in this moment. Sometimes Sea Turtle can get so far into dreamtime that current perspective becomes foggy. Your presence matters to the wholeness of the situation.

If you’re procrastinating or feeling indecisive, bring your attention back to your own body. Move your flippers a bit to feel yourself and re-engage with what you want in the space of the group. Your active engagement from your unique perspective moves the relationship forward.

When you find yourself overly concerned with what people are (secretly) thinking of you, remember that authenticity is magnetic. Tap deeply into your own essence and embody your full self in your interactions and communications. Some people may drift away, but the resonant ones will come closer – to you and to their own truth.

Sea Turtle’s invitation from within you is to actively engage yourself in the struggle to create real peace in the world—remembering that your participation in life is necessary and vital.

Consider the following questions while embodying your ally:

  • Have you gone to sleep to your own needs in your desire to connect with others? What practices do you have to check in with your body during the day?
  • Does this topic require some mediation or consensus building? What are you sensing empathically in the group that needs to be brought to the surface?
  • How can you tune in and swim with the ebb and surge?